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One more job I'm out of the running for: or Even Ned Flanders would dislike this guy:
Crochety old man made new Pontiff. Promises more of the same...but not as fun. Pope Benedict XVI, it seems, has had it up to here *indicates mitre* with the liberalism and acceptance of other cultures propagated in contemporary society.
He's sick and tired of women working outside the home (in trousers, no less), people having sex and forming families with those they love (unless of course their union is bathed in the loving light of Christ--who never did take a wife, BTW), and people seeking deity in ways unsanctioned by him and his friends from work. Sounds like he's going to begin his new gig by condemning a whoooooole lot of people. Should be just the image builder the church has needed since everyone found out they passively sanctioned the rape and molestation of hundreds of children.
Seriously, this guy is going to set them back 100 years.
And for the Catholic Church, that means the 1700's.
I hear people saying "well, he's 78...he won't be around too long". But it's not like this guy's going to be doing any manual labor. Those poor Catholics could be in for 20+ years of ultra conservative diddley.
Think I'll pop some corn, pull up a comfy chair and just watch people flock away from The Church.
I was not raised in the church. My mom decided when I was in 7th grade that the neighborhood schools were not good, so we were going to Catholic school. Since it was less expensive for parish members, we all had to get baptized and attend church. Myself, I was totaly welcoming and "into it". The idea that a big guy in the sky had a grand plan for us seemed very inviting. And the whole "infinite light of god" dealie sounded very nice to a disturbed, depressed little punk such as myself.
The next year, was Confirmation Year. Confirmation is when you take the oaths that your godparent takes for you at baptism. You confirm that you will be a Catholic for the rest of your life. But here's the thing...you're 13 years old. Tell me any other lasting choice a 13 year old is allowed to make for themself? There is none...because 13 year olds don't know enough about themselves, the world and the choices that will face them in the future to make any such choice. We were told to get confirmed, so we did. There was no choice about it. I could go on and on about how disengenuous this all felt to me at the time, but I won't. My biggest problem with Christian churches in general is the indoctrination of children before they have gotten a chance to figure things out for themselves. Apparently the adage: if you love something, set it free and it will return to you, doesn't apply to God.
You all know how it ends...I found a path that doesn't require me to shun anyone based on who they love or how they worship, a path that understands that there is more to morality than sex, and a path that asserts we should not hate ourselves for the things we think, and that we should care for the earth so it will care for us. (I've always kind of felt that the official christian stance on the earth is similar to your spoiled cousin who gets all the expensive birthday gifts: "it's mine, I'll do what I want with it!" as he flies his remote control airplane into Aunt Millies barbeque pit because he can.) It's been nice.
He's sick and tired of women working outside the home (in trousers, no less), people having sex and forming families with those they love (unless of course their union is bathed in the loving light of Christ--who never did take a wife, BTW), and people seeking deity in ways unsanctioned by him and his friends from work. Sounds like he's going to begin his new gig by condemning a whoooooole lot of people. Should be just the image builder the church has needed since everyone found out they passively sanctioned the rape and molestation of hundreds of children.
Seriously, this guy is going to set them back 100 years.
And for the Catholic Church, that means the 1700's.
I hear people saying "well, he's 78...he won't be around too long". But it's not like this guy's going to be doing any manual labor. Those poor Catholics could be in for 20+ years of ultra conservative diddley.
Think I'll pop some corn, pull up a comfy chair and just watch people flock away from The Church.
I was not raised in the church. My mom decided when I was in 7th grade that the neighborhood schools were not good, so we were going to Catholic school. Since it was less expensive for parish members, we all had to get baptized and attend church. Myself, I was totaly welcoming and "into it". The idea that a big guy in the sky had a grand plan for us seemed very inviting. And the whole "infinite light of god" dealie sounded very nice to a disturbed, depressed little punk such as myself.
The next year, was Confirmation Year. Confirmation is when you take the oaths that your godparent takes for you at baptism. You confirm that you will be a Catholic for the rest of your life. But here's the thing...you're 13 years old. Tell me any other lasting choice a 13 year old is allowed to make for themself? There is none...because 13 year olds don't know enough about themselves, the world and the choices that will face them in the future to make any such choice. We were told to get confirmed, so we did. There was no choice about it. I could go on and on about how disengenuous this all felt to me at the time, but I won't. My biggest problem with Christian churches in general is the indoctrination of children before they have gotten a chance to figure things out for themselves. Apparently the adage: if you love something, set it free and it will return to you, doesn't apply to God.
You all know how it ends...I found a path that doesn't require me to shun anyone based on who they love or how they worship, a path that understands that there is more to morality than sex, and a path that asserts we should not hate ourselves for the things we think, and that we should care for the earth so it will care for us. (I've always kind of felt that the official christian stance on the earth is similar to your spoiled cousin who gets all the expensive birthday gifts: "it's mine, I'll do what I want with it!" as he flies his remote control airplane into Aunt Millies barbeque pit because he can.) It's been nice.
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I asked a nun something regarding Vatican 2, and how a lot of things changed from one pope to the next. She said that one pope had made changes from what some previous one had been doing. I then asked her why he would do that if all popes are (as they said) infallible. She had no good answer and moved along to the next kid.
Electric Boogaloo?
I didn't realize there was a sequel.
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Is that when they stopped doing mass in Latin?
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I got a troll email comment to a post I made 2 years ago. it actually sounded similar to a troll I dealt with...well, about 2 years ago who apparently went to Olivet with me. He was too cowardly to identify himself as such people often are, but it was pretty damn funny just the same.
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Meanning, I had predicted they would have elected the Nigerian fellow, even though that probably would have meant more of the same. Of course in retrospect, I should have known they wouldn't elect a black man.
Which is essentially what you've said, only in a needlessly confrontational and contrary manner.
I know as a pagan, popedom is very important to you, but I'd appreciate it if you could try to play nice in my journal.
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Why do you have to take such umbridge at the assertion that they could have chosen a black guy and didn't?
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Because instead they chose a Nazi.
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Dave: "I had predicted that they would play the multicultural card and still manage to take the church back 100 years."
Nate: "How is it multicultural?"
I guess the next time someone makes a statement that I don't understand, I'll just keep my keyboard to myself.
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If he dies within the next few years (before 2012) and a new Pope gets elected, then converts, it will be the END OF THE WORLD!!! Or not.
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To be honest, I haven't read it yet but I assumed it was fiction based loosely on historical assertions. Like urban legends, the best stories have some shreds of beleivability in them.
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True dat. I finally left that comm, feeling frustrated over the same kinds of posts over and over, plus all the damn trolls wasting my time. I sometimes forget that the internet is just a microcosm of the world, and I don't actually like people very much.
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And for the Catholic Church, that means the 1700's.
---Made me chuckle. ;)
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You don't have to be christian to feel that way about the earth.
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In fact, H subscribes to this philosophy. But because he is not a power-hungry lunatic, he realizes that holding dominion and being a tyrant are not nessesarily the same thing. Benevolence will take one much further than tryanny.
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A lot of people are posting about the Pontiff today. I do it because I love to mouth-off about things, and also for timliness.
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Even if nobody understood what it was about, that would make a great non sequitur bumper sticker!
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