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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: delilahmused on September 24, 2015, 09:05:00 PM
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I was just going to post this on the DUmmie thread celebrating the pope coming here and putting us in our place but it didn't really fit.
I'm not a Catholic but was really heartbroken about what the pope did and didn't say while he was here for his "bash America" tour. I wish he would've addressed his pro life values in the very first comments he made. Surely some of his priests, nuns, bishops, cardinals have been following the PP videos that show them ripping live babies limb from limb. How can he put climate change and illegal aliens above aborted babies & the extreme poverty we have here? We don't do a good job of giving them a hand up but now we're supposed to pay the ticket for those who are here illegally and favor them over people in poor and war torn countries who want to come in through the front door? I hoped he'd understand that, while we are a generous people (or maybe he doesn't see us that way), our taxpayers don't have unlimited resources to give. The fact that he didn't mention Jesus or God once in his address is troubling. One would think the Vicar of Christ would make Him front and center.
If the main reason he thinks we should take in every single person that comes over the border is because they're escaping poverty then why doesn't he encourage Mexico and other Latin American countries to stop abrogating their responsibility to their citizens and work to make their countries better. It's rather hypocritical for an organization that's richer than God to reprimand us when the Catholic Church has enough money & resources to help lift ever single poor person in Mexico out of poverty and probably not even feel it. Hell, they even have enough money to pay for an army, replete with special forces to kill off the drug dealers so that legitimate businesses feel safe building there. The church used to do things like that. Instead he comes to our congress and lectures us about how freaking mean we are! As for climate change, he had an opportunity to hear a very learned scientist who doesn't believe in global warming/climate change when he had his climate conference. But the whiny "settled science" wimps can't have their tender sensibilities offended by other points of view so he was disinvited. I guess if Galileo was around today he wouldn't be able to speak, either.
But here's what I don't get, and maybe someone who's Catholic can answer. When a new pope is chosen those responsible for choosing him go into a room for prayer and discussion and, with guidance from God, select the new one. Pope Francis has been a part of the church for a very long time to get the the point where he could even be considered. Surely those choosing him know his life philosophy and his Marxist views. God most definitely does. So does that mean that God, and by extension the Catholic Church, wants us to embrace climate change and all the goverment restrictions that come with it? Does God expect us to embrace the pope's Marxist principles, spreading resources around equally so those who work hard have the same as those who won't work or have less skill? Does God expect us to take in everyone who wants to come here, legal or not & to pay for their every need? Because Pope Francis was chosen by those considered to be the wisest and most holy members of the church. While we're supposed to be good stewards of the earth, God being omnipotent, created a perfect world for us, capable of absorbing carbon dioxide or whatever evil we're doing to the planet. Isn't deciding we need to do everything we can to save the planet we're obviously ****ing up mean that we're doubting God's creation and thus, his perfect self? Given that protecting the most innocent among us was almost an after thought during Pope Francis' lecture, what are we supposed to think of God given that he knows the thoughts and beliefs of this man who is his representative on earth?
Cindie
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I agree with what you said, Cindie! Much more eloquently put than I could, or would, have done. I'm not a Roman Catholic either, but it's always terribly jarring to listen to some have it all lecture the rest of us about giving away the store while they're barricading their doors and windows against any unauthorized entry. It doesn't make sense when some Hollywood crackpot says it, and the fact that this man is a Pope does not mean anything to me other than he's a fallible human being with faulty reasoning skills. God is the only authority in this world that is never wrong. The other so-called authorities can take their opinions and shove them where the sun don't shine. :tongue:
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I was raised catholic and am no longer and was only baptized in Christ about 6 years ago. It's a shame that the catholic church has become a group of hypocrites, I lived it I seen it I was not popular because I voiced my concerns. There I said it.
The pope openly dislikes out freedoms and our free market economy. He talked of our bad bad death penalty but didn't mention the murder of babies ripped from women alive and dissected until dead. He went to Cuba and lollie gagged with the commie bros yet dissed the dissidents in Cuba. He gets carted around like a king dressed in gold, the vatican/catholic church is worth billions, hundreds of billions and he/they sponsors TWO FAMILIES from the M-E. Really? Yet he want the U.S. to take thousands.
Maybe he should sell a few paintings or statues in the vatican or even a few chalices and end world hunger. No but he will sit in his golden chair and drink from his golden cups.
Jesus and the disciples walked the earth in rags and sandals an lived of those they preached to.