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Which Pope are you?

Category: Humor • Weirdness
Posted on: May 27, 2009 12:44 PM, by PZ Myers

I took the test, and it said,

You are a heady mix of the most evil Popes - Paul III, Benedict IX, Urban II and "Hitler's Pope" Pius XII.

Oops. I knew I shouldn't have admitted that vanilla was my favorite ice cream flavor in that last question.

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Posted by: Postman | May 27, 2009 12:52 PM

I seem to be a giddy combo of the weirder popes. But that raises the question, "Which Pope does that exclude, really?"

Posted by: vbalbert | May 27, 2009 12:52 PM

I couldn't take the quiz. I could not fit my personality into any of the choices in question 2, no matter how much I tried to stretch the truth.

Posted by: Glen Davidson | May 27, 2009 12:52 PM

I always wanted to be Primate.

Then I learned I was in science class, and counted myself to be a success.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/6mb592

Posted by: Alverant | May 27, 2009 12:57 PM

I would have thought that when it comes to EVIL-LE, it would be hard to beat Innocent III who started the fourth crusade and had the Albigenses slaughtered because they thought they didn't need the Church to talk to God.

Posted by: NewEnglandBob | May 27, 2009 1:00 PM

An attempt at humor resulted in a pathetic, bizarre article.

Posted by: Dianne | May 27, 2009 1:02 PM

I shouldn't have admitted that vanilla was my favorite ice cream flavor

Weirdo.

I think the quiz might have been funnier if I'd been an ex-catholic, a history major or both. I just didn't get some of the references.

Posted by: Slaan | May 27, 2009 1:05 PM

[quote]"Hitler's Pope" Pius XII.[/quote]

Have you seen this guy's statue... in the middle of St. Peter's church? Its freaking scary, he has stereotypical evil guy goggles, bags under the eyes and his hand looks like it can hold a sword.

The really scary part is that it is next to a whole line of "good popes" down the right side of the Cathedral.

Posted by: Paul from NH | May 27, 2009 1:06 PM

I am "an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII". Hooray! Hail Eris!

Posted by: ChimbleySweep | May 27, 2009 1:06 PM

I'm a weirder pope like Stephen VI. He dug up the corpse of the previous pope, propped the body up in a chair and put the corpse on trial, and the dead pope was found guilty.

Compared to other popes, I'm not sure how weird that is.

#10

Posted by: Emmet, OM | May 27, 2009 1:10 PM

You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

#11

Posted by: Don | May 27, 2009 1:11 PM

...you represent the period of sede vacante when there is no Pope at all – probably the best scenario.

Heh, result.

#12

Posted by: Tophe | May 27, 2009 1:12 PM

Well done! You are a mish-mash of Pope Sisinnius, Stephen the Pope Elect and Pope Urban VII, who didn’t reign long enough to make any sort of Papal mess. And/or you represent the period of sede vacante when there is no Pope at all – probably the best scenario.

Did I win?

#13

Posted by: daveau | May 27, 2009 1:13 PM

I had the same issue with the ice cream question; none of them really suited me.

#14

Posted by: the Nihilist | May 27, 2009 1:13 PM

You are a heady mix of the most evil Popes - Paul III, Benedict IX, Urban II and "Hitler's Pope" Pius XII.
wow! PZ, you really ARE irreducibly complex
*evil grin*
I took the test and:
You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII
ah well, nihilist are pretty much anti-everything, in a weird pro-nothing kind of way
*evil giggle*
thanks for much needed break in my otherwise serious day
^_^

#15

Posted by: Don | May 27, 2009 1:14 PM

Missed by a minute.

#16

Posted by: DGKnipfer | May 27, 2009 1:14 PM

Pull your socks up!
You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

At least I'm anti-pope material.

