Florencia (she/her)Heartbroken to learn the Pope sympathizes with the poor đź’”
WoodScientistRich people go to Hell. You don’t get to go to Heaven if you’re a billionaire. Sorry. But if you hoard enough wealth to live a thousand lifetimes, then you have received your reward.
So many Christians just can’t accept that Jesus was a poor person that believed rich people all go to Hell.
Thank you r/atheism.
If not believing in contradictory lies, corrupted parable, and a confused version of history people mistake for philosophy is edgy, you must live a very boring life.
Just because there exists people who don’t think like you doesn’t mean they live a boring life. That’s a bit mean to assume, isn’t it?
I believe there is a wisdom in many of the books people find holy. I’m also an atheist. I believe in the void of nothingness as the ultimate reality. I’m also a theist. I believe in higher powers spanning dimensions.
Nothing needs to be so small or simple as binary coded, but maybe everything can be? We all enjoy the game of this or that, in or out, true or false, but that sounds incredibly boring to me. So I don’t play it. It’s more fun to be anything we want.
I am both a believer in nothing and a believer in everything. It may appear as a contradiction, because it is. It also isn’t. It is completely internally consistent and orderly but it’s also pure beautiful chaos.
Just because people misunderstand things and take bad actions doesn’t mean the thing itself isn’t still useful. We don’t completely understand our own bodies yet they continue to function in spite of our understanding.
Navigating a wilderness without a compass is a difficult thing. We all have a compass inside of us. I hope that everyone everywhere will find it.
I was wondering why people were being so harsh about Pope Leo in the comments! I came from the front page too and didn’t notice. Not that their criticisms are unfair by any means.
Even so, let’s not forget that the Pope wields an untold amount of influence over the first world at any given time, so it’s not necessary to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Could he be doing more? Undoubtedly. But speaking out is the first time, and he’s been rather vocal with his core values and condemning this sort of tyranny and hatred.
I think that makes a lasting impact too. Especially when it’s causing this many MAGA sociopaths to “mask off” the fact that they were never in support of certain policies because of god or their religion or whathaveyou. It was an excuse, to hurt queer people, to oppress minorities. And others, especially younger folk raised in those bible belt regions, will begin to see the hypocrisy more clearly.
So let’s not be so quick to demonize him just yet. MAGA’s already got that covered.
FuglyDuckTheir perception of god is different, doesn’t mean they don’t believe in the rightness of what they’re doing. keep in mind that the vast majority of christian thought and scriptures support shit like slavery and women being little better off than the foreign slaves.
The only reason Jesus wasn’t a white supremacist was that he wasn’t white.
The Christians who happen to be good people are good people in spite of, not because of, their religion.
I don’t think youre seeing the whole picture.
“Ancient control society does one none evil thing with that cintrol” is not a reason to forget or forgive the actions of the catholic Church against women, indigenous people and queer people over the centuries. Until the religion is overhauled to remove the bad parts, we can, must and should criticise it.
I also thing you overstate the influence the pope has over American Christians.
Evangelicals and other protestants are trained to view the pope as at best mistaken, at worst a literal agent of the devil.
Perhaps he might reach some, or some Catholics, but any Christian who comes to dislike hypocrisy or love truth will cease to be a Christian.