Ask a former atheist

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

What do you think about Pope Francis having the Quran read at the Vatican? My mom (evangelical) says that Pope Francis is probably the Anti-Christ. Why is Pope Francis putting all the idols together (religious symbols) and trying to unite people of different faiths?





My mom says he's trying to put together the one world religion. What the Pope is doing seems pretty unbiblical to me. The Bible doesn't say to welcome other religions like Islam and have their religious texts read in the church. My mom even told me that God spoke to her and gave her the message "the two horns have risen" lol. She thinks the end of the world is very near.

I don't know to be perfectly honest though I'd like to see what their explanation is as to why they did it. The whole anti christ thing is scary, I used to get nightmares from that passage, I still remember a older cousin sister reading it to scare me and me closing my ears shut because it's too scary for me,another scary thing is a song we sing at the funerals.

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I don't know if seeing myself as a instrument for God is a correct thinking but I wouldn't mind it at all either. I think the purpose of many things that's happened in the past like the crucifixion was to remind us of just one single thing and that is love. Love ourself, love our neighbors, love our brothers, love our sisters, forgive, don't harm others etc I think those are the values we should follow but if God wanted to we would've only gotten one single option "just do this", no free will. I think the free will we got is a gift and it shows just how much we are loved that our creator would risk tainting his own creation just so we can have freedom, or it could be like a test because freedom will bring our true selves to light, like if a person is really poor he will be very nice and stuff to others but if he won a lottery(like getting free will) then he has a choice to either keep being nice or suddenly deviate towards a negative side.

You are correct.  He created us to know one another which is love, he created us to know him which is love, and he connected us all together through a mystic link known as love.

And highest form of love is to appreciate, and may God guide our hearts to appreciate ourselves, others, and the chosen ones and guides, his revelations and books, and make us appreciate the Praiseworthy, Majestic King, God lord of the worlds.

The 2nd phrase is a beautiful way to look at it.


Love is beauty in it's secret interior, love loves beauty, but at the end outer beauty is just parables in math form of balanced interior beauty, which is but love.

You said in your words what some people take a life time to discover.

Yeah, that's what I got too, the message is to love and many other positive things. Enjoyed our conversation mk