Sorry but any atheists who were praying for me to fall off the roof yesterday didn't get what they prayed for. So you don't have to give up your doubt on that point, today, at least.
Looking around the blogs I usually check out, the speculation on why Benedict XVI is really resigning was based firmly on nothing. All we know about his reasons for doing so is what he said, in Latin. If he told other reasons to anyone else I'd imagine they could be trusted to keep it one of those Vatican secrets that don't get out for five hundred years when someone stumbles over something forgotten in the library. So all of those reasons, from the mundane to the Dan Brown level BS that the "reality community" loves as much as they do over at World Nutz Daily and Rapture Ready are firmly based on nothing.
Of course, something must be behind it. I mean, 85 year olds in bad health never just decide to retire because they can't do the job, do they?
As an exCatholic one of the things that I'm finding that's as annoying as the totally baseless and absurd speculation is the ignorance of so many about the Catholic Church. With all that there is to legitimately critisize about the Catholic hierarchy and the bishop who used to be called Ratzinger, why invent stupid lies? One clue. If there's one thing that anyone might know it's that Catholics don't believe in the "rapture", which is an idea peculiar to a form of Protestantism which was characterized by its extreme anti-Catholicism. If you're going to spout hate at Catholics you should at least get what you're spouting hate about, you just sound stupid to anyone who knows anything about it, otherwise. But knowing what you're talking about is something like work, so much harder than just spouting hate talk like a right winger.
The shape of this series isn't forming as fast as my last one. I'll probably post the next part of it within the week.
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