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What Did the Pope Say to the Atheist? It’s Up For Debate

It’s “solemn nonsense” to try to convert nonbelievers to Christianity, said Pope Francis. Or so we think. 

It’s “solemn nonsense” to try to convert nonbelievers to Christianity, said Pope Francis. Or so we think. 


What exactly Francis meant in a recent interview with the atheist Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari is up for debate, with some conservative Catholics and Southern Baptists fearing the worst – that Francis was dabbling dangerously in relativism

Read the interview, or ‘dialogue’ here, and decide for yourself. 

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