{"id":957,"date":"2005-04-04T19:54:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T00:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=957"},"modified":"2011-06-05T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:12:30","slug":"i-miss-him-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/i-miss-him-already\/","title":{"rendered":"I miss him already."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RestI was quite taken back with Reverend Mykeru’s writeup on Pope John Paul II’s passing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve been mainly of the Protestant brand of Christianity, so the Pope always represented the “wrong” kind of Christianity, though I never took a hatred to Catholicism like Jack Chick<\/a> did.<\/p>\n

Actually, I really liked this Pope. Sure he was “a funny little guy with the beanie” and the butt of a lot of my jokes sometimes, but all in all he was a good man who had the task of holding together a dying and archaic institution, wracked with scandals and falling apart at the seams.
\n
\nCompare him to past Popes like Pope Clement V who destroyed the Knights Templar<\/a> on bogus charges of heresy, or Pope (wait for it…) Innocent III who exterminated the Cathars<\/a> for carrying a different take on life… and Pope John Paul II was a gem. Unlike past Popes who were full of self-importance and took themselves way too seriously, this Pope was a humble man who served and loved the people. He suffered a great deal over the years, and he proved you can be powerful and gentle at the same time. He will be a tough act to follow for his successor.<\/p>\n

It’s important to many of my Catholic friends to know, that despite all the jokes… he was a man of honor that I truly respected.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace, good sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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