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Have you heard about the amazing reformulated New Pope? It is fantastic. It is liberal and nice and totally different than before.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/county-clerk-kim-davis-who-denied-gay-couples-visited-pope.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Oh wait...It's the same crap, slightly sweeter and in a new shiny can? PR companies could learn a few things from the snow job that the Catholic Church has pulled off with New Pope
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Somehow... your tag line gif is so appropriate!
RussBLib
(9,666 posts)Joey Ratz looked like evil incarnate. And the new guy looks like Grandpa. And that's about it.
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WhollyHeretic
(4,074 posts)deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)PR Frank has a much friendlier face.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)WhollyHeretic
(4,074 posts)The pope is ignorant has been a funny defense that has been used. Like: The Pope didn't know who Kim Davis was when he answered questions about her.
Then after it comes out he met her: He meets lots of people he didn't know who she was
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Unless they're about climate change, then he's going to change hearts and minds!
WhollyHeretic
(4,074 posts)Today. Not that it is something new there are a lot of people on this board who see civil rights as pet issues.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Because it's better to worry about the pope's fee fees than my rights.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Them: Guys, we NEED him he's super influential and people listen to him.
Us: But he says horrible things about LGBT and women and contraception.
Them: We don't pay attention to THAT yucky stuff!!
Lol
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)"No, no, no, just ignore what we think is the bad stuff anyway!!"
That reeks of such privilege and is so selfish I can't stand it. OK, you ignore it and defy the teachings for your own lives while supporting the message and efforts to impose them on a literal global scale. Plus, while you ignore the stuff liberals think is bad, the right ignores the few liberal messages in literally the exact same manner.
Response? Crickets
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Or even worse they tell you that it's nbd because it's not JUST the Church doing it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7217108
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Someone once said it's one thing to stick your head up your ass, it's quite another to look around and say you like the view.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Well, that's what they do. I wonder how many Catholics who went all gooey over the Pope's visit haven't been to mass in years....
onager
(9,356 posts)"Y'see, Your Wonderfulness, once upon a time a gang of criminals managed to game the democratic process and seize power in a certain country. Pretty much like your buddies in the Family Research Council and related asshats are trying to do right now in the USA.
Now this gang of criminals really needed international recognition. So a guy named Eugenio Pacelli helped them out. He was the Papal Nuncio to Germany and had the Vatican officially recognize their government, with a document called the Concordat.
And a few years later, Eugenio Pacelli became...Pope Pius XII! And just like Pope Francis today, he was an inspiration to us all. He managed to serve as Pope even though he spent the years between 1933 and 1945 totally blind, deaf and mute."
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Just heard he did some cool Jesus stuff a while ago.
PassingFair
(22,437 posts)Pride goeth before their fall!
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)... while refusing to address overpopulation is just pissing in the wind.
WhollyHeretic
(4,074 posts)promotes overpopulation
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)while advocating against birth control.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,485 posts)Pope Zero
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)He's "Buddy Pope"
LAGC
(5,330 posts)When I came to read some of the posts in this group last week I thought... "Gosh, some of us disbelievers are pretty damn harsh on this pope. Maybe we should cut him a little slack? He seems to mean well..."
Then, of course, the Wonderpope(tm) showed his true colors this week and I come back here reading all those same pope-related threads thinking...
"Yeah, A&A called it like it was from the get-go. Like usual."