Woke Pope Leo XIV ignorantly reduced the distinction between good and evil with a simplistic John Lennon-esque worldview where he imagined a world without wars, prompting immediate backlash as it undid both the Christian reconquest of the Holy Lands during several centuries of the Crusades and parts of Europe as well as seemed to equate Iran’s regime of terror with America’s quest for eventual peace in the region.
Sparking the internet furor was a childish video released from the Chicagoan-turned-Pontiff’s social media account on X, where he imagined a ‘world without wars’ or the ‘terror of approaching explosions.’ He then called for disarmament and peace.
“Would you imagine what a world without wars would be like, a world without the terror of approaching explosions, without rocket alarms shattering the silence of the night? Please join me this month in prayer for disarmament and peace, let’s pray and share with others,” the Pope implored in the video.
In addition to the video, the Pope’s social media timeline has recently been replete with similar messaging ever since the Trump administration took bold steps to prevent the nation of Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. The Pope’s call for peace would seem to suggest an nuclear-armed Iran is preferable to the current conflict, with no apparent regard for what would happen next.
“War divides; hope unites. Arrogance tramples upon others; love lifts up. Idolatry blinds us; the living God enlightens. All it takes is a little faith, a mere “crumb” of faith, in order to face this dramatic hour in history together — as humanity and alongside humanity,” one post stated.
“Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood,” said another.
“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,” a third post declared.
The consistent messaging that conflict is bad has prompted users on the same platform where he pushes this messaging to wonder why the Pope doesn’t direct his message toward doers of evil and harm rather than toward the parties trying to stop it. It’s been similar to his one-sided messaging toward Western nations where he says it’s a moral obligation for citizens of prosperous civilization to welcome untold millions of immigrants, but never setting a moral standard for the immigrants themselves.
If America were to stop attacking Iran, as the Pope appears outraged over, then where is the same outrage toward Iranian aggression that prompted the attacks in the first place? And where is the outrage of the treatment of its own sovereigns? These are the questions many on social media have asked in the wake of the naive takes from the Pope.