Lovin ' those crazy Catholics, this Christmas Eve

This is extremely rare.

I just got a Christmas gift from the Pope and Vatican.

Actually, it's more of a holiday gift, since I don't celebrate the religious side of Christmas but, you get the idea.

It was in my newspaper this morning.

As if to further prove Catholicism's, the Pope's and the Vatican's absurd irrelevance, it was annonunced recently--and, again, in my paper this morning--that the Pope has "forgiven" Galileo for announcing that--shock of shocks--the earth goes 'round the sun and is not the center of the universe.

Thanks, Pope.

Now that I think of that one, it makes me think that someone should announce to the Pope and Vatican that they aren't the center of the universe any longer either.

Far from it, thank, uh, whomever or whatever.

As if that's not bad enough, come May next year, "several Vatican officials will participate in an international conference to re-examine the Galileo affair..."

This must be their way of doing more of that stuff they call "Penance" cuz, you know, they have guilt down pretty pat.

Let's keep in mind, too, folks, that this was part of that fun Catholic faith's many "Incquisitions" and Galileo was sentenced to "house arrest" for the rest of his life.

Hey, at least they didn't boil him in oil or crucify him, as they did so many millions of other "disbelievers".

The other announcement I got was less of a gift, for sure, but certainly proves further the ridiculousness of the Catholic Church and that same Pope and Vatican.

It seems the Pope declared that gays, of all groups, are a bigger threat to mankind than global warming.

I wish someone were making this stuff up.

It's that just wildly, obscenely ridiculous?

Hurricanes? Drought? Starvation? Disease caused by weather conditions? etc., etc.

They're all nothing compared to the idea of two women or two men loving one another.

Holy cow.

Somebody needs to propose selling the Vatican and all those Catholic jewels and artifacts, so we can feed, clothe and heal the poor.

God knows it would go a lot farther towards being helpful to makind than that collection of knuckleheads in that tiny country.