Pope Francis commemorates migrant dead at Lampedusa | Reuters:
Pope Leo tried to keep Attila out. This one mourns the dead of his army.
If you value Western Civilization, the Catholic Church --one of its historical pillars--is your enemy.
The same traitorous behavior of the American bishops and Church reflects the highminded death wish of Rome.
As my link above suggests, the Vatican should open its gates to a few thousand of these sainted poor the Pope loves so much.
One of dynamics of the highminded that I have become sensitive to is their basic dependence on those they look down upon as their moral inferiors. Keeping the world from falling into chaos is hard and grubby work, not done by gurus and prelates. They remind me of the teenager who, while utterly depended on the life his parents have given him, decides that they are clueless losers.
As the Church's Founder said, For the sons of this world are, in relation to their own generation, wiser than the sons of light.
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1 comment:
Glad I jumped the boat. I really wanted to like Francis, but something about him rubbed me the wrong way. Absurd and suicidal. If Catholicism is now part of the problem, what do we turn to? Evangelism is too emotion-based as opposed to reason-based to appeal to me. Protestantism is in a coma and on life support. Orthodoxy has the aesthetic power to keep me happy, but too obscure.
Perhaps a new form of Christianity must rise from the ashes? I would formulate it as a combination of early American Protestantism and medieval Catholicism, with some Gnostic and neopagan elements thrown in: The responses and words of the services would always be the same to ensure confidence when read, poetic yet not maudlin, speaking of the mysteries and realities of faith and life. The services, modeled on the Catholic mass, would be simple yet reverent, a cross between an Orthodox divine liturgy. Theology mostly traditional Catholic, with Gnostic mysticism thrown in. Use of pagan gods as archetypal symbols of deeper realities and comments on gender roles, with mythological heroes joining the ranks of saints as examples and warnings of behavior. Sexual doctrines would affirm the theologically transcendental potential of all sexual activity, but would point out that heterosexual acts are of special significance due to their procreative potential; homosexual acts and would be tolerated and unions even celebrated, but it would be clear that theses relationships are not equivalent to straight ones, and that their lack of children (gay adoption would not be allowed) means that their duties are to each other (monogamy mandatory, but infidelity forgivable!) and to society. Priests would have other jobs besides the priesthood, which they could not get a salary from, and to live amongst their congregations to avoid the ivory tower effect. Priestly celibacy has its symbolic and traditional support, but I am unsure of whether to keep it.
-Sean
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