Slain because they are Christian?

The Non-Prophets, Episode 22.28.2 featuring Kelley Laughlin, Kara Griffin, Helen Greene and Teo el Ateo Pope Francis asks Church to identify 21st-century martyrs slain ‘only because they are Christians’, AP...

The Non-Prophets, Episode 22.28.2 featuring Kelley Laughlin, Kara Griffin, Helen Greene and Teo el Ateo

Pope Francis asks Church to identify 21st-century martyrs slain ‘only because they are Christians’, AP News, By Frances D’emilio, July 5, 2023 https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-francis-martyrs-saints-fe125ca264867e14770cd407f5c4be18?utm_source=RecoReel&utm_medium=articlePage&utm_id=Taboola

Pope Francis has set up a special commission tasked with identifying those he calls the new Martyrs of the 21st century. Christians who have been slain in some cases simply for attending to mass or for helping the poor. It's sad that people died for such reasons but making their death a thing to celebrate is sick.
At the pope’s direction, the commission’s members will research cases of non-Catholic Christian martyrs, too. Why stop at capitalizing on your own martyrs when you can monetize someone else’s dead too?
In what is a rather cynical effort, he made an announcement during an audience with the Coptic Orthodox pope, where the Vatican formally recognized 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast day. A gesture aimed at forging unity between them and Orthodox churches.
The church celebrates Jubilee year in 2025 too so this is a whole big celebration of people dying and being viewed as heroes for something that you cannot prove even exists is really disturbing, but very profitable. They are expecting over 35 million pilgrims to arrive to Rome in order to celebrate and spend their money.
There seems to be a consistent interest in celebrating the Macabre coming out of the Vatican. This concept of martyrdom is especially pernicious in that it seems to be preying on the devotion and the fears of an afterlife for their the most faithful believers.
It's making people believe that their current life is worthless in comparison to some eternal reward that you'll get if you become a martyr. We have already seen what happens with that mentality. If you're able to convince people that whatever happens to them in this life is nothing compared to an eternal reward you can convince people to do just about anything even if it's against their own interests or their own survival.
This is the height of manipulation and disrespect for people's basic humanity, that's something that the church is doing to its own followers.
It also promotes the idea that Christians are being persecuted. This gives them an end-time complex. Christians are very good at feeling persecuted, where in many cases they are just being told to stop being evil.
The Catholic Church is known for their own terrible acts, their newest fixation of death and blood sacrifice is not helping. Calling for believers to see the reasons of life and of good by drawing inspiration of martyrs can only end poorly. How do you choose life when your example is death?

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