Posted on 06/21/2015 12:36:05 PM PDT by windcliff
Stupid Pope.
Communist popes can’t call themselves Christian.
Do the Swiss Guard that protects the Pope and Vatican have an arsenal of weapons available?
I could understand when Congress sold out their votes for lobbyist money.
I gave the Pope a little more credit and see what I get.
By the way, the pope isn’t a Christian, so really who cares what he says?
Pope- Putz
“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)?”
I think the Pope should take a few history and science courses instead of relying on his councils which are obviously leading him astray.
God has used men with weapons for His own purposes. Men with weapons provide a deterrent keeping the evil one from destroying God’s creations. Men with weapons have protected the good and innocents, and God was pleased.
I believe the Pope’s South American theological education with it’s socialistic underpinnings have become too much a part of who he is.
“Perhaps he should lead by example. Eliminate the Vatican Guard, eliminate his bodyguards, open the Vatican to anyone who wishes to live there, open his dining room to all who wish to partake, open the treasury to those in “need” and while he is at it, prosecute those who break the law, perhaps starting the pedophile priests.”
And turn off his A.C.
Exactly.
Not being a Christian, I don’t have a dog in this hunt...but the man hasn’t exactly endeared me to him since he became Pope.
People who invest in weapons industries probably just want to turn a profit.
How about those who REALLY say one thing and do another, like our politicians?
Exaudi, quaesumus, domine, preces nostras, et hunc ensem, quo his famulus tuus N. se circumcingi desiderat, majestatis tuae dextera benedicere dignare, quatinus defensio atque protectio possit esse ecclesiarum, viduarum, orphanorum omniumque Deo servientium contra saevitiam paganorum, aliisque insidiantibus sit pavor, terror et formido. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
(Harken, we beseech Thee, O Lord, to our prayers, and deign to bless with the right hand of Thy Majesty this sword with which Thy servant wishes to be girded, that it may be a protection of churches, widows, orphans and all Thy servants against the cruelty of pagans, and may it be the fear, terror and dread of all evil-doers. In the name of Christ the Lord. Amen.)
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?
“What a fraud this pope is.”
A loose Cannon!
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