Then we could have "Pope Tarts" and "Pope Sickles"  and of course many new Pope-ular songs. Or beer in Pope-Top cans.

Hi Vajra,

I hadn't thought abut needing protection from ludicrously untried newness es. For that,
common sense for the common good is good to be commonly held!

  I withdraw my question, especially since Dave added his new inventions to the thread .

Bets

Hi Bets- Actually, after I got over being flip and making dumb remarks (things that just pop-ed into my mind) it occurred to me that what you said has a lot of merit. The problem is that the examples to which we respond seem to be those which are convenient, as opposed to useful. I think of the putative honesty of politicians who swear that their character is beyond question, yet who involve in deception, and often much worse. The message isn't wasted on us - we learn that it is more important to win and dominate than to cooperate and prosper.

While I'm not too interested in driving a Pope-mobile, I would like to see an emulation of the relatively conservative respect for truth and decency of some of our modern religious leaders. It's a pity that an upstanding moral character often seems to be antithetical to a career in the public eye.

Turning this back to your basic thread, the question is how we might influence our world so that a model of behavior or character etc might be brought to the public eye.

dave