#17

Posted by: Katrina | May 27, 2009 1:15 PM

You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter

Stephen VI:

Stephen is chiefly remembered in connection with his conduct towards the remains of Pope Formosus, his last predecessor but one. Doubtless under pressure from the Spoleto contingent[citation needed], and fueled by Stephen's fury with his predecessor, the rotting corpse of Formosus was exhumed and put on trial, in the so-called Cadaver Synod (or Synodus Horrenda), in January 897. With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff, who was condemned for performing the functions of a bishop when he had been deposed and for receiving the pontificate while he was the bishop of Porto, among other revived charges that had been leveled against Formosus in the strife during the pontificate of John VIII. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers of its right hand (the blessing fingers), clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried; it was then re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber. All ordinations performed by Formosus were annulled.

Benedict XVI: well, we know who he is, don't we?

St. Peter:

Traditions originating in or recorded in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, say that the Romans crucified Peter upside down at his request because he did not wish to be equated with Jesus. Acts of Peter is also thought to be the source for the tradition about the famous phrase "Quo vadis, Domine?" (or "Pou Hupageis, Kurie?" which means, "Whither goest Thou, Master?"), a question that, according to this tradition, Peter, fleeing Rome to avoid execution, asked a vision of Jesus, and to which Jesus responded that he was "going to Rome, to be crucified again," causing Peter to decide to return to the city and accept martyrdom. As legends go, this has no historical basis. This story is commemorated in an Annibale Carracci painting. The Church of Quo Vadis, near the Catacombs of Saint Callistus, contains a stone in which Jesus' footprints from this event are supposedly preserved, though this was actually apparently an ex-voto from a pilgrim, and indeed a copy of the original, housed in the Basilica of St Sebastian.

Huh?

#18

Posted by: daveau | May 27, 2009 1:16 PM

You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

Mine, too. Seeing a lot of these among the atheist crowd.

#19

Posted by: Kausik Datta | May 27, 2009 1:20 PM

It's a good thing I am not Christian, not by a long shot. Appropriately, I got "You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII." Must be the Papal Infallibility that I invoked in two questions, choosing the option 'D' to match with my last name...

Oh, and the strawberry may have helped, too!

#20

Posted by: Cliff Hendroval | May 27, 2009 1:21 PM

I'm an anti-pope as well.

#21

Posted by: Ric | May 27, 2009 1:22 PM

You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter

#22

Posted by: blueelm | May 27, 2009 1:28 PM

You are a delicious blend of the rare nice Popes, John Paul II, St Peter (who is also a weird Pope, but you can be nice and weird) and Gregory the Great

I wonder if that's because I like fishing and chocolate ice cream?

#23

Posted by: Benny the Icepick | May 27, 2009 1:41 PM

Vanilla, PZ? Seriously? I'm surprised and ashamed; I always took you to be far more interesting than that.

#24

Posted by: JD | May 27, 2009 1:46 PM

Pope = old, fat male primate who takes himself seriously.

#25

Posted by: Jafafa Hots | May 27, 2009 1:49 PM

Anti-Pope amalgam here too.

#26

Posted by: littlejohn | May 27, 2009 1:53 PM

Seek help now!
You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter

I'll readily admit to weird, but I had to pick randomly on the ice cream question: I'm lactose intolerant. Most popes are simply intolerant.

Also, it's worth noting St. Peter was a Jew. So no, the pope is *not* Catholic! But he does shit in the Vatican.

#27

Posted by: Evolving Squid | May 27, 2009 2:02 PM

Apparently: You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter

#28

Posted by: Anonymous | May 27, 2009 2:15 PM

Clement the VII and Benedict the XIII

Is that okay?

#29

Posted by: m5 | May 27, 2009 2:22 PM

This is an entertaining article on the 6th most awful popes. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/most-awful/popes-cadaver-synod.php

#30

Posted by: BeccaTheCyborg | May 27, 2009 2:26 PM

I got the antipopes.

And vanilla is the best ice cream flavour. I decree it.

#31

Posted by: BeamStalk | May 27, 2009 2:30 PM

Weird popes here also.

#32

Posted by: Die Anyway | May 27, 2009 2:36 PM

My result: You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter

Hmmmm.... from reading the reports above, that seemed to be a common result. We must have something in common... maybe CHOCOLATE icecream.

eat well, stay fit, die anyway!

