The pope’s sermon was seen as a rebuke of Pete Hegseth, who has supported a Christian crusade in the Middle East.

Pope Leo XIV used his Palm Sunday sermon to take what appears to be a shot at U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. In his sermon, excerpts of which he published on social media, the pope emphasized Christian teachings against violence while criticizing anyone who would invoke Jesus Christ to justify a war. “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to…

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    He may be phrasing that a little too carelessly…

    here is his root-guru’s speech, according to their own bible:

    34 “Don’t suppose that I have come to bring peace to the Land. It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword! 35 For I have come to set

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    • a man against his father,
    • a daughter against her mother,
    • a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
    • so that a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.[a]

    from https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A34-36&version=CJB

    & that definitely IS committment to war, but it isn’t narcissistic war, it is war to sort-out/purify motivations or alignments among people, “removing the wheat from the chaff” kind of thing…

    not the DarkTriad profiteering “Christianity” that’s rampant nowadays…

    Totally different fundamental thing…

    But to claim that Jesus rejects war … contradicts that bible-passage, directly.

    Sorry, Good Pope Leo, but … you stand on sand, on that point.

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