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Title: New Pope Elected!
Post by: GGKoul on April 19, 2005, 12:21:01 pm
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Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: GGKoul on April 19, 2005, 12:25:04 pm
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Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 12:44:54 pm
I hope it's not Ratzinger...
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: GGKoul on April 19, 2005, 12:45:20 pm
I hope it's not Ratzinger...

Its Ratzinger

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Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 12:46:54 pm
This is exactly why I don't gamble.

Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: Dartful Dodger on April 19, 2005, 12:47:15 pm
He'll be the second to last pope, before the end of the world, so I hope he's young.
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 12:52:20 pm
I hope he goes fast (not death, maybe retirement), so we can get to the last Pope and prove all you wackos wrong.

I'm looking forward to it!


mrC
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: ChadTower on April 19, 2005, 12:54:06 pm
Maybe this one won't be a NAMBLA supporter.
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 12:55:05 pm
He'll be the second to last pope, before the end of the world, so I hope he's young.

At 77, Ratzinger is the oldest of the eligible candidates for pope.

SWEEET!!!
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: SirPeale on April 19, 2005, 12:56:12 pm
I hope it's not Ratzinger...

Why not?

I don't know anything about any of the lot of them, so I've got nothing to say one way or the other.
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 12:56:32 pm
Maybe this one won't be a NAMBLA supporter.

Sorry Chad:

"Ratzinger is also the author of a May 2001 letter to bishops stating that the
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 01:02:54 pm
I hope it's not Ratzinger...

Why not?

I don't know anything about any of the lot of them, so I've got nothing to say one way or the other.

Well, as someone hoping for a more progressive, modern church, Ratzinger is, in effect, one of the most fundamentalist candidates available, so we're going to get doctrine fit for the middle ages instead of 2005. Oh well, maybe it'll turn more people away from organized religion and further into organized thought.


"As Grand Inquisitor for Mother Rome, Ratzinger keeps himself busy in service to the Truth: correcting theological error, silencing dissenting theologians, and stomping down heresy wherever it may rear its ugly head [
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: Dartful Dodger on April 19, 2005, 01:11:28 pm
I have no religion, but here is what I think about the leader of a religion I didn't even belong to when I had religion forced on to me...

All I have to say is:

BUSH RATZINGER WON!!!

God bless the pope!!!
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 01:13:59 pm
He looks like an evil Jim Henson version of John Paul II...

(http://www.vaticanphoto.li/images/Card.%20Joseph%20Ratzinger-2.jpg)
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 01:16:01 pm
God bless the pope!!!

Wouldn't that kind of be obligatory?

mrC
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: screaming on April 19, 2005, 01:22:26 pm
He looks like an evil Jim Henson version of John Paul II...

(http://www.vaticanphoto.li/images/Card.%20Joseph%20Ratzinger-2.jpg)
(http://www.heroicvisions.co.uk/images/bust_0504_darkcrystal_01.jpg)

or

(http://www.earlham.edu/~efs/dark3.jpg)
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: AmericanDemon on April 19, 2005, 01:25:04 pm
Ya know, I thought he looked evil.  I was waiting for a sniper or something.  now THAT would have been a moment to remember.

Note to self....  do not buy that sniper rifle....
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 01:31:29 pm
(http://www.heroicvisions.co.uk/images/bust_0504_darkcrystal_01.jpg)

DEFINITELY a Skeksi...

(http://www.lg.tafensw.edu.au/creativetafe/costume01/pe_skekseeW.jpg)(http://members.aol.com/fspierre/Photos/ratzinger.jpg)
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 01:36:10 pm
More evily Pope goodness, I give to you Pope Benedict XVI*:

(http://www.jesus-net-people.de/kardinal_ratzinger.jpg)

*The pope gets to choose his own papal name, and Ratzinger has chosen 'Benedict XVI'. I was hoping for something more like, Pope Jizzle Pizzle the Thizizzle.
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: Stingray on April 19, 2005, 02:05:35 pm
The pope gets to choose his own papal name, and Ratzinger has chosen 'Benedit XVI'. I was hoping for something more like, Pope Jizzle Pizzle the Thizizzle.


(http://spacepope.diaryland.com/images/croco2.jpg)

-S
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: GGKoul on April 19, 2005, 02:09:38 pm
I have no religion, but here is what I think about the leader of a religion I didn't even belong to when I had religion forced on to me...

All I have to say is:

BUSH RATZINGER WON!!!

God bless the pope!!!

HAHAHAHA!!
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 02:16:20 pm
I have no religion, but here is what I think about the leader of a religion I didn't even belong to when I had religion forced on to me...

