[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: ADMIN: The Death of the Pope

[Kathryn]

From: Saitaina


 
But doesn't he have a right to belive
those beliefs and stand for them?  How
can we fault the man for standing for
what he believed in when we do that
same.  No matter what you think of the
beliefs themselves, I belive in
respecting him for having the courage
to stand for them.
 

K

Oh I absolutely agree he had a right to stand up for what he believed in. My
point was that standing up for what you believe in does not in and of itself
make you a great person.

I might stand up and say I believed the moon was made of green cheese and be
willing to stick to that point of view no matter how much I was ridiculed.
But no matter how sincere I was it wouldn't make me great - just an idiot. A
well-intentioned and sincere idiot possible, but an idiot all the same.

I believe that some of the Pope's beliefs are directly responsible for a
great many deaths. He absolutely had the right to hold those beliefs and to
stand up for them - but it certainly doesn't make him great in my book -
that's what I was arguing against the belief that because you are rigid and
unbending in your beliefs you must be great. I fully acknowledge that
somepeople  believe he was great and that they have the right to say that.
Doesn't change the fact that every time I hear it I want to throw up.

K

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