Non-believers have been villainized for so long by religious leaders that it leaves us flummoxed when a religious leader fails to take an unfair swipe at us. The religious leader I’m referring to is Pope Francis, and what he said was resoundingly refreshingly ordinary, though it sounded so good coming from the leader of the Catholic Church:
“Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis has said in his latest urging that people of all religions, and none, work together.
“Just do good, and we’ll find a meeting point,” the pope said in a hypothetical reply to the hypothetical comment: “But I don’t believe. I’m an atheist.”
The new Pope has thus jumped over a very low bar. One small step for a man–one giant leap for a religious leader.
Greetings, The history of the catholic church is that when finding “middle ground” with them. You will be the one that will have to give up ground, not them. On the outside it may look and sound likethey “lower” the bar. But the roman catholic church is the same as she was during the middle “dark” ages. SHE is the mother church you will have to work on HER terms.