Italy – -(Ammoland.com)- Pope Francis spoke with a group of young people at a rally of thousands at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.
Francis started by attacking the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as well as accusing the allies during World War Two of being complicit in the killing of Jews, Christians and homosexuals.
Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry, saying.
“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 (gun owners), 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)?”
It is surely an upside down world when the representative of G* on earth disparages the right to self defense and accuses the Greatest Generation of being complicit in Hitler’s genocide and the destruction of Europe and Russia.
And what, pray tell, do the Swiss Guards have as alternates to the large “hatchets” they carry? Right! They have qa stock of automatic weapons and an armory full of ammunition to protect Pope Francis! Let Pope Francis be the first to disarm before he advises others to do so! Even Saint Peter, the first “pope”, carried a sword and cut-off the ear of one of Jesus’ captors when firearms were not invented as yet!
That’s OK. The Roman church doesn’t recognize me as a Christian anyway!
Someone needs to tell the Pope that he is not GOD!!!
When the Church sides with the State against the people it has surrendered its Divine Authority. Yes, civilian disarmament is the want of the State.
It is unfortunate that he is telling this to children and young adults. With the Catholic history down through the ages they did not need guns to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people. They had their own style of murder and corruption and it was used in the name of God and fear. I don’t like to call him a hypocrite but they were and still masters at their craft.
I guess he is safe because the Vatican’s weapons are made in Switzerland and his army of mercenaries are also from the same country. So I guess Luke was wrong in his writing then. Luke 22 – 36. Considering what the church has being doing for more than thousand years – he should be cleaning his own backyard.