I Knew Pope Francis Was Good, But

[AtheistCrusader]

108. That is incredibly disingenuous.

It is not 'browbeating' to point out institutionalized homophobia, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, in an entity like the RCC. It's a stark, bare, naked fact, open for all to see in the plain light of day.

The pope's position toward the ill and the poor is not what you purport it to be, as long as the RCC, the organization he heads, spends millions every year opposing relief for those two groups in the most basic of methods. Family planning is a cheap, easy, effective means to lift people out of poverty. For the people so ill they are literally dying in slow motion, and suffering mightily for it, opposing elective, self-euthanasia is not compassionate. The church works to legislatively deny compassion that I would show my dog, for mature, reasonable humans who have no alternatives left to them. Who have nothing but months of excruciating pain, and no hope of cure or relief, nothing but a future of degrading quality of life, misery, dependency and eventual death.

That is not compassion.

Opposing the church on these matters is not 'tea party' tactics. This is not one or two little issues. These are core social, and civil rights issues.

You pretty much just ignored everything I said, or you wouldn't so disingenuously imply I do not consider these issues important. I can hear exactly what you said. Don't pretend you can slip that past and try and make this about my not caring about the ill and the poor. I held my father's hand when he finally passed, DON'T FUCKING TELL ME I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE POOR because you are incapable or unwilling to understand what BASIC HUMAN COMPASSION actually means.

You cannot claim the pope is compassionate toward the ill and the poor while he maintains his legislative advocacy positions on these issues. The RCC is ACTIVELY INJURING the ill and the poor on these issues. That's not compassion. Telling one person to suffer and die slowly, while kissing someone else's foot, is not compassion. Sorry.