Guaranteed, if this statement was about Muslims, they'd not only lap it up like cream, but there would be a dozen threads of outrage spun off from it.
Playinghardball (5,545 posts)
Vatican: 100,000 Christians are killed every year for their faith
A top Vatican official has said around 100,000 Christians are killed every year for reasons linked to their faith and pointed to the Middle East, Africa and Asia as the biggest problem areas.
Monsignor Silvano Maria Tomasi was quoted by Vatican radio on Tuesday as saying that the figures were “shocking†and “incredibleâ€.
Tomasi said Christians were also forced to leave their homes and see their churches destroyed in some parts of the world, and were often subjected to rapes, kidnappings and discrimination.
The Vatican official made particular reference to the kidnapping of two Orthodox bishops near Aleppo in Syria last month.
Religious freedom is beset by “sectarianism, intolerance, terrorism and exclusionary laws,†he said, while also pointing to exceptions like Bangladesh where he said rights are protected.
Another senior Vatican figure, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Mario Toso, said recently that discrimination against Christians “should be countered in the same way as anti-Semitism and Islamophobiaâ€.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/28/vatican-100000-christians-are-killed-every-year-for-their-faith/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022912735 bowens43 (14,386 posts)
1. another reason to dump 'faith'......
dembotoz (4,597 posts)
2. 100,000???? sound like some creative accounting to me
hrmjustin (9,569 posts)
5. I would love to know how they came up with the number.
Not a one of you would even dare ask that question if it was Muzzies.
brooklynite (12,895 posts)
4. Nice to know the Catholic Church is opposed to rape...
...wonder if it'll rub off.
MineralMan (54,086 posts)
8. Does the Vatican know how many people worldwide were killed BY Christians?
That would be an interesting number to see.
Apophis (832 posts)
9. I'm assuming those numbers were pulled out of his ass?
dembotoz (4,597 posts)
15. would that be his holy ass or an ass with a hole in it.
pipi_k (16,319 posts)
91. Or, like someone else suggested...
out of his ass.
How convenient for him, also, that there were exactly 100,000 killed.
Not 127,843 or 101,989
PS...we demand to know the names of the victims!!!!!
When the Islamofascists claim a drone hit a "wedding party", you take it on faith. No questions asked.
Dawson Leery (8,406 posts)
16. The Persecutor(Vatican) is playing the victim again.
By the way, how many indigenous people's did the Roman Catholic Church persecute?
How many people were murdered/tortured by the Roman Catholic Church during the Crusades and Thirty Years War?
Back to ancient history again to demonstrate, "B-b-but, Christians are just as bad!!!"
closeupready (19,523 posts)
18. Oh, nonsense. Phony numbers from those who burned Galileo
at the stake, figuratively.
Floyd_Gondolli (1,124 posts)
19. Horseshit! ((Cough))
The Magistrate (80,601 posts)
22. The Figures Are Indeed, Sir, 'Incredible' And 'Shocking'
They have no credibility at all, and it is a shock to realize he actually thought this would be believed....
The Masturbate is living proof that horses' asses outnumber horses.
cliffordu (29,454 posts)
23. Aren't Martyrs supposed to go right to heaven?
Is t that a good thing??
Zoeisright (7,880 posts)
69. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!
Uh huh. Pull the other one.
