Former Pope Benedict is dead. Will you join us in celebration?

I hope his corpse stinks grotesquely.

He wasn’t my favorite pope, but I find this kind of hateful spewing grotesque.

You can say this but I can’t use the word misfit?

I have a personal disdain myself for the institution of religion and the typical individual who identifies as it’s member, especially Catholism, because of my experience with it which is still ongoing and how it actually affects my life. But even I don’t hold the sentiments you do. No crusades burned down my house and killed my family.

Religion is just the dying dogma of the past. Today it’s science and capitalism. Next it will be some other thing until there aren’t enough people in the world who can’t think for themselves for such things to fester.

@wearemiracles The difference is that this isn’t aimed at another user of this site; it’s aimed at an outside figure. Insult celebrities and authority figures all you want. Mocking other users is against the guidelines.

As for the question, in general I’m not a fan of celebrating anyone’s death as it tends to reflect more on the person celebrating than on the person who died. It has the unintended effect of fostering sympathy for the dead person, no matter how vile they were in life. We’re supposed to be “better than them”. We can focus on the harmful actions of Benedict XVI without resorting to childish “dancing on graves”. (In a similar manner, I do not at all believe you can’t “speak ill of the dead”. You can absolutely speak ill of the dead. But I’d rather it be fact-based than emotional). Benedict was a regressive who helped cover up the rampant pedophilia in the Church. I am not sad to see him go.

@Locke That makes sense. However the term misfit was addressing the collective not “another user of this site”. That makes is sound like I singled somebody out and called them misfit to insult them, when in fact I asked a question about whether it would be good to ask more questions and used the term endearingly to refer to everyone including myself in the context of the question description.

Split hairs aside. I still think it’s a bit out of coherence.

Holy, holy, holy.
Lord God almighty, there goes another one!

He looked like the Emperor from Star Wars.