What would be your papal name?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pope Sauron the Eye.

Wait, we can change our picks?

In that case, I want to be His Holyossitude Pope Casimir the Redoubtable, Vicar Of The Flock, Defender Of The Faith, And Puncher Of The Blessed Ferret.

Boru

You can't change yours.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Wait, we can change our picks?

In that case, I want to be His Holyossitude Pope Casimir the Redoubtable, Vicar Of The Flock, Defender Of The Faith, And Puncher Of The Blessed Ferret.

Boru

You can't change yours.  

You. Utter. Bitch.  

Boru

[A. Secular Human]

Pope Eepants

[ignoramus]

Pope Peter Paul and Mary the threesome

[Ranjr]

Pope Thomas the First to call bullshit.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pope Corona the Worst.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Pope Urban the Rural.

Boru

[Duty]

There's nothing else for it aerwetheryet - you'll just have to burn down their church : D

I'm gonna need a lot of matches.

They are quite stalker-ish.  I haven't been in a Catholic church since I attended a cousin's wedding in 1987 but still I am counted as a member and get mail from my hometown church a few times a year.

You would think when they would have gotten the hint when I told them what I thought when they refused to baptize my oldest.  Apparently a big 'fuck you' doesn't count as leaving the flock.

If I may, why did you want to get your kid baptized if you were an atheist?..or was their refusal the reason you "saw the light" and told them to jog on to a far away place?

[arewethereyet]

I'm gonna need a lot of matches.

They are quite stalker-ish.  I haven't been in a Catholic church since I attended a cousin's wedding in 1987 but still I am counted as a member and get mail from my hometown church a few times a year.

You would think when they would have gotten the hint when I told them what I thought when they refused to baptize my oldest.  Apparently a big 'fuck you' doesn't count as leaving the flock.

If I may, why did you want to get your kid baptized if you were an atheist?..or was their refusal the reason you "saw the light" and told them to jog on to a far away place?

That was when I was about 20.  I was well on my way out after looking for 'the right' religion for me.  I never fully bought into it but thought it's what you do  - well over 90% of the people in the area where I lived were Catholic.  That event was the big push.

[Duty]

I imagine it'd be harder to break away when you're so totally surrounded like that, drowning, as it were, in a swamp of fundy gunk. Maybe there's a tipping point, where say if less than 50% of the locals are fundies then the remaining reasonable 40% can follow sharpish in a flood of atheistic awakening. Nice dream, at any rate. I was raised atheist/agnostic and my uncle sent me a paper on hydrothermal vents being the likely source of abiogenesis when I was, like, 15 years old so theism was always basically inaccessible to me lol.