What was your opinion of Pope John Paul II? Did he not kind of represent something good in this world?
2007-02-20 12:20:21 · 13 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very good question. I firmly believe that most Christians look to the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. I, personally, have never met a Christian that ever spoke down about the Pope. John Paul II, was an exceptional Pope that all the world respected even non-Christians. And he was very personable which showed though always. ( I am not Catholic) Don't agree with the church though as to birth control. Sooner or later we will have to slow the multiplying.
2007-02-20 12:30:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Eleven11, JPII never did 'admit evolution was true'. He did say, for example, "The convergence in the results of these independent studies -- which was neither planned nor sought -- constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory." However, in the same address, the Pope rejected any theory of evolution that provides a materialistic explanation for the human soul: "Theories of evolution which, because of the philosophies which inspire them, regard the spirit either as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a simple epiphenomenon of that matter, are incompatible with the truth about man."
P.S., sorry, Midge, I know that as a Catholic I wasn't meant to answer this but, meh, I had something to say.
2007-02-20 20:31:48 · answer #2 · answered by Me ves y sufres 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The definition of what is good here on earth is not necessarily what is good to God. The Pope represents the Catholic church. Catholicism practices things that are not Biblical. They teach things that are not true. My father was catholic, as were everyone on my father's side of the family. I know about catholicism. So in actuality, no, the pope did not represent something good. The catholic church is leading people to hell by the millions.
2007-02-20 20:30:54 · answer #3 · answered by Darryl L 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Intelligent enough to admit evolution was true due to overwhelming scientific evidence....He was cool too, apologized for 100 wrongdoings of the Catholic Chruch...better than the new one....
"Some new findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than an hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge." --John Paul II
2007-02-20 20:23:59 · answer #4 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Any guy that runs around in silk dresses and spends his life with only men has no right to diss gay men or women....what a hypocrite. Neither should a man who has never married or supposedly been celibate for their entire lives, have any say over marriage, sex, birth control or abortion. How many generations of these Popes have covered up for their priests and helped these men to continue torturing children with their pedophilia? Theses men have a political agenda that is hateful to men, women and children. You can do all sorts of good things, but if you support evil, your good works don't cut it with the ones you have allowed to be victimized. Supposedly, it doesn't put you into the good graces of god either.
2007-02-20 20:41:21 · answer #5 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
From an athiest--he was apparently a good, intelligent man who worked to bring peace throughout the world, and his ability to communicate in so many languages helped garner him great respect. Unfortunately he was misguided in his faith, and apparently worshipped Mary as a result of his perceived miracle recovery after his assasination attempt, so he brought a lot of credibility problems to the catholic faith from outside people.
Must disagree with Steve B-- I don't know anyone outside of catholics who recognize the pope as the leader of christianity; most people including myself don't even classify catholics as christians since they pray to so many different gods like Mary and the various saints and have all of these strange rituals.
2007-02-20 20:38:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
2007-02-20 20:28:17 · answer #7 · answered by Holy Holly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I must concede some acts of good as per apologies etc., the man did more harm to the religion than good. Rather than implementing or adapting any of the conclusions of Vatican II, most of his work was directly contradicting it, and undermining any future work in more liberal directions.
Representationally, though, he is a great symbol for good. In actual facts though, let's curb the hero-worship.
2007-02-20 20:31:43 · answer #8 · answered by Reinvention 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
JP II represented the finest qualities humanity has to offer. He was in no way unique in this, but he was one of the honored few.
2007-02-20 20:24:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think he represented something wonderful in this world. I loved him.
(Atheist)
2007-02-20 21:46:06 · answer #10 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