There are people who will declare “all roads lead to God.” That is nonsense, and is so broad that it has no meaning whatever. If you claim to believe in everything, you actually believe in nothing. There are also priests who do not believe in God at all, which should be a reason to get out of the religion business, but it’s a paycheck, I guess.
One would imagine Pope Francis to be a little more solid in his Catholic beliefs, but he seems to be a little wobbly on the basic principles of Catholicism, which are that it is God’s church, and he is the Vicar of Christ, meaning Christ’s representative on earth. Catholic belief is that the church authority is granted through a line of priesthood starting with Peter, clear through the papacy to Francis, so in essence, all other churches are apostate. Maybe Francis didn’t get the message.
You also have those who “protested” against the authority of the papacy, as “Protestant” churches did centuries ago. Those traditional Protestant churches still hold that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ, and so there is a commonality of belief between Catholics and Protestants that recognizes Jesus as savior. That would seem to be a pretty good reason to develop unity and common cause between Catholics and Protestants, especially when Christianity in general is under attack and Christians are being murdered in the Middle East by Islamic warriors.
Other belief systems reject Christ entirely, including Islam, which believes Christ was a prophet but not the Messiah, and believes that salvation is through Islam and worship of Allah. The origin of Allah is murky, but he was probably a figure recognized as a moon god by the Sumerians and worshiped by Babylonians, Assyrians, and Akkadians, then worshipped by Arabs among a pantheon of about 360 gods until Mohammed elevated Allah above all the other gods, and then to the one and only God.
The weird thing now is that Pope Francis seems to be making nice with Islam, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though that issue of Muslims murdering Christians and driving them out from Muslim dominant nations in the Middle East should be a little troubling. But Francis is going well beyond trying to settle old rivalries, and that should be cause for alarm for anyone who professes a Christian belief.
See video and Pope Francis uniting with Islam on page 2:
HE’S A DISGRACE.
Can anyone say “anti-Christ????”!!!!!!
This scumbag is a socialist pig. You Catholic had better wise up. Priest banging little boys, the church covering it up, the congregation complacent is the reason God will tear down your church. This man is an evil little$#%&!@*
Ban Islam!
WAKE UP MY FELLOW AMERICANS!
This is a must read. I copied it from a post, author unknown.
These are things you need to know about Islam and Muslims. Allah IS NOT the same God who is worshiped by Jews and Christians. Allah is no more a God than the Golden calf of Egypt. Allah predates Islam by over a thousand years, and was a minor deity in the Temple of Baal, the Canaanite Sun God, who was worshiped throughout the Middle East. Baal (ba’al) was an ancient Canaanite and Mesopotamian deity associated with agriculture. He was believed to be the “giver of life” and mankind was dependent upon him for providing what was necessary to sustain the farms, flocks and herds. Allah was the moon god who’s sign was the crescent moon. Mohammad, born 570 years after the Birth of Christ, was very familiar with Judaism and Christianity and stole traditions from both religions to create his own cult. He took the named Allah for his God because it was familiar to Arabs across the region. This is why you so often see the symbol of the crescent moon associated with Islam, and on so many Islamic flags. Mohammad asked the Jews to recognize him as a Prophet from God, which they refused to do. Because of this Mohammad turned upon the Jews, and Muslims have hated and despised the Jews ever since. Mohammad warred upon the Jews, and slaughtered whole villages, decapitating the men, and selling the women into slavery. Mohammad himself set the example to his followers by demanding from his captors that they either convert to Islam or be put to death; a tradition that carries on even to this day. Upon Mohammad’s death in 632 A.D., a rift developed amongst Muslims as to who should succeed as leader of their cult. Thus you have the Shia and Sunni. Muslims following Mohammad’s exampled raped, pillaged and plundered their way across the Middle East and North Africa, Murdering those that would not convert to Islam. In the year 711 A.D., Muslims (called the Moors) crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and invaded Spain. In 827 A.D. the Muslims invaded Sicily, and in 847 A.D. the Italian port of Bari (occupied from 847 until 871), with Muslim raids reaching as far north as Rome and Piedmont. During this same time period, the Muslims invaded Europe in the east, first laying siege to Constantinople in 674–678 A.D. Muslims continued their depredations until In March 1095, Pope Urban II received an ambassador from the Byzantine Emperor asking for help against Muslim invasion and another siege of Constantinople. THIS is what prompted the Crusades of the middle ages, an attempt to put an end to Muslim aggression! The fact of the matter is that Europe was being invaded in both the East AND the West! Lets be clear, What we are seeing today in the Mideast, and elsewhere is not radical Islam. This is what Mohamed intended his cult to be, and this is what Islam was when it raped pillaged and plundered its way across the Middle east, North Africa, and Invaded Spain and Europe with the intent of taking over the entire world. Let there be no mistake, it is the intent of Islam to take over the world……
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
Traitor pope
This is the ‘pope’ we were warned about
with these things happening that kid is right. Vatican city needs to go the pope just needs to stop
To all Catholics! Dont let this “man” who calls himself pope destroy your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
This religious system is part of fraudulent behaviors. Again we see end times prophecy being fulfilled.
there is the anti-christ