Pope is a BernieBro! Pope Francis called Bernie Sanders, ''Brother.''
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"Querido hermano:"
The Vermont senator flew to Rome after debating his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn on Thursday night.
During his speech to the group, he also criticized the news media, which he said asks people to “accept the status quo; that a truly moral economy is beyond our reach.”
He went on to say: “Pope Francis has given the most powerful name to the predicament of modern society. He calls it the globalization of Indifference.”
SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/15/bernie-sanders-at-vatican-city-calls-for-a-more-moral-economy/
"The Globalization of Indifference." -- Pope Francis
Is that cool! Thanked Bernie in front of the whole planet for grokking: Greed is NOT good.
ETA: Thanks to Cheese Sandwich for pointing out the obvious to Octafish.
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Why do people not like the new pope? He is the most liberal in history. He is turning it around. He even made Boehner cry, and that is no easy task!
Can someone enlighten me as to what kind of genius thing this person posted? Oh, and the third poster is also on my list apparently. This must have hit a nerve 
None the reports on this note indicate it was addressed specifically to Bernie.
Nadine did an excellent post on the origins and history of Mary's image and how it has been desecrated by some fool who has Photo Shop.
cool to insult in such a way! You are so far out of line, the line is beyond your field of vision, grow up and leave your bigotry behind as the childish (yet destructive) thing it is. 
The pentagram symbolizes the union of the five basic elements . This concept was popularized in the 19th century. Spirit is ascribed to the uppermost point, with the implication that Spirit surmounts the physical elements. When the pentagram is point down, the physical world supplants the Spirit as supreme, hence its association with Satanism which revels in humanity’s material existence.
This hierarchy of elements was very common among ceremonial magicians. However, Wiccans often see the elements as equal.
ETA More from an historical view as well as it's importance in certain religions.
Many religions, even those involving a variety of symbols, hold one above all others to represent the religion. For Jews it is the star of David. For Christians it is the cross, although they employ dozens of variations of the basic design. For Wiccans, it is the pentagram.
Pentagram of the Greek Pythagoreans, who saw it as reflecting perfect proportions and harmony with itself.
The pentagram has existed for thousands of years through a variety of cultures. They have a great many different meanings, almost always positive ones.
As a symbol of our religion, the pentagram is depicted point-up. Many Wiccans will rabidly insist it is only used in this orientation, thus distancing ourselves from Satanists, who commonly identify themselves was a point-down pentagram. However, there are, in fact, some Wiccans (and witches) who use pentagrams oriented in both directions, representing a variety of different meanings.
The Pentagram of the Greek Pythagoreans, who saw it as reflecting perfect proportions and harmony with itself.
important were invited.
I know that Doug Coe would have liked to be given equal time to present an opposing view, but you are looking in the wrong place if you are concerned about religious leaders getting involved in politics (below you I posted the best place to hunt for that), it was not a conference to use political figures to gain influence, it was about the views regarding moral economics, climate issues and the idolatry of money.
[font size='3' color="red"]Hillary Clinton's religion is the cult named "The Family" And her Pope is Doug Coe[/font]
Sen. Hillary Clinton has been involved with the Family since 1993 when, as first lady, she joined a White House prayer circle for political wives. Clinton has also sought spiritual counseling from the current head of the Family, Doug Coe. Sharlet argues that Clinton's longtime association with the Family has helped her forge working relationships with powerful religious conservatives such as Family member and anti-abortion crusader Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas.
The Family nurtures the next generation of prayer warriors in suburban dormitories. Sharlet spent nearly a month living at Ivanwald, a dormitory in Virginia where sons of the Family are sent to immerse themselves in Jesus and clean the toilets of congressmen and senators.
The Family also runs a house on C Street in Washington, D.C. The C Street Center has housed a number of federal legislators, including Sen. John Ensign of Nevada. Residents allege that the center is just a cheap place to live, but as an Ivanwald brother, Sharlet saw firsthand that the center is a religious community. As far as the IRS is concerned, the C Street Center is a church.
Members will tell you that the Family is just a group of friends. As Sharlet discovered, 600 boxes of documents at the Billy Graham Center Archives tell a different story.
AlterNet writer Lindsay Beyerstein recently sat down with Jeff Sharlet at a Brooklyn coffee shop to discuss the Family.
Lindsay Beyerstein What is the Family?
Jeff Sharlet: It's an international network of evangelical activists in government, military and business. The Family is dedicated to this idea that Christianity has gotten it all wrong for two thousand years by focusing on the poor, the suffering and the weak.
The Family says that instead, what Christians should do is minister to the up-and-out -- as opposed to the down-and-out -- to those that are already powerful. Because if they can win those people for Christ, they win the whole deal. That's what this network is dedicated to. It includes nonprofit organizations, it includes think tanks, it includes various ministries.
Lindsay Beyerstein: Where did they get the idea that they should be ministering to the up-and-out? There doesn't seem to be a lot basis in Christianity for that view.
