The Pope can fly!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SuperPope!
Did you know the Pope was down in Australia on some kind of dinner cruise/reef-snorkeling vacation package thing? I didn’t either. But he’s down there, and yesterday he addressed billions of pilgrims in Sydney, warning them against “the tedium of false idols and the pain of false promises.”
Now that’s brave talk from the head of a religion that tells people they’ll live forever if they worship a magic dead Jew.
He said some other stuff, but I didn’t read the rest of the article. I just liked the picture. Goddamn, he looks happy.
14 Responses to “The Pope can fly!”
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Nadai says:
He’s King of the World!
I wonder, are there any icebergs around Australia?
July 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pm EST -
Violet says:
Oh, good one!
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simply wondered says:
Now that’s brave talk from the head of a religion that tells people they’ll live forever if they worship a magic dead Jew.
i love it – truly you are at your best when castigating the sky-fairy-worshipers!
and glory of glories, the ad alongside the article is for singlemuslim.com. you couldn’t make it up.
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Violet says:
Richard!!! Whee!!!
Ad — I keep getting the one for a Barack Obama Ringtone. What the hell could that be? BO saying “We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”?
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Violet says:
Ah! Ah! Ah!
The Adsense now is for a Great Barrier Reef Cruise!
Jesus God, I love Adsense. It’s fucking metaphysical poetry.
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Delphyne says:
Is that how he looks after he clicks those ruby slippers 3 times? He must use a lot of hair spray – not one hair out of place all the while the cape is flapping.
The tedium of false idols and the pain of false promises? Isn’t that their dogma? I kind of remember that stuff before I left that church at age 11 causing my mother much distress. Leaving was one of my better choices in life.
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simply wondered says:
now it’s showing: ‘islamic school online’ with the snappy strapline ‘Can’t Drive Kids to the Mosque? Islamic School with Quran tutoring.’ i take it they aren’t offering courses in english or copywriting…
barack obama ringtome – that must just be a wolf whistle, surely. it has a feature that changes the vibrate function to a delicate pat on the bum.
BO means something particular in the uk! -
baby feminist says:
Guess feminism doesn’t need Christians either. See ya.
(Never mind that “sky fairy worshippers” completely misconstrues what most Christians are about — loving thy neighbor. Ooh, so terrible! Let’s malign those bastards at every turn. I dread to think what your commenters and you call Jewish people, Muslims, and other theists. I’ll never understand how social justice movements demand respect for certain groups while disrespecting other groups.)
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Violet says:
I’ll never understand how social justice movements demand respect for certain groups while disrespecting other groups.
Because not all groups are created equal. Otherwise we’d all be constrained to equally respect Nazis and stormfront and the KKK.
Never mind that “sky fairy worshippers” completely misconstrues what most Christians are about — loving thy neighbor.
According to you, and that’s lovely. But that is not the only or even the most prevalent lived interpretation of Christianity.
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JaneDoe says:
I don’t know, he kind of looks likes he’s plotting his overthrow of the earth or something equally evil. I’ve always been inclined to find popes a bit creepy.
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Tabby Lavalamp says:
I am very curious how someone can reconcile Christianity and feminism. It’s got to take a whole bunch of cherry picking, a lot of hope that God doesn’t really mean it, or a non-bible based form of the religion.
It doesn’t even take interpretation! The bible is very, very clear on the status of women, that we are beneath men, and I’ve never understood how any self-respecting woman could buy into a belief system based on such a horrendous book.
I truly hope you’re not gone, Baby Feminist, because I honestly am curious how you’re able to deal with the not-so-loving aspects of both testaments. -
sister of ye says:
I’m not Baby Feminist, but as someone who took classes at the seminary before I quit the Church the final time, I’ll take a stab at answering.
Being a Christian and feminist isn’t too difficult if your faith is Gospel-centered. Even in the stories that were written down and survived, Jesus showed a lot of respect for women, including the respect of assuming they could they think for themselves and be their own moral agents. Many women were prominent in leading and spreading the new faith, till the guys formalized the hierarchy and shoved them out.
The Old Testament is a great book for stories, not so clear as a moral guide, given you can find passages that justify everything up to blood-curlding slaughter. There are some passages, frankly, I wish people would dig out and follow – like those forbidding charging interest and mandating debt forgiveness every seven years. But it’ll be a cold day in hell when you see Superpope deny communion to those who charge 30% credit card rates and benefit from wage slavery.
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simply wondered says:
for the benefit of baby feminist, i personally call jews and muslims sky-fairy-worshippers too. no idea what others here call them. we tend to think for ourselves and when we disagree we reason it out and don’t stomp off saying ‘all we do is love our neighbours’ as if
a) that’s all the christian religion has ever done and
b) christians are the only people capable of doing that – quite keen on my neighbours myself, and loving them. not keen on the arrogance religion often breeds along with the blind insistence that ‘my way is the only way’. there are many ways to truth but throwing a hissy fit probably not one of them. -
ginmar says:
Guess feminism doesn’t need Christians either. See ya.
Guess feminism doesn’t need to be threatened with…what, exactly? You’re going to take your toys and go home unless we acknowledge your Sooper Speshul religious faith, and ignore all the shit those Xtians have done? And to women, specifically? Not at all in the past, either. The church has been behind all the recent bullshit about turning women into broodmares. Oh, I guess those aren’t the real Xtians.
