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Source: NBC News
Pope Francis: Killing 'in the Name of God is Satanic'
by CLAUDIO LAVANGA
ROME Pope Frances urged religious leaders on Wednesday to tell their followers that any killing carried out in the name of God is "satanic."
The pontiff made the remarks during a Mass honoring Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old priest murdered by ISIS-supporting teenagers who stormed his church in northern France in July.
"Killing in the name of God is satanic," the pope told the ceremony in the Vatican's Domus Santa Marthae chapel. "I would like it if all religions said this, 'To kill in the name of God is satanic.'"
Dozens pilgrims from France attended the Mass.
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anoNY42
(670 posts)Guess those Israelites in the OT who stoned adulterers to death were acting out their love for Satan?
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)niyad
(112,434 posts)inquisition? the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the new world? are you ******* kidding me, frankie????
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Although even today their treatment of women and non-cis/non-straight people has led to loss of life.
niyad
(112,434 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,156 posts)(and I accept that it is)-
then killing in the name of the state is (fill in the blank).
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)I'd say killing in the name of anything is just wrong. It's even more wrong when done in the name of religious belief, considering the privilege religion enjoys in today's society.
Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 15, 2016, 07:23 AM - Edit history (1)
Or 2) he knows it, and wants to radically change it.
(DU members? Try to make and securely archive, off line, an actual copy of the video, not just a link. Conservatives are eventually going to be frantic about getting this video to disappear)..