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« on: February 18, 2016, 07:28:49 PM »
Please allow this to be a serious discussion.
I was raised as a Catholic by one Catholic convert and a Catholic born. In the past the Pope has governed and interpreted the Bible for many Catholics and helped shape our view as a denomination.
I will not personally give my opinion on the changes he has made, but you might have inferred some of my feelings about it due to the explicitness of the topic title. I worry that many of our chief tenets that one hundred years ago would be considered too sacrosanct to ever be interpreted as they are now. I feel many of the changes by the Pope have digressed away from traditionalist values and it seems that these changes are coming more frequently. Some of his stances include: Homoloveuality, Homoloveuality and marriage, the Zika virus, and, while I am not a Annoying Orange supporter, advocate nor plan on voting for him in November's election, the Pope's disparaging remarks about Annoying Orange's proposal over building a vast wall along the border. Now let this be a disclaimer that I think his proposal is ridiculous, the Pope, as the head of the Vatican, is in absolutely no position to accuse someone of not being a Christian, when the Catholic church, and other Christian denominations have for a thousand years erected defenses and walls to segregate non-believers, and hostile measures taken against peoples of many foreign nations in the name of God, much greater than any wall.
I would like your opinion on the matter. I hope to hear from any person, rather them be an athiest, theist or deist, Muslim, Jew, or of any Christian denomination about your feelings.