The Fredösphere

I promised that today would be antipope Thursday.  I started writing a post chock-full of links to various wack-jobs and their conspiracy theories involving John XXIII and the Priory of Sion or Paul VI wearing some breastplate, or the very, very bad man John Paul II who, among many other crimes, has been soft on Lutherans.

I intended to make fun, once again, of Michael I of Kansas and those who would take his claims half-way seriously, as well as the claims of Johnny-Pauly-come-lately [oooh, that was clever!  I like it] types like Linus II and Pius XXIII.  (The news blackout on Fredosphere XXIII continues to be rigidly enforced, however.  How vast the power of the dark forces arrayed against me!)

But the whole exercise just made me feel dirty, so I'm not going to do it.  Making fun of religious kooks is just too easy and too nasty.  Instead, I'll simply advise those who think they need this kind of information to go see A Saintly Salmagundi, a blog that has antipopology right in its mission statement.  And for those of you who need more mathematical rigor in your theological musings, I refer you to the guy who first discovered that

The antipope is an operator like the pope is an operator, one the inverse of the other, related by a conservation law, the conservation of action = energy.time.

and

Red and blue as colours on the political spectrum. This is people behaving as bosons (representative of late 19th century India?). When we become fermions, we rise above natural number states 'containing' a natural number of particles (ie with energy = mass of n particles) and move into transfinite (structured) states which may be represented as eigenvalues of a certain wavefunction (operator equation).

and above all

The key concept of religion is warmth, the thermodynamic equivalent of love.

Pax upon you.