New Pope Elected: Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina becomes Pope Francis!

[HoneyVision]

As one of the four or five Argentines that roam Escapist I can vouch for Jorge being as homophobic and backward as it gets. He also has a history with the Dictatorship of '76, but don't ask him about it, he gets embarrassed on the subject.

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Being Argentinian too, I remember how Bergoglio opposed gay marriage in this country and helped the military dictatorship further their agenda (though that could be said for the entire Catholic church, not just this guy).

So don't expect anything to change. He's just another homophobic, anti-choice conservative, just like his entire religion.

Way to completely stereotype 1/3 of the world *rolls eyes*.

But I do agree with you about him being backwards. This guys reeks of intolerance. I'm a Christian but would it KILL the papacy to elect someone with half a brain? The Christian doctrine opposes the world in many ways but the papacy seems intent on making this opposition as violent and as heated as possible.

Uhm, Last I heard there's about 1 billion Catholics in the world, which would make it....

*checks google*

1/7th of the world's population. But I could be wrong...hmm, yeah, around 1 billion.

Just wanted to clear that up.

Yeah but the total number of Christians is much more. But yes your statistic is definitely correct.

 

[The]

"I hate pope duties..."

(Admit it, this joke was inevitable)

Hopefully this will become a trend in the Vatican. Next we'll have Pope Bill, Louis, and Zoey.

 

[The White Hunter]

Well being British I don't care for Argentina (that country that wants the Falkland Islands even though we had them vote on what country they wanted to be part of and all but THREE PEOPLE said UK, no fuck that, Argentina wants it's Penguin-inhabited rock back! Fuck democracy!)

But um.. neat? Not really too bothered about vatican politics.

 

[The White Hunter]

Oh so this is the new celibate guy who wants to tell women what to do with their bodies.

Nice.

Hey hey hey, they like to tell me what to do with their bodies too! Just not so loudly!

And only the men that like other men.

 

[The White Hunter]

All I wonder is if he is going to comment on matters like The Falklands... Can't be doing with it becoming a Holy Crusade to take our sheep

He probably will have something to say about it, while we're at it he can have a go about us abandoning catholicism so that the king could get laid 500 years ago.

The response of my home country will likely be a resounding:

 

[ToastiestZombie]

"I hate pope duties..."

(Admit it, this joke was inevitable)

Hopefully this will become a trend in the Vatican. Next we'll have Pope Bill, Louis, and Zoey.

Then they should move onto L4D2 characters

"My friends call me Pope!"

 

[l3o2828]

He was acussed and he's most likely guilty of kidnapping babies during the Fascist dictatorship in Argentina.
Besides he has been saying things like 'Women are inferior and don't deserve to have political power'.
I already hate his guts.

 

[The]

"I hate pope duties..."

(Admit it, this joke was inevitable)

Hopefully this will become a trend in the Vatican. Next we'll have Pope Bill, Louis, and Zoey.

Then they should move onto L4D2 characters

"My friends call me Pope!"

So if Coach becomes Pope, will he become Pope Coach, or just Pope?

 

[Vhite]

Maybe this will lend some insight:

Wow, now I totally feel like making an adventure game of regular Bob becoming a Pope. Bonus would be good and evil gameplay where going for evil ending you would be secretly murdering higher officials, faking lists and bribing cardinals.