Quote: (12-11-2013 02:06 PM)wiscanada Wrote:
Quote: (12-11-2013 12:27 PM)soup Wrote:
The new pope's actions signal the death throws of the Catholic church.
how so? I thought that for sure when they had senator palpatine essentially just running damage control but Francis seems like a 'working man's pope...like how Rob Ford is the working man's mayor.
The pope is giving-in to the secular world.
Part of the Catholicism's power was that it created this mystical world that could only be communicated with through the church, with the pope being like the cable modem to god.
He's doing all this stuff because he knows that with the speed of information spreading increasing, the church looses it's mystique as people realize that there is no supernatural.
That's why he's trying to "come down to earth" etc.
It's not going to save the church, and he's an asshole for not just addressing the world and saying that the church is built on a lie.