Pope says rich nations plundered Poor

[avatar4321]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070404/ts_nm/pope_book_dc

I definitely disagree with this. What wealth did Africa exactly have that was plundered?

[Psychoblues]

In 14 (fourteen) words you have indicated ignorance beyond the wildest imaginations of even the most educated.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070404/ts_nm/pope_book_dc

I definitely disagree with this. What wealth did Africa exactly have that was plundered?

There is no explanation as there can be no explanation for such crude and insensitive gutterations by anyone educated beyond kindergarden in the United States Of America. "What wealth did Africa exactly have that was plundered?" Unfreakingbelievable. And only 14 words describe your life.

[Nuc]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070404/ts_nm/pope_book_dc

I definitely disagree with this. What wealth did Africa exactly have that was plundered?

Duh?!?!?!?!?

Ever hear of something called "diamonds"?

[Psychoblues]

Don't forget about rubber, gold, rain forest plant derived human life saving drugs, exotic animals for zoo proliferation, oil that is certainly there but will be totally exploited when the politics are correct in the regions, and the niggers. You just can't forget about the niggers. They have been a mainstaying commodity for thousands of years and remain so today.

Duh?!?!?!?!?

Ever hear of something called "diamonds"?

Did I mention the orchids?

[Nuc]

[QUOTE=Psychoblues;34606]Don't forget about rubber, gold, rain forest plant derived human life saving drugs, exotic animals for zoo proliferation, oil that is certainly there but will be totally exploited when the politics are correct in the regions, and the niggers. You just can't forget about the niggers. They have been a mainstaying commodity for thousands of years and remain so today./QUOTE]

Yes niggers are a commodity. And as long as they are stupid enough to convert to Christianity and Islam, the two religions which have turned them into a commodity, they will remain a commodity. Because the aforementioned groups will correctly perceive them as being too idiotic to fight back.

[Dilloduck]

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Don't forget about rubber, gold, rain forest plant derived human life saving drugs, exotic animals for zoo proliferation, oil that is certainly there but will be totally exploited when the politics are correct in the regions, and the niggers. You just can't forget about the niggers. They have been a mainstaying commodity for thousands of years and remain so today./QUOTE]

Yes niggers are a commodity. And as long as they are stupid enough to convert to Christianity and Islam, the two religions which have turned them into a commodity, they will remain a commodity. Because the aforementioned groups will correctly perceive them as being too idiotic to fight back.

How has religion turned Africans into commodities?

[Nuc]

[QUOTE=Dilloduck;34614]

How has religion turned Africans into commodities?

Christians and Moslems were the main slave traders, duh, are you playing dumb? Or are you just dumb?

[Dilloduck]

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Christians and Moslems were the main slave traders, duh, are you playing dumb? Or are you just dumb?

smart enough to know how to spell Muslim.

[Nukeman]

Personaly the Catholic church has no business telling other they exploited or took resources form anyone. Has anyone here ever been to the vatican and seen how much "stolen" and appropriated artifacts are there.

[avatar4321]

Duh?!?!?!?!?

Ever hear of something called "diamonds"?

Diamonds only such a high quality item because of marketing of the jewelers. But Ill grant you people have been exploited for them. It hardly qualifies as plundering wealth though.

[avatar4321]

How has religion turned Africans into commodities?

The claim is a bunch bull crap. But what the heck do you expect from bigots?

[GW in Ohio]

The claim is a bunch bull crap. But what the heck do you expect from bigots?

Let's do a little history lesson for my friend here who is being rather obtuse.....

When the Age of Discovery started, around the 15th century, the Christian nations of Europe set out to "discover" new lands and to claim them for their monarchs. The goal of these voyages of discovery was to find new lands with natural resources that the more enterprising Europeans could appropriate for their governments.

And that is just what they did. The Europeans siphoned off diamonds, rubber, gold, timber, and whatever else they could plunder from the less enterprising native peoples. They also plundered the native peoples themselves and sold them as slaves. The natural resources that were siphoned off became the basis of the wealth of the Europeans.

Today, the nations of Europe all enjoy a disproportionately high standard of living, while the nations of Africa languish at the poverty line. And the nations of South America are just coming into their own, after centuries of colonization by Europeans.

Today, there's not much plundering or colonization going on, but the damage has been done; the wealth has been realigned. The moral thing to do.....the Christian thing to do....would be for Europe and the United States to give back some of that wealth to the third world countries.

Wouldn't you agree?

Or do you prefer to adopt the neocon position of:

"Fuck the third world. We got ours. We worked for it. Plundering and colonizing is damn hard work."

[LiberalNation]

"Fuck the third world. We got ours. We worked for it. Plundering and colonizing is damn hard work."

That's what I'm thinking. Sucks for them but I'm happy to be living in a more wealthy society and we wouldn't be that way without the European colonialism.

[Dilloduck]

That's what I'm thinking. Sucks for them but I'm happy to be living in a more wealthy society and we wouldn't be that way without the European colonialism.

Without Western aid most of Africa would starve or die from disease. What is preventing them from taking control of thier own resources and build a country worth living in? Laziness or is it just that old entitlement thing again?

[GW in Ohio]

That's what I'm thinking. Sucks for them but I'm happy to be living in a more wealthy society and we wouldn't be that way without the European colonialism.

Ah, but some day you may come to the realization that all men are brothers.......you are actually brothers, not just with your fellow Americans, but also with those brown-skinned South Americans and those black-skinned Africans.

And you really are your brother's keeper.