The Glade 4.0

They've picked a new guy already.

That was quick.

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Holy shitsnacks!

That this this is both somehow newsworthy or still relevant in this day and age makes me sad.

Hope he is more like John Paul II that Darth Popius.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

The Bishop of Rome is the spiritual leader of 1.16 billion humans. That makes it news worthy.

I have my fingers crossed for Michael Ian Black.

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There are about 2.1 billion Christians (who find the Pope somewhat newsworthy, in general), of which 1.2 billion are Catholics. HTF would it not be news worthy or relevant?

That you concern yourself with animosity toward the beliefs of others to an extent great enough to cause sadness is ridiculous.

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is now Pope Francis


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Bergoglio


Once again they chose a Cardinal well into his seventies. From what I'm reading he's somewhat of a conservative as well. I wonder if the Church is going to continue electing aging conservatives until the time they feel they can name a younger reformer, but they're hedging their bets that the world isn't quite ready for a more liberal pope.

So much for leading the church into the future.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Seeing as he's the first pope from the Western Hemisphere, he's pretty different.





So yes, he is probably going to try to lead the church into the modern era. That probably doesn't mean what Mus and TR think it means, but he's pretty likely to try to do it.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Yeah. Great choice. He's perfect.

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Holy shitsnacks!

You need to take a strong stance against homosexuality if you want to win converts in the United States.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Let's see if that predilection toward stamping out teh evils of homo-sex extends to cleaning up his own friggin' pedo-riddled backyard.

Maybe you should consider that the obligation of the Catholic Church is not to pick a Pope that agrees with your stances on matters like gay marriage, seeing as you're .... not catholic.

You also might want to consider that gay marriage is really not the foremost issue of faith for catholics, or for that matter, most Christians. Just because it generates big attention on the news channels does not mean people actually spend much time worrying about it. I have never once heard the topic mentioned in a sermon in a Lutheran church, and I've been Lutheran for over 10 years now.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

To whom is that addressed, Diamondeye?

I get that. And its alright that he doesn't agree with it.

Its his ridiculously inflammatory rhetoric surrounding it that hacks me off. Goddamn dinosaurs.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Hey man, if dinosaurs were anything like the rest of the animals on the planet, they probably had some homosexual tendencies too. Don't give 'em a bad rap.

Oh no! The gays!

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

It takes a long time to train a priest, and it's fairly expensive to do that. There's no reason why any religious organization would ever want to get rid of a priest, short of heresy.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I'm fairly sure you'll get over it. I bet he thinks a lot of your rhetoric is pretty inflammatory too.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

To no one in particular. Hence the lack of a quote.

As for you, the fact of the matter is that the Catholic church should cleanup the pedophiles regardless of what it's stance is on gay marriage. The two issues are not related.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Yes, they should. But since there's no chance they're not going to give up their homophobia anytime soon, they should at least put it to good use.

Wait, so heterosexual pedophilia is ok?

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

They aren't homophobic. They believe homosexual activity is sinful. However, they do not, contrary to what a lot of people would like to pretend, preach any sort of hate aginst homosexuals themselves, according to official doctrine. For example, Catholic parents are not to reject children who come out as gay. The church teaches that it is still their responsibility as parents to love their children and that judgement is for God.

And as for the pedophilia issue, again, there is no relationship and there is no "putting it to good use." That was just totally silly. Yes, the catholic church has issues. Get off your smarmy high horse about it. Sound familiar?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Your comment led me to have some odd thoughts...

My first thought was to wonder what percentage of Catholic priests would qualify as being part of the "pedo-riddled backyard", then I wondered if "backyard" was to pedo-priests as "gaggle" is to geese, or "murder" is to crows.

Then I wondered what the percentage of folks are pedophilacs, if it were less than or equal to the percentage of homosexuals.

Which led me to the realization that once upon a time, I was a pedophilac myself... Thing is, that's when I was that same age. Yes, when I was a little boy I had the hots for little girls.

Then my mind wandered to the issue of whether or not one can be "cured" of homosexuality, and how the "cure" for my pedophila was just a matter of maturity...

Then I wondered if a group of homosexuals qualified as a "backyard" too, and I realized I'd come full circle.

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In time, this too shall pass.

I'm not sure precisely who you were addressing with this, but I suppose it doesn't really matter. The Catholic Church made a major decision. Some people, including non-Catholics, criticized that decision. No one has said that the Catholic Church is obligated to heed their criticism.

Your annoyance is rather silly. Do I have to be a member of WBC to criticize their actions? Do I have to be a member of PETA to say that I think they're protests are retarded?

Maybe you think that external criticism is irrelevant. I don't. But in any case, "you aren't Catholic, so butt out" is really bizarre card for you, in particular, to play. That's a two-way street, you know.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.