How come nobody in GD is slobbering over the pope when he attacks abortion?

[AtheistCrusader]

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/13/22288490-pope-francis-makes-toughest-remarks-yet-on-horrific-abortion?lite

[Vashta Nerada]

1. I did.

And I was told to start a thread to "shit on the poor".

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Yeah, I saw that.

But hey, he's all hopey-changey, right? If you don't recognize that, you're just a bitter hater, you know.

[Vashta Nerada]

3. It's interesting to see people here

fawning all over this pope because he tells people to help the poor, but he has yet to empty the church coffers to actually achieve that task. All words, no action.

Hm.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. I think the impact on world economies would be staggering if the church actually did that.

Like Inflation++, it would be such a shock, such an infusion of cash into the system.

[Vashta Nerada]

5. Even a portion of it would help.

Lead by example, I say.

[Warpy]

6. Probably because when he's wrong, he's dead wrong.

Popes are the least qualified people on the face of the planet to discuss contraception, terms of marriage, and abortion.

Yet they never shut up about them for long, do they?

[defacto7]

7. If he says

something Catholics or others like, it doesn't matter how unoriginal it is. He could quote from an ad for cottage cheese and they would go, "Oh, Oh the pope is so enlightened", but if he says something some Catholics or others don't like, they're either quiet or just accept it as the word of god. That's where patting the pope on the back, at least for me, stops in it's tracks. There's no reasonable advancement of human ideas in it. The good has been touted forever and the bad has been touted... forever. It's just a guy with Jeanne D'arc syndrome who appeals to people with an empty space in their belief system.

[LostOne4Ever]

8. For the same reasons that some people

Would laugh at a story about a talking donkey yet still believe that a book containing such a story is the literal word of god.

They want to so very much to believe that they are willing to close their eyes and ears to anything that would shatter the image they have in their head.

[progressoid]

9. Ugh. I'm getting pretty tired of the Popegasms.

So this pope finally understands the Beatitudes. Great. Maybe in another 1800 years they'll catch up with us on the rest of the issues.

[Act_of_Reparation]

10. Because "Cautious Optimism" means "Complete Deference", apparently n/t

[dorkulon]

11. Probably because they disagree with him on that issue. Just a guess.

Did you think we were getting a pro-choice Pope? That makes one of us. He's still the best one to come along in my lifetime. It's a matter of degrees, I'm afraid.

[AtheistCrusader]

12. There is entirely too much pope-love on this site, given core foundational dogma of that religion.

If Rince Priebus came out as encouraging higher taxes on/less wealthy disparity to the hyper-rich, without also walking back all the suspiciously-similar platform positions of the RCC on women's health/family planning, gender roles, gender identity, and a host of other issues, do you think people would be as positive about it?

Best RNC Chairman of my lifetime! Right? No? Not so much?


But you are correct, my OP question is a rhetorical foil, not proposed entirely seriously. It was more of a vent/rant.

[dorkulon]

13. You take what you can get. I'm not signing up or anything.

As popes go, he's better. A positive development is a positive development.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Fair enough.

I'm a bit of a pessimist on some things these days.

[Fumesucker]

15. Some things never grow old