You’re going to tell me this man is not evil?
Oh, the “pope” said something bizarre again.
Shocker.
Fox News:
Pope Francis, in a Saturday message delivered from the Vatican, took aim at conservative Catholics, warning that “rigidity” in living out the Christian faith was turning people away, and that the church must adapt to a post-Christian west.
Francis called for Vatican bureaucrats to embrace change during his annual Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who work in the Holy See.
Catholicism’s conservative wing has increasingly voiced opposition to Francis’ progressive-minded papacy. Their criticisms have accelerated in the past year, amid Vatican financial and sex abuse scandals.
Francis acknowledged in his address that Christianity no longer holds the influence in society that it once did. He cited the late Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, a leader of the progressive wing of the Catholic Church, who lamented before dying that the church found itself “200 years behind” because of its fear of change.
“Today we are no longer the only ones that produce culture, no longer the first nor the most listened to,” Francis told the prelates. “The faith in Europe and in much of the West is no longer an obvious presumption but is often denied, derided, marginalized and ridiculed.”
As a result, he urged the Catholic hierarchy to embrace the necessary pastoral reforms that will make the church attractive so that it can spread the faith.
In actual fact, the church has become less popular as it has become more secular.
There has been a steady collapse since Vatican II, when they made the decision to liberalize the church, to back off of traditional gender roles, to back off of preaching the truth about hell, to cancel traditional mass, to forgive the sickening evil Jews.
As they’ve continued to get softer, they’ve continued to lose believers, because it has become clear that they themselves don’t believe in anything they are saying. If they truly believed they were representing God, they couldn’t change their doctrine because “these are changing times.”
I know that many of my own readers would be drawn to the Catholic Church if they were hard and introducing hard rules, and a hard line. The softness attracts no one. It pushes people away. And this is demonstrated.
Treating religion like a brand is deranged and evil on the face of it, but this doesn’t even make any sense in terms of brand management.
This is worse than when the black CEO of McDonald’s introduced a new “hipper” version of Ronald McDonald
“After we went soft, we lost people, so we need to go softer,” is only something a pope would say if he were trying to destroy the church.
This is not a real pope and he is pure evil.