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Do you believe in St. Malachi?

Do you believe the prophecy of St. Malachi?

  • Yes, the next Pope will be the Antipope

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, the next Pope will be a Pope like every other Pope

    Votes: 8 44.4%

  • I don't know, but I think the world is about to end.

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • I don't believe either way.

    Votes: 9 50.0%
  • Total voters
    18
grip said:
He's a looney tick. That guy believes Aliens created the Roman Catholic Church. Bet he's seen every episode of The X-Files?
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Yeah, I know, but it's fun stuff to watch. Btw, I loved the X-Files series. :mrgreen:
 
lizzie said:
Yeah, I know, but it's fun stuff to watch. Btw, I loved the X-Files series. :mrgreen:
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Sully and Mulder would've found out who was the AntiPope. ;)

Then Skinner and the smoking man would've buried the evidence.
 
digsbe said:
Maybe they will, although they'll probably be looking at how the crop circles predicted this.

I love the PhD guests they have on there, like guys who study alien technology or extraterrestrials.
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my favorite was the cryptozoology nonsense. they spend years and millions of dollars not finding bigfoot, swamp monster, yeti, and many other assorted creatures that don't exist.

when i was in grad school and it was basically the WWII channel, i complained about the lack of diversity in HC programming, but even that was better than this nonsense.
 
grip said:
Sully and Mulder would've found out who was the AntiPope. ;)

Then Skinner and the smoking man would've buried the evidence.
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I dunno- maybe the smoking man would have been the AntiPope. :lol:
 
grip said:
He's a looney tick. That guy believes Aliens created the Roman Catholic Church.
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Hey, SouthPark does a pretty good job of explaining things.
 
danarhea said:
If the next Pope is named Peter, then get ready for a wild ride.
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And, of course, the only feasible candidate called Peter is Cardinal Peter Turkson, the black guy.

Now, I totally don't want him to become the next Pope - in large part because he is prone to abandon the required political neutrality in favor of statist policies and generic (and surprisingly illiterate) anti-capitalist demagoguery.

But I would really, really hate to see some stupid "prophecy" to be used as an argument, by people whose motivation has nothing to do with what he says or how he thinks.

(I am abosultely NOT saying that I suspect Mr.danarhea is one of those people).
 
danarhea said:
Ever read the prophecy of St. Malachi? He gave a short list, in Latin, of every Pope to ascend to the Papacy, beginning with Celestine II, in 1143. He described the present Pope as an Olivetian, which he is. The next Pope he describes as Peter the Roman, who would betray the Catholic Church, and join with the Antichrist. Benedict has just stepped down, and the next Pope will take office sometime in March.

If the next Pope is named Peter, then get ready for a wild ride.

So, answer the poll.
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He's supposed to lead us to worship the anti-Christ. So if he has us worshipping Obama....:mrgreen:
 
ecofarm said:
Hey, SouthPark does a pretty good job of explaining things.
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It kind of scares me that people actually believe this stuff. Ancient Aliens were the gods of old religions? And that sounds better?
 
According to Sedevacantists, every Pope since 1958 has been an Anti-Pope.

Sedevacantism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sedevacantism (derived from the Latin words sedes or "seat", and vacans or "vacant")[1]) is the position, held by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics,[2][3] that the present occupant of the papal see is not truly Pope and that, for lack of a valid Pope, the see has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. A tiny number of these claim the vacancy actually goes back to the death of Pope Pius X in 1914
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grip said:
It kind of scares me that people actually believe this stuff. Ancient Aliens were the gods of old religions? And that sounds better?
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It can't be metaphors, stories and lessons. On the Bible literalist action, this guy goes to 11.
 
rocket88 said:
He's supposed to lead us to worship the anti-Christ. So if he has us worshipping Obama....:mrgreen:
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The Bible says that the Antichrist worships a God his forefathers never knew..... Sounds like a Mormon to me. :mrgreen:
 
danarhea said:
The Bible says that the Antichrist worships a God his forefathers never knew..... Sounds like a Mormon to me. :mrgreen:
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No, not Mormon, but the Antichrist will worship Tom Cruise!!
 
