John Paul II

[Magus]

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Oh and yeah and the Pope's dead.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=3...e_John_Paul_II

[TheHonorableRyu]

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I think he was good Pope and a very decent person, but I'm dead set against putting any religious insitutional authority on a plane higher than any other person (Protestants do it all of the time, too).

Christ condemns the clergy-laity system in Revelations 2:6. He says to the Christian church in Ephesus: "But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate." The Greek word "Nicolaitans" is a combination of two words: one meaning conquer or be victorious over and the other meaning common people, secular people or laity.

Yet the clergy-laity system has existed as a token doctrine in Christianity for centuries upon centuries.

"We all feel like orphans this evening," Undersecretary of State Archbishop Leonardo Sandri told the crowd of 70,000 that gathered in St. Peter's Square below the pope's still-lighted apartment windows.

Leonardo Sandri seems to forget that the Lord is their Father, not the Pope.

If he were a super-Pope, he would have worked to destroy the religious hierarchy while he was still alive. But if he were that kind of person, he wouldn't ever have become the Pope, right?

[DK]

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If he were a super-Pope, he would have worked to destroy the religious hierarchy while he was still alive. But if he were that kind of person, he wouldn't ever have become the Pope, right?

Not only that, but he would've been assasinated so fast his head would've spun....right off

[Jeroak Nelave]

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I'm sad, but not surprised to hear of his death.

but you are very true DK, it is going to take the assasination of 2 or 3 semi progressive Popes to enact some real change in the Catholic religious heirarchy, and then the rest will start to fall in line.

We will eventually see the downfall of religion, but probably wont be for a couple hundred years, i doubt any of us will live to see it ( but then again, i'm thinking too far ahead)

[Maijo]

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There's never going to be a downfall in religion.
I bet that's what a whole lot of people said about two thousand years ago...

[Rain]

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I agree with Jeroak.

And I highly doubt people thought that back then.

Things have changed more over the past four hundred years than changed in the 3 million years preceding them.

[Riotsword]

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Leonardo Sandri seems to forget that the Lord is their Father, not the Pope.

Yes. Exactly. People are so damn stupid, they're forgetting just what their religion's about. Idiots.

[Czechs Mex]

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Does someone wanna tell me just what their religion's all about?

And bummer about the pope. I liked the pope.

[Rain]

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Something about condoms and little boys and old men or something.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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[Kire]

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ho ho hooooooo! Santa Pope!

[Riotsword]

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How undignified...

[Vonwert]

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So does anyone think they are going to implement the "Molested one or less Boys" rule when they pick the new pope...?

[Funk]

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Yeah, if you've only molested one boy or less you're out of the running. We need a Pope that will carry on the traditions of the Catholic Church.

[Valkysas]

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well, there's no way they'd consider an american for the position.

currently, there's only one requirement. that it be an un-married catholic male.

So the next pope should be John Mora.