Ding Dong the pope is dead...

--which old pope? the wicked pope!

Man. Could this guy have drawn this out any freaking longer? There may be those among you who are surprise and perhaps appalled that I call the pope wicked (and not in the Austin Powers, wicked baby, sort of way... I mean evil). But considering the guy basically kept the Catholic church in the dark ages for freaking EVER I'd say it was well earned. About the only thing he ever did right was take a stand on the war in Iraq, but even that was a dictum with no teeth to it. Not ONE church in the US had the balls to stand up to the public about it. I heard no edict from Rome being preached from the pulpits by the Papal hands in the US. It was a "don't make waves" policy over here. Whoop dee doo. Fear the awesome power of the church which can't even stand up for something that THE POPE HIMSELF condemns. Pope my ass. Whoope de doo. I've seen kindergarten teachers with more power to wield than that crazy old fart.
Let's look at the score:
Taking a stand on moral issues: 1 pt.
Coming into the 21st Century: 0 pts.
(priests allowed to have a family) -1
(women priests ordained) -1
(contraception used to prevent disease) -1
(innovative methods of communication) -1
Were integral in the fall of comunist governments in Europe +5
Hanging on the Papacy in declining years of terrible Disease because you are full of yourself +10
or is that -10? Not sure how to score that one...

Maybe I'm being too harsh on the last assessment, but lest keep this little rant to the idealogy of the Jewish speaking over the dead. All I'm talking about is a gross underusage of power. As pope you effective have the influence over every Catholic on earth. What reforms were enacted? What huge earth shaking theological demads did the pope make of his people in the new milennia? Again and again the score stands at 0...
Of course look who they put in there instead... RAZTINGER!>!>! We'll see what happens I guess but Pope Rat the First was basically JP's yes man for the entire time.

I am reminded of Monty Python's HG, with the monks smacking themselves in the face with boards. I sure many of the Catholics can relate at this point....

(WHAP)