End of the world prophecies are a dime a dozen. Wasn't the world supposed to end on Dec. 21, 2012? Well looky looky, we're still here.

Besides which, if I was going to invest myself into a doomsday prophecy, it wouldn't be one that revolves around the Catholic Church. They're just a religious corporation with a CEO and a great deal of affluent financial connections.

St. Malachi's prophecy says that the next Pope will turn on his people. When has the Pope ever be in favor of his people? Last time I checked, the Vatican spent the better part of 500 years killing anyone in their domain who disagreed with their cosmology of the universe and creation. Any equivalent government by today's standards would be considered fascist and worthy of a revolution.
 
Goshin said:
Animals know nothing of "mother Earth". They eat, drink, sleep, reproduce, hunt, kill, and fight with each other for survival.

The notion that nature= peace and harmony is easily debunked with a closer look at how nature works.

Humanity is the only being on Earth capable of appreciating that there IS such a thing as the planet, the environment, or appreciating the existence of another species just because of its beauty and behaviors.

Animals lack the intellect to appreciate any of these things. They're animals. They're non-sapient. They don't analyze their environment and seek to understand it and harmonize with it, they just do what they do, mostly by instinct.
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Humanity may be capable of appreciating but seems many times we refuse to let that get in the way of profit. Never let a three dot dace stand in the way of sucking a stream dry for city dwellers, beauty and behaviors are then ridiculed when the EPA protects habitat. Mankind has been the main cause for overgrazing by over stocking and poor husbandry.

A human might appreciate many things and see the wonders of it all... Humanity on the other hand has a very consistent history of a obeying a user instinct with little, if any concern, for the environment.

Fact is when not crowded into small 'refuges' or 'preserves' most of the time nature does have a very stable cycle. Centuries can pass with a stable ecosystem, but give us a few decades and the passenger pigeon is extinct.

I wouldn't fault the lion his killing off the original alpha male's offspring. Wasn't that long ago in evolutionary terms that victorious tribes killed off the deposed rulers lineage.

We did a more 'civilized' version in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
Cyrylek said:
And, of course, the only feasible candidate called Peter is Cardinal Peter Turkson, the black guy.
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It could mean the real name or the papal name. The fact that he is referred to as "Peter the Roman" could mean he will be a native Italian to anyone from the territory of the Roman Empire. Thats the thing with prophecy, it can be made to mean just about anything you want it to. There are 117 Cardinal electors and any one of them could be the next Pope.
 
danarhea said:
He isn't from Roman stock, so he can't be the Antipope.
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Anti-pope? The pope is just like any other person. He isnt closer to God than any other human that loves Jesus. It so happens that the guys job is president of the Catholic churches. If the guy who has the job of pope is a jackass no one will listen to him for any length of time. Its not like the people that has this job have some type of superpower. The President of the US influences FAR more people than a pope. So saying Anti-pope is like saying Anti-CEO. To think that this Satan character would bother with a papal position is kind of goofy. It makes more sense that he is / was Allah. We see certain Muslims hating people that follow Jesus and they arent to fond of the Old Testament guys either. They act like devils and demons.
I used to be a born again christian. Im agnostic now and I see that religion most likely has done more harm than good. How many killing and hatred and wars have started because of conflicting religions.
 
There is a very good reason why all prophecies are extraordinarily vague and rely on imagery, metaphor, and wordplay to illustrate their point. Show me the prophecy with a specific date, time, and explanation and then we can talk. But clearly I just don't understand the sorcery of clairvoyance.
 
Sherman123 said:
There is a very good reason why all prophecies are extraordinarily vague and rely on imagery, metaphor, and wordplay to illustrate their point. Show me the prophecy with a specific date, time, and explanation and then we can talk. But clearly I just don't understand the sorcery of clairvoyance.
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Bottom line: It doesn't matter. No prophecy regarding future events should matter. No prophecy should change how you live. Either you are trying to live everyday as best you possibly can or you aren't. If you are then prophecy shouldn't matter to you. If you aren't then prophecy shouldn't matter to you.
 
Knowing the future, in turn, would alter said future, ergo, it's impossible to know the future.
 
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