hmmm, Pope threads outnumber Bolton threads 10 - 1

[LSK]

Yet the Bolton nomination will probaby have more impact on the world. Looks like the RNC media machine is deciding what everyone should talk about AGAIN.

[Tweed]

1. Are you kidding?

Surely you realize that ignorant religion bashing is a true pastime at DU.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Yeah, those damned Catholics bashing...themselves....

People are angry at Ratzinger. They bash him, not the Church.

[Tweed]

4. There's a mixture

[rzemanfl]

6. Which word does "ignorant" refer to, religion or bashing? n/t

[chlamor]

3. Second your emotion

the whole Pope-pourri is mind numbing and to see many DUers get sucked into the vortex of Schiavo-Dead Pope-New Pope is pretty depressing. Your thread is likely to sink in about a Vatican second.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Actually both will affect the wrold

Bolton closer to us in real time, but a Pope as radical as this one will also affect the world

THINK Religious wars and the 17th century....

Can you say schism? That is what may be on the wings... so both are important... just in different ways... and both will affect your and my life