i know its a little late, but last night Luke and i had a goo four hour conversation on everything from AA to religion to politics to religion to styles of management to politics. we are going to continue our conversations on the way to my familys cabin this evening...(in an alabaman drawl)cause i can't get enough of that there reason and intelligent thought.
when my wife joined us in our discussions we talked a little about the pope and how he is a hardcore MF. she said that he is a rebound pope because probobly no one, even someone who would be a good pope, could follow Pope John Paul as he was so revered...and i suppose still is. she related her thought with a little story when a professor or teacher is somewhere for any great amount of time and makes a good name for themselves, it is almost always hard to follow that teacher. so what do you do? you put in a rebound teacher that the kids can all direct their hate towards, and when that person is removed then you can put in someone who can begin to build on nothing. (i have a direct correlation for anyone who attended the UND music dept after Dr. Rodde left. Mcmane (splinter) took the brunt of hate. after she left i wasn't in the dept but i heard that even the next guy didn't make it either...but that may have been based on how poor of a teacher he was...mike?)
anyhow, pope benedict XVI is a rebound pope. thats why he is so old, so that he can die and catholics won't have to live under his crazy ass ultra conservative dictates for any significant amount of time. however...this is where God brings back people living 300+ years. so take that catholics and organized religion.
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but note: john paul II may have seemed warm and fuzzy, but benedict and he were (a) close friends and (b) ideological and doctrinal allies. ain't no difference in their policies. i think the real question is how JPII was so revered in *spite* of his fairly radical conservatism.
Hello, Mr. Reimer! No one has, so I think I'll say it- Pope Benedict XVI was a Nazi Child. I believe that plays in a bit with the radical conservatism- whether being a Nazi as a child has affected him as an adult or not. I think "Nazi" and "Radical" correlate pretty nicely. Truth be told, I think Benedict has Chamberlainesque rebound abilities.
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