get over it, already
Apr. 2nd, 2005 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perlmongerOK, the old scrote is dying, and I guess a fair number of people across the world actually care. Even in spite of the number of HIV/AIDS and Hep cases he's responsible for, the number of unwanted pregancies, and the number of women killed or maimed by botched, illegal abortions.
But do we, a presumed non-Catholic country even to the extent that we qualify as "Christian" in any sense of the word, have to have the main morning news programme on the Home Service totally dominated by the imminent demise of just one pope. I don't think so.
Remember girls and boys: every woman, man and child on this planet is a pope (or mome, if preferred), so when this one finally screams his last and flaps away on his little black leathery wings we don't need a conspiracy of cardinals to "elect" another reactionary, misogynistic fucktard in Rome.
Enough.
[ETA:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twistedchick, as a Catholic, posts some pertinent points on the succession]
[ETA2: here'sminkboylove being far more articulate ('cos she can write, and I can't :) on the same subject]
But do we, a presumed non-Catholic country even to the extent that we qualify as "Christian" in any sense of the word, have to have the main morning news programme on the Home Service totally dominated by the imminent demise of just one pope. I don't think so.
Remember girls and boys: every woman, man and child on this planet is a pope (or mome, if preferred), so when this one finally screams his last and flaps away on his little black leathery wings we don't need a conspiracy of cardinals to "elect" another reactionary, misogynistic fucktard in Rome.
Enough.
[ETA:
twistedchick, as a Catholic, posts some pertinent points on the succession][ETA2: here's
minkboylove being far more articulate ('cos she can write, and I can't :) on the same subject]