Perhaps you would be kind enough, Popester, to give us a Biblical citation for that?
Because, in Jesus's time, I think he was more concerned about actual KILLING, killing people.
Posted on 10/18/2018 4:22:25 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
For Jesus, insults are a way of “killing” our brothers and sisters, Pope Francis said Wednesday, urging his hearers to commit to never insulting anyone.
“We are in the habit of insulting other, it’s true, and insulting others becomes like breathing,” the pope told the crowds gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly audience. “But Jesus tells us: ‘Stop, because insults hurt, they kill.’”
Insulting others “is a way of killing a person’s dignity,” Francis continued. “It would be wonderful if this teaching of Jesus entered our minds and hearts, and each of us would say: ‘I will never insult anyone.’”
“That would be a beautiful resolution, because Jesus tells us: ‘Look, if you despise others, if you insult them, if you hate them, this is murder,” Francis said, making reference to a passage of Saint Matthew’s gospel.
In the passage of the Gospel that we have just heard, Jesus states that, “before God’s court, even anger against a brother is a form of murder,” Francis said. “This is why the Apostle John wrote: ‘Whoever hates his brother is a murderer.’”
Jesus invites us to interrupt the offering of the sacrifice in the temple if we remember that a brother or sister is offended against us, to go and look for him and reconcile with him, the pope said. “We too, when we go to Mass, should have this attitude of reconciliation with the people we have had problems with.”
“Think of the gravity of insults, of contempt, of hatred,” he said. “Jesus compares them to killing.”
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Straight out of Orwell.
Most sketchy pope in history..?
He’s plain weird.
He’s removing (or trying to remove) the accusation of “homosexual” that is being used to reveal the truth about what is happening in the Church.
“He’s removing (or trying to remove) the accusation of “homosexual” that is being used to reveal the truth about what is happening in the Church.”
No more calls, folks. We have a winner.
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Also, after having already called Vigano Satan, he is now saying he is a murderer.
This ‘pope’ defies scripture.
Jesus insulted Phrasisees, scribes, and lawyers. He insulted the money changers. He called people ‘serpents’, vile hypocrites.
This ‘pope’ needs to SHUT UP and read the Bible!
So disagreeing with someone (what the left calls a horrible insult) is now the moral equivalency of murder?
Somebody needs to take this guy, figuratively speaking, out behind the woodshed.
I’ll say one thing more — this ‘pope’ might as well be a pimp for a homo-erotic brothel.
Perhaps you would be kind enough, Popester, to give us a Biblical citation for that?
Because, in Jesus's time, I think he was more concerned about actual KILLING, killing people.
Another impassioned argument against free speech. All commies, leftists, muslims and mobsters hate free speech with every ounce of their being.
Not "might as well be"...he is in fact. That brothel is the part of the Church controlled by the lavender mafia.
I think a lot of what the Pope says is somehow directed at Trump.
“Sticks and stones (you BLEEPING idiot)...................”
Your mere EXISTANCE is an insult to all us Christians.
Screw you, idiot Pope.
Lighten up, Francis.
Go away already, commie plant.
Actually, there is a biblical basis behind what the pope is saying.
I’m not a pope admirer, but he is correct here.
Nutjob
“Horseface.” LOL!
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