Should the Pope Excommunicate All Catholic Politicians . . .

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The antics of politicians like Bill Clinton periodically remind us of the Sodom-and-Gomorrah lifestyle of so many politicians who are not unfamiliar with the deadly sin of lust, although the bigger sin is their lust to dominate other people and societies and their use of coercion and force to achieve these ends.

Murray Rothbard pointed out in his essay on "Just War" that the American Revolution and the South during the Civil War" were the ony two just (defensive) wars in American history that are consistent with the kind of Catholic just war theory initiated by St. Thomas Aquinas.  All other wars and military interventions in foreign countries have been aggressive wars pursued for economic gain on behalf of "the elite" who control government.  All politicians and others who have supported these wars are therefore accomplices in mass murder in one way or another.

Theft, intimidation, threats, censorship, imprisonment, and murder are all defining characteristics of the state and statists.  It is fine that Pope Francis has excommunicated the Mafia, but he actually supports and promotes far more sin and evil in the world with his Jesuit-inspired views of welfare statism and his incoherent and uneducated denunciations of peaceful exchange among consenting adults through the benefit of the international division of labor (i.e., capitalism).

Read on:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/06/thomas-dilorenzo/should-the-pope-excommunicate-all-catholic-politicians/