Lord_Olf,Apr 6 2005, 08:29 AM Wrote:But these successes tend to mask his interior politics. He strongly supported Opus Dei, an order that is seen as rather extremist, his views about abortion or homosexuality weren't excatly liberal, and one of the last "big things" was announcing Roman Catolicism as "the one true church" - greatly annoying Protestant and other churches, and not exactly a giant stride towards the 21st century.
Add to that the fact that almost all Cardinals responsible for electing the now Pope have been picked by John Paul II. - not likely that they will elect someone who will take a 180 degree turn from conservative to liberal, is it?
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Exactly, and several of these chosen kardinals from south america were supporters of the junta's over there. And to be that in such a continent (with a lot of poor katholics) is not a very noble thing. He knew it, they knew it, the world knew it....but nobody does anything.
When somebody dies, people tend to only remember the good things and never the bad things. I just think this pope was no saint.
About the weapons. I can very well imagine that a lot of countries want to have nuclear arms. If the US and russia (and some others) have them, and there is no cold war anymore, they (and I mean countries like iran, pakistan, india, china, north korea) can very well be the next victim of the superpowers.......a few atomic bombs might be a good defense.
I mean let's not kid ourselves. If teh US knew for real that Saddam had nuclear weapons they would never have tried to invade Irak.
As you probably know I'm not such a big supporter of militarism, I'm just saying I can imagine why these things go on.