Last I heard, "those who do not believe in God", call themselves atheists. What say you?
Source? But then again I have no need at this time for it...for what I was driving at was for statements such as that to be viewed in context.
I saw it a while ago. Saw more than a few FRomans here become upset, with them saying that the press was deliberately misconstruing his remarks (one of that nature, along with a few others). I was accused (by a FRoman -- a RCIA instructor no less) of not understanding/taking it literally/ etc., something along those lines, concerning this new "pope's" remarks, and how they have been covered in the press, repeated here and there, and so on, generally.
Now, it is as if another FRoman (you are a [Roman] Catholic freeper, are you not?) seems to be telling me to take it literally -- even out of context, ascribing to statements such as the above, perhaps even the interpretation as to Begoglio's intended meaning, such as you have previously supplied, to whit;
It never ceases to amaZE me, how both sides of a coin can be so often argued on these pages, depending upon which FRoman is talking about what.
If (or better said -- when?) there was such a wide gulf of disagreement between comparative, other-than [Roman] Catholic ecclesiastical community, such is pointed at as serious dis-union, and further alleged "proof" that those are not "churches", "in the formal sense".
If it were not for double-standards, some would be without one of their most basic of standards.