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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2013-05-22 08:47 pm

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More moved by this new pope than I probably should be.

[identity profile] bluerosesgirl.livejournal.com 2013-05-23 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
ME TOO. I was not expecting that at all.

[identity profile] mendaciloquent.livejournal.com 2013-05-23 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
What am I missing here? Did he do something?

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2013-05-23 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
He basically said it's unimportant if you're an atheist so long as you're nice. Which is about the nicest thing a pope can say to atheists while still being a pope.

Dunno if this means he'll ever make any sensible changes re. women, celibacy, LGBTs, condoms, stem cells, abortion but he at least doesn't sound like the last guy.

[identity profile] mendaciloquent.livejournal.com 2013-05-23 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Weird. Not sure what to make of that. Receiving a nod from the head of an organization that's morally somewhere between the KKK and the mafia is kind of like getting a gift card full of Zimbabwean dollars. Even a truckload would mean nothing. Historically interesting, though.

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2013-05-24 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, maybe more of an historical marker than a history-making.