Straight from the Pope's mouth

[Ferrocyanide]

From the link you provided:
Source:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/09/po...sex-pride/

Instead, Pope Francis said that hatred and pride are the “most serious” of sins, the Independent reported.

I don’t remember anyone getting excommunicated or burned at the stake for hatred or pride.
Hatred of what? Brocoli? Another nation? Your fellow jew?

The Bible has stories of the jews doing some pretty awful things to other people:

Numbers 23:23 KING JAMES VERSION
Surely [there is] no enchantment against Jacob, neither [is there] any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! {23:24} Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat [of] the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Numbers 24:8 KING JAMES VERSION
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce [them] through with his arrows. {24:9} He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed [is] he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

Isaiah 34:7 KING JAMES VERSION
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. {34:8} For [it is] the day of the LORD’S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. {34:9} And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. {34:10} It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

1 Samuel 15:1 KING JAMES VERSION
Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. {15:2} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember [that] which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid [wait] for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. {15:3} Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. {15:4} And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. {15:5} And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

Isaiah 13:6 KING JAMES VERSION
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. {13:7} Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt: {13:8} And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames. {13:9} Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. {13:10} For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. {13:11} And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. {13:12} I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. {13:13} Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. {13:14} And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. {13:15} Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword. {13:16} Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. {13:17} Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it. {13:18} [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

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It was a failing against the sixth commandment (You shall not commit adultery) but not a total one, one of small caresses, massage given to his secretary – that is what the accusation is,” Pope Francis said. “There is a sin there but not the worst kind.

Which means what exactly? The Bible states that you either go to heaven or you go to hell.
So, what does it matter if you commit a worst sin or less than worst sin?
If you commit a lesser sin, you go to a more comfortable room in hell?

Is the jewish god going to forgive all sins as long as the person is a christian? Do all christians get the top level room in heaven just for being a christian?

Is killing someone a bad thing? How is it bad if the person is going to go to heaven?
Is killing a fetus or baby really a bad thing? I am doing the baby a favor. he goes automatically to heaven. (That’s what some christians told me)

Christians don’t even know what the rules are.
Gee, do you think they are making shit up as they go along?

Leviticus 18:22 KING JAMES VERSION
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.

1 Corinthians 6:9 KING JAMES VERSION
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.


Romans 1:27 KING JAMES VERSION
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

^^^^^Hey Pope, it says so right there. Homosexuals are going to hell. They are fornicators and effeminate.

[Abaddon_ire]

That would b3e because it is stated in Mark 3:28–29, Matthew 12:31–32, and Luke 12:10 and varied smattering of Hebrews. But tradionally, in the RCC, even reading the wholey babble was a sin, so what may one expect?

 True enough, up until Gutenberg, then that changed slowly. Not really a problem as long as most of the flock remained illiterate. In most developed nations, universal literacy was not reached until well into the twentieth century as far as I'm aware. 

That was part of the game. If the plebs can't read it they must rely on what the priests tell them about it. Even though my kids are non-believers, they still had a weird happy clappy god is love picture of religion instilled in them by school. Until I started bible reading sessions with them.

At the Catholic school I attended, we were actively discouraged from reading the bible, "lest you become confused". I swear.

I believe you. Because I had the very same.

This was when I was 16 with some  major questions about doctrine.  So naturally I went home and read the whole thing from cover to cover. Being a moderately bright young chap, I soon understood why they didn't want me reading the bible.  I mean, the contradictions  and general bullshit in the OT, then the New Testament.  Finally the Book of Revelations. To this day, I cannot understand how that got into the Canon.   One explanation is that the whole thing us about The Roman Empire, and that early Xians would have understood that.

There was at the time a stonking great row about whether or not to include it. I can recall some religious claiming that the many horns represented the members of the EEC, ten at the time, therefore we were in the end times. Now it is 27 members, so that nonsense seems to have died out. I hope.

Thing about Revelation is that it is written in such a way that one can bend and shape it to mean anything. It reads more like a drug trip than anything else.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

 True enough, up until Gutenberg, then that changed slowly. Not really a problem as long as most of the flock remained illiterate. In most developed nations, universal literacy was not reached until well into the twentieth century as far as I'm aware. 

That was part of the game. If the plebs can't read it they must rely on what the priests tell them about it. Even though my kids are non-believers, they still had a weird happy clappy god is love picture of religion instilled in them by school. Until I started bible reading sessions with them.

At the Catholic school I attended, we were actively discouraged from reading the bible, "lest you become confused". I swear.

I believe you. Because I had the very same.

