Pope Francis says atheists can be good

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54. Some of you don't get it.

So much prejudice against the Church.

There are some Catholics (even within the clergy) who think that Jews and atheists are not going to be "saved" and go to Heaven, that they are not good people. The Pope is speaking to them and trying to dispel their prejudices. He's basically saying that people are good as long as they do good deeds. He has also reached out to Muslims.

Compared to what they had in the past, this Pope is a breath of fresh air.

They complain,” the Pope said in his homily, because they say, “If he is not one of us, he cannot do good. If he is not of our party, he cannot do good.” And Jesus corrects them: “Do not hinder him, he says, let him do good.” The disciples, Pope Francis explains, “were a little intolerant,” closed off by the idea of ​​possessing the truth, convinced that “those who do not have the truth, cannot do good.” “This was wrong . . . Jesus broadens the horizon.” Pope Francis said, “The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation”