Worst Pope Ever

[andrewducker]

I'm actually pretty pleased in some ways - by moving, in many ways, even further in a conservative direction the church has made it more likely that it will lose members in the west, and possibly even provoke a schism.

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[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Like I said earlier, I do think religion can have benefits and use the power it has to genuinely help (Mother Teresa is a lovely example), but it's dragged down by telling people whom they should hate and obvious politics.

(Preaching against the war is arguably outweighed by the staggering situation in Africa regarding contraception).

[rainstorm.livejournal.com]

Mother Teresa refused to help people unless they converted to the Catholic church, didn't she?

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

That I don't know. To most people though, Mother Terasa was essentially a mute. Mother Teresa the symbol was/is arguably more important than whatever she actually said or did in reality. (That's not to run down what she did of course. It's just she remains a tremendously powerful symbol and inspiration for a lot of people who are helping others).

[andrewducker]

Nope. She _did_ baptise the dying without them giving informed consent (arguably). There are some criticisms on the page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Theresa