Lounsbury: Pope - I think Benny the Rat is a good monicker.

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April 26, 2005

Pope - I think Benny the Rat is a good monicker.

I don't have strong feelings about Popes - other than my generic contempt for all religious figures and some lingering ancestral hostility towards the Roman model of churches. However, this article really made me lose any perhaps reflexive respect for this lying pig:

Pope Prayed That He Wouldn't Get the Job
Pontiff Tells German Pilgrims That God 'Didn't Listen to Me'
By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, April 26, 2005; 12:00 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/03/25/AR2005032507903.html

Yeah. Right. You didn't really want to be Pope.

Then known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he could have eliminated himself from contention by getting up before any of the closed-door votes in the Sistine Chapel and telling the other 114 cardinal electors he didn't want the papacy. Numerous news reports said that Ratzinger had a well-organized cluster of supporters able to round up votes quickly. It took only four ballots to elect him.

In Monday's audience, Benedict suggested he was dissuaded from dropping out by a fellow cardinal who slipped him a note reminding him of a biblical story about Jesus and Peter, the founder of the Roman Catholic Church. In the story, Jesus tells Peter to follow him even to places he might not want to go. Ratzinger had used the story as the basis of a sermon during John Paul's funeral Mass. "Then I had no choice, and I said yes," he told the pilgrims.

Right, no choice at all. Scheming politico, at least be honest.

This sort of posturing is contemptible.

(I note in closing that I really don't give a fuck about his politics, policies or Pope positions, I expect the Roman church to be an anachronism, so no comments on that substance please.)

April 26, 2005

Pope - I think Benny the Rat is a good monicker.

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