Pope on a Rope

[bcholmes]

There are too many popes in my city. News coverage far in excess of any royal visit or media celebrity.

Should I go see the Pope? I mean, heck, I'm not Catholic (although the bastards baptized me at birth 'cause I was born in Catholic hospital -- in Sarnia, only the Catholic hospital had a maternity ward).

I mean, when the Dalai-Lama comes in 2004, I'm almost certainly gonna go see him -- and I'm not really a Buddhist. Religions of the world fascinate me. So why not go see the Pope?

Truth is, I expect the guy to be deadly dull. Maybe I'm only interested in fun, hip religions? (And is there a Problem with that? Is fun-and-hip-ness too stringent a requirement to have of religions?)

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[missshirley.livejournal.com]

I mean, when the Dalai-Lama comes in 2004, I'm almost certainly gonna go see him -- and I'm not really a Buddhist.

Yo, I'll save you a seat next to me. I'm a "sort-of" buddhist, in that I identify with it more than any other religion.

Religions of the world fascinate me. So why not go see the Pope?

Um... the crowd of a million or so people that are also going to be there? Fascinating or not, for me, the agoraphobia wins out every time. :/