I Smell a Rat

[Pangloss62]

So, Joe "The Rat" Ratzinger goes to Turkey and is forming alliances with the Orthodox Church and, to some extent, the Muslims. But this Joe is no average Joe:

"whoever succeeds to the chair of Peter obtains by the institution of Christ Himself, the primacy of Peter over the whole church", and that (s.5) "if anyone says that it is not by the institution of Christ the Lord Himself (that is to say, by divine law) that blessed Peter should have perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole church; or that the Roman pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in this primacy: let him be anathema."

Give me a break. "Christ the Lord Himself." Boy, that should give a guy a big ego. "Hey I have primacy over the whole friggin church! Christ himself says so!" What a crock of shit. It's so depressing to see how religion, in this case, Islam and Christianity, have become so enmeshed in global politics. I suppose I should not be surprised.

What makes me mad is Joe's attack on secularism, as if that is the greatest evil of all. The Vatican even has a Pontifical Council for Culture that deals with, among other terrible things, "the problem of unbelief." Fuck you Rat! My unbelief is not a problem.