#33

Posted by: Dahan | May 27, 2009 2:45 PM

"You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII"

Guess that's pretty common here..

#34

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 2:46 PM

Scientific challenge to atheists: apologist offers a medieval miracle tale.

#35

Posted by: norm! | May 27, 2009 2:46 PM

Which pope would you most resemble if your favorite choice of ice cream is "bacon"?

#36

Posted by: CJ | May 27, 2009 2:48 PM

See, if you had just selected Raspberry Ripple you too could have been an anti-pope amalgam.

#37

Posted by: Anubis Bloodsin the third | May 27, 2009 2:53 PM

'Paul III, Benedict IX, Urban II and "Hitler’s Pope" Pius XII'

It was the 'choccy' that went and gone and did for me!...

#38

Posted by: Rev Matt | May 27, 2009 2:55 PM

Well done!

You are a mish-mash of Pope Sisinnius, Stephen the Pope Elect and Pope Urban VII, who didn’t reign long enough to make any sort of Papal mess. And/or you represent the period of sede vacante when there is no Pope at all – probably the best scenario

#39

Posted by: Kris | May 27, 2009 3:11 PM

@ #34--that is just disgusting. Hey guys, it's a miracle--we're cannibals! Check it out!
Blech.

#40

Posted by: varlo | May 27, 2009 3:12 PM

I have to wonder, PZ, if by chance you have a portrait of yourself up in the attic, and exactly what it looks like.

#41

Posted by: firemancarl | May 27, 2009 3:25 PM

yea! I qualify as a pope!

You are a heady mix of the most evil Popes – Paul III, Benedict IX, Urban II and "Hitler’s Pope" Pius XII

#42

Posted by: Seizure | May 27, 2009 3:34 PM

I'm praying for all of you.

#43

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 27, 2009 3:40 PM

Vanilla, PZ? Seriously? I'm surprised and ashamed; I always took you to be far more interesting than that.

I am so sick of anti-vanillaism. If you've ever had the good stuff straight from Mexico you'd realise just how textured and complex the flavour is.

Perhaps some people, brought up on a steady diet of McDonald's, top 40s pop, and Hollywood blockbusters, just don't have the tastebuds left to discern the subtleties of anything less ostentatious than an over-sugared glob of cocoa butter and partially hydrogenated oils.

#44

Posted by: Timebender13 | May 27, 2009 3:43 PM

Pull your socks up!
You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

#45

Posted by: Michael W Simpson | May 27, 2009 3:43 PM

Scientific challenge to atheists: apologist offers a medieval miracle tale.

Give me a break. That wasn't science, that's more like a good magic trick. I wonder how the priest obtained body parts? Isn't that illegal?

#46

Posted by: Joker | May 27, 2009 3:56 PM

Also an anti-pope.

#47

Posted by: Dave Bacon | May 27, 2009 3:56 PM

As the quantum pontiff it does seem appropriate that I am "a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter." But...How DID the test know that quantum theory was weird?

#48

Posted by: Stogoe | May 27, 2009 4:00 PM

It turns out that I'm already a Pope, thank you very much. My Discordian/SubGenius friend in college already ordained me. I'll take the test after work, but I really hope I get the guy who exumed his predecessor and tried the corpse for heresy. If I were named Pope of the Vatican, I'd have to top that guy somehow - maybe I could hold a week-long Caligulan orgy in St Peter's Square. And you'd all be invited!

#49

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage | May 27, 2009 4:07 PM

Raspberry Ripple is the only correct answer. I know this because I am infallible.

#50

Posted by: ArchangelChuck | May 27, 2009 4:17 PM

"You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter"

#51

Posted by: JarrodB | May 27, 2009 4:18 PM

Since none of these answers apply to me, I'm just going to pick Rodrigo Borgia.

#52

Posted by: Sastra | May 27, 2009 4:19 PM

Reginald Selkirk #34 wrote:

Scientific challenge to atheists: apologist offers a medieval miracle tale.

