Its the nature of the religious to devalue the accomplishments of mankind towards that of the immaterial and divine. I'd just be happy that this guy is showing progress within his own faith.CriticalMiss said:I see it more like a gift from technological and scientific progress rather than a gift from a sky fairy. I also laughed at this:
Because we all know that the Vatican doesn't count homosexuals or people who want abortions/contraception in their list of people they want to understand!We need to resolve our differences through forms of dialogue which help us grow in understanding and mutual respect
Still, he's a damn sight better than pope's of old. Especially the one who can shoot lightning from his fingers.
To be fair http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23489702. Ok, he isn't fully behind gay people but baby steps!CriticalMiss said:snip
I'd like to express that all religions are stupid and people should wake upFtaghn To You Too said:It's a shame there are so many "ALL RELIGION IS STUPID WAKE UP SHEEP" fools out there pushing against his olive branch.
Firstly he's not the head of the Christian Faith; Catholics are Christian, the other major half is Protestant. The Pope is the head of Catholics.Vigormortis said:snip
All he does/did is saying out loud what any other common man has said... already.Radoh said:Seriously though, this pope is awesome.
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Interesting to note that all "good" things are always the work of god, while all the bad things are automatically the plague of the devil...something so wonderful has a spark of the divine, which is actually quite a beautiful image
You could interpret his wording of God as in that God gave humans life and the knowledge to possibly accomplish such things as the internet, but that is maybe going deeper into what he is saying and maybe is not what he is saying at all. By the current small time he has been in I almost will give him the benefit of the doubt that is what he actually means when he said those words which is fine to me and I am not even a christian or religious person. Usually when people do good/great things religious organizations will interpret god/gods had a hand in guiding humans towards it and when bad things happen it is because of evil/devil/etc pushing man to do such things...VaporWare said:While I agree with the papal sentiment here in general terms, I chafe at the implication that God created the Internet just for us to sort ourselves out. It comes across as a touch dismissive of the lowly humans who actively sweat and toil over the digital mess, and in the face of the Popes own cutting insight about our reflection and judgement? Rather ignorant of the attendant evils.
I would not make the assumption all of the people that worked on the internet where atheist, but a mix of some religious believers, atheist, and agnostics. The last Pope Benedict does look perfect though to play a Sith Lord part I would say that guy wasn't the worse Pope ever and with recent documents it shows he tried to clean up some of the internal problems with the churchs pedophile priest, but he is not completely clean himself in that he had certain knowledge of other members being so before he became Pope, but I will say when you have so many people in the hierarchy with a huge amount of influence, money, and connections it can be hard even for a Pope to clean all the filth that is in such a large organization and that goes for mostly any organization be it religious or not.MrHide-Patten said:Based upon technology made by atheists.
Don't get me wrong, as far as popes go, I like him. Damn lot better than the Sith Lord who could live up to the title.
When I was saying that I meant the guys that spearheaded the technology, obviously it wasn't just one guy in his backyard on Sunday morning building the first computer. Or have the atheist facebook pages been feeding me biased information!?VanTesla said:I would not make the assumption all of the people that worked on the internet where atheist, but a mix of some religious believers, atheist, and agnostics.
My apologies I was just thinking you ment all involved and not the person that headed the project. Honestly I don't know who was the original guy that speaheaded it and don't care enough to look up at the moment so I will assume at the moment your information is correct for you looked up the source. Of course I would not be surprised if there is controversy on who was the actual person who came up with the idea for many I have no doubt tried to say they where the first be it they played a part or not. Also my assumption on most groups that are for religious or non-religious organizations have biased facts on mostly every subject to spin anything done by them as bigger or more involved then they actually are in anything. That is a bit pessimistic of me to presume that all organizations do that, but based on most things that come out many have done and showed such behaviours be it from the top to the bottom or just some mindless idiot spouting things with no actual fact or evidence to back up such claims. That last sentence was not directed towards you or anyone in particular just to clear that up if anyone thought I was directing it towards them.MrHide-Patten said:When I was saying that I meant the guys that spearheaded the technology, obviously it wasn't just one guy in his backyard on Sunday morning building the first computer. Or have the atheist facebook pages been feeding me biased information!?VanTesla said:I would not make the assumption all of the people that worked on the internet where atheist, but a mix of some religious believers, atheist, and agnostics.