its funny i was wondinering why so many catholics look up to a person who brought death and destruction,corruption too so many,if you look at the past popes,they were herandous,one killed children to use thier blood so he could live longer,another was in prison,one was a women,and one had connections with the italian mopb,laundered money and was assasinated...p2....when i mention this to catholics they say its all made up,but its history,why do so many deny the truth in religion?
2007-03-07 14:48:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't like popes.
2007-03-07 14:52:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
All the examples you mentioned are pure fiction. However there were a few popes who led immoral lives. After all, popes are sinners like the rest of us, and a few were really unfaithful to their calling. Nevertheless, even the least holy popes never taught anything that was inaccurate or untrue. This is the charism of infallibility, which ensures that the people of God will have only the fullness of truth, since truth is what sets us free. This charism extends far beyond the personal holiness or sins of the man who holds the office. Like all charisms, it is a direct work of the Holy Spirit, who will not allow a pope to teach falsely. This is why Jesus could tell the first pope, "whatsoever you bind upon earth is bound in heaven". And this is why the Holy Catholic Church remains united in belief and united in worship after 2,000 years, while manmade denominational religion continues to fragment and self-destruct after a few hundred years.
P.S. Helpful hint - NOTHING you read in a Chick tract is history. It is packaged ignorance, and the more you read of it the more ignorant you become.
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2007-03-07 23:05:44 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know. Some Popes were bad.
Consider this buddy... Should we not be something because it had or has a bad leader?
I mean, you going to renounce your American citizenship cos of Bush? Would you quit a team and leave your team mates if you had a bad manager?
Yes all of this stuff happened. But you know what? Protestants/Lutherans whatever you want to call them burned innocent women at the stake cos they accused them of being witches.
Queen mary, the head of the anglican church burned thousands of people at the stake.
The point is, that yes, in history, the leaders of all churches have done bad things. It doesn't mean that the religion is wrong, and it doesn't mean that we should excuse what they did.
2007-03-07 22:55:40 · answer #3 · answered by irishcharmer84 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose Roman Catholics revise papal history as much as we Protestants do. There were plenty of good things that popes have done, but we have forgotten them because of our disgust for the popes' thirst for earthly power and their claims to take the place of Christ on the earth in ways that every other Christian does not.
2007-03-07 22:54:12 · answer #4 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people look to people for answers of the soul they usually want a quick answer but when your looking fore a way out which is in the catholic religion you have to worship things which gives comfort to the masses but as you are a little wiser than most just look inside and you will find me.
2007-03-07 22:55:25 · answer #5 · answered by billypnam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friend the Pope is just another person like either one of us and with the same needs, perhaps even more, but he is in a position to act upon these needs without fear of being rebuked, due to his status, but like you inferred he too shall be judged by the same person that we are.
2007-03-07 22:55:50 · answer #6 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
religion is he opium of the people. unfortunatly when you think about it some people would rather just stay with what they know. it is hard to take something you have believed in your whole life then just to say well this is wrong and face the truth facing rejection can be the hardest choice you can ever make in your life. as n ex catholic i became a muslim after reading what i percieve to be the truth. every one i have known my whole life well lets just say i am no longer in cahoots with them. i figure i would rather be in the good graces with god rather then to live my life for the acceptence and pleasure of PEOPLE. what you said is well spoken.
2007-03-07 22:55:17 · answer #7 · answered by wedjb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I seriously don't want to know about the popes...I'm sure it's horrifying and I already have enough of a problem with the papacy and the Catholic church and religion in general.
2007-03-07 22:52:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because the pope leads people into idolatry instead of closer to GOD through Christ.
2007-03-07 22:52:07 · answer #9 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the catholics are not about the truth in any stretch of the imagination. they live in a fantasy world and not the good kind at that...................
2007-03-07 22:54:52 · answer #10 · answered by juanmeskin11 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People are ignorant because they choose to be. It's comforting to not think for yourself.
2007-03-07 22:53:41 · answer #11 · answered by skimdaddy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