gentleman adventurer
In my post on Thursday regarding the Australian cricketers caught cheating I had this to say:
At least ex-vice captain David Warner has had the sense not to publicly wallow in his own misery by throwing one of these atrocious press conferences.
Oops. Looks like I spoke too soon.
Today is Good Friday, the day when Christ died for our sins. But making headlines is the news that the current Pope doesn’t believe that hell exists.
In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just “disappear.” This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.
That this news should break at Easter is particularly troubling. As Vox Day states, if there is no hell and no sin then there was no need for Christ to die on the cross.
The Vatican has gone into damage control mode:
* In a statement released on Mar. 29, after Scalfari’s report garnered worldwide attention, the Vatican said:
“The Holy Father Francis recently received the founder of the newspaper La Repubblica in a private meeting on the occasion of Easter, without however giving him any interviews. What is reported by the author in today’s article [in La Repubblica] is the result of his reconstruction, in which the textual words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father.”
#NotmyPope.
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Continue reading “Friday hawt chicks & links – The not my pope edition.”
Followers of this blog know that the modern man does not cry.
Someone needs to tell that to Steve Smith, recently fired captain of the Australian cricket team:
Is hardship necessary to become a man? I argue that it is imperative to suffer trials and tribulations in life to grow as a man. A man is not subsidized. You absolutely must stand on your own two feet and the sooner the better.
Last week Aaron Clarey had a video request on the question of whether or not a father should provide his teenage son with a monthly stipend.
A father wants to know if $500-$750 per month will spoil his 15 year old son. Cappy believes so, but his sons potential physical and mental impairments may make this a moot point.
When I saw the video the first thing that I thought was that that amount of money was completely over the top.
