Impeach the Pope

[L. Coyote]

Impeach the Pope
By Robert S. McElvaine
Professor of Arts & Letters, Millsaps College
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/03/impeach_the_pope.html


Enough! No--Too much!

Amid all the justified outrage we all feel at Bernie Madoff and the AIG bandits, let us save some intense outrage for Pope Benedict XVI.

After insulting Muslims by declaring in 2006 that Muhammad had brought "things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached," after reiterating (through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) in 2008 that the subject of the ordination of women is not even open for discussion and declaring that anyone involved with the ordination of women will be automatically excommunicated, after lifting in January of this year the excommunication of Holocaust-denier Richard Williamson, now Benedict XVI opens a visit to Africa by telling the people of a continent decimated by AIDS that the distribution of condoms "increases the problem" of the spread of AIDS.

I am a Catholic and the idea that such a man is God's spokesperson on earth is absurd to me.

There are, of course, no provisions in the hierarchical institution set up ..................

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. "There are, of course, no provisions in the hierarchical institution set up ..."

Pff.

There've been plenty of anti-popes.

[L. Coyote]

3. Someone should announce their candidacy for Pope and start campaigning.

The cool part is, if you win, you become infallible :rofl:

[Javaman]

6. and you get a nifty pointy hat! LOL nt

[L. Coyote]

7. If you can wear jeans instead of dresses, I'd consider the position. The hat has to go too.

I'd wear the sacred bandana instead :rofl: and my command that all priest wear pants would have to be obeyed, since I'd be infallible.

[closeupready]

2. Completely agree with him.

n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Darma decays

I see this as another indication of a breakdown of religion via the religious leaders taking extreme views. You see it also in the fundamentalist mullahs and fundamentalist Christian pastors. If you read the teachings of the various prophets, you find their message is of tolerance and unity, not hatred and divisiveness.

[BuyingThyme]

5. That's redundant.

[applegrove]

8. I hope his statement means that the pope will not garner any new supporters in

Africa because that is what he is after.