Pope Leo: God ‘does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war’

[Riverboat]

I wasn't prepared for this much disagreement with the Pope when he quoted the Bible.

Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition go hand-in-hand.

[Highlander]

Context, or perceived context, matters.

[Stella]

God listening to prayers is not conditional.

Scripture disagrees with you.

Proverbs 28 9 When one will not listen to the law, even one’s prayers are an abomination.

James 4 2 You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.

Isa 59 Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save,
nor his ear too dull to hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.

[Student]

In each of those cases, Stella, God listened. His answers might not have been what the prayer requested - perhaps. You want to discuss the value (or righteousness?) or the prayers?

Islam is clearly an abomination. Authoritarian control over an entire people, also an abomination.