I've been trying to tell my liberal, Catholic friends that the Pope isn't changing doctrine. They just love reading the pulled quotes. If you read deeper, the Pope is the real Catholic deal.
Jesus loved sinners. His earthly mission was for the lost sheep. He ate and hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors. The Prodigal Son in the parable consorted with prostitutes. The Pope gets it. It's about changing our sinful ways and accepting the sinner. NOT accepting the sin...
The Pope gets it. It's about changing our sinful ways and accepting the sinner. NOT accepting the sin...
Odd I have no idea how anyone can do this act. Seems to me that those that commit evil deeds for their own benefit irregardless of who or how many are harmed place themselves in the position of being unacceptable to those they harm or may harm in the future.
This is where society's laws come in, we have jails and mental institutions to keep the sinners away from the public and harm at their hands.
I doubt Jesus hung out with murderers, child molesters, thugs, pyromaniacs or serial killers.
I cannot equate a Tax collector or prostitutes to sinners, perhaps not an ideal job but someone has to do it.
Guess a sin is to harm another for ones own benefit. Definition changes from society to society through the years, adultery was a sin that meant death for the woman, not for the man.
However I look at it, there are some outright Evil ba*tards in this world and to accept them but hate what they are doing makes no sense at all.
No way will I accept the Muslim terrorists and still hate what they are doing. Nasty bunch of people that only live to die and have an eternity of sex with virgins. No one has ever explained to me what happens to the used virgins, are they cast into hell ?