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Who will be the new pope?
#51
RE: Who will be the new pope?
(February 26, 2013 at 9:39 am)Gabriel Syme Wrote: ... and we also get to have a good laugh at all the contrived shock and outrage in the media that a Catholic (of all people) has been appointed as Pope.

This statement is simply absurd. What media contrives shock and outrage that the Pope is Catholic?

You are the one contriving.
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#52
RE: Who will be the new pope?
(February 26, 2013 at 9:49 am)cato123 Wrote: This statement is simply absurd. What media contrives shock and outrage that the Pope is Catholic?You are the one contriving.

Hi Cato123,

I was making a joke with my statement there.

Whenever a new Pope is to be elected, many media outlets run stories like "this would be a great opportunity for the Church to modernise, and embrace abortion, homosexuality and euthanasia".

Then, when this inevitably does not happen, they express outrage about "medieval thinking" or the Church "going backwards" or whatever. (Ultimately, they are disappointed when the new person upholds the doctrines - why? because they are a Catholic).

Its all just media smoke and mirrors - they know the Church will not change ('modernise' is an erronous term) and are only suggesting it might, so they can then later attack it on grounds that it didnt.

It is cheap, lazy journalism and - while that usually annoys me - we Catholics do allow outselves a chuckle on occasions like these.

And when it comes to matters like abortion, homosexuality or euthanasia, it is not about modern versus antiquated opinions, it is about the truth versus error.

The truth doesnt change, hence Catholic teaching doesnt change.
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#53
RE: Who will be the new pope?
(February 26, 2013 at 10:14 am)Gabriel Syme Wrote: Its all just media smoke and mirrors - they know the Church will not change ('modernise' is an erronous term) and are only suggesting it might, so they can then later attack it on grounds that it didnt.

It is cheap, lazy journalism and - while that usually annoys me - we Catholics do allow outselves a chuckle on occasions like these.

You have confused cause and effect. The media doesn't conjur up the idea of liberal Catholicism in an effort to manufacture controversy; it reports and opines on the existing conflict between liberal and conservative Catholics.
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#54
RE: Who will be the new pope?
(February 12, 2013 at 11:20 am)Minimalist Wrote: Does it matter who becomes captain of a sinking ship?

wouldn't that make him the last pope?
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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#55
RE: Who will be the new pope?
We can but hope.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#56
RE: Who will be the new pope?
(February 26, 2013 at 12:31 pm)junkyardboy Wrote:
(February 12, 2013 at 11:20 am)Minimalist Wrote: Does it matter who becomes captain of a sinking ship?

wouldn't that make him the last pope?

Depends on how long it takes to finally succumb to the waters!

(February 20, 2013 at 1:22 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(February 19, 2013 at 5:17 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Does it really matter who the next pope is? How much real power does the church have now?

Far too much, if you ask me.

I actually has very little

Studies show that most "catholics" themselves do not accept everything the church says.
And - among young people - many say that they are members ONLY to prevent family problems and have no intention of continuing with the religion later in life.

That is because the time when the religion could SCARE the people into obeying has long gone. That leaves the few who have been deluded in the past - and the fewer who can be deluded today

Ironically - it was education - that was championed by the religion - that brought this together.

So - as the older people who do as they were taught and told - are dying off - they are replaced by people who are Cafeteria Xtians - who accept only parts of the story - who will be replaced by their children - who accept even less.
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#57
RE: Who will be the new pope?
I am so sick of hearing about the Pope. I am a former Catholic myself. He is just a man, he sells an ancient myth, and he won't live forever, no one will. He is merely a president of a comic book fan club, nothing more.
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#58
RE: Who will be the new pope?
(February 28, 2013 at 9:38 am)ThomM Wrote:
(February 26, 2013 at 12:31 pm)junkyardboy Wrote: wouldn't that make him the last pope?

Depends on how long it takes to finally succumb to the waters!

(February 20, 2013 at 1:22 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Far too much, if you ask me.

I actually has very little

Studies show that most "catholics" themselves do not accept everything the church says.
And - among young people - many say that they are members ONLY to prevent family problems and have no intention of continuing with the religion later in life.

That is because the time when the religion could SCARE the people into obeying has long gone. That leaves the few who have been deluded in the past - and the fewer who can be deluded today

Ironically - it was education - that was championed by the religion - that brought this together.

So - as the older people who do as they were taught and told - are dying off - they are replaced by people who are Cafeteria Xtians - who accept only parts of the story - who will be replaced by their children - who accept even less.

most catholics are in the americas, with most being involved in the occult practices of the rcc in the southern hemisphere
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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#59
RE: Who will be the new pope?
Hmmm.... a year or so ago I did some research for a friend who was taking college courses. In the course of that research for her I came across something called the CIA World Factbook which contained this interesting line about religion in Argentina ( which was the specific country I was researching for her.)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications...os/ar.html

Quote: Religions:
nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%

One can easily imagine that the 20% mainly involves old fucks who will soon die off and leave the fucking church to wither on the vine even in Argentina.
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#60
RE: Who will be the new pope?
(February 28, 2013 at 1:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Hmmm.... a year or so ago I did some research for a friend who was taking college courses. In the course of that research for her I came across something called the CIA World Factbook which contained this interesting line about religion in Argentina ( which was the specific country I was researching for her.)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications...os/ar.html

Quote: Religions:
nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%

One can easily imagine that the 20% mainly involves old fucks who will soon die off and leave the fucking church to wither on the vine even in Argentina.

whats a 'practicing catholic' anyways?
a practicing catholic can be anything.
from a nazi pope to pederasty loving priests to mexican drug cartels
practicing catholics indeed
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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