Post by Daniel on Feb 21, 2016 10:51:08 GMT -5
Pope Backs Down After Attempting to Shame Trump Over Immigration Views
By Abra Forman February 21, 2016
A war of words sprung up between GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Pope Francis over the weekend after Francis accused Donald of holding views which make him “not Christian.”
After a trip to Mexico, the pontiff sent a pointed shot at Trump’s announced plans to keep out immigrants by building a wall on the US-Mexico border, saying on Thursday, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
Trump quickly responded while campaigning at a golf course resort in South Carolina. “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful,” he said.
“No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man’s religion or faith,” he continued before going on to say that the Mexican government was using the Pope as a “pawn” and “should be ashamed of themselves for doing so, especially when so many lives are involved and illegal immigration is rampant and bad for the United States.”
Trump also warned that “if and when” ISIS attacks the Vatican, which “as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy”, the Pope would have only “wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened.”
The Vatican responded defensively to the media circus sparked by the feud, attempting to clarify Pope Francis’s remarks as general rather than specific to Trump.
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www.breakingisraelnews.com/61887/pope-walks-back-comment-saying-trump-not-a-christian-after-feud-sparks-media-circus-jerusalem/
By Abra Forman February 21, 2016
A war of words sprung up between GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Pope Francis over the weekend after Francis accused Donald of holding views which make him “not Christian.”
After a trip to Mexico, the pontiff sent a pointed shot at Trump’s announced plans to keep out immigrants by building a wall on the US-Mexico border, saying on Thursday, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
Trump quickly responded while campaigning at a golf course resort in South Carolina. “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful,” he said.
“No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man’s religion or faith,” he continued before going on to say that the Mexican government was using the Pope as a “pawn” and “should be ashamed of themselves for doing so, especially when so many lives are involved and illegal immigration is rampant and bad for the United States.”
Trump also warned that “if and when” ISIS attacks the Vatican, which “as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy”, the Pope would have only “wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened.”
The Vatican responded defensively to the media circus sparked by the feud, attempting to clarify Pope Francis’s remarks as general rather than specific to Trump.
continue reading
www.breakingisraelnews.com/61887/pope-walks-back-comment-saying-trump-not-a-christian-after-feud-sparks-media-circus-jerusalem/
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