• stankcheez@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Also, the cardinals who choose the next pope typically don’t choose candidates who are only “moderately” old (in their 60s) b/c they might end up living with a pope they regret electing for 20+ years

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      You’d think there’s not much reason for that… I mean, the god they believe in famously selected a lot of unqualified crazy people. Noah an alchoholic, David couldn’t keep it in his pants, and had to arrange the death of one of his best soldiers to deal with it.