Pope Francis and Atheists

Pope Francis has stated that atheists who do good can be redeemed but they may not be granted salvation. What does this mean? It means nothing. There is no evidence whatsoever that there is a God who is a supernatural being.

I have many friends who are Christian and I was brought up in a Christian family. Many of my friends who are religious can understand perfectly why I would think that this article in the Roman Catholic press is completely irrational and is incoherent gibberish.

 http://www.catholicvote.org/what-pope-francis-really-said-about-atheists/

Of course there are many Roman Catholics, Baptists, Calvinists and even Church of England fundamentalists who do believe this nonsense. They would be the dangerous ones if ever Britain were to become a theocratic state again. Atheists, Agnostics, Muslims, Jews, Druids, Witches and Wizards would then suffer from discrimination and possibly persecution at their hands.

Unfortunately the same thing would happen if fundamentalists of any religion were to gain theocratic power. I only feel qualified to comment on this matter because I am an apostate Christian. Whilst I find the non-scientific writings of Richard Dawkins rather tedious and I stopped reading "The God Delusion" on page 10, I would rather have an Atheist in control than a priest.

We are lucky in Europe that the age of reason has produced a liberal secular society which tries to defend the rights of everyone including the religious and which seeks to persecute no-one.