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Pope Francis Says Weapons Manufacturers Shouldn’t Call Themselves Christians
NYMAG ^ | June 21, 2015 | NYMAG

Posted on 06/21/2015 9:08:12 PM PDT by Dallas59

Pope Francis, who's been espousing pro-life positions in all senses of the term, took a moment on Sunday to inform those involved in weapons manufacturing that they're not really Christians. "If you trust only men you have lost," he told thousands of young people during a rally in the Italian city of Turin. "It makes me think of ... people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn't it?" The crowd applauded and he went on to criticize those who invest in weapons industries, saying, "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; globalagenda; globalwarminghoax; guncontrol; guns; pope; popefrancis; romancatholicism; secondamendment; weaponsmakers
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To: Dallas59

I am so glad I left the catholic church when i did. I do not have to pretend that I somehow support this fool of a pope.


61 posted on 06/21/2015 10:31:19 PM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: Dallas59

He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
~Luke 22:36


62 posted on 06/21/2015 10:35:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, of course, I was being a bit facetious.

Of course, Jesus was a Jew. But the revealed Jewish religion came to an end at Jesus’ death.

The Jewish literature shows that the scarlet thread on the scapegoat never turned white a single time between the Crucifixion of Jesus and the destruction of the Temple.


63 posted on 06/21/2015 10:44:01 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Cyclops08

I’m a Catholic, and I don’t pretend.

He’s unqualified and destructive.

He’s still the Pope, but that doesn’t force me to embarrass myself in any way.


64 posted on 06/21/2015 10:45:29 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Just mythoughts

Catholic doctrine does not give any NAME of the anti-Christ. E.g., “Barry Davis, born in Honolulu, August 4, 1961.”

Catholic doctrine is that there will be an individual man who will be “the” anti-Christ. The term “anti-Christ” is also applied, analogically, to persons or movements who fulfill the essential characteristics of anti-Christ. Islam is one of those movements.

The powers of anti-Christ—whether referring to THE anti-Christ or to his many forerunners, are not, properly speaking, “supernatural.” They are demonic. Demons, including Satan, are not supernatural beings. Anti-Christ will have preternatural, demonic powers that many will take for supernatural powers.

Only God and the powers and activities directly relating to God, are “supernatural” in the strict sense.

How will anti-Christ deceive so many people?

Easy. Look around. We have more than 100 million fellow citizens who can look at someone in public life who has fought tooth and nail to expand the killing of babies, and say: “He’s a Christian.”


65 posted on 06/21/2015 10:56:12 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Dallas59

Meh

From the lefty in Rome


66 posted on 06/21/2015 11:08:37 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Arthur McGowan

This wolf in sheeps clothing is delusional


67 posted on 06/21/2015 11:11:13 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: cherry

I think he inadvertently did us all a service with the encyclical. He put down in black-and-white the proof that his mind is a miasma.


68 posted on 06/21/2015 11:14:50 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
But of course since the garden party the old serpent has been allow to strut his stuff by whatever means necessary. He is the only named entity that has been judged to death. He is called many names, and will get booted out of heaven to play like he is God/Jesus right here on this earth. He will not be in a flesh body, not born of woman. We have his script and his doctrine from what he offered Christ. Christ said that all but the elect would buy the anti- Christs deception. The whole world will wonder after him....it is Written.
69 posted on 06/21/2015 11:18:43 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Dallas59

I WANT WHAT POPE FRANCIS IS SMOKING!!!


70 posted on 06/21/2015 11:24:38 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH

on second thought, i’ll pass

:-)


71 posted on 06/21/2015 11:25:58 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: Dallas59
How silly.

Someone who is NOT Christian defining who is to be a Christian.

72 posted on 06/22/2015 12:01:08 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Mark17

Good point. Who was that rock- maker? Lot’s of death by stoning. Maybe the rock- maker is not a Christian. It’s on the tip of my tongue. Maybe the pope knows Him. Then again looks unlikely.


73 posted on 06/22/2015 2:05:15 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: Dallas59

More attacks directed at America. This pope, like his fellow Marxist in the White House, absolutely despises this country.


74 posted on 06/22/2015 2:15:23 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: Dallas59

...anybody who owns a gun is not a Christian (sarc)...I see this one coming.


75 posted on 06/22/2015 2:37:42 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Dallas59
What about the Christians who supplied the weapons which beat back the Muslim hordes at the Gates of Vienna and off the coast of Lepanto?

Thank God that this pretender of a pope wasn't around in those days.

76 posted on 06/22/2015 4:19:39 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman
What about the Christians who supplied the weapons which beat back the Muslim hordes at the Gates of Vienna and off the coast of Lepanto?

Thank God that this pretender of a pope wasn't around in those days.

Yes, otherwise we might all be speaking Muzzie right now. I don't know what language Muzzie is, but whatever it is, we would be speaking it. 😂

77 posted on 06/22/2015 4:44:06 AM PDT by Mark17 (Take up they cross and follow me. I hear the blessed savior call. How can I make a lesser sacrifice?)
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To: Dallas59

Obama and the pope have had several meetings together. If the pope was a true blood bought born again Christian obama would have nothing whatsoever to do with him. But obama knows he not and so he uses the pope to help him out with all his evil agendas. This pope reminds me of this verse “...he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon”


78 posted on 06/22/2015 4:49:34 AM PDT by txgirl4Bush (Impeach obama)
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To: Arthur McGowan
He’s unqualified and destructive.

Yeah, there's been quite a lot of that going around in recent years.

79 posted on 06/22/2015 4:52:51 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Dallas59

Lets all refuse to call this moron a Pope.


80 posted on 06/22/2015 5:00:23 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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