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Pope Francis stirs debate yet again with interview with an atheist Italian journalist
The Washington Post ^ | 1 OCt 13 | Michelle Boorstein and Elizabeth Tenety

Posted on 10/02/2013 2:46:20 AM PDT by SkyPilot

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To: Arthur McGowan

I aim my epithets very carefully at the misuse of words and unless somehow you’re now doing “clarification” for the Pope “doublespeak” is just the right word.

Calling me a troll? I understand the tactic and it doesn’t work.


41 posted on 10/02/2013 2:35:02 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: count-your-change

You have made up your mind that you are going to catch the Pope criticizing Jesus, and you aren’t going to let anything get in your way.


42 posted on 10/02/2013 5:07:42 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Arthur McGowan; moder_ator
“...Pope criticizing Jesus.....”???

Ummmm...nope. Didn't come to mind, not my mind anyway. My criticism was solely about the misuse of the word “proselyte” and the attempt to make it a pejorative term.

And since you say, “You have made up your mind...” I'll point out that mind reading is not permitted.

43 posted on 10/02/2013 5:32:03 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: LovedSinner; Alex Murphy; All

“If you think the Cardinals pick the right man under the guidance of the Holy Spirit every time, then what about the times when the Papacy was bought and sold under simony? Were the Cardinals correct in taking bribes? Was the winning Cardinal who became Pope through simony the choice of the Holy Spirit??”


The obvious response is that the Holy Spirit isn’t involved at all, and that’s why the Papacy changes hands with perverts, murderers, psychopaths, and, today, by effeminate relativists with sympathy for communists who deny that salvation is through Christ alone, but is open to infidels so long as they “seek the good” according to their conscience.


44 posted on 10/02/2013 5:38:27 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Arthur McGowan; count-your-change

““Proselytism” is disrespectful of people’s intellects.”


Outside of brain dead infidels who think that seeing a cross on the side of the road is an assault on their freedoms, no one of sound mind actually thinks like this.

So basically your Pope has conceded the fight to the infidels. But you’re wrong to claim, as you do without any evidence, that the Pope favors the same thing under another name.

When he responded to the infidel about conversion, the answer and all the follow up answers confirmed beyond any doubt that Francis isn’t holding anyone up to any particular truth. You need only “follow the Good’ according to the dictates of your conscience, because there is no “Catholic-God,” just a God who loves loves loves.

Your blasphemous, worthless Pope is preaching damnable sin and encouraging atheists to remain exactly what they are.


45 posted on 10/02/2013 5:41:49 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: reegs

“It’s time to get Pope Benedict off the bench. Every time Francis opens his mouth, his words need to be clarified. Each person needs to discern what is evil on their own??? Sounds like moral relativism to me.”

If a person believes abortion is ok, I guess this Pope thinks it is okay. Cannibalism, polygamy, incest, etc. have been considered okay throughout history. It sounds like the Pope doesn’t think we should teach them any different. Its all okay as long as the person thinks it’s not evil.


46 posted on 10/02/2013 5:54:39 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Guess who is going to decide what is evangelizing and what is proselyting, which one can be punished and which one permitted?
47 posted on 10/02/2013 6:08:46 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: count-your-change

Baloney. You portrayed the Pope as dissing Jesus, on the basis of the “fact” that “proselytizing” carries no negative connotations.

There is no “attempt” to make “proselytizing” a pejorative term. Rightly or wrongly, it has long been a pejorative term.

Here is an article by a man who holds that it should not be a pejorative term, but which documents that it has been for a long time. Your insistence that that is simply unheard of is idiosyncratic and perverse.

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/donrsquot-call-it-proselytism-16


48 posted on 10/02/2013 6:09:29 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Arthur McGowan

“Your insistence that that is simply unheard of is idiosyncratic and perverse.”

Nope. I didn’t say anything about “unheard of” just that that as a pejorative it was wrong, s misuse of the language and appealed to a dictionary.

But I do like the use of words like, “idiosyncratic”.


49 posted on 10/02/2013 6:29:00 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; LovedSinner; Alex Murphy; All
The obvious response is that the Holy Spirit isn’t involved at all, and that’s why the Papacy changes hands with perverts, murderers, psychopaths, and, today, by effeminate relativists with sympathy for communists who deny that salvation is through Christ alone, but is open to infidels so long as they “seek the good” according to their conscience.

Well said!

I think this Pope offers Christians a great example of why a church organization that is a centralized hierarchy is so bad. All it takes is one misguided leader and all those that think they are obligated to follow are led away from the truth.

50 posted on 10/02/2013 7:50:34 PM PDT by wmfights
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To: jodyel

Wet.....

But otherwise good.


51 posted on 10/03/2013 5:31:17 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith....)
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To: LovedSinner; Alex Murphy
Papal infallibility protects the Church from a bad Pope in terms of Church dogma and teaching, but not in terms of other scandals and sins. The Pope can engage in sexual relations, the Pope can buy and sell any Church office including his own, the Pope can live in the finest material splendor, but the Pope cannot change Catholic teaching on the perpetual virginity of Mary, or the Real Presence, or other teachings.

Well, there's an example of wishful thinking if I ever saw it.

If the church isn't protected from the wrong man being elected pope, then it isn't protected from him making bad pronouncements.

Besides, the doctrines of the perpetual virginity of Mary, or the Real Presence, or other teachings were not always held by the church as being true. They were changed when the church made them official teachings.

52 posted on 10/03/2013 5:34:37 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith....)
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To: wmfights; Greetings_Puny_Humans
I think this Pope offers Christians a great example of why a church organization that is a centralized hierarchy is so bad. All it takes is one misguided leader and all those that think they are obligated to follow are led away from the truth.

One of the advantages of many different churches.

The very thing Catholics criticize Protestantism for, that of being many different denominations and no centralized authority, is one of its strengths for the very reason you mention.

It prevents massive deception on the scale of 1.2 billion, if memory serves me correctly on the number of Catholics that Catholics claim there are.

53 posted on 10/03/2013 5:41:54 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith....)
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To: metmom

We are wet in Texas as well...with humidity though. Blech!


54 posted on 10/03/2013 7:39:16 PM PDT by jodyel
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