Pope Promotes Christian Netiquette

angry tapir writes "Pope Benedict XVI Monday gave his blessing to social networking, urging Catholic Internet users to adopt a respectful Christian netiquette when spreading the Gospel online. The pope said new technologies were creating unprecedented opportunities for establishing relationships and building fellowship but warned against creating false online profiles out of vanity or diluting the Christian message to achieve popularity."

Sigh

[Anonymous Coward]

Cue litany of anti-Christian (and anti-religious in general) rhetoric by so-called "tolerant" Internet users

Re:The pope should just shut the fuck up.

[MightyMartian]

And Iran's election was at least representative. When you look at the way the Pope is elected, you'll quickly notice that it doesn't even make fake attempts at resembling democracy.

That's because, while the Vatican is recognized as a nation state, the Roman Catholic Church is not. Of course, the upside of this is that no one is forced to be a Catholic any more. If you don't like the way Popes are chosen, you pick a church more to your liking, or make your own.

The Pope is elected by the cardinals. Which are in turn appointed by the Pope. There's nothing any "ordinary" catholic contributes to that election.

You have that a bit funny. The current Pope picks the Cardinals, or rather picks new cardinals. The next Pope is chosen by those Cardinals. This does allow the current Pope no insignificant amount of power to try to direct the nature of his successor, but when the next Pope is chosen, he's dead.

Just a gentle reminder that "elected" doesn't necessarily mean that the process has anything to do with what we consider Democracy.

Sort of like Soviet and Chinese elections.

Re:Good Christian Netiquette....

[zill]

Don't "poke" them either.

Re:HAH

[IrquiM]

What he says is that catholics is not the same as christians - it's one of many sub-groups. It's like saying that Volvo is a car, but a car doesn't have to be a Volvo!