Pope: 'God Is Not Afraid Of New Things'

[LynneSin]

71. Good points

Let's face it, even as a Christian I recognize that the Bible has always been used as a tool to manipulated the masses into the control. Because what I could never understand is why anyone who actually read the new ideas that Jesus present which was love, equality and sharing (Vs the old which was God smiting those who were sinners for not obeying all those crazy rules in Leviticus) would buy into the bullshit being spewed by these so-called Christian mouthpieces on TV today.

The so-called 'new ideas' that Pope Francis aren't really new ideas. 2000 years ago Jesus, whether people today think he was the Son of God or just another average Joe walking around philosophizing the meaning of life, was telling people to basically to stop judging others and to help those who are less fortunate.

Some of the best reads out there are the Gnostic Gospels, which are the other Gospels deemed not worthy enough to be included in the bible. There were dozens of people who wrote their story (or heresay or legends) of this dude Jesus that walked around with these radical new ideas that were so different from what folks normally believed from God. And the Gnostics really took a hard turn to the left. These books were not left out because someone thought they were inaccurate but because some of them would have destroyed the foundation created by the 'New' Church and how it had become such a huge money-making institution (remember Bible came about 300 years after Jesus). In all reality Jesus did not believe in organized religion. A Church was never an actual building but more like people just hanging out together doing good things and helping others. But to include a gospel that could change the masses ideal of donating money to organized religion. Those people might want to donate that money to help someone who was actually truly needed. (btw if that seems like the plotline to a bad Gabriel Byrne/Patricia Arquette movie it actually was - but there was some logic from the gnostics built into 'Stigmata').

So in the end and all this rambling what am I really saying?

God isn't embracing anything new, he did that ages ago when he sent his only Son who taught people profound things like 'love one another' and 'judge not lest we be judge' (which was not something preached before Jesus hence 'New'). It's just taking 2000+ years for the Catholic Church to catchup to all this ideology.