"Scott" wrote in message news:I2D3e.17$WY2.313@news.uswest.net...> The Pope has died.
Seems that traditionally they have selected Italians for that office... JP-II was a surprise since he was Polish... I guess it was some sort of affirmative action type of thing... So, what's the next one going to be? Maybe an Irish one so that their sacraments can be performed with whiskey instead of wine? A Mexican one so that communiion will change from wine and a wafer to tequilla and a tortilla? A French one so that they'll start using better classes of wines? A Greek one so that .... nawh, we won't go *there*... <snicker>
Even non-catholic Christians and civilized non-christians should be > willing> to respect the religious leader of a large part of the Christian> world.
Why? He was no more, or less, than any other religious leader I didn't agree with.
Making jokes about him now is at best chickenshit and at worst> something less than chickenshit, whatever that is.
