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Pope decries ‘aversion’ to Christians
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Pope Benedict XVI decried Monday what he called “growing aversion” to the Christian faith in the world.
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‘”In a world marked by religious indifference and even by a growing aversion toward the Christian faith, a new, intense activity of evangelization is necessary,” the pope said.
He urged Christians to overcome their differences through dialogue so that they can unite their efforts to influence debates in society on ethical issues like abortion, euthanasia and the limits of science and technology.
Good to see him worried. And how typical: when an ideology is in decline people suddenly decide that factional differences of previous generations are not so important after all.
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I can’t speak for anyone else, but I would have far fewer problems with religion in general and Christianity in specific if they weren’t always trying to convince me that I’m wrong…
Wait … “influence debates in society on ethical issues like abortion, euthanasia and the limits of science and technology” ??
Where does the Holey Bible talk about any of those? Oh that’s right, it doesn’t…
So no position taken on those issues by *any* Christion church has any remotely plausible claim of being “The Word Of God”, even if you believe in biblical inerrancy. It’s entirely the “Word From The Patricarchy”. I wonder how God’s interests diverge from that of that Patriarchy? Or rather, I would … if I had reason to believe there were such a woman as God. (Who created the Spaghetti, though?)
It would be a far far better thing if this decline would spread to other religions. For that to happen, education would have to rise.
“limits of science and technology”
Can we get rid of Guttenberg and literate people, please? Thank you.