He doesn't like to be called Francis ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs

I'll throw a stone and I am with plenty of sin. Get real folks, you actually believe the Big Guy in the Sky micromanages the Earth? Sadly, you do.

No man can pass judgement on another. In so doing you may be the one in need of prayer.

Al, pray for me all Day. I'll giggle.

Butthead Joe/Sanchez, to answer your first question, every day. Morals and belief in an almighty being have nothing to do with each other. You, the butthead of Patch wouldn't know that though. I really don't care what pagans hold in high belief. Many children believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus as well. I don't care two cents about what Muslims wish to believe, it is no different than the Catholics.

You apparently were created randomly, because a sensical god would have deleted you immediately Joe Butthead.

FIFI, you're no different than the Westboro Baptist Church people!

Joe many times Banned Sanchez, you are an embarrassment to the human race.

Fifa is beyond prayer I'm afraid.

WE will see FIFI with a signs marching with the Westboro Baptists on these pages soon.

That is the comment of a civil human being. Thanks.

Curiosity Rover is still working on that!

Andrew, you say a gov agency told you there was life on Mars? When did they transport you there?

Al, look at the NASA web. They are finding all kinds of things they had never thought of with the drilling rovers now roving. Wonderful program. Too bad NASA has been screwed with PC and Muslim Outreach as their Director said a few years back. Most EVERY dollar of NASA budget was spent in America. Not so with most Fed programs. NASA was a great outfit, now relegated to hitching a ride to the ISS with the Russians, maybe soon the Chinese.

I can't believe that out of 250+ Popes none have been named Francis!

especially since there were 13 Popes named "Innocent" and 7 named "Urban" which some here say is a racist word!

Sanchez, I also was surprised to see the "I" by the name Francis. Crazy.

Turns out it was St. Francis of Assisi, not St. Francis Xavier.

Good Luck Al.

I remember reading that God named His Church, "The Church of God", not the catholic church. And it was a tent within a tent. Of course the catholics don't teach much Bible, so many don't know this. When His Son returns there will only be one Church and it will be located in Jerusalem. Of course we will have to endure satan first who will deceive many into believing he is the returning christ. Many will be deceived and will have to spend Jesus' reign in Gihana. Well why am I telling all you this, you can go read it for yourself. The Bible is God's love letter to all of us. He wants us to know the truth without filter of men.

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You subservience is misguided... true Americans don't submit themselves to a foreign monarch. Also, doesn't the bible explicitly denounce the hierarchy of the Vatican? "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven"

Suggesting that Americans or American politicians are servants of the papal monarchy and subject to their rule insults both the words of Jesus and our Constitution.

That's because that's exactly what organized religion is.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't think there is anything wrong with being religious. It's quite a personal matter and a lot of people find comfort in religion. My whole family is Roman Catholic (except me and my brother, the black sheep atheists), but I do have to wonder how many people would believe in it if they weren't indoctrinated as children. If you presented religion to a sane, rationalizing adult that hasn't been brought up being told that stuff is true then chances are they're going to laugh and ask you what you've been smoking.

Ashley,

I fundamentally agree with your post. That's because religion is, at its very heart, rationalization for the unknown, or intellectually unexplainable. Think about when all core religions were founded. There was a time when the world used to be flat, and humans once thought no land mass outside of Eurasia existed.

I would qualify myself as agnostic rather then atheist (being agnostic is essentially holding the view that both sides of the "God" equation are unprovable but may be proven somewhere down the line). Many people confuse agnostic with atheism.

Doug - to be fair, it really was a pretty dress that they made for him. Maybe we'll see a papal special on Fashion Police (E!) - these medieval rituals make for wonderful entertainment value!