Comments on: Pope on the Ropes http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/ America's favorite blog Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:34:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: norbizness http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7136 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7136 Never mess with a 123-year-old pontiff whose books are Holy Ghost-written. Great post, AF... it just needed a "Flawless Victory!" and "Fatality!" at the end. Or not. Never mess with a 123-year-old pontiff whose books are Holy Ghost-written.

Great post, AF… it just needed a “Flawless Victory!” and “Fatality!” at the end. Or not.

]]> by: RWN Dan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7137 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7137 Personally I think the pope has been dead for six years or so and they have been carting him around in his popemobile or scooter-throne....ala Weekend at Bernie's. It serves no purpose to have a living functional pope when you have so many machiavelian cardinals making policy so as to cover their own crimes against children during their rise to power. What am I thinking? These are caring men of God! Personally I think the pope has been dead for six years or so and they have been carting him around in his popemobile or scooter-throne….ala Weekend at Bernie’s. It serves no purpose to have a living functional pope when you have so many machiavelian cardinals making policy so as to cover their own crimes against children during their rise to power. What am I thinking? These are caring men of God!

]]> by: Lynne http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7138 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7138 Oh, it's on. I'm calling you homos out (expect for the priests we covered up for years abusing kids). I'm calling you abortionists out - yeah - you're just like the Nazis, never mind that we helped Nazis get out of Europe after the war and sent many Jews to their deaths, I SAID I WAS SORRY BEE-ATCH. Oh, it’s on. I’m calling you homos out (expect for the priests we covered up for years abusing kids). I’m calling you abortionists out - yeah - you’re just like the Nazis, never mind that we helped Nazis get out of Europe after the war and sent many Jews to their deaths, I SAID I WAS SORRY BEE-ATCH.

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7139 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7139 And he seemed like such a nice virile young pope 27 years ago. Sigh. I think he's dead and wired up to move more in a manner akin to the Federation guy who wound up as the Fuhrer on the pseudo-Nazi planet on that one episode of Star Trek. Or Keith Richards. (Wait, Keith Richards' secret to longevity is that he has actually been dead for over 25 years, but the decay bacteria can't survive in the toxic environment of his corpse, and it is their agonized thrashings that make him appear to move around and talk.) And he seemed like such a nice virile young pope 27 years ago. Sigh.

I think he’s dead and wired up to move more in a manner akin to the Federation guy who wound up as the Fuhrer on the pseudo-Nazi planet on that one episode of Star Trek. Or Keith Richards. (Wait, Keith Richards’ secret to longevity is that he has actually been dead for over 25 years, but the decay bacteria can’t survive in the toxic environment of his corpse, and it is their agonized thrashings that make him appear to move around and talk.)

]]> by: Emmarie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7140 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7140 Surprised he didn't take down the women who want to be priests with the same vehemence. My favorite part of that link was the poll on the side about whether or not people think the pope should retire. Retire? This is a pope who thinks he can excommunicate from the grave; nobody with that hubris would EVER retire. Surprised he didn’t take down the women who want to be priests with the same vehemence. My favorite part of that link was the poll on the side about whether or not people think the pope should retire. Retire? This is a pope who thinks he can excommunicate from the grave; nobody with that hubris would EVER retire.

]]> by: Elliott http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7141 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7141 UN-HOLY SHIT UN-HOLY SHIT

]]> by: Alice http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7142 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7142 Am I going straight to hell if I am fairly ambivalent (though leaning towards the positive) on wanting the Pope to kick the bucket? Am I going straight to hell if I am fairly ambivalent (though leaning towards the positive) on wanting the Pope to kick the bucket?

]]> by: bjd http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7143 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7143 He's already 3rd longest reigning [http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-10-longest-reigning-popes] with the first nominally being St. Peter, which is nonverifiable. Needs 5 more years to be the longest verifiably reigning Pope. And probably just a few more for the Southern Baptist/American Evangelical/Bush/Cheney Rapture. And who doesn't want a part of that? And I've always been partial to old skool Sinistar: "BEWARE, I LIVE!" and "I HUNGER!" He’s already 3rd longest reigning [http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-10-longest-reigning-popes]
with the first nominally being St. Peter, which is nonverifiable.

Needs 5 more years to be the longest verifiably reigning Pope. And probably just a few more for the Southern Baptist/American Evangelical/Bush/Cheney Rapture. And who doesn’t want a part of that?

And I’ve always been partial to old skool Sinistar: “BEWARE, I LIVE!” and “I HUNGER!”

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7144 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7144 The man is tired of playing second fiddle to the fundamentalist Islamists. No suicide bombers, no support for war in the Middle East (which are good things about El Magnifico the Mauler), but damned, he really is spewing retrograde reactionary vitriol. Protestant extremist fundamentalists take note, THE MAN is in the ring, and it is locked cage, lights out, to the death. The man is tired of playing second fiddle to the fundamentalist Islamists. No suicide bombers, no support for war in the Middle East (which are good things about El Magnifico the Mauler), but damned, he really is spewing retrograde reactionary vitriol. Protestant extremist fundamentalists take note, THE MAN is in the ring, and it is locked cage, lights out, to the death.

]]> by: dee http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7145 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/23/pope-on-the-ropes/#comment-7145 Well, I don't know. This book was obviously not written by this Pope. The style and language just doesn't mesh with his earlier writings. I don't agree with him on much, but I do find much to appreciate in this pope. First of all, I think he is a deeply spiritual man, probably one of the most spiritual to ever hold the office. I also think he is a poet, with a great respect for language (another reason this new book falls flat) And at least he is consistert when he speaks of respecting life - against abortion, against capital punishment, against war. He's also managed to take on the excesses of capitalism. I'm sure there's more than one cabal in the Vatican that would profit politcally from the publication of this book. There are backroom deals at papal enclaves that would make the late Mayor Daley blush. But it makes no sense that a pope who has spent a great deal of his papacy engaged in efforts to reach out to other faiths and to repair relationships would suddenly turn this petty and vicious. It just doesn't sound like him. And this from an apatheist...... Well, I don’t know.

This book was obviously not written by this Pope. The style and language just doesn’t mesh with his earlier writings.

I don’t agree with him on much, but I do find much to appreciate in this pope. First of all, I think he is a deeply spiritual man, probably one of the most spiritual to ever hold the office. I also think he is a poet, with a great respect for language (another reason this new book falls flat) And at least he is consistert when he speaks of respecting life - against abortion, against capital punishment, against war. He’s also managed to take on the excesses of capitalism.

I’m sure there’s more than one cabal in the Vatican that would profit politcally from the publication of this book. There are backroom deals at papal enclaves that would make the late Mayor Daley blush. But it makes no sense that a pope who has spent a great deal of his papacy engaged in efforts to reach out to other faiths and to repair relationships would suddenly turn this petty and vicious. It just doesn’t sound like him.

And this from an apatheist……

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