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>Innocent III vs. Benedict XVI — Use Scripture as Your Standard Instead
>”Here I wish to affirm once more that religion can never justify intolerance or war. We cannot kill in God’s name!” (Benedict XVI, Verbum Domini, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, September 30, 2010, Part 3) Desiring with an ardent desire to liberate the Holy Land from the hands of the ungodly, we decree with the advice of…
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Can Religions Justify War?
“Religions can never justify intolerance and war.” – Benedict XVI (according to this article) UPDATE Citation/Quotation from Authoritative Source: “Here I wish to affirm once more that religion can never justify intolerance or war. We cannot kill in God’s name!” (Benedict XVI, Verbum Domini, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, September 30, 2010, Part 3) Compare to the…
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Response to Victor Reppert on 1 Samuel 15
Victor Reppert wrote (not to me … but it is also relevant to me): How can you be so strongly pro-life on abortion and also defend killing “babes in arms” as enjoined by I Samuel 15? I answer:a) Killing is ordinarily a lawful and just part of warfare; andb) More particularly, Israel’s genocide of the…