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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
Human beings, being human are all fallible but even though I'm not a Catholic I think I'd prefer to look towards a Pope for moral guidance than a President or Prime Minister. I don't accept that any Pope is infallible (which I think is Catholic doctrine) but I do believe they try to be.
Equally I would never try to force anyone else to agree or condemn anyone who chose not to, that would be taking away personal freedom which I believe is everyone's right. 'We all have the right to be wrong now and then' as the old Roger Miller song goes. I know I'm far from perfect but I keep trying. Some would say I'm very trying.
My view is that so long as other people aren't harming me and mine and we're not harming them we should all live and let live.
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Without appearing to be too anti-Catholic here, a Pope who carries on encouraging poor people in third world countries to have large families, thus keeping them in a poverty trap, and a Pope (John Paul II) who when under pressure, finally issued a Papal edict that condoms could be used to help prevent the spread of HIV, as long as they had a pin prick in the end?
Moral guidance my aunt Fanny.