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I fully expect Huckabee to tell us in a few days how Muslims are the only group to have Pope Francis' 'undying' support. You know, exactly like last time someone came out and spoke about how we're not immune and should be wary of our own extremism?

We have a queen all the time, it's really not all it's cracked up to be.

You know that you can turn that around though, right? The Pope had things to say that crossed political boundaries. Not that surprising really. And also not surprising that some of those will align with one parties platform, and some with the others. He has the luxury of speaking in ideal language, and not actually having to legislate. I happen to agree that in a perfect world we would have neither the death penalty nor abortion. We don't live in that world though.

And I was pointing out that the Democrats reactions were similarly mixed based on what he was saying. They were just as much cheering the parts that supported their ideological positions, and not doing so during the parts that didn't. So I'm not sure (other than partisan bashing) why you'd make such a point of singling out Republicans for this. The Dems did the same thing.

It's like trying to make fun of a group of fans because they cheer when their team scores a touchdown, but not when the other team scores. Um... The fans of the other team do the same thing, just in reverse, right? So it's kind of a non-statement.

EDIT: Oh. And just because it might be relevant. You are aware that a greater percentage of Democrats in Congress are Catholic than Republicans, right? So it's not like there's some assumption by the GOP that the Pope is "on their side", or that they should be cheering the Pope more than the Democrats. Maybe some liberals might think so, and might even make hay every time the GOP members didn't cheer something the Pope said, but that would be silly.

Edited, Sep 25th 2015 8:00pm by gbaji

Pope made Boehner tear up and renounce his faith in politics.

Man these servers suck

Edited, Sep 28th 2015 9:57am by Jophiel

Latest and greatest from the kook fringe is that Pope Benedict was deposed by a cabal of radical leftist cardinals who wanted to modernize the Church by allowing gay marriage, abortion, etc. The source for this is a biography of some cardinal who says he and a handful of others were "opposed" to some of Benedict's views -- which somehow gets turned into deposing the Pope (and forcing him to resign no less!) and then instating Pope Francis... who is also opposed to gay marriage and abortion but, you know, baby steps.

It should be noted that (a) there is no mechanism for removing a sitting Pope*, whose power is absolute within the Church and (b) there are 118 cardinals who vote in the Papal Conclave so five or six of them not liking Benedict much is meaningless even if they did try to do anything about it.

Still, a good conspiracy theory that lets you to discard messages you don't like is a good conspiracy theory that lets you discard messages you don't like.

*Well, no legitimate mechanism. Dropping a safe on them probably still works.

Edited, Sep 28th 2015 2:40pm by Jophiel

I think "I don't agree with the direction the Church is going so we're going to leave the country" is a perfectly legitimate mechanism that should be used more often.

If you declare an anti-pope, you can then either have him rule from an ecclesiastic enclave, or better yet, take Rome and force the abdication of the prior pope.

Do you want a protestant reformation? Because that's how you get a protestant reformation.

Lol! Yeah, because "opposed to gay marriage and abortion" are the likely reasons some cardinals might have disliked Benedict and wanted him to step down.

I figure his being the leader of the Sith had something to do with it.