Sounding more and more like a politician and less and less like a pope, Pope Francis threw out this one for his American critics who view him as just a bit too political. According to Fox News:
Pope Francis told a reporter on Wednesday it was an "honor" to be the subject of attacks from American religious conservatives and their
Catholic allies.
The pope was speaking with French journalist Nicholas Seneze, the author of "How America Wants to Change Popes," when he responded to his American critics while heading to Mozambique for a three-day tour of sub-Saharan Africa.
His stances on climate change, immigration, homosexuality and theology have garnered heavy criticism from politicians and conservative Catholics and commentators. Some critics have demanded his resignation.
“It’s an honor that the Americans attack me,” the pontiff told Seneze.
Interesting that he characterized his critics as "the Americans" instead of 'the conservatives.' After all, the U.S. Church (and nearly all U.S. religious denominations) actually do have plenty of leftists -- they're actually dominated by them.
Which goes to show just how coldly he views the USA with all its famous freedoms, calling to mind that like the late Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez, he's never spent appreciable time in the U.S. He knows nothing of democracy, other than the Peronist balcony-descamisados kind practiced in Argentina with its famous Argentine economic consequences. The U.S. practice of freely speaking one's mind and questioning authority that's failing unsettles him. He gets mad. If he's the good guy, then someone who criticizes him is the devil, which of course is why it's an 'honor.' The U.S. and all its freedom is a bad place, see, but he'd nevertheless like all the world's illegal migrants he claims to champion to somehow be here.
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If Pope Francis really, really hates Americans, I am POSITIVE that make him a DemonRAT!!
I read your American Thinker article as it is this morning, and no where on that page is Pope Francis quoted saying that he hates Americans. Pope Francis did not say he hated Americans, and he did not imply it either.
The confusion is that he may be made sorrowful by the bad behaviors he sees in America.
I love my country and would defend it with my life if that was needed; however, I know that below is what an outsider of deep and abiding faith in God may perceive today's America as being:
(1) A country whose people are flippant about scriptures as they misinterpret what is said and frequently leave one church and join another that agrees with the sin they want to commit over and over.
(2) A country that has computer porn available at the fingerprints of everyone old enough to read.
(3) A country that has states in which all people people believe that the only error they could commit would be getting caught.
(4) People in high office demanding atheism by marginalizing public prayers.
(5) People who lie about what the bible says. The Bible was written using simple words that everyone in a society can understand.
(6) People of politics changing dictionaries' definitions in order to be able to take a law, and change it to the point of its complete misinterpretion clearing a former sin to popular practice.
(7) Activism against family values has become popular in the USA, and it is used to destroy the family unit and control people on a grand scale by some politicians.
(8) Atheism taught in the American press, popularized in the typical American movie, praised in American sitcoms, and maximized by popular actors and beautiful people who excuse their words, frienships, and actions to show that religion is bad, and that church religion is worse with reasons for these allegations not given, isolating fallen individuals as disgusting church leaders, long years after they abandoned their church.
(9) Americans no longer require their leaders to be shining examples of faithfulness, truthfulness, integrity, nor acceptance of people who are good examples as respectfully as they deserve for the good they say and do.
(10) Preoccupation with material world matters, and enthusiasm for monetary wealth and disdain for people who are impoverished because they spent their lives giving to others who forgot them in favor of the pursuit of wealth, once on their feet because of a good Samaritan.
(11) A complete disdain for each and every Mosaic Commandment.
(12) A disdain for Jesus the Good Shepherd in politicized religion that politics have become in America.
(13) Rampant sexual misconduct with the only criticism of it being when a clergyman does it.