{"id":102470,"date":"2016-07-27T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102470"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:09:08","slug":"richard-spencer-its-amusing-that-a-leader-of-the-worlds-largest-religion-effectively-believes-that-religion-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102470","title":{"rendered":"Richard Spencer: &#8216;It\u2019s amusing that a leader of the world\u2019s largest religion effectively believes that religion doesn\u2019t matter.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-36902882\">BBC<\/a>: Pope Francis warns world &#8216;is at war&#8217; after Europe attacks<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPope Francis has warned that a recent wave of jihadist attacks in Europe is proof that &#8220;the world is at war&#8221;.<br \/>\nHowever, he stressed he did not mean a war of religions, but rather a conflict over &#8220;interests, money, resources&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe was speaking ahead of his visit to Poland to reporters seeking his comments on the murder of a Catholic priest by French jihadists on Tuesday.<br \/>\nFather Jacques Hamel was killed at a morning mass in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, northern France.<br \/>\nThe killing was the latest of a spate of attacks carried out in France and Germany over the past few days and weeks, many of them attributed to Islamist militants.<br \/>\n&#8220;The word we hear a lot is insecurity, but the real word is war,&#8221; the pontiff said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We must not be afraid to say the truth, the world is at war because it has lost peace.<br \/>\n&#8220;When I speak of war I speak of wars over interests, money, resources, not religion. All religions want peace, it&#8217;s the others who want war,&#8221; Pope Francis added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardBSpencer\">Richard Spencer tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* I\u2019m not sure there is a more contemptible human being than Pope Francis. <\/p>\n<p>* It&#8217;s difficult not to conclude that the Catholic Church is rotten to its core. <\/p>\n<p>* A priest was murdered in a church by Muslims, and Papa Francis concludes that it was about money and resources. Ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>* If only greedy Westerners would have invested in midnight basketball leagues and after-school programs, there\u2019d be no conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Pope Francis warns world &#8216;is at war&#8217; after Europe attacks Pope Francis has warned that a recent wave of jihadist attacks in Europe is proof that &#8220;the world is at war&#8221;. However, he stressed he did not mean a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102472,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102470\/revisions\/102472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}