Pope No Mo'Follow

Mein Gott, he's a serial offender!

Yes, I really am that bored.

Silly cat, that's not how these prophecies work! You'd think that when Jesus wasn't named Emmanuel folks might have scratched their heads and gone "Huh, guess he doesn't fulfill that prophecy." Oh wait, nope. They just give it to him as a title instead of a name and, voila! Insta-prophecy!

Same thing happened with Benedict; his line was something about an olive branch, and then his papal symbol had an olive branch in it. It's like the people who hold the prophecy and make the symbols are playing in the same rigged game or something!

I dunno, John lasted into his late millions.

That was only because of the unholy magicks keeping him sort of more or less alive-ish.

I only looked because I remembered the other misuses in recent threads, most notably the Ron Paul one. It just stood out because I don't typically see many people use "whom" at all. It would seem that most people will use "who" when "whom" should be used, but the opposite would appear to be more rare in occurrence.

At least some one does.

I learned that the real reason we stopped using the electric chair for executions was because the people that survived apparently gained electricity based super powers.

I thought I just did.

I think I understand the misunderstanding around Papal Infallibility (basically there are a ton of conditions that need to be met, and the last Infallible Edict was like in 1950 or something?), but what's misunderstood by Immaculate Conception? This is coming from a former Catholic, I always knew it as "Mary was untouched by even Original Sin, and remained sinless up through giving birth to Jesus, so only she was a proper vessel for Christ to come into world."

Is that right? I always understood it as a ham-fisted way of saying, even if some other virgin gave birth to a child (like Julius Caesar, who was said to be a virgin birth as well), only Mary alone was ever free of sin and thus able to birth the Messiah.

The common misconception about the Immaculate Conception is that it refers to the virgin pregnancy of Mary and not to her own sinless state at the time she conceived. Or, more properly, Mary's own conception/birth without the taint of original sin.

"So you're pregnant even though you told me you broke up with Johnny? What was this, the Immaculate Conception?!"

Edited, Feb 11th 2013 2:17pm by Jophiel

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What's up with God picking this guy to be the pope? Shouldn't he have picked someone who could make it the whole way? It almost makes you believe that it's just human beings picking the Popes, and not God.