Religion
In reply to the discussion: Corruption, Duplicitousness, and Lying are Important Christian Values, Apparently. [View all]Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)If he had to.
But the whole story of Jesus, is that he would rather die, than do something bad. Even for a second. If you don't understand that, you don't understand Christianity at all. Not one little bit.
For instance, Jesus dies rather than say he was not Christ, most say
Being drafted into something bad, Ike the German Army, and then deserting,.is OK, for you and me; or,.everyday people.
But Jesus allowing himself to be drafted into something bad at all, becoming a Nazi even temporarily,.is NOT something the Jesus of the Bible would ever do.. AND by externsion, it doesn't look good, for any pope. We would've thought a really godly man, would've died, like Jesus, or a Christian martyr, rather than become a Nazi,.even temporarily.
If you do.not understand that, then you do not understand Christianity, or traditional churches, at all.
If so, I can't blame you; it isn't worth studying that much. But? If you're going to argue about it, you need to have a better idea what it is.
I hope that if you choose to study it more, or if you just think about its obvious problems, you will choose not to be a Christian.
It might be that some could forgive the Pope for having temporarily been a Nazi soldier, maybe killing American airmen, for a while. If he had shown signs of becoming really saintly after that. But then? He 1) stayed in a church that had always done bad things (as say, Protestants said).. And 2) was still doing bad things, like allowing pederasty, when he was in it, even heading it.
That means that Benedict was a bad religious leader. And it was good that he resigned.