What a great article. First it argues that belief is not based on faith, but on science, because science has supported the claim that faith is "a tangible spiritual gift that is freely given by God to all whom He chooses to reveal himself."

What? A "gift" that is only revealed to the chosen isn't going to fit into the objective scientific method -- particularly since the gift of faith is then defined as "whoever sincerely seeks to believe, will find all the evidence necessary to believe." Well, yes. That human tendency to confirm what you want to confirm was the very problem which the methods of science were formed to help eliminate.

There then follows a lot of fuss about a supposed study by an unknown Dr. Linoli and

In 1973, the World Health Organization (WHO) appointed its own scientific commission to scrutinize Dr. Linoli’s findings. During a 15-month period, over 500 tests were conducted, all of which supported the conclusions listed above. WHO’s scientific research was published in New York and Geneva in 1976, confirming “science’s failure to explain the Miracle.”

I'll bet. These findings appear to be buried in obscurity, mentioned only on Catholic sites. The science community doesn't work that way. Plus, as Michael W. Simpson points out in #45, if the host had actually been made out of human flesh in the first place (in 1574), that would pretty much take care of most of the 'miracle.'

Another reason religion needs to stay out of science. They don't understand the basics: it's not about supporting untested anecdotes by piling on unsupported anecdotes about tests.

#53

Posted by: GMacs | May 27, 2009 4:20 PM

Seek help now!

Like I've never heard that before.

Hail Eris!

Beware her engraved golden apples [oranges]!

#54

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 27, 2009 4:22 PM

Two of my comments on the 'atheist challenge' article by Dyan Puma have disappeared. I hope my faith that it's merely a glitch and not active censorship isn't misplaced.

#55

Posted by: Laughtrack | May 27, 2009 4:23 PM

Pull your socks up!

You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

I think it was the raspberry ripple. And that I claim to me the technopope. Which is true because I said it is.

#56

Posted by: Smoggy Batzrubble | May 27, 2009 4:24 PM

I don't understand this message:

"You will be Pope three reincarnations' from now as you descend into ever-lower forms of life. After a brief time as a Bichon Frise and an even briefer time as a yeast infection, you will become Pope Smoggius I. As head of the Holy See you will decree that only hermaphrodites can become priests so that they can go fuck themselves; you will decree that transubstantiation produces only meat from Christ's left buttock and all wine must come from Noo Zillund vineyards; and you will relocate the Vatican City to Graceland. You will be assassinated by the devolving incarnation of Lee Harvey Oswald, a confused boy named Bacon Coulter, the illegitimate love-child of Ken Ham and Ann Coulter'.

WTF? Last time I go off-site!

#57

Posted by: Laughtrack | May 27, 2009 4:27 PM

@Smoggy Batzrubble

THAT WAS WIN. Win, I tell you!

#58

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 4:40 PM

#52 Sastra: In 1973, the World Health Organization (WHO)

In a comment, I asked for the title, date and authors of the alleged WHO publication, which oddly do not seem to be listed in any article on the Lanciano miracle I have seen. Dyan Puma referred me to the "Italian Catholic Media Group," whose pious web site she apparently treats as a valid scientific source.

Here's another claim that is very interesting:

The five clots of Blood, though different in shape and size, are equal in weight. Also, one of the clots weighs as much as two, and two as much as three. Whether one clot, two clots or five clots are weighed, they always amount to 15.85 grams.

That would be very impressive, if it were true.
I'll have to check back in a day or two to see if my comments have been expunged.

#59

Posted by: Smoggy Batzrubble | May 27, 2009 4:41 PM

It's active censorship, Brownian. I wrote something like:

"Wonderful! A God burger! I'm giving up atheism for Catholicism at once. Any religion that can convince millions that their deity resides in a teething rusk and a piece of offal, all the while ripping the faithful off to the tune of billions, and setting up a priesthood to abuse them and their children is my kind of faith. Where do I sign up? When do I get to eat off the gold plate?"

They seem very thin-skinned, o my brother.

