RE: Pope fires cardinal who is outspoken critic of gay marriage and abortion
December 19, 2013 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2013 at 5:43 pm by Violet.)
(December 19, 2013 at 5:10 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I want to like this pope, but the cynic in me says to keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.
And I realize that such an entrenched institution can only take gradual changes lest the entire organization crumble, but a lot of these changes seem to be cosmetic at best.
Most religion IS cosmetic. It's something to do once a week, or as a ritual at mealtimes, or as a persona one uses to protect themselves (whether it be from society, responsibility, or their own self-destruction and/or hatred).
But then, there remains the noncosmetic side of religion.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
