People of Padre Steve’s World,
Today Pope Francis further rocked the world of Conservative Christians making these statements about Christians ensnared by their political ideology. He said: In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. Of every sign: rigid.
“And when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought… For this reason Jesus said to them: ‘You have taken away the key of knowledge.’ The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.”
“The faith becomes ideology and ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people,” Francis added. “But it is a serious illness, this of ideological Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?”
I was amazed as I have been saying the same thing for years. Here is a blast from the past, an article that I wrote back in early 2010 entitled “Vindictive Angry Christians: When Faith is Subordinated to a Political Agenda Redemption Dies.”
It is nice to be ahead of a Papal pronouncement eh?
Peace,
Padre Steve+
Over the past year or so I have seen many of my fellow Christians including people that I can at least at one time call friends lose themselves and their faith, even though they think that they are defending their faith by subordinating to message of the Gospel which the Apostle Paul so well stated “For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others.” (2 Corinthians 5:19) or the command of Jesus who said: “But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you” (Matthew 5:44)
This is nowhere more apparent in the coarse invective leveled at the current President. Now I can care less whether someone agrees or disagrees with…
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