Re: "Proportional" reprentation
Reply #52 –
My dear departed brother-in-law was a devout Catholic, who rejected the church because of an egregious lapse by a prelate: While supposedly celebrating Mass, the priest noticed a lad coming a little late to the rite. He -the priest- also noticed that the lad had not dropped coins into the Poor Box… He called him out to the congregation, as he took his seat in the pews, and denigrated him for his lack of "charity" and his poor Christian sentiments.
My brother-in-law knew the lad and his family, and knew what their financial situation was — dire.
He also knew: A vicious and avaricious priest was let preach again; nobody said anything against him. (He went back to whatever diocese he came from… And they probably accepted him back.) That was enough, for him: The Church was a broken institution, he figured.
With the elevation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to Pope, we've reverted to our recently ancient argument: What matters more, communism or individual freedom?
He's in the communism camp — because his countrymen were such bastards!
Will he learn about other parts of the world? Nah! I'm sorry to say this, but I expect him to be killed in Egypt. If he isn't, it's because al Sisi is a moral and effective ruler…