Pope Francis made the remarks at an interreligious meeting in Singapore last week, adding that different religions are like "different languages" to reach God. Crux Now was among the first news outlets to report the news … and it was later picked up by The Christian Post.
Pope Francis: "If you start to fight, 'my religion is more important than yours, mine is true and yours isn't,' where will that lead us? There's only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and there are different paths [to God]."
Author and apologist Dr. Alex McFarland responds: "This is the most un-Catholic Catholic pope of our lifetime."
Another well-known apologist, Dr. Frank Turek of Cross Examined, agrees, saying the pope doesn't seem to understand things. "What he doesn't also seem to understand – other than disagreeing with the Bible and Jesus – [is] that that position right there disagrees with other people," he explains.
Turek offers an example:
"If he's going to say that 'If you start to fight "my religion is more important than yours mine is true and yours isn't," where will that lead us?' – Well, that's what the Pope said. But he thinks his view that all religions lead to God is true – and if you're a Christian who actually believes the Bible, he thinks you're wrong. If you're a Muslim who believes the Koran, he thinks they're wrong."
No matter what view one takes, Turek contends that is an exclusive view.
"If you say 'all religions lead to God,' you're disagreeing with the people who say 'all religions don't lead to God,'" Turek concludes. "So, he's not avoiding anything here by thinking 'Well, look, I'll just say all religions lead to God even though that's not true,' as if he's trying to build bridges."
Turek and McFarland made their remarks Tuesday morning on American Family Radio.
