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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | I really felt talked about controversies involving Pope Francis because there's a lot of people who already do that, |
0:05.6 | but I really felt called to say something about his recent comments given the different reactions I've seen to them on the internet. |
0:12.0 | First, let's look at the controversy. |
0:13.6 | According to the Catholic media outlet, The Pillar, Pope Francis prompted controversy |
0:17.8 | Friday with remarks at an interreligious meeting in Singapore that some have taken as a |
0:22.0 | departure from Catholic doctrine on the role of Jesus |
0:24.4 | Christ and salvation. |
0:26.6 | All religions are a path to reach God. |
0:28.7 | They are, I make a comparison, like different languages, different idioms, to get there. |
0:33.0 | But God is God for everyone. |
0:35.0 | Pope Francis told a gathering of young people September 13th |
0:38.0 | at an interreligious meeting at the Catholic Junior College of Singapore, |
0:41.0 | according to a text of the speech published by the Vatican. |
0:44.6 | The Pope continued, and since God is God for everyone, we are all children of God, but my God is |
0:49.8 | more important than yours. |
0:51.3 | Is this true? There is only one God and our religions are languages |
0:55.2 | paths to reach God. Some are Sikh, some are Muslim, some are Hindu, some are Christian, |
1:00.3 | but they are different paths. Now this sounds like the heresy of pluralism or |
1:04.0 | religious indifferentism. That's the idea that it doesn't matter what religion you |
1:08.0 | belong to because all religions are just different paths that ascend the same mountain and get to the same place, God. |
1:15.2 | But Christianity is different than any other religion. While other man-made |
1:19.4 | religions try to reach God by their own merits, Christianity teaches that God reached out or came down to us |
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