Francis: Ideology-oriented Christians block Jesus’ path
According to Francis, the attitude of “keeping the key to the Church in his pocket, with the door closed” is part of a “spiritual and mental process”. This happens when “the faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology.”
Pope Francis also traced some of the traits of the ideological caricatures of the Christian faith. “In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness.” These “are rigid”. “The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.”
As happened in Jesus’ time, when scholars of the law closed the door with lots of rules. “When a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought.”
When Christianity begins to be seen as an ideology, it becomes repellent, keeping people away from the Christian experience, often giving a sense of self-satisfaction. “Ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people.”
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Pope Francis also traced some of the traits of the ideological caricatures of the Christian faith. “In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness.” These “are rigid”. “The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.”
As happened in Jesus’ time, when scholars of the law closed the door with lots of rules. “When a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought.”
When Christianity begins to be seen as an ideology, it becomes repellent, keeping people away from the Christian experience, often giving a sense of self-satisfaction. “Ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people.”
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