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My friend, you are ALREADY being punished. You allow divorce up to four times - that's not anything the early Christians allowed, it is an absolute break with millenia of Christian doctrine and practice and it is a terrible wound on the Orthodox and the Protestants.

You permit the use of contraception. All hormonal contraceptives are abortifacients. Thus, you're schismatic theology is killing your children and turning your wives into objects to be used, turns your men into heartless fools.

(Shrug) That is irrelevant to our discussion. Whatever theological differences you want to talk about have nothing to do with the fact that the Pope only has power over other Roman Catholics.

Everyone who ignores the words of the Pope injures themselves grievously. The Pope is merciful and tries to heal your wounds by teaching you the Truth, but you will not listen.

You just seem to miss the point that even though the Pope is certainly a moral authority for Christians of any denomination, his words have no more power to a non-Roman Catholic than the words of any other mortal.

The Pope has authority, not power.

(Shrug) That [the existence of divorce and contraceptive child-murder in our churches] is irrelevant to our discussion. Whatever theological differences you want to talk about have nothing to do with the fact that the Pope only has power over other Roman Catholics.

You turn your wives into prostitutes and your children into corpses and that's not relevant to theological discussion? Ok. Whatever.

You just seem to miss the point that even though the Pope is certainly a moral authority for Christians of any denomination, his words have no more power to a non-Roman Catholic than the words of any other mortal.

And as long as you refuse the power of his words, your wives will be prostitutes and your children corpses. Your theology would have it so because you will not listen to the Vicar of Christ.