The Pope has died

[fcpchop]

has anyone else been thinking about Euro-trip everytime they read this thread?

everytime I hear anything about the pope's current condition I think about Eurotrip.

[mcdkid]

die on april fools day, would suck, unless this is like the best well planed april fools day joke in history. anyway, i imagine an april 1st funeral would be something you could have fun with...

[MiniSpdRcr]

It will be a very sad day when the Pope dies.

[Smoke]

He's dead now.

[SpecialBlend2786]

He's dead now.

yeah

[MiniSpdRcr]

One of the saddest days ever for people around the world...and especially Polish people...like me

[tropical_fishy]

the Vatican is chiming the bell to announce that the pope is dead.

[mcveighr]

Sorry to speak ill of the dead, but I dont see why his death should be thought of as being a bigger loss then any one elses. I don't even know of anything surprisingly influential that he did in his life.

I am brought up Catholic and go to church almost every sunday in my life, even used to go everyday during lent, but I've been reading alot of the Dalai Lamas writings and am thinking about looking into buddhism, because this guys a genuis. I guess christianity never really did it for me, I didnt find what I was looking for.

[CaptaiN_JacK]

Look on the bright side, at least the guy that tried to assasinate him can sleep a little bit easier.

[mcveighr]

heh. hes got a point, if the pope were here hed be looking on the bright side.

[cockerkiller68]

Sorry to speak ill of the dead, but I dont see why his death should be thought of as being a bigger loss then any one elses. I don't even know of anything surprisingly influential that he did in his life.

I am brought up Catholic and go to church almost every sunday in my life, even used to go everyday during lent, but I've been reading alot of the Dalai Lamas writings and am thinking about looking into buddhism, because this guys a genuis. I guess christianity never really did it for me, I didnt find what I was looking for.

That's because Catholocism of today is NOT Christianity. Catholocism of today is some wierd mix of Buddhism, muslim, Christianity, Santaria, and everything else uner the sun. Read Vatican II, they basically say that anyone goes to heaven if they believe what they "know " to be true. The Bible rejects this concept COMPLETELY!!

[cockerkiller68]

READ:

Vatican II, Nostra Aetate, 28 October, 1965

Declaration on the Relation of the Church and Non-Christian Religions (ch56)

[Lohman446]

Sorry to speak ill of the dead, but I dont see why his death should be thought of as being a bigger loss then any one elses. I don't even know of anything surprisingly influential that he did in his life.

I am brought up Catholic and go to church almost every sunday in my life, even used to go everyday during lent, but I've been reading alot of the Dalai Lamas writings and am thinking about looking into buddhism, because this guys a genuis. I guess christianity never really did it for me, I didnt find what I was looking for.

The loss of the pope, of this man in particular, is a sad day to everyone.

Keep in mind that I disagree vehemently with many of the things he did, and the power the Vatican as a whole tries to exercise.

That being said, to me he represents one of the few people of power who put the world before himself (for your own example, I would put the Dalai Lamas in the same place). He held his views strongly, and they were without question. Ever decision he made, appeared to me, to be based of a genuine willingness to help mankind, of what he beleived was right and good. He did not let unpopular views be swayed, he did not allow threats to change those views. Even when he was put in a position where he could not stand up (I'm thinking of Panama, where the Americans threatened to quit guarding the Vatican embassy that was housing Noriega (sp) so that the people could overrun it) to the world around him, he only backed down for the good of the many. His decisions, his stands, and his life were all based on what he truly beleived in, and what he truly beleived to be the salvation of mankind.

[Python14]

I'm not catholic but this is a sad day. A good man died. A good man will be missed.

[maxama10]