TreeBeard

“I have too much pride to cheat the welfare system” and ”I profit from businesses who cheat the system, but gladly take the money without turning them in as frauds”. Is there not a double standard here?

Yes, the Pope’s reversal on a lot of the LGBTQ+ issues has caused quite a stir. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/11/20/pope-francis-women-transgender-community-246547 For the marginalized trans community of Torvaianica, it was just the latest gesture of inclusion from a pope who has made reaching out to the LGBTQ+ community a hallmark of his papacy, in word and deed. “Before, the church was closed to us. They didn’t see us as normal people, they saw us as the devil,” said Andrea Paola Torres Lopez, a Colombian transgender woman known as Consuelo, whose kitchen is decorated with pictures of Jesus. “Then Pope Francis arrived and the doors of the church opened for us.” Francis’ latest initiative was a document from the Vatican’s doctrine office asserting that, under some circumstances, transgender people can be baptized and can serve as godparents and witnesses in weddings. It followed another recent statement from the pope himself that suggested same-sex couples could receive church blessings. I’m sure this is much of what your concerns are, yes? To be honest, I don’t really care about whether the church remains bigoted or becomes more inclusive, although it’s probably good for the world in general that they are more inclusive. They seem to be less Catholic, but more Christ-like in this new accepting attitude. I’d imagine in a few decades, without the church following societal change, it will be a few angry folks sitting in empty pews recalling how great the world used to be when the church openly hated the LGBTQ+ community. No, I don’t care what happens to the church, or what the doctrine is. My interest is in HOW you know this Pope is illegitimate and not sent by God to change things. Do you have more of a line to God than the Pope does? That’s the part I find myself wanting to discuss.

Would you say the same thing about someone exploiting holes in the welfare system? Is it legal to get a grant and not follow through on what the grant was for? ”we never got the training” Why would that be something we should look up to as a “good executive”?

So you want taxes to pay for garbage pickup, but not healthcare?

What is a woke agenda?

You can’t put it into a few sentences? lol You’re exactly like the other religious poster here who copies and pastes sermons from religious websites, except you copy and paste YouTube videos.

Do you have enough money socked away to pay for your own healthcare if you get sick?

What exactly was I claiming? You’re the one who claimed the Pope isn’t legitimate. I was asking how you knew that. So, you have faith that the Pope wasn’t actually God’s representative here on Earth? Is it just a gut feeling? He’s too far “left”, therefore you have faith that he’s not a legitimate Pope? I guess because this is the part of the forum about religious topics? You didn’t make your post to argue the finer points of Catholicism with a group of bishops. You posted it at this particular discussion forum knowing who the membership was. I’m one of the few who bothered to engage in the topic.

You do know that internal combustion engines are on their way out, do you not? Clearly battery tech is where the auto industry is moving. No one claims it doesn’t have its own issues and problems, but to suggest it is worse than oil for ICE is rather silly.

You’ll be glad for it when you’re the minority.

No skin off my back if you refuse to discuss.

You think the church is exactly the same as 2000 years ago? What rules are you referring to? Who said anything about those guys? My question again…. How did you determine the Pope wasn’t placed there by God? If it’s just a political system, then just say so. We can leave God out of it completely. But then the doctrine would go out the window too….

I think it sounds great. Can’t wait for more of Venezuela, Haiti and Columbia to make it into the food truck scene! You want more hotdogs?

How do you know God didn’t place him there to show Catholics the true way?

That’s simply not true in Canada.

So these taxes are “socialism” because you don’t like them. That’s NOT the definition of socialism.

So no gas taxes? No road taxes? No taxes on electricity? So, you’re against any and all taxes? Why didn’t you just say so? Don’t Conservative governments also collect taxes? Are they socialist as well? Your view is very extreme. Anarcho-capitalism?

You certainly did read into it, when you could just ask. My view is that I have heard nothing that I would oppose. I agree with @eyeball’s last post about tax havens being eliminated. But, I also think it’s science fiction; it’s simply not viable. It’s like listing all the pros and cons of teleportation, ala Star Trek. OK. My view is that they mostly do really great work, but that’s not what the media (you) focus on. As I said, ideally, the security council wouldn’t be made up of despots, but of democracies who want to make the world a better place. Under my criteria, the USA wouldn’t be on the security council either.

I was responding to this: so if I am asking someone why they oppose it, why does that mean I am for it? Or why would I need to provide the positives?

But, you can’t kick out non-white people either…. So if we shouldn’t suggest it unless we can do it, then why are you suggesting it? I was asking if it’s right for you to suggest it, why isn’t it right that you leave?

What I don’t get is how @Zeitgeist determined that the Pope is bad and wasn’t sent by God to make these changes to the church? The Pope is supposed to be infallible and speak the word of God. So how does one tell when that isn’t happening any longer? When one disagrees?

Auto racing doesn’t restrict biological sex, and never has as far as I know. So how is it relevant?

I saw this. It seemed silly. Non-contact sports and sports where biological sex has no bearing should be inclusive of everyone. That seems obvious, no? Can we agree that boxing, rugby, hockey, MMA have more consequences to the health of the participants than chess? And that biological sex probably has an impact on fairness of these sports as well as things like weightlifting and shot put ?

How are carbon taxes socialism and the GST is not?

You follow all traffic laws in your car? You never speed and you always come to a full stop at every stop sign? Have ever ever run a yellow light?