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sonofghandi
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10 Dec 2013, 3:07 pm

The reason that I like him is his #1 priority: the suffering and hopelessness of the have-nots. I don't agree with a large majority of his moral or religious beliefs, but I do agree with his primary focus.

Focus on the issues negatively affecting the largest number of people first.


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11 Dec 2013, 1:06 am

ArrantPariah wrote:
Fox News hates him

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCWplOnQU9U[/youtube]


An excellent reason to love him.


That's just "loving" him for the wrong reasons.



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11 Dec 2013, 10:30 am

MCalavera wrote:
That's just "loving" him for the wrong reasons.


The enemy of my enemy....



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11 Dec 2013, 5:24 pm

sonofghandi wrote:
The reason that I like him is his #1 priority: the suffering and hopelessness of the have-nots. I don't agree with a large majority of his moral or religious beliefs, but I do agree with his primary focus.

Focus on the issues negatively affecting the largest number of people first.


Exactly. People of goodwill need to come together to achieve common goals whenever they can.

If you're only willing you collaborate with those who are ideologically pure, you'll never get anything done.


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11 Dec 2013, 10:31 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
MCalavera wrote:
That's just "loving" him for the wrong reasons.


The enemy of my enemy....


If Fox News hated Hitler, would you love him then?



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11 Dec 2013, 11:48 pm

Ganz richtig!


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31 Dec 2013, 10:15 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpopKXJa0w[/youtube]



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31 Dec 2013, 10:16 pm

MCalavera wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
MCalavera wrote:
That's just "loving" him for the wrong reasons.


The enemy of my enemy....


If Fox News hated Hitler, would you love him then?


Fox News loves Hitler



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31 Dec 2013, 11:38 pm

No matter what the Pope is still the Pope.



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31 Dec 2013, 11:43 pm

The best dressed Pope.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion- ... z2p7Q2durE


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01 Jan 2014, 7:55 pm

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Would you rather he declare homosexuality and contraception to be acceptable, and get bogged down in that fight, rather than focusing on all the other issues which plague the church?

Talk about moral absolutes...

I don't see why it has to be a mutually exclusive thing.

The things I mentioned are an incomplete list of requirements he has to do before it makes the slightest sense to consider him a non-100% s**t of a human being. Of course, for him to be a great pope he would have to do all that, and also fix all the s**t in the chirch AND also bring positive change to the world.

But so far, since the pope has not done ANYTHING. No , not stopping the Church's misogyny, not stpping the Church's homophobia, not stopping the Church's paedophilia's, not even the easy to fix economical corruption, he hasn't fixed ANYTHING within the Church. He is just all talk and PR. So, the pope is currently 100% s**t.


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01 Jan 2014, 9:54 pm

I like the gist of the first quote:

People hitting up the labels and only caring about such, and not just living and being good folk.



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02 Jan 2014, 5:10 am

The priest in my hometown just got murdered.



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29 Oct 2014, 11:08 pm

Any updates regarding what the Pope has done thus far? Anything worth praising him for?

No? Thought so ...



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02 Nov 2014, 6:22 am

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02 Nov 2014, 7:19 am

MCalavera wrote:
Any updates regarding what the Pope has done thus far? Anything worth praising him for?

No? Thought so ...


Recently he said this:
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Delivering an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis continued his habit of making provocative, seemingly progressive statements. The pontiff appeared to endorse the theory of the Big Bang and told the gathering at the Vatican that there was no contradiction between believing in God as well as the prevailing scientific theories regarding the expansion of our universe.

?When we read about creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,? Francis said. ?He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wor ... no-wizard/

The Vatican actually took that stand decades ago but it bears repeating in today's anti-science climate so I'm glad he repeated it.