Weapons Manufacturers Can't Call Themselves Christian, Says Pope Francis

World | Reuters | Updated: June 22, 2015 10:47 IST

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Pope also criticised those who invest in weapons industries, saying "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another." (Agence France-Presse)

Turin, Italy:  People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.

Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.

"If you trust only men you have lost," he told the young people in a long, rambling talk about war, trust and politics after putting aside his prepared address.

"It makes me think of ... people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn't it?" he said to applause.

He also criticised those who invest in weapons industries, saying "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another."

Francis also built on comments he has made in the past about events during the first and second world wars.

He spoke of the "tragedy of the Shoah," using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.

"The great powers had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to the concentration camps like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, everybody. Why didn't they bomb (the railway lines)?"

Discussing World War One, he spoke of "the great tragedy of Armenia" but did not use the word "genocide".

Francis sparked a diplomatic row in April calling the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians 100 years ago "the first genocide of the 20th century," prompting Turkey to recall its ambassador to the Vatican.

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Story First Published: June 22, 2015 10:47 IST

tell that to Chris Grewe and his "free" memorial services

"there is nothing free in this world. We need to earn what we get."

Yes there is climate change. No we dont know who caused it?

Well lets figure it out because if we don't, its gonna get very wet in certain areas.

Also , If the pope wants to talk about climate change, then I think , as the voice of god, he should have more of a right to do it than you JEB do , to tell him he can't.  You, who, when exercising government power for unwarranted religious intrusions into the personal decisions of the people, invoked God as the justification, as if he knows God's intent, or as if the government has the right to give weight to religious decisions, even if those people are governed by a state that has no specific official religion and can make no laws respecting such.