Posted on 03/22/2022 6:37:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Italian Archbishop Bruno Forte said Sunday that Vladimir Putin’s religious defense of his war of aggression on Ukraine is a “sacrilegious act.”
“Putin no longer manages to find arguments to excuse the disaster he has caused,” Archbishop Forte told the Italian daily La Stampa. “His was a sacrilegious act, an instrumentalization of the gospel in an attempt to justify himself.”
The archbishop was referring to a statement made Friday evening by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a pro-war rally in Moscow, in which he cited Jesus as saying: “Greater love has no man than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
Recourse to the Bible “shows Putin’s profound weakness since he cannot find any more arguments in support of his propaganda,” Forte declared.
“The death of innocent victims because of this war cannot be legitimized with words from the gospel,” he continued. “The leader of the Russian Federation adds to the very grave guilt with which he is staining himself that of a true blasphemy: naming God to justify the evil done is the apex of immorality and madness.”
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So one side of the schism disapproves of the other. Got it, thanks bro.
Stay in your lane, bro.
The Bloody Sire
BY ROBINSON JEFFERS
It is not bad. Let them play.
Let the guns bark and the bombing-plane
Speak his prodigious blasphemies.
It is not bad, it is high time,
Stark violence is still the sire of all the world’s values.
What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine
The fleet limbs of the antelope?
What but fear winged the birds, and hunger
Jewelled with such eyes the great goshawk’s head?
Violence has been the sire of all the world’s values.
Who would remember Helen’s face
Lacking the terrible halo of spears?
Who formed Christ but Herod and Caesar,
The cruel and bloody victories of Caesar?
Violence, the bloody sire of all the world’s values.
Never weep, let them play,
Old violence is not too old to beget new values.
The Vatican sure used the Bible to to justify European imperialism
No, this is not an Orthodox catholic thing. Putin is killing Orthodox Ukrainians and blowing up Orthodox churches
The catholic church imo Always represented itself not God or Christ..whthether old or new , pre or post changes..all the same, almost nothing to do with God..just power..no such thing as Holy men to God..
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