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...There was a survey the other day where people were asked, 'Do you think we're likely to have a woman president by the year 2000?' And the majority of people said yes, which is encouraging. But a majority of them also said Jesus Christ would make his second coming [by then]. They seemed to think that it was slightly more likely there'd be a woman president...
Acevedo notes that the pope has been "revered since Christ made the apostle Peter the first pope almost two thousand years ago." Revered by whom? The countless millions of Muslims, Jews and Protestants slaughtered by and in the name of the Catholic Church? Or the pious Catholics who were bullied into donating huge sums to the church to fund the lavish lifestyles of the clergy? While these were not the Pope's personal doings, his failure to stop them did not earn him the reverence of the sufferers...
...certainly left a strong impression--destroying the picture of the Pope, a figure revered since Christ made the apostle Peter the first Pope almost two thousand years ago, was guaranteed to turn heads. But she left behind an audience filled with feelings of ambiguity, trying to decipher what it had just seen...
...Pope has just completed a trip to the Dominican Republic to celebrate the arrival of Christianity 500 years ago with the arrival of Christopher Columbus. As the chief evangelist of Christ's gospel on earth, the visit was indisputably inappropriate, whatever one thinks of the fifteenth century explorer...
...joined Sting and Tracy Chapman on an Amnesty International tour. Two years ago, he created ^ the Real World record label to provide a vehicle for Third World musicians (some of whom appear on Us) and later composed the score for Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation of Christ. With the Reebok Foundation, he started the Witness program, which supplies video cameras to human rights groups in the hope that they will record violations...