Posted on 12/19/2023 12:45:09 PM PST by af_vet_1981
Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, chastised Israel’s war on Hamas saying it is “forbidden to respond to terror with terror".
In a widely reported conversation with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, chastised Israel’s war on Hamas saying it is “forbidden to respond to terror with terror".
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If Israel's war is not just, then there has never been a just war. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, David Rivkin and Peter Berkovitz, with decades of experience in statecraft between them, including serving in senior national security positions in multiple US administrations, accuse the Pope of “primitive pacifism” by pointing out that his views, as expressed to President Herzog, and repeated in other public fora, contradict the basic principles of a just war, articulated in the 4th century by one of the founding philosophers of Christianity, Saint Augustine, who held that a war fought in self-defense, one in which civilians are not targeted, is a just war.
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Liberals like the Pope always like swap government responsibilities with individual responsibilities.
Israel went out of its way to make sure as many civilians as possible were allowed to leave the war zone prior to its main offensive. The ones who stayed either did by choice or they were being forcibly held there by Hamas. I don’t know what else Israel could have done.
We can add the 144th psalm to Romans:1 as parts of the Bible ol’Frankie has no use for. I guess we can include the 1st commandment if we include that “pachamama” crap.
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Where else would the pope have his head other than up his butt?
Would the killing of Hamas terrorists terrorizing people at the Vatican be a terrorist act? Again, you say "it's forbidden to respond to terror with terror".
Why does the Vatican bother having a Swiss Guard army? If terrorists blow up a few Cardinals you wouldn't want to instill terror in them with automatic weapons. Would you?
We have so many church "leaders" who refuse to read and apply the Bible!!
Zechariah 12:9 "And it shall come to pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem!"
As I recall reading the Pope as a priest, maybe as a bishop too, proclaimed the liberation theology so popular among South American clergy. It was a socialist/communist movement.
Exactly. The more security some people have, the more woke they become.
:NeverTrumpin':
Worst. Pope. Ever.
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