{"id":103210,"date":"2016-08-09T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103210"},"modified":"2023-09-01T04:40:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:40:49","slug":"christians-for-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103210","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTIANS FOR HILLARY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

On July 26, two Muslims slit the throat of a French Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Jacques Hamel, 85, while he was saying Mass in his church.
\nFive days later, during his flight returning to Rome from World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, Pope Francis gave a press conference. He was asked about the French priest and Islam by Antoine-Marie Izoard, a journalist with I.Media, a French Catholic news agency. Izoard said:
\n\u201cCatholics are in a state of shock \u2014 and not only in France \u2014 following the barbaric assassination of Father Jacques Hamel in his church while he was celebrating Holy Mass. Four days ago \u2026 you told us once again that all religions want peace. But this holy priest, eighty-six years old, was clearly killed in the name of Islam. So I have two brief questions, Holy Father. When you speak of these violent acts, why do you always speak of terrorists but not of Islam? \u2026 And then, \u2026 what concrete initiative can you launch or perhaps suggest in order to combat Islamic violence?\u201d
\nPope Francis responded:
\n\u201cI don\u2019t like to speak of Islamic violence because every day when I open the newspapers I see acts of violence, here in Italy: someone kills his girlfriend, someone else his mother-in-law\u2026and these violent people are baptized Catholics! They are violent Catholics\u2026If I spoke about Islamic violence, I would also have to speak about Catholic violence.\u201d
\nThe pope of the Roman Catholic Church, when asked about Islamic terror and the slitting of the throat of a Roman Catholic priest by Islamic terrorists, responds that there is also Catholic terror \u2014 that a man who was baptized Catholic who \u201ckills his girlfriend\u201d is the moral and religious equivalent of Muslims who engage in mass murder in the name of Islam.
\nHow can anyone compare:
\n\u2013A person who happens to have been baptized Catholic as a child \u2014 and may have no Catholic identity as an adult \u2014 with an adult who affirms a religious identity?
\n\u2013The murder of a girlfriend (most likely a crime of passion) with the ritual murder of a Catholic priest because he was a priest?
\n\u2013Individual murders that have nothing to do with any ideology with mass murders committed in the name of an ideology?
\nPope Francis then added:
\n\u201cTerrorism is everywhere! \u2026 Terrorism \u2026 increases whenever there is no other option, when the global economy is centred on the god of money and not the human person, men and women. This is already a first form of terrorism. You\u2019ve driven out the marvel of creation, man and woman, and put money in their place. This is a basic act of terrorism against all humanity. We should think about it.\u201d
\nTerrorism grows \u201cwhen there is no other option\u201d?
\nThe implication that Islamic terrorism is a desperate act arising from poverty is widely held on the left. But it is false. Most Islamic terrorists come from the middle class or above. In the recent case of the Bangladeshi terrorists, for example, nearly every one of them came from some of the wealthiest families in Bangladesh. And, as is well-known, most of the 9\/11 hijackers came from middle- and upper middle-class families.
\nIslamic terrorism doesn\u2019t come from economics; it comes from its theology.
\nTerrorism grows \u201cwhen the global economy is centred on the god of money\u201d?
\nThe pursuit of money and terror have nothing to do with each other. Terrorism grows only when some ideology preaches it. All this statement does is provide an excuse for Islamist terror by blaming the \u201cglobal economy\u201d and the \u201cgod of money\u201d instead of the terrorists and their god of death.
\nA \u201cfirst form of terrorism\u201d is when \u201cthe global economy is centred on the god of money\u201d?
\nIt is a bad thing when money becomes a god, but there is no comparison between the \u201cgod of money\u201d and the horrors of Islamic terror. Yazidi women weren\u2019t gang raped and burned alive because of the \u201cglobal economy\u201d and its \u201cgod of money.\u201d
\nThe only explanation for these statements is that Pope Francis has inherited his theology from Catholicism, but unlike his immediate predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, he has inherited much of his moral outlook from leftism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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