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People pressuring the Vatican to not chose a European are being prejudiced.

Ty wrote:

Kind of surprised the Pope's resignation hasn't been brought up yet. Anyone got any thoughts about that? Personally I always thought the sooner this Pope moved on in whatever form the better. A backwards-thinking child rape covering-up unapologetic waste of space who proliferated idiocy like banning condoms, who was closed minded towards things like homosexuality and stem cell research as well as the concept of female priests. He even tip-toed around evolution more than his predecessor.

The Catholic Church needs a strong and progressive leader rather than another old man caught a couple of centuries in the past. Their main concern is still popularity of course and maintaining their followers. They're not going to do this if they remain as disconnected as they are.

So, you're saying the next pope shouldn't be Catholic?

Their main concern seems to be adhering to what they perceive as holy tradition.
If they were concerned about popularity and maintaining their followers, they'd have made more efforts to bring the Lutherans and other offshoot sects back into the fold.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of any flavor of middle eastern mythology - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or any of their offshoot sects.
But the creaking, ancient, tradition and secrecy bound Catholic church needs to go away.
Of any of the Abrahamic religions, the Catholic church has wandered further from their origins, into a creaking relic of traditions, secrets, and self-preservation.
There is no Church anymore - just the creaking relics, traditions, and influence peddling.

But, really, Martin Luther said it better five hundred years ago.

Jay wrote:

Katy Perry should be the next Popette.

"In the name of the left breast, the right breast, and the cleavage in between.. amen"

rdx-fx wrote:

Ty wrote:

Kind of surprised the Pope's resignation hasn't been brought up yet. Anyone got any thoughts about that? Personally I always thought the sooner this Pope moved on in whatever form the better. A backwards-thinking child rape covering-up unapologetic waste of space who proliferated idiocy like banning condoms, who was closed minded towards things like homosexuality and stem cell research as well as the concept of female priests. He even tip-toed around evolution more than his predecessor.

The Catholic Church needs a strong and progressive leader rather than another old man caught a couple of centuries in the past. Their main concern is still popularity of course and maintaining their followers. They're not going to do this if they remain as disconnected as they are.

So, you're saying the next pope shouldn't be Catholic?

Their main concern seems to be adhering to what they perceive as holy tradition.
If they were concerned about popularity and maintaining their followers, they'd have made more efforts to bring the Lutherans and other offshoot sects back into the fold.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of any flavor of middle eastern mythology - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or any of their offshoot sects.
But the creaking, ancient, tradition and secrecy bound Catholic church needs to go away.
Of any of the Abrahamic religions, the Catholic church has wandered further from their origins, into a creaking relic of traditions, secrets, and self-preservation.
There is no Church anymore - just the creaking relics, traditions, and influence peddling.

But, really, Martin Luther said it better five hundred years ago.

Jay wrote:

Katy Perry should be the next Popette.

"In the name of the left breast, the right breast, and the cleavage in between.. amen"

If she got pregnant would her breast milk replace the holy water in the Vatican?

Why? They've done it before. Consistently actually. The Catholic Church is essentially engaged in a popularity contest, they know this.

The Catholic Church takes a great deal of pride in their legions of followers, most likely thanking God Almighty that so many of them are poor and uneducated and don't know enough to question the authority of the church. However in the Western world the Vatican has been increasingly disconnected and the Catholic Church is losing followers in droves - mostly because these people no longer feel Catholicism is relevant to them. If the Vatican wants to keep these people changing doctrine is exactly what they're going to have to do.

Pope John-Paul II was making advances in a number of areas while remaining fairly conservative, it would have been nice if Benedict XVI built on this rather than scrapping it in a move back to more "traditional" grounds.

God was trying to tell him something.

They changed around the edges but nothing big enough to claim the church as some sort of ever expanding color changing lizard

I'm not going to let a bit of hypocrisy distract me from all the good that the Catholic church has been doing. An example: Franciscan Health System/Catholic Health Initiatives actively tries to slash bills partway or all the way for low income patients, and they actually approach patients with a sales pitch for it. It's true that they get deductions for it, but it's still a great service.

I don't think I'll be joining, but I can respect them.

Ty wrote:

They certainly resist it but increasingly this is getting harder as their traditional base deserts them for more progressive faiths. You're right though, they've certainly resisted it more than they've embraced it. Any change usually comes with an apology as to why they resisted it for so long as well as their expressions of regret for the immense damage this caused.

Their base isn't going anywhere. Don't project new Zealand on the rest of the world. They are still strong in Latin and other parts of Europe. Latin America is on lock. Catholics in America still are strong. Africa has potential. And the Philippines, bless their hearts, are still strongly Catholic.

More progressive faiths lol. Yeah those are flying strong. So many people stopping going to their Methodist churches for Sun worshiping

Macbeth wrote:

So many people stopping going to their Methodist churches for Sun worshiping

Macbeth wrote:

A California man is accused of raping a woman he met on a Christian dating website -- and police fear there may be other victims.

Sean Banks, 37, met the victim on the matchmaking website Christianmingle.com, where he went by the user name "Raritiy," La Mesa Police said in a statement.

Banks used three additional online identities --"Rylan," "Rylan Butterwood" and "Rylan Harbough" --and police said they are concerned "there may have been more cases with other women."

God does not approve of Christian mingle

are you kidding? of course god approves. god is the arch rapist. you think that shit with mary was consensual?

ROGUEDD wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

God does not approve of Christian mingle

are you kidding? of course god approves. god is the arch rapist. you think that shit with mary was consensual?

At least he didn't do it as a swan.

zeus was the best at rape, in various stages of disguise and metamorphosis. he was straight dialled in with his right-hand rape technique.

dionysus is pretty cool too - becoming a snake and crawling inside alexander the great's mother to 'give birth' to the great scion (this is his self-perpetuating myth, anyway; alexander the great's dad actually caught his momma in bed with a snake inside her ratchet, and refused to ever sleep with her again... and he did some pretty barbaric things in his own reign).

Goddamn religious types hijacking everything . .