#60

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 4:43 PM

The five clots of Blood, though different in shape and size, are equal in weight. Also, one of the clots weighs as much as two, and two as much as three. Whether one clot, two clots or five clots are weighed, they always amount to 15.85 grams.

That would be very impressive, if it were true.
I'll have to check back in a day or two to see if my comments have been expunged.

#61

Posted by: Screamin' Demon | May 27, 2009 4:43 PM

Which Pope Am I?
Pull your socks up!

You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

I claimed to be a pope although no else believed I was, had no opinion on Islam, made no questionable decrees, and I did virtually nothing but eat chocolate ice cream (and stand near orgies.)

Not a bad job, actually.

#62

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 27, 2009 4:58 PM

I'll have to check back in a day or two to see if my comments have been expunged.

Reginald, she purged my comments for 'insulting' her God, apparently by daring to suggest he seems unwilling to grant his followers anything more than parlour tricks available to the followers of all those false gods.

#63

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 27, 2009 5:01 PM

They seem very thin-skinned, o my brother.

Smoggy, it seems that only the chosen few (of which I am fortunate to count myself) are able to see the divinely inspired genius in your words.

#64

Posted by: AJ Milne | May 27, 2009 5:05 PM

Sez I'm the antipope...

But Claypool sez I'm the antipop.

(/Whatever it is, I'm agin' it.)

#65

Posted by: spyderkl | May 27, 2009 5:09 PM

It says I'm a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter. It might have been either the orgy thing or my weakness for chocolate.

#66

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 5:17 PM

Pope Colbert.

#67

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 27, 2009 5:31 PM

For those following along with the fun on the 'scientific challenge to atheists' linked to by Reginald Selkirk in comment #34, there is an actual paper by O. Linoli on the eucharist miracle of Lanciano:

Linoli, O. 1971. [Histological, immunological and biochemical studies on the flesh and blood of the eucharistic miracle of Lanciano (8th century)]. Quaderni Sclavo di diagnostica clinica e di laboratorio 7(3):661-74.

(Note: the link is to the Pubmed entry.)

The mysterious WHO 'Special Higher Council' report containing over 500 studies must be taken as an article of faith.

#68

Posted by: Steve M | May 27, 2009 5:35 PM

Another atheist completes the test with the result being "an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII".

#69

Posted by: CJColucci | May 27, 2009 5:36 PM

Which Pope Am I?
Pull your socks up!

You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

The spooky thing about it is that "Clement" is my actual first name. (Hence the "CJ") What are the odds? (Well, there were VIII Popes named Clement out of however the Hell many Popes and anti-Popes....I was never any good at math.)

#70

Posted by: Happy Tentacles | May 27, 2009 5:39 PM

I'm a giddy combo of the weirder popes. Why doesn't that surprise me?

#71

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 5:40 PM

Quaderni Sclavo di diagnostica clinica e di laboratorio 7(3):661-74.

Fabulous. What's their impact factor? What language is it in? I still haven't seen anything that would make me think the claim of a WHO report is anything other than a complete fabrication.

#72

Posted by: Charles | May 27, 2009 5:43 PM

You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter

#73

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 5:50 PM

#67 Brownian, OM: I followed the link to the PubMed entry, then in a separate tab did a Google search on the abbreviated name of the journal listed there, "Quad Sclavo Diagn." Interesting that the third link listed is for that particular PubMed page on the 1971 Linoli article. Apparently that journal has never done much else of note.

#74

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 5:52 PM

"Quaderni Sclavo de Diagnostica Clinica e di Laboratorio currently does not have a website."

#75

Posted by: Dave | May 27, 2009 5:56 PM

Another blog that has reviewed Lioni's paper (and has a broken link to it in the end): http://arumanchan.blogspot.com/2008/08/eucharist-miracles-miracle-of-lanciano_12.html

#76

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 27, 2009 5:58 PM

As far as I can tell, it's an journal that published in Italian from 1965 through 1988. Seems to be reputable if obscure, so it's really hard to tell what the deal is with it.

