soprano Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 The fact that we are forking out for this but can't go unless your selected by your local church is a disgrace. I know people will say that we pay for a lot of stuff that we aren't interested in but at least we have a choice. The Catholic church should pay for this and also the inconvenience it causes to the local residents by way of a donation to a local cause. Bah humbug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soprano Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet? The point is I don't want to go to see the pope even if I could so don't see why my taxes should be used to pay for his visit when we are cutting back in so many other areas. As for the G20 I was represented by the government I had the opportunity to vote for. I don't remember getting a vote in the Papal election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet?As for the G20 I was represented by the government I had the opportunity to vote for. Well this time you will be represented by both the government and the queen who will both be meeting the man in the hat. So double bubble for your money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soprano Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet?As for the G20 I was represented by the government I had the opportunity to vote for. Well this time you will be represented by both the government and the queen who will both be meeting the man in the hat. So double bubble for your money. Sounds like value for money. Perhaps if the pope bought God along for a guest appearance I might have a re think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted September 12, 2010 Author Share Posted September 12, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet? A meeting of the leaders of the most powerful countries in the world. Imagine the problems we'd face poliically if we allowed he Chinese leader to be killed in our country. We'd spend far more repairing the political famage. While it's expensive it's important World leaders meet imo. I wonder if we'll be having official visits for other Religious figures and wasting so much money on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet? A meeting of the leaders of the most powerful countries in the world. Imagine the problems we'd face poliically if we allowed he Chinese leader to be killed in our country. We'd spend far more repairing the political famage. While it's expensive it's important World leaders meet imo. I wonder if we'll be having official visits for other Religious figures and wasting so much money on that.So if it's so dangerous, why hold it in London? So the Uk can gain prestige from it? the UK gained what from paying for this. Maybe they should learn from the bildegerg group and meet in quiet out of way spaces. G20 was a PR exercise for govts, nothing decided, nothing delivered. All the work is done beforehand. "Imagine the problems we'd face poliically if we allowed the Catholic leader to be killed in our country. We'd spend far more repairing the political famage." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Hide your children Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 If Dan Brown has told us anything is we cant trust therse religious types. Long live the Illuminati Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 hide your children Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiganvillain Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Where's the "don't give a shit" option on the Poll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaywasawesome Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Wasn't Dawkins and Hitchens saying a while back that they were going to try and get the relevant authorities to arrest the Pope for crimes against humanity for covering up the priest child molestation issue? Link The CNN anchor comes across as a bit of a stuck-up bitch in that interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soprano Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Wasn't Dawkins and Hitchens saying a while back that they were going to try and get the relevant authorities to arrest the Pope for crimes against humanity for covering up the priest child molestation issue? Link The CNN anchor comes across as a bit of a stuck-up bitch in that interview. I think she saying it's a Bum Rap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet? hide your children So your main defence of the Pope seems to be that there are other things as bad as him so therefore he should be excused? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet? hide your children So your main defence of the Pope seems to be that there are other things as bad as him so therefore he should be excused?Well the OP said he didn't want this to be about religion, yet all the things people complained about existed elsewhere, but only got complained about when they were due to religion. Not defending the pope - Never said he should be excused - I really don't condone child abuse to be honest in any situation, anywhere. Just pointing out that people were not interested in protesting the same issues elsewhere. So why here. Or is it about religion? Thought it might be helpful, in the absence of any actual debate (not one poster has welcomed his visit though 19% have voted that it's a good thing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 G20, London. Cost £50m. How many of them did you have the chance to go and meet? hide your children So your main defence of the Pope seems to be that there are other things as bad as him so therefore he should be excused?Well the OP said he didn't want this to be about religion, yet all the things people complained about existed elsewhere, but only got complained about when they were due to religion. Not defending the pope - Never said he should be excused - I really don't condone child abuse to be honest in any situation, anywhere. Just pointing out that people were not interested in protesting the same issues elsewhere. So why here. Or is it about religion? Thought it might be helpful, in the absence of any actual debate (not one poster has welcomed his visit though 19% have voted that it's a good thing). I'm not really sure how you can make the claim that "people were not interested in protesting the same issues elsewhere". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villahero Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 A person i work with's child is singing on the day with ( wait for it .....)....Susan Boyle !!!...and has to be at their school for 4AM !!! in order to clear all the security checks !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Leader of possibly THE WORST cult in the world, in terms of impact on humanity. Evil evil religion LOL. As bad as the Catholic Churchs track record is (and it is), plenty of other Christian sects have as bloody and discriminatory a record as the RCC. Anyway, seeing as ye Brit Taxpayers seemingly have no problem on spending 10s of millions every year to subsidise the head of the Anglican Church, whats 12m to ye to throw a party for the head of the UKs 2nd largest religion?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 security guards? big gold hat? £25 a ticket? official website has a merchandising page? what would Jesus say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I didn't pick Jesus as a Redditch fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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