The Vatican now seems much more powerful that it ever did to me before. The entire process of electing a new Pope seems to be the culmination of various agendas, two of the most powerful ones being Religion and Politics. Being a religious head for over a billion faithful followers, influencing world leaders and their decisions, bringing down certain types of governments, holding a stand even if it meant danger..all under the umbrella of faith and religion. It is difficult to imagine how the religious leader shoulders such conflicting responsibilities which requires measures which sometimes might be condemned and critized by their his own followers.
Although human beings perish, their acts are scarred throughout the face of this earth and one cannot run and hide from these. Pope John Paul II has mentioned about how the acts of Christians in the past against Jewish need repentance in the present. It scares me how we are going to look like 1000 years from now. Inspite of the mistakes of WWI and WWII, we still had the Gulf War and made another mistake of even bigger magnitude two years ago. Would we continue to make such mistakes?
It seems as though there is a destructive interference at the point where religion and politics meet. The roads to be walked down seem more challenging and difficult
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