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my dad is such a clergy hater. I think it runs in the male side of his family. He's getting worse each year.
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A fundamentalist Christian friend of mine was distributing pamphlets in the late 80s about how the Pope had been a child molester in Poland! Serious.
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no offense to anyone but dont you find it odd that the leader of one the largest religions most strainuis activitys is drooling?
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I might find it offensive if I could figure out what you're talking about.
I *think* you said that I might find your drooling offensive-- let me reassure that I do not. But for pity's sake, get a napkin-- you'll short out your keyboard.
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Lots of people didn't like him because of his conservative tendencies. In particular, near the end of his papacy he did a lot to put the brakes on tendencies to be more open to birth control, homosexuality, married clergy, and female clergy.
I disagreed with his beliefs on these issues, but I think he was a very good person with whom I simply did not agree. I base this not merely on the fact that he was pope, but on having read his life's story and seen the areas on life where our outlook is more common.
I'm actually quite pleased with how positive/generous the comments made both here and in the press have been in the wake of his death. In the last couple of years, I had read/heard a lot of people basically looking forward to his death as an opportunity to get someone more progressive in the office. I'm glad I haven't seen much of that tacky sentiment at this time.
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On top of the homosexuality issue, I also didn't like him for his oposition to the war in Iraq. Now I don't want to debate the war for the 15 millionth time, but I just wanted to point out that I was someone else who wasn't fond of the Pope.
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I guess it goes to show that if you have a bowl of cheerios, somebody will go out of their way to come and piss in it.
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Well now that we established that we should all get back to the real purpose of this thread, admiring how funny I am or this whole thread shall be wasted at the time of my coming.
quote:I guess it goes to show that if you have a bowl of cheerios, somebody will go out of their way to come and piss in it.
You have to admit, this particular bowl of cheerios was asking to be pissed in. I understand that John Paul II was admired by a larger portion of the non-Catholic world than previous popes, but when someone says that everyone likes someone or something, you have to expect that people who do not like that person or thing will come and express their dissent.
I don't think it was anyone's intention to smear the man--at last, anyone who could write coherently. I think they just wanted to prove that the absurd overstatement that everyone liked John Paul II was false.
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I have to say, I have had lots of bowls of cherios in the past, and noone has ever tried to piss in them.
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Also, once the Pope was coming to Denver for World Youth Day. My mom decided to invite him to dinner while he was in town. She sent him a nice letter with the invitation, and we got back a very nice letter declining. It was written by one of his cardinals, and said "Thank you for your gracious invitation, but His Holiness must regretfully decline." It was quite polite, and came on very fancy stationery.
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