Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Dopey Popey
This is ridiculous madness stupid unbelievable.
The Pope has declared (or reiterated) that christians who do not accept him as the supreme leader "are not true churches". As the NYT puts it, the pope has "reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church". Not true churches? Universal primacy? How arrogant.
Here's some highlights from his fascist doc:
"Protestant and other Christian denominations are not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the 'means of salvation.'"
"Christ 'established here on earth' only one church, and the other communities cannot be called 'churches' in the proper sense because they do not have apostolic succession -- the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles."
"Orthodox churches lack something because they do not recognize the primacy of the pope -- a defect, or a 'wound' that harms them."
I think this is all a bunch of hootenany. It is so pompous to think that you control something that has to be bigger than you, bigger than your ability to comprehend it. This sounds like the papal bulls in the middle ages when you were expected to pay the church for your "means of salvation". Unless you acknowledged the authority of the pope you would be damned. Doesn't this smack of totalitarianism??? Even just a touch?
I couldn't care less how someone acts spiritually, that's just me, but the church's crazy authoritative attitude seems unnecessarily out of place. I can't believe this shit still goes on - exclusion for the sake of exclusion. Were a long way from the StarTrekification of our society.
The Pope has declared (or reiterated) that christians who do not accept him as the supreme leader "are not true churches". As the NYT puts it, the pope has "reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church". Not true churches? Universal primacy? How arrogant.
Here's some highlights from his fascist doc:
"Protestant and other Christian denominations are not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the 'means of salvation.'"
"Christ 'established here on earth' only one church, and the other communities cannot be called 'churches' in the proper sense because they do not have apostolic succession -- the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles."
"Orthodox churches lack something because they do not recognize the primacy of the pope -- a defect, or a 'wound' that harms them."
I think this is all a bunch of hootenany. It is so pompous to think that you control something that has to be bigger than you, bigger than your ability to comprehend it. This sounds like the papal bulls in the middle ages when you were expected to pay the church for your "means of salvation". Unless you acknowledged the authority of the pope you would be damned. Doesn't this smack of totalitarianism??? Even just a touch?
I couldn't care less how someone acts spiritually, that's just me, but the church's crazy authoritative attitude seems unnecessarily out of place. I can't believe this shit still goes on - exclusion for the sake of exclusion. Were a long way from the StarTrekification of our society.
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