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Pope declares "there is no hell"
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As the Christian world prepared for Good Friday 2018, news headlines jarred traditionalist sentiment announcing that Pope Francis declares, “there is no hell.”
Editor's note: Notice Pat Buchanan's realization of the fall-out regarding Christ's purported atoning death. But this is one more myth.
The Pope’s paradigm-shattering comments were made during a media-interview: The interview between Scalfari and the Pope was published March 28, 2018 in La Repubblica. The relevant section on Hell was translated by the highly respected web log, Rorate Caeli. Scalfari says to the Pope, "Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?" Pope Francis says, "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls." A publicity-arm of the Vatican, the Pope's handlers, quickly moved to discredit the plain meaning of the Francis’s statements, essentially asserting that the Pope’s words were misinterpreted, mistranslated, or otherwise misunderstood. This is not first time the Pope has dared to challenge oppressive, set-in-stone RCC dogma. A couple of years ago, as lifeline to those trapped in bad marriages, he forcibly posited that most Catholic marriages are "religiously null" as the average person marries for the wrong reasons, that is, for expression of animal spirits. The Pope's spin-doctors attempted to deny-and-decry his words in that incident, as well. And it should be noted, too, that his statements today regarding the fable of hell represent no isolated opinion on this topic but serve as extension of views expressed earlier. As reported in the press: The controversy came as Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 prisoners at Rome’s Regina Coeli prison on Holy Thursday. Among the inmates were two Muslims, an Orthodox Christian and a Buddhist. He told them: “Everyone has the opportunity to change life and one cannot judge.” It was the fourth time since becoming pope that he held mass in an Italian prison. “I am a sinner like you but today I represent Jesus … God never abandons us, never tires of forgiving us,” he added.
the great Spirit Guides from the afterlife substantially affirm the Pope's sentiments There is no hellfire; there is no punishment of any kind, on the other side; however, the particularly wild guys don't just "disappear" -- there is ample opportunity, and mandate, to educate and to improve oneself, and some of these attendant “classrooms” might be unpleasant; and, for the recalcitrant student, very unpleasant. The good news, however, is that any unpleasantness in this regard is temporary, and, as we've discussed in earlier articles, one might remove oneself from a disagreeable element even the first day with a sincere intention to reform oneself. All this is clearly and absolutely affirmed by thousands of reports from Summerland, and there is no doubt at all regarding any of this.
'watch your back, Jack' But the Pope faces strong headwinds from a Vatican “deep state” regarding reforms of Catholic theology. A “deep state,” as in America, is comprised of legions of entrenched elite bureaucrats intent upon maintaining privileged positions of power and control. For centuries the myth of an ever-burning hellfire has been a useful fear-based tool in the Church’s arsenal for crowd-control and herd-management. The Pope’s bold statements threaten the entire edifice of Catholic fear-and-guilt, so adroitly employed, since the butcher Constantine, to build ecclesiastical empire. The RCC deep-state will not readily allow a dismantling of the edifice of fear; they will not abandon long-held perk-and-privilege without a bloody fight. My advice to the courageous Francis: it’s what Admiral James Greer said to CIA operative Jack Ryan (Clear And Present Danger) who sought to expose U.S. deep-state corruption – “Watch your back, Jack!”
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