Why can’t everyone worship as they choose and everyone else stay the hell out of their lives INCLUDING the Vatican?!!!
I totally agree.
Scratch the surface of nearly any religious person hard enough, and eventually you find one of two things: either an "I'm right, and everybody who doesn't agree with me is wrong" mentality, or a "There are many paths to the truth," kind of person who views a choice of religion in the same way that one picks out a brochure at a travel agency.
The latter type of person is go-along, get-along, the former type of person just varies in his willingness to say what he really thinks.
“Why can’t everyone worship as they choose and everyone else stay the hell out of their lives INCLUDING the Vatican?!!!”
I’m not a Catholic but hey, exactly how did the Pope’s announcement intrude on your life? I didn’t read the part about “and we’re reinstituting the Inquisition and will be at cubreporter’s door tonight!” I never did quite understand where one person’s mere pronouncement of his beliefs is somehow controlling another.
“NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency....
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...
are such elements as fear, surprise...
I’ll come in again.”
comes down to authority, boy-wonder.