Nothing 4 Nothing

I was hoping for a more liberal pope...but guess not. I can not understand all the emotions at St. Peter's Square about the funeral of John Paul and the first sightings of the new pope Benedict. The people there seem to idolize the popes, as if they were famous rock stars. I just don't feel that way, am I wrong? We in America do not fully understand the Vatican, the ancient rituals and pageantry, the richness of the Vatican, the new $20 million hotel built for the Cardinals, the gold and original Michelangelo paintings inside the churches etc. Maybe it is the distance between countries? What would Jesus think about the pope and the Vatican? He would probably wonder who is that dude, and tell him to sell everything and help the poor. I believe in God, I believe in Jesus...I don't think the universe began with a big bang. Who made the universe, the galaxies..it didn't just happen. It is unexplainable, we are like koi swimming in a pond, suddenly someone picks us up and lifts us above the water, we look around at the strange new world that was always just above our heads, but how would we explain what we saw to the other fishes?
We would not have accurate words, and that is how it is with the universe and God, unexplainable.