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What Would You Do, If Obama Succeeds Benedict XVI as the Next Pope?

Posted on 02/13/2013 8:13:21 AM PST by ComtedeMaistre

Please, do not laugh. Barack Obama has the same qualifications to be Pope, as he has to be a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, or President of the United States. If Obama can win the Nobel Peace Prize, then we cannot say with 100 percent certainty, that he cannot become Pope. Stranger things have happened.

As far as I am aware, one does not need to be a Cardinal in order to become Pope. The job is open to any Baptized male Catholic. Two Popes, Benedict IX (1012 - 1056) and John XII (930 - 964), become Popes when both were 11 years old and 18 years old respectively, and had not even been ordained as priests.

Baptism into the Catholic Church as an adult does not follow any rigid protocol. Some take months to be Baptized into the Church as adults, following detailed Catholic Catechism classes, while others are accepted into the church in brief ceremonies at their hospital beds in a process that takes about 20 minutes.

Theoretically, all 500 million Catholic men in the world are eligible for the job of Pope. And some priests would be able to get Obama Baptized as a Catholic in a single day. Some nutty but powerful person somewhere, may decide that the Catholic Church needs the same "hope and change", that Obama has brought to America.

What would you do, if the conclave of Cardinals announces a newly baptized Obama as the new Pope?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Religion
KEYWORDS: lastpope; obama; popebenedict; troll; zot
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Personally, I would react by stockpiling my home with food, just like those doomsday-scenario people, who are expecting civilization to collapse. I may also think of getting some farm land in Montana, North Dakota, or Utah.
1 posted on 02/13/2013 8:13:24 AM PST by ComtedeMaistre
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Why do I hear thunder?


2 posted on 02/13/2013 8:15:20 AM PST by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

There isn’t a flame-proof suit in existence that will protect you from the solar radiation you’re about to endure.

Were you drinking heavily last night or something?


3 posted on 02/13/2013 8:15:34 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

I would just laugh. Nothing surprises me any more.


4 posted on 02/13/2013 8:18:01 AM PST by mnehring
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Doubt it would happen. He thinks he is a god, as do his true believers. The real God would be competition.

He could, however, establish his own catholic church as the Chinese communists did


5 posted on 02/13/2013 8:18:35 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Self flagellation.


6 posted on 02/13/2013 8:19:20 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: ComtedeMaistre
Please, do not laugh.

Sorry, too late.

Barack Obama has the same qualifications to be Pope, as he has to be a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, or President of the United States.

A Marxist Muslim is qualified to receive the Nobel, or become POTUS, but no, he is not qualified, and cannot ever become, Pope.

7 posted on 02/13/2013 8:22:04 AM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: ComtedeMaistre

I’d finally change my mind and take the red pill.


8 posted on 02/13/2013 8:22:38 AM PST by Mr. Know It All
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To: ComtedeMaistre

This has got to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on FR!


9 posted on 02/13/2013 8:23:21 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Don’t give “The One” any ideas or he’ll just make an Executive Order declaring himself as the Pope.


10 posted on 02/13/2013 8:25:29 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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This has got to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on FR!

SECOND

11 posted on 02/13/2013 8:26:20 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Dr. Brian Kopp

Bam-Bam and Hildebeeste are about equally qualified ...


12 posted on 02/13/2013 8:26:33 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Actually the only qualifications you need for the Nobel Peace Prize is being a socialist or a Jew killer. I don’t think the Catholic Church as descended down the road to hell yet, however. When it does, I’ll jump train.


13 posted on 02/13/2013 8:26:55 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
Pope Alexander became a priest one day before becoming Pope ~ so there's your precedent. It takes more than simply being a baptised Catholic ~ you must be a member of the priesthood.

BTW, it apparently helped that Alexander had been a serious mafioso in his day ~ a real cappo de tutti cappo ~ maybe even MR BIG himself!

14 posted on 02/13/2013 8:27:01 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: ComtedeMaistre

The “Pelosi-Biden-Sibelius” Catholics would rejoice.


15 posted on 02/13/2013 8:27:31 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: ComtedeMaistre

I don’t answer STUPID questions!


16 posted on 02/13/2013 8:28:41 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: JCBreckenridge

I hear thunder also.

Tremble in fear. The Viking ZOT kitties approacheth.


17 posted on 02/13/2013 8:29:37 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: mnehring

Yep. I would just shake my head and laugh. Obama in a Bishops Mitre would not faze me a bit..


18 posted on 02/13/2013 8:30:26 AM PST by cardinal4 (Constitution? What Constitution?)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
What Would You Do, If Obama Succeeds Benedict XVI as the Next Pope?


19 posted on 02/13/2013 8:31:48 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: ComtedeMaistre

I think you should start stockpiling now. If I were you, I wouldn’t wait another second.


20 posted on 02/13/2013 8:32:58 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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