Doesn't make it right; I wouldn't be upset or shocked if he was a politician. He is a 'man of God', and as such, supposed to know right from wrong.

9/23/2015 6:23:26 PM

No one said anything about "right"


And it's the Catholic Church, man. As much as you would like for even the Pope to be a perfect human being, he has his own politics to deal with.

9/23/2015 6:27:49 PM

yeah if the pope truly spoke like Jesus they would crucify him

9/23/2015 7:11:03 PM

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"Seems like this pope is more concerned with including people in the church, instead of excluding people."

hey man this is a business church man the more people we draw in the larger our soul tax tithe more people we can save from eternal damnation.


seriously though the message of tolerance and love i think will improve the church but bigots will just hate the new pope too, its easier than learning and being compassionate.

[Edited on September 23, 2015 at 7:24 PM. Reason : .]

9/23/2015 7:21:54 PM

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"magine a prominent Muslim cleric making someone from the past who killed 100,000 into a saint. The whole world would explode in an uproar with "terrorist" being thrown around liberally in reference to him and indeed, all Muslims. "

I don't know, that Muhammad guy seems to be pretty respected by Muslims and he killed a bunch of people.

[Edited on September 23, 2015 at 8:52 PM. Reason : ]

9/23/2015 8:52:24 PM

^ and plenty of people call him and his followers terrorists because of the beliefs/history of the religion.

9/23/2015 9:19:55 PM

I don't think anyone calls them terrorists because of the origins of the religion. I actually think that designation has a little more to do with more recent events.

Don't get me wrong, people who call all Muslims terrorists are total idiots, but nobody does it because of Muhammad.

[Edited on September 23, 2015 at 9:28 PM. Reason : ]

9/23/2015 9:28:24 PM

Oh I definitely know that most people who call Muslims terrorists is because of events of the past 15 years.

But, there are plenty of people who also call Muhammad a terrorist, warlord, and other choice words because of the tenets of the religion and his actions, and following from that, they say all Muslims are also terrorists because they believe in what their terrorist Prophet taught/did. Most such people voice their beliefs online in forums so they can do it anonymously, but there are some who are famous -- politicians, pundits, thinkers, scientists around the world -- and do it publicly.

9/23/2015 10:04:53 PM

Lectures congress in climate change...












...flies to new york

9/24/2015 6:45:55 PM

BREAKING NEWS: POPE SWIMS ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN

9/25/2015 8:47:23 AM

is this shit for real?

9/25/2015 9:54:22 AM

is this shit for real?

9/25/2015 9:54:22 AM

nope

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/popeatheist.asp

9/25/2015 10:08:18 AM

He's a good pope

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/21/europe/pope-francis-absolve-abortion/index.html

11/21/2016 11:00:33 AM

Ah, glad to see God updated his rules and told the Pope.

11/21/2016 11:07:54 AM

lol, there is no god. so it makes sense to revise "god's" laws every few centuries or so to keep up with modern science and medicine.

11/21/2016 11:12:32 AM

his quote above is true

his quote above does not equate "being good" with having salvation from eternal separation from God

11/21/2016 4:41:30 PM

"his" quote

11/21/2016 6:58:11 PM

His quote

11/21/2016 6:59:40 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/26/world/pope-apologize-gays/index.html

He's a good pope

2/7/2017 9:49:53 AM

catholic right-wingers are trying to do the mental gymnastics to denounce this guy because he's a liberal while still being good Christians. have fun with that!

2/7/2017 12:07:06 PM

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"catholic right-wingers are trying to do the mental gymnastics to denounce this guy because he's a liberal while still being good Christians. have fun with that!"

Then they should just renounce the Pope and become Baptist. They currently aren't Christian and are definitely all going to hell.

Seriously though my MIL is a raging Southern Baptist bitch who has told us on numerous occasions that the Pope, and especially Francis, is basically Satan himself in the flesh. I don't see the hate as he is trying to address some of the biggest fucking hypocrisies of the Catholic Church and he's approaching it all with great humility. He is probably the most Christ-like Pope in years.

2/7/2017 2:08:16 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/world/americas/pope-francis-canada-elderly.html

Getting old sucks…I like this pope

7/28/2022 12:47:24 PM