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Showing Original Post only (View all)This time next week there will be a new Pope. And I'm sick with worry. [View all]
As a long lapsed catholic, I believe the pick will be the most anti science pope since the dark ages. A total christian Taliban.
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This time next week there will be a new Pope. And I'm sick with worry. [View all]
CK_John
Mar 2013
OP
That really isn't true--that "nobody pays attention to what a pope says"...(though I wish it were)
hlthe2b
Mar 2013
#35
I worry about someone who believes it's ok to kill gays or nurses giving polio shots.
CK_John
Mar 2013
#11
Sedevacantists aside, they're probably the least backwards of the major religions on science
Posteritatis
Mar 2013
#39
OP: unlax. There's not a chance there's a new pope next week. These things take time. Lots of
dimbear
Mar 2013
#22
There's no risk of anyone anywhere near as bad as the Taliban, but I'm not optimistic.
Donald Ian Rankin
Mar 2013
#23
I'm not a big fan of the Catholic Church so I really don't care and neither should anyone else
davidpdx
Mar 2013
#31
It will be a sexist homophobic hypocrite. Which sexist homophobic hypocrite does not really
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2013
#32