Pope Francis Says Homosexuality is Not a Crime

Pope Francis has spoken! Homosexuality is not a crime it is a sin. In other words, homosexuals belong to hell not prison. The religious figures- we entrust to lead us to heaven are morons.

The 21st Century is proving to be a challenging time to raise kids when they are constantly bombarded with issues which to some groups are fundamental civil and human rights, while to others it's a question of Judaic-Christian morality. There is also the lingering debate on critical race theory and God knows what social engineering thoughts and proposals will crop up next. Some people have argued that climate change is the biggest threat of this century but if you ask me, it's the values paradigm shift that is undoubtedly causing wider divisions in an already divided world.

The he Hasn't READ and UNDERSTOOD the BIBLE. And so He sounds Homosexual and so Foolish🤪.

I'm proud to be Gay. It's only ignorant people who judge us.

Ask Pope of Sodom and Gomorrah what happened to him? Whatever behavior you condone will go up in frequency. Draw the line that God has drawn. Hell is waiting for those mentioned in Romans 1

Go an sin no more.

Ok the papal has said it.How much power and influence does he wield? Is any country that criminalize homesexuality going to "recalibrate" because the pope has said homosexuality should not be a crime?
Well Iam sure asin can be acrime as well.The pope should tell us how we should distinguish the two.For example stealing is a sin as well as a crime.So why shouldn't homosexuality be viewed the same way?

At this rate people will start marrying their pets and beastiality will no longer be considered a crime.White people spend more on their pets than their own children That is also love according to some perverts.It takes one misfit to shift the paradigm normalizing abnormal behavior will NEVER make it normal.These LGBTQ characters declared themselves a minority and a “threatened “ group now they require not only protection but recognition they want to participate in ice skating championships not sure how an obese fat dude with his junk hanging out will look in a tutu.As a proud “backward thinking “African atleast these people will never gain acceptance where am from in my lifetime

Where in the 10 commandments or Jesus teaching if the greatest commandment, does it contradict what the pope has advised?

Wake up Africa!!
These Pope's are never right and their decrees are very damaging to our black nation.
This Pope is working very hard to make homosexuality normal in our black nation. According to this pope, "we are all children of God".
When the Catholic church ( same papal seat) made a decree to keep black people in "perpetual slavery" ref. ( Papal Bull Dum Diversas 18 June, 1452)
We're black people not God's children?
According to this pope, Gay people "must be welcomed and respected, and not marginalized or discriminated"
Mr.Pope, your Catholic church authorized black people to be unwelcome, to be disrespected, to be marginalized and to be discriminated.
Your papal advise was wrong to the black nation from 1452 until now.
Why should your advise matter now to the black nation?
Just a thought!!

I find it amusing at how some people spend their livelihood times worrying and doing their best to control how other people lead their lives. Aren't we all sinners but not criminals? Even you Pope who enabled your ordained servants to be pred.a.tors of the little brethren.

Why do you care if nobody is knocking your door to fuck you? Show me an African living in Africa who was a slave? Are you black or African? Shenzi

Formative years:

What many people around the world fail to understand about formative years is that, between the ages of 1 - 14, children growing up in any given culture are vulnerable to all what they are exposed to. A child growing up in China is exposed to a long list of possible foods that s/he can eat. Likewise, a child growing up in a Muslim family has a list of fewer meats that the culture views as okay to eat.
When it comes to sex, our brothers and sisters of European descent have a wide range of choices that they are allowed to engage in unlike a Muslim youth are permitted to practice.
There is nothing genetic about a Muslim man marrying four wives like a person of European descent engaging in a homosexual/gay act.
Unfortunately, people of COHO a.k.a. Africa are extremely easy to mentally hack and introduce acts that are totally alien to those of their ancestors.
Personally, I have no problem in people engaging in exotic sexual acts as long as they don’t globalize their continental acts and make them universal or attribute them to the CREATOR.
The CREATOR has nothing to do with what individual cultures choose to eat or do sexually.
A Muslim man will be arrested if he marries four English ladies. In conclusion, a cultural construct is valid only where it originated.
Think about this construct: an oath was taken in Kenya not to allow uncircumcised man be the head of state. This oath has denied Raila become the president of Kenya despite the fact that he has won the presidency several times.

It's amazing at how any issue touching sex elicits polemical arguments on this forum.Hence the adage,"There's is no such thing as bad publicity.There's only one thing in the world worse that being talked about,and that is not being talked about.Aptly put,sex sells.

How Pope Nicholas V Used the Church to Start the Disgraceful Slave Trade
Religious dogma created the dehumanization of African indigenous people

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In 1452, Pope Nicholas V charged Alfonso of Portugal with the Christian duty to enslave any non-Christian. The Pope’s act would be the first recorded international edict to literally grant a Christian nation the right to promote, enforce, and heavily profit from slave trading. Decades later, Pope Alexander VI beckoned Christian monarchs to conquer native populations in the name of the Catholic Church, upholding his predecessor’s tradition to enslave non-Christians in whatever lands they called home (Muhammad, 2019).

While discussions about slavery often center on European nations’ wrongdoings, historians often obscure the role of the Catholic Church. The truth is like the sound of an alarm after a long night of drinking; it may sound unpleasant, but it is essential to move on from the drunken stupor.

The Catholic Church forced their views onto African and Indigenous people. There was no peaceful conversion and mending of ideological differences. Conversion by missionaries was historically violent, dehumanizing, and destabilizing for African nations. White people justified African enslavement because they did not deem non-Christians worthy of respect.

