megaskunk

Despite not being a particularly devout Catholic, I was sad this morning to see that Pope Francis had died. Within the confines of the Catholic faith, he seemed like a pretty cool guy, and comparatively progressive. He was never going to be as progressive as the non-faithful and some of the other denominations wanted him to be, but all things considered it seems like he had good ideas. My fear is that the next pope will be a step backwards and go back to being even more conservative. I know there were people who literally thought Pope Francis was too liberal (which, lol. If the pope is too liberal for you, it's time to reconsider yourself), so I hope the cardinals don't feel pressured to pick someone more traditional. I think I said this the last time a pope died (or maybe when the creepy one resigned, don't remember), but it'd be cool if they could pick like, a black pope or something other than just old white guy. I know the odds of that are incredibly slim though.

Overall I'm just so tired of people trying to push the world backwards. I hate change. Change is scary. But you can't go backwards. Especially when it comes to things like, people's rights. I'm sure there'll come a time when I'm old and new things seem too out there and crazy, but I'd like to hope that I can at least respect people's fundamental rights to exist. Of course by then it'll be probably be like, robots rights and stuff. But we'll see.

For accountability - I need to tackle the fix-it pile this weekend!! There are now 3 things in the pile that need fixing. I can't let another month slip by.
However now it is time to drink tea and read until dinner time.