This is from Adam Felber's blog, Fanatical Apathy. I think people on the Forum will enjoy this one.
http://www.felbers.net/mt/ Pope on the Ropes
Death is bearing down on the Pope, his enemies closing in on him. And as we all know, there's nothing more dangerous than a pope who's been backed into a corner. In all of nature, no creature lashes back with such vehemence and ferocity - just when you think a pope is down for the count, just when he seems most vulnerable, that's when the teeth are bared, the coiled old muscles begin to gather in a predatory crouch, and LOOK OUT!
So for those of you who didn't hear the high-pitched, keening battle cry - the Pope's new book is here, and the melee is on.
Awwwww yeah! Watch the Pope lays some serious smackdown on gays, whose quest to marry is part of the "new ideology of evil." Pow! Their agenda is "insidious and hidden." Kabam!
Throwing off the gays, the Pope is gathering a head of steam. His red eyes brighten and glow as he paws the ground aggressively, regathering his strength. A nearby pro-choice advocate smiles nervously, her confidence dwindling under the papal glare. Steam jets from the holy nostrils... and he charges! Abortion is a "legal extermination." Crunch! It's comparable to the Holocaust. Ka-smash! The haughty activist lies twisted and broken, and the Pope steps out of the shadows, breathing hard, ready for more. An evil condom salesman who'd been lurking nearby, ready to offer the coup-de-grace, throws down his wicked wares and runs screaming into the urban night as the small, powerful, pious silhouette stalks forward into the streets...
It's refreshing to see this revitalization, especially today. It's time that someone in the Church had the guts to stand up and try to motivate the faithful to return to strict, fundamental values that brook no compromise with other points of view and other faiths. For a while there it almost looked like Catholics were going to miss out on the hottest trend of the 21st century.
Now if we could only get a Buddhist leader to start dishing out the ideological smackdown... maybe an aggressive koan or two along the lines of "Those who do not seek enlightenment are going DOWN, muthafucka!" As the Pope has shown, it's time to represent.
