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Pope says weapons manufacturers can't call themselves Christian
Reuters ^ | 6-21-2015 | Philip Pullella

Posted on 06/21/2015 12:36:05 PM PDT by windcliff

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By Philip Pullella

TURIN, Italy, June 21 (Reuters) - People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.

Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.

"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 criticised those who invest in weapons industries, saying "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another."

(Excerpt) Read more at trust.org ...


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To: windcliff

Clearly he supports the mass beheading of the entire Christian World then correct?


241 posted on 06/21/2015 4:33:02 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: windcliff

Maybe there is a reason he is the first Jesuit Pope?


242 posted on 06/21/2015 4:37:49 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: WTFOVR

You’re right.
His propaganda is more dangerous than silly.
Another aspect of dangers to children are the schoolteachers who DAILY pump their heads full of that stuff. The pope is pretty remote and afar off, but Teacher is right there browbeating every day.

Another sore spot with me is the absolute power and authority the schools have arrogated to themselves; taking girls for abortions without any contact with parents. The next thing they’ll pull will be implanting RFIDs into the students at school without any approval by parents. The Mark of the Beast.


243 posted on 06/21/2015 4:37:56 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Jonty30

“Leftist Christians believe that being helpless in a hostile encounter adds to their holiness. I’ve talked with enough of them to say this with certainty.”

Willful failure to defend your own life, that of your family members - and the life of any neighbor when you have the capacity to do so - is a violation of the Fifth Commandment, and thus a mortal sin.


244 posted on 06/21/2015 4:40:19 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: The Toll

he likely supports the Catholic punishment......... burning at the stake


245 posted on 06/21/2015 4:41:27 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: dforest
That's a reasonable guess.
246 posted on 06/21/2015 4:45:09 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: windcliff

Does that include swords?

How about the arms of WWII?


247 posted on 06/21/2015 4:54:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: windcliff

Will he have his guard’s attack if he’s attacked.He is starting to get on my nerves.


248 posted on 06/21/2015 4:57:01 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: ConservativeMind

The idea that Pope Benedict XVI can resign from the papacy, and yet hold the title of Pope Emirates is not found anywhere in Holy Scripture or Catholic Tradition ... To be Pope requires one to ACT as such, and not merely advise or hold the title as an honorarium. So, then, we have two Popes at the moment (not a first time for this, if we recall the Western Schism when there were two Popes - one in Avignon France and one in Rome Italy - along with each having their own Cardinals, Bishops and Priests) However, we are thus able to assert that Benedict XVI is in fact the legitimate Pope, and “Francis” (Bergoglio) is an usurping Marxist imposter.


249 posted on 06/21/2015 5:03:02 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: WTFOVR; MinuteGal

This Pope only has one lung......Just sayin


250 posted on 06/21/2015 5:16:58 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: windcliff

The Pope appears to be making his move to become the anti-Christ or at least a forerunner.

Soon he will call for all Catholics to turn in their firearms.


251 posted on 06/21/2015 5:20:08 PM PDT by stockpirate (A corrupt government is the real enemy of the people.)
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To: Iscool

“Francis is the face of the Catholic religion...”

WRONGO!

Francis is the face of the liberal MODERNIST HERESY, calling itself the Catholic Faith ... IOW, a false Church, led by a false pope, guided by a counterfeit dogma (Vatican II’s declaration that “dogma evolves” ... If dogma is truth, then it cannot “evolve” - what was true then must be true now, otherwise it was never true to begin with.)

This leftist jackass, presently warming the Chair of Saint Peter, no more represents the true religion than does any of the phony snake oil salesmen (and women) that make up the plethora (over 23,000 last count) of false “denominations” posing as “Christian” ... The ones which I and Ann Barnhardt comically refer to as the “superfun rockband church.”

No, this fool is nothing more than a manifestation of the false ecumenism and ongoing heretical auto-destruction brought about by the liberal innovators who infiltrated the Church in the 50s and 60s ... Vatican II was their brainchild - and “Pope” Francis is just one more evil spawn of their handiwork - which began with the “New Mass.”

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit - a bad tree cannot produce good fruit ... And by their fruits you shall know them. High time to jettison Vatican II (”an evil council,” as it was prophesied) the Novus Ordo Church and all its manifestations


252 posted on 06/21/2015 5:20:44 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: windcliff

The Vatican has been Obamanated.


253 posted on 06/21/2015 5:24:37 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: flaglady47

Well, that’s one more lung than he has in functioning brain cells!


254 posted on 06/21/2015 5:34:51 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: windcliff

Meanwhile the head choppers are still having a field day in the Middle East.


255 posted on 06/21/2015 5:35:10 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: windcliff

Oh really?

So the Crusaders were what?

You’re welcome....


256 posted on 06/21/2015 5:38:21 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: WTFOVR; Iscool
He is a heretic and a fraud, who must be deposed before he is able to do further damage to the Church and the faithful.

AFAIK, there is no official procedure to depose a Pope that is unfit to lead.

257 posted on 06/21/2015 5:42:04 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Someone better remind this guy that the full armor of God in Ephesians 6 does in fact include a sword.

Jesus told His disciples to get some swords.

Would the pope say that Jesus isn't a Christian either?

258 posted on 06/21/2015 5:48:44 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Yeah. How unbiblical can you get?


259 posted on 06/21/2015 5:51:53 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: windcliff

Nanzi Pelosi is OK?


260 posted on 06/21/2015 5:56:31 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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