Dancing in the Appalachians

Remember that horrible tedious 'modern' Christian song, Lord of the Dance? It's from the same stable as the grotesque Morning Has Broken that, sixteen years after I was made to sing it in school, still makes me want to take out Cat Stevens with a fucking howitzer.

Anyway, it's a very infectious melody, apparently it's based on an old Shaker tune or something, and once it's in your head there's no practical way to get it out, unless you're prepared to listen to Turn Back Time by Cher on repeat for thirty five minutes. That'll generally do it.

But salvation is at hand, kids. It's also used in the Calm and Flowing section of Copland's Appalachian Spring. So now when it gets into my head I just pretend I'm humming Appalachian Spring instead. And everything's okay.

I'm hitting the religious theme today

So, as I understand it the Pope is abolishing Limbo, the First Circle of Hell and, also, the place where the souls of unbaptised children go.

I am reminded of the item in The Day Today where the Vatican imprisoned two teenaged boys who hacked into the church's central computer and changed Catholic doctrine. 'The Vatican realised the computer had been tampered with when they discovered Jesus had died of food poisoning aged 19, and Lou Reed had been canonised.'

My problem is with the fact that one old man can say 'Limbo doesn't exist anymore' and a whole theological concept just disappears in a puff of smoke and, presumably, millions upon millions of little tiny souls, and also, if Dante is to be believed, the souls of Socrates, Homer and Plato, whoosh up the celestial escalator to some kind of holding area near the Gates of Heaven so that they can process all the new arrivals. Isn't this just admitting that Christianity is made up? Can any Catholics attempt to enlighten me on this one?