Voting for an infallible Pope?

[thebullet]

Not to be disrespectful, (well, not to be too disrespectful), but isn't it odd that a group of fallible men - princes of the church notwithstanding - must elect the person who is infallible? It doesn't seem right somehow.

Rather than voting, perhaps they should all retire to the Vatican swimming pool. The first Cardinal that walks from one side to the other gets to be Pope.

Then we'd know that the Pope is INFALLIBLE.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

It's a Faith-Based Election.

The one they elect is the one they all have have faith that he can walk across their swimming pool.

 

[rgraham666]

I thought it was just The Pope that died, not God.

Nobody tells me anything.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Didn't Nietzsche send you the memo?

 

[thebullet]

VB Said:
It's a Faith-Based Election.

The one they elect is the one they all have have faith that he can walk across their swimming pool.

Of course you are right, VB. In a country where people know that a person who has been brain dead for 15 years is really a competent understanding person because FAITH tells them so, why should I be surprised that a Faith Based election will PROVE that the man elected is infallible.

Boy, that makes me feel better.

 

[rgraham666]

Didn't Nietzsche send you the memo?

I never read his memos. Once translated, they're usually the most egregious bullshit.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I never read his memos. Once translated, they're usually the most egregious bullshit.

Not only that, but I bet he'd get some truly rank feedback on Lit.

 

[CharleyH]

Not to be disrespectful, (well, not to be too disrespectful), but isn't it odd that a group of fallible men - princes of the church notwithstanding - must elect the person who is infallible? It doesn't seem right somehow.

Rather than voting, perhaps they should all retire to the Vatican swimming pool. The first Cardinal that walks from one side to the other gets to be Pope.

Then we'd know that the Pope is INFALLIBLE.

Infallible? LOL. WHAT there are blue collars here?

 

[rgraham666]

Infallible? LOL. WHAT there are blue collars here?

I was a janitor until recently.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Blue.


As in NO collar?

 

[CharleyH]

WHERE's THE STRIPPER! when I need her?

Love the blue WANT HOT RED!!!

 

[ishtat]

Ex Cathedra

Rather than voting, perhaps they should all retire to the Vatican swimming pool. The first Cardinal that walks from one side to the other gets to be Pope.

No . The Pope is only infallible when he speaks 'ex cathedra'. Thus to retain doctrinal orthodoxy the future Pope needs to transit the pool on the throne!

Walking's old hat - been done before - by a jewish conjurer, or so legend has it.

 

[Extreme Bohunk]

Yeah, that would be cool!
Watch him float by in the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade,
flying over the Super Bowl....

Oh, my bad, I thought you said inflatable

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Not to be disrespectful, (well, not to be too disrespectful), but isn't it odd that a group of fallible men - princes of the church notwithstanding - must elect the person who is infallible? It doesn't seem right somehow.

Rather than voting, perhaps they should all retire to the Vatican swimming pool. The first Cardinal that walks from one side to the other gets to be Pope.

Then we'd know that the Pope is INFALLIBLE.

They don't elect the person that is infallible.

 

[CharleyH]

Blue.


As in NO collar?

Well, If its you bringing blue DAMN FUCKING BALLS when I need them!!!!

 

[CharleyH]

They don't elect the person that is infallible.

Inflatible?

 

[Extreme Bohunk]

Inflatible?

yes, fixed it

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Inflatible?

The Macy's Christmas Parade of Prophylactic People.

 

[Extreme Bohunk]

The Macy's Christmas Parade of Prophylactic People.

Trojan should use a blimp.
Big ol' flying condom.

Put the pilot's compartment in the tip,
puts a whole new slant on the word 'cockpit'

 

[shereads]

The most interesting popes have shady pasts and hang out with the Medicis, whose art collections they covet. When they aren't fending off plots by their ambitious mistresses, these popes keep busy poisoning their rivals and commissioning new palaces.

Infallable popes are bad for the arts. Nice guys don't obsess over the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

 

[Guest]

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . Infallable popes are bad for the arts. Nice guys don't obsess over the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

It’s a good thing they didn't have the technology to make large enough pieces of glass in those days, or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel might look like the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles.

 

[CharleyH]

The Macy's Christmas Parade of Prophylactic People.

I am sure that was my synthetic point. Where did all the real dicks go? (JOE not included, we know he is museum material :| )

 

[shereads]

When good popes go bad

Digging up dirt on popes is nothing new. Pope Stephen VI (late ninth century) had the remains of Pope Formosus dug up and tried for various crimes. The remains were found guilty. Stephen's obsession with Formosus led to his own arrest and execution.

There were a bunch of married popes, and popes with children (Wasn't Lucretia Borgia a pope's kid?) but so far I haven't dug up any popes who were scuba-certified, had a real estate license or wrote erotica.

I'm working on it.

 

[rgraham666]

Yes, the head of the Borgias was Pope. Julius II as I recall.

You can read all about it in The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman.

A book about the effects of gross stupidity on history. I highly recommend it.