Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Pope says efforts to convert people to Christianity “solemn nonsense.”

Is Pope Francis unwittingly confirming the 1500’s declaration of the Protestant Reformation that the Papacy is The Anti-Christ?  His most recent interview might lead some to come to that conclusion.

From the Washington Post:

Pope Francis stirs debate yet again with interview with an atheist Italian journalist

By Michelle Boorstein and Elizabeth Tenety, Tuesday, October 1, 6:13 PM

Pope Francis cranked up his charm offensive on the world outside the Vatican on Tuesday, saying in the second widely shared media interview in two weeks that each person “must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them” and calling efforts to convert people to Christianity “solemn nonsense.”

Defenders will suggest that critics have taken his statements out of context.  So, people, exactly what else could he possibly mean by those words?  Tell me.

The Catholic Church teaches that we are all born with “original sin.”  That means that without the saving grace of Jesus Christ, it is impossible for each person, atheists included, to “choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them.”  The “as he conceives them” statement allows for any unGodly act to be “conceived” by our allegedly fallen and flawed nature.  Is this Pope hell bent on changing the foundational principles of Christianity?

Read the entire article HERE.

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