The new pope was named yesterday.

We've been repoped!

What!? When did this happen!?

And he's Argentinan!!!

Really? No link? Guess it's Yahoo/Google time to search up this mystery pope's name, geniuses.

Here:

http://news.yahoo.com/pope-live-pope-chosen-glee-latin-america-215112227.html

screw him!!

>>7 geez, what's your deal? I'm not Christian either, but I don't go ridiculous about it.

>>7 Catholicism is, besides a religion, a culture. I'm atheist, but unlike most I accept others ideals/religions. The new Pope is a very big deal for others. So don't go pissing on other people's lawns.

10<< i agree. one belife in something dose not need credicted just for the deffer. one has the means & the right to practicing what ever hits their fancy. the pope bears no intrest towards me. yet as said by 10<< it may intrest others

>>10 implying most atheists are assholes that arent tolerate of others because...?

>>12 because a shit tonne are, so until further research it's rather safe to assume "most" athiests are that way.
And, apon some reaserch, it may seem as though most athiests are that way.
Also, looks like we spotted the athiest ;)

>>13 wow you sure imply a lot. Since when defending a certain group automagically means im part of that group. Oh wait! It doesnt, at all.
Side note, you spend way to much time thinking stereotypes are the same as the majority.

>>13
Seems we've also spotted the raging moron.

Vocal majorities speak for the stereotype, that isn't an alien concept. But I guess it was inevitable we'd get into a cycle of defending both groups in a topic about religion - this is an internet discussion forum after all.

Rather than passive-aggressively goading the opposing party into making an ignorant generalization, let's just leave it at the time-tested "there are dumb people in all groups" and the idea that these dumb people make up a significant portion of the group. Radical christians suck ass, radical atheists suck ass, everyone sucks ass.

Nobody even mentioned who the new pope was, besides that link up there. It's Jorge Mario Bergoglio, taking the name Pope Francis upon selection.

Do you think he chose to change it to that himself, or did they kind of pressure him into it?

I hate religions that kill rape and sloughter over hundreds of years so forgive me but fuck him

>>18
Fuck YOU.

>>18 Um...sorry, but I'm pretty sure all religions, peoples, and countries have been guilty of that in some way, shape, or form at various points in the history of the world. So...you must hate all religions then, right? :) Otherwise you truly have no point! ;D

>>17 Not sure if that's papal protocol or what, but you could certainly draw some silly implication from it if it's the latter. What's wrong with Bergoglio, it's much more interesting than Francis!

Or funny sounding, I'm not sure which. Bergoglio.

>>18 is almost not worth responding to, it gets a bit tiring enlightening people to another perspective and it seems >>21 has already done so. I'm not really a fan of the vatican's history of decisions either, but I'm against ultimatums and sweeping generalizations even more.

Its that one religion that caused the cusades raped pillaed and pludered, buddism and wiccanism are 2 that are non-violent and have done nothing wrong catholism is hateful and crude they torture and kill and molest and rape and abuse, its evil and I will have no part of that Even God would be ashamed of it

>>24

I call horseshit. The Wiccan religion, among other neo-pagan faiths, is a reconstruction of belief systems that were held by pre-Christian European cultures. Those belief systems have gods of various aspects of nature and culture, and various ceremonies attributed to such things. Buddhism is not a religion, in that its adherents do not profess belief in one or many gods.

>>24 I also call bullshit because that was all a good 500 to 600 years ago. Although being a Christian does suck, we arent exactly doind that now, nor is what you said an accurate portrayl of history.

>>24 You also need to fix some serius grammatical and spelling issues here.

*serious

>>21 No other religion has gone on with the acts for as long as the Christians did. I mean the Crusades were just 196 years of slaughter and forced conversion. Then we have the arrival of white settlers to the Americas. Thats another 300 or so years of hellish slaughter and forced conversion.
Im agnostic so I dont follow any religion although I do study it it and find it fascinating. It baffles me how no one protests a religion of slaughter.

New pope, still was hoping that the new one would be black, that would have been new, oh well back to reading about their latest tirades against anything they deem bad.

i am an athiest, but the role of pope is powerfull and important. i just hope that he is more open minded than his predicesors.

cooperation with other religion to stop racism would be great in my opinion

So far he has been a great pope, it looks like he doesn't really care for gold and money, since he doesn't wear those silly ornaments and the gold throne was replaced my a simple chair. Also he doesn't judge people, from washing the feet of the young in jail, one of them being a Muslim girl.