Pope John Paul II: "I want to die!"

[carpe diem]

From the Desk of America's Best Christian
Mrs. Betty Bowers:

http://www.bettybowers.com/nl_april112005.html


....Nor did anyone on television seem particularly inclined to spoil the national keenathon by pointing out that the King of the Mary Worshippers' last decision here on Earth only served to underscore to all of us Culture of Life® protestants just how lackadaisical and self-serving was the Pope's so-called embrace of our death-penalty-and-war-loving Culture of Life® (which, oddly, promotes none of one and little of the other). >You see, it is all well and good to have a Vatican spokesperson condemn Terry Schiavo's husband's decision to honor his wife's outrageous decision not to be kept fresh in the medical equivalent of Tupperware, but you don't need to know Latin, swing a censer or light a candle to know that when a seriously ill man says, "I don't want to go back to the hospital" what he is really saying is "I want to die."<

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. Jeb should have sent federal troops to the Vatican

and forced the pope to the hospital

[Pirate Smile]

2. The Pope was against the death penalty and the Iraq War. Betty

is so ignorant I will say a few Hail Marys for her. ;-)

[kliljedahl]

4. It's satire

http://www.kliljedahl.net

[Pirate Smile]

5. Seems quite real after listening to some wack jobs.

I was joking too.

[flordehinojos]

3. i thought this article entitled "the last messafe of JPII" dovetails well

with this snip of the betty bowers article you have posted ..

http://www.opednews.com/roland_040405_pope.htm

(snip)
"It would appear that the last message of Pope John Paul II is the very same as his first message , delivered at his inaugural homily as Pope in 1978 ~ " BE NOT AFRAID ".

Up to his last moment of his life he was a teacher but this was his greatest living lesson ~ for what he taught in his last precious moments was BE NOT AFRAID OF DEATH .

The Pope had refused to go back to the hospital, when his
health began to seriously deteriorate, and perhaps prolong his life with the latest artificial life support system ~ all of which were available to him ~ but, instead, he chose to welcome his death and, in the process, teach us his greatest lesson." (snip)