The Pope goes after Trump for the Wall but there's walls around the Vatican

Time to revoke tax exempt status.

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This Pope has slipped up sufficiently in the last 48 hours by showing his anger and nasty face to his flock and with his mouth and what he said about walls , bridges and politics.

Shown everybody what they really are and let me tell you they are far worse than their flock can ever imagine.

Like all sheep they will follow the Pedo Catholic Church and the Pope over the cliff!!

a reply to: RP2SticksOfDynamite

To be plain, I don't really care if the Vatican has walls or not, but they have some nerve lecturing us if we decide we'd like some too.

It's sort of like someone who lives in a gated community telling me I shouldn't put a privacy fence up around my house.

a reply to: ketsuko

Germany had a wall 30 years ago

Didn't work so well

China has an even grander wall but that didn't work so well either, now it's just a tourist attraction

Israel has a wall and is much like the wall you'd get from Trump

Do you really want such an ugly thing like this on your land ?

a reply to: Discotech

If it works?

Then who cares what it looks like.

a reply to: ketsuko

The trouble with aid money and charitable donations, is that more often than not, less than half of the money donated or put aside for the purpose of aiding a particular areas population, actually gets spent on that area. That percentage drops even further, when there are paramilitary organisations abroad in the area, in the midst of turf battles and eager to make the most of whatever they can lay their hands on, to save money for more guns, bullets, and explosives, not to mention drugs.

This migh explain why it is still preferable to escape than to remain and also why it would be wrong to put up a wall. It has near to nothing to do with Christianity. It is to do with humanity. If you have some, you have to help these people, but if you do not, then by all means, get the bricklayers to work and be sharp about it.

originally posted by: MrSpad
The walls of the Vatican were built between 847AD and 1644AD. You know back when bandits, barbarians, and armies were common. Trying to compare that to building a wall (however completely ineffective) to keep out people looking for better lives in 2016 is beyond silly.

So is ISIS looking for a better life here or are they on the level of "bandits, barbarians, and armies"? Granted, there are people who are looking for a better life, the majority not legally. ISIS and terrorists are not in the "better life" category.

originally posted by: Discotech
a reply to: ketsuko

Germany had a wall 30 years ago

Didn't work so well

China has an even grander wall but that didn't work so well either, now it's just a tourist attraction

Israel has a wall and is much like the wall you'd get from Trump

Do you really want such an ugly thing like this on your land ?

If it means more security and protection, ya.

The Pope is correct. It's not the Christian thing to do, to build a wall and shut out people who are suffering. And Trump is not Christian. Was there ever any doubt of that?

originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: UnBreakable

He didn't build the wall...

No, but I bet he enjoys the benefit of the security it provides. The Vatican has enough treasures within it's walls. I'm sure he can afford to remodel and take down the wall if he feels that strongly about it.

So as long as it coming out of your American tax dollars...

Btw, there that country right below you guys having people getting there head chopped by groups, who aren't really religious, but they seem pretty close inspiring fear and terror. O and I bet some of those people are Christians too, might wanna send some roid raged soldiers and cops to release that testosterone to bust some head so they can be glorified heroes ...And it a viable excuse for war too, might bring up your guys dollar too.

O and God forbid if a zombie apocalypse ever happened.

originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
The Pope is correct. It's not the Christian thing to do, to build a wall and shut out people who are suffering. And Trump is not Christian. Was there ever any doubt of that?

And you know Trump is not a Christian? Source please. Thanks in advance.

a reply to: ketsuko

Walls keep people out, they also keep people in

be careful what you wish for, it may come to bite you back in the rear

O and there Drugs in Mexico to...They have weed.

The Pope Mobile has walls.
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a reply to: neoholographic

The Vatican is a country. A whole, independent soverign nation inside Rome, Italy. The wall denotes the borders within the city (rome). Enter it and youre in a separate country. Even though you are also in Italy.

Quite different building a northern dividing wall, and one circular one to denote when one has entered a different nation (the Vatican City).

Each day, through its walls, the Vatican is open to all. A wall between us and Mexico would be to regulate who comes in and why and for how long.

Both different ideas.

originally posted by: mysterioustranger
Each day, through its walls, the Vatican is open to all.

Mostly correct, they do have a dress code to get on the other side of the wall.

a reply to: UnBreakable

I would start with the fact that he sees fit to promote the acquisition of vast wealth by a minority of morally retarded individuals as a good start in compiling the evidence, and by that I mean that he is an ideological capitalist. Good capitalists know that it is a dirty thing, capitalism, that it necessitates a certain amount of poverty, for a certain percentage of the population it manages, and that without that poverty it could not function.

Everyone who benefits in a capitalist nation, but fails to remember their place, that they could just as easily have wound up being in the buffer zone as opposed to on the train carriage, and especially those who become obscenely wealthy without paying respect to those less fortunate, genuine, everlasting, and not at all fake respect, needs to change their ways.

It is one thing to suck the life out of a person, and quite another not to appreciate the opportunity.

originally posted by: UnBreakable
And you know Trump is not a Christian? Source please. Thanks in advance.

99% of the time that I state facts here, I include a source link. Let me just explain that if I don't include a source, most of what I say here is my opinion.

I was raised in a Christian home, and I have studied Christianity extensively. I know the tenets and teachings of Christianity. The 'source' is my opinion. I agree with the Pope that Donald Trump is not Christian.

originally posted by: windword
a reply to: neoholographic

When the Pope goes after Ted Cruz, maybe then I'll pay attention.

ahahah This is getting humorous..