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CoMaToSe · 04-02-2005, 04:53 AM

imwithstupid:

The pope's passing is very sad, but we need not lose sight of the real issue here. Catholics have a habit of deifying most of their figures. They refer to the pope as the "holy father". Now, unless my protestant upbringings have been misaken, the hoky father is God. There is one God, and one Savior. Treating the pontiff like a devine source is a mockery of God. He is not devine, but he is possessed of the most devine power a mortal man can have: the power to spread God's word and love. Stop thinking he's a hokly individual deigned by God or whatever, that's very medievel thinking. The Catholic church needs to learn to live in it's own time.

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CoMaToSe is Offline Colonel Posts: 8,441 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Goatse	04-02-2005, 04:53 AM imwithstupid: The pope's passing is very sad, but we need not lose sight of the real issue here. Catholics have a habit of deifying most of their figures. They refer to the pope as the "holy father". Now, unless my protestant upbringings have been misaken, the hoky father is God. There is one God, and one Savior. Treating the pontiff like a devine source is a mockery of God. He is not devine, but he is possessed of the most devine power a mortal man can have: the power to spread God's word and love. Stop thinking he's a hokly individual deigned by God or whatever, that's very medievel thinking. The Catholic church needs to learn to live in it's own time.