(New pope off to a great start! No need to believe anything so long as your conscience is clear. Atheist abortionists who long ago abandoned any thought to killing are apparently Ok so long as their “conscience is clear” about what they are doing. The same twisted mentality also applies to the Hitlers, Pol Pots, Maos and Stalins, I guess. No need to defend a belief in Christianity a the basis of life or as the cornerstone of western civilization and JUDEO/CHRISTIAN LAW. Forget that. The Funny thing about a consciences (it requires correct information and FAITH) is that they can be obliterated, altered, and even erased by certain drugs and mental conditioning as proven by the cia’s PROJECT MK ULTRA experiments. Just look at the way our gov’t comports itself! Promoting gay marriage, immorality and hedonism. But god will forgive, right? So anything goes no matter what the Bible teaches?)
Pope Francis: It’s OK Not to Believe in God if You Have Clean Conscience
It’s not belief in God that counts, but a clean conscience that determines who gets to heaven, Pope Francis tells atheists in a letter written to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
The 2,500-word letter was a response to questions asked by the paper’s co-founder and former editor, Eugenio Scalfari, over the summer about whether God forgives those who don’t believe in him, The Independent of London reported.
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“You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith,” the Pope wrote. “Given — and this is the fundamental thing — that God’s mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience.”
“There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one’s conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one’s mind about what is good and evil,” he added.
According to The Independent, Scalfari appreciated the papal comments, saying they were “further evidence of his ability and desire to overcome barriers in dialogue with all.”
This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has offered an olive branch to atheists. In May, he told a Catholic who asked if Jesus had redeemed atheists that the unbelievers should “just do good, and we’ll find a meeting point.”