Jeff Sharlet: Two places. The founder of the Family, Abraham Vereide, would describe it as his "new revelation" that came to him in the middle of the night, very literally: in a vision from God in 1935 in response to the Great Depression and, more particularly, to a series of very successful labor strikes that he saw as challenging God's sovereignty. So, God comes and gives him this new revelation to say, "This is what I really meant"...
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not blind to their bigotry tend to be physically dangerous and have been known to lynch or physically harm people. Luckily on the Democratic side we are largely dealing with the ones that don't even realize what they are doing is wrong.
Some Trump followers on the other hand fall into the later category and well, you know what potential lies down that road.
Thank you for pointing out an axiom I should have seen without your assistance. (facepalm against myself)
(Starwood especially, back in it's heyday)
If you are part of this rather diverse group (and you will no doubt agree it is extremely diverse) that still maintains a population of very peaceful and non-judgmental people, that embrace love, life, and harmony with nature, then we have far more in common than not.
We do disagree about the purposes of the visit, but nobody can agree on everything, but we can agree to disagree in peace and meet again more merrily. 
The only photo (apart from USN) I can find where JFK is wearing a hat:
...what JFK thought about his religion and politics:
Anti-Catholic prejudice was still very much in the mainstream of American life when JFK decided to seek the presidency in 1960.
Only one Catholic, Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, had ever been the presidential nominee of one of the major parties. Smith’s 1928 campaign was dogged by claims that he would build a tunnel connecting the White House and the Vatican and would amend the Constitution to make Catholicism the nation’s established religion. He was overwhelmingly defeated—even losing much of the then Democratic Solid South.
JFK established an informal network of advisers on the religious issue—including speechwriter Ted Sorensen, Dean Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. of the National Cathedral and several journalists. It was clear from the outset that Kennedy had to enter the state primaries to prove to skeptical party leaders that he was a viable national candidate. In the Minnesota primary, he defeated Senator Hubert Humphrey with 56% of the vote but failed to win a majority of the Protestant vote—an ominous sign.
West Virginia Primary
As a result, Kennedy decided to enter the West Virginia primary—a state in which Catholics constituted less than 4% of the electorate. When the polls in West Virginia showed JFK behind by 20 points, he decided to address the issue head on in a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors:
Are we going to admit to the world that a Jew can be elected Mayor of Dublin, a Protestant can be chosen Foreign Minister of France, a Moslem can be elected to the Israeli parliament—but a Catholic cannot be President of the United States? Are we going to admit to the world--worse still, are we going to admit to ourselves—that one-third of the American people is forever barred from the White House?
In the end, after a vigorous campaign which included extensive use of his family’s personal wealth, Kennedy won by 93,000 to 61,000 and declared, "I think we have buried the religion issue once and for all." He was wrong.
Greater Houston Ministerial Association
In September, a group of 150 Protestant ministers met in Washington and declared that Kennedy could not remain independent of Church control unless he specifically repudiated its teachings. Days later Senator Kennedy received an invitation to address the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. Kennedy’s candid and eloquent performance in Houston won nearly universal praise from the press and film of his talk was used extensively by the JFK campaign. In addition, more than 500,000 copies of his remarks were distributed to clergy, especially Protestant clergy, around the nation. The religious issue never surfaced again in a way which demanded the candidate’s full attention, but continued to bubble just beneath the surface until Election Day. Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, accused the Kennedy campaign of using the Houston film in predominantly Catholic urban areas in order to stimulate voter turnout.
The Finals Days of the Campaign
Late in October, three American-born bishops in Puerto Rico issued a statement forbidding Catholics from voting for candidates who disagreed with the Church on abortion and birth control. Kennedy initially decided to respond to their declaration, but finally concluded that it was unwise to focus too much attention on this potentially damaging incident. Several studies have concluded that this controversy, coming at the worst possible time, was a significant factor in the sudden halt in Kennedy’s momentum and the surge toward Nixon in the final days of the campaign.
Kennedy won the presidency in one of the closest elections in American history—by a margin of 118,000 votes out of 69 million. There is solid evidence that religion helped Kennedy in several urban and industrial states but was, at the same time, a significant factor in his loss of Ohio, Kentucky, Florida, and Tennessee—and in his very close win in Texas. More than a half century after his presidency, JFK remains the only Catholic to have held the highest office in the land.
SOURCE: http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/JFK-and-Religion.aspx
I do remember 1961 and beyond -- like Borges' Funes (PDF: http://www.srs-pr.com/literature/borges-funes.pdf) remember. The world became a much different place today because of the assassination of President Kennedy more than half a century ago. Then, the Democrats and most Americans believed in Peace and Prosperity for ALL. Today, money trumps peace.
PS: My grandmother was excommunicated by the Catholic Church in PR. She was a social worker who helped bring "Family Planning" to the Commonwealth.
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