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 Satirist Finds the Pope Is Off-LimitsPosted on Sep 11, 2008
Jokes about religion often play with the boundaries of tolerance and taste, but they don’t always carry the consequences that Sabina Guzzanti now faces. The Italian actress could go to jail for upsetting the powers that be with a satirical zinger about the pope and two gay devils.
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By Thomas Billis, September 17 at 3:58 pm #
Offending the honor of.The dog should be in jail.His conduct during the pedophile scandal as Pope John Paul’s underboss was criminal.They are going after the wrong person.By the way making fun of the honor of the Italian president is like trying to hit a moving target.Since WW2 I think every man over 30 has been either Prime Minister or President of Italy.They laugh about “Turkishness"and the prosecution of Turks who criticize their government and then they go midevil when it is their guys.
Report thisBy nosmokes, September 17 at 1:31 pm #
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why is he worried about what a mere mortal comic may say about him?
Report thisBy BCC Meteorites, September 17 at 12:00 pm #
I’ve said much worse things about the Pope and the catholic church. I guess i should be prosecuted as well. I think the real crime here is a person should be charged with trying to impersonate the dress and mannerisms of Liberace while simultaneously trying to be a role model for being with clean hands.
http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html
Report thisBy dick, September 17 at 11:55 am #
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If the Church had the power, many innocent people would be burned at the stake. Men never do evil so cheerfully and completely as when they do it from religious conviction.(Pascal).
Report thisBy Leefeller, September 17 at 7:02 am #
What would happen if we all dressed like the pope?
Report thisBy Davis Fleetwood, September 17 at 5:15 am #
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Well, I guess my movement to Impeach Jesus, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntASZquhEhE , would not have gone over wel in Italy.
Glad to be in America. Free - for now.
D
Report thisBy Tony Wicher, September 16 at 7:26 pm #
Hurray for Sabina Guzzanti! She sounds really funny, and now she’s world-famous!
Report thisBy Eso, September 15 at 10:02 pm #
In his speech in Paris the pope said people must accept death (as quoted by AP): “at the hour chosen by God”. Is not the disobeyance of this order by the Cathars of Lanquedoc that brought the Inquisition and its rules of what to do and not to do and in case the rules were not obeyed a fiery death at the stake? Let us remember that when they the Cathars were ready to die, they took consolation (Consolatum)from one of the perfecti, stopped eating, and the community came to say good bye. I believe that the Cathars accepted death with dignity and in harmony with the laws of life. In any case, to follow the instructions of Benedict XVI is to deny death political significance and leave it to the princes of the world. Beating up on euthanasia at this catastrophic age is like the driver who beats his horse knowing that everyone will stand by in shock and not know what to do. Lourdes, Lordes! Is this Catholic shrine not in the area that used to be Lanquedoc, Carcassonne, Montsegur, and other ssuch places where so many Cathars were burnt for their heresy and the Catholic Legate, one Romano of S. Angelo, was the one who decided their “hour chosen by God”? Yes, it is long ago, about 1208 and for decades thereafter, but we ought to help the Pope in his excavations.
Report thisBy NinoBaldino, September 15 at 4:38 pm #
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Freedom is what...I used to tell my students its at the end of your closed fist and the tip of my nose! The last Leader of the RCC was shot several times and had to spend the rest of his life in daily pain and discomfit.so it is hardly surprising that the secular gov.is not chuckling at this ‘comic’s’ saturday nite live wisecrack...must we all be silenced in our views if these views are not PC..it was Jesus Himself who when He answered re the coin and worship bit...He answered."render to Ceasar the things that are Ceasars and to Gods that are Gods” that sealed His fate...a quick middle of the nite trial,changed accusations and charges..and pow,pow,pow...to be hoisted up onto and nailed to the crossbeam of a cross!Jesus,victim of being un-PC...thus the Pope will always be un-PC thats his job..read the small print!!!!
Report thisBy oh me oh my, September 14 at 5:37 pm #
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Good thing she didn’t make a joke about Mohammed! Then she’d REALLY be in trouble with no one to defend her.
Report thisThat which creates, fosters intolerence is evil; religion is evil.
By lichen, September 14 at 3:01 pm #
How disgusting! I’m glad I don’t live in Italy, and I hope this actress has a way to escape the demagoguery of this disgusting hypocrite and the right wing judicial system that props him up.
Report thisBy Eso, September 14 at 7:34 am #
In his speech in Paris the pope said: “Has not our modern world created its own idols? Has it not imitated, perhaps inadvertently, the pagans of antiquity, by diverting man from his true end, from the joy of living eternally with God?”
1. The “pagans” were nothing more than simple peasants. These agriculturalists were truer to the true end of man than the people who live in concrete canyons and know no way out.
2. The popes made crusades against and burnt at auto da fe all arch-Christians they could find (Cathars, Bogomils, the Children of Johns). The arch-Christians believed that John (Jesus is but a variation of that name) walked among men (as the sadhus of India still do), which was an unacceptable involvement in politics to the princes of the church. Jesus, as we know, was dismissed to heaven.
A renewed inquisition would be welcome, because then the evils perpetrated by the church would maybe be unearthed.
Report thisBy Jim Yell, September 14 at 5:55 am #
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It seems peculiar that there would be such a law tracing back to the gangster Mussolini still on record in Italy. It is odd that a supposed Democracy would have such a law, what ever its orgins.
This might have the salutary effect of getting such a stinking, Fascist law off the books. It also gives the lie to Pope Benidict being an authority on anything to do with real life. The comment was much nicer than ones I could think of.
Report thisBy Dave24, September 12 at 8:11 pm #
The Pope and his minions can go to hell. Wait a minute, “hell” is just an idea and exists only in the minds of men. Actually, “hell” is the mental enslavement employed by scripture upon the meager minds of the masses.
“Religion: bringing people together in a world torn apart, by religion.”
Report thisBy Leefeller, September 12 at 7:23 pm #
What did the prosecutor find offensive? The pope went to hell or there are big gay devils? Did she say anything about pedophiles? If you think about it, the name pope is funny. Next, when Palin becomes queen, we will not be able to make jokes about her bad taste in fur rugs and stuffed animals in the White House.
Report thisBy dale Headley, September 12 at 11:36 am #
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It appears that “The Inquisition” is making a comeback.
Report thisBy tres, September 12 at 10:37 am #
She goes: “your Honor, the last Pope told me that was what happened, and will happen to this Pope.”
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