-> -=> on 06-26-05 05:59, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to LEE LOFASO <=-

->  WC> Word was he prayed he wouldn't be selected as pope.

-> As usual, your claims are without attribution, but if true for once, I'd
-> say Good!
             
The attribution is the current pope.

->  WC> Kinda gives one pause about the power of prayer dunnit?

-> J/C scripture show that Moses himself tried to beg out of the job.  Mox
-> nix to you, right, since your knowledge is so limited. If you got a
-> bible there, I could cite you where that happened.  Kinda funny,
-> really, as God finally lost patience with Moses' excuses.

-> But back to 'Wayne's world,'  would you have preferred someone be
-> elected Pope who was _eager_ to assume spiritual power, and to exercise
-> it, vice someone who displayed humility?

I don't give a rats ass who's elected pope.  

-> And just what does the Papal succession matter to an avowed Atheist as
-> yourself, anyway?
                                           
See above.

-> Looks to me that you are just (as is your habit) trying to post even
-> more 'negative' stuff.

Tell it to the Pope, it was he who said he prayed not to be elected.
So the pope was just being negative?

-> Hey, here's a challenge - what is the most 'positive' post you have
-> entered here in the past 6 months or so?  Your posts often sound like
-> they were written by "Eeyore," the ever-gloomy donkey in the AA Milne
-> books for children.              

I don't read children's books, perhaps one day your choice of 
reading material will be more complex.

-> I'm not a Catholic as Cindy (and Lee?) is/are/was, but I think it would
-> be _good)_ sign the current pope was reluctant to assume the job,
-> since being the 'spiritual head' of a billion or so Catholics is an
-> awesome job for _any_  man, esp an older one.

Why?
What does he actually *do*?

-> And do you, from your (afaict always negative) Wayne's World
-> perspective, think the new pope has commited any _blunders_ since being
-> installed?

Well he did go "negative" with his admission he prayed he
wouldn't be selectwed pope.


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