I believe that this shows the Vatican gun armory.
Guns of the Swiss Guard: Happy Hole-y Week
The Latin church went to a great deal of intellectual effort to develop the “just war theory”. One wonders where the arms for waging “just wars” are supposed to come from if not arms manufacturers.
We Orthodox have different, atheoretical approach to the problem of war, summed up in the pair of seemingly opposed facts: the old Trebnik has a prayer for blessing arms and warriors, but we have a canonical penance for those who actually kill in war. War is evil, but the notion that the making of arms is “unchristian” surely seems odd to those Russian Christians who look fondly back to the days when most everyone carried a sword or gun when as one put it “we were free under the Tsars”, or to Greeks who remember the feats of Christian arms in casting off of the Turkish yoke.
Since when is self-defense unchristian?
And He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one. “For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, ‘AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH TRANSGRESSORS’; for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment.”
They said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.”
And He said to them, “It is enough.”
Luke 22:36-38
Il Papa should read Scripture instead of watching “An Inconvenient Crap Yarn” by Algore.
The Bible, including the NT is replete with references to war, battle, etc.
1 Corinthians 14:8 uses the concept of battle in an illustrative sense. God would not use a sinful, forbidden activity to illustrate a positive Christian doctrine. In fact, God has foretold one or more upcoming wars and battles in the very end times.
Statements such as this by the pope is just silliness. The kind of forced, desperate logic one frabs for when their side is getting their butts kicked; such as everyone with a brain and an honest heart recognizing AGW for the lying, hurtful fraud that it is. IMHO.
Hey Pope , Osculer quaeso asinum.
If you have a mutual fund that invests in a defense contractor, the Pope doesn’t want you. Find a solid Protestant church where you’ll be weldome.
James 3:1
Neither can this Pope. This Pope sucks.
And Popes who have billions of dollars of art treasures and other items while there are hungry is like the rich young ruler that can not give up his wealth and hence can not follow Jesus.
Hypocrisy is a two way street, your Holiness!
Freegards
LEX
The Pope is crazy.
About the railway lines, I think the pope missed the time line.
All those Jews, homosexuals, and others had ALREADY been rounded up in various concentration camps. And the horrors of concentration camps were discovered AFTER they had been liberated.
The pope can argue the point of strategic bombing of railway lines in a war (which makes him just another armchair general), but he can’t criticize Allies for the reason he gave.
Wait a minute; weapons manufacturers can’t call themselves Christian but homosexuals, various sexual deviants, socialists, and abortionists can?
Has this Pope ever heard of Charles Martel?
Who knew? The Papacy has been infiltrated with a Marxist Commiunist Progressive.