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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I wanted the nigerian one to win, if not him then Claudio Hummes... But no, the church chose to stick to its white european creepy looking Pope...Quote
Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your FatherQuoteI have the same bad feeling. I don't know why. I don't really watch TV so I've only seen a picture of the new Pope on the cover of somebody else's newspaper on my way to work this morning...but I just get a bad feeling.
Originally posted by: ricarleite
I've read that Ratzinger was once part of the "Hitler Youth"... I don't know, I'm not trying to be disrespectful here, but he seems kinda evil to me... Some sort of a "Palpatinesque" way about him, like he pressured the cardinals to vote for him or something...
I'm not kidding, this Ratzinger guy has some evil aurea over him... It's kinda suspicious him winning this conclave... Feels like he threatned the cardinals to vote for him...
I've made a conscious decision to leave the church. I now consider myself to be of the Protestant/Reformed faith (although no official affiliation yet). So, I have a problem with the entire notion of papal authority to begin with. The institution is too easily corrupted, and the position seems to have falled to an almost idolatrous one within the entire body. This guy...time will tell obviously. I can just hear him start his first encyclic: "From this time forward, every Jedi is to be considered an enem....ooops, wrong speech".
