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mythicsagecat

New Pope to Get Medieval?

Apr 19, 2005 11:55

As you may already know, Cardinal Ratzinger is now Pope Benedict XVI. If you haven't been following the ongoing story, Joseph Ratzinger is a conservative fundamentalist, and was previously head of the "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith", which is the body that oversees inquisitions. I can't say I'm a big fan.

political, evil

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mythicsagefire April 19 2005, 13:03:14 UTC

At 78, I have a hard time understanding how he can effect the change he would like.

Not wanting a reoccurance of 25 years ago, they should have chosen more wisely. Or maybe they *are* wise and this will pacify some before they have to chose again.

I hate to hear what my mother's going to say...

mythicsagecat April 19 2005, 14:16:20 UTC

Well, he is older than John Paul I was (78 vs 65), though he seems fairly healthy at the moment.

The Holy Church is Back.... noise626 April 19 2005, 13:30:12 UTC

...And This Time, We Are Going to Get Medival on Your Heathen Ass!!!!

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And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger mythicsagecat April 19 2005, 14:24:49 UTC

Apparently his nickname is 'God's Rottweiler'

nematoddity April 19 2005, 13:50:08 UTC

And, even though he says he wasn't hip on the whole idea, he was a member of the HitlerJurgen as a child. I'm overjoyed.

We don't even have to say he's a Neo-Nazi--he was a Nazi.

mythicsagecat April 19 2005, 14:30:53 UTC

Yeh, membership in Hitler Youth was mandatory, so he didn't volunteer. I still kind of wonder if it might have influenced his views on authority, though...

mythicsagefire April 20 2005, 07:44:00 UTC

This excerpt from one of his memoirs (The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith by John Allen Jr) is a bit disturbing...

Under Hitler, Ratzinger says he watched the Nazis twist and distort the truth. Their lies about Jews, about genetics, were more than academic exercises. People died by the millions because of them. The church's service to society, Ratzinger concluded, is to stand for absolute truths that function as boundary markers: Move about within these limits, but outside them lies disaster.

We all know what absolutes can do, we fight them everyday. It makes me wonder what absolutes he sticks to - abortion, homosexuality, etc?

As I said before, while I wish no one harm (or dead), knowing how the papacy works - I just hope his time is not long for this world.