LES COMBES, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that his guardian angel was clearly acting “on superior orders” when he let the pontiff fall and break his wrist this month.

The 82-year-old pope said in a lighthearted tone that: “Perhaps the Lord wanted to teach me more patience and humility, give me more time for prayer and meditation,” the pope added.

The pope thanked law enforcement officials for being “like angels,” as he prepared to depart Les Combes, the Alpine resort where he tripped and hurt his right wrist about 10 days ago while on vacation.

“Unfortunately, my own guardian angel did not prevent my injury, certainly following superior orders,” Benedict said.

And once again who are the real “angels”? HUMAN BEINGS…the law enforcement officials who came to his aid while he thinks nothing of how sadistic it sounds for a god to give superior orders to let him injure himself and suffer.

Because that phrase has never been uttered an any situation that wasn’t awesome. How I wish we had an eye rolling emoticon.

Stardust;

It’s enough to be sick in the hospital w/out b-leevers subjecting you to their ill-reasoned non-sense. Sorry you had to endure that.

The Gospel according to Stinky:

“God doesn’t make bad things happen to test ones faith. He allows bad things to happen because most people choose to ignore Him.”–Stinky 3:16

Besides the facts that this is imaginitive speculation at best, Stinky, and there is plenty of scripture to back up whatever claim you want to make about gawd, the reasoning of why bad things happen to us gets so much easier when you take the imaginary “friends” out of the equation. Try it; you might like it.

And really which would you rather have; an Hebrew testament vindictive gawd, or a Xtain testament passive-aggressive gawd. I can see why believers think atheists “hate” their particular brand of gawd–he is quite frankly, a total asshole.

Onna says:

Is it to make us stronger for greater trials down the road, or maybe to show us our true faith? I am like you about the time I get over one hurdle it is not long till here comes another. I believe you are so right with God taking us down a notch. If he didn’t we might not depend on him as we should. Pride is the worst.

Why doesn’t this God do this uniformly then, instead of giving a person a load of shit to bear in their lives and others, many of whom are not even god believers seem to skate through life like a breeze with all the luxury and easiness most of us can only imagine. “Take us down a notch”…why would a kind and loving person who does nothing but help others need to have her husband, mother, father, children and friends all taken from her like a friend of mine has? God is “taking her down a notch” ? That is stupid, stupid reasoning.

Stinky says:

God doesn’t make bad things happen to test ones faith. He allows bad things to happen because most people choose to ignore Him. I am blown away at all the people who idolize Obama, or some sports figure, or some movie or music idol, who are just mortals. If they showed the same amount of enthusiasm for God, they’d be labeled fanatics.

So Stinky is saying that this god is a vindictive asshole who throws a fit and hurts people because they aren’t paying attention to him? And yes, Stinky…people who idolize an imaginary being ARE fantatics. People who go overboard idolizing politicians and sports figures are also fanatics, though most people admire politicians, sports figures, movie stars and singers…admiration is a lot different than idolizing. And at least politicians, sports figures, movie stars, etc are real and not figments of people’s imaginations. Many of these famous people who are quite wealthy do a lot more to help the people on this planet than your imaginary friend does, Stinky.

Unless God doesn’t have free will, what with him being all knowing, and therefore just kind of goes along for the ride.