I like how Christians went from the phase of "I don't care if someone is an atheist I'm a loving person" to just bitching about EVERYONE that's an atheist using the excuse that atheists are worse. It's like a neverending cycle of butthurt from both christians and atheists lately.

Also this picture is on frontpage of /r/atheism

Actually, I frequent r/atheism every day, and I can tell you that the number of posts praising the Pope are the highest they've ever been. Granted, it's still not ALL that high, but when this was fresh news, it was several times a day, mentioned. Usually in a positive manner.

Holy shit I have never seen more faggotry in my whole life at one place. The amount of elitism there is astounding. I'm not exactly a christian anymore but I am still rustled every time I see these neanderthals, "all christians r dum free think it YOLO ricky gervais lol, *Insert something that happened 600 to 1,000 years ago* u see this bad thing that happened? FUNDAMENTALISTS DID IT!" Fucking atheist bigoted scum.

The hand that feeds? What are you serving, bullshit?
All jokes aside, atheists of all people don't need the pope to validate their beliefs or lack of them.

On an unrelated note, I read it in the professors voice.

Eh, I don't know why people are getting butthurt. It was a joke.
And, I reiterate, why should any atheist care about papal acceptance of all things?

It gives Catholics no reason to approach an atheist and say he/she going to hell and it gives one less reason for atheists to bitch about Catholicism.

Yeah, the pope saying "eh, atheism is all right as long as they are good by our moral standards" isn't going to change anything. And what's wrong with debating beliefs, anyway?

That statement changes just a thing or two just by going by what my statement was, it won't change nothing. And also, there's nothing wrong with debating beliefs, but that's not how most 'debates' go. Everyone has witnessed the complete feuds that go on by Christians and Atheists alike, attacking each others beliefs left and right. Such an act is not helping anyone understand eachother, and it only leads to more fighting. No resolution is gained by the arguments, no better understanding. This statement at the very least serves to give any decent Catholic one less thing to attack others with, if they weren't so 'enlightened' with this knowledge already.

I lived in the Bible Belt for eight years and was frequently told of hellfire or that my life is "dark and soulless" or some other crap, but it never escalated into feuds or violence. In fact, being around people who so adamantly believed in something was more conducive to my personal moral growth than anything. Nonetheless, I don't see how this is some form of altruism from the pope, and I especially don't see how this statement's meaninglessness to atheists should be considered "biting the hand that feeds," as they weren't being fed from that hand.

Alright, first of all, I apologize for your upbringing, it shames me to see people treated like that. But understand this, I didn't put you into that category of the people who do such wicked things with their beliefs, I didn't point fingers at anyone in this thread. Maybe I didn't convey this enough, but in my last statement I used the term enlightened, referring to the pope's statement sarcastically. What Pope Francis stated at his Homily was something I've believed for years. It did not take me until now to see the truth in this, I do not now and have ever believed myself better for believing this and I don't think of him any higher for stating this, I think of him higher for being the one to state this, it will change a lot of the Catholic People's attitudes towards many others, and if they don't align with that change, they're not understanding their figurehead, and that's a pretty pathetic Catholic.
I can see I won't sway you on the topic of how meaningful this statement has been, and I won't try any further, if what my statements presented so far can be considered 'trying', but know that I'm not defending the guys idea of "Biting the hand that feeds." I am presenting the idea that now that this has been publicly said by the leader of the church, an atheist now has one less attack on their beliefs to worry about from any proper Catholic. The hand that we're talking about wasn't feeding atheists, I agree with that, it was beating them, and now that hand has a restraint.

Yeah, I never really had an issue with the pope's dictum, but more towards psykojet's hyperbole up there. If his influence brings a more dialectic view to his constituents, that'll be wonderful, but if I were to propagate the idea that it won't really change anything, I'd say that the idea of "good actions" as a prerequisite for entrance to heaven is a very ambiguous thing unless you apply Catholic dogma to it. If atheists have their own moralities, disparate from the Catholic definition of good and bad, there will still be discrimination and there will still be the stigma of "you're going to hell for doing these things."
It doesn't really matter to me that much, but a figurehead saying "good people reap a reward" doesn't change that there will be butting heads.

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