Pope Benedict, you were a good Pope, you did a good job of honoring the precedent of your immediate ancestors.
But sometimes you could be a complete idiot.
Bob Dylan once performed in the Vatican before then-Pope John Paul II.
Then-Pope Benedict later declared that, and I quote, that he doubts that 'this kind of so-called Prophet' should have the right to take the stage in the Vatican before the Pope.
Pope, Pope, Pope.
Who died and made you God?
Who decided that the Pope was the only person in the world that is allowed to teach wisdom?
This is exactly the kind of thing that they said about John The Baptist as they cut off his head.
Bob Dylan is not the Pope.
Neither was John the Baptist.
John the Baptist was just a guy who knew wisdom.
He had no connection to the Second Temple.
Bob Dylan is a modern-day John the Baptist.
Preparing the way not for the coming of Christ, but for the spiritual awakening of so much of the world in the late 1960's, and since then through the work of everyone from Led Zeppelin to Steven Spielberg to Radiohead and much more, to say nothing of the people of India and China and Japan rediscovering confidence in their own wisdom after seeing George Harrison and his millions of fans discover Krishna.
Bob Dylan is a modern-day John the Baptist.
And Pope Benedict has made himself a modern-day Pharisee, declaring him the only one worthy of teaching wisdom.
Who died and made you God?
God loves you, but He loves us too!
I still wish you the best!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson