For those with religious connections, this is a season of celebration of rebirth, with festivals including Eid, Passover, and Easter falling around the same time.
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"'He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.' Archbishop Timothy Broglio — head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, one of the most conservative voices in the American Catholic hierarchy — told CBS that under just war theory, the war on Iran is not justified, and aligned himself explicitly with the pope."
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/14"The juxtaposition of Trump’s Easter Truth Social post and Pope Leo’s Urbi et Orbi message has dominated international coverage of Day 37, confirmed this session via Reuters, NBC News, Al-Monitor, and The National. The contrast between the two is being reported not as political commentary but as a documented factual record:"
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"The juxtaposition of Trump’s Easter Truth Social post and Pope Leo’s Urbi et Orbi message has dominated international coverage of Day 37, confirmed this session via Reuters, NBC News, Al-Monitor, and The National. The contrast between the two is being reported not as political commentary but as a documented factual record:"
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/15"one man posted profanity threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure on the holiest morning of the Christian calendar; another man, also American, also Christian, speaking from the world’s most prominent religious platform, asked him to stop."
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@wdlindsy The Israeli leadership seems to not agree.
@Charlesberkow Apparently not. But to my way of thinking, that only underscores the point Roginsky is making.
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"one man posted profanity threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure on the holiest morning of the Christian calendar; another man, also American, also Christian, speaking from the world’s most prominent religious platform, asked him to stop."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/16"WHAT AMERICAN READERS NEED TO KNOW: On Easter Sunday morning, while the world’s Catholics were gathering in Rome to hear the first American pope call for an end to the Iran war, the President of the United States was posting profanity on social media threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants and water infrastructure on Tuesday."
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"WHAT AMERICAN READERS NEED TO KNOW: On Easter Sunday morning, while the world’s Catholics were gathering in Rome to hear the first American pope call for an end to the Iran war, the President of the United States was posting profanity on social media threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants and water infrastructure on Tuesday."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/17"He called Iran’s leaders 'crazy bastards.' He signed off with a sarcastic invocation of Allah. He skipped church. The deadline is tomorrow. International law experts say the threatened strikes would constitute war crimes. The pope — an American, a Christian, the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics — has now directly appealed to Trump twice. The rest of the world is watching to see what Tuesday brings."
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"On Easter Sunday, the president posted profanity and skipped church. The pope asked him to stop the war. …
The theological divergence between the two most prominent American Christians on the world stage is complete."
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #PopeLeo #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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@wdlindsy Being white or an oopaloompa does not mean the person is Christian.
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@wdlindsy Being white or an oopaloompa does not mean the person is Christian.
@BLTpizza Does anyone credibly suggest the contrary?
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@BLTpizza Does anyone credibly suggest the contrary?
@wdlindsy Some people in the media keep referring to trump as a Christian without any evidence to support the claim.
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"This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now."
~ Steven Beschloss
Agree. Those who are standing on the sidelines watching trump disintegrate - and choosing to do nothing - are complicit. He is now the most unwell and dangerous person alive.
When I first saw this post I thought it was parody, a joke. But no. This is actually a post by the President of the United States. -
@wdlindsy Some people in the media keep referring to trump as a Christian without any evidence to support the claim.
@BLTpizza I think the media decision is that it would be unprofessional to weigh in on discussions of what constitutes authentic Christianity. Those are discussions that need to go on within Christianity itself. Also, it has to be recognized that all sorts of beliefs and behaviors have claimed to represent Christianity over the centuries: some have used Christianity to justify "holy" wars, others have adamantly refused the path of violence, etc.
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"On Easter Sunday, the president posted profanity and skipped church. The pope asked him to stop the war. …
The theological divergence between the two most prominent American Christians on the world stage is complete."
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #PopeLeo #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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@wdlindsy it is patently ridiculous to call Trump a Christian. He doesn’t self identify that way and he shows no evidence that he follows the Way of Jesus. This is not a correct equivalence from Martinez.
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@wdlindsy it is patently ridiculous to call Trump a Christian. He doesn’t self identify that way and he shows no evidence that he follows the Way of Jesus. This is not a correct equivalence from Martinez.
@wdlindsy I have lots of bones to pick with other actual Christians, including the pope. But Trump is a not a Christian. One of these men leads a church. The other can destroy humanity by force and destroy life on earth. This is not a mere philosophical divergence of views. The Christian thing to do is to remove Trump from power
He is an unrepentant rapist, felon and war criminal. He can change his ways, but he needs to do that work on himself away from weapons of mass destruction.
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@BLTpizza I think the media decision is that it would be unprofessional to weigh in on discussions of what constitutes authentic Christianity. Those are discussions that need to go on within Christianity itself. Also, it has to be recognized that all sorts of beliefs and behaviors have claimed to represent Christianity over the centuries: some have used Christianity to justify "holy" wars, others have adamantly refused the path of violence, etc.
@wdlindsy I can respect the journalistic rules.
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