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[DogmaticFaith]

In reality, he is not rejecting Jesus Christ, he is rejecting what he believes to be grave sin.

You cannot say he is not rejecting Christ when he denies Christ. That is absurd.

He is in error because he has a false religion. A religion cannot be true if it rejects Christ. Only someone who does not believe in Christ could say that it can be true while rejecting Christ.

As for the use of the term “false religion” by the Popes - here you go:

1. We were very much amazed, venerable brothers, when at first We understood the blindness of this wretched author, for in him knowledge does not come from God, but from the elements of the world; this “knowledge” bursts forth. Against the oath solemnly given in his declaration, he cloaked Catholic teaching in enticing verbal artifice, in order ultimately to oppose it and overthrow it. We expressed this in Our letter mentioned above concerning both the dutiful submission toward authorities and the prevention of the fatal contamination of the people by indifferentism. It also concerned measures to use against the spreading license of ideas and speeches. Finally, it concerned that freedom of conscience which should be thoroughly condemned and the repulsive conspiracy of societies enkindling destruction of sacred and state affairs,** even from the followers of false religions,** as We have made clear by the authority handed down to Us.

Was Pope Gregory XVI’s Encyclical uncharitable? By speaking of false religions?

 

[Thomas_Casey]

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