When you can’t blind them with brilliance, baffle them with BS is the unofficial motto of this Pope. However PopeWatch is just a self-absorbed promethean neopelagian in the eyes of the Pope no doubt.
PopeWatch: Word Salad
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“The job of a pope is to make clear authentic Catholic teaching and to refute error.”
– the man has one job, one job.. and it’s not “climate change”!
Maybe I’m thick, but I have no clue what he means. Could someone translate that for me?
Ok. So I’m not the only one who couldn’t understand a word of his answer.
The man has nothing between his ears except crap theology from the 1970’s, which he recites on cue.
Translation: Of course we are going to permit these things, but not by directly reversing doctrine, because we know we cannot do that. We will claim the doctrine is the same as always while quietly changing practices. That’s what this Synod is for. Recall how we did it with the divorced and “remarried” a few years ago.
In the appendix to the novel, “The Principles of Newspeak”, Orwell explains that Newspeak follows most rules of English grammar, yet is a language characterised by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. As personal communication, Newspeak is to be spoken in staccato rhythm, using words that are short and easy to pronounce. The Party intends to make speech physically automatic and intellectually unconscious in order to diminish the possibility of critical thought occurring to the speaker.
Translation: “Be patient–they’ll happen soon enough.”
LKL:
You just described the speech used by H.G. Wells’ Eloi in “The Time Machine” (1896). “Cultured” humanity dwindled to babbling hedonists who could not express real ideas. Uncultured humanity morphed to cannibalistic Morlocks. The vapid and the vicious: sort of like a modern Democrat run city, eh?
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Tom Byrne, I have frequently compared the current crop of Leftist yutes to the Eloi. Although, it occurs to me that they are more like some Lovecraftian chimera of Eloi and Morlock. May God have mercy on them.
OK, I think I can do this. Ecclesial refers to the Church tradition. Reduction refers to a logical argument that departs from Church tradition. Gnostic refers to the claim that we can discover a hidden truth today that the early Church didn’t know of, or maybe that the nature of man and woman is different than nature tells us. Either way, I come up with: “this idea is wrong because it stems from a contemporary theory rather than what the Church has established”.
“vapid and the vicious”. Has a nice ring to it. V needs to add that to his alliterative monologue. V for Vendetta accurately describes the current day, except of course, it isn’t the religious that are the dictatorial bigots.