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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls
I'm not pinning the ideology on him. I just don't understand why he gets a pass as an individual. He deserves criticism the same as everyone else.
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Don't you get it? You can't criticise one man for continuing to spout the same mantra the church has for centuries. It's not like he started or suggested these things and nobody had said them before, or held those views before. It's just the party line. You might as well accuse Raoul Castro of being the dictator Fidel was, and getting Cuba into the poverty-ridden cycle it's in, but at least he's trying to do something about it by talking to the USA. As a matter of interest, would you "like to slap" Bendedict too? JP II? JP I? Pope Paul? They all said the same things, and worse; at least Francis is trying to break the cycle. THAT's why he gets a pass, if you want to see it that way. He's not just business as usual, unlike his predecessors. He's trying to change things, and he should be acknowledged for that.