He can advocate for the poor without telling us how to do it. How to do it is up to us, he should remind us of the fact that we should. Our Christian duty isn't to do it the way the pope wants us to, it is to care for our brothers and sisters -- we have to figure out how to do that.
And yes, that makes perfect sense.
Of course your duty isn't to do it the way the Pope wants you to, but the idea that he should not propose solutions to things he identifies as problems is ridiculous. I can't imagine why it would be preferable for him to stand up and make vague pronouncements of what's wrong with the world while offering no ideas on how to improve them.
That's just baffling unless your goal is to suppress political speech that you don't like. (which is most likely the case here)
I have not declared any such thing. No need to make up lies.
Nope, your making up stuff is not particularly funny. Dull and repetitive is more like it.
You've done exactly that.
The Pope has said that taking action against climate change is a religious issue because it relates to mankind's stewardship of creation. You have said that it is not a religious issue, but a political one, which means the Pope is wrong in his interpretation. That means you are exactly saying that you are interpreting Catholicism correctly and he is not, ergo you know more about it than he does. There is no escaping this.
You just said something insanely hypocritical and you apparently didn't even notice. While complaining about other people being 'experts on everything' you declared yourself to be interpreting Catholicism better than the Pope. Just own your hypocrisy and move on.
Did I call for the church to disband? No. Why would you expect that I'd call for those groups to disband? Religious groups are entitled to whatever opinions they want, but the teachings of the religion should not be based on a political ideology or party. If they are, then they can expect that only people who follow that same political ideology would support the religion. Clearly that's not what the church does. The church has always taken positions on religious matters, but generally stayed out of politics. When it does delve into politics it's almost always a bad thing.
Anti-abortion groups are political action groups that stem from religious organizations. Since you said religious organizations shouldn't be involved in politics, you should be calling for those anti-abortion groups to disband by your own logic.
I didn't say anything about the church disbanding, I was simply following your own rules for what religious organizations should be doing. Color me shocked that it doesn't apply for conservative causes.
No, my objection is political speech by the pontiff. He came out and took a position supporting gun rights I'd say the same thing: it has nothing to do with the church, stay out of politics.
As I already said, he's a leftist heading up the church, so I take his opinion on those matters to be worth what I paid for them.
Yes I know you think you are more of an expert on Catholicism than the Pope. He said it was a religious issue, but you think you know better and he's wrong. This just so happens to coincide with the fact that he supports some liberal things though I'm sure.
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