11-06-2016, 12:16 AM
The Pope disavows Donald Trump in all but name:
If you’ve ever wondered how terrible a person must be to get the pope to condemn them, look no further than GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
At the World Meeting of Popular Movements at the Vatican on Saturday, Pope Francis spoke about the danger of building walls to keep people out and “false prophets that exploit fear and hopelessness to sell magical formulas of hate and cruelty.”
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rancis never uttered Trump’s name, and, as The Atlantic points out, his comments could generally apply to other leaders. But it’s hard not to think of Trump himself when the pope talks about walls.
“No tyranny can be sustained without exploiting our fears. This is clear,” Francis said at the event, speaking in Spanish. “All tyranny is terrorist. And when that terror, ignited in the peripheries with massacres, looting, oppression and injustice, explodes in the centers in the form of violence, including with hateful and cowardly intent, the citizens who still have some rights are tempted by the false security of walls, physical or social — walls that close some in and banish others.”
In the past, Francis has been a little more blunt with his thoughts:
“A person who only thinks about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” Francis told reporters in February.
In response to the criticism at the time, Trump called the holy man “disgraceful” and accused Mexico of using him as a pawn.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope...ce6fbc78a6
My comment:
One need not be a Catholic to recognize that the Pope is far more an expert on Christian values than Donald Trump, whose behavior is a travesty of Christian values.
The only "pussies" that I have ever grabbed said "Meow!" in response.
If you’ve ever wondered how terrible a person must be to get the pope to condemn them, look no further than GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
At the World Meeting of Popular Movements at the Vatican on Saturday, Pope Francis spoke about the danger of building walls to keep people out and “false prophets that exploit fear and hopelessness to sell magical formulas of hate and cruelty.”
...
rancis never uttered Trump’s name, and, as The Atlantic points out, his comments could generally apply to other leaders. But it’s hard not to think of Trump himself when the pope talks about walls.
“No tyranny can be sustained without exploiting our fears. This is clear,” Francis said at the event, speaking in Spanish. “All tyranny is terrorist. And when that terror, ignited in the peripheries with massacres, looting, oppression and injustice, explodes in the centers in the form of violence, including with hateful and cowardly intent, the citizens who still have some rights are tempted by the false security of walls, physical or social — walls that close some in and banish others.”
In the past, Francis has been a little more blunt with his thoughts:
“A person who only thinks about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” Francis told reporters in February.
In response to the criticism at the time, Trump called the holy man “disgraceful” and accused Mexico of using him as a pawn.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope...ce6fbc78a6
My comment:
One need not be a Catholic to recognize that the Pope is far more an expert on Christian values than Donald Trump, whose behavior is a travesty of Christian values.
The only "pussies" that I have ever grabbed said "Meow!" in response.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.