who won't be Republicans much longer if the right seizes on this. They love Pope Francis. Hell, I love Pope Francis; everybody does. It wouldn't be smart of them to start trashing him.

And like everything else they do, it will backfire on them with potentially catastrophic consequences for their party.


Conservative Roman Catholics will soon be forced to pick between the leader of their religion and their political party.

I know many of them won't side with a party that they already know deep down always hated Catholics.

Pope Frank is very likeable, and he is on the right side of the poverty/economic issues.
He is still on the wrong side of complete equality and human rights for women and gays though.

and didn't they go wayyyyyyy out of their way and spin it so much to try to absolve Pope Naziberger of his past?

What Jesus was referring to was not a sewing needle but an entrance in the wall surrounding the city that was called the eye of a needle because of the difficulty of a camel being able to pass through it due to it size.

...your point? Are saying that Jesus wasn't talking about getting into heaven if you're rich?

what Jesus was really referring to. I've recently heard this "eye of a needle" being a place and not a concept.
It gives way to the idea that a rich person can indeed enter the Kingdom of Heaven. He/she would just have to push really hard.

It seems there is no archaeological evidence that such a place existed.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1560/whats-the-meaning-of-jesus-teaching-about-the-camel-going-through-the-eye-of-a-needle

There has never been any reference in the literature of the time mentioning it or alluding to it. The story of the "gate" or "entrance" seems to be one that was mentioned briefly in some texts in the 15th century that were then quoted by scholars in the early 20th century. The idea appealed to many Christian clergy, especially as time went on, to those advocating a prosperity gospel. But, antiquities scholars have never found any such description concerning a portal in a city wall and camels.

I relied on the expertise of the professor when I was taking a course in the Bible. Upon further examination it certainly appears there are several interpretations of the passage concerning the possibility of error in the translation into Greek. It appears that it was indeed a latter interpretation. Thanks for the information.

There is not a shred of evidence that there was an entrance to the wall known as the "eye of a needle." That explanation is a hoax cooked up by some pro-rich clergy

That is used by right wingers to justify their wealth and greed....and they usually follow it with "the camel has to get down on it's knees to pass through"...thus implying that all you have to do is go to church and pray.
I have heard it all before.

But no Jesus meant it just as it sounds, and he often used hyperbole to make his point...he did so in many of his parables.

it MUST be true.

Gosh, this is stupid. WND gets on my nerves.

So now Christianity is a commie plot? Slowly the worm turns.

Nothing would please me more than seeing the GOP implode from decades of festering hatred. McCarthy never left D.C., his heart lives on in every Repuke.

Francis may be the best thing to hit the progressive movement ever. Catholics will have to look at themselves and ask is the RW actually the way Jesus would have acted?

Say it isn't so!

Right on schedule, they have come to kill the messenger.

The birthers are now after the Pope

and he has yet to release his long-form birth certificate.

Go Pope!

every priest, every reporter, every professor, every drug dealer, every student, every soldier, every scientist, every scholar, every teacher, the lower class, the middle class, the upper class, and of course Ronald Reagan

that's why the Argentine junta arrested everyone with Freud or Lacan on their shelves--it threatened "Western Civilization"