AFP
Pope reaches out to unbelievers
The 76-year-old pope also said he felt “close” to those people who “do not recognise themselves in any faith but are in a search for truth, for goodness and for beauty, which is God.”
The reference echoed a “silent blessing” that Francis made on Saturday to non-believers at a meeting with journalists from around the world.
“You are all children of God,” he said on Saturday.
Vatican expert Sandro Magister, who writes for the Italian weekly L’Espresso, said the references show “an attention to people without a religion” that was particularly significant as the Church struggles with rising secularism in many countries.
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A tad dogmatic, don’t you think?
OldEnglish on March 22, 2013 at 8:03 PM
Everyone has a religion.
Not everyone has an organized religion.
itsnotaboutme on March 22, 2013 at 8:08 PM
From Merriam-Webster:
No matter what you believe about the origin, the meaning, & the ultimate end of life, or what’s right and wrong, you can’t prove it. You don’t know it. You have faith that it is as you think it is.
itsnotaboutme on March 22, 2013 at 8:13 PM
I disagree. That statement is usually made by those who are looking for justification of their own beliefs.
OldEnglish on March 22, 2013 at 8:15 PM
Hey, not too close, Il Papa. I’ve heard tell about your “eye for the ladies of a female persuasion” and yes, I AM persuaded to be female ha-haa!
He actually seems like a terrific guy. I see why the College of Cardinals voted him “Most Pope-ular”.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on March 22, 2013 at 8:17 PM
That’s why AP posted such an early QotD. He’s got a conference call with the Pope.
Schadenfreude on March 22, 2013 at 8:19 PM
So do you.
Schadenfreude on March 22, 2013 at 8:21 PM
I wonder if AllahPundit felt a tingle.
rbj on March 22, 2013 at 8:51 PM
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You’re on a roll tonight, Lady!
ExpressoBold on March 22, 2013 at 8:54 PM
teehee. Thanky!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on March 22, 2013 at 8:56 PM
Exactly. Just as I wrote earlier.
Of course, some faith is unencumbered by the thought process, and/or without evidence.
Many people have the strangest religious ideas, & they have not one fact to back anything up.
But faith in the Lord Jesus in bolstered by a huge variety of evidences. Which is why it thrives in places where it is vehemently opposed by elitist criticism as well as by physical persecution.
itsnotaboutme on March 22, 2013 at 9:56 PM
Sounds like the old guy is flirting with atheism himself.
Truth (deceiving his Top Man on Earth into carrying out a human sacrifice and then pulling a “Haha, I was just testing you all along” card), goodness (deceiving his Top Man on Earth into carrying out a human sacrifice and then pulling a “Haha, I was just testing you all along” card), and beauty (ah you know whats coming), does not sound like the deity of the Old Testament…
Daikokuco on March 22, 2013 at 11:11 PM
Somebody doesn’t sound convinced.
CurtZHP on March 22, 2013 at 11:48 PM
Yeah that really explains why the places it is thriving most are Sub-saharan Africa and the poorest pieces of Latin America. Lots of elitist naysayers and physical persecuters there. Well okay, there is the latter. But to be fair 75% of them wear a cross themselves. Like Hugo Chavez (not RIP). Or the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Daikokuco on March 23, 2013 at 1:50 AM