Posted on 06/27/2016 7:26:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Italy (Ammoland.com) Pope Francis spoke with a group of young people at a rally of thousands at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.
Francis started by attacking the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as well as accusing the allies during World War Two of being complicit in the killing of Jews, Christians and homosexuals.
Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry, saying.
“If you trust only men you have lost,” he told the young people in a long, rambling talk about war, trust and politics after putting aside his prepared address.
“It makes me think of … people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn’t it?” he said to applause.
He also criticized those who invest in weapons industries (gun owners), saying “duplicity is the currency of today … they say one thing and do another.”
Francis also built on comments he has made in the past about events during the first and second world wars.
He spoke of the “tragedy of the Shoah,” using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
“The great powers had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to the concentration camps like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, everybody. Why didn’t they bomb (the railway lines)?”
It is surely an upside down world when the representative of G* on earth disparages the right to self defense and accuses the Greatest Generation of being complicit in Hitler’s genocide and the destruction of Europe and Russia.
Weird. I’ve been saying that you’re not a Christian if you support Socialist St. Frankie.
Don’t they have Uzis underneath the costume?.........
Further proof that Satan has infiltrated and taken over the Vatican.
Says he who lives behind a tall wall and travels in a protected vehicle.
Limbaugh seldom touches anything the Pope says. I wonder why.
“If you trust only men you have lost,”
I can say I agree with up to here.
Has anyone checked to see how much of an increase in Communal Wine is being consumed since Pope Francis’s immaculation??;
As a thankful Catholic convert I wish the pope would just preach Chris to a dying world.
He should know, because I have my sincere doubts he is a Christian.
Further proof that Satan has infiltrated and taken over the Vatican.
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Makes you wonder, doesn’t it!
I guess he condemns guns but approves of bombing.
Isn’t Francis a talking mule?
Approval or disapproval by the Cardinals and Bishops is not required on any announcement by a sitting Pope. However, even the Papacy is a political office, and while the College of Cardinals is an almost glacially slow deliberative body, they still move.
Usually they wait until death overtakes the sitting Pope. There have been instances when the course of events is hastened a little, but of course, nobody speaks of the circumstances.
This is not the End Times, or at least, not quite yet.
But were I a gun manufacturer, I would not be in fear for my soul. It is a very moral and just thing to provide means for personal defense.
That not all men or women choose to use it for those purposes, falls not upon the manufacturer, but on the person who practices free will to defy convention and authority, and use the instrument badly. That is the soul that shall have to face the Thereafter.
Is the pope mentally ill?
It seems the world’s most rational leaders reside in Russia and China. The rest, including this Pope, are idiots.
Pope asks a fair question. The answers that I've read revolve around limits in munitions (bombs) and aircraft shortages, and range all the way toward the difficulty in destroying rail lines without a sustained air campaign (re-strikes).
The bass turd is entitled to his opinion - no matter how cockeyed or offensive, but it isn’t his call.
But when it comes to the ability to defend one's self, he not only judges, but declares them non-Christian if they own a firearm?
How about if I’m a Communist like the pope?
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