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Pope Benedict XVI Will Resign, Vatican Spokesman Says

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Boom_70, Feb 11, 2013.

  1. Matt1735

    Matt1735 Well-Known Member

    One of the qualifications is you had to work at the Plain-Dealer.
     
  2. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

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    Reportedly has begun training for a comeback in the Vatican.
     
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  3. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Late update: The new Pope will vow to bring the Catholic church into the 20th 19th century.
     
  4. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    The Catholic party is hopelessly out of touch with the modern world and faces extinction unless it changes it's stance on reproductive rights, gay marriage and immigration.
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

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    Kinky!!
     
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  6. dog eat dog world

    dog eat dog world New Member

    He was a Pope to be forgotten. Frankly, any Pope following John Paul would is kind of like following Bear Bryant.
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    It's a lot more modern on a lot of issues than many other denominations.

    You don't see us talking about a 6,000-year-old earth.

    Without saying as much, the Catholic church realizes that the Old Testament is allegory. That puts it in the 99th percentile among religions, intellectually.
     
  8. dog eat dog world

    dog eat dog world New Member

    Bull shit.
    Unless, of course, they confess they've had gay popes before and lots and lots of gay priests.
    It makes sense to say a faith should throw out the book that it bases its faith on, which it would have to do to do what you think they should do. Europe's church is in bad shape because it has chosen to turn away from itself, and America will get there if it continues to model Europe.
     
  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    It's thrown out the parts about stoning adulterous women to death, no?
     
  10. dog eat dog world

    dog eat dog world New Member

    Dick's version of the church denies the existence of God, period. It's just a place to play bingo and do business networking.
     
  11. dog eat dog world

    dog eat dog world New Member

    I don't see that in the New Testament.
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I deny the existence of a God that is knowable via our earthly faculties.

    I deny any knowledge - or that any knowledge is even possible - into the nature of God.

    I do not necessarily deny the existence of God or a first cause.
     
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