I can’t ignore all the drama surrounding the election of the new pope at the Sistine Chapel this week. I wondered about issues or prejudices that may lead to preferences or negations in the voting. Not to disrespect, but why do I keep thinking of the conclave as a fairy tale?
In my last post I wrote, …the new Pope choice? Education? Looks? Age? Behavior history? Connections? Home country? Politics? Connections? Wealth (horrors)? Race? Personal behavior? Activity on internet platform? Published work? Voice quality? Introvert or extravert? Range of facial expressions? Closeness or favoritism of Pope Francis? We’ll wait until he’s elected before trying to figure it out..
What a surprise, he was born in Chicago! What I had earlier read was that anyone from the USA was unlikely. And on the second day of the conclave and only on the fourth voting occasions! Were those flags of countries in the crowd? If so, I didn’t see a USA flag until the announcement. Maybe no one expected a cardinal from the USA to win. I like Chicago born Pope Robert Francis Prevost, Leo XIV; his demeanor and his response to the crowd’s greeting. “And they lived happily ever after?” Let’s hope. (I would have guessed Trump’s photo of himself dressed like a pope would have increased the Chicago cardinal’s chances, due to alarm. So, he appears to be shy (an introvert) and mostly liberal, except for LGBT issues in the past. ….I need to check that out.
OUR OWN BIBLE? “Welcome to the official home of the God Bless The USA Bible, the only Bible officially endorsed by Lee Greenwood and President Trump. $60 to $1000.” https://godblesstheusabible.com. Of the Trump/Greenwood bible, Esau McCaulley writes that yhr bible, n addition to being the King James version of the Bible, ‘ includes the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance and part of the Lee Greenwood song God Bless the USA.” ….And the American flag, of course.
“One of the beauties of the Christian faith is that it leaps over the lines dividing countries, leading the faithful to call fellow believers from very different cultures brothers and sisters. Most of the members of this international community consist of the poor living in Africa, Asia and Latin America. There are more Spanish-speaking Christians than English-speaking ones,” From McCaulley’s column. .
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PETA FOR PEOPLE? I would not mind coming back as a human and agree to return as a monkey. but not the human monkeyman they’re wanting to create, on purpose, in the land of the tech crazed:.
There isn’t a PETA for misfits, is there, for those engineered by the normal?
BUT, a team in China revealed that they had injected human stem cells capable of creating any type of tissue into a monkey embryo. The experiment was stopped before the embryo was old enough to be born.
But the scientists – who were Spanish but held the trial in China to get around a ban on such procedures at home – said a human-monkey hybrid could have potentially been born.
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