Do non-Catholics respect the pope?

[MisfitsFiend]

Originally posted by: Ornery
worldly accomplishments

Name one!

Credited for being one of three people directly responsible for the break up of Communism, champion of worker's rights, crusader for the poor, throughout his life he touched and loved people regardless of religion/walks of life... first Pope to enter a synagogue, mosque, he las loved and respected by leaders of state and of the world's religions.

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: beer
I was sitting over my girlfriend's last night, and I was reading about the pope's condition. I'm not a practicing Catholic, and I don't agree with the Pope's view on things such as birth control/Terry Shaivo/abortion/gay marriage, but I still have a great deal of respect for someone who has always promoted peace and sought to heal rifts with the Jews and eastern christianity. So, it makes me very sad to see him in this state. My girlfriend, on the other hand, said she doesn't give two sh!ts about him, since he hasn't exactly had an affect on her life, and since she isn't catholic it doesn't really matter to her. I got mad at her for saying that, but what is more common, my view or her view, among noncatholics?

I'm a jew... and yes I respected John Paul II

-Max

 

[GoatHerderEd]

as an agnostic i say he is worthless and a waste of money, just like keeping a Terri alive for 15 years.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: MisfitsFiend

Originally posted by: Ornery
worldly accomplishments

Name one!

Credited for being one of three people directly responsible for the break up of Communism, champion of worker's rights, crusader for the poor, throughout his life he touched and loved people regardless of religion/walks of life... first Pope to enter a synagogue, mosque, he las loved and respected by leaders of state and of the world's religions.

No matter what you say, Onery will keep on belitting his achievements as being merely incremental and thus insigificant. Don't bother wasting your time, I'm not a practicing Christian either, but there's no reason why we should even waste time with someone who doesn't listen anyways.

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Doboji

I'm a jew... and yes I respected John Paul II

-Max

as am i.

and i respected him as well.

you don't have to believe everything someone does to respect them. if that was the case, nobody would ever respect anyone.

 

[PieDerro]

Originally posted by: GoatHerderEd
as an agnostic i say he is worthless and a waste of money, just like keeping a Terri alive for 15 years.

As usual, an intellectually inept agnostic chimes in with a useless comment such as the one quoted.

 

[EndGame]

Per CNN......it was figured that 1 in every 5 visitors to say farewell to the Pope was NOT Catholic......

 

[aplefka]

Yeah, I'm an Orthodox Christian and still watched some of the funeral. Actually, there was an Orthodox patriarch as well as several bishops, priests, and deacons there. Don't know if anyone watched the funeral but they were the ones who did the part at the end of the service, before the body was taken into the Sistine Chapel. It's funny, because originally we were the same church then split away in the early AD times.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: GoatHerderEd
as an agnostic i say he is worthless and a waste of money, just like keeping a Terri alive for 15 years.

I'm glad you don't get a vote.

 

[imthebadguy]

i'm indian, i do hes a man of god

 

[Xyclone]

Everyone respects the pope. He was a great man, not to mention a peacekeeper.

 

[Landroval]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
The pope is a great person, even if i dont believe in exactly everything he does.

 

[MagicConch]

I don't respect the pope as a leader, Christian, or mostly as a person. How he handled the childhood sexual abuse stuff was horrible IMO.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: MagicConch
I don't respect the pope as a leader, Christian, or mostly as a person. How he handled the childhood sexual abuse stuff was horrible IMO.

The pope leads the Catholic Church worldwide. The childhood sexual abuse stuff was part of the American Catholic church's fault, and had to do with the way the local dioscese archbishops handled things, and very little to do with the Vatican. The Pope doesn't get that involved with individual dioscese's like that.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: MedicBob
He is still a human and I respect him for trying to do what he believes in.