How do you feel about it? I am getting so tired of the endless twaddle about John Paul II. Could we give it a rest?
Some maudlin types are swimming through their tears to get to the mike and tell us that the "suffering" of the pope is like unto that of Christ in his last hours. Really? Then the world is damn near swamped with christ-figures right now. There are all those who are at this moment making their way through an old age beset with frailty and disease, just as the pope is. There are all those who are dying far too young because of disease or man's inhumanity to man. There are those who are suffering the aftereffects of nature's fury, like the tsunami survivors. If those befuddled believers could just get a grip on reality, they would realize that and stop insulting their own intelligence with such moronic mumbo-jumbo. They would let the rest of us digest a meal in peace, instead of foisting on us the need to upchuck every time we open a newspaper or watch the news. I am getting so tired of it.
Why don't they show the world some of the film footage extant of this man in his prime, instead of the current footage of him "suffering"? I can suggest just the right scene to resurrect. It shows a pope much younger than today's sad old figure; one still exuding health, and arrogance, and behaviour anything but that befitting the head of the church. It is film taken in a central american country when he was addressing a crowd. His words of wisdom were being interrupted by a group of women with babies on their hips. These poor people actually had hopes that the pope would help them. He wanted to thunder at them his message that birth control was a sin and that they should keep pumping out the babies so that they could watch more of them starve to death. The women wanted him to provide some help for them to feed the ones they already had. They stood together and began chanting "Feed our babies" and he reacted in such a compassionate manner. He ordered them to shut up and shook his fist at them, a gesture of threat and violence. So very christ-like, don't you think?
No, this man is nothing like christ. He is only a very ordinary man, and not a very nice one, at that. It's time for him to get into his popemobile, and drive off into the sunset.
Go away, John Paul.
Some maudlin types are swimming through their tears to get to the mike and tell us that the "suffering" of the pope is like unto that of Christ in his last hours. Really? Then the world is damn near swamped with christ-figures right now. There are all those who are at this moment making their way through an old age beset with frailty and disease, just as the pope is. There are all those who are dying far too young because of disease or man's inhumanity to man. There are those who are suffering the aftereffects of nature's fury, like the tsunami survivors. If those befuddled believers could just get a grip on reality, they would realize that and stop insulting their own intelligence with such moronic mumbo-jumbo. They would let the rest of us digest a meal in peace, instead of foisting on us the need to upchuck every time we open a newspaper or watch the news. I am getting so tired of it.
Why don't they show the world some of the film footage extant of this man in his prime, instead of the current footage of him "suffering"? I can suggest just the right scene to resurrect. It shows a pope much younger than today's sad old figure; one still exuding health, and arrogance, and behaviour anything but that befitting the head of the church. It is film taken in a central american country when he was addressing a crowd. His words of wisdom were being interrupted by a group of women with babies on their hips. These poor people actually had hopes that the pope would help them. He wanted to thunder at them his message that birth control was a sin and that they should keep pumping out the babies so that they could watch more of them starve to death. The women wanted him to provide some help for them to feed the ones they already had. They stood together and began chanting "Feed our babies" and he reacted in such a compassionate manner. He ordered them to shut up and shook his fist at them, a gesture of threat and violence. So very christ-like, don't you think?
No, this man is nothing like christ. He is only a very ordinary man, and not a very nice one, at that. It's time for him to get into his popemobile, and drive off into the sunset.
Go away, John Paul.
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