Posted on 11/25/2019 6:08:15 PM PST by marshmallow
TOKYO - Pope Francis has told Japanese Emperor Naruhito that he remembers seeing his parents cry over the news of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 74 years ago.
The pope traveled on Sunday to the two Japanese cities, where he urged world powers to renounce their nuclear arsenals and declared the use and possession of atomic bombs an “immoral” crime.
Palace officials say the pope told the emperor on Monday that he recalled the memory of his parent’s sorrow when he addressed survivors of the atomic bombings in the two cities.
Naruhito told Francis that he has high respect for the pope’s efforts on behalf of world peace and people’s happiness.
The emperor is a symbol of the nation and has no direct political power.
Japan says it seeks a nuclear-free world but still depends on U.S. nuclear deterrence because of the worsening security environment in the region.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the comments Monday, a day after Francis demanded in Nagasaki and Hiroshima that world powers renounce their nuclear arsenals and declared that the use and possession of atomic bombs was “immoral.”
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To quote my wife’s late Uncle Manny: “My company was to be in the first wave for the invasion of Kyushu in November, 1945. I’m alive because of the dropping of the atomic bombs which ended the war.”
You’re right. It could have half a million. The Japanese were ready to fight to the last man.
“Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds”.
Well, after all the Argentines wanted the Axis to win the War.
What a virtue-signaler!
Gee...
Were his parents hardline Communists, who cried in dispair of Russia taking over Japan?
The Japs got enlightened about the powerlessness of their emperor as a false deity and learned not to pick a fight with Americans.
Now they recruit youngsters for military duty in their malls using faggoty comic con military costumes worn by effeminate young men and girls. That's what nukes do. They rip your balls off.
My dad rejoiced.
He was a corpsman on board the USS Navarro, assigned to the invasion fleet.
That is revolutionary talk. If he did something like that it would directly follow the teachings of Christ. Why would a Church hold on to treasures instead of making the world a better place? Greed.
Too bad his parents didn’t teach him to care about deaf children being raped by priests.
Did he make it by Nanking where even nazis in China were horrified at what they saw? Manila? Chichi Jima? The Malaysian railway? Did the jerk pope scuba down to the remains of a hell ship to count skulls in the hold? Did he visit the site of Unit 731? It was more barbaric than a nazi camp...there were no survivors at all.
He’s an idiot. He criticized the bomb when he should have criticized pagan totalitarian regimes.
I wonder if they cried over the rape of Nanking? Asking for some one else.
Both my mother and my wife’s father went through Pearl Harbor. My mom wasn’t harmed, but bombs fell in other parts of her neighborhood and a woman was killed. My father-in-law watched a bomb explode in the intersection outside the boarding house he lived in and saw people being blown up.
I think he also took the initiative in inventing the Internet... #WhatElsePopeFrancisDid
My father and uncles likely cried too as they went into battle and saw the carnage of war. I suspect my mother and aunts shed a bundled of tears as their husbands defended freedom.
I don’t know the culture over there.
Would they have armed the women?
Almost 83.
Did they cry over the Japanese enslaving China’s women?
Did they cry over the us soldiers who died from Kanakaze attacks?
How about Pearl Harbor?
This mentality ill Pope is actively promoting self-genocide via mass immigration...
And millions of Japanese. The Japanese were training school children to attack machine gun nests armed only with bamboo sticks and bombs strapped to their bodies. There was no reason to think that it would be just like Okinawa where thousands of civilians committed suicide.
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