Pope Francis has many times claimed that wars are caused by arms merchants. That this has no factual basis seems not to bother the Pope in the slightest. He returned to this theme in regard to the Orlando massacre.
Pope Francis on Monday lashed out at the “brazen” freedom with which weapons circulate in the world when compared with numerous obstacles to distributing aid.
His remarks at a United Nations World Food Program event came one day after the bloodbath in an Orlando nightclub ranked as the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Francis told the audience it was a “strange paradox” that aid and food are obstructed by barriers including political decisions and skewed ideology but “weaponry is not.”
“It makes no difference where arms come from — they circulate with brazen and virtually absolute freedom in many parts of the world,” the pope said.
Go here to read the rest. Why does the Pope do this? Because it allows him to pretend that armed conflicts are caused by a few greedy men, rather than address the reality, which is that conflicts usually arise out of deep seated disagreements among groups that simply are not amenable to negotiation and compromise. Thus, in regard to the Orlando shootings the Pope is able to ignore the essential problem which is radical jihadism, a problem exacerbated throughout the West by the Pope’s strident support for unlimited immigration to the West from Islamic countries. The Pope is typical of what passes today for leadership in the West where not only are the solutions to problems proposed by leaders often worse than useless, the leaders additionally usually pretend that our most serious problems do not exist, and the leaders actively make the serious problems worse. Ah, if only the Pope were merely incompetent.
Islamists throw suspected homosexuals off the roofs of office buildings. I anxiously await this nincompoop to blame the construction industry for those deaths. Bricklayers, concrete truck drivers, ironworkers, plumbers, electricians….merchants of death!
Bergoglio, Daneels, Cupich, Lynch….dumber than a box of rocks.
Pope Francis on Monday lashed out at the “brazen” freedom with which weapons circulate in the world when compared with numerous obstacles to distributing aid.
Um…. the barriers to distributing food tends to be because of a relative lack of weapons in the hands of the people you’re trying to get food to, sometimes as a requirement to get food.
Then the guys who flipped you off when you said “give us your guns, we’ll give you food” kill the disarmed and take the food, assuming you didn’t hand it directly to them because they are a recognized gov’t.
So, where does the Pope think his Swiss Guard gets their H&K submachine guns, Glocks, SIGs, and Steyr machine pistols? The grow in the Vatican Gardens?
Should we outlaw pressure-cookers too? The Tsarnaevs used them in the Boston Marathon bombing. What about fertilizer? Timothy McVay used that. Or what about knives in the kitchen—the Paris attacker used one yesterday when he savaged a police official and his wife.
What about Muslims, Holy Father?
Pope Francis believes that wet pavement causes rain.
People like Jorge Bergoglio, for all of human history, are the cause of war. Those at the bottom of the power pyramid live according to some code of morality, some respect for other human beings as having intrinsic value. As you ascend the pyramid, sometimes stepping ona nd over dead bodies, those at each higher level discard and ignore more and more of the specific items of that moral code – this is how they rise up the pyramid. Those at the highest levels, the “most equal pigs,” the “protected”, the “elite” [eg those few at the top of any government in the world, including church hierarchies] are the ones who have cast away that moral code in toto. This is how you win at Monopoly, you cheat the most. It is these people who do the ultimate “cheat,” and it is called “war.” Penguin F: you have insulted all hard materials and every stone in the world by your comparison. Guy McClung San Antonio TX
At some point, someone needs to get in Jorge Bergoglio’s face, whether it is a cleric or a lay person, and tell him off. My wife speaks Spanish and would love to do just that.
Returning to Bishop Lynch’s remarks…Breitbart ripped another one in him this week. The man is an insult to the Catholic faith. He is another Rembert Weakland/Roger Mahony disaster in clerical robes.