She keeps purging my comments (even the ones in which I insult her but not her god "the only insult here is to your readers' intelligence"), so here's the text of my latest and likely last comment there:

Another comment disappeared, one in which I insulted no gods but showed this much vaunted WHO report doesn't exist. (Linoli's 1971 paper does, though: PMID 4950729). Apparently this clown can't take being challenged either, and no wonder given the lack of integrity. Have fun with your challenge. I'm sure it'll prove nothing more than what you already believe.

I was careful to embed both an honest criticism of her integrity and a link to the only real evidence for this Linoli and his study in the same comment, so she'll have to delete it (and the reference) or leave it. Maybe she'll do the best of both, and delete the comment but copy the reference and add it to the article as if she 'researched' it herself. That would be the Catholic thing to do.

#77

Posted by: Dave | May 27, 2009 6:09 PM

Brownian, I just looked over the comments there and all of yours appear to still be there.

#78

Posted by: stogoe | May 27, 2009 6:10 PM

You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter

Whee!

#79

Posted by: Sastra | May 27, 2009 6:11 PM

Heh, the skeptical Extended Phenotype site has a comment which purportedly contains a quote from what has now morphed into WHO and the UN:

""the preservation is not due to nature or the hand of man, and goes against any law of nature."

Why yes, that does sound very much like the sort of official statement which would come out of those organizations, working in tandem.

#80

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 27, 2009 6:17 PM

Brownian, I just looked over the comments there and all of yours appear to still be there.

She deep-sixed three of 'em.

#81

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 6:29 PM

Dave #75: Another blog that has reviewed Lioni's paper...

That post by David Simmons was his second on the topic. Here is his first:
Eucharist Miracles: Miracle of Lanciano, The Story So Far

Photo of the supposed WHO report
Which apparently consists of a single page, with no author listing or date, and not in English. Somehow I doubt the WHO works this way.

#82

Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | May 27, 2009 6:41 PM

Unsurprisingly I'm the antipopes. I took way too many C answers.

Even on questions 5 and 9, where... well, look for yourself.

Also, peppermint with chocolate chips was not an option, so I had to take vanilla. It can be good, it can be very good, but unlike with After Eight icecream that's not guaranteed.

#83

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 6:43 PM

What Aruman_Chan at Penotype links to as a "WHO report photo" is entitled "Commissione Medica O.M.S. / O.N.U. Estratto Rias-Sunto Dei Lavori Scientifici." If you click hte high-res version, and check the stamp in the upper left corner, you can make out a seal with a WHO UNO logo, marked "Italian Edition."

I did a Google search on "Commissione Medica O.M.S. / O.N.U." and all I get is articles on the Lanciano miracle.

#84

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 27, 2009 6:43 PM

Somehow I doubt the WHO works this way.

So the WHO works in mysterious ways? Then the WHO is God!

Check out the other photos in the gallery for the Wikipedia page. Seriously, science does often confer official 'scientific recognition' with all sorts of notarised documents. I think I got one for my sea monkeys, asserting that they actually do wear crowns but are merely 'telepathically' masking their appearance.

#85

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 27, 2009 6:52 PM

It was printed on a piece of paper, stamped with a rubber stamp, and photographed. That means it's true.

#86

Posted by: Anonymous | May 27, 2009 7:15 PM

sweet! I'm an anti-pope!

You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

Being an anti-pope sounds far more fun than being an evil pope.

#87

Posted by: Snoof | May 27, 2009 7:15 PM

I'm Pope Joan!

Oh, you mean in the quiz? I didn't take it. :(

#88

Posted by: Devonian | May 27, 2009 7:26 PM

"You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter"

#89

Posted by: CCW | May 27, 2009 7:52 PM

Which Pope Am I?
Pull your socks up!
You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII

yeah, well, whatever, I just got busted for pissing in the water in Rotterdam after a long, long, long day's work. (from early morning to late in the night ok?) So yeah, ok, I had a couple of beers... I smiled and waved to the "hidden'camera... but who would've expected the spanish inquisition?
Well?
That's 90 euros down the drain thank you very much... all I earned today.
Whatever, I'll take a vacation in one of those 2 x 3 rooms before I pay that shit, it'll be roomier than the cabin I usually live in anyway. (yes I live on a ship, I am very cool)

Bless you pigs!