This was when I was 16 with some  major questions about doctrine.  So naturally I went home and read the whole thing from cover to cover. Being a moderately bright young chap, I soon understood why they didn't want me reading the bible.  I mean, the contradictions  and general bullshit in the OT, then the New Testament.  Finally the Book of Revelations. To this day, I cannot understand how that got into the Canon.   One explanation is that the whole thing us about The Roman Empire, and that early Xians would have understood that.

There was at the time a stonking great row about whether or not to include it. I can recall some religious claiming that the many horns represented the members of the EEC, ten at the time, therefore we were in the end times. Now it is 27 members, so that nonsense seems to have died out. I hope.

Thing about Revelation is that it is written in such a way that one can bend and shape it to mean anything. It reads more like a drug trip than anything else.

 
My view has been pretty much always been that the author of Revelations may have been suffering from ergot poisoning. Or possibly magic mushrooms.

[Ferrocyanide]

There was at the time a stonking great row about whether or not to include it. I can recall some religious claiming that the many horns represented the members of the EEC, ten at the time, therefore we were in the end times. Now it is 27 members, so that nonsense seems to have died out. I hope.

Thing about Revelation is that it is written in such a way that one can bend and shape it to mean anything. It reads more like a drug trip than anything else.

Who is the EEC? What time period?

I guess the author wanted to write in parables bc Jesus is suppose to talk in parables. He is just following in the footsteps of Jesus.
I'm not even sure parables is the right word. There is some symbolism in Revelation.
There was something about 7 candlesticks, representing the different christian sects.
The author is upset about one of them.

There was something about a giant woman giving birth. I don't know if that is suppose to be symbolism.


I've had a few christians tell me that we are in the end of times and that Revelation is talking about today but none of them can tell me
THIS LINE refers to THIS EVENT of today.
THAT LINE refers to THAT EVENT of tomorrow.

[The Grand Nudger]

Oh, buddy, those people exist..and they're the best. Nothing is too farcical. They might be reading out of their local paper alone..content in the knowledge that the end times perfectly describes the current events of their rural american zipcode. How else did THAT BITCH make it onto the city council or the local schoolboard. He knows she's just wearing a human skin for cover.

[Ferrocyanide]

Oh, buddy, those people exist..and they're the best.  Nothing is too farcical.  They might be reading out of their local paper alone..content in the knowledge that the end times perfectly describes the current events of their rural american zipcode.  How else did THAT BITCH make it onto the city council or the local schoolboard.  He knows she's just wearing a human skin for cover.

It seem that there is quite a lot of them in the USA. They seem to have priests there who have been playing the end of times there for decades.
In fact, some of the United States sects are founded on the notion of end times, such as the Bible Students group, which was later renamed to Jehovah's witnesses.
They call them milleniarists or something like that.
Maybe the word “milleniarist” has to do with the year 1000 when a lot of christians were convinced it was the end.

It’s fucked up to live like that for generations.

One example is this Jim Bakker ministries:
THE ABSOLUTE VERY BEST OF REV. JIM BAKKER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw3_5AaWBlY
By Vic Berger
Length = 38:23

^^^^^Go to 8:23
“We are living in perilous times, the Bible says.”

[Abaddon_ire]

There was at the time a stonking great row about whether or not to include it. I can recall some religious claiming that the many horns represented the members of the EEC, ten at the time, therefore we were in the end times. Now it is 27 members, so that nonsense seems to have died out. I hope.

Thing about Revelation is that it is written in such a way that one can bend and shape it to mean anything. It reads more like a drug trip than anything else.

Who is the EEC? What time period?

Are you serious? Who is the EEC? Please tell me you are not that wildly ignorant? Please?

[The Grand Nudger]

It seem that there is quite a lot of them in the USA. They seem to have priests there who have been playing the end of times there for decades.
In fact, some of the United States sects are founded on the notion of end times, such as the Bible Students group, which was later renamed to Jehovah's witnesses.

More like real estate speculators and politicians than priests.  The witnesses and the mormons both came out of the burned over district, where any number of scams found their marks in the religiously gullible.   The textbook example being to acquire allegedly worthless but productive bottomland from their anxious flock in return for safer (but -actually- worthless) ridgetop land...you know.... to escape the coming flood.

You'd think that would only work one time, but you'd be wrong. End times superstition remains a profit center to this day. The people telling our contemporary dolts that the local school board are the horns of the beast are, to a man, selling something. The current pope among them, for his own reasons and with his own marketing for his own brand. Picking him was an issue of managing their image after the last fuck up and with the demographics of catholic faith in mind..but the whole thing is so rotten that the best and nicest Buddy Pope From The Americas they could find was still implicated in a military fucking junta and their death lists. He may, in fact, have moved through the ranks precisely because of that, to one day be enthroned in place of god on earth.