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The Pope is Argentine, but God is Brazilian, says Rousseff; Francis is expected in Rio next July
Argentines are lucky because they have a great Pope, but “if the Pope is Argentine, God is Brazilian”, said Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday following her half hour meeting with Francis and asked by Argentine reporters her impression of the new pontiff. Read full article
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Mar 20th, 2013 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good for Brazil.
Mar 20th, 2013 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Pope will enjoy visiting “God's country” as opposed to depressed Argentina.
:-)
No need for Brazilians to go to confession any more as they will now have a freephone upstairs to the Boss himself
Mar 21st, 2013 - 12:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0A grown adult arguing about the nationality of a mythical creature, that was created in mankind’s image, goes bump in the night, and seeks revenge in an imaginary afterlife? … mmmmm okay
Mar 21st, 2013 - 08:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4 and just to think there was a time when man believed the world was flat, and believed in witches,monsters etc......that is until we knew better,
Mar 21st, 2013 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0each to their own.....
If the pope is argentine, god is brazilian, then the devil is... answers on a postcard please!
Mar 21st, 2013 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6. G W B of course. Chavez already told us..
Mar 21st, 2013 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0According to David Bowie, “God is an American” (you've got to see him perform that live- one of the essential pleasures of life).
Mar 21st, 2013 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7 Ricky
Mar 21st, 2013 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well Chavez would know, he's downstairs, not upstairs!
@6 Musky
Mar 21st, 2013 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think I'd have to nominate George Osborne (and if, by the skin of his teeth, it isn't him, it is only because he isn't actually clever enough to be Satan incarnate).
Well Ozzy is the devil's spawn. A complete omni-shamples in a posh frock. Cost me a fortune this guy.
Mar 21st, 2013 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's with this conversation? Everyone knows that God is British, specifically English. You have only look at production of the Bible. First there was what is known as the Tyndale Bible around 1525. The first translation into a proper language from the original gibberish. Then 1539/40 and the Great Bible. The Bishops' Bible of 1568. And finally, the King James Bible finished in 1611. Who could doubt that God was ensuring promulgation of the Word in his own language, that is gradually becoming the language of the world. All around the world, people are having to give up their local gibberish and speak English.
Mar 21st, 2013 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12
Mar 21st, 2013 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Equal Rome from the latins!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOuIf4BlGEY&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=36
@12 conk
Mar 21st, 2013 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I must agree with you. He's a cool customer so it stands to reason!
Very classy quip from Dilma, I like it =)
Mar 22nd, 2013 - 12:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0#4 Get a life =)
#6 “If the pope is argentine, god is brazilian, then the devil is...” a kelper! Nah just kidding =)
Dilma does a reasonably good job.
Mar 22nd, 2013 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only thing she probably do not want to risk is a cut in Government salaries. And that is really what must be done, to get rid of most of these incompetent old farts
Conks you are wrong.
Mar 22nd, 2013 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0God is SCOTS or at least he has been since the dastarly English returned Abrahams Pillow aka the Stone of Scone to Scotias fair land. He must be Scots otherwise he wouldnt have given his faithfull the art of making the water of life = uisge in Gaelic.
If Scotland gets its independence one of the first problems that that kelt Mr Salmond will face is a demand from the Israeli Premier for the return of Abrahams pillow to the land of Judah
#12 “You have only look at production of the Bible. First there was what is known as the Tyndale Bible around 1525. The first translation into a proper language from the original gibberish”
Mar 22nd, 2013 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hahaha
#17 Its Jacob's pillow! I obviously know my Scottish heritage better than you =)
I would think that what Argentina and Brazil need more than God and the Pope is a bloody decent economist.
Mar 23rd, 2013 - 03:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0#19 Well if he exists, God created the economy, so you could say he's the best economist =) And the economic teachings of Jesus are very appealing to me =)
Mar 23rd, 2013 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0@20 God created man and instilled in him free will.
Mar 23rd, 2013 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't blame Brazil's and Argentinas's failing economies on God. That's just plain unfair to God.
Not everything is his fault. For instance your lower than usual level of intelligence is not God's fault. I'd blame that squarely on genetics - wouldn't even take into account the environment on that one.
#21 Why's that? Do you think I might be the “wrong” race?!
Mar 23rd, 2013 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0O M G - now you're insulting your friend-on-the-cloud even for your lousy economy?
Mar 23rd, 2013 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She doesn't deserve that.
@@18 kilty Kirtshy You are of course correct about Jacobs pillow. While we are at it the Orkneys and Shetlands really belong to Norway on the same basis that the Falklands “belong” to Argentina
Mar 23rd, 2013 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That idea sends th Scot gnats ballistic as only 8% of the people voted for ScotNats at the last election
Look up Henry Sinclair, premier Jarl of Norway and Earl of Orkney. If his story is true we should have an Orcadian in the White House and not some Kenyan Irishman by the name of O'Bama!
#24 Interesting, getting into some Templar conspiracy theories here =) But even if its all true, why does that mean America should have an Orcadian President 600 years on; after all, Christopher Columbus wasn't a Kenyan either! Or toput it another way, times change =)
Mar 23rd, 2013 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@22 BK
Mar 23rd, 2013 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you for proving my point in post 21, you make it too easy!
;-)
Mar 24th, 2013 - 12:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0@25 Kilty K. Templar conspiracies? A visit to Rosslyn chapel is in order to set you right on that score
Mar 24th, 2013 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Simon Templar would have kicked BK's arse.
Mar 24th, 2013 - 07:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Saints alive! If he did that we might find out if Kilty K is a trew Scotsman!
Mar 24th, 2013 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@14 Please don't call me “conk”. “Conqueror” is in tribute to HMS Conqueror. One of Her Britannic Majesty's submarines. Responsible for the “removal” of an aggressor. And for the argie “navy” fleeing to its ports, never to venture out again. HMS Conqueror is a very proud name. Please give it proper respect.
Mar 24th, 2013 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@17 Please note my comments above. And God cannot be Scots. God is a stern god. How could a god be stern in a skirt? I hesitate to suggest the identity of the faithful of a Scots god. Cross-dressers? Trans-genders? Transsexuals? A real god must depend on the normal and the brave. The English!
@22 Of course you're the “wrong” race. Don't you represent yourself as Scottish? A skirt-wearer who likes to eat horse feed? Is that normal? And you try to justify yourself by including the word “British”. Foreign evasions, misdirection and lies. Do you even have a “race”? Or are you just a mongrel?
@31 Conqueror I am perfectly aware that HMS Conqueror was referred to as conks throughout the 82 conflict.
Mar 24th, 2013 - 04:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So who do you take your soubriquet from?
That French Viking Duke of Normandy who invaded England in 1066?
As to God in a skirt, you may have noticed when the last time you went to church that our clerical bretheren wear a surplice (or surplus; take it how you will) when they get dressed up.
So of course God is a Scot
With the latest scandals in the church, maybe the expression of chasing a skirt has taken on a new meaning?
#31 “God cannot be Scots. God is a stern god. How could a god be stern in a skirt? I hesitate to suggest the identity of the faithful of a Scots god. Cross-dressers? Trans-genders? Transsexuals?”
Mar 24th, 2013 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you believe then that “God hates fags”???
GOD IS AN ILLUSION!
Mar 25th, 2013 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0@31 Conk
Mar 25th, 2013 - 02:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Take your God and stick it. “Normal” people don't live in your world. Just bitter old people who can't understand how the world has moved on.
You are sady mistaken if you think you are “normal”, just common.
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