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   Clark Kent said, 3 months ago

   Kick all of the male preists, bishops, cardinals and the pope out of the catholic church hierarchy. Promote the nuns to those positions. It won’t be perfect but it will be less corrupt, at least for a while.
   Tax religion/superstition, the churches, temples, mosques and other such entities retroactively back to 4 July 1776.
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   Dycel said, 3 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   Amen!
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   The taxmaster squeaks!
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   So you are against taxing? What kind of Anarchist are you?
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   smee2333 said, 3 months ago

   love it!
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   DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   I have known nuns. And the more authority they have, the more brutal they become. A nun as pope terrifies me.
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   lonecat said, 3 months ago

   @DrCanuck

   Anybody as Pope terrifies me. I’m opposed to socialized religion.
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   lonecat said, 3 months ago

   Here’s the etymology of “pope”:
   “Old English papa, from Medieval Latin papa “bishop, pope” (in classical Latin, “tutor”), from Greek papas “patriarch, bishop,” originally “father.” Applied to bishops of Asia Minor and taken as a title by the Bishop of Alexandria c.250. In Western Church, applied especially to the Bishop of Rome since the time of Leo the Great (440-461) and claimed exclusively by them from 1073. Papal, papacy, later acquisitions in English, preserve the original vowel." If a nun werer to be elected, would she be called the “Mama”? Or for short, “Mom”? (Or in Canada, “Mum”?)
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   DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

   @lonecat

   Her holiness, the Mum.
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    omQ R said, 3 months ago

    ^ & ^^ So, there’s pope-soap-on-a-rope or pope-on-a-rope. I dare you to come up with one for Mum…!
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    lonecat said, 3 months ago

    @omQ R

    There was a song that I used to hear in folk clubs a few decades and a pope or two back — I don’t remember the whole song, and I can’t find it when I google, but the refrain goes something like:

    He don’t even have to use soap,
    He’s Luigi Montini,
    You know who I mean-i,
    The one with the beanie,
    Luigi Montini, the Pope.
    (aka Pope John VI)
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    eaglefalcon said, 3 months ago

    Sean Cardinal O’Malley is too HONEST to be the POPE ……
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    motivemagus said, 3 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    Not in my experience, Doc. I assessed a lot of CEO nuns back in the day. Those running Catholic healthcare institutions were among the best leaders I have ever seen in my 20+ years of assessing business leaders. In the US, anyway, they tended to be overly collaborative, if anything. They also had to find subtle ways to circumvent the arbitrary and ill-informed authority of the male hierarchy, which could veto any decision they made because…they’re guys.
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    Newenglandah said, 3 months ago

    @lonecat

    Cute, except that his name was Giovani Montini, not Luigi.
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    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    @motivemagus

    We all have different experiences, I guess. I was brutalized.
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