FORUM COMMUNITY OMNIBUS AMA THREAD

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

What are your opinions of Pope Benedict XVI, sex-negative feminism, and teetotalers?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I don't know what the other two are, and I'm on a very slow internet connection.  If you could explain further, I'd be happy to give you my opinion.

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't care for them--sex-negative feminism is next to nonexistent as a proactive movement but is generally a term used semi-sarcastically for a reaction within feminism against sex-positive feminism, a kind commonly associated with perhaps excessive comfort with pornography, prostitution, and overall sexualization of society (typically on what 'sex-negative feminists' consider excessively libertarianesque 'choice' grounds); teetotalers are people who oppose all (non-medicinal, non-religious) consumption of alcohol. My entire question was intended as a joke.

Also, I know this wouldn't affect your opinion all that much nor would I expect it to, but Benedict 'had Nazi ties' in about the same way that Jürgen Moltmann did. That was always one of the more specious criticisms of his papacy.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And the Nazi-ties remark is just... ya know.. would I be being myself if I didn't? 

Point taken, not quite but almost with affection.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Given that Ratzinger is a wretched human being if he had actual 'Nazi ties', he'd have context that he doesn't deserve

I think he's a slightly underrated pope and John Paul II a vastly overrated one, but 'slightly underrated' still leaves him pretty crappy at best, so I have to agree.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How come you have yet to be banned?