Schraff writes:
And here I thought that the Catholic Church was the smart, educated, kind one.
The church needs a thread of its own to defend itself and/or to have us expose organized religion for what it is.
The kindly and deceased Pope is the topic of THIS thread, however, and debating church politics over his corpse is inappropriate, would you not agree?
In an odd sort of way, John Paul II had controversy surrounding him much of his life and now in his eulogy, people are STILL discussing and debating.
I'm with Jar on this one, though. Say a few words in rememberance and lets close this thread and move on...I will start a religious debate thread. (another one!)
troy writes:
I don't quite understand your reason for wanting to close down this thread. If people are having a good time debating, as long as the topic doesn't wander off too far away, why on earth would you want to close it down?
Well Troy, if YOU died, and we were all at your funeral, would you want us debating gay rights and fighting it out with conservatives over your still warm dead corpse?
(Oops...you probably will say "yes"!
The point is that we can take our debate to another thread. This thread is to respect a great man...not to dissect the politics of the institution behind him.
This message has been edited by Phatboy, 04-05-2005 08:14 AM