[ben_w]

Yeah, and the ten commandments in the New Testament don't give exceptions for "death penalty" and "war"*, that doesn't stop Christians from signing up for the military or even seeing a contradiction.

* on the former, NT has an example of the crowd who want to stone someone, instead being convinced to leave; and the latter NT contains the origin of the phrase "to go the extra mile", which is about helping foreign soldiers occupying your territory and ordering you to help them (Matthew 5:41)

[dttze]

Just because most Christians are hypocrites that worship Mammon doesn't mean the Ayatollah is.

[ben_w]

"Ayatollah" is more like "Bishop" in this analogy. Bishop of Rome doesn't like AI, news reports this, nothing changes.

[dttze]

To be frank, you are ignorant on the topic and should do more research. This isn't the Catholic Church; he is the supreme leader of Iran and the commander in chief of their military. What he says goes.

[ben_w]

The Bishop of Rome is more commonly (but technically incorrectly) known as "the Pope".

There are thousands of Ayatollah, you mean specifically the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Catholic Church used to be powerful, but it too has had mismatches between even ex cathedra teachings and what people actually do: see also US politics having occasional arguments about if being Catholic disqualified someone from politics because they submitted to the Bishop of Rome over the people.

And that's without the way government leaders often tell bold faced lies (and less obvious lies, too).