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Originally Posted by The Jade  What's wrong with people here?
Priests have one job and one job ONLY: PRAY
The FPM has attacked the patriarch, telling him not to interfere in politics.
FPM is a secular party and having a priest on its list will completely destroy whatever's left of this belief.
As for the people finding excuses: He's the dean of this or that university, he's a professor, he's I dunno what.
The guy is still a priest.
Do you think that this guy will support a law to legalize CIVIL MARRIAGE ?
There are many other examples that go against his religious beliefs and FPM's policies.
Guys, please, we're really not LFers, we can think, stop defending this decision. |
why are you making assumptions. I don't know him really well, but before making an assumption, why don't we ask... he might be in favour of a new secular option. Not all clergy are like... the batrak!
We, Lebanese are sometimes funny in how we take rules to the extreme, and then we make it our job to ensure the rule is implemented to the dot! like the Jews when they were told not to do any work on Saturday, they made it their job to attack anyone who sneezes on a Saturday.
We fight feodalism, but if a chiaa with a family name Aoun gets a high position in FPM, we raise hell!!
We fight for splitting religion and politics, but if a priest runs for elections, we raise hell! That's not religion interfering in politics... religion interfereing in politics is when a clergy in a POWERFUL POSITION, and who is elected in Rome, uses his power and his voice to influence politics. But if the people decide to vote for a priest to represent their riding.. so what?? Even here in Canada, where you have the best example of a secular system, i worked with a church minister who ran for an MP position, and he won... by muslim votes in his riding... we are for a secular system, but let's not get to an*l about it.
2nd April 2009
... manno nezil min l fada metel gheir ness
