Pope says people are "fundamentally good"

It does kinda fly in the face of the New Covenant (if you look at it with a lore perspective)

Romans 3:23 explicitly states, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”

So you're starting out as imperfect/sinful just by being born as a part of the post-Garden of Eden human experience because of some “sins of the father shit” with Adam and Eve. If you get people thinking that humanity is inherently good then the rest of Christianity's lore starts to fall apart; really dumb move considering that church attendance is declining (who's gonna pay for those fancy dresses and elaborate shit when the church is empty?)

So to sell Christianity, you need to convince everyone you come across that God's mad at you, so repent and follow Jesus. Kinda hard to do if the pope is saying everyone's good

The central atheist conceit is "I'm good enough as is". It denies both history and the current world. Look around - are people good? Or are they bastard coated bastards with bastard filling? What model better describes the world, "There are some rogues and sinners, but the heart is basically good", or Ecclesiastes 7:20? Look at your own heart - you know yourself best - are you basically good, or do you fail even in your intentions to be good?

The problem with thinking that people are basically good, is it cuts at the knees the desire to better It denies the call of Matthew 16:24 where Jesus invites us to join him in bettering ourselves and serving the world. "People are basically good" denies us the opportunity to accept God's grace and his invitation to join him in the renewal of the world. It leads people to miss out on the greatest possible purpose for their lives.