I am sorry to hear that ren. "Hate" might be a bit strong of a word to describe my feeling towards the Pope. I even spell his name with a capital.

I do try to not "hate" anyone, but when I see a destructive force, even just in my humble opinion, I do feel compelled to point it out. I stick with my "condemnation of the condom conundrum" and that the Pope was out of line, blatantly wrong, and is deadly in the effect of his words.

I am strongly at odds with the Catholic religion on many issues, based on rational thinking. There is a quote - I am looking it up now....
AH, here it is:
"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people."

So, with that in mind, I think it speaks volumes that YOU AND I could have maintained our online relationship for so long, with me being so "unreligious" and you being religious. Go ahead, think what you want, both of religion and of me, I do not want to get in the way of anyone's rights to believe what they may. We both believe each other is "not correct". So be it.