ABOVE: POPE BENEDICT XVI AS A HITLER YOUTH
DERANGED POPE FRANCIS LIKENS TRUMP TO HITLER, WARNS OF "WALLS & BARBED WIRE"
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Mr. Bergoglio, tear down that Vatican wall!
The Pope said these things as Trump was being inaugurated. His point was unmistakable. He said: “The Germans at that time also wanted to protect themselves with ‘walls and barbed wire so that others cannot take away their identity.'”
This is an extraordinarily strained analogy. Hitler after 1940 kept the Jews from emigrating and put them in concentration camps so he could kill them. Trump wants to stop immigration from jihad terror hotbeds in order to keep Islamic jihadists from killing us. For the Pope to liken the two shows that he is more of a shallow Leftist ideologue than any kind of spiritual or moral authority.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Pope warns against populism and ‘saviors’ like Hitler,” AFP, January 21, 2017:
…In an hour-long interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais conducted as Donald Trump was being sworn in as US president, the pontiff also condemned the idea of using walls and barbed wire to keep out foreigners.______________________________________________________
“Of course crises provoke fears and worries,” he said but added that for him “the example of populism in the European sense of the word is Germany in 1933.
“Germany… was looking for a leader, someone who would give her back her identity and there was a little man named Adolf Hitler who said ‘I can do it’.”
“Hitler did not steal power,” the pope said. “He was elected by his people and then he destroyed his people.”
The Germans at that time also wanted to protect themselves with “walls and barbed wire so that others cannot take away their identity,” he said.
“The case of Germany is classic,” he said, adding that Hitler gave them a “deformed identity and we know what it produced.”
Pope Francis however underscored that it was too early to pass judgement on Trump.
“Let’s see. Let’s see what he does and then we will evaluate,” he said.