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The thing with popes who disagree with the administration is, they die quite easily.
The pope was not against the principles of the church. He was quite revolutionary, though. He challenged the „priests cannot marry“ principle. He revoked church protection in case of sexual accusations. For church this is like rocking the system.
The admin still hid felons, the pope weakened the protection significantly, though.
I think he did the best he could. He was a kind man who actually tried to solve a lot of the injustice of the church. Far away from being an asshole.
He said atheists go to heaven, provided they are "good people". Something his handlers tried to immediately walk back.
Within the shithole that is religion, that is pretty damn revolutionary for the leader of a religion to say.
Yea he's not all powerful, he's like the US president before Trump, limited power and their EOs are not laws. But yea wrong old white man died.
I know what you mean, but making this statement about the alleged voice of God on earth is hilarious to me.
Everything you said can be true, but you can still disagree with the idea that the catholic church can be “fixed from the inside”. I doubt he personally was a knob, and I’m sure if not him, it’d have been someone worse. None of those make him a good person - I think the position of “unquestionable mouthpiece of god” is a fundamentally incompatible concept with being a good person.
maybe grow a set of morals and be like "I refuse to participate in this horrible organization, there is no fixing it I am out screw you"
Me? Oh gosh, i am atheist by heart ans follow my own set of morals. For me the concept of a religious leader alone is wrong.
I did have the pleasure to talk to him one time and he seemed more progressive than others before him. Some of his beliefes and actions I would consider wrong, but he stood for his beliefes, for friendship and for the poor and i respect that.