{"id":23200,"date":"2026-10-11T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23200"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:04:20","slug":"christian-nationalists-are-wrong-about-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23200","title":{"rendered":"Christian nationalists are wrong about the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some say the Pope doesn&#8217;t know the Bible because the Bible supports the death penalty. But, the Bible has all sorts of dos and do nots that almost all Christians ignore. The Pope is going deeper than hypocritically and inconsistently following something just because it is in the Bible. He is using reason and theological principles combined with the Bible to determine what is right and wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those who think the Bible started the seeds of human dignity that later led to the abolition of slavery even though God is clearly cool with slavery in the Bible, then you don&#8217;t have a consistent argument saying that because God commanded, or was cool with, the death penalty in Biblical times, we must be for the death penalty now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pope is using the same Christian argument for overriding the Bible&#8217;s pro-slavery passages to override its pro-death penalty passages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christian nationalists are wrong about the Pope\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-2h273d-Ak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say the Pope doesn&#8217;t know the Bible because the Bible supports the death penalty. But, the Bible has all sorts of dos and do nots that almost all Christians ignore. The Pope is going deeper than hypocritically and inconsistently following something just because it is in the Bible. He is using reason and theological principles combined with the Bible to determine what is right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>For those who think the Bible started the seeds of human dignity that later led to the abolition of slavery even though God is clearly cool with slavery in the Bible, then you don&#8217;t have a consistent argument saying that because God commanded, or was cool with, the death penalty in Biblical times, we must be for the death penalty now. <\/p>\n<p>The Pope is using the same Christian argument for overriding the Bible&#8217;s pro-slavery passages to override its pro-death penalty passages. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l-2h273d-Ak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[606,60,1061,1478,57],"class_list":["post-23200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bible","tag-christianity","tag-death-penalty","tag-pope","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23201,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23200\/revisions\/23201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}