03-28-2017, 06:07 PM
(03-28-2017, 03:22 PM)Galen Wrote:(03-24-2017, 07:39 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm not particularly fond of Pope Francis. Seriously the man is a Communist in a Cassock. He is also calling for the islamification of Europe. Good thing he's celibate, he doesn't have to worry about the world his children will inherit.
Officially he is celibate but the odds are pretty good he is a homo or molesting a kid given the current state of the Catholic Church.
Before you whine about my reply you might want to actually read about the current state of the Church. If you read the link you might find that homosexual priests are actually fairly common.
I am well aware of the child sexual abuse scandals within the Roman Catholic Church. I certainly hope that the RCC goes to all just means to oust any priest who violates his trust (which includes the vow of celibacy). I also recognize that many priests have homosexual tendencies. But accusing any clergyman in the RCC is still potential slander or libel. Having a homosexual tendency is not a bar to being a priest. Sex of any kind involving a priest is of course a violation of the vow of sexuality.
Quote:As for Pope Francis being a Communist everything I have ever heard the man say comes right of of Liberation Theology which is little more than Marxism in Christian drag.
I suggest that you reread the Sermon on the Mount and ask yourself whether it exults material gain and indulgence for the economic elites of Jesus' time. We can always ask ourselves whether the celebration of greed, class privilege, and crass hedonism is Christian.
Of course whether wealth today creates more human happiness or denies it to the poor is not a question for Jesus. Capitalism can create prosperity for non-capitalists, so it isn't as vile as the economic reality of ancient Judea in Jesus' time, when anyone rich was either a crook or simply an inheritor of class privilege. Liquidating a business and dispensing the proceeds of the business on behalf of the poor practically ensures that one's employees will themselves become poor.
Your idol Ayn Rand turns the economic part of Jesus' teachings upside down.
Quote:There are very few of God's self-appointed representatives that I have a good opinion of and the current pope is not one of them.
So which greedy televangelists do you most admire?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.