Remember when you didn’t have to cringe when you heard, “the Pope has made a statement”:
Seems like an eternity ago.
PopeWatch: Defund the Swiss Guard
- 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 perverse logic is the “Pope’s”.
It seems like, to him, the “Arms Industry” is the cause of all problems in the world.
Says the man who lives behind walls, has a bullet-resistant car, and is surrounded by body guards.
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I cannot help but wonder if the trappings of a secular world leader have not be detrimental to the Office of Pope and ultimately the Church.
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“Perverse logic”?
There are more personal firearms in the United States of America than people. And yet, with COVID, shortages, civil unrest, hardly any use by lawful citizens.
“Reprobate”: an unprincipled person. That should suffice.
“It is not the gun that kills…it is the hard heart that kills.”—Sgt Hartman, “Full Metal Jacket”
He comes back to this theme a lot. Usually when he does that it’s because of some South American quirk, like with his anti-clericalism. Does anyone know if there’s a South American gun problem?
Most of Latin America has always had high levels of violence. Blaming arms merchants for the ills of the planet were a common trope when the Pope was growing up.
My favorite gun shop looked like a Venezuelan grocery store last Saturday.
Aw gee, but I’m not gonna lay down my sling, cause it says right there in the Bible…
BNW, hasn’t this pope ever read the part where we are instructed to be as cunning as the demons that presently seek to disarm us?
Did I not also determine yet another slight assault on the concept of “profits” also? I’m certain St. Joseph sold all his furniture he made in his carpentry shop at a loss…..
Not to mention the perverse logic that enriches the manufacturers of doors and door locks whilst fostering an unnatural fear of random strangers who might wish to stroll through one’s dwelling.
And He said to them, “But now, let him who has a purse take it along, likewise also a bag, and let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one.”
Now it would be a mistake to read this as a command to use weapons at all time. But having a weapon in a time of crisis? Certainly.
Rudolph, PF has a way of dealing with that pesky thing we called “Holy Scripture”. You see, he has a red pen and isn’t afraid to use it. He can strike out or rewrite the parts he doesn’t like and have the New Scrptures printed. The rest of the Bible, that he doesn’t change, he simply ignores.