Gun-Free Vatican

[dexfarkin]

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2015/06/22/pope-francis-says-weapons-manufacturers-cant-call-themselves-christian/

Papa Frank is once again giving the gears to things the right wing loves. This time, weapon manufacturers. I have no doubt that there will quickly be a response that the Pope doesn't understand that gun manufacturers do it as a moral duty for God-fearing Catholics to build an armory to protect the Holy Word and Jesus would own an AR-15 if he was alive today.

It is interesting watching the Catholic base twisting in knots trying to square the opinions of their most important religious leader with their own.

Comments

[robby.livejournal.com]

Well, the Church has a pretty extensive armory for its Swiss Guard. I wonder if the Pope has given a dispensation to the Holy Mother Church's own gun makers?

Regardless, let's also get behind his Encyclical condemnation of abortion and transgender.

Wait! Do you suppose, just maybe, this Encyclical is actually sort of hypocritical and irrelevant?

[dexfarkin.livejournal.com]

Well, seeing as these were comments at an event and not a Encyclical, I'm having a little trouble seeing your point. As for hypocritical, consistency has never been the strength of the Catholic Church or its Popes. However, I'd hardly call it irrelevant. Much like the climate change inclusion in the Encyclical, this will again put American Catholics in the position of either diminishing the central authority of the church to protect their own interests or having to find a way to justify the weapon obsession that a bloc of them possess.

Either way, it's bound to be entertaining.