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Can Benedict XVI Be The Pope?
By: Phil Friedl“Judge that which is just: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as thegreat: neither shall you respect any man's person, because it is the judgment of God.”
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A person had asked do Christians, Muslims, and Jews worship the same God? BecauseAntipope Benedict XVI has stated it numerous times publicly. I answer in the negative,Christians (emphasis: Catholics) are the only ones that truly worship God properly. In theeyes of the Jews, they are the ones that crucified their Messiah. “
 And the whole peopleanswering, said: His blood be upon us and our children.
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The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for him, if that man had not beenborn.
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A good portion of the Jews refused to convert to the Christian Faith and acceptJesus Christ and His Church. That is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Up untilthe time of Jesus Christ the Jews, were the Chosen people. Since they, the Jews, betrayedHim, God choose a new people, that is the Christians.Antipope Benedict XVI stated in his book, Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith published in2002 before his election as Pope: “Islam, too, ...has inherited from Israel and the Christiansthe same God.”
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Now that is a powerful statement from a man claiming to be Catholic, especially thePope. Because the definition of indifferentism is the following.
Indifferentism:
“The denial that the worship of God and the practice of truereligion is a duty of man. This indifferentism is of varying degrees andexpressed in different maxims: “There is no God”; “Man cannot know if therebe a God”; “
One religion is a good as another
”; “It does not matter what youbelieve so long as you act well”; “The only useful function of religion is to keepthe lower classes in order.”
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Logically under the Christian Definition (shown above), Antipope Benedict XVI wouldfit under the line: “
One religion is as good as another.
” It is evident that Antipope BenedictXVI truly believes it is thus for he made it a public act (emphasis: published book). Now,there cannot be an excuse for ignorance.And as Canon Law 16 states: “
No ignorance of invalidating laws excuses from their observance. As a rule, ignorance or error is not presumed when it concerns the law or its penalty, or one's own action.
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Inthe external forum everybody is presumed to know the law.)
 Antipope Benedict XVI can now be labeled, justly, as an indifferentist for that is whathe believes (emphasis: indifferentism). We know that by Canon Law there is no excuse forignorance. One cannot be ignorant until proven at the time of the act that he truly was.Therefore in the eyes of the Church, Antipope Benedict XVI is guilty for his act made in2002. What then are the consequences to this act?
Apostasy:
“Apostasy from the Faith (a fide) is the act by which a baptizedperson, after possessing the true Christian faith, totally rejects it. A person isan apostate whether he joins a non-Christian religion, a Judaism, Buddhism,Islam, or falls into unbelief, atheism, materialism, agnosticism, rationalism,
indifferentism
or 'free thought.' Apostates from the Faith incurexcommunication ipso facto (automatically), and other penalties. Penalties areincurred only for the crime of apostasy, not for the sin, i.e. There must besome external act. Apostates remain subject to the laws of the Church.”
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Antipope Benedict XVI now then must be labeled as an apostate, because he believesin indifferentism. We further hit the nail into the coffin for he further states in Catechesison twenty fourth of August in 2005:“This year is also the 40th anniversary of the conciliar Declaration NostraAetate, which has ushered in a new season of dialogue and spiritual solidaritybetween Jews and Christians, as well as esteem for the other great religioustraditions. Islam occupies a special place among them”
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Now what then is the Declaration of Nostra Aetate? Nostra Aetate was published byAntipope Paul VI on twenty eighth of October in 1965:“The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discriminationagainst men or harassment of them because of their religion. The Churchregards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living andsubsisting in Himself; merciful and all powerful, the Creator of heaven andearth.”
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Wait a second,
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So you are saying to me, that Paul VI believes that Jews, Muslims, and Christians all believe in the same God? How can that be? 
” That isexactly my point, it cannot be. Just like in mathematics in grade school. There was onlyone correct answer for 1+1. And what does that equal? 2. There cannot be two correctanswers for that mathematical statement. So if there is only one correct answer for thatstatement, there too must only be one correct faith to worshiping God (emphasis:Christianity)Now since we put things into context, let us go back to the original quote. “
It is anew season of dialogue and spiritual solidarity...as well as esteem for other great religioustraditions.
”Antipope Benedict XVI does not hold to the standard of Truth (emphasis: ChristianFaith
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having no fixed definition or idea; constant evolution or change”
because he isindifferent, a drifter, a hobo, a homeless man in regards to religion. We may also state thatAntipope Benedict XVI follows as his ideal:“
What may be good yesterday is not good today, so we must set a new standard. What may be good today, may be not good tomorrow so we willchange it when tomorrow comes.
”This tendency forms itself into the faith of evolution, not just in the natural scienceperspective, but in all forms, from government, to morals, etc. However, the Truth is anever constant fixed idea, indifferentists (emphasis: Antipope Benedict XVI) discardnecessity of the Truth. The Truth is ever the constant standard. Just as 1 + 1 will alwaysequal 2, not 3 or 4. Which was true yesterday, will be true today, and tomorrow it will stillbe true. Antipope Benedict XVI, does not
conform to the established doctrine
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asWebster's dictionary defines it as. And to not be orthodox is to be unorthodox, then he
1 Not to be confused that the Catholic Faith is the only Christian faith!2 This is the definition from Webster's Dictionary of orthodox.
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