Post-Pope: He Came, He Went, He Didn’t Mention Condoms

Like most areligious people, I find the institution of the pope both fascinating and somehow repulsive. That freaky thing: if one dies they just create a new one. Like vampires or something. The actual pope, His Popeness, is generally a nice guy (at least in recent history, not so for some of those medieval guys!).karlcrowned1.jpgBut the institution of the pope is steeped in overtly history-shaping doctrine that, in my humble opinion, has lead directly to planetary overpopulation. NOT a good thing. Here we are, reaching out from the 21st century, only to find that we’ve polluted the planet, we’re still fighting god-knows how many wars, and now food shortages and possibly, reaching peak oil. All directly relate to overpopulation and/or scarcity of resources.

There are some aspects of the Catholic faith which my Catholic friends have taken great advantage of, namely, you can sin and then — poof! — you can also be forgiven! Yay! Catholics know how to party. And apparently, also know how to have a lot of sex. Thus, there are many many Catholics, especially in third world countries. More every day. No problem, except for the destitute underfed children searching in dumps for dinner scraps. The pope still refuses to acknowledge that disallowing birth control is bad for his followers. Has he never seen those poor little kids in Mexico City? Or those ragged-clothed twenty-seven year old women in Guatemala with six children? Ugh. I think his pope hat’s too heavy. It’s pressing down on the reasoning portion of his brain.

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April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Historical Context, Perfect World 

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