Ping
And:
It’s better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
The pope just can’t shut up.
My suspicion is that this Pope fell into the priesthood as a safer and better-paying job than being a bar bouncer. I’m not sure he has ever even tried to understand Christianity. But what a commendably open-minded organization the Catholic Church is, to hire and promote an unbeliever!
it’s better to be ‘atheist’ than hypocrite
What does that even mean????
By hypocrite, would that be like someone who tells his flock that God thinks walls are immoral and then that person lives safe and sheltered behind one of the tallest walls ever devised?
Adds meat to my questions why the Pope never preaches Jesus...Jesus seems to conflict with "Il Papa's" belief system. He's trying to take Y'all back to the middle ages where the Church could preach anything it wanted and then declare those who knew better as heretics....wonder if he'll try to have any killed.
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaites, which I also hate.So on the basis of this hatred, Jesus must now become atheist and refuse to believe in Himself. Never mind His approval of the hatred of His followers, who also must reject Him as God and become atheist.
— Revelation 2:6
Whoever is stating these things is confused or simply in error. It’s not the question of EITHER atheist OR “hater”.
We’re called to be NEITHER.
I’m expecting a significant bolt of lightening to strike the Vatican and/or Jesus’ return in the near future.
Matthew 16:18 guarantees even the gates of hell will not prevail.
I cannot imagine that Almighty God will tolerate this much longer.
Actually, he is correct that it is better to be an atheist than a hypocrite. Jesus said He would rather you be hot or cold than luke warm. A person being a hypocrite is being luke warm, being wrong but not knowing it and is impossible to talk to about the problem. An atheist openly admits there is a difference of opinion and a conversation can occurred, with the possibility of being convinced he is wrong.
" .... or speaking ill of people..." (pretty sure Christ "spoke ill of people")
"... and bear true witness, not a counter-witness." (Confronting lies with truth IS a "counter-witness"!)
"Christian prayer, however, has no other credible witness than one’s own conscience," (your conscience may be a "credible witness", but it is NOT necessarily an accurate JUDGE, which requires a well formed conscience.)
“...…. arise from a discomfort he nurtures toward the Church. Pope Francis prefers a vision of the Church as an indistinct people, over [this vision] understood in its true sense”.
If he is uncomfortable with the Church, he doesn’t love it. He is in a position in which he has no business being.
He is a Globalist, among other things.
Social engineering is his main concern.
Homo so-called pope.