You think the fucking pope is “adhering to atheist values”? What an interesting place the inside of your head must be.

This might be dumbest shit ive read all week

atheists and christians are like electrons and positrons. whenever they collide (such as in a football game) they instantly destroy one another

@Zensate You seem to believe in “atheist values”, but they are not: speaking as an atheist raised in a non-Christian religion, what you’re talking about are specifically *Christian* atheist values—they embed a bunch of Christian eschatalogical assumptions even as they reject the core thesis. So you have *far* more in common, belief-wise, with the Pope, than you do with an ex-Hindu or ex-Jewish or ex-Buddhist atheist.

@Zensate Uh, no. Being compatible with secular values and ideas of human rights does not make someone or something “atheist” or a bad Catholic unless one interprets their faith in hegemonic terms (i.e. that its the Pope’s or the Church’s job to be intolerant).

The Catholic Church has a history, a lot of it being nasty, yet core Catholic doctrine (divine inspiration can come from many sources and be interpreted by people, uh, the person) suggests a lot of that history was totally unnecessary.

But keying on your own theme, its more likely that a religious person who can’t find common ground with atheists or other religions is really just a “terrible” person.