Gee, that's swell -
Apr. 19th, 2005 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgThey decided which cardinal was going to be Pope. Good for them. I like the name Benedict - it has nice connotations that have nothing to do with the Popes who have carried the name before this fellow, within the church's history.
Past that? You got me. I didn't even know what a Pope was until my senior year in high school. It's a Catholic thing - and I'm not Catholic, and make no bones about it.
Relativism? Huh? OH.
One thing I've learned from studying comparative religion is that just about all of them believe they Have It Right And Nobody Else Does.
Just about all. And you know something? I believe them. That's one of the commonalities, after all. God has spoke to US - this is our record, and our doctrines codify what we know to be True.
Thing is, I also believe God speaks to more than one group. That's another one of the commonalities. *winks* There are just too many things alike - one to the next, to the next. We, as people, are quite, QUITE fallible. God speaks to all of us - we just don't get it all down. And when we compare notes? We only see the holes. And start shunning. What a waste of time.
And just to be snarky? Also keep in mind a Pope is responsible, in a way, for justifying ALL of the infrastructure, bureaucracy, expense, pomp, circumstance, behavior, repression, codification - all of that has to be justified. If nobody else has it right, then they, by default, aren't wrong. Oh no.
Such arrogance.
I know I might be wrong. It's the only thing I really can be certain of.
Hey - tell you what. Celebrate the election of Benedict XVI by going to the Ben & Jerry's site and vote to resurrect Holy Cannoli from the flavor graveyard. It would make me very happy.
Past that? I really miss John Paul II. I am certain that is going to deepen as time goes on.
Past that? You got me. I didn't even know what a Pope was until my senior year in high school. It's a Catholic thing - and I'm not Catholic, and make no bones about it.
Relativism? Huh? OH.
One thing I've learned from studying comparative religion is that just about all of them believe they Have It Right And Nobody Else Does.
Just about all. And you know something? I believe them. That's one of the commonalities, after all. God has spoke to US - this is our record, and our doctrines codify what we know to be True.
Thing is, I also believe God speaks to more than one group. That's another one of the commonalities. *winks* There are just too many things alike - one to the next, to the next. We, as people, are quite, QUITE fallible. God speaks to all of us - we just don't get it all down. And when we compare notes? We only see the holes. And start shunning. What a waste of time.
And just to be snarky? Also keep in mind a Pope is responsible, in a way, for justifying ALL of the infrastructure, bureaucracy, expense, pomp, circumstance, behavior, repression, codification - all of that has to be justified. If nobody else has it right, then they, by default, aren't wrong. Oh no.
Such arrogance.
I know I might be wrong. It's the only thing I really can be certain of.
Hey - tell you what. Celebrate the election of Benedict XVI by going to the Ben & Jerry's site and vote to resurrect Holy Cannoli from the flavor graveyard. It would make me very happy.
Past that? I really miss John Paul II. I am certain that is going to deepen as time goes on.
