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Thursday, 15 January 2015
Wait, did the Pope just say it's OK to punch someone who insults your mother?
Remember when Jesus said "turn the other cheek?"
Pope Francis must've been absent from CCD that day.
Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of expression, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith.
Francis spoke about the Paris terror attacks while en route to the Philippines, defending free speech as not only a fundamental human right but a duty to speak one's mind for the sake of the common good.
But he said there were limits.
By way of example, he referred to Alberto Gasparri, who organizes papal trips and was standing by his side aboard the papal plane.
"If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch," Francis said, throwing a pretend punch his way. "It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others."
Whoa.
Violence as a first resort is "normal?" You insult my mother and I can punch you in the nose? You satirize my religion and I can kill you and 16 of your friends?
Did the Pope really just say that?
I would very much like to believe that His Holiness was misquoted.
Because the way I learned the catechism, the proper response to someone who insults your mother is to pray for their soul to be healed.
Sticks and stones, and all that.
By the same token, violence is the proper response, indeed the just response, to protracted, willful, systematic violence. Like, say, to the massacre of Christians by ISIS and Boko Haram. Or to the jihad waged by Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.
So I await Pope Francis' reconstitution of the Knights Templar. And if we're
gonna start bustin' heads, we sure could use a man like
Charles Martel again.
Posted at 14:27 by Chris Wysocki
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