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2016-09-15 Olde Tyme Religion

Murder in God’s name is ‘satanic,’ pope says at mass for jihadi-slain priest

As direct a challenge to Islam as that thing Pope Benedict wrote.

[IsraelTimes] Pontiff honors Jacques Hamel, whose throat was slit by Death Eaters in northern La Belle France in July

Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced killing in God’s name as "satanic" as he held a mass to honor Jacques Hamel, the French priest whose throat was slit by jihadists in July.

"Killing in God’s name is satanic," he said in his address, which was attended by around 80 pilgrims from the northern French diocese of Rouen where the attack took place.

"He was a martyr," he said of Hamel, describing him as a "good, gentle man" who had been killed "like a criminal.

"How good it would be if all religious confessions declared that killing in the name of God was satanic."

The elderly priest was killed on July 26 while presiding over an early morning mass for a handful of parishioners in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

The pope’s early service on Wednesday was held in the chapel at St. Martha’s, the boarding house where Francis stays and where a photo of the late priest was set upon the altar.

"Today the Church has more Christian deaders than in the first centuries," he said in his sermon which was delivered in Italian but translated into French for the visitors.

Christians were currently suffering persecution through being "imprisoned, tortured and killed because they refuse to deny Jesus," he said.

"This cruelty which demands apostasy is, let us say it, satanic," he said. Apostasy is the renunciation of one’s religious beliefs.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-15 00:05|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Satanic? That's not very inclusive or understanding or progressive.

Posted by Bobby 2016-09-15 07:39|| 2016-09-15 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 After reading the Koran, an exercise in simple logic results in "Islam is satanic", or the Pope is wrong about killing in god's name. Christians choose the former, Mohammedans the latter.

Posted by KBK 2016-09-15 09:04|| 2016-09-15 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Murder IS wrong. But all is fare in a Just war against evil deatheaters.

Posted by Zorba Scourge of the Antelope9729 2016-09-15 09:27|| 2016-09-15 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, but what about murder in the name of Allah?

Pope says: "How good it would be if all religious confessions declared that killing in the name of God was satanic."

which is acknowledging that he only speaks for Christians and thus is counseling no reprisals more than anything else. Turn the other cheek and be beheaded.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-15 11:28|| 2016-09-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Depends upon who your god is doesn't it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-15 12:37|| 2016-09-15 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 The local Christians in the Mideast aren't doing too well at fighting back, are they.

Posted by KBK 2016-09-15 14:17|| 2016-09-15 14:17|| Front Page Top

#7 No religious following should be discriminated against, and the pope is clearly satanaphobic. We need a groundswell effort to get him fired and ruin his life.

Posted by AuburnTom 2016-09-15 15:54|| 2016-09-15 15:54|| Front Page Top

#8 It all went south when Jan Pavel Drugi bestowed that Papal kiss on a Holly Crayon - great man, but that should never have been done

Posted by Bov Flimbers 2016-09-15 21:52|| 2016-09-15 21:52|| Front Page Top

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