As a died-in-the-wool Baptist, I don't, as some do, hold that Christianity will benefit from the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a religious and political conservative, as Pope Benedict XVI. To committed Catholics the selection of a new pope is a seminal event; but to committed, non-Catholic, dispensational Christians the selection simply moves us farther up the terrace of end-times events.
Oh, I believe the world will benefit from the kind of pope Joe will be ... in the same way the world benefited from Karol Wojtyla. But the question is: will Joe be to Karol as Elisha was to Elijah, or will he be as Gehazi was to Elisha?
Not everyone (reg. reqd.), after all, is a happy camper. Can you see Leahy, Schumer, Kerry, Pelosi, and Kennedy hyperventilating over his selection? Try to visualize them, inside the beltway, rising each morning to genuflect toward St. Peter's Square. Give me a break; the libs are aghast at this man's selection as Hugh Hewitt documents this morning.
Benedict the XVI called himself "a simple, humble worker" ... that may be true but I remember Ratzinger back before the Pole was selected Pope; I remember the word on the street saying he was doctrinally conservative and a behind the scenes mystery man way back then. Based on what I've seen and read over the past thirty some years, I'd wager that Joe read "The Prince" long before becoming Cardinal Ratzinger.
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