{"id":4304,"date":"2019-12-26T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2019-12-26T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:19:33","slug":"pope-says-christians-should-never-seek-to-convert-unbelievers-anyone-who-proselytizes-is-not-a-disciple-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4304","title":{"rendered":"Pope says Christians should never seek to convert unbelievers, anyone who proselytizes &#8220;is not a disciple of Jesus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disrn.com\/news\/pope-says-christians-should-never-try-to-convert-unbelievers-anyone-who-proselytizes-is-not-a-disciple-of-jesus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/6ebadd70-afa0-4e29-b250-6ead7e4bceda-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Christ in the Vatican<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a dialogue with Catholic high school students in Rome this weekend, Pope Francis responded to a question about how to deal with atheists and people of other faiths by saying that Christians should never proselytize \u2014 and any who do are not truly Christians.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If someone says they are a disciple of Jesus and comes to you with proselytism, they are not a disciple of Jesus.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Church does not grow by proselytism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty sure it is supposed to grow that way. Has the Pope ever read the New Testament? One of the risen Christ&#8217;s last orders was\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"verse-number\">Mark 16:15 <\/span>And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and <a class=\"study-note-ref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/#note15a\">preach<\/a> the <a class=\"study-note-ref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/#note15b\">gospel<\/a> to every <a class=\"study-note-ref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/#note15c\">creature<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/disrn.com\/news\/pope-says-christians-should-never-try-to-convert-unbelievers-anyone-who-proselytizes-is-not-a-disciple-of-jesus\">Pope says Christians should never seek to convert unbelievers, anyone who proselytizes &#8220;is not a disciple of Jesus&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a dialogue with Catholic high school students in Rome this weekend, Pope Francis responded to a question about how to deal with atheists and people of other faiths by saying that Christians should never proselytize \u2014 and any who do are not truly Christians. &#8220;If someone says they are a disciple of Jesus and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope says Christians should never seek to convert unbelievers, anyone who proselytizes &#8220;is not a disciple of Jesus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,94,95,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-religion-catholics","category-religion-fake-christians","category-war-on-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}