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Comment author: wedrifid 04 January 2012 12:45:34AM *  3 points [-]

I think the Catholics are cool and think maybe we shouldn't call popes stupid unless we have arguments for it.

Here's an argument from Tim Minchin that some of the guys at Berkeley showed me.

Also, popes (say that they) believe there is a god and that said god makes the pope infallible. What arrogant dumbasses (or brilliant machiavellian pricks).

Comment author: Prismattic 04 January 2012 01:14:01AM 2 points [-]

Also, popes (say that they) believe there is a god and that said god makes the pope infallible.

Technically, only popes since 1868 have claimed that. (It was also the inspiration for Lord Acton's famous quote about absolute power.)

Comment author: dlthomas 04 January 2012 01:45:14AM 2 points [-]

And even more technically, they've only claimed that they believe god makes the pope infallible when he's doing certain things.

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