Why I Don’t Need To Rationalize Hating The Pope.
That’s right, I hate the Pope. Well, it might be more accurate to say that I hate the Papacy. Now that I’m not trying to get a job at the CN anymore, I can say these sorts of things. Why? Well, besides official stances against birthcontrol, priests marrying, women in the clergy, and homosexuality in general? Well, there’s also the Church’s cover-up of child molestation, and now he’s busy railing against gay marriage in Candada. I have never been nor will I ever be a papist, but wasting energy on things that are completely unimportant was a lot of what drove me from Christianity in the first place.
And, for the record: Yes, I know all about Bush RE: Gay Marriage and I think he’s totally wrong on it, and you can read comments on the previous post and a couple of posts down from that to get my take on why I’m supporting the guy for reelection. I’d really like to talk about something else besides the Presidential race.
September 4th, 2004 at 8:17 pm
Personally, I long for the days when kidnapping the Pope was a major arrow in the quiver of international intrigue. Also, setting up puppet Popes. More papal abduction! More papal puppetry!
September 4th, 2004 at 10:09 pm
Will you aid me in my quest to one day buy the Papacy and finally carry out the last wish of our Puritain forefathers, namely destroying the Catholic church?
September 5th, 2004 at 11:03 am
I thought the Puritans just had it in for the Anglicans. I’d be happy to destroy the Anglican church; it’d probably be easier and nobody would notice. Well, maybe Ruff.
September 5th, 2004 at 1:03 pm
The puritains had it in for both Papistry and Anglicans. Well, we don’t have Anglicans in the US, unless you want to count the Episcopals.
September 5th, 2004 at 2:00 pm
Yeah, the Episcopal church was founded because the Puritans had a beef with the Anglicans.
Also, Tim, the poor persecuted Puritans did not want to destroy Catholicism or the Anglican church, they wanted to institute their own oppressive national church. They were still in the minority when they came to America (only one in four American immigrants was a puritan between 1630 and 1640, according to the book The Mayflower). This was because most of the very early immigrants fled to the new colonies not for religious reasons but rather economic ones, so they never had much power.
September 6th, 2004 at 5:24 am
Where is Candada anyway? Maybe you could move there. Bigot
September 6th, 2004 at 9:33 am
If you go get a map and look just to the north of the United States, yup, that’s Candada. It’s a pity basic geography is no longer being taught in our schools.
September 6th, 2004 at 11:57 am
Wait, Tim, that’s Canada. Candada is actually a small splinter province within Canada, devoted to nihilism and thin cigarettes.
September 6th, 2004 at 1:03 pm
It’s also a pity they no longer teach basic spelling in schools.