Wednesday, January 18, 2006: 60659

I was going to talk about the US's odd perception of prejudice, but this is just too interesting: The Vatican has declared that Purgatory doesn't exist! Now, this isn't exactly bad, considering that it doesn't, but holy fucking shit! And do you know why? So that Africans and Asians will join them! One of us... One of us... This just goes to prove that the Catholic hierarchy isn't in this for religion, but rather world domination. Of course, this is obvious and always has been, but this is over the top even for them. I mean, first round Earth, then heliocentricity, then the big bang, then evolution, and now no purgatory. In a few centuries, they might just come to their senses!

Kind of funny, though. I mean here we have insane fundies trying to warp our country to their will, and the fucking Vatican, the one with some actual power over more than say, twenty people in a congregation, is warping just so that everyone will agree with them. Which reminds me of when ol' Ratzinger got in. Everywhere ablaze with what this ex-Nazi was going to do. "We want to convert more Jews!" he said. "We want to reach out and turn the Middle East into Catholicland!" he bellowed, causing Catholic missionaries to start writing up their last wills and testaments. And all the while us vile heretics were shaking our heads. But, at least some good seems to have come out of it. One silly superstition down, innumerable more until they're gone. I say it's saints next. I mean, after this, they might just do that in order to get monotheists and Christians. You never know...