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Singer Sinead O’Connor tears up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, October 3, 1992.

Back in 1992, I recall watching Saturday Night Live when musical guest Sinead O’Connor ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II.  My initial reaction was to get upset.  Given my frequent writings against the papacy and many denunciations of it as Antichrist, this may come as a bit of a surprise to regular readers of this blog.  But remember, I’m speaking of an event from 31 years ago, and a lot has happened to change me in those ensuing years.

At the time, I was, as many people were then and still are today, under the mistaken impression that the pope was a representative of Christianity.  I had barely begun to read reformed writers and had very flawed ideas of what Christianity was.  Not having a reformed background, I took my cues on Christianity from the surrounding culture.  And the surrounding culture said that Pope John Paul II was a Christian man, a heroic fighter against communism, and one of the big reasons the West had recently triumphed in the Cold War.  Just two years earlier the world had witnessed the unthinkable when the Berlin Wall came down, and the press was full of glowing stories about the Polish Pope’s – Karol Józef Wojtyla, AKA Pope John Paul II was born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland – role in bringing down communism.    

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