The Pope is, or has, NUTS!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Holy Shit! The Pope is driving around Washington D.C. in an OPEN MOTORCADE! :eek: This really doesn’t seem like the best idea to me. Pretty ballsy move, Pope.

Hasn’t anyone shown him the Zapruder film? I don’t want to see The Pope shot on live TV! What the hell would we say to the rest of the world if he gets offed on our watch?

And what is worse? He’s riding in a fucking Jeep! You know that piece of shit is gonna break down! Let’s hope The Pope has good walking shoes and a bullet-proof pope hat.

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It should not be surprising. I believe that is SOP for Francis.

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Pope Francis totally fucking rocks!

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Jeep, part of the Fiat controlled family, along with Chrysler. Thus the Italian connection. Also why the Pope is often seen in this, a Fiat 500

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That’s what he turned up to the White House in today. A little black Fiat 500 with the diplomat flags and tags.

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Not everyone goes through life with an unreasoning fear of everything.

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I dunno, man. He’s rough enough on some GOP talking points that I’d wanna bulletproof dome over that thing if I was him.

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I hardly think it would be unreasoning for the Pope to worry about assassination attempts.

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I suspect that the Pope - at least, this particular Pope - has less fear of death than most people.

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Worst case scenario for the Pope, he dies and goes to heaven.

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He might be in for a big shock.

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Why are people assuming this is something new and unique to Francis?

John Paul II rode in open air vehicles often- that was how he got shot by Mehmet Ali Agca.

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Don’t buzz my harsh.

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And that’s why Popes mostly stopped doing it for the past 34 years.

Could you provide a cite that Francis is not departing from recent practice (with recent meaning the past several decades)?

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So many helicopters here, I thought I was in a war zone.

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It’s always seemed a little hypocritical to me that the Pope- basically, God’s right-hand-man here on Earth- hides behind a bulletproof shield when he goes out in public. Kinda like how it’s weird that churches have lightning rods on their roofs…

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Odd how? A church is a building made of wood and other flammable items. Only an idiot would refuse to take basic precautions to protect the building.

Almost twenty years ago, the Church I attended caught fire and burned to the ground (some painters had left a big box of oily rags inside, and they spontaneously combusted). A local TV reporter caught our Church business manager on camera and asked him if there were any great moral lessons we could take from this.

He looked puzzled for a second, then helpfully offered, “Wood burns?”

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God controls lightning, right? It’s kind of one of the things he’s known for.

If God wants his house to burn down, no amount of lightning rods will help. Conversely, putting lightning rods on a church is basically saying, “Well, sure, God might *try *to burn this building down, but we think we can put something up there that’ll slow him down.”

Of course, one could be pedantic about it by saying that lightning rods are required by law, or that “God helps those who help themselves”… to which I say, “You’re just trying to suck the fun out of the joke.”

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God lets churches burn down on a pretty regular basis, I figure it’s His way of saying don’t get too attached to stuff.

I’m Episcopalian, and both of the Episcopal congregations in our city have been destroyed by fire, and both were arson. They have been rebuilt though.

One of the congregations, until it was rebuilt, met on Sundays in the local synagogue. Hey, it wasn’t being used on Sunday, and the space was freely offtered! The Jewish congregation only asked that when the Episcopal one had breakfast before church, that they didn’t serve pork sausage.

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Paging Jack Chick . . .