Pope says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Vatican Backpedals

I 'm among the population "here";
I have little interest in his opinions. Thay don't matter to me !
I think he is just guessing n maybe wishing.

I believe that someone who has actually gone thru the process
is more likely to be reliable.

I think it's because they had to scramble to explain how their doctrine had always been that only those professing faith in Jesus Christ went to heaven, and notwithstanding this, the Pope was still correct somehow.

Well, that's easy.

Real heaven is for Christians. There's another, slightly less nice, heaven for good atheists right across the railroad tracks.

It's separate but less than equal.

And that's the origination of the commentary?

Right.

There HAVE been some complaints.

( Incidentally, Heaven is a proper noun, like Arizona or Disneyworld. )

Thank you for that, Drew Dad. After all these years, Tom Lehrer still rocks.

Would that be Limbo, resurrected as ok? (I can't see the video, too long a story), but I like Lehrer.

Nah, Limbo's way uptown.

R 'nt thay supposed to get down low,
to get under the bar ??

no one else can limbo...limbo...limbo...no one else can limbo, limbo like me...

Challenge the Pope ?

You talk like you've been there, well I never.

I don't think you'd find any Baptists that would agree with that.

There might be some ex-dead atheists
who agree with the Baptists.

Francis is a good dude. Let's hope he can make the Curia evolve a bit...

This guy arrives in Hell, sent there direct by St. Peter, and a pleasant young man in a nice suit meets him at the door and takes around to a lovely neighborhood, and gives him the keys to a beautiful condo. He's pretty surprised.

This is for me?

Oh yeah, no expenses spared--you know, the Boss is really quite rich and powerful.

What's that plume of smoke on the horizon?

That, oh, don't pay any attention to that.

So he's taken around to the neighborhood gym and health club, the spa, all the late night watering holes--and he's just more and more astounded. The young man takes him to a very ritzy shopping district, and says all he needs to do is sign for things.

But what's that rather large plume of smoke on the horizon?

I told ya, don't pay any attention, it's not important, it doesn't affect you.

So he takes him down to the beach, shows him the beach club, all the recreation facilities, and office where he can get a parasail, a surf board, a jet ski, a motorcycle . . .

That's not a plume of smoke, that's a dense column. What the Hell's going on here, if you'll pardon the expression.

Relax, it told you not to worry about that, it's nothing to do with you.

So the guy asks for the keys to a motorcycle, and then hops on and roars off in the direction where he's seen the column of smoke. His tour guide is alarmed, and follows him in a company car. The guy arrives at the top of a hill, and sees a long line of people in sack cloth, smeared with ashes, shuffling up a path that leads around a volcano, and when they reach the top, they throw themselves in.

His guide pulls up and runs over to him . . .

See, see . . . i knew you weren't telling me the whole truth!

I told ya, relax . . . that's just for the Baptists, they wouldn't have it any other way.

That, undoubtedly, belongs right on the Bad Jokes thread, Set. Right along with the one about the Unitarian/Universalist Ku Klux Klansmen. They regularly burn a big question mark on somebody's front lawn.

Will there be drinks? I can't wait...

What Church do these guys belong to?