The new Pope of the Catholic Church continues his
promulgation of Liberation Theology with his latest simplistic statements of
salvation equality. And I say this as a
Catholic.
If you haven’t heard the fact, Pope Francis was quoted in
the media as saying that all one needs to be saved is to do good works. Pope Francis said that even atheists can be
“saved” if they only do good.
Hmmmm. This must cause one to
step back and think carefully. You can
read about it at the link at the bottom of this post.
If one were to think about this for some time then one might
come to the next question – if that is true that one can be saved by doing good
then what need have we of the Church? Indeed, what need does man have for the
entirety of theology and formal religion?
If one merely has to do good works then one will be saved. Can a real bastard of a man who commits many
“sins” against his family, friends and neighbors save himself by doing one good
work? Did the mass murderer John Wayne
Gacy actually “save” himself from the evil murders he delighted in committing
because he also performed many acts of good will for the community in which he
also predated? Or would a pimp who
whores and beats women for the cash they produce with their bodies find
salvation because he gives a homeless man a twenty dollar bill? Is salvation really that easy to attain? If it is that easy to attain then why am I
working so hard?
It troubles me that the Pope, the Head of the Holy Roman
Catholic Church on Earth, could be so simplistically relativistic in his
view. Is he really that simplistic or
was his suggestion really nothing more than an attempt to curry favor from the
media and those who are morally relativistic?
Is the Pope merely trying to ingratiate himself with those non-believers
to create a “bridge” for communication? I would like to think so but I am concerned
that he is not. Rather, Pope Francis is
revealing his relativistic views of faith with which he was virtually born and
raised with over his lifetime. It is the
relativism born of a lifetime immersed in Marxist socialization and relativism.
If this continues as I seem to see it proceeding, Pope
Francis may indeed be the last Pope of the Catholic Church. His fellow Cardinals may indeed soon come to
regret electing him Pope after all.
Remember that Pope Francis asked that God forgive the Cardinals for
electing him Pope. This is not a comment
to be taken lightly, either as a joke or a serious statement. The
entire Church Body may have good reason to be concerned also. The Devil may be in the Pope’s details.
We ain’t seen nothing yet.
Pope Francis defends
atheists
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/23/pope-francis-atheists/2355935/