Catholicism - Back to its Roots

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/10/pope.churches.reut/index.html

When I say "roots," I mean 16th century Spain roots, or even just about 1000 CE.

Benedict XVI a theologian? Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell were theologians.

Maybe the Hitler Youth Pope is on to something. Something that can maybe get rid of some of the fascists, distract them. Distract them with a Christian internal jihad! It certainly seems like the perfect time tio strart namecalling.

Devout Pope-believing Catholic: "Well Jesus loves us the most because we have a pseudo-dictator!"
New Life Church member: "Yeah, well each of us has a little Hitler in our community! We still get the same Nuremburg Rallies as you do."

This seems like just another one of those episodes, little variations on Dostoevsky's brilliant Grand Inquisitor tale, where a Grand Inquisitor simply tells Jesus that his work is done, and the powerlusting Catholic machine will inherit what he has done for themselves.

Can America turn, as universal religious tolerance is at an all-time low--practically Middle Ages levels--, into a Christian Iraq? Sunnis and Shiites vying for power and dominion over there. so Catholics and evangelicals could be taking up arms over something even sillier. The Vatican and the SBC should take up arms. Of course, the SBC would be decimated, as the Catholic Church as been a political power for almost 1500 years, and America (particularly minorities and women) would be taking it where the sun never shines no matter who won.

It's quite sad. The transition from the 20th century to the 21st has been hailed with the ascension of historically conservative [not American conservatism] megalomaniacs all over the world, and not only are we going backwards instead of forwards, but also the world is very unsafe for thinking people. Hell, we could all be nuked and I'll see you back in the feudal era.

It really doesn't matter what religion any powerful leader belongs to--Islam or Christianity--they will still wish to destroy, to conquer. The redeeming fact about Islam is that they don't care: They will just behead the prisoner and he/she won't feel much. Maybe they'll blow him/her to a few pieces. The Christian, on the other hand, wants control of the prisoner, much like what Alex goes through in A Clockwork Orange. He will live as a slave for the American fascist cause. They act in much the same fashion as the Inner Party in Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Sure moderates plead that they don't do these things, but they mostly just avert their eyes when their zealous counterpart pushes the button.