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This idea of the infallibility of the Pope is ludicrous. Even Catholicism’s “first Pope” Peter denied Christ 3 times!
- They slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people (see the Aztecs and Muslims) in the name of the Church
- For a long time, they discouraged people from reading the Bible at all. They don’t recognize that the Holy Spirit (which they allege to believe in) gives us understanding of scripture.
I could go ooooon and ooooon about this.
My point is that (in my opinion at least) none of the candidates practice true Christianity.
Many people confuse the word infallability with the word impeccable.
The Pope is human, he is not sinless, thus infallibility is not a characteristic of the pope’s personal conduct or his private views.
But on pronouncements of faith and morals with the Magisterium of the Church, he is infallible.
“Even when Vatican I (1869-1870) defined papal infallibility, it did so in terms of the Church. Vatican I stated that when the pope defines a dogma of faith (often described as speaking “ex cathedra”—from the chair), he is gifted by the Holy Spirit with that infallibility with which God wished the Church to be endowed in defining a doctrine of faith or morals.”
Something for you to research: How many thousands did the Aztecs kill in order for the sun to come up every morning? From the dawn of their existence until its merciful, albeit bloody, demise, how many, do you think? Cortez said the streets ran deep with blood on Aztec high holy days. Christians were appalled at the brutality, bestiality, perversity of the Aztecs toward their own people, children, women.