I am not convinced by any thesis that says "history says its eventual happening is an inevitability," regardless of the value of "it."
From another angle, if your goal is to convert the Pope, you have to work with the Pope you have, and less theologically minded popes have not converted. I suspect, though, that if a pope were to announce his conversion to Judaism (or any other non-Christian religion, or simply to declare one fine Sunday that there is no God), he would either be said to have died quietly in his bed (if he spoke to his staff before getting up in public) or the College of Cardinals would choose another pope and claim that the one who had converted wasn't the real pope.
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Date: 2007-01-13 08:55 pm (UTC)I am not convinced by any thesis that says "history says its eventual happening is an inevitability," regardless of the value of "it."
From another angle, if your goal is to convert the Pope, you have to work with the Pope you have, and less theologically minded popes have not converted. I suspect, though, that if a pope were to announce his conversion to Judaism (or any other non-Christian religion, or simply to declare one fine Sunday that there is no God), he would either be said to have died quietly in his bed (if he spoke to his staff before getting up in public) or the College of Cardinals would choose another pope and claim that the one who had converted wasn't the real pope.