Posted on 02/19/2016 4:48:50 AM PST by mac_truck
Saying Jesus would never ask them to be "hit men", Pope Francis begged young people in Mexico's gang-infested heartland on Tuesday to shun the lure of easy money and big cars offered by drug traffickers.
Gang wars over the methamphetamine trade have torn the western state of Michoacan apart. Widespread kidnapping and extortion by gangs have sparked an uprising by vigilante groups.
"It is a lie to believe that the only way to live, or to be young, is to entrust oneself to drug dealers or others who do nothing but sow destruction and death," he told young people at a stadium rally in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.
"Jesus would never ask us to be hit men," the pope said. "He would never send us out to death."
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico's drug war over the last decade as rival gangs fight over territory and smuggling routes to the United States.
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1. Welfare fraud.
2. Tax fraud (using different surnames when married)
3. Lying about income to get free lunches at school.
4. Borrowing the Social Security numbers of others.
5. Cheating salvage yards by throwing engines/transmissions in the trunk of cars and claiming they belong with that car when they actually do not. Oh, and taking parts off of a car in the parking lot and claiming he thought it was a junk car (think about that one).
6. Using huge amounts of healthcare without paying by having car wrecks, getting life-lighted and not paying a dime. And, going to the ER and having babies and not paying a dime. And, going to the ER for every little thing and not paying a dime.
7. Buying cars, running through the toll roads, and not paying a dime while the Toll Road Authority tries to charge the original owner.
8. Getting jobs with a company, then once on the inside, making sure only Mexicans get hired and all Americans are shunned.
9. Growing up to become pathological liars about everything and anything.
10. Running away from a wreck scene instead of trying to render aid to dying victims.
11. Stealing anything not locked down.
12. Demanding someone speak to them in their native language of Spanish when THEY are the guest in a foreign country (no other nation tolerates this).
And, many, many more. Time escapes me to post more....
Build a Great Wall?
First, make sure he hasn't finished speaking, yet.
Best description of Trump, translated into Latin, as befits the Pope.
What a theological giant this guy is.
Who would have thought that Jesus would not want people to grow up to be hit men?
What other theological gems of wisdom can we expect from this guy?
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