Pope Francis – “Fundamentalism is a Sickness”

LifeSiteNews ^ | 30 Nov 2015 | John-Henry Westen

[Fred Hayek]

I’m a Southern Baptist, but still I miss B16.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

The sacking of Rome was not done by Muslims, eh?"

The sacking of Constantinople was, eh?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

"But how many wars ... have Christians made? The sacking of Rome was not done by Muslims, eh?"

The Vandals and Goths were Christians???

[onyx]

I pray DAILY for Pope Benedict XVI.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’m a Southern Baptist, but still I miss B16.

I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't focus much attention on Benedict XVI.I suspect it's distinctly possible that he was a good,or even outstanding,Pope and I just don't realize it.

[circlecity]

"He is a total leftist. How sad for Catholics."

He goes way beyond being a leftist to being a postmodern relativist. He is essentially saying that "God" is relative to whatever a given collective at any given point in time wants him to be. He does not believe in the immutability of God or an objective God at all. This goes against 2000 years of Catholic dogma regarding the nature of God. I can say this as a Protestant because both Protestant and Catholic dogma on the innate nature of God is identical; as is Jewish dogma in this regard. A relativistic "god" is meaningless and ultimately nothing but idolatry.

[amorphous]

So, there's a definition problem here. POpe Francis isn't using (whatever-word-in-Italian) "fundamentalist" to mean...

Sorry Mrs. Don-o, but I wonder if Pope Francis is even in the atmosphere, much less the weeds, as is what you're describing.

Respectfully, IMO, he is ignorant of Islam. He needs to study it as closely as he claims to have studied the problem of 'global-warming' and he needs to read Isaiah 5:20.

[circlecity]

"So although Pope Francis certainly does say very dubious things from time to time, IN THIS CASE he is not insulting Protestantism or Evangelicalism per se."

No, what Francis is doing here is attacking the notion of objective truth and ultimately an objective, immutable God. This is rank idolatry.

[amorphous]

There are some who would argue that the dark ages were indeed brought about by the rise of Muhammadanism.

This pretty wise man on the subject for one:

Bill Warner, PhD: Why We Are Afraid: 1400 Years of Fear

[prof.h.mandingo]

I also subscribed to the “he’s a Jesuit” idea. Maybe you are correct but I remember a Jesuit priest at Mass years ago. His homily was bizarre to say the least. We all left church shaking our heads. We talked to a number of people on the way out and we all concluded that if we followed his advice it didn’t matter if we were Christian, Hindu, or no religion. Bizarre is not strong enough. We couldn’t believe it.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Wow, I hesitate to criticize any man of God.

Me too, which is why I have no qualms whatsoever about attacking Francis.

[MHGinTN]

Where’s the hurl alert?

[dbehsman]

Yeah, the “fundamentalists” are so terrible, aren't they?

Would John the Baptist have been labeled as a “fundamentalist”? Or how about St. Thomas Aquinas? Or St. Vincent de Paul?

I think I'd rather hang with those guys than the Christian “superficialists” that seem to be en vogue these days!

[edwinland]

The Vandals and Goths were Christians???

Yes.

[Lady Heron]

"Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions,"

Wow, just wow! Following the words of God is a sickness to this Pope? Is that not the definition of your supposed job?

If the religion is evil then fundamentalism is a problem I guess if you are that much of an idiot not to see the real problem is the evil taught by an evil religion.

Sorry, Pope the Amish are not a sickness, there is a beauty in their lives. Islam is though, their is a sickness throughout all their societies, a sickness that murders and enslaves. Stupid, illogical, evil, socialist, propagandist Pope.

[Lady Heron]

Somebody really explain to me what happened to the last Pope that he resigned and left the Catholic church with this evil?

[tbw2]

Fundamentalist Christians aren’t killing people, but fundamentalist Muslims are.
The difference is the ideology/religion, not the secularism of the practitioners.

[KittenClaws]

The sacking of Rome was not done by Muslims, eh?"

Spin the implications of this comment.

This Pope is dangerous. Wake up and may God bless you.

[HomerBohn]

This clown pope suffers from a mental disease that affects all leftists: he has rectitus.

This is a disease that originates in the anus, travels up the spine to the optic nerve giving the sufferer a shi—y outlook on everything.

What a disgrace to Catholicism. He is, however, riding the crest of the wave in this new religion created subsequent to the evil Vatican II.

[BlatherNaut]

In addition to being oxymoronic in his main message, one needs to ask is this guy sane?

He's just as sane as any other Narcissist mired in Liberal illogicality and experiencing megalomaniacal delusions.

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Shock! Pope Francis unequivocally condemns tens of millions worldwide!

"Too bad those tens of millions are involved in a perfectly legitimate enterprise that has long been found as perfectly justifiable by the Church. That's how it reads to me, anyway, when he indulged in this...I have to call it a rant...today at Casa Santa Marta. So apparently fornicators, adulterers, and even sodomites are beyond judgment, but those involved in the defense of nations....cursed..."

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In his most apocalyptic language to date, Pope Francis told reporters aboard the papal plane returning from Africa that the COP21 climate change conference in Paris is the last chance for humanity to avert environmental destruction.