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To: Jim from C-Town

I don’t understand. The same people who chose this Pope will choose the next.


6 posted on 10/24/2014 12:55:14 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Well, the same people that chose Jimmy Carter chose Ronald Reagan.

People change...somewhat.


7 posted on 10/24/2014 12:58:47 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: GeronL

Perhaps they will do better the next time. Regardless, he has to go. He is a disaster and getting worse.

Also the same can be said about Obama!


9 posted on 10/24/2014 1:01:45 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: GeronL
The same people who chose this Pope will choose the next.

Good point. And, the previous pope, Joseph Ratzinger, didn't think the Holy Spirit has much to do with it:

"I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope. … I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus the Spirit’s role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined...There are too many contrary instances of popes the Holy Spirit obviously would not have picked!
-- from the Patheos article Does the Holy Spirit pick the pope? Ratzinger didn’t think so.

12 posted on 10/24/2014 1:33:56 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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