Spiritual power of the Antichrist

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Pope emeritus Benedict XVI writes this in his newly published biography: Modern society is in the process of formulating an ‘anti-Christian creed,’ and resisting it is punishable by social excommunication. The fear of this spiritual power of the Antichrist is therefore only too natural…

He continued: “A hundred years ago, everyone would have thought it absurd to speak of homosexual marriage. Today whoever opposes it is socially excommunicated. The same applies to abortion and the production of human beings in the laboratory.”

I find myself subjected to this “social excommunication” for precisely the reasons that Benedict mentions. The sad part is that this happens at holiday dinners with my nominally Catholic relatives. I suspect that I am not the only one in this predicament.

What do you make of these rather assertive papal pronouncements?
 
undead_rat said:
When one in authority travels to Africa in informs the populace that the use of condoms increases the incidence of aids disease one risks becoming “socially excommunicated.” Likewise, when that same person blames the crimes that some Catholic priests have perpetrated against children on the “moral permissiveness” of the 20th Century, the same result is achieved (with all due respect to his holiness, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.)
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Not sure what you are trying to say. Seems like you are speaking calumny against the former Pope.
 
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Matthew 10
34 Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. 35 For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household.
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No “calumny” is intended. I have only reported things that actually happened. If you choose to interpret factual statements as “calumny,” that is on you.
 
An attack on the messanger, if I understand your post correctly, is intended to distract attention from the message.
What Benedict is pointing out is the assault on the church and indeed the world by sinister forces. This is what should be addressed.
 
I am NOT attacking his holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. I am merely pointing out some controversial things that he has said which may be the true causes of his feelings of “social excommunication.”
 
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