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The pope is dead
Did anyone know the Vatican has a website? How creepy is that. I dunno, personally, I'm tired of hearing about this one. The pope to me, represents an old ideology that is no longer useful to our society. I can't say that I've ever heard anything the former pontiff said that inspired me. I think of his anti-choice, anti-safe sex, homophobic and anti-woman doctrines. I'm not saying he's all bad, just not of any use to me. I don't understand the attempt to deify someone who was, in fact, just a man. It's very strange to me.
As far as "world leaders" go, the papacy has to be the strangest. The pope's only real power is to tell people
The pope and communism
...But elsewhere in the old Eastern Bloc, the pope's impact was at least a couple of steps removed from the courageous decisions that ordinary people made to head out onto the streets and march in protests that they fully expected would be met with absolute resistance from the Soviet forces and their local puppets...
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On not mourning the pope
...Unbelievers are more merciful and understanding than believers, as well as more rational. We do not believe that the pope will face judgment or eternal punishment for the millions who will die needlessly from AIDS, or for his excusing and sheltering of those who committed the unpardonable sin of raping and torturing children, or for the countless people whose sex lives have been ruined by guilt and shame and who are taught to respect the body only when it is a lifeless cadaver like that of Terri Schiavo. For us, this day is only the interment of an elderly and querulous celibate, who came too late and who stayed too long, and whose primitive ideology did not permit him the true self-criticism that could have saved him, and others less innocent, from so many errors and crimes...
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This is an excellent article about protecting dirty pictures on may have of oneself online. Written by my favorite staff writer at Wired, Regina Lynn.
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On Kansas voters amending the constitution
Some Kansas voters, like 24-year-old Eric Hetzel, saw the amendment as a way to protect the traditional definition of marriage, enshrined in Kansas law since 1867, from legal challenges.
"I am a Christian," Hetzel said. "I believe in the Bible and what it says that marriage is between a man and a woman."
But Byron Defreese, a 65-year-old retiree, called the amendment "total foolishness."
"I don't know how this is going to defend my marriage of 43 years," he said. "I think it's a diversion from the real issues."
