The Pope is a Dope

Is it any surprise that the Catholic Church finds itself in the midst of another controversy? This time it is one with another religion.

 

What on Earth possessed the Pope to quote some obscure medieval text to make a point? Why also did he feel the need to make the comment in the first place? The church could be taking on a whole bumch of current ministerial issues rahter than talk about old texts. The are more topical and relevant concerns of the people Surely has enough public relations problems with which to deal without taking on any new ones.

 

I suspect that many of the gaffes the church makes have less to do with some sort of idea of Christian superiority or to really condemn other religions. I think that it has a lot to do with the fact that those in charge are uber-academicians who are really quite clueless about life outside of the walls of some library or theological storehouse.

 

No matter how charismatic the leaders may seem, after all that had to have some charisma in order to get to where they are, they are still basically socially inept nerds.