Thank God for that news. I was starting to get worried, with my potty mouth and all.
Catholic Pope Francis made a startling revelation Thursday by stating that hell did not exist, in an interview with a leading liberal Italian newspaper.
In an article titled “It Is an Honor to Be Called a Revolutionary,” La Repubblica founder Eugenio Scalfari acknowledged the pontiff’s previous remarks about how “good souls” who sought repentance from God would receive it and then asked, “What about the bad souls?” Seemingly going against centuries of core Christian belief, Pope Francis said the souls of sinners simply vanished after death and were not subject to an eternity of punishment.
“They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear,” Pope Francis said, as translated by Catholic blog Rorate Caeli.
Shortly after the article was published, the Vatican issued a statement that claimed the article was “not a faithful transcript” and that the meeting between Pope Francis and Scalfari was a private meeting and not a formal interview.
“What is reported by the author in today’s article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father,” the Vatican said in a statement translated by the Catholic News Agency.
The Catholic New Agency also pointed out that, after a controversial 2013 article, Scalfari admitted that some words attributed to the pontiff “were not shared by Pope Francis” himself.
Francis is the 266th Catholic pope and the first to be born outside of Europe. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires to an Italian family that fled the fascist rule of Benito Mussolini, he entered the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, at the age of 21.
Since becoming pope following the resignation of his predecessor in 2013, Francis has been known a vocal supporter of reform for the Catholic Church and advocate for the poor. He has pushed for greater outreach to the young and other faiths as well as more liberal attitudes toward controversial topics such as contraception, evolution and homosexuality.
These ideals have often drawn the ire of the Catholic Church’s more conservative clergy, some of whom have pushed back against Pope Francis’s leadership.
Where was this asshole when I was desperately trying to get laid in the early 1960’s?
Why would anyone listen to the Dope?
Now that is what I would call a conflict of interests. He better hope there is no hell.
Would someone please offer a definition of the subject matter?
Is it hypocrisy or eternal punishment in a BBQ pit [ or what ]?
http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?95865-Eternal-Punishment-is-Against-The-Law&highlight=Eternal+punishment
Hell does exist. After experiencing all the queers / progressives / tranny’s / copfucks / boy mayor / Governor Mumbles / the Minneapolis Pravda news rag / endless bike lanes / and their never ending stream of rules and taxes – this is hell!
God prepared Hell for the devil and the angles who followed him
What are “angles”?
I was just going to make a comment about it
AngEls = God’s messengers
AngLes = try Geometry
People obtuse enough to spell that way. They need to be more acute
good one
Angles followed him. Aren’t you being just a bit obtuse John….
Well that settles it. Heaven sounds like a real boring place! Too many blowhards going there.
See you fuckers in Valhalla! There will the liquor and whores a plenty!
I’ll promise keep some beer warm for my best bud beebs! If I get there first. He can bring his cat, little bb, too! My cat Delaney (PBUH) would like that very much and will likely need some company to bide the evenings in the great hall.
Yours in Odin,
RiNS
You on speaking terms with Odin, R?
Could you save me a seat at the table RiNS, and a brunette valkyrie. Fighting, fucking, and feasting sounds a lot better than worshipping holy ass all day.
Happy Thor’s -day
Diogenes
“Fighting, fucking, and feasting sounds a lot better than worshipping holy ass all day.”
Ditto. Sign me up.
Sure Dio
Seats a plenty! I have been promised it’ll be great. Sota like Burning Platform everyday for eternity. As far as speaking to Odin Pen, well he gets in touch once in a while to kick my ass and smarten me up. He is a great Lord to have. He doesn’t need my love. Nah he just wants a fella to think for himself and respect those around him.
So thanks everyone and a pre-emptive Good Friggs Day!
RiNS
Like TBP, with literal swords and spears! 🙂
Pretty sure Earth and “existence” on it, is hell.
Do it wrong….and you’re reborn to do it again.
Do it right and perhaps you move on to another plane of existence, which is heaven by current standards.
That’s just earning your way to heaven, something that seems ridiculous when you consider it and look at the majesty of the universe God created in comparison to your greatest deeds here on earth.
All religions are based on the idea of earning your way to heaven except Christianity which offers it as a gift to those who accept it.
Francis has just stated that he believes that his job, his organization, and thus anything that he says, is irrelevant .
I’m cool with that .
Mat 25:45-46 “Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” -KJV
The words of Jesus, what does he say happens to those souls that are wicked when judged?
But maybe the Pope knows more than Jesus. The Pope is, after all, the holiest of the holy men within the Church.
I know that was sarcasm, but even if Bergoglio weren’t an antipope (which he is) being the real pope doesn’t guarantee that you’re holy. At all.
Not a word of truth there. For truth go to God’s word (written by Him, written down by men) where more is written about hell than heaven. Hell is real and the final destination for all who reject Christ’s finished work on the cross.
Maybe Pope Francis is actually Satan, or at least a minion. It kinda adds up.
The Pope may well be to Satan’s antichrist what John the Baptist was to Jesus.
Everything God does, Satan will counterfeit in order to deceive people into following him instead of following God.
When that POS fraud dies and ends up in hell, then he will be a believer.
The joke always asks if the pope is Catholic. I don’t think that joke works anymore.
“Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires to an Italian family that fled the fascist rule of Benito Mussolini”
Yeah, a family that fled to the fascist rule of Juan Perón! The Bergoglios are opportunists, as Pope Frankie is proving day by day. The late Bella Dodd (https://infogalactic.com/info/Bella_Dodd) called this one years ago. When the supposedly rhetorical question “Is the pope a Catholic?” is asked these days, one begins to wonder if in fact the bear really does poop in the woods.
Enter the dragon.
You can laugh or chide all you want, but if the words of the leader of the largest Chriistian church in the world really repeated the biggest lie of Satan (on Holy Thursday no less), then that equals anti-pope, schism and a world full of hurt for us all. If you want to celebrate living in the end-times and all that goes with that, then laugh and chide on. As for me and my house, we’ll be on our knees pleading with the Lord “For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world”.
“There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls”
Dude, sinners seem to be multiplying, not disappearing, he’ll have to say no Sin next and thumbs up for abortion too. As long as its 20 weeks, at least for starters. He is driving this wagon off a cliff. No hell? Leading the charge to skeptic nothingness, wouldn’t want those pesky Atheists getting out front of the great Pack of the Left.
So now, we all good, cuz Jesus died for us already and bonus there is no hell, jackpot!
Party On!
Whatever vestiges of personal responsibility left will soon be entirely subsumed by the government, through self driving cars, forced medication, and Total surveillance.
Generally people will just turn to idiocy and pandering full time, just like the movie.
“like from the toilet”
The big question is , would it matter AND HOW would it change the world if the faithful knew or believed there was no punishment in hell for the sinners?
It’s curious that the atheists always show up in the comment threads on these kinds of posts. Their presence is proof of their own doubt about their (lack of) belief.
Deep in their their souls, they fear that there will actually be a Big Day, when they meet Jesus.
I’m not religious, but I know this man is no Pope. He is something else entirely.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
I guess the question whether hell is endothemic or exothermic is mut now. 😉
I think I puked in my mouth a little.
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This pope sucks devil dick.
Wait. What! You mean I can now start going to Mass again and not be told how horrid a person I am and how much guilt I should have and the only way to feel better is to tithe?? Damn, I may just start going again aftera a 20 year hiatus…..Man made religion is a crock and a power play. Trust me, do As I say for God informed me to tell you to follow me, oh and by the way give me money so I don’t have to work, so I can buy candy and entice little boys….these people will burn rightfully in hell. God will punish them all.