"ALL HAIL THE POPE"

Ok so I'm not the most religious person in the world but I do feel sad that the Pope has died. Yes, I do feel sad, the same sadness I felt when mother Theresa or Princess Diana died. Knowing that someone like the Pope, a person who dedicated his life for the betterment of the world through his ideology, dies and leaves the world empty-handed and his mission unfulfilled and is even further from being realized (much to his own fault, really does put a pout on the face, even to an atheist like me. His death does not really affect me directly but somehow knowing that millions of people are mourning triggers empathic me to come out of its shell.

For many, the pontiff stands for the closest thing we have to reach God. He is holy in the eyes of many. And maybe he has lived a virtues and moral life, but can any man, no matter how he has lived or how he has been adorned, be considered holy? Yes, he is the leader of the church, but that is all he is, a leader, a prominent one at that, and a very good one nevertheless. But holy? I don't think so.

The Pope, as the leader of the Catholic Church is like Royal family of Britain. They're just there as a lackey or a mascot for the parliament that really is independent from the rule of the monarchy. We revere the Pope and his ideology and we admire his undying spirit, but for the most part our respect for him ends there. He is a powerless leader made to be seen, not heard and in this secular-filled world, is almost never followed. His achievements are mediocre at best, yes He has done a lot of things for the humanity and the world, but what He has been doing are things that are would be considered insignificant in the long run. This is due to the fact that his ultra-conservative and narrow-minded ideology has made him incapable of doing so much more than what he has done. But the biggest contradiction comes, when in a sense that up to his death, the Pope has done his job, and like many before him he has been an undying figure of faith and a lackey for Opus dei (yes it does exist) and the Catholic Church.

if you are truly aware and and open-minded, you'd know what I am talking about!!

Note: this is my opinion, and I won't justify myself to anyone.