[QUOTE=AntiHero3314]:confused:

No, I'm American, I think I either misworded what I meant or you misinterpreted it :-\[/QUOTE]

You said "Being from Poland..." that kind of made me think you were from Poland, heh.

[QUOTE=Superpeer]Stupid Americans and their heritages.[/QUOTE]

Stupid Belgians and their spelling their name Super[B]peer[/B] but then spelling it Super [B]Pear[/B] in their user titles.....

Stop making me hungry for waffles!

[QUOTE=AntiHero3314]Stupid waffles and their gooey batter.[/QUOTE]

haha, brilliant point Jom, you cease to amaze me!

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]Stop making me hungry for waffles![/QUOTE]

Oh my, it's lunch time, I think I'm gonna walk to the cafe and get nice warm fresh waffles, with a gooey strawberry topping, mmmmmb so good!

[QUOTE=Eleventeen]
Stupid Belgians and their spelling their name Super[B]peer[/B] but then spelling it Super [B]Pear[/B] in their user titles.....[/QUOTE]

I don't know if you oversea guys are aware of this, but other languages exist.

[QUOTE=Superpeer]Stupid Americans and their heritages.[/QUOTE]


Wanna go ice skating sometime?

So a new pope has been chosen.

Good afternoon all. :)

[QUOTE=AntiHero3314]So a new pope has been chosen.[/QUOTE]

ICB the first.

Is it a Belgian pope?

Is it a gay black pope?

[QUOTE=ICB]Is it a gay black pope?[/QUOTE]

i can't stand gay people, but a gay pope would be ironic.

[QUOTE=heavy metal kid]i can't stand gay people, but a gay pope would be ironic.[/QUOTE]

They're all gay inside anyway. I bet they're having a big friggin' pope orgy right now.

[QUOTE=ICB]They're all gay inside anyway. I bet they're having a big friggin' pope orgy right now.[/QUOTE]

don't make me imagine that.

[QUOTE=heavy metal kid]don't make me imagine that.[/QUOTE]

Jesus is probably in on it too.

[QUOTE=ICB]Jesus is probably in on it too.[/QUOTE]

dude, i'm not a religious person, but some people are gonna get insult with your commentary.

by the way i have under me user name "i used to be jesus".

[QUOTE=ICB]Jesus is probably in on it too.[/QUOTE]
I'll tell you who isn't in. Me :shifty:

[QUOTE=Med57]They've just named Cardinal Ratzinger as the new Pope...in other words, the Catholic Church has chosen someone who's every bit as conservative as the last Pope was, meaning that we can expect to see a continuation of the policies on contraception, abortion, stem cell research, and homosexuality that have been causing various degrees of tragedy all around the world. Wonderful.[/QUOTE]


where does he come from?

[QUOTE=heavy metal kid]where does he come from?[/QUOTE]

Germany. and i agree with med, this is an appalling choice for the church because the church needs reform and the conservativeness of Pope Benedict XVI won't help.

This is really upsetting. I think it's pretty pathetic how the Catholics make concessions to mistakes centuries after they occur and the maximum amount of damage has already occured. John Paul II was the first guy to apologize for the trial of Galileo and the Spanish Inquisition easily four centuries after it happened. That's just unbelievable. Blind conservatism is a ridiculous way to live in a modern age.

They should have picked the Belgian guy, he was really progressive.

[QUOTE=Cain]This is really upsetting. I think it's pretty pathetic how the Catholics make concessions to mistakes centuries after they occur and the maximum amount of damage has already occured. John Paul II was the first guy to apologize for the trial of Galileo and the Spanish Inquisition easily four centuries after it happened. That's just unbelievable. Blind conservatism is a ridiculous way to live in a modern age.[/QUOTE]

Exactly. In a progressing world you can't be conservative, it doesn't work. I think this was a bad choice by the cardinals. The Catholic Church needs some liberal or progressive minds to keep the church going

Preach it, brotha.

I'm alright with Ratzinger being chosen actually.

[QUOTE=Bartender]I'm alright with Ratzinger being chosen actually.[/QUOTE]

Why?

[QUOTE=Bartender]I'm alright with Ratzinger being chosen actually.[/QUOTE]

why? i agree with caps and med, it's appaling

[QUOTE=Superpeer]Why?[/QUOTE]

Why not?

I don't like the Catholic church in general anyway, and I'm not what the Politics forum would call a conservative by a long shot, but I don't think it's ready for an ultra-progressive or liberal pope yet. It's not strong enough, and I think Benedict will strengthen it, ready for a somewhat more liberal next pope. So I think the church needed to stick with a more conservative pope for now, and Benedict is a good choice for a few reasons;

-he's not likely to have a particularly long pontificate
-he's more likely to follow a similar direction to John Paul II (who was a good pope) than pretty much any other conservative choice
- he's pretty cool.

There are some things though, that are such that to reform them would mean that the Catholic church would no longer be the Catholic church. Ignoring important doctrine would always be the greater of two evils.

Anyway, I think the one being considered in Latin America (the guy in Brazil) wouldn't have been a good choice because he'd be far too occupied with the problems in Brazil. Not that they shouldn't have attention paid to them, but I got the impression he would have kind of concentrated on it to the exclusion of other, possibly more important matters.

[QUOTE=Bartender]There are some things though, that are such that to reform them would mean that the Catholic church would no longer be the Catholic church. Ignoring important doctrine would always be the greater of two evils.

Anyway, I think the one being considered in Latin America (the guy in Brazil) wouldn't have been a good choice because he'd be far too occupied with the problems in Brazil. Not that they shouldn't have attention paid to them, but I got the impression he would have kind of concentrated on it to the exclusion of other, possibly more important matters.[/QUOTE]

well some things need to be changed just because everything else in the world is changing. it's not that they would be ignoring the important doctrine, it's just some things need to change. the catholic church needs some sort of reform

[QUOTE=Tallica666]well some things need to be changed just because everything else in the world is changing. it's not that they would be ignoring the important doctrine, it's just some things need to change. the catholic church needs some sort of reform[/QUOTE]
they mustn't reform too quickly though, it would tear the church apart, so they should gradually get move away from Pope John Paul II's traditional views - i'm not saying he's a bad pope, because he wasn't - but they need to change the church's views on contraception, to begin sorting out the problem of AIDS in Africa.