Posted on 06/25/2016 12:19:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The world should never forget or minimize the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians, Pope Francis declared Saturday even as he urged Armenians to infuse their collective memory with love so they can find peace and reconcile with Turkey.
Turkey, though, didn’t budge. In its first reaction to Francis’ recognition of the 1915 “genocide,” Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli called the comments “greatly unfortunate” and said they bore the hallmarks of the “mentality of the Crusades.”
Francis began his second day in Armenia by paying his respects at the country’s imposing genocide memorial and greeting descendants of survivors of the 1915 massacres, who have been emboldened by his comments upon arrival that the slaughter of Armenians a century ago was a planned “genocide” meant to annihilate an entire people.
Francis presented a wreath at the memorial and stood, head bowed, in silent prayer before an eternal flame as priests blessed him with incense and a choir sang haunting hymns.
“Here I pray with sorrow in my heart, so that a tragedy like this never again occurs, so that humanity will never forget and will know how to defeat evil with good,” Francis wrote in the memorial’s guest book. “May God protect the memory of the Armenian people. Memory should never be watered-down or forgotten. Memory is the source of peace and the future
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Yep.
As a Catholic all I can say is FUPF!
..telling the Armenians to “put ice on it”...
Exactly!
I think you missed the story on the Mufti of Jerusalem. Hitler had plans to send the Jews to the Mideast or Africa. The Mufti met with Hitler and told him to kill them instead. And that's the end of the story. The Mufti skated free at the end of the war. Some things just never change.
And the mass murder of the Russians, Poles, disabled, Romani, Freemasons, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses were just random add ons, right?
The Japanese killed thousands of Chinese civilians (perhaps more) so we should just let the moslems continue to butcher people as they please right?
At least that’s what it sounds like you said.
The only way to stop a death cult is to eradicate it. When the next death cult arises, we’ll eradicate that one too. But we should not let the fact that man is basically evil stop us from eradicating those today whose religion glorifies evil and commands evil behavior.
We eradicated the nazis and the Japanese death cults. We need to do the same to the moslem death cult.
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