Final note: Two things can be true.

Islam references Jesus, but not as Messiah or Son.  So, it’s not the same claim.

And I’m not defending Iran.

My point is simpler:
This is about invoking the God revealed in Yeshua to justify violence.

That’s a theological issue.

And it’s a pattern I’ve been calling out in parts of the white evangelical movement since 2015.

Yermin

Aren't they? Islamic theology incorporates Jesus.

US and Israeli military force is the only hope that Iranian civilians have of physically resisting the theologically-justified violence their state has been inflicting on them for decades. The Pope could reasonably argue that as Christians we shouldn't be repaying violence with more violence. When Iranian law threatens to kill anyone that converts from Islam to Catholicism, then carry that cross as Jesus did because our hope is in the resurrection and not this world.

But he doesn't mention the dead protesters at all. Instead he references the Iraq War. It practically spits in the face of everyone who tried to resist the regime peacefully. They were the peacemakers and they died for it. The Pope ignored them.

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Trump Isn’t Just Feuding With the Pope. He’s Contesting Moral Jurisdiction.

> Iran isn’t invoking Yeshua.

Aren't they? Islamic theology incorporates Jesus. 

US and Israeli military force is the only hope that Iranian civilians have of physically resisting the theologically-justified violence their state has been inflicting on them for decades. The Pope could reasonably argue that as Christians we shouldn't be repaying violence with more violence. When Iranian law threatens to kill anyone that converts from Islam to Catholicism, then carry that cross as Jesus did because our hope is in the resurrection and not this world.

But he doesn't mention the dead protesters at all. Instead he references the Iraq War. It practically spits in the face of everyone who tried to resist the regime peacefully. They were the peacemakers and they died for it. The Pope ignored them.