{"id":1262,"date":"2005-04-19T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2005-04-19T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T18:25:00","slug":"the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"The Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"

I meant to make this post shortly after JP bit the big one, but kept slacking. Perhaps now, the new pope will serve to underscore my point. <\/p>\n

I saw alot of villification of JP. My understanding is that he’s presided over one of the most significant liberalizations of the church of its entire existence. No, it’s not passing out condoms with the wafers, but the mass isn’t being held in latin either. [edit: pointed out that this happened before jp2. I neither knew, nor, honestly, really cared.] Gallileo is no longer a heretic. But most importantly, the dude is dead. Bitching about his hatred of homos, his attitude towards women, and his thoughts on birth control misses the point. <\/p>\n

Look at the institution. Villification of homos, inequality across sexes, aversion to birth control, these are all part of what Catholicism stands for. If you want to blame the pope for that, go right ahead. I’ll call you short sighted. You’ll miss the fact that the next pope is going to be largely the same in all those wonderful traits as this one. In fact, perusing my subscriptions, it sounds like he’s worse.<\/p>\n

The Catholic Church no longer appeals to the wealthy, by and large. The citizens of our economic superpowers have generally consigned Catholicism to the dustbin of history. The citizens of many developing nations have not. The more regressive the pope, the less he’ll be listened to in the superpower nations, but the same likely will not hold true for South and Central America.<\/p>\n

I forsee a continuation of a decline in the Catholic Church. I think it has the option of quietly, gradually fading, or noisily alienating the world, with a consequently abrupt decline. I hope it opts for the former, but I suppose time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I meant to make this post shortly after JP bit the big one, but kept slacking. Perhaps now, the new pope will serve to underscore my point. I saw alot of villification of JP. My understanding is that he’s presided over one of the most significant liberalizations of the church of its entire existence. No, … Continue reading “The Pope”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}