Blank Frank says that even vermin can go to heaven.

[mr blur]

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Like me, you will all no doubt be thrilled to hear that we can finally meet up in Heaven

In comments likely to enhance his progressive reputation, Pope Francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of La Repubblica newspaper, Eugenio Scalfari, stating that non-believers would be forgiven by God if they followed their consciences.

Responding to a list of questions published in the paper by Mr Scalfari, who is not a Roman Catholic, Francis wrote: “You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith. I start by saying – and this is the fundamental thing – that God’s mercy has no limits if you go to him with a sincere and contrite heart. The issue for those who do not believe in God is to obey their conscience.

“Sin, even for those who have no faith, exists when people disobey their conscience.”
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-assures-atheists-you-don-t-have-to-believe-in-god-to-go-to-heaven-8810062.html

The Cognitive Dissonance is strong with this one . . . not to mention the sheer condescension and arrogance of the 80-Year-Old Virgin presuming that we give a fuck whether or not we are welcome in his Fairy Tale Zombieland.

[uriel1972]

1. God's mercy has no limits...

Tell that to children and babies dying of disease and starvation.
Oh they do, don't they?
All will be right in heaven, they say.

[AlbertCat]

16. that God’s mercy has no limits

nor does his cruelty.

[deucemagnet]

2. "...God's mercy has no limits.."

What about if you're in a same sex marriage or if you've had an abortion? Thanks, but no thanks, Frank.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Is there a way that I can get an exclusion?

The mere thought of spending eternity with some of the nastiest people on the planet, who are pushing their religion on others while they commit all the sins listed in the Bible in a single week!!! I have watched all the sanctimonious preachers on TV telling me how to find god, or how Jesus can cure someone in a wheelchair. And I have watched them found out for all their sins. Unbearable.

[onager]

4. "...his progressive reputation..."???

It was hard reading past that line, I was laughing so much. When they really try, nobody does comedy better than the Vatican and its apologists.

Frankenweenie is just trying to do a careful tightrope walk, between the Church conservatives on one side and what passes for Catholic progressives on the other.

And just as he has done before, he will waffle on this if some Sophisticated Theologian like Mel Gibson criticizes him. "Er, uh, no, I only meant the GOOD Interfaithy non-believers. Not the vermin. God thinks they suck and He can't wait to toss them into hellfire, along with the Commies, gays and women who had abortions."

[edhopper]

5. I think this is a lot better

than most of the Fundies who tell us we will burn in Hell just for not believing.

I am not a fan of Frank, but this doesn't bug me.

[Brainstormy]

7. It bugs me a lot

almost as much as when the sanctimonious head of the richest corporation on earth lectures his sheeple on the evils of consumerism.

[AlbertCat]

17. It bugs me...

.... that adults believe in such malarkey.... from heaven existing to the "authority" of a Pope.

[edhopper]

20. well sure

on a wider scale, yes.
But this specific thing, not so much.

[uriel1972]

6. Four things...

He presumes that we have to be forgiven for something.
Secondly, he presumes he has the right to tell us we will be forgiven.
Thirdly, he tells us who don't believe in sin (and therefore cannot), have sinned
And lastly "God's Mercy"...
In total it makes my blood boil.

[progressoid]

8. Really? Then why bother with his sexist, bigoted church?

[uriel1972]

10. because it is a very large and powerful sexist, bigoted church...

just itching to get it's hands on our minds and bodies, sometimes literally, as well as figuratively.

[AlbertCat]

18. just itching to get it's hands on our minds and bodies,

and money!

[Act_of_Reparation]

11. The issue for those who do not believe in God is to obey their conscience.

Funny. My conscience led me here:

[awoke_in_2003]

12. I'd rather laugh with the sinners

than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun

[uriel1972]

13. Billy Joel?

How could you?
Oh the Humanity!

[awoke_in_2003]

15. You bet...

I was a teenager when that came out.

[AlbertCat]

19. Billy Joel? How could you?

I dunno... kinda sums up his entire oeuvre.

[beam me up scottie]

14. I'll take strippers and beer volcanos over clouds and ugly cherubs.

And the company will be much better too, yarrrrrrr.