The Pope and (some) Muslims crack me up

This will offend folks like "Squish" Hewitt, but I just don't have much respect for the Pope. To me, he's on a level with any other cult leader. Plain enough? He's probably an authority on Roman Catholicism. If that's important to you, then he's your man.

That having been said, I thought his remarks on Islam were worth making. I might even have said, "Good point."

But now he's apologized. Well, sort of. Okay, it wasn't him, and it wasn't an apology... but it was apologetic, and in his name.

That's sort of funny. Here are two funnier things:

1. Freshen my memory: has The One and Only Seamless and True Holy Roman Catholic Church, Now With Magisterial Teaching for Extra-Infallibility{tm} ever officially and formally apologized for the violence done by it to my spiritual ancestors? Or are they still fishing in that big river over in Egypt?

2. How do Muslims (the loud, visible, public ones, anyway) respond when the Pope associates violence with their religion? Yeppers, you guessed it. Violence. Wellsir, now there's a convincing response! Nobody will dare to associate them with violence anymore or... or... well, they'll kill him! (Isn't this like a husband telling his wife to go to Hell when she says he doesn't love her, or a wife tearing her husband apart when he hints she might not be very respectful? Not much of a rebuttal.)

Reminds me of this deathless exchange in Raising Arizona:

Glen: It's a crazy world.

H.I. : Someone oughta sell tickets.

Glen: Sure, I'd buy one.