 Let the punishment fit the crime |
A senior adviser to the Pope has said excommunication could be used to punish Mexican drug traffickers. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who is the Vatican secretary of state, said it was the church’s severest form of rebuke.
Cardinal Bertone said the church was alarmed at what it called the disasters of drug-fuelled violence in Mexico, a largely Catholic nation…
Speaking ahead of a trip to Mexico, the cardinal said excommunication could be a possible punishment for the traffickers, who last year alone were blamed for more than 5,000 deaths…
Cardinal Bertone said it was a very harsh deterrent, that the church used only for the most serious of crimes.
Of course, you could stand in the middle of the fracking Sahara and pray for rain, too.
#17–KD==once again humor==but on the thread about science I made the joke about being “insulted” which is close to being “upset.” Consistent posting on the difficulty of communicating with mere words.
#18–amodedoma==I have no idea what you are talking about. How did I get you wrong? You do seem a bit schizo on the subject of religion. Very religious in one post, very above it all in the next===rinse and repeat. Some kind of theist who goes to church?
Anyway, by definition, people that complain of other other people not being humble, most often, are not humble themselves.
Mustard, like you, enjoys wrapping himself in religion to assault clear thinking. Mustard, like you, mews false empathy for those who don’t have the comfort of religion. Again===not very humble.
Most of life is a “Mad Lib.” People are the same in their basic wants and needs==the trick being that we all fill those needs in different ways.
“I find comfort in _________” And for you its religion, and for me its being logical and fact based.
“I feel sorry for ________” And for you its people who don’t think the same way you do, and for me its for people who don’t think at all.
Identify your Mad Libs for yourself. Fun for the whole family.
The thing none of you are realizing is how deeply Catholicism runs in Latin culture. I do, given that I was born in a Latin country. Latin Catholicism is very ingrained into the culture, both where I was born and especially in Mexico (Catholicism is on its way out where I was born thanks largely to Americanization.) So to hold excommunication as a threat over a Catholic populace *is* a very real threat, the equivalent of marking someone a social pariah.
Now that being said – yes, excommunication will probably have no effect on the leadership of the drug cartels, as they would largely consider themselves above it all. But it’ll be something for the middle-men and grunts to consider, and that’s at least another road block. You can’t move drugs without the mules.
#21 – Bobo
>>Mustard, like you, enjoys wrapping himself
>>in religion to assault clear thinking.
>>Mustard, like you, mews false empathy for
>>those who don’t have the comfort of
>>religion.
“Mew”? I “mew”, Bobo? Are you calling me a pussy, boy?
>>And for you its religion, and for me its >>being logical and fact based.
Skee-daddy! Did you get a boner typing that? Kee-rist.