You completely miss the point Logan.
None of your "secularists and leftists" is suddenly saying that the guy should be obeyed and followed. It's more that they are congratulating him for following THEM in talking sense on this issue.
The fun part is different:
The Pope of the Catholic Church is widely considered a "respected authority figure" by billions of people, catholic or not, because of his office. That is a fact, and encouraging it has been the policy of the Church for centuries already.
Many of these politicians who now complain about the Pope are actually catholic themselves, and thus have accepted him as the ULTIMATE authority on earth. Other ones have hailed him too because he shares their position on subjects like abortion and homosexuality.
But when the Pope reminds them that the Catholic Church has actually progressed a bit on the subject of science (because they know they have to admint the evidence to try and stay relevant), that its policy is that evolution is real, that the universe is billions of years old, that the bible is not to be taken literally, and now that global warming is real and man-made, they can't accept it. It's THEY who are suffering from the cognitive dissonance. They are having all this meltdowns because their "respected figure" and "ultimate authority" has turned out to be some lefty commie hippy and prescribing things that they absolutely do not want to follow.
And we are making fun of them because it is hilarious to watch.
None of your "secularists and leftists" is suddenly saying that the guy should be obeyed and followed. It's more that they are congratulating him for following THEM in talking sense on this issue.
The fun part is different:
The Pope of the Catholic Church is widely considered a "respected authority figure" by billions of people, catholic or not, because of his office. That is a fact, and encouraging it has been the policy of the Church for centuries already.
Many of these politicians who now complain about the Pope are actually catholic themselves, and thus have accepted him as the ULTIMATE authority on earth. Other ones have hailed him too because he shares their position on subjects like abortion and homosexuality.
But when the Pope reminds them that the Catholic Church has actually progressed a bit on the subject of science (because they know they have to admint the evidence to try and stay relevant), that its policy is that evolution is real, that the universe is billions of years old, that the bible is not to be taken literally, and now that global warming is real and man-made, they can't accept it. It's THEY who are suffering from the cognitive dissonance. They are having all this meltdowns because their "respected figure" and "ultimate authority" has turned out to be some lefty commie hippy and prescribing things that they absolutely do not want to follow.
And we are making fun of them because it is hilarious to watch.