Bill Maher’s comments about Catholicism being a cult, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is accurate. Catholicism is a formal religious veneration (worship of a divine being); a system of religious beliefs and rituals. It can also be used as a great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement or work, not reaching the status of Worship.
However, I believe, based upon previous ranting and railings of Maher’s that he was not describing the first definition of worshipping a devine God, but meant it in a derogatory way. That same definition applies to every other religion; Baptists, methodists, Islam, Jewish, etc
Calling the Pope a Nazi without proof that the Pope was a card-carrying member of the Nazi political party is slander. Put up or shut up Bill! The stories and rumours that the Pope belonged to the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth Organization) is most probably correct. As of January 1939, Germany made it compulsary to belong to the Hitler Jugend and in many cases children were conscripted into the group. The Pope was 12 years old then. When you were 12 could you stand up to the Nazi regime and say no sir, I’m burning my card! In 1943 all Hitler Jugend were used from then on solely for anti-aircraft duty. The Pope was 16 then.
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