Thursday, April 21, 2005
You Go Pope-- Get on With Your Big Bad Hat!
The best thing about the new pope isn't that he looks exactly like what someone would believe a scary ass, fire and brimstone catholic priest should look like, it's not that he was in the Hitler Youth and then later conscripted into the Nazi Army (which he did go AWOL from---only two years after he had been forced to join---in 1945, just before the end of the war).
Nor is it that he's a harsh conservative, interested only in protecting the conventions of the second Vatican council and ensuring that gays and woman have nothing to do with the Church. Or that he believes that priests shouldn't marry, as one would expect from a traditionalist-- except that tradition wasn't started until about 1000 years after the church got started.
It's not even that fact that because of the church's stance on birth control, hundreds of thousands of Africans continue to get infected with AIDS, simply because God doesn't want them to wear a condom-- apparently he hates them. No, that best thing about this pope is that he'll likely be dead soon...which means the death pool starts now.
I have June of 2007.
Anyone else?
Nor is it that he's a harsh conservative, interested only in protecting the conventions of the second Vatican council and ensuring that gays and woman have nothing to do with the Church. Or that he believes that priests shouldn't marry, as one would expect from a traditionalist-- except that tradition wasn't started until about 1000 years after the church got started.
It's not even that fact that because of the church's stance on birth control, hundreds of thousands of Africans continue to get infected with AIDS, simply because God doesn't want them to wear a condom-- apparently he hates them. No, that best thing about this pope is that he'll likely be dead soon...which means the death pool starts now.
I have June of 2007.
Anyone else?
