Perhaps the point that Mariner meant to make is that, years ago, some catechism students were taught that the Pope is the divinely-inspired representative of Christ on earth, infallible as is The Lord. I was taught, additionally, not to read the scriptures because my intellect was too puny to comprehend those complex works. It is simply a theoretical conflict which can be rectified with powerful and irrefutable reasoning. I don’t mean to imply that I’m capable of comprehension of such reasoning. It’s merely a rather disconcerting episode of cognitive dissonance among those of us who took our education seriously.
I see The Puppeteer Soros at work here.
“Perhaps the point that Mariner meant to make is that, years ago, some catechism students were taught that the Pope is the divinely-inspired representative of Christ on earth, infallible as is The Lord.”
The problem is that NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN TAUGHT THAT from a catechist. So, if that was Mariner’s point, then he was completely wrong. Again.