From her working-class roots in Rome's Garbatella district to debates over immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, and Italy's future, France 24's reporters investigate the impact of the "Meloni Effect" on everyday Italians.
A story by Natalia Mendoza, Tommaso Marro, Bernard Bedarida and Charlotte Davan Wetton.
Giorgia Meloni insists that she is a Christian. But where are her Christian values? Clearly, they are missing. It is impossible to be a good Christian without practising compassion and mercy for the downtrodden and the marginalised. Jesus sought out society’s outcasts and gave them centre-space in his teachings and ministry. Those were the poor, the sick, women, children, and sinners. So, trying to practise Christianity and making life difficult for the marginalised and downtrodden is not in accordance with the will of Jesus, ergo, not in accordance with the will of God.
If we are to be considered believers in Christianity, then we are all to believe that we are God’s children. If we are born a particular way with particular characteristics, with particular likes and dislikes, with particular inclinations and disinclinations, and in particular social circumstances, then it is because God created us to be that way.
No good God would want any one of his children to be treated badly. This is not rocket science; rather, it is common sense!
It is high time for those who espouse their adherence to Christianity to live by its teachings. They need to refrain from making up their own interpretations. There is but one version of Christianity, and that is Jesus Christ’s version! — © Mark Alexander
