Pope Mephistopheles

Posted by JCE

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In Latin, Benedict means blessed and the utter irony of Joseph Ratzinger's choice of name is enough to make even a believer cry. If one uses the political definition of blessed, that being, blessings that one manufactures for themselves, then, yes - Ratzinger is a very blessed man.

His visit to the United States prompted the usual spike in pseudo Catholics rushing to find their long-forgotten rosary beads and dust off their bibles in order to lay a false claim to faith pay top dollar in order to attempt to catch a glimpse of the pope. But let's not be to harsh on the Catholics-come-lately's - hypocritical hoards spend entirely too much time vying to see Britany only to gossip about her later. Besides, this post isn't about Catholics. It is about the political lying machine known as the Papacy.

Part of the pope's visit here included an address to victims of abuse at the hands of priests. This wasn't his first attempt at damage control on this problem. May 18, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote a memo to the Archdioceses essentially forbidding them to discuss any of the charges against priests and requesting their assistance in sweeping the situation under the rug. The memo made national news and an investigation followed, however, the good Cardinal was crowned pope before formal charges were filed. Once charges were filed, the Vatican issued a request that the pope be exempted from prosecution because he was a head of state and therefore above the law. The charges were summarily dropped. How remarkably convenient that he was elected pope at just the right time...how very blessed he is. One has to wonder if the Conclave, treating the world as one giant chess game, made this move in order to preserve the Church? Surely, the souls of those abuse victims could not be considered less important than protecting the church, could they? Hmmm...

Benedict has issued many controversial statements since his ascension to the papacy and the Vatican has been left with the unsavory duty of cleaning up more than one mess for him. In the process, the Catholic church is losing more and more victims as his stridently fundamental ideals are made known. Naturally, their solution to that problem has been to infiltrate third-world countries with even greater force and spread superstition and lies to largely uneducated portions of the world. There they have stripped these people of their money, their dignity and very often their lives. In short, Pope Benedict has proven to be a disaster and the Vatican have only themselves to blame. Sometimes I smile as the phrase 'What Would Jesus Do?' comes to mind and although I am not a believer in that Christian prophet, based on what I have read, Jesus would convert to another religion and then call upon his supreme father to smite the Vatican and all of it's manufactured glory.

Mephistopheles, the evil spirit whom Faust sold his soul to in the German legend, was a liar extraordinaire and the name fits the pope much better than the one he chose for himself.

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