Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany becomes the 265th pope of the Roman Catholic
They just HAD to pick somebody with a difficult name :(
This was on the news in Feldys class room, which I quickly walked through today (Feldy and Mr. Considine's rooms are connected through a single door, can't walk directly in). Aparently his name is now John Paul 24th.
No...just no. Pay attention please, he is Benedict XVI.
HEIL POPE.
Err.
Yeah, I heard it on the radio while I was working at the greenhouse.
Some people are kind of upset with this choice, since he was in the Hitler Youth Group. And then later in the Nazi group, although he was forced to, people are still questioning this decision.
He was also head of the inquisition.
He's "against same-sex marriages, women in the church, and contraception". He apparently also plans to declare that the world is flat and that we should once again burn witches.
The main problem with Catholicism right now is that it's old fashioned and doesn't really fit in with the modern world where genders are equals and condoms are plenty. It seems like this new Pope isn't going to help that image any. :/
BenedictXVI.com owner 'sin' to sell name to porn (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/20/new.pope.name.reut/index.html)
An American who registered the Internet name BenedictXVI.com before the new Pope was chosen said on Wednesday he had not worked out what to do with it but was pretty sure it would be a sin to sell it to a pornographer.
I for one am interested in seeing how this works out. He will be giving his blessing on using protection (Since catholics are against using birth control) so can we imagine a whole new line of Pope condoms, you're damn right! As for the hitler youth thing, If the cardnials can put that aside and still let him in with a 2/3rds vote, then theres something special about this one.
Quote from: Mythix on April 20, 2005, 04:56:38 PM
I for one am interested in seeing how this works out. He will be giving his blessing on using protection (Since catholics are against using birth control) so can we imagine a whole new line of Pope condoms, you're damn right! As for the hitler youth thing, If the cardnials can put that aside and still let him in with a 2/3rds vote, then theres something special about this one.
True, but you're also x86 leader by 2/3 vote so eh? ;-)
In other news, why do they pick such OLD guys? 78 years old.. no wonder he's the 285th Pope if they keep picking Popes who are that old!
Because it takes a long time to get to become a Cardinal.
Quote from: RoMi on April 20, 2005, 05:09:02 PM
Because it takes a long time to get to become a Cardinal.
Well then, they should:
a) Make it easier to become a cardinal
b) Not be required to be a cardinal
Why do I have to think up all these things for them!?
They have this policy though, its pretty strong throught the church, "don't mess with 2000 year success"
The guy has to be old: they want him to die.
If I had that domain, I'd be rich. I wouldn't care who I sold it to. Of course, I'm Jewish, so I don't count :p
Quote from: iago on April 20, 2005, 12:47:44 PM
He's "against same-sex marriages, women in the church, and contraception". He apparently also plans to declare that the world is flat and that we should once again burn witches.
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Quote from: Newby on April 20, 2005, 06:09:10 PM
Quote from: iago on April 20, 2005, 12:47:44 PM
He's "against same-sex marriages, women in the church, and contraception". He apparently also plans to declare that the world is flat and that we should once again burn witches.
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I'm glad SOMEBODY enjoys my humor! Even on vL, they just said stupid stuff like, "Duh, catholics never burned witches!!". *I* thought that was good humor!
Speaking of buring witches, I live like 45 mins away from Salem, MA., where they burned witches in the 1600's.
Quote from: RoMi on April 20, 2005, 07:39:48 PM
Speaking of buring witches, I live like 45 mins away from Salem, MA., where they burned witches in the 1600's.
I thought that was Salem, Oregon?
@iago: It was funny, but I just don't spam like newby.
No deadly, I don't think so. Just go to Salem, MA around Halloween and you will see.
Ah, Salem Oregon was where the Salem witch trial took place. They should stop making 2 cities have the same name.
No, the Salem witch trials were what I was talking about the whole time. Don't believe me, believe google.
QuoteFrom June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided
Oregon didn't exist in 1692, there's your proof.
Fuck that pope, hes going to get fat like the rest and die in 5 years, the whole religion they base there picking on is bullshit. :'(