I SOOOOOOO don't give a spit

[Brainstormy]

about the next Pope, and SO resent the media operating under the assumption that you absolutely MUST give a shit.

[amuse bouche]

1. I remeber as a kid

sitting with my grandmother. She got so excited over this bullshit

So happy to be free of this nonsense.

Now I find it both disgusting and hilarious

[Apophis]

2. I'm sure the new pope is anti-gay, anti-woman, and anti-science.

Why would anyone on this website celebrate that?

[Rob H.]

6. Because some people value the traditions they were brought up in

more than taking a stand and doing the right thing. If there are liberal progressive Catholics who won't leave the church over something as monumentally perverse and just flat-out wrong as a decades-long coverup of child-molesting priests, and will continue to attend and donate money despite knowing about it, institutionalized homophobia and misogyny aren't likely to motivate them to call it quits, either.

[Brainstormy]

10. liberal progressive Catholics?

sorry. Too much of an oxymoron. Can't wrap my head around it.

[Rob H.]

11. I really don't get it

If a person won't leave the church after finding out that it's been hiding and protecting child molesters for decades, I'm not sure I want to know what more it would take.

[rexcat]

16. This has been going on for centuries...

not decades. It is disturbing to my moral and ethical values that there are so many in the catholic religion, who know what happened to children in the church, and have not left or the fact that they think they can make a difference by staying. Delusion is the only word that I can think of at this time.

[Rob H.]

18. Delusion with a heaping side order of brainwashing

I can't think of any other reasons otherwise rational people would support and even defend an organization whose hierarchy actively participates in such repugnant behavior. It's an international criminal conspiracy when it comes right down to it, but even many liberal believers won't admit that. My favorite cop-out: staying and continuing to give their time--and more importantly, money--while asserting that they're working to "effect change from within." Yeah. That's working out really well so far, isn't it?

(And centuries? Holy shit, even worse than I thought.)

[nonoyes]

7. Man in a white dress who calls gay folks bad names

What a F*n surprise.

[Apophis]

8. And I was right.

[amuse bouche]

9. They even alerted and hid my thread about it

Check it out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/123013579

[Ron Obvious]

13. He's a Jesuit

He might be an improvement in the Science department anyway. I just heard that he's a chemist.

I couldn't care less myself either. My main wish would be that they'd reverse policy on contraceptives, which is leading to massive overpopulation and human suffering in the developing world. It's a fairly obese chance that that's going to happen, of course.

[bobclark86]

20. Ever hear of the Counter-Reformation?

Yeah, that was the Jesuits... burning people at the stake. Their other name is "God's Marines."

[trotsky]

3. Ditto and ditto.

But everyone thinks their religion is the most bestest EVAH and the Catholics are certainly no exception. If their predecessors hadn't forced so many to convert or be killed, there wouldn't be so many of them and no one would care.

[pokerfan]

4. Blowing smoke

How appropriate.

[cleanhippie]

5. +1

[Curmudgeoness]

12. The media has been driving me crazy on this for a long time already.

I didn't even know that there was a new pope yet. Just found out. There has been pope news for months now. Pope is stepping down, it is almost the pope's last day, it is the last benediction that the pope will make, look where the pope will go to retire, the cardinals are heading for Rome, they are in Rome, who will they pick, are there any Americans who might be picked, who are they, the cardinals have started deliberating, black smoke, black smoke, black smoke, black smoke.....I was poped out before they got to a new pope.

[Auggie]

14. Rec

[Gore1FL]

15. I don't care from the religious perspective.

His policies will have an effect, at some level, around the world wide. I realize that isn't what the coverage is really about, however.

[olddots]

17. N.P.R. was still blabbing about it today

as was all corporate media.
Hype is the backbone of superstition

[backscatter712]

19. Sadly, I feel I need to give a shit.

He's the religious leader for a billion people, which gives him the power to inflict a lot of batshit on the rest of us. No doubt, he'll use his bully pulpit to bash and demonize us atheists on a regular basis.

[Phillip McCleod]

21. well.. ;) you have to admit we deserve it.

the 'nones' actually *are* the biggest threat to organized religion .. probably ever.

[skepticscott]

22. I feel the need

To continue to deserve it...here and elsewhere...

[Phillip McCleod]

23. ..sigh.. yep.

tho i rather wish it wasn't so.