Well, the entire christian world can now exhale. There is a new pope, leo. Mje is not a christian, nor anything else, deity-wise, but I am sure it was really important to christians to know there’s a new sheriff in the vatican who’s going to oversee all the pedophilia lawsuits against the catholic church. I’m not surprised it was quick, the rest of the cardinals, if not actually implicated, were probably praying to god they wouldn’t get put in the papal hot seat.
So bob of chicago is now leo of the vatican. He was a pretty safe choice as he’s spent most of his career in the jungles of peru indoctrinating indigenous people in the catholic catechism. Teaching them that the many water, earth and sky gods that have served them pretty well for as long as any of them can remember are now irrelevant and they have to abandon them and worship christ, the one true god, who frankly had never done one damned thing for them as far as they knew. But with christianity comes the bounty of the catholic church, giving up their au natural sartorial lifestyle and learning to be ashamed of their bodies, keeping track of the abstract notion of time and remembering to be somewhere at a seemingly random moment in order to kneel down and recite meaningless words, and most importantly, to be made to understand that if they didn’t do what the great white “padre” told them that they would suffer for eternity, whatever that was.
More importantly, bobdapope was tucked far far away from any possible pedophelia induced lawsuits. Heaven is the amazon jungle without lawyers.
But mje says, hey, let’s give leo a chance. Rumor has it that he, like his predecessor, is a “progressive.” Finally, a pope that realizes that women are just as capable of being as blindly devout as men and should have the right to an equal status in the catholic church. Well perhaps that is a bridge too far right out of the gate, or that men (and women) are not by nature celibate, and perhaps giving priests and nuns the right to marry might cut down on that pesky pedophilia problem. Or maybe reversing the whole tithing racket and instead giving everyone in their congregations ten percent of the luchre of the diocese, to be used in any way they feel supports the needy in their communities, catholic or not.
But what do I know, I am a simple human being who can recognize good or evil when I see it. I don’t need a supernatural being to give me a set of instructions. I don’t think any less of people who kneel on the putting green on sundays instead of in a church pew, or who hold hands and thank some invisible (at least in the supermarket, farm fields or kitchen) deity for the meals they are about to eat.
I understand that sentient beings are filled with fears and anxieties and need something, anything, that can provide them with a sense of security. For some it’s a supernatural being, for others it’s a circle of friends, or in my case a double makers on the rocks.
Peace.✌🏻
my jaundiced eye 