The pope is dead, long live the pope
I have to say that until I saw the news a few days ago (because the media seem to have jumped at the "nearly dead" news as if he was already gone) I'd never seen the man actually WALK. Let alone speak in something you might consider to be actual Latin/Italian. I saw him smile and walk around, say stuff, get angry at something. Wow. Quite a different image than what I've seen as long as I remember.
I'm a Catholic. Or at least I'm meant to be. If I had a choice I'd not be Catholic. I'd not even be christian. De-baptised, de-confirmed, I don't care. I have no place in an institution that sees me as morally skewed just because I fall in love with women. Or no. I can fall in love with them, I'm just not supposed to act on my "impulses". Alrighty then. I have to admit I don't feel a great pain at the loss of a man who had a Belgian cardinal called to him to talk about "the bad state Belgium was in", what with gay marriage, hardly any priests, empty churches, abortion and euthanasia. I actually thought there was a divide between church and state.
I'm pissed off because someone who actually had a chance to make a difference in Africa, by saying "it's ok to use a rubber", didn't but chose to stuck to his bloody 2000 year old book that said "sex is only for procreation". Or is that in the Old Testament? In which case it's even longer ago. That same book that regards women as second-class citizens, also not something he ever really did anything about.
I'm biased. I see a lot of people on livejournal actually sad to see him go. But then I never saw a healthy pope battling communism (though what was his place there I wonder?) or going to a Synagogue. I only saw an ill man, miles away from where most catholics stand on moral issues, condemning my behaviour.
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I have to say that until I saw the news a few days ago (because the media seem to have jumped at the "nearly dead" news as if he was already gone) I'd never seen the man actually WALK. Let alone speak in something you might consider to be actual Latin/Italian. I saw him smile and walk around, say stuff, get angry at something. Wow. Quite a different image than what I've seen as long as I remember.
I'm a Catholic. Or at least I'm meant to be. If I had a choice I'd not be Catholic. I'd not even be christian. De-baptised, de-confirmed, I don't care. I have no place in an institution that sees me as morally skewed just because I fall in love with women. Or no. I can fall in love with them, I'm just not supposed to act on my "impulses". Alrighty then. I have to admit I don't feel a great pain at the loss of a man who had a Belgian cardinal called to him to talk about "the bad state Belgium was in", what with gay marriage, hardly any priests, empty churches, abortion and euthanasia. I actually thought there was a divide between church and state.
I'm pissed off because someone who actually had a chance to make a difference in Africa, by saying "it's ok to use a rubber", didn't but chose to stuck to his bloody 2000 year old book that said "sex is only for procreation". Or is that in the Old Testament? In which case it's even longer ago. That same book that regards women as second-class citizens, also not something he ever really did anything about.
I'm biased. I see a lot of people on livejournal actually sad to see him go. But then I never saw a healthy pope battling communism (though what was his place there I wonder?) or going to a Synagogue. I only saw an ill man, miles away from where most catholics stand on moral issues, condemning my behaviour.
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