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POPE ON TRUMP: ANYONE WHO WANTS BORDER WALLS ISN'T CHRISTIAN
ap.org ^ | 2/18/16 | NICOLE WINFIELD

Posted on 02/18/2016 9:42:01 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

POPE ON TRUMP: ANYONE WHO WANTS BORDER WALLS ISN'T CHRISTIAN

BY NICOLE WINFIELD

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) -- Pope Francis said Thursday that Donald Trump is "not Christian" if he intends to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. Trump immediately fired back, saying it is disgraceful for a religious leader to question a person's faith.

Trump, a leading U.S. Republican presidential candidate, has promised to build a wall along the Mexican border from Texas to California and expel 11 million people who are in the country illegally if elected president. The Pope's comments en route home from Mexico came hours after he prayed at the Mexico-U.S. border for people who died trying to reach the United States.

"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," Francis said. "This is not in the Gospel."

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To: A CA Guy

I had not heard the story until I got in the car to come home just a little while ago... and this story is on EVERY news station, and all are bashing Trump, with a very seldom comment that the Pope does not belong in American presidential politics. Incredible... could not get away from the story no matter what station I went to.


101 posted on 02/18/2016 11:14:20 AM PST by GizzyGirl
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Take all the doors off their hinges at the vatican and we will then talk mr popey


102 posted on 02/18/2016 11:17:37 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: GizzyGirl

Liberals LOVE this Obama version of a Pope.

We have all the progressive socialist and communists attempting through their minions the Press to make it seem “God Himself is stating Trump is a non-Christian because Trump wantsva wall” but the Poop..., I mean this Pope is calling for a world without borders where no one gets to have anything but Pope Francis’s Church.

Has Francis torn his own walls down yet at the Vatican or is what he says only good for everyone else?

The Obama Pope has spoken... What a hot mess we have going on in our Church these days.

Francis also just got done yelling at Mexicans for pulling at him and causing him to fall on a disabled person. Called them selfish!
Why are we being selfish trying to prevent our own fall? Thank you very much.


103 posted on 02/18/2016 11:27:54 AM PST by A CA Guy (Are God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

104 posted on 02/18/2016 11:41:33 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: taterjay

Satan is nearing his final triumph and final defeat is my guess.


105 posted on 02/18/2016 11:49:01 AM PST by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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To: longfellowsmuse

at the very least the 9th Commandment Thou shalt not COVET


106 posted on 02/18/2016 11:57:50 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

They are also not that innocent in Mexico. It is kind of like Isis with a bit of Catholicism thrown in.

Many are Libertarian God sends growing drugs for sale there, but their own culture has gotten radicalized because the Narcos started giving the drugs to their own people.
They have no right to bare arms and 90% worship a false Saint\god of drug dealing.

The Pope doesn’t get the problems out there.


107 posted on 02/18/2016 12:03:08 PM PST by A CA Guy (Are God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
POPE ON TRUMP: ANYONE WHO WANTS BORDER WALLS ISN'T CHRISTIAN

Ok let me sharpen my pencil here...

Full disclosure: I was born a Catholic, I attended Jesuit high school and university, and have a deep sense of gratitude for my education and total respect for the Society of Jesus.

Pope Pancho has slipped an internal cog somewhere...

He is renown for his humility, and earned well-deserved admiration and respect.
But he seems to have a dark side, a hidden pride bordering on arrogance that emerges, seemingly in contradiction to that humility.
Isn't pride one of the deadly sins?

Whatever became of the ultimate admonition, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and...?"

My understanding is that both Temples in Jerusalem, had enormous walls; as does the contemporary Temple Mount. God must not be a Christian to have allowed them...

Jesuits are historically notable for two things : Their enormous contribution to knowledge, mathematics and science for hundreds of years, and their long term dissolution by Papal decree.
Might there be a profound Irony there?

Pope Pancho needs a spiritual retreat--- badly.

108 posted on 02/18/2016 12:23:58 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: elhombrelibre
Didn't Trump question Carson's Christianity and Cruz's? I believe he did. So even if the Pope is out of line, Trump is not one who doesn't do the same thing.

Don't be silly, Hombre Soso. Trump is not the spiritual leader of hundreds of millions....

... and in spiritual matters, a Zero.
What is a pope who insists on intruding into secular matters?

...a muslim...?

109 posted on 02/18/2016 12:36:46 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: dschapin

“That was a very unchristian thing for the Pope to say. He is not God to determine who is a Christian and who is not.”

Reminds me of a recent Trump quote on Twitter: “How can Ted Cruz be an evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?”


