text: When was the last time GOD appeared to you telling you what to do?
  
  What about Popes John Paul II and Benedict?  Weren't and aren't they 'people'?  If any 'talked down to and sneered' at people it was those two.  JP II shook his finger at liberation theologians [and he didn't have a clue what the difference was between 'liberation theology' and the European brand of Marxism].  And Benedict called ordinary Catholics [like you] "little people"[John Allen, POPE BENEDICT XVI] p. 130.
  
  How's that for being condescending and supercilious?