Fundamentalists, the ones that believe in a young earth, also believe that the Pope is anything but a Christian. So why quote the pope in this discussion?
I find it amusing that many will freely condemn me to hell for acceptance of a scientific theory, but are somehow hesitant to apply the exact same standard to the Pope.
Moreover once I show that they don't even think the Pope is a Christian, their ‘you are only pretending to be a Christian’ statements take on an entirely new context.
When they say that they think the majority of Popes wound up in Hell, unless they rejected Catholic theology; it shows EXACTLY where they are coming from.
The zealot argument... ‘agree with me or go to Hell.’