An aethiest's prayer to Catholics on this sad day.

[Moogie]

Hiya.

I am not religious- I don\'t follow any beliefs or gods. But today, even I feel the sorrow of all Catholics who today, at 9:37pm (Local time in Vatican City) lost their father, the Pope John Paul.

I understand that, having had such a long and prosperous time in his position, he became a close and ever loved spiritual guide in many people\'s hearts all over the world. I can only imagine what it must feel like to lose a symbol of faith, and strength, and to millions of people an earthly link to the heavens and perhaps God himself.

I\'d like to express my solemn feelings of sympathy and sadness for whoever here has been touched by his passing. But I know you\'ll also be glad that his suffering was not prolonged, and happy that he\'s finally earned his place with your Lord.

Prayers, love, hugs and kisses~

[WiseKran]

Your a good person. God will surely save you.

[Burntleaf]

Um correct me if im wrond but it turns out the pope didn\'t die... our british press probably lying actually.

[Moogie]

I\'m afraid it has been officially announced by the Vatican themselves, Burntleaf.

[Burntleaf]

he did an hour ago it just said on the news. sorry for any inconvenience.

[Keyaz]

from what i understand the past 10 years he had fought parkinsons disease, at least he is at peace.

[seperot]

in honesty i dont think it was right to have kept dragging him out like that all the time. but thats about all i will say to toe the line and not flame here...

[Sarrow]

A lot of accomplishment have been done during his life, you cant live life to the fullest like he did.

[Kixie]

A sad occurance, and as a christian, I have to say the scale on which this was reported on is... astounding. Don\'t the press have shots of starving Afghani\'s and men and women being shot in the middle east? The pope was a great important man, but I for one did not enjoy the fact they reported on him dying for a week, jumping at the bit to be the first station to report thier \"sad\" news. Disgusting.  

[dorbian]

I don\'t believe in anything, i\'d rather convince people to stop believing in something but this is sad indeed.

He probably had a good life being 84 and all, he got the chance to live his life.

For all the people that where followers to the believe, my condolances.

-Dorbian

[provisionist1]

Whether you\'re agnostic, Anglican, an atheist, Baha\'i, Buddhist, Catholic, Confucian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Pagan, Protestant, Shinto, Sikh, or Taoist, he was a great man. Lets hope/pray the next Pope does as a good a job.

Xirius

[Monketh]

He kept on pushing himself untill the last day, fighting his old age, the toughest opponent of us.  He did so much for his people and for those who were not his people.  Truly an honorable man.

The American Newsmedia was quite obsessed, I\'m afraid.

[Kiva]

I can\'t say that I bother the least. I think I\'ve seen the pope die ten times already, and if I\'m not entirely mistaken, they\'ll just elect another man who\'s so old, he\'ll die soon too anyway.

But yeah, sad face and all that.

Oh... And well, I\'m not really a celebrity stalker, but what exactly did he do for his people besides read prayers and appear once in a while? Anything I missed?

[Monketh]

Originally posted by Gronomist (
Oh... And well, I\'m not really a celebrity stalker, but what exactly did he do for his people besides read prayers and appear once in a while? Anything I missed?

*cough* Fall of the Iron Curtain *cough*

[Under the moon]

Sad, yes. Unexpected, no. It angers me that the church kept the man in his seat after he obviously couldn\'t hold it anymore. Just another veil pulled over the eyes of the sheep by the vaunted Catholic church. Have they no shame? The man should have been left his dignity, instead of being paraded in front of the masses.

That being said, he was a tough guy in a tough job. Who else had to convince the entire world he could talk to god? (No sarcasm intended...well, maybe a little towards the end.)