Opinion of Pope John Paul II

[aussieboy]

FF. I especially agree with his actions within the Church - giving apology where due, but not being afraid to be orthodox against heretics of the right and left.

[12th Doctor]

FF. I especially agree with his actions within the Church - giving apology where due, but not being afraid to be orthodox against heretics of the right and left.

Hmmmm... looks like you and I are going to get along.

[JSojourner]

Great discussion about Latin America.  I don't particularly care for Opebo's characterization of the United States in his op, but I think he probably had Guatemala in mind.  Efrain Rios Montt was a very outspoken Protestant Evangelical -- a Pentecostal, I think, but I could be wrong.  He used his faith, not unlike the "good Christians" in Uganda's "Lord's Resistance Army" to perpetuate terror and murder across his country.

Often, Roman Catholic priests and nuns stood in opposition to Rios-Montt.  And paid for it. 

Still, let's be completely candid here.  No church, denomination or religion is without its shameful, embarassing and even brutal adherants.  Any person whose faith instructs them to hate people, deny human beings basic human rights, discriminate against minority religions or other groups or use violence as a means of bringing about some sort of apocalypse is a sick and shameful example of "a person of faith".  I don't care if they are Evangelical Christian, Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, Muslim or Hindu.