RE: As progressive as the Pope is, he's still a Pope...
November 18, 2014 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2014 at 2:33 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
How is he progressive though? He's made a few nice PR statements but hasn't made any actual change, has he?
I mean I get it, some of the things he says "sound" nice, but he can talk about "who am I to judge" all day, and still believe that atheists are going to hell unless they become catholic, because technically it isn't "he" who is judging, it's God. I'm all for fixing the Catholic church, but jumping on bullshit PR words (with the input of a newly-hired ex-Fox News Pr consultant, by the way) without any substance isn't helpful at all.
And I really don't like the "he's not as bad as his predecessors" argument. I'm not going to lower my standards for a morally normal human just because a couple of other guys were "worse".
I mean I get it, some of the things he says "sound" nice, but he can talk about "who am I to judge" all day, and still believe that atheists are going to hell unless they become catholic, because technically it isn't "he" who is judging, it's God. I'm all for fixing the Catholic church, but jumping on bullshit PR words (with the input of a newly-hired ex-Fox News Pr consultant, by the way) without any substance isn't helpful at all.
And I really don't like the "he's not as bad as his predecessors" argument. I'm not going to lower my standards for a morally normal human just because a couple of other guys were "worse".
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
