Personally, I subscribe to the counternarrative- he should've been dead already, but the chance to:
-Release a statement on Good Friday condemning Vance and his masters
-Big time Vance by relegating him to a meeting with a second-tier cardinal
-Eventually meet with Vance
-Bless the Easter crowd and have his aide deliver an address once again repudiating Vance, the people whose lap dog he is, and all that they believe
-Die
was too good to pass up. If it's not enough to make you believe in a divine entity who loves all, seeks to comfort and uplift the oppressed, and condemns the wicked, then at least it's a HOF moment in (the good kind of) Christian hatin'; up there with Jesus wrecking shop on the merchant tables in the temple or dropping sick bars on the pharisees. Only thing he could've done better was finish it off with an excommunication.
Personally, I subscribe to the counternarrative- he should've been dead already, but the chance to:
-Release a statement on Good Friday condemning Vance and his masters
-Big time Vance by relegating him to a meeting with a second-tier cardinal
-Eventually meet with Vance
-Bless the Easter crowd and have his aide deliver an address once again repudiating Vance, the people whose lap dog he is, and all that they believe
-Die
was too good to pass up. If it's not enough to make you believe in a divine entity who loves all, seeks to comfort and uplift the oppressed, and condemns the wicked, then at least it's a HOF moment in (the good kind of) Christian hatin'; up there with Jesus wrecking shop on the merchant tables in the temple or dropping sick bars on the pharisees. Only thing he could've done better was finish it off with an excommunication.