Overlooking the beautiful Lake Albano, Pope This & Pope That have been vacationing in supreme peace and leisure there, miles from Vatican City, for what seems like ever.
Why do The Popes get to leave their Pope Chairs to quietly frolic in luxury while everyone else at the Vatican has to look at buildings and moldy walls? Because that is how a Pope Should Relax: in glorious splendor and super seclusion, true? Just check out the picture – and that's just one of the gardens. He won't be there more than a few weeks, but still…
Then again, aren't the Popes of the Catholic Church to be treated like a God anyhow? They surely dress as if…and are praised and worshipped as if…although the religion in general has a God who didn't want anyone or anything else to be worshipped except HIM; thus, the devotion and focus on the Virgin Mary in this particular religion; the enormous material elements involved with rituals; a religion with its own city and zip code; continual petty power-grabbing in combination with internal politics, and glaring grandiosity, swerves way-off center from what it is supposed to be teaching: all of the selfless stuff and turning the other cheek and being pure and not tempted by earthly things.
Not having sex is certainly one of those "earthly things" The Church made sure to abolish ASAP if anyone wanted to join them in becoming a Smaller God; e.g., a lowly priest or something. And for sure if The Wimmen wanted to follow along, they would have to marry Jesus and forget about their vagina's. Not everyone has to have sex. I'm sure I wouldn't snark on Buddhist Monks in the same way. I guess I must have a bias.
However, it appears to me and the world that sex IS quite a teeming part of those who take celibacy vows and don the dressage portion of The Church
Am I being too "negative" again about Religion in one form or another? Yes.
Why? Because I don't like how Organized Religion usually creates division and separation between people who might "get along" had they not been indoctrinated into whatever their religious institutions taught them to believe, which, to this day, continues to cause wars and financial scandals, horrendous "bad blood" over differing beliefs and odious ideology led by something a bunch of someones wrote on papyrus or parchment and carved into stones eons ago.
Despite expressing devotion to the words of God and Christ from those sacred writings, in the 1500's, the Catholic Church chose what The Bible was to be and not to be by re-writing and omitting anything Jesus said which would go against the financial agenda of The Church. They messed with The Word of God/Jesus! OMG! WHO did they think they were?
Thus, the Catholic church looms large in the muddied ocean of inadvertent (and also blatant) intolerance for/of expansive thinking. So, I shrug at Pope Benedict's abrupt departure and the ensuing Vatican Pope-U-Larity Contest because, just as it goes in Hollywood with smoke and mirrors, so goes the Vatican. However, the difference between them is that inside the Holy House, the smoke is beginning to clear from the mirrors, showing many who have been avoiding them for years to view the truer nature of what they have become, have been, and will always be: Hypocrites.
And we know why.
Image via: http://www.nytimes.com
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