Joe, Monsieur La Pope will forevermore be known to me as The Pople. ;0)

You know, I really think that all those cardinals should just go and get themselves laid...same with the nuns...then they'd all realise what they'd been missing for so long and have the holy books changed in an instant!

I remember a very glamourous woman coming in to my office in Harley St, many moons ago. We're talking Joanna Lumley Gorgeous, here, dripping in elegance and highly expensive clothes. I commented on how lovely she looked and she grinned. Then she told me it was her way of 'getting her own back' on the nuns who'd done so much damage to she and her friends when they were growing up. She told us how the girls hadn't even been able to take a bath without wearing a gown that covered them from shoulders to ankles, because to view your body was bordering on evil. So taking great care of herself, loving her body, loving the way she looked was her 'two fingers' back at 'em...

These people are seriously nuts. Sorry, Joe, but someone has to say it. They've all got so many hang ups that they'd keep thousands of psychiatrists busy for eternity...

I mean, where the hell did all this weird stuff come from in the first place?

The good people in any church are very good...and the bad are more bad than many folks inside our jails, but for some reason they're allowed to be out there in charge of children and adults alike...screwing up their minds and souls, often their whole life long.

And tell me, how many Catholics who've left the fold, return to it, shortly before they know death is coming, just 'to be on the safe side'...

Terrible terrible things have been told to children in the name of many religions, for no other reason than control, power and absolutely shitty cruelty. What goes in to a young child's mind, repeatedly, at such an early age, stays there. It takes a strong adult to be able to release his/her inner, damaged child from all the crappy things said 'in the name of God'..

If I was Pope-ess, and I was the head of a church run entirely by women who preached to little children that staring, feeling, fondling or simply loving your body, or letting someone else do all of the above, was downright evil, it would be shut down immediately and the majority of men, in particular, would write me, and my fellow religious maidens off..for life.

Whoever first decided that nuns and priests should show God how deep their love for him was, by giving up one of the most wondrous and loving things on the planet, was completely off his rocker and had the biggest hang up going..(no jokes, please, boys)

I *am* with the pople inasmuch as soooooo do not like all this rampant sex with any Tom, Dick or Harriet that's going on around the planet, with no need for there to be love thrown in there somewhere..and yes, in that respect, condoms, and the Pill, have wrought havoc on what was once regarded as something very special...

I strongly think that Love should replace Sex again...Everyone's 'having sex' but so few are 'making love' any longer..and it's desensitising to the point where something so beautiful has become nothing more than a physical act where, hey, you don't even have to ask each other's name when it's all over..just pack up yer condom and go...

I mean????????

Anyway, I'll leave the jokes to start flowing now..and go back to my naughty step..Gawd, I get bored sitting on the naughty step.. ;0)