Why would ANY God listen to prayers to kill some of God’s own children?
Apr 04, 2026
(Photo by Steve Villano, taken in Assisi, Italy, birthplace of St. Francis (1181-1226) and a major Catholic pilgrimage site.)
100 years ago, when the KKK was at the peak of its power in the United States, when hooded-haters marched through the streets of Washington, DC, cloaked in their white sheets, 50,000 strong, and wrote the Xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Asian, anti-Italian Immigration Act of 1924, they despised Catholics as much as they hated all non-Christians and and non-Whites.
Messianic Nationalist & violent Christians who dominated the Klan, crusaded against the 1928 Presidential Candidacy of NYS Governor Al Smith, the first Catholic candidate to run for President. Their campaign against Smith was vile, and its very viscousness and vituperative attacks upon people of one specific faith, set the stage for Adolf Hitler’s genocidal attacks against the Jews just a few years laters. In fact, Hitler and Nazi lawyers in the 1930’s acknowledged that it was American Jim Crow laws in some 30 States—crafted by the KKK against Black people—which were their model for the discriminatory Nuremberg Laws against Jews.
Fast forward to today, when the KKK-hatched Immigration Act of 1924 is still the Bible for Stephen Miller and modern-day American Nazis, and when the first Secretary of Defense (or War) in 250 years of US History has held Messianic, Nationalist Christian prayer services on Federal, tax-payer paid for land, at the Department Defense (or War), and pointedly excluded Catholics–carrying forward the KKK’s continuing hatred of 1.3 billion fellow Christians.
At the same time, few Popes of the world’s 1.3 BILLION Cathollcs have been as Progressive and devout followers of the universal teachings of love–and the humanitarian actions–of Jesus Christ as the last two, Pope Francis, and Pope Leo–both of whom have been insanely vilified by Far Right Messianic Nationalist Christians, in the US and abroad.
Pope Leo has directly challenged the crimes vs. humanity committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, and aimed at Christians & Muslims in Lebanon, and has strongly opposed the US/Israel War in Iran. He has directly chastised Trump, US Secretary of Defense (War)Pete Hegseth, and other Messianic, Nationalist, KKK-Christians for justifying the War as a Holy War of Christians & Jews vs. Muslims–and praying to their God to “kill” some of God’s own children. Whose God would sanction such slaughter?
What could possibly go wrong when Messianic, Nationalist and Violent Kahanist Jews, team up with Messianic, Nationalist, Violent KKK-loving Christians and go to war with Messianic, Nationalist, Violent Muslims?
Pope Leo has been fearless & relentless in exposing and criticizing this insanity and perversion of religion, and in making clear that the Christ he follows in his acts of humanity, kindness and compassion, must never be used as justification for War and/or Mass Murder.
It’s why Hegseth, and his fraudulent , Nationalist, Far Right KKK-Christians are waging their Jihad against anyone who actually follows the teachings–and actions–of Christ, and has intentionally excluded Catholics from prayer breakfasts–even on Good Friday.
Tomorrow, on Easter Sunday, the holiest day on the Christian Calendar, maybe the KKK-Christian Nationalists will see a glimmer of the Light. I doubt it, since their violent hatred–especially of Catholics going back more than acentury, or of humane members of any faith who disagree with them–thrives in darkness, feeding upon itself and the corpses of others.
Easter Sunday may be a celebration of rebirth and Resurrection for devout Catholics and other Christians, but for the ultra-nationalist, Messianic KKK-Christians, it’s simply another day in their continuing crusade to crucify anyone different, who honors love ahead of hate, or peace ahead of war.