Bye Bye Papa

Before things get too carried away, pun intended, I wanted to say a few things about JP II, too late. This is a guy who just recently said we (all non-sinning Catholics/the overwhelming majority of humanity) are going to burn in Hades for eternity because we don't believe in the one true faith. Osama bin Laden doesn't even claim this. He also says any sex that isn't for procreation, particularly sex between sames, is a major no-no. Masturbation-not allowed. Eating the body and blood (literal) of the three headed god-allowed. Women, they are not worthy of having important jobs like being a priest. He also thought some governments, like the Soviet Union and the Nicaraguan ones were bad because they don't support the wealthy clergy that hang out with the oligarchs, but governments like the Brazilian dictatorship or the Guatemalan governments that murdered their citizens on a mass scale were OK. Liberation theology-a radical Christian ideology that stressed that god was in us all and took off in much of Latin America-was for JP II a major threat that was more of an evil than Fascist dictatorship. He has replaced most of these folks with clergy that think more like him. Which means that for hundreds of years to come we can expect more like him from the Catholic hierarchy. In other words, if you side with the poor, by re-distributing wealth and you see the church as an impediment to this, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT HAS ALMOST ALWAYS DONE, than you can been eliminated and this PAST Pope would not get too worried about it.

If you think this guy was a saint and a positive force in the world we are in worse shape than I thought.