HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 17, 2024 – Sometimes the headlines are so obvious, they write themselves. In this case, the pope fired off his latest shot at God and his Church by claiming that all religions are a pathway to God and that we’re all children of God.

Both of these claims are so obviously and laughingly and sadly false – and so easily verifiable as false by even a casual reading of scripture – we can only assume that what the pope said, he said to elicit a violent response from believers.

I initially didn’t want to respond to his latest provocations, any more than I respond to any of his other drivel. The “all religions lead to God” line is so out to lunch, it’s on the same level as “water isn’t wet”. Would you actually try to argue with someone that water is wet? No, you would ignore whoever said it wasn’t and just assume that person is either pulling your leg or is mentally deficient.

But God put it in my heart today to respond, so here I am.

Jesus said that he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that no-one comes to the Father except through him. In other words, Jesus and God are a package deal, with Jesus – and Jesus only – being the doorway leading to God. Sikhism leads to God only if you entirely reject Sikhism, just as Buddhism leads to God only if you entirely reject Buddhism and Islam leads to God only if you entirely reject Islam, and so on and so on for every belief system that is not the One True Belief exemplified and taught by Jesus in the Gospels. Zero exceptions.

The pope knows this. Of course he does. But the pope doesn’t answer to God; he answers to the devil and is on the devil’s payroll, so when the devil feeds him the drivel he’s to spew on command, he spews it, no questions asked.

As for everyone being God’s children simply by virtue of existing – John had something to say about that:

“Behold, What manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.” (1 John 3:1)

We are adopted into God’s holy family at genuine spiritual rebirth – adopted out of the world that doesn’t (as John rightly points out) know or understand God and therefore doesn’t know or understand us. We are not born children of God; we are reborn children of God. We are born creatures of God, and should be grateful even for that, but oh – what a privilege and an honor to become God’s children by the inrush of God’s Holy Spirit at rebirth – to be invited into the holy fold with Jesus and his saints and all of God’s holy angels! There is no higher or rarer or more joyous calling.

So, no – we (meaning the general population of the world) are not all God’s children. Unless, of course, when the pope says “God”, he really means “Satan”. That he’s intentionally conflating God and Satan actually makes sense, given the history and purpose of the Catholic church. In which case, yes, all religions (other than the One True Way) are indeed pathways to Satan (a.k.a. the pope’s god), and all who are not of the One True Way are in fact children of Satan (a.k.a. the pope’s god).

Scripture soundly supports this.

That is my response to this latest provocation and attack on God’s Church. As for the pope and anyone who supports his evil institution, I’m beholden (thank you, Jesus) to end with: “Forgive them, Father, they don’t know what they’re doing.”

(* A papal bull is a form of public decree issued by a pope. It’s also more of the same BS from the usual suspects.)