“A person who thinks only about building walls… and not of building bridges, is not Christian.”
A Brief One from Doug Draper
Posted February 18th, 2016 on Niagara At Large
As you no doubt know, Republican presidential hopeful and billionaire businessman Donald Trump has been vowing ad nausea to build a “big, beautiful wall” between his United States and Mexico to keep, in his words, all of the “rapists”, “murderers” and “drug dealers” out.
Trump has also repeatedly raised the idea of banning all Muslims from entering the United States on the grounds that some of them may be terrorists.
This February 18th, 2016, none other than the head of the Roman Catholic Church – Pope Francis – weighed in on this bluster during a briefing with reporters on his way back to Rome following a six-day visit to Mexico.
“A person,” said the Pope, “who thinks only about building walls… and not of building bridges, is not Christian.”
Trump, being Trump, immediately shot back, saying, he once liked the Pope, but isn’t sure anymore. “A religious leader questioning someone elses faith is disgraceful,” said d the Donald.
Another one of America’s infamous blowhard, Rush Limbaugh, added this on his syndicated radio show; “Given the Pope’s political leanings, I’m surprised he’s not out campaigning for Bernie Sanders (a Democratic presidential hopeful and self-declared ‘democratic socialist’). Then again,” added Limbaugh in his usual sarcastic style, “maybe Sanders is too right wing for the Pope.”
Click on th video immediately below to watch what the Pope had to sayand then, below that, feel free to weigh in with your own views, remembering that Niagara At Large only posts comments by individuals who identify themselves by their real first and last names.
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I hope, given enough rope, Trump will hang himself. Every smart ass remark and attack he makes will lose him votes whether he thinks “he could shoot someone in Times Square and get away with it” or not. He will always retain some idiot support but anyone sane will eventually think he’s crossed a line.
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I hope he at least wins the Republican nomination. That way the U.S. will be forced to do a massive conscience search, on exactly which way they want their future to lean. Some of it might be bluff and bluster, but will they really want to take a chance that Donald Trump could actually be everything he portrays himself to be? As in the days when Ronald Reagan was poised to take over for Jimmy Carter, opposing global forces might do a gut check too. At the least, these are very interesting times shaping up.
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