Anti-Pope protesters in Spain

I wonder why is that? What are these guys afraid of? The Holy Father shooting lightning bolts from his fingertips? Or perhaps they don't want His Holiness from casting Destrudo on them...

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Might have something to do with the Church's attitudes towards abortion, gay rights, and so on.

edited 9th Nov '10 5:19:25 AM by Iaculus

What's precedent ever done for us?

Or the pope condemning and spreading misinformation about the use of condoms to protect against HIV.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.

Most Spaniards are Atheists, especially the youth. The Church has a bad track record in Spain as being the tool of the evil fascists. The Remnant Black Shirt that compose the Popular Party (no shit, that's the name of the Spanish version of the Republicans). So there is... resentment. Add to that the Values Dissonance due to Mr. "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Third Reich" Ratrzinger's extremely reactionary policies and you get a bit of an explosive mix.

And no, the "preservatives are only for married couples if you are having extramarital marriage contraception is the least of your spiritual worries" argument does not take in account how people work: they will abide by the easy rules (don't use a condom, hop on one foot twice at noon) and will not obey the hard rules, no matter how important (don't be a nasty fuck to your neighbor, love him instead, don't fyck outside of marriage, run a couple of miles everytime you think of The Game -BTW, you just lost it-).

edited 9th Nov '10 5:42:24 AM by RawPower

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Well the pope already pissed off a lot of people with his comment that spain was undergoing the same "aggressive" secularism of the 1930s. I'm sure that might make lots of people frothing with anger since the church backed the fascists at the time against the commies.

Then there's his general anti-gay marriage stance. What are these people afraid of? Perhaps his rage against homosexuality? That seems like an obvious thing to protest against.

Well, expecting the church to not act against a political movemant that wants religion dead and gone is unrealistic. No supprises here.

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It wasn't just "commies" it was standing against, it was the republicans in general, especially the ones who had been democratically elected.

I can more than understand the feelings of the Spainish public.

Sonofabitch.

I told you guys to get out of there. >:|

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

And here I thought Spain was still a bastion of Catholicism.

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This thread title confused me, since the word Antipope has a specific meaning.

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I guss that's what the hyphen's for?

also it's not an oft-used term any more

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Are you Dan Brown?

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What is the final fantasy 8 reference supposed to be about @ OP

13, not 8.

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!

There's a reason why Galenth from FF13 is called the Super Pope.

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The Pope has protected child molesting priests before.

My other signature is a Gundam.

And it gave them HOP!

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I will admit, I was thinking roughly the same thing. I thought this thread was going to be about someone declaring themself the Antipope as a form of protest.

Y'know, that'd be actually pretty awesome.

Make him be Latin American. And of mixed African and Native American blood. Yeah!

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Regular popes have more powers.

edited 10th Nov '10 6:10:09 PM by Tzetze

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What's the point of declaring yourself an antipope? You become an antipope by declaring yourself to be pope in opposition to the consensus of the college of cardinals. If you declared yourself an antipope, you'd become an anti-antipope or something.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.

'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?

Black or Ambiguously Brown pope isn't an idea that far off. An African cardinal was listed as one of the possibilities during the last conclave.

"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"

... Instead they elected an Ex-Nazi.

Talk about a Missed Moment of Awesome...

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I feel tempted to answer with an expletive.

"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"