Doesn't feel very nice to be told you're going to Hell, does it?
Maybe you'll think twice next time you say it to an atheist.
2007-07-11 08:30:21 · 14 answers · asked by Drake the Deist 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It doesn't bother me what the pope says. He is simply a false teacher who knows nothing about the church that Christ established. The only person that will determine whether I go to heaven or hell is God.
2007-07-11 08:45:54 · answer #1 · answered by TG 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He hasn't said that. He just said that other denominations are in his view somehow not the true church, with God's full blessing. That is the traditional catholic view; in fact they used to have much wilder and off-gospel ideas about protestants.
That is in disagreement with the Bible anyway, so I don't care what he thinks much, as I think he's been deceived by the traditions of men.
People in vast organisations get the taste for power and vanity of status without realising that is what it is. This unfortunately can happen to christians. The catholic church has unfortunately built up a misleading ecclesiology that supports the power of the Popes.
2007-07-11 16:37:22 · answer #2 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an Atheist, I find this whole "I'm right and you're wrong" thing very amusing. I literally have to bust out the popcorn and see the religious people duke it out for which religion/faith wins at the end. You'd think all religions would come together since you guys believe in a higher power, but nope.
2007-07-11 15:38:30 · answer #3 · answered by Quonx. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I understand your resentment of such a statement. I even feel your pain.
Respectfully, I just wonder why it bothers you so much if you are so convinced it is wrong?
In your life experience, I am sure people have said things to you or about you that you knew to be wrong. I am sure that you dismissed their statements being comfortable that you were right.
You have obviously considered spiritual things and have come to the conclusion that you do not believe in God. Since you are comfortable with your position, convinced you are right, and even hold it as a conviction, then you may want to consider just letting this roll off your back.
Just like anything else, when you are defensive about a topic to the point you post it on YA, it causes some to think that perhaps you doubt your choice to believe there is no God.
2007-07-11 15:39:01 · answer #4 · answered by Schneiderman 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Who is telling Protestants that they are going to Hell because they are Protestant? Not the Pope and not the Catholic Church!
Fundamentalist Protestants often tell each other that they are going to Hell,but the Catholic Church has always left that judgement up to God. The Church can delare that a saint is in Heaven by beatification and canonization but she cannot name the Damned.
Am i not right to state that it is obvious that you have not read that horrifying Text from the Vatican? You are not alone most who have commentated on it on Yahoo and in the papers have not either.
2007-07-11 15:38:26 · answer #5 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm neither an atheist, nor a protestant....If someone told me I was going to hell, I know it wouldn't bother me in the least.
2007-07-11 15:34:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why would an atheist be offended ...they do not believe in a heaven or a hell
2007-07-11 15:38:44 · answer #7 · answered by KB 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have adequate grounds for supposing that anyone who says that is not as smart as I am, and can profitably be ignored.
2007-07-11 15:35:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They won't. They all think they are the only ones who could possibly be right.
2007-07-11 15:41:45 · answer #9 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I actually could care less about what the pope says. He is just a man, and a man that is blinding people and misleading them.
I can study the Bible myself, and I know what it says. It talks a lot about the Catholic "church" in Revelation.
2007-07-11 15:34:26 · answer #10 · answered by Me 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