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Sorry, not sorry, but this just isn't true, if by "bless" he means "approves of".
There are so many examples of the true version of "Holy War". In Hebrew this was called the Law of the Ban (Hebrew: charam). This means to devote to the complete and utter destruction--AT GOD'S COMMAND. Below, I have cited just a few examples.
Best cases: Pope is ignorant of the Holy Scriptures, or has simply forgotten and needs to re-dedicate himself to its study.
Worst case: He is relying on the devotion of Catholics to simply trust what he says/decrees. In this way he can manipulate them for whatever purposes he desires.
[Deu 7:1-2 CSB] 1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and he drives out many nations before you -- the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you -- 2 "and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
[Deu 20:10-17 CSB] 10 "When you approach a city to fight against it, make an offer of peace. 11 "If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you. 12 "However, if it does not make peace with you but wages war against you, lay siege to it. 13 "When the LORD your God hands it over to you, strike down all its males with the sword. 14 "But you may take the women, dependents, animals, and whatever else is in the city -- all its spoil -- as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. 15 "This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations. 16 "However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. 17 "You must completely destroy them -- the Hethite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite -- as the LORD your God has commanded you,
[Jos 6:15-17 CSB] 15 Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city seven times. 16 After the seventh time, the priests blew the rams' horns, and Joshua said to the troops, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city. 17 "But the city and everything in it are set apart to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers we sent.
[Jos 11:6-7, 9-11 CSB] 6 The LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for at this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to be killed before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots." 7 So Joshua and all his troops surprised them at the Waters of Merom and attacked them. ... 9 Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots. 10 At that time Joshua turned back, captured Hazor, and struck down its king with the sword, because Hazor had formerly been the leader of all these kingdoms. 11 They struck down everyone in it with the sword, completely destroying them; he left no one alive. Then he burned Hazor.
[1Sa 15:1-3 CSB] 1 Samuel told Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now, listen to the words of the LORD. 2 "This is what the LORD of Armies says: 'I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they opposed them along the way as they were coming out of Egypt. 3 "Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.' "
Sorry, not sorry, but this just isn't true, if by "bless" he means "approves of".
There are so many examples of the true version of "Holy War". In Hebrew this was called the Law of the Ban (Hebrew: charam). This means to devote to the complete and utter destruction--AT GOD'S COMMAND. Below, I have cited just a few examples.
Best cases: Pope is ignorant of the Holy Scriptures, or has simply forgotten and needs to re-dedicate himself to its study.
Worst case: He is relying on the devotion of Catholics to simply trust what he says/decrees. In this way he can manipulate them for whatever purposes he desires.
[Deu 7:1-2 CSB] 1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and he drives out many nations before you -- the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you -- 2 "and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
[Deu 20:10-17 CSB] 10 "When you approach a city to fight against it, make an offer of peace. 11 "If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you. 12 "However, if it does not make peace with you but wages war against you, lay siege to it. 13 "When the LORD your God hands it over to you, strike down all its males with the sword. 14 "But you may take the women, dependents, animals, and whatever else is in the city -- all its spoil -- as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. 15 "This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations. 16 "However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. 17 "You must completely destroy them -- the Hethite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite -- as the LORD your God has commanded you,
[Jos 6:15-17 CSB] 15 Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city seven times. 16 After the seventh time, the priests blew the rams' horns, and Joshua said to the troops, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city. 17 "But the city and everything in it are set apart to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers we sent.
[Jos 11:6-7, 9-11 CSB] 6 The LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for at this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to be killed before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots." 7 So Joshua and all his troops surprised them at the Waters of Merom and attacked them. ... 9 Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots. 10 At that time Joshua turned back, captured Hazor, and struck down its king with the sword, because Hazor had formerly been the leader of all these kingdoms. 11 They struck down everyone in it with the sword, completely destroying them; he left no one alive. Then he burned Hazor.
[1Sa 15:1-3 CSB] 1 Samuel told Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now, listen to the words of the LORD. 2 "This is what the LORD of Armies says: 'I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they opposed them along the way as they were coming out of Egypt. 3 "Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.' "
God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.
Currently, for that tiny percentage of CA voters who DO have to show ID (first-time voters who registered online), the barrier is REALLY low. I'm sure illegal aliens could NEVER get any of these documents.
'If we do not accept responsibility on an individual basis for our failure to safeguard our Republic, we will continue to blame the guy in office and go on to replace him with the next guy with the “correct” letter next to their name at the ballot box. This is the same thing we have been doing for decades, and it will continue to give us the same results.'