DD,
If you're going to put words in my mouth, at least get the facts straight... I was Roman Catholic, my family are still practicing Roman Catholics (So I still get the privilege of sitting/standing/kneeling/sitting/standing/kneeling at every baptism, wedding and funeral). I went to catholic school, even served time as an altar boy, although I seemed to have gotten lucky, and was never molested. Went to church Mon-Fri (6am) ...every day, plus Sunday mass.

I've earned the right to criticize this religion.


mrC
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: GGKoul on April 19, 2005, 02:17:50 pm
I have no religion, but here is what I think about the leader of a religion I didn't even belong to when I had religion forced on to me...


If you're going to put words in my mouth, at least get the facts straight... I was Roman Catholic, my family are still practicing Roman Catholics. I went to catholic school, even served time as an altar boy, although I seemed to have gotten lucky, and was never molested. Went to church Mon-Fri (6am) ...every day, plus Sunday mass.

I've earned the right to criticize this religion.


mrC


mrC, you miss quoted me there.. I was just laughing at Darts Bush joke.
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 02:21:17 pm
mrC, you miss quoted me there.. I was just laughing at Darts Bush joke.

I didn't notice that you quoted Dartful, who had quoted me (and paraphrased badly)...so it looked like you wrote it...sorry, I've corrected the above post to reference DD.

His joke was funny though...although, I'm not sure it's really a joke. He gets really excited when evil people get elected to positions of power. Part of some sort of Napoleonic complex or something.


mrC
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: clanggedin on April 19, 2005, 02:50:03 pm
He looks more like Senator Palpatine than a Skeskis

(insert image of the emperor here)
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on April 19, 2005, 03:37:30 pm
He looks more like Senator Palpatine than a Skeskis

(insert image of the emperor here)

You have a point.

(http://www.ebbisham.co.uk/ve-aotc/images/chancellor_palpatine.jpg)(http://www.vaticanphoto.li/images/Card.%20Joseph%20Ratzinger-2.jpg)
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: menace on April 19, 2005, 03:44:45 pm
I give him 5 years tops--I mean come on he's already 5 years passed the average male life expectancy--you know they totally put this guy in to keep the seat warm...
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: screaming on April 19, 2005, 03:53:06 pm
I give him 5 years tops--I mean come on he's already 5 years passed the average male life expectancy--you know they totally put this guy in to keep the seat warm...

  The older the guy the stinkier the gas too.   It's a double-edged sword there just to keep the seat warm.

-sab
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: Stingray on April 19, 2005, 04:23:05 pm
I actually think he looks significantly more evil than Senator Palpatine.

-S
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: clanggedin on April 19, 2005, 05:56:27 pm
Reuters just released this photo of the new pope during the conclave.

(http://www.utahmortgageco.com/pope-emperor.jpg)

Looks like he used some electricity and possibly mind tricks to get the vote swung his way.  ;)
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: jbox on April 19, 2005, 08:31:10 pm
Well, as someone hoping for a more progressive, modern church, Ratzinger is, in effect, one of the most fundamentalist candidates available, so we're going to get doctrine fit for the middle ages instead of 2005. Oh well, maybe it'll turn more people away from organized religion and further into organized thought.
Let us not forget that countries should never attempt to align themselves along geo-political borders, but strictly along religious ones. I mean if you had to define the phrase "bridge builder" for an ESL friend you could pretty much just use that as the negative.  :'(

This kind of thing always reminds me of the sci-fi stories dealing with a group of people living in a fall-out shelter after a nuclear holocaust. They come out of hiding a hundred years later to discover that society has changed quite dramatically, but for some unfathomable reason they decide it's their responsibility to reverse the new civilisation back to its pre-war state...  ::)
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: daywane on April 20, 2005, 08:23:21 am
I try to stay out of religion. ( other persons that is)
I am Christian.  never cared to find out what the difference is between Baptist, Methodist. all the same to me.

what good is a pope fore? no need to flame me. I really am asking
I do believe in God and think all have the right to believe what they want.

I just don't like most churches. They pressure me to much. Ready to get baptised? NO. I like to smoke , drink, and I Can't help my self if I see a sharp babe I do want to see he NAKED  ;D
I know I am a heathen.
god forgive me and save the staving Pygmies  :)
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: Stingray on April 20, 2005, 09:30:37 am
(http://www.stingraysmadness.com/misc/palpatine.jpg)(http://www.stingraysmadness.com/misc/ratzinger.jpg)

-S
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: Dartful Dodger on April 20, 2005, 11:54:29 am
I do want to see he NAKED

Freudian slip?
Title: Re: New Pope Elected!
Post by: GGKoul on April 20, 2005, 03:42:27 pm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050420/od_uk_nm/oukoe_pope_internet&e=2