Ahhh… the Pope’s prayer of peace with Israeli and Palestinian leaders was, let’s just say it, idiotic - I think any clear thinking person knows this, yes? It’s not just that this idiotic prayer is coming from the leader of an organization that has through its history got itself involved in all kinds of unpeaceful misadventures, many of them for sheer profit, and therefore having to sit through pompous paeans to peace from these richly robed charlatans does gall one’s sense of rational coherence and intellectual decorum - but what really annoys is that people take it seriously as a progressive step forward, which it most decidedly is not, especially because we all know this putatively noble gesture will be used to paint the Israelis as evil war mongers blind to the light of peace the funny hatted one is kindly flashing in their eyes when the utterly obvious happens and peace does not suddenly break out all over the frickin' place. And what galls even more than that is people who should know better cutting the funny hatted one some slack because his intentions are so good - how does that matter one little bit? I know we're all supposed to think nice thoughts about the socialist Pope spewing unfettered from reality nonsense, but, ya know, when idiot parents give their screaming child the toy it’s screaming for it doesn't matter if their intentions were good according to their rather limited understanding of goodness - all that matters, big picture wise, given the realities of parenting, is that they're idiots who have just made a bad situation worse and decent people should be able to stand up and say so. And that’s what I think about the socialist Pope involving himself in the politics of the Mideast.
