Really? And What Will The "Offended" Party Be Doing?

ROME (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI says an apparent suicide bombing outside a Mass in Egypt that left 21 worshippers dead “offends God and all of humanity.”

The pope offered condolences and expressed his grief for the victims and their families during his traditional Sunday Angelus prayer.

He compared the attack to bombs placed near churches in Iraq, saying both are meant to intimidate Christians and prevent them from attending services. Benedict has repeatedly denounced the violent campaign against Christians in Iraq blamed on al-Qaida militants.

He also remembered the “numerous” pastoral workers killed in 2010.

The pope urged Christians Saturday in his New Year’s appeal to remain strong in the face of intolerance and violence.

So, what is The Big Fucking Killer in The Sky planning on doing about this offense?Sit on "His" hands, as "He" has since "His" invention by heat-addled desert wanderers? Has "He" ever been "offended" by any of the atrocities of "His Holiness"'s flunkies, from the Inquisition to sexual abuse of children?

Plus which, as excerpted by Zöe Pollack somewhere:

But one thing, during all those years of increasing disability and loss and pain, became very clear. Though we celebrated Jesus’ suffering and death at Christmas time, even as we sang carols about his birth, people did not want to hear about suffering, real human suffering and loss. As I mourned the dying of the light, watching someone I loved so dearly disintegrate before my very eyes, no one wanted to hear about real suffering at Christmas. They did not want to be reminded that people still grew sick and died, amidst the tinselly joy of Christmas time. Some were even offended if I mentioned it, even though they could see, year by year, Elizabeth’s abilities degrading more and more.

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But there is something, to my mind, even more shameful. It is the claim, made without the slightest apology, that death has been destroyed and life has been restored. Like the meaningless mumblings of all religions, this is a scandal, to tell someone who is suffering and dying that death has been destroyed, to say that the misery, the pain, the humiliation, the disintegration that happens to people as they die, has been already destroyed, that the torment and torture are past and the horror gone.

The torture never stops.