Posted on 10/05/2025 12:34:29 PM PDT by Retain Mike
VATICAN CITY — The supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church issued a sharp criticism of the Almighty Creator of the universe this week, as Pope Leo XIV publicly condemned God for instituting the death penalty.
When asked by the media to comment on critics of the death penalty, the pope singled out the Lord, offering a stinging critique of the Almighty for instituting capital punishment and questioning whether or not God was actually pro-life.
"I question God's moral standing here," Pope Leo told reporters. "Someone who says, ‘I'm against abortion,' but says, ‘I'm in favor of the death penalty,' is not really pro-life. So, when I read the Bible and see God instituting the death penalty and reiterating it multiple times, I wonder just how ‘pro-life' the Lord can really claim to be. I wish God had asked me what my thoughts were on the topic before he unilaterally decided on it."
The pope said that he hoped to persuade God to see his side and perhaps change His mind on the subject. "It's important for God to see this from all sides," Leo explained. "While it's important to be kind and loving to the unborn, we should also be kind and loving to unrepentant, violent murderers who continually prey on society and disregard fundamental laws of civilization to commit horrific atrocities."
Pope Leo went on to say that he would pray for God to have a softer heart toward murderers and reconsider His hardline stance on the death penalty.
At publishing time, Pope Leo had also questioned God's plans to build large walls around the New Jerusalem.
Concerning the legitimacy of the death penalty, I like the statement C. S. Lewis made on the subject. He said, “"Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment - even to death. If one has committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is therefore in my opinion, perfectly right for a Christian judge to sentence a man to death. It is no good quoting, "Thou shalt not kill." There are two Greek words: the ordinary word to kill and the word to murder. And when Christ quotes that commandment, He uses the murder one in all three accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And I am told there is the same distinction in Hebrew."
The Pope’s statement is certainly helpful in deflecting criticism about the Democrat Party position on abortion, which seems like a pagan sacrament required for membership. By a 220-210 margin, the House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, with only one Democrat voting in favor. So, with only one exception these Democrat legislators established a line of defense for abortion that included those born alive despite attempted abortion. According to the logic for voting against the below bill, an infant emerging from an abortion procedure, unlike those babies residing in intensive care units, was considered by Democrats as harmful medical waste, and not human. The personnel in attendance were not only absolved from any criticism in failing to provide care but instead were required to intervene to murder the baby. Read the bill to see if that is not the most reasonable interpretation.
H.R. 26: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr26/text?adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=CC7BEBFFF32F48ADB9D0825ACEB90034
Oh jeez...you had me for a few seconds there...LOL!
Babylon Bee.
The Bee got me again...
The Bee… writing about what too many are scared to think.
“isn’t there a story about death being the punishment for the Original Sin of Adam & Eve???? Must be a different God, one guesses. But isn’t that the point of Jesus performing miracles, raising Lazarus from the dead? and why Jesus’ resurrection is central dogma?”-—
“Such is the frustration with the dilemmas found in Christianity...”
No, there is no dilemma in Christianity over capital punishment. It was instituted by God in Genesis and mentioned by Paul in Romans.
The dilemma is for those like the Pope who look at it from the outside and demand it fit their ideology.
The “pre-born” are of unknown character, but they who have committed capital crimes are probably of bad character.
You have a point. Dante in The Inferno had a few things to say about popes and bishops and the level of hell they occupied.
I can imagine few other than Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII escaped that fate. Things went downhill after the Papal Estates became the Papal States.
Which Biblically is normally via communal stoning, as befits the crime being against all, and manifests the cost of the crime, versus antiseptic execution by the state, or burdening society by supporting the murderer for decades, and reminding others that he is live, and could get out.
Of course, all should be exhorted to be born of God via by effectual penitent, heart-purifying, regenerating, justifying faith (Acts 10:43-47, 15:7-9; Titus 3:5)
THE DEATH PENALTY (capital punishment in the Bible)
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar. (Acts 25:11)
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