Papal Bull

[howeird]

The first thing I saw on FB today was Ratzinger's quitting. I have several comments about this
I'm an atheist, but I came to that from studying most of the major religions. I had a Medieval History minor which was mostly research on the children's crusades. That did not make me a big fan of popes or catholics in general.
No pope has ever resigned due to ill health. The whole idea behind being pope is you're God's Chosen™ and when he thinks your time is up, he'll call you home. Until then, whatever he does to you is His Will™ and you just have to bear it. Like the martyrs.

As a human being, I am not happy to see him suffer.

I guess his prayers (and those of his supporters) for continued good health have failed him.

While part of me is happy to see this man go away whose life is peppered with reprehensible writings, speeches, acts and inactions, part of me wants to see him stay in office as long as he is alive, which ought to slow down some of the papal bad works. Because quitting now almost assures his successor will be just as socially backward as he has been. If I was polite I would use the word "conservative", but he's more retro than that.

Comments

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

I think Robin Williams should be the new Pope. Because he was great as Popeye, and Pope should be easier because it's only 2/3ds of Popeye.

[howeird]

Nice try, but he isn't qualified. He is not a baptized Catholic.

Colbert is, but he would take the job too seriously. Some pundit said he doesn't have a prayer.

I'd like to see them return to picking Italians. De Niro, maybe.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but maybe he licked a cat once.

Seriously, if JC came back, and wanted to be pope, they'd find a way to get past those technicalities. Well, JC is not around, so why not do the same for Mork?

[howeird]

If JC came back and wanted to be pope they would do to him what they did to him the last time, though they may be more humane and use a firing squad or lethal injection.

[svashtar.livejournal.com]

Ratz apparently has a few skeletons in his closet that were about to break into the open and get him into a metric ton of trouble if he didn't quit now. Or so the rumor mill has it. http://salem-news.com/articles/february122013/pope-resigns.php

Regardless, Darth Sidious couldn't be the Pope of the End Times. The next guy is supposed to be given that honor.