{"id":1339,"date":"2015-05-25T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/pope-francis-and-the-irish-vote-an-alternate-perspective.html"},"modified":"2015-05-25T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T09:53:00","slug":"pope-francis-and-the-irish-vote-an-alternate-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/pope-francis-and-the-irish-vote-an-alternate-perspective.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis and the Irish Vote: An Alternate Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Interesting. \u00a0In most of American Catholic apologetics the message is clear: the Church can never be wrong, we are now at the pinnacle, the latest pope is the most awesome example of awesomeness in the awesome history of awesomely defining the awesome word awesome, now shut up and obey! \u00a0But there are other views out there. \u00a0And one thing we know from history, in fact the biblical witness, is that we should be careful about dismissing the other views. \u00a0Here is one<\/a>. \u00a0Read it as an alternative viewpoint. \u00a0Not saying it is right. \u00a0But not saying it is automatically wrong because conservative Catholics who love liberalism say anything short of declaring the last three popes a new Trinity is therefore hating the Church. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting. \u00a0In most of American Catholic apologetics the message is clear: the Church can never be wrong, we are now at the pinnacle, the latest pope is the most awesome example of awesomeness in the awesome history of awesomely defining the awesome word awesome, now shut up and obey! \u00a0But there are other views out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nPope Francis and the Irish Vote: An Alternate Perspective<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interesting.  In most of American Catholic apologetics the message is clear: the Church can never be wrong, we are now at the pinnacle, the latest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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