Pope Francis asks forgiveness

[Lilith7]

I am all in favour of people choosing and owning their own faiths, politics, genders, identities, morals, and other preferences. I just object to them thinking theirs are better than anyone else's and imposing their rules on their neighbours.

It is selfish, arrogant,and deeply wrong.

Yep, that's the problem. 
Those who believe they've found the 'one true faith' can be a royal pain in the proverbial  as well as doing massive damage like that lot in Gloriavale.

I think that everyone should be free to believe whatever they want to - as long as they don't  harm anyone, don't try to force it onto others & don't expect other people to live according to their beliefs. And imo, all religions should be legally prevented from requiring their followers to have a particular type of clothing, hair or beard style.

And I believe they should all go through their 'holy books' with a fine tooth comb & remove any passages which advocate violence or discrimination & print new versions - while retaining the older ones as an example of where idiot humans can go wrong.