New Pope

So the world has another new Pope. Will he be any different?

Honestly, I didn’t notice any change in the natural world during the short time the world was without one, but then again I wasn’t looking for it. Why would any rational being? (Wait! There WAS a tremor in Southern California two days ago.) But I suppose there were those who were re-enacting stigmata while the hotline to God was temporarily disconnected, and a new operator located.

While I oppose faith, there are aspects I am less aggressively (though not intellectually) inclined to bare my teeth at, but the world of the pampered, puffed and perfumed lounging in golden towers is where I leave mercy at the door.

I have said more than once that while I was in the Faculty of Religious Studies in university, people got it confused with the useless degree of Theology. Religious studies concentrated on world religions, the psychology, sociology and anthropology of the faith as well as the mythology. A degree in Theology wastes its time on years of academic study that encompasses a strictly literal interpretation, leaving out the how, why, and dark horror beauty of the mythology.

Theology is an education of following, not thinking: Delusional and useless. And it’s these shiny college grads of the pearly gates that further try to justify through a societal acceptance that believes the bigger your debt to an institute of learning, the more you must know and the closer you are to ‘god’….