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Pope Francis: Sacrificing Children for Career Is Modern ‘Idolatry
brietbart ^ | 08/01/2018 | Thomas D Williams PHD

Posted on 08/01/2018 5:51:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Modern idolatry takes many forms, Pope Francis said Wednesday, including not having children in order to advance one’s career. “Idols demand a cult and rituals,” the pope said at his weekly General Audience in Saint Peter’s Square. “People bow down before them and sacrifice everything. In antiquity, human sacrifices were made to idols, but even today people sacrifice their children for their career, neglecting them or simply not generating them.”

Children are not the only sacrifice laid on the altar of idols, the pope continued, and one’s career is not the only idol on offer.

“Beauty demands human sacrifices. Fame calls for the immolation of self, one’s innocence and authenticity,” he said.

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KEYWORDS: carrer; children; idolatry; popefrancis; stoppedclock; twiceperday

1 posted on 08/01/2018 5:51:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So is worshiping climate change.


2 posted on 08/01/2018 5:54:11 AM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Finally, something I can agree with this pope on!


3 posted on 08/01/2018 5:54:31 AM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But sacrificing them for you black eye and Hillary’s and Rothschilds’ is not???


4 posted on 08/01/2018 5:55:19 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (17...#1776)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Opioids, carnality, and the list keeps growing...


5 posted on 08/01/2018 6:02:20 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about sacrificing our children to the public school system?


6 posted on 08/01/2018 6:03:11 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: JustTheTruth

Some of us have tried for years but never had any success. It’s actually a lot harder to conceive a child than some might think. The further along you get in years, conception becomes less likely and complications go up.

I think there’s more to the recent glut in childbearing than just career.


7 posted on 08/01/2018 6:04:15 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: rarestia

He’s talking about sacrificing children again ?


8 posted on 08/01/2018 6:05:59 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: JustTheTruth
Really? And what about those pedo priests, bishops, and cardinals he had no problem defending until "yesterday"?

He wasn't too concerned about the children until he realized that he couldn't ignore it like the sainted JPII, and let the next guy clean, well, deal with it.

9 posted on 08/01/2018 6:06:14 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Col Frank Slade

And the Spanish thought the Aztecs were vicious!


10 posted on 08/01/2018 6:08:19 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Finally, like a stopped watch, Pope Che is occasionally right.


11 posted on 08/01/2018 6:26:08 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Breaking News Alert: Broken clock shows correct time twice per day, which is twice as much than the current Pope on matter of Biblical Truth & Doctrines.


12 posted on 08/01/2018 6:27:57 AM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“not generating them”.....there’s a new one....how dare he!!


13 posted on 08/01/2018 6:28:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He should keep this in mind when evaluating the continued vocations of homosexual priests, bishops, and cardinals.


14 posted on 08/01/2018 6:29:38 AM PDT by sitetest (No longer mostly dead.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I used to think that people who put off having children until they could afford to adequately provide for them were simply behaving rationally. But thanks to Pope Francis, I now know that it’s “idolatry” - live and learn!


15 posted on 08/01/2018 6:38:00 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: sitetest

Yeah. Sure.


16 posted on 08/01/2018 6:44:35 AM PDT by onedoug
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But apparently sacrificing the safety of children to homosexual predators and muslim rapists is ok? I never thought I’d see the day when a liberation theology pagan would be sitting in St. Peter’s chair in the Vatican. As much as I admired John Paul II, he failed to purge the Church of these evil doers. I’m sure his failure to act was out of a sense of leniency and forgiveness, but it has proven to be a poison pill for the Catholic Church. The sooner the Vatican crumbles, the sooner the true Church can emerge, absent the heretics and immoral “princes” in their red robes.


17 posted on 08/01/2018 7:32:13 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

18 posted on 08/01/2018 7:56:25 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Wow. The Pope finally got something right.

Whooda thunk it?

19 posted on 08/01/2018 8:37:35 AM PDT by Gritty (This is what the other side is all about. Hate and bullshit is their political platform.-DJ Trump Jr)
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To: rarestia
I think there’s more to the recent glut in childbearing than just career.

There is.

It is called endometriosis. It leaves around ten to twenty percent of the female population with conception problems and there is almost nothing they can do or are even inclined to do about it.

Usually you are told the pain is normal and you should just quit whining about it. By the time you realize something is seriously wrong you are generally past the time when they can actually do something about it.

20 posted on 08/01/2018 8:51:06 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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