{"id":3513,"date":"2009-10-16T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/sarah-silvermans-stupid-idea.html"},"modified":"2009-10-16T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T16:01:08","slug":"sarah-silvermans-stupid-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/sarah-silvermans-stupid-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Silverman’s “stupid” idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

A comedian’s suggestion to sell the Vatican isn’t going over well with at least one archbishop<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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Sell the Vatican to help the poor?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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U.S. comedian Sarah Silverman might think it’s a great idea, but a Nigerian archbishop called the suggestion offensive and “stupid.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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Africans from poor countries admire the Vatican, and have no desire to dismantle it, Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja told reporters at a briefing on the Synod of Bishops for Africa Oct. 16.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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“The few poor people who come here have never said, ‘Oh, why don’t you sell this and give us money for food.’ They always say, ‘What a beautiful place.’ They admire it … maybe because man does not live by bread alone,” the archbishop said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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The poor of Africa certainly don’t expect the Vatican to sell its art and buildings — and anyway, “who’s going to buy it?” he added.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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“I think the joke is not only offensive, but in bad taste and stupid. What they should be asking is: What is the Vatican doing about poverty in the world?” he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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Silverman, in a recent video monologue laced with profanity, jokingly called on Pope Benedict XVI to “move out of your house that is a city” and use the proceeds to feed the hungry. Among those denouncing the comedian was the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which called the video “another assault on Catholicism.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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There’s more at the link<\/a>. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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