“If one of my friends says a swear word to me … he’ll get a punch! It’s normal!”

 

A)  The text of the speech by J.M.Bergoglio:

Question: «Holy Father, during Mass yesterday morning you spoke of religious freedom as a fundamental human right. But in showing respect for the various religions, how far can freedom of expression go, [that freedom of expression] which is itself a fundamental human right?»
Answer of Bergoglio: « We have the obligation to speak openly, to enjoy this freedom, but without offending others. It is true one cannot respond violently, but if my good friend Dr Gasbarri here insults my mother, he’ll get punched for it! This is normal! It is normal. We cannot provoke others, we cannot insult their faith, we cannot mock their faith…..»” (Answer of Bergoglio to the question of Sébastien Maillard for the French journalists during the press conference onboard the flight from Colombo to manila – Papal Flight Thursday, January 15, 2015)

 

B) References to Scriptures:

But I say this to you: offer no resistance to the wicked. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well” (Mat 5:39)

Anyone who says ‘I love God’ and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother” (1Jo 4:20-21)

 

C) Comment:

Christ never said that it is “normal” to punch a brother. Christ came to overcome, with the Supreme Law of brotherly love, the so-called law of retaliation, which considered and justified the ”eye for eye, tooth for tooth” (the so-called proportionality of defence compared to the offense, which is the basis of still existing legal systems in many States).

Christ has gone further. Christ’s Love overcomes and transcends any human law, as much as it may be right. God’s love is limitless: overturns and overcomes human rules to allow humanity to BE and to arise them in order to make them become as He is. This is the greatness of Christ.

This is the essence and the substance of His teachings, that Bergoglio once again totality contradicts.

Therefore, those who want to deify themselves, will follow Christ; those who want to “normalize” themselves will follow Bergoglio.