The Pope is a dictator

The Vatican is all up in arms because a bishop was ordained in China without papal approval. It urged that there be no more 'illicit' ordinations.

Ye Xiaowen, Director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs and officials from the Communist Party's United Front Department attended the mass to ordinate Wang Renlei as coadjutor bishop of Xuzhou in Jiangsu province. This is an indication that the central government recognizes the ordination. It is the third episcopal ordination in China this year the Vatican considers to be 'illicit', because the Pope didn't give his prior approval.

Bishop Zhao Fengchang, who celebrated of the mass, and bishop Wang, both face excommunication by dictator Benedict.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry urged the Vatican to view the ordination in a positively light and warned against interference in China's internal affairs.

While everybody is talking about promoting democracy, the Pope is acting like a dictator. Where is the proof that 'God' gave him the right to decide about bishop's ordinations all over the world?

Three religions believe in the existence of one God: Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Shia Grand Ayatollahs, Sunni Great Muftis and Orthodox Rabbis are only benevolent guides, they do not claim to be infallible dictators like the popes. The Protestants among the Christians also do not recognize a supreme representative of God on earth.

Which leaves us with dictator Benedict XVI. If God does exist, and if He recognizes the Pope as his earthly diplomat, and as the Chinese patriotic church disobeys the Pope, and as God is supposedly almighty, then why does he not strike down those blasphemous 'illicitly ordained' bishops with a bold strike of thunder and lightning? He is doing nothing of the sort, which only proves the Pope is acting as a petty dictator. Or perhaps proves that at least the God of Catholicism doesn't exist...

Shi'a muslims may follow the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani or Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, or Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, or Grand Ayatollah Yusef Saanei or Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi or Grand Ayatollah Sayeed Hassan Fadlallah. Or who knows how many others. Our Iranian brothers and sisters have the freedom to choose whom to follow in their quest for God. Catholics have only the freedom to submit to the whims of a dictator.

The Chinese Patriotic Church is right to resist the dictatorship of Benedict XVI. Amen.