But that's not what I want to discuss this morning: one thing which has been on my mind is the Pope.
First, an image: picture chief-of-security Worf on the bridge of the Enterprise, expressing more concern for the Romulan vessel about to blast them out of the stars, versus his own ship and crewmates-- for ideological reasons, or because it would get him praise from Romulan extremists on The Twatter.
That's Beijing Biden. That's Cameltoe. That's Chuckie Schumer. That's Nancy Pelosi. That's the CEOs of billion dollar corporations, including my own employer.
These people have no loyalty or moral fabric at all, other than profit and power. They will gladly throw their own people under the bus if it will make them a dime-- outsource, vilify, support domestic terrorists like "BLM" and other racist, anti-white agitators, then import cheap labor and voters via open borders to replace the old, uncooperative-with-their-ideology constituency and employees.
The reason people flock to Donald Trump is because he his platform is based on putting America's interests first: he's like the actual Worf from "Star Trek: The Next Generation"-- the ultimate champion of the ship and its safety.
What does this have to do with the Pope? He should be the ultimate champion of Catholics, the Catholic Faith, the Catholic People, and Catholic Values. Instead, he goes out of his way to throw Catholics and Catholic tradition under the bus, expressing more concern for the people who hate Catholics, than the Catholics themselves!
- He's said repeatedly that Catholics should "apologize to gays". When a Muslim terrorist shot up the Orlando night club, he blamed Christians for not being nice enough to gays. He even once said of gays, "who am I to judge?" Who are you? The Catholic Pope, for Pete's sake!
- He is repeatedly pushing for a one world government, even though that is quite literally a key facet of the "end of times", as described in Revelation.
- He has said that atheists can go to heaven, which is completely and utterly incorrect according to almost four thousand years of scripture and theological analysis.
- He repeatedly appears to support paganism: take a look at idol worship footage like this, or his Nancy Pelosi-like "we need to listen to the cry of the Earth" quotations.
- He repeatedly endorses open borders, in a total distortion of scripture. This is one theological question which I actually know something about, having worked my way through much of the Old Testament: when God told the Israelis to leave food in their fields for "aliens", that was absolutely no endorsement of deliberately sending foreign armies into the Israelite camp, to rape and pillage. When God made his Covenant with the Israelis, he told them to defeat and throw out those who were then in the "land of milk and honey".
- He requires a so-called "green pass" for pilgrims to enter Vatican City. This is another Revelation-endorsement: mark of the devil.
- In response to the Muslim terrorist-perpetrated slaughter of Charlie Hedbo, he had this to say: "...if Mr. Gasparri, my great friend, says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. This is normal... you cannot provoke, you cannot insult other people's faiths, you cannot make fun of faith."
- I've saved these for last, as they are hearsay from an uncorroborated source, but: a prominent Italian journalist was told by the Pope that the latter does not believe that Christ was God-incarnate, and that there is in fact no hell-- souls just "disappear".
People want more Trump from the Pope, and less Beijing Biden-- and you can see this in Mass attendance numbers and the huge drop in seminarians: both were trends before Francis, but they have rapidly accelerated under him.
My impression of Francis is that he has the same basic psychological and personality makeup of a Twatter SJW. This has led him to compromise his own Christian principles with those of the diametrically incompatible "Cultural Marxist" religion. Then, in the heat of interview questions, he is weak like so many "leaders" today, saying what he thinks people want to hear, versus what it actually true.
This also raises a theological question for me: in "Mises 'Regression Theory of Money'" fashion, the Church traces its roots back to Christ Himself, who was the first Pope, and who then blessed the ecclesia-- his disciples-- thus bestowing them with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit enabled St. Peter to pass the Papal torch to St. Linus, to St. Cletus, and on and on.
In other words, it was an almost Libertarian-like notion of delegated authority, except in this case from God to Christ to Peter, and down the line. This is also why Protestantism misses the mark: just like how government has no natural authority to do ninety-nine percent of what it does, so too did Martin Luther lack the authority to redefine Christianity, throw books out of the Bible which contradicted him, and so forth.
What, then, happened with the appointment of Francis? Indeed, theoretically the current ecclesias are the present-day recipients of the wisdom of the Holy Spirit-- so how then did pretenders and usurpers control the delegation, as is clearly what appears to have happened?
I think the answer is to trust in God: there is a greater plan afoot. But still, the development is troubling for my small mind.