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muriel_volestrangler

(102,693 posts) Thu May 7, 2020, 04:12 PM May 2020

Ex-Pope Benedict Blames LGBTQ Acceptance on "Spiritual Power of the Antichrist"

A new biography by German journalist Peter Seeward, simply titled Benedict XVI The Biography: Volume One, contains a 2018 interview between the author and the pontiff, in which Benedict vented his concerns about the world’s moral decline, particularly as it relates to issues like abortion, reproductive technology, and (of course) gay marriage:

One hundred years ago, everybody would have considered it to be absurd to speak of a homosexual marriage. Today one is being excommunicated by society if one opposes it… Modern society is in the middle of formulating an anti-Christian creed, and if one opposes it, one is being punished by society with excommunication. The fear of this spiritual power of the Anti-Christ is then only more than natural.

Benedict appears to confuse social excommunication with “people who want nothing to do with you anymore.” Imagine becoming persona non grata for opposing the marriages — in some cases, even the existence of — people you’ve never met.

He apparently sees no contradiction in accusing equal rights proponents of social excommunication on behalf of the Church that literally invented excommunication as a punishment. That word, “excommunication,” would not exist without the Catholic Church.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/07/ex-pope-benedict-blames-lgbtq-acceptance-on-spiritual-power-of-the-antichrist/

Superstitious bigot. At least he's not in charge any more.

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Ex-Pope Benedict Blames LGBTQ Acceptance on "Spiritual Power of the Antichrist" (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2020 OP

Yeah. You don't want to "speak of a homosexual marriage" leftieNanner May 2020 #1

Never would have been tolerated back in the Hitler Youth. Girard442 May 2020 #2

It just isn't right to hate someone for whom they love. CaptYossarian May 2020 #3

Old fool LuvNewcastle May 2020 #4

New superstitious bigot the same as the old superstitious bigot... abqtommy May 2020 #5

He is saying the devil has more (spiritual) power than God. keithbvadu2 May 2020 #6

Current pope is no different. Cuthbert Allgood May 2020 #7

leftieNanner

(15,744 posts)

1. Yeah. You don't want to "speak of a homosexual marriage"

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2020, 04:16 PM

May 2020

But you're A OK with pedophile priests being shunted from one parish to another preying (not praying) on children.

Love is love. But what those Catholic priests did/have done isn't love.

Girard442

(6,432 posts)

2. Never would have been tolerated back in the Hitler Youth.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2020, 04:38 PM

May 2020

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

3. It just isn't right to hate someone for whom they love.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2020, 04:48 PM

May 2020

I equate it to high school math, where a negative times a positive is still negative.

And with all that's been going on for the last 40 years, why is this at the top of Benedict's plate? We still have wars, social injustice, famine, and many more worldwide issues--even before COVID.

Sorry, but he's a senile bigot who wants more children born so his lackeys can get their rocks off.

LuvNewcastle

(17,044 posts)

4. Old fool

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2020, 04:57 PM

May 2020

He can cover up for child rapists but he wants to damn people in healthy adult relationships. Hypocrisy at its best. It's fine to fuck children and hide it, the real sin is to fall in love with someone of the same sex and announce it to the world. It's the lack of guilt or shame that the Catholic church can't abide.