UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
WARNING: PAPAL MYTHS CAN HARM CHILDREN AND OTHERS
Myth No. 1: The Catechism of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI overrules the inspired Bible and informed biblical scholarship — only a pope can infallibly interpret them both, even when he interprets them contrary to suppressed historical facts and/or available scientific evidence.
Myth No. 2: The Catechism “proves” that Jesus’ “top man” on earth is the pope who is linked directly to the Apostle Peter.
Myth No. 3: The pope is the ruler of a real sovereign nation that altruistically offers valuable wisdom otherwise missing in world power politics.
Myth No. 4: The pope values satisfying the desperate needs of a majority of the powerless 99% more than promoting the selfish agenda of some of the powerful 1% who fund the pope significantly.
Myth No. 5: The pope values the security and dignity of hundreds of millions of impoverished and innocent children and women more than that of 5,000 “not so impoverished and innocent” cardinals and bishops — these clerics have vowed obedience and silence as they supinely serve and frequently fund the pope’s needs, in exchange for the pope’s grant to these clerics’ of an unaccountable monopoly on local power and obscene personal wealth.
{In my future remarks, I expect to discuss separately each of the five papal myths in more detail.}
Myths are over simplified stories with a supernatural twist — believed deeply and docilely by many, often from their youth. These “mythical stories” tend misleadingly to “frame” problematic issues for believers, even when unsupported by sufficient facts and/or contradicted by realities that believers irrationally neglect.
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