Pope says that gun manufacturers can't call themselves Christians

[kidicarus13]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0P10U220150621


I'll refrain from comment as I don't want to offend any Catholics, but seriously?!

People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.
Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.
"If you trust only men you have lost," he told the young people in a long, rambling talk about war, trust and politics after putting aside his prepared address.
"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?" he said to applause.
He also criticized those who invest in weapons industries, saying "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another."
Francis also built on comments he has made in the past about events during the first and second world wars.
He spoke of the "tragedy of the Shoah," using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
"The great powers had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to the concentration camps like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, everybody. Why didn't they bomb (the railway lines)?"
Discussing World War One, he spoke of "the great tragedy of Armenia" but did not use the word "genocide".
Francis sparked a diplomatic row in April calling the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians 100 years ago "the first genocide of the 20th century," prompting Turkey to recall its ambassador to the Vatican.

[HBARleatherneck]

so he doesnt have armed security? he can go fuck himself. no world leaders take anything he says seriously anyway. I hope nobody else does either. he is a man, nothing more.

I bet the vatican has invested in firearms. i guess they are bad too. every pope I have been alive to hear, has talked bs every chance they get.

[hurley842002]

Good thing I'm not Catholic, nor do I give a damn what the pope says.

[blacklabel]

It's too bad such an ignorant man holds such a high position. Then again, most people with that kind of power are rather ignorant.

[Rucker61]

Well, according to the Southern Baptists who raised me, Catholics can't call themselves Christian.

[hurley842002]

I guess this means bellavite will be offloading his firearms.......

[Monky]

Because the Catholic Church never laid waste to anyone at the direction of a pope. Hypocrites


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[rock_castle]

The man is a Leftist, so the anti-gun view is no surprise. He is also a hypocrite since he is protected by a heavily armed security force. I'm not Catholic, so his opinions mean nothing to me.

[yz9890]

My Catholic friends have been ignoring the Pope for years. This will be nothing new for them.

And as someone previously mentioned, Vatican City is reportedly armed to the teeth.


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[XC700116]

While my Mother is Catholic, I really don't care about the supreme pontiff's thoughts on the subject as they are simply hypocritical.

1. he's protected by the Swiss Guard, packing Sig firearms.
2. In one breath all war is evil, and in the next the Allies should have bombed the railway lines in Europe, and somehow that would have stopped the holocaust?????
3. One of Hitler's first acts was to outlaw private firearms ownership, and we all know how that ended up.
4. His Church had a HUGE hand in protecting and ex-filtrating Nazi war criminals after the war and thereby helping them evade justice.

I just can't abide by someone who's blatantly hypocritical about a subject, telling me what to do about that specific subject.