{"id":10165,"date":"2016-07-29T17:52:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=10165"},"modified":"2016-07-29T17:52:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:52:44","slug":"pope-francis-religions-dont-want-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/pope-francis-religions-dont-want-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: \u2018Religions Don\u2019t Want War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10166\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jacques-Hamel-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Hamel\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jacques-Hamel-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jacques-Hamel.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Cross-posted on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/438387\/pope-francis-religions-dont-want-war\"> Corner.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day after an elderly Catholic priest is butchered in his church by Islamic extremists, Pope Francis offers up his explanation (my emphasis added):.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/latest-pope-francis-departs-poland-40919864\">ABC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pope Francis says the world is at war, but is stressing that it\u2019s not a war of religions.\u00a0 Francis spoke to reporters on the papal plane en route from Rome to Poland, where he began a five-day visit Wednesday. Asked about the slaying of an 85-year-old priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday, Francis replied: \u201cthe real word is war\u2026yes, it\u2019s war. This holy priest died at the very moment he was offering a prayer for all the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on: \u201cI only want to clarify, when I speak of war, I am really speaking of war \u2026 <strong>a war of interests, for money, resources. \u2026 I am not speaking of a war of religions, religions don\u2019t want war.<\/strong> The others want war.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the <em>Independent<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/normandy-church-attack-adel-kermich-isis-france-saint-etienne-du-rouvray-jacques-hamel-a7157316.html\">account<\/a> of the murder of Father Hamel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the terrorists had a handgun and began to shout \u201cAllah Akbar\u201d and the other had a fake bomb with a timer\u2026 They then gave a \u201csermon in Arabic\u201d at the altar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That looks like an act of religious war to me.<\/p>\n<p>And as for the Pope\u2019s claim that \u201creligions don\u2019t want war\u201d, I can only suggest that he spend more time with the history books and, for that matter, some of the less benign passages in\u00a0various sacred texts.<\/p>\n<p>The final insult both to the truth\u00a0and thereby to the victim is Francis\u2019 resort (yet again) to conspiracy theory, with his references to some shadowy conflict over \u201cinterests, for money, for resources\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Demagogues typically resort to conspiracism out of delusion or malice, as a device to mislead and, often, to draw the audience\u2019s attention away from what is really going on.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner. The day after an elderly Catholic priest is butchered in his church by Islamic extremists, Pope Francis offers up his explanation (my emphasis added):. ABC: Pope Francis says the world is at war, but is stressing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/pope-francis-religions-dont-want-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[456,804,1169,998,403,684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10167,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165\/revisions\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}