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This is a weird post due to its ambiguity. No idea what "[O]ther religious traditions" even means...

Other Christians? Other Abrahamic religions? Are we all uniting against atheists and agnostics? Not sure what is going on here.

I'd like your opinion on this, @RileyG.

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This is a weird post due to its ambiguity. No idea what "[O]ther religious traditions" even means...

Other Christians? Other Abrahamic religions? Are we all uniting against atheists and agnostics? Not sure what is going on here.

I'd like your opinion on this, @RileyG.

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I think any religion in general. Unless I'm wrong.
 
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Very diplomatic of you. But not helpful.
Well? I'm not sure what else to say. I think it was meant to mean anyone, really. All mankind? He didn't specifically say Abrahamic religions only, so it could include Buddhists, pagans etc. I don't really know.
 
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Well? I'm not sure what else to say. I think it was meant to mean anyone, really. All mankind? He didn't specifically say Abrahamic religions only, so it could include Buddhists, pagans etc. I don't really know.

I shouldn't expect you to know. I sure don't know!
 
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I think it means all religions because the peace and economics that he is suggesting will take all faiths to make it work. It is a flawed idea though. Why? Because the poor we will always have with us, and because man is sinful their will always be wars. Not too mention the bible says wars and rumours of wars. This is a liberalist international relations viewpoint the Pope is espousing. Wishful thinking but not reality based. The statement alone shows the Pope loves globalism. Notice the key word integral. I had hoped for better, but this brief statement frames his ideology. What the Pope wishes for is what the anti-christ seeks to ascend with.. I am not saying the pope is the antichrist but he sure seems to be buying the solution for the end times. Id love to hear some Catholics on why this interpretation is wrong. Yes, I'd like to help the poor, I would like no more war but that is NOT the reality for the end times. Integration is the reality though, but it is led by the anti-christ. Until then we resist not promote.
So based on the context I am pretty certain of this interpretation not only for the religious traditions but for the globalism promotion of no war, reduced poverty, and integration of people.
It is interesting that this Pope will have to either pay US income tax on any earnings over (around 120K) or he will have to renounce his citizenship. I wonder too if anyone will leak his tax returns? I think his housing and travel expenses are all required of his position, so no taxes there. Does the Pope even take a salary?
 
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I think it means all religions because the peace and economics that he is suggesting will take all faiths to make it work. It is a flawed idea though. Why? Because the poor we will always have with us, and because man is sinful their will always be wars. Not too mention the bible says wars and rumours of wars. This is a liberalist international relations viewpoint the Pope is espousing. Wishful thinking but not reality based. The statement alone shows the Pope loves globalism. Notice the key word integral. I had hoped for better, but this brief statement frames his ideology. What the Pope wishes for is what the anti-christ seeks to ascend with.. I am not saying the pope is the antichrist but he sure seems to be buying the solution for the end times. Id love to hear some Catholics on why this interpretation is wrong. Yes, I'd like to help the poor, I would like no more war but that is NOT the reality for the end times. Integration is the reality though, but it is led by the anti-christ. Until then we resist not promote.
So based on the context I am pretty certain of this interpretation not only for the religious traditions but for the globalism promotion of no war, reduced poverty, and integration of people.
It is interesting that this Pope will have to either pay US income tax on any earnings over (around 120K) or he will have to renounce his citizenship. I wonder too if anyone will leak his tax returns? I think his housing and travel expenses are all required of his position, so no taxes there. Does the Pope even take a salary?
You are simply projecting your own religious views into a statement that in no way has anything to do with the anti-Christ. The pope is expressing concepts of the Word of God:
Proverbs 22:2 The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all. RSVCE
3 John 1:8 So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth. RSVCE
Romans 12:5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. RSVCE
Eph 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love. RSVCE
 
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I think it means all religions because the peace and economics that he is suggesting will take all faiths to make it work. It is a flawed idea though. Why? Because the poor we will always have with us, and because man is sinful their will always be wars. Not too mention the bible says wars and rumours of wars. This is a liberalist international relations viewpoint the Pope is espousing. Wishful thinking but not reality based. The statement alone shows the Pope loves globalism. Notice the key word integral. I had hoped for better, but this brief statement frames his ideology. What the Pope wishes for is what the anti-christ seeks to ascend with.. I am not saying the pope is the antichrist but he sure seems to be buying the solution for the end times. Id love to hear some Catholics on why this interpretation is wrong. Yes, I'd like to help the poor, I would like no more war but that is NOT the reality for the end times. Integration is the reality though, but it is led by the anti-christ. Until then we resist not promote.
So based on the context I am pretty certain of this interpretation not only for the religious traditions but for the globalism promotion of no war, reduced poverty, and integration of people.
It is interesting that this Pope will have to either pay US income tax on any earnings over (around 120K) or he will have to renounce his citizenship. I wonder too if anyone will leak his tax returns? I think his housing and travel expenses are all required of his position, so no taxes there. Does the Pope even take a salary?
It certainly raises those questions. But we will need more evidence to make firm conclusions.
 
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It certainly raises those questions. But we will need more evidence to make firm conclusions.
Yes, likely the Pope does have a paper trail and certainly I could be assuming far too much. I have no ill-will toward Catholics and hope the best for them and the Pope.
 
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It’s obvious what he said. ”We Christians and members of other religious traditions” that means finding common ground as far as poverty and peace among those that are of different beliefs and backgrounds.
 
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