Il Papa- Judge for yourself... [author apologizes for falling for false quote @ reply 25]

09-20-15 | Bill Randles

[Mount Athos]

I see you are misrepresenting Christianity as easily as pastor bill spreads phony slander.

[metmom]

Oh, baloney.

This pope is a piece of work.

I see that Catholics don’t have any problem claiming that non-Catholic preachers are false prophets and clearly don’t expect to be called *haters* and *bigots* or be accused of *latent bigotry*.

Catholics need to unwind more than a bit and stop applying the double standard they love to use so much.

[metmom]

Let the public shaming bring true repentance.

How Christlike........

NOT!!!!!

Is that how Catholics treat someone who confesses of a sin and repents of it?

Do you want to put him in stocks so people can throw rotten tomatoes at him, too?

And who are you to determine if some one is showing *true repentance*?

Swim the Tiber? Not in a million years..... Who needs that kind of *love*?

[markomalley]

I haven't gone through your whole post in detail, but as for this extract:

“Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Jehovah, Allah. These are all names employed to describe an entity that is distinctly the same across the world. For centuries, blood has been needlessly shed because of the desire to segregate our faiths. This, however, should be the very concept which unites us as people, as nations, and as a world bound by faith. Together, we can bring about an unprecedented age of peace, all we need to achieve such a state is respect each others beliefs, for we are all children of God regardless of the name we choose to address him by. We can accomplish miraculous things in the world by merging our faiths, and the time for such a movement is now. No longer shall we slaughter our neighbors over differences in reference to their God.”

It appears that the original source for this was the left-wing satire site, National Report.

If you have another original source for this quote (such as the transcript of a speech he gave posted on vatican.va, zenit.org, or some other reputable source), if you can provide that source, I'd appreciate it.

As for whether National Report is a satire site, most people should be able to tell this by simply looking at the headline banner:

But if that's not good enough, they have the following disclaimer:

National Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within National Report are fiction, and presumably fake news. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental. Advice given is NOT to be construed as professional. If you are in need of professional help, please consult a professional. National Report is not intended for children under the age of 18.

If you can provide me with a reputable source, I'll look at it, otherwise, it appears that you got trolled, my FRiend...

 

BTW, for the record (and as my posting history for the past several months will show), I am not a fan of this pope...

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“I see you are misrepresenting Christianity as easily as pastor bill spreads phony slander.”

If you don’t know the Scriptures, I cannot help you FRiend.

[foreverfree]

bump

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens on the Interwebs all the time - and even major news organizations are taken in by it.

[Mount Athos]

Metmom, I am not roman catholic.

And really, shame on you for defending lies.

I would feel the same disgust at someone pushing false quotes into the mouths of a protestant leader and would fight against it just as strongly.

The media constantly pushes false titles and false narratives about Christian leaders.

And it’s becoming a big problem here — remember all the articles being posted that claimed the pope personally wrote a letter endorsing gay books?

We need higher standards in this place, especially with articles that affect people’s opinion on religion.
And a pastor should be far more careful about what he pushes as a trusted authority. Wonder if he mailed out the lies to his flock?

Probably all freepers have concerns about this pope’s statements that conflict with historic Christianity.
That doesn’t make it ok to make crap up and slander people cause you want to believe it.

[markomalley]

By the way, your article from "Jews News" was originally sourced to the satire site "washingtonpost.com.co" -- http://washingtonpost.com.co/pope-francis-to-followers-koran-and-holy-bible-are-the-same/

That site is currently down, but "washingtonpost.com" is a real (albeit left wing) news site; "washingtonpost.com.co" is a fake, satire site.

Now, of course, if you can provide a link to a real source (Vatican, Zenit, CNA, etc), I'll happily withdraw my comment.

[markomalley]

Just saw this...

May I suggest that you ask to have the article pulled and then replace it with something that is accurate?

(BTW, I’ve been taken in my “trolling” sites before)

[metmom]

I’m not defending lies, but neither am I attacking with lies someone who has confessed to being wrong and asked forgiveness for it.

What else do you want out of someone?

Isn’t that enough for you or does nobody measure up to your ridiculous standards?

[billys kid]

You are a disgrace. You don't understand the AGONY that orthodox Catholics are suffering. We are the Church Militant. We do not suffer fools, even if he is the pope. We pray for his conversion. However, we the "REMNANT" will NOT follow any person who refuses to take up his Cross and follow Jesus, the Son of the living God. Our Church is TRUE, founded by Christ. We follow the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. If there is a false prophet among us, we will not follow him. You think you are above Christ who said to St. Paul. Saul, Saul, why do you persecute ME? Saul was persecuting the True Church which Christ Himself established here on earth. We, the 'Remnant', have always known that there would be Judas's among us. Now go along and worship YOUR false religion. 😈😈😈

[metmom]

Read ahead and don’t be such a jerk.

[Mount Athos]

“I admit I was taken in, but I have never had anything but love for Catholics. Are you taking advantage of my humble confession of guilt? Do you have “latent Malice” against me?”

Sounds good, I also have had to message moderators in embarassment at having been taken in by a false article.

I am just tired at the volume of false postings on this pope.
It’s out of hand on this site.

And I say that as someone with strong doubts about his orthodoxy.

[billys kid]

Excuse me. I wasn’t replying to you.