#90

Posted by: CCW | May 27, 2009 7:54 PM

I also like kittens.

#91

Posted by: llewelly | May 27, 2009 7:57 PM

ChimbleySweep | May 27, 2009 1:06 PM:

I'm a weirder pope like Stephen VI. He dug up the corpse of the previous pope, propped the body up in a chair and put the corpse on trial, and the dead pope was found guilty.

Was that what habeas corpus meant in those days?

#92

Posted by: Quiet_Desperation | May 27, 2009 7:59 PM

It appears I'm Pope Tyranno XIII from the year 2561 when the Vatican army of mechanical war golems conquers the Omni-European Wastelands with a rain of blessed nuclear fire.

Or maybe I was just tripping.

#93

Posted by: Eclogite | May 27, 2009 10:34 PM

Apparently I am "an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII". I don't even know what that means.

#94

Posted by: Pesky Anti-Pope | May 28, 2009 2:12 AM

"You are an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII"

DUDE! SWEET!

#95

Posted by: CatBallou | May 28, 2009 2:33 AM

Any idea how many different results there are? Apparently quite a few of us are "giddy combos." Must be the orgies and the chocolate ice cream.

#96

Posted by: DLC | May 28, 2009 3:15 AM

Hm.. apparently I'm an amalgamation of those pesky anti-Popes Clement VII and Benedict XIII.
Great. So now I have to go find a couple altar boys ?
Could I put someone else in my Pope-place ?

#97

Posted by: MadScientist | May 28, 2009 4:36 AM

What do you get when you cross Clement#2 with Benedict#7? Me - apparently.

Now to get back to my papal schedule:
* sodomize kiddies
* insult non-catholics
* shuffle around kiddie-fiddling priests caught "in flagrante delicto"
* go back to Christina's website and download God Trumps #1 and #2

#98

Posted by: Alwimo | May 28, 2009 4:39 AM

"Seek help now!

You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St Peter"
Well, that was fun!

I know very little about popes, so the ones it says I'm a combination of mean nothing to me...

Oh wait, Benedict XVI is the current one. BAD TEST. BAD TEST. :(

#99

Posted by: Wildy | May 28, 2009 6:15 AM

PZ should be proud. He's got Benedict IX in his list. That's the only man to have been Pope three times.

#100

Posted by: Faithless | May 28, 2009 6:23 AM

Hey! I'm an amalgam of two-antipopes!

Kewl.

#101

Posted by: Anonymous | May 28, 2009 6:26 AM

Now this is a missed opportunity:
No option for Sylvester II, who was learned, allegedly brought arabic nuimerlas to the west and reputedly sold his soul to the Devil? No mention of the antipope John 23 the first, Baldasare Cossa, who faced serious charges when deposed, but managed to haggle them down to murder, rape, incest, piracy and simony? And finally, no possibility of following John XX, who did not exist?

#102

Posted by: shonny | May 28, 2009 9:24 AM

Well done!

Definitely the raspberry ripple. All the other applied to all and any of them, just the degree and distribution of assholiness varied.

#103

Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | May 28, 2009 9:59 AM

RE: "Scientific challenge to atheists" - Lanciano eucharist miracle -
I checked this morning and most of my comments from yesterday have been deleted. Dyan Puma is profoundly dishonest.

#104

Posted by: Sili | May 28, 2009 10:08 AM

What a coïncidence. I was just linked to a new webcomic (featuring Darwin(s) in the current update):

http://www.6or7popes.com/

The linker was Rice Boy which is certainly worth the read.

#105

Posted by: MosesZD | May 28, 2009 10:39 AM

Heh, me too: You are a heady mix of the most evil Popes – Paul III, Benedict IX, Urban II and "Hitler’s Pope" Pius XII

#106

Posted by: BV | May 29, 2009 4:05 AM

I am very disappointed! WTF does this mean?

Pull your socks up!