110 posted on 02/18/2016 12:42:17 PM PST by IAMNO1 (Cruz is binary, Trump quantum.)
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To: SubMareener

You’re not helping...


111 posted on 02/18/2016 12:49:10 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: publius911

Do you think Trump will sue him or will Trump demand that the Pope show him his birth certificate? I mean this is serious, and Trump is a serious man. What can we expect from Trump? A twitter war?


112 posted on 02/18/2016 12:50:47 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: anymouse

Shortly before he passed away, General Jaruzelski “Came Home”. JPII was probably the first to greet him.


113 posted on 02/18/2016 12:51:45 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
So the Pope is taking down the border wall around Vatican City?

He has actually suggested it!

It boggles the mind that a society, celebrated for 600 years in the sciences, mathematics, history and philosophy should act unaware of the human cultural value of historical "things," like the Vatican wall!

AMDG

114 posted on 02/18/2016 12:57:55 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’m just glad to see everyone pull together due to an attack from the outside! This Pope is off the hook. Keep visiting the Commie countries Pontiff.


115 posted on 02/18/2016 1:00:08 PM PST by WorksinKOP
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To: Tennessee Nana
It was God who sent Nehemiah to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem...

God is not Christian, silly!

116 posted on 02/18/2016 1:00:40 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: publius911

God is not Christian, silly!
______________________

is that excathedra ???


117 posted on 02/18/2016 1:03:10 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: publius911

Just being a Watchman.

Ezekiel 3
16 Now it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth,
and give them warning from Me:
18 “When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning,
nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life,
that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
19 “Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way,
he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
20 “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity,
and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die;
because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin,
and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered;
but his blood I will require at your hand.
21 “Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin,
and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning;
also you will have delivered your soul.”

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 806). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

This is why I say yawl Trump supporters are nuts. Comparing Trump to some type of Messiah or savior that is above all and going to save us.
- - - - -
OK. First of all Samson was a Judge during the time before Israel had Kings not a Messiah or savior. YHWH raised him up to bring judgement to the idolatrous Philistines, and he ultimately died in the process of bringing down the Temple of Dagon. Judges 13-16 tells Samson’s story. You should read it.

In case you didn’t notice, while the Constitution says there are three branches of federal government, now there is only one. It is the bureaucracy of the old Executive Department. The Congress is irrelevant, just a fig leaf to deceive the masses. The Judiciary has been taken over by agents of the commercial class. Remember when the Supreme Court ruled that even if the produce from your farm never left you state, it was still interstate commerce because you could be affecting the interstate price of the commodity by displacing produce from out of state.

You are currently ruled, and I do mean ruled, using Contract Law. That started when the Federal Reserve was started, and the 16th and 17th Amendments were ratified. That is how Common Core is promulgated. That is why there are Federal Grants in Aid. These are contracts that are used to control local governments and agencies. Do you think any one would actually feed their kids Michelle’s awful meals if they had any real local control?

So, knowing that the contract law regime needs to be overcome, who do you think could do that? A politician who still is under the delusion that politicians, and not the commercial interests are in charge, or a man who has made his fortune using contract law?

Now Donald Trump could turn on us when he gets into office, but there really is no indication that will happen. What does he have to gain? It is more likely that he will use the current executive powers to dismantle the current corrupt system and restore the Republic you think we still have.

Based on the current pace that Bible Prophecy is being fulfilled, the most likely scenario is that the prospect of a Trump Presidency causes Iran, Russia, China or some combination of them to attack the United States with nuclear weapons. This corresponds with Samson taking down the Temple of Dagon.

So it would be a good idea to get right with YHWH, if you aren’t already. If you are, then you should really read your Bible and pray that you will be found worthy to escape the Wrath to come. If you don’t escape the Wrath to come, then remember: Do NOT take the Mark of the Beast on your forehead or right hand! Just head for the hills! Don’t go back for anything. That is what the Bible tells you to do. Shalom!


118 posted on 02/18/2016 1:06:26 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: A CA Guy
They have no right to bare arms and 90% worship a false Saint\god of drug dealing.

I suppose that explains why they all have "farmer tans?"

119 posted on 02/18/2016 1:09:13 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: elhombrelibre
Do you think Trump will sue him or will Trump demand that the Pope show him his birth certificate? I mean this is serious, and Trump is a serious man. What can we expect from Trump? A twitter war?

All of the above.
Liberal heads are exploding, and MSM and their imbecile acolytes are experiencing orgasms all over the place.

120 posted on 02/18/2016 1:15:00 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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