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flawd101
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Re: Next Pope! April 17, 2005 at 03:32 PM UTC #
i almost got over it…now i have to go back to my shrink…i cant believe what those bastards did to me :( :D

i was thinking a steel cage match. three cardnals enter, and one pope emerges!

they can fuck mike tyson and have it the same day as his fight! with all the catholics and people in the world…the church would make a fuck load of more money. and still collect that sunday at mass!!!
brennser
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 04:48 PM UTC #
Habemus Papam!
ratioci nation
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 04:53 PM UTC #
Originally posted by brennser:
Habemus Papam!
mmmmmmmmm, Pappadums!
kosmo
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 04:55 PM UTC #
i get all my news first via the forum :D
bunnyman
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 05:17 PM UTC #
HA! Exactly what I thought. Pope Cliff the 1st.
jkeisenh
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 07:27 PM UTC #
at least he's old, so he'll die soon… right??
markie
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 07:34 PM UTC #
Why is he Benedict XIV? Not Ratzenger I?
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 07:52 PM UTC #
it's good to see that ex-nazis have a place in the church
jkeisenh
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 07:56 PM UTC #
yes. it's an organization with a great future, you know, that welcomes nazis but shuns gay people and makes sure women have at best a fringe role in its business…
Venerable Bede
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 08:19 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Miss MaRpIe:
Why is he Benedict XIV? Not Ratzenger I?
i was hoping for a more old skool name, like celestine or boniface or callixtus or sixtus. he could of been sixtus vi.
helicon1
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 08:33 PM UTC #
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
it's good to see that ex-nazis have a place in the church
It was compulsory to join at that time. Read the article at the Times
for more information. I wouldn't consider him a Nazi.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 08:57 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Glass Arm Shattering:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
it's good to see that ex-nazis have a place in the church
It was compulsory to join at that time. Read the article at the Times
for more information. I wouldn't consider him a Nazi.
i know, i was being sarcastic … still though, there were germans who looked past their herd mentality and dissented … i guess i just hoped that the moral voice of more than a billion people could have been one of them
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 09:05 PM UTC #
â??Resistance was truly impossible,â? Georg Ratzinger said. â??Before we were conscripted, one of our teachers said we should fight and become heroic Nazis and another told us not to worry as only one soldier in a thousand was killed. But neither of us ever used a rifle against the enemy.â?

Some locals in Traunstein, like Elizabeth Lohner, 84, whose brother-in-law was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, dismiss such suggestions. â??It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others,â? she said. â??The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.â?

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that's kinda what i was referring to, but in all honesty i don't think it's a huge deal, the guy was a product of his times, much like people who grew up in the jim crow south … i would just have more respect for him if he dissented rather than went with the flow
Liberte
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 09:41 PM UTC #
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
….i would just have more respect for him if he dissented rather than went with the flow
I would have settled for his having learned something about the downside of rigid ideological purity from the experience.
bags
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Re: Next Pope! April 19, 2005 at 10:14 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Liberte:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
….i would just have more respect for him if he dissented rather than went with the flow
I would have settled for his having learned something about the downside of rigid ideological purity from the experience.
EXCELLENT point. I'm disappointed, but really, would they ever nominate a Pope that made me happy? I don't think so…Archbishop Thomas McCarick wasn't in the running.
Doctor Doom
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Re: Next Pope! April 20, 2005 at 12:58 AM UTC #
Originally posted by Liberte:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
….i would just have more respect for him if he dissented rather than went with the flow
I would have settled for his having learned something about the downside of rigid ideological purity from the experience.
beautifully said…
hitman
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Re: Next Pope! April 20, 2005 at 05:26 AM UTC #
at his coronation, they all high stepped, put hands up in the air, and yelled "Zig Heil! (sp?)"

this is all such bullshit…no matter what…
nkotb
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Re: Next Pope! April 20, 2005 at 01:00 PM UTC #
I'm not sure of the answer, but I can tell you a drunken, 80-year-old biker at my local bar didn't like the name. Seems Ratzinger should've chosen something more patriotic, since it was too close to Benedict Arnold for his liking. I heart America.

Originally posted by Miss MaRpIe:
Why is he Benedict XIV? Not Ratzenger I?
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