New Pope... LOL!!

I couldn't stop laughing when I heard the choice. This will ensure the Catholic church will continue to amuse me! Women will continue to be second class Catholics, European and North American Catholics will drift further away from the mainstream (a few may start thinking for themselves) and the church will continue to make funny statements when new science comes out. He also think Buddhism is nonsense and Rock music is evil... Oh Benedict your soo cute!

But on a serious note this is bad news for Africa and South America. The Africans will continue to die from AIDS by the millions each year because of this man's beliefs. The poor in South America will have no help from Rome in fighting their tyranny. And worst of all is that they will redo this whole process in a few years!

Possble New Gospel for a new Pope

This report about a huge amount of ancient text being uncovered, gives me great excitment for other reasons as well as more ancient info. Imagine a new conservative pope is crowned and a few new gospels come out and challenge religous dogma at it's base. What a show!! Some Catholics may realise they believe in an arbirary translated book put together by a Roman emperor... or they'll just call it the work of the devil and burn our research facilities.

Direct evidence of Evolution

In case there was any doubt left in the "minds" of people who disagree with evolution, you now have direct experimental proof !
It's a neat read. But then again those who don't believe in evolution are so hopelessly lost they'd probably disagree with Jesus or Mohammed if they themselves told them! Even imaginary mystical beings can't overpower infinite human stupidity!

Culture of Life! How Orwellian!

This Orwellian 'culture of life' is getting completely ridiculous. These people need to be publicly mocked because of there contradictions in order for them to be put in there place. For instance, they are not 'pro-life' they are actually pro-birth. They are demanding antiabortion legislation without any extra funding or new programs to help those people. On top of that there isn't anything against privately funded abortions (in other countries) and so the rich continue to have the right to choose but the poor are forced to have a baby they aren't ready for. I see this as a culture of 'get-the-baby-out-and-deal-with-it!'

The Terri Shivo case is another prime example of these peoples distorted views. They tirelessly fight to have her remain alive but do nothing to push for stem cell research to find a cure! In fact they oppose it! When your views push cures back (because of banning/underfunding or restricting it) you are partly responsible for the suffering and deaths that ensues. So practically the pope (for denying people condoms and spreading HIV, killing millions per year and orphaning millions of children) and these culture of life people should be more acutely named 'culture of suffering.' Ironically the pope will die for his convictions about stem cell research (since it will most likely be cured by stem cell research), I wonder of the rest of this culture of sufferings will take there punishment as stubbornly.

Idiotic design and wrong scientists

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGG!!!!! I'm soo pissed!! I know what sets me off... Intelligent design! The very phrase aggravates me! I don't think I need to state that the whole problem is people don't understand what the word 'theory' means. Not to mention if we were so intelligently designed why are people born with birth defects (even before we had industrialization), get cancer and joint problems by 30! We could design better joints and our species is only 200000 years old! God would have had an eternity! Or maybe the student has surpassed the master ;-)

It also disappoints me when an eminent scientists will say something to the effect that science lets you understand the 'physical' world but not the 'spiritual' one. Clearly he is misunderstanding the definition of the word 'world' and what it means for something to exist! What's great about science is he can be a big shot and still be mistaken (unlike any religious leader) and corrected by newbies. In science logic and data make right, not might, majorities or funny hats!

I guess once the baby boomer scientist (who grew up in a very religious society) go away the next generation and subsequent generations will continue the move towards free-thinking... lucky buggers! I almost feel like I should stop listening to people outside of my circle of peers so that I stop getting so worked up, but I don't want to be elitist. So I rant...

JPII Did had a vision

JPII is most known through the world for trying to increase communication between all religions. This was done in order to try and have better understanding between faiths. This means he recognized that religion was causing a lot of war and suffering. Moreover I think he was smarter than that. He recognized that in the 20th century the world was loosing centralized religion. Many smaller churches popup and grew in influence. Moreover I think he recognized that non-religious people, agnostics and atheist were growing in number and stature. In the earlier part of this century religion was at the forefront of almost all debate and politics. He realized that increasingly science was being used. This meant fact was replacing religious doctrine and so I think he foresaw that the power of his position will dwindle. He realized the science was starting to look at the moment of creation (Big Bang) and he didn't like it. He saw that the church had to admit it had made mistakes (Galileo, child molestation) and so showed it was fallible. And worse yet on October 24, 1996 he had to admit that the Bible was wrong and science (evolution) was right.

I hope his vision (nightmare to him I guess) of a dwindling religious world comes true.

Why he would try and get all people of faith to come together and foster peace (regardless of religious differences) but wouldn't allow birth control use to stop the spread of AIDS and the death of millions to me shows his resolve. He realized when you give and inch people take a mile and so I think he didn't want to compromise any more of the churches power. Those who died and are dyeing because of it is the legacy of his resolve.