Colonization is the preamble to every injustice Black and Indigenous people experience today through white supremacy. Pope Nicholas V charged Portugal with the duty to enslave non-Christian people, crossing the rubicon.

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The enslavement of non-Christians
Though the Bible does not mention race or skin color in this narrative, according to these sixteenth and seventeenth century theologians, Africans inherited Ham and Canaan’s curse of slavery. By the nineteenth century, pro-slavery advocates in the United States continued to use this misleading biblical justification, as well as Aristotle’s theory of natural order and New World racial prejudices, to defend their support of slavery (LDHI, 2020).

If something is right, someone should convince you of that fact, not force you. However, the Catholic Church viewed all other religious practices as barbaric. There was never a debate — the papacy ordered a mandate instead of trying to convert through kindness, respect, and virtue. So, when many people feel surprised that many modern Christians, Catholics, and Evangelicals are showing disdain for Black people and the LGBT community, I cannot help but feel this is a result of white-washed history. Historians documented their race-based oppression thoroughly.

When a country indulges in revisionist history, it is easy to turn a war criminal into a Saint and a family farmer into a savage. White men used the Bible as a sword against all non-Christian people. This ideology came directly from one of the great philosophers — Aristotle.

Aristotle argued that the master and slave relationship was natural and that some are marked out for subjection, others for rule (LDHI, 2020).

Thus, assertion that slavery was humane became part of early European thought. The Church embodied this ideology and turned it into policy. Catholics spread their faith through acts of war, not discourse. When Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, and other European nations enslaved Africans, they did so with the blessing of the Church. Pro-slavery relied on the selection of key verses from the bible.

The Dum Diversas got the ball rolling
The Papal Bull of 1455 justified the expansion of (black) African slavery within early Iberian colonies, and the acquisition of more African captives and territory (LDHI, 2020).

Photo Credit | LDHI | Romanus pontifex, papal bull of Pope Nicolas V, Portugal, 8 January 1455
On June 18, 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull, Dum Diversas. Through this proclamation, he declared that Catholic nations should condemn any enemy of Christ to eternal slavery. African and Indigenous people were not guilty of hating Christ because they did not know about this religion. They formed great nations thousands of years prior, without the help of the Catholic Church. Yet, white people viewed them as savages because they did not think like them. They assumed that anyone who was not Catholic lacked morals, and thus, they could do whatever they wanted to them. Pope Nicholas V’s Dum Diversas got the ball rolling, justifying cruelty and subjugation.

African-Americans became Christians by force
White people have a long history of hurting Black people by saying the pain was for their own good — that started with the Church. In the United States, slave owners prohibited African slaves from reading for generations. Then, when their brains felt starved for content, European colonists issued the “Slave Bible.” African Americans’ descendants learned about Christianity through indoctrination, not any natural connection with this Roman-based religion.

The Slave Bible used selections to ensure Africans knew their place at the bottom of the social hierarchy. This version left out many parts, and its sole purpose was to create a submissive Black populous. In America, African slaves studied the Bible because it was the only book they had, not because it reflected their ideology or real spiritual character. They read excerpts that insisted Black people should listen to their earthly masters as long as they were Christian.

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The Slave Bible doesn’t include Moses leading the Israelites to freedom, but it does include Joseph’s enslavement in Egypt. In the U.S., some sermons aimed at enslaved people portrayed Joseph as someone who “accepts his lot in life, keeps his faith in God and in the end is rewarded for it,’ Schmidt says. The Slave Bible may have wanted to impart a similar lesson to its audience (Little, 2018).

Converting became a survival strategy. Once in America, colonists stripped African people of their original tribal names, languages, and culture. They replaced this with Christian indoctrination. It should not surprise anyone that most African Americans today consider themselves Christian. Pope Nicholas V’s mandate is alive and kicking in the hearts of many Americans.

Colonizers wiped the slate clean, replacing traditional African spirituality with Catholicism. Modern Black people choose to practice Christianity, but colonists forced their ancestors into adopting these practices. Their ties to the Church relate directly to the oppressive conditions initiated by Pope Nicholas V.

Personal Story
At age five, I had my doubts about the Catholic Church. My father told me to kneel and pray, and I listened. I felt that I was speaking to myself, and when I tried to ask adults questions about this, they often dismissed me as mischievous instead of curious. As I grew older, I began to question the teachings of the Church. I felt willing to accept some of the great stories that motivated people to become righteous but did not feel the need to adapt it as my religion wholeheartedly.

As I grew, I felt emboldened to ask my father a question. “Dad, how can we practice a religion that was beaten into our ancestors?” He smiled, “I see your point.” After that, he never tried to convince me, and I always respected his faith, never bringing it up again. That day, we came to an understanding. I could not accept a religion used to enslave our ancestors, and anyone who loved me would have to understand that.

Religious Freedom
I understand the cry of Africans for an authentic liberation,’ he said at another point,’ far from all racism and all that leads to political, economic or cultural exploitation’ — Pope Nicholas V. (Dionne, 1985).

Everyone should have the right to practice their religion freely, without chastisement or ridicule. However, we should not attempt to separate the inseparable. Racism and Catholicism are joined at the hip ever since Pope Nichols V signed that edict, condemning my African ancestors. The disgraceful slave trade is the direct result of white-supremacist-driven religious domination.

European colonists founded America on the principle of religious freedom while depriving that freedom to African people. Black lives and values did not matter to the Catholic Church. Despite Pope John Paul II’s apology for slavery, European nations still avoid accountability like the plague. They deprived religious freedom to millions of African people and their descendants. Can America ever heal without acknowledging the failure to supply Africans with religious freedom?