The pope and priests, as well as many others, wear costumes. They do it so you know who they are. If they dressed like everyone else you wouldn’t treat them the way they want to be, or EXPECT to be, treated. If the pope was wearing jeans and a Queen T-shirt, gym shoes, without socks, you’d walk right by him. He might get mugged, sneered at, or even arrested, but he wouldn’t be bowed to, treated with undeserved (my word) respect, admired, or anything else. Here’s the thing…no matter what people wear, they ARE the same as everyone else…that’s exactly why people like the pope wear costumes in the first place…so they are treated differently. Without the costume…no one cares. People are easily fooled by clothing/costumes and a look-alike in papal dress would be treated the same way as the guy who was elected. Think about the old movies where the princess puts on regular clothes and takes the crown off her head, so that she can become invisible for a day or two. Same deal.
The truth is…people worship and admire the costume, the person really doesn’t matter because they are no different than anyone else. I always use rapist priests as examples because what their costume is SUPPOSED to stand for is the opposite of what the men wearing the costumes are. People are fooled by clothing. They think the meaning of the garb is the meaning of the person wearing the costume and it’s not. Priestly robes protect rapists who go without punishment because of their costumes and what people allow them to get away with because of those costumes. People would treat any guy in a priest costume a certain way, call him father (still will NEVER understand that one) and never think twice that he may have stolen the costume for nefarious purposes and he’s just some guy off the street. Dress in a costume and people will act accordingly. Put on scrubs, a doctor’s white coat, a police uniform and no one will stop and ask to see proof of who you are pretending to be. Still, the pope and priests are the worst because they pretend to be good and the representatives of an invisible god. Any god worth believing in doesn’t need middle men who pass a collection plate and wear costumes. Just something to think about…costumes trigger certain behavior in people and that’s how you can tell that people are being played.
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on November 30, 2017