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Re: Pope Francis has died

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"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." – Steven Weinberg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Weinberg

Catholicism is full of good people. Fortunately Catholicism has mostly lost it's grip of people in the developed world, but it still wrecks havoc in the Africa. The tried to correct the course a little bit, but not really. He should have spoken ex cathedra to make waves, but he never did so. Even the most conservative Catholics only believe what they already believe and it would have just created schism. "Catholic God" speaks only to protect the institution, not the people.

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