It's Pope-tember! All Pope! All the Time!

[jgiffin]

I just want to watch my shows, man. Listen to some tunes. Maybe hear some dude talking about how everything is shit or everything is great. But, no. Instead, it's wall-to-wall pope. Pope in New York. Pope in Philly. Pope in church. Pope kisses boy (no, not in that way). It's infuriating. In an attempt to not exceed 2,500 words, I'ma go with bullet points.

1.  Is it not, dude, rather unseemly at this stage in human evolution for the world to take such a demeaning and worshipful stance towards a 78 year old virgin who pretends to know the mind of god and wears a funny hat?

2. How the fuck pope gonna talk to the US about immigration? The US annually accepts more immigrants than any other country in the world, according to some accounts more than the rest combined. The pope, on the other hand, is the head of vatican city - which OH BY THE WAY is a country as well as a religious institution. Immigration to vatican city? HAH, that's laughable man. Effectively closed. 800 residents. 450 citizens, each of which is church-affiliated. Also, check google images for vatican city wall. They built a quite impressive one.

3. Pope also wanna talk about economic justice? I can't even. The church is notoriously reluctant to talk of its accumulated (mostly stolen) wealth. But it likely collects annual tithes exceeding $400 billion and spends about $11 billion on parish operations alone. The vatican's annual revenue is more than $350 million; its per capita GDP over $400,000. The US's is about $53,000.

4.  Oh, shit, pope knows climate change, too? Perhaps the head of an organization that burned works by Copernicus, prosecuted Galileo for heresy, believed in witches, and still believes in demons might ought stick with interpreting fairy tales.

[DigitalBuddha]

The Pope is shitting in the woods. Enough shit.

Fuck it; I'm going bowling.

[Reverend Al]

1.  Is it not, dude, rather unseemly at this stage in human evolution for the world to take such a demeaning and worshipful stance towards a 78 year old virgin who pretends to know the mind of god and wears a funny hat?

Also, doesn't their "worshipful stance" contradict their first and second commandments ("You shall have no other gods before me", "You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; You shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them..."), both of which warn against giving Idolatry more priority than worshiping God?  And, for that matter, doesn't worshiping Jesus Christ pose the same problem?    This is one of the reasons that Christianity, taken at face value, always provided more questions than answers for me.

[BikerDude]

In the words of the imortal Hunter S Thompson.
"Fuck the Pope!".
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/305541-fuck-the-pope

And incidentally in the same book he said.

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mold-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time