As timing goes, a pope simply can’t do better than to die just after Easter Sunday, but the most recent Pope topped that by, in the days before his death, having headline grabbing meetings with King Chares and Queen Camilla and also US Vice President J D Vance.
HoweverPolitics and religion shouldn’t ever be mixed up together, no matter how tempting or sensible that that might seem to be. The pope interfering in the legitimate mandate that the democratic process in the USA delivered is hubristic and gratuitous at best, and reveals a man totally removed from reality and out of touch with society.
Among Francis’s most famous comments was his much-quoted line when he was asked about gay people: “Who am I to judge?” But now, in the run-up to the next conclave, support is already growing in some circles for the election of a conservative cardinal such as Robert Sarah, from Guinea, who has strongly criticised gender ideology and denounced Islamic radicalism.
While mainstream media in the free world has been effusive in its praise of Pope Francis' simplivity, humanity and devotion to the faith, others see him as a self promoter, a man committed to advancing a left wing political agenda through his papacy and a divisive figure who has deeply divided the church.
That popemobile trip round St Peter’s Square yesterday, the meeting with J.D. Vance, the Easter blessing, the composition of his Urbi et Orbi message – which bore his unmistakeable stamp in the stuff about migration and war, though it was read by a cardinal – were all highly theatrical and calculated to capture the attention of the media. For a man who allegedly hated personal attention it was a stupendous final performance. The only thing lacking was an encore.
There will be lots of critics within and outside the Catholic curch who will be relieved by his death, and deeply concerned by some of his policies and pronouncements on Islam, homosexuality, transgenderism, immigration, globalism and national politics, which marked him out as a great disruptor. But the manner of his death, after he had lingered on the brink, sustained by every drug and therapy available, seems to succeeded, temporarily at least, in securing his legacy as a great reformer The celebrity physicist Carlo Rovelli a few years ago, and he said that his feelings about the Church had radically changed because of Francis.
Other, less emotionally tainted views are no so sychophantic. Many will remember Pope Francis the whatever as a Marxist Globalist obsessed with forcing the Christian nations of the West to accept “The Great Replacement” the Queerification of relihion, and also for mocking Jesus by debasing himself before Muslims bent on destroying Christianity, washing and kissing their feet.
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The Charge Of The Anti-enlightenment Brigade
I don’t know if many of you remember London's Atheist Bus a few years ago. It toured the city bearing adverts that read: ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’ and was a great success[ ... ] this demonstrates the Sheeple - like tendencies of those who claim they have reason on their side: the religious propagandist with the sandwich board saying ‘repent, the end is nigh' was always the subject of jokes. Why do the opposing side now feel the need to parade high tech sandwich boards saying, "no need to repent, the end isn't nigh'?
Top Academic: Muslims Would Not Tolerate Multiculturalism in Islamic Countries
Leading Iranian academic Afshin Ellian has warned that cultural Marxist delusions of “multiculturalism” are a one-way street as left wing activist in the secular Christian nations of the west clamour for appeasement of Islamic extremists. Muslims in Europe oppress historic minorities in their own lands and have no intention of showing “tolerance”
Progressive' Gay Mayor Of Seattle Craps On Christians And Atheists In Self Righteous Bid To Be Fair To Muslims
In an effort to appease followers of Islamic Sharia law, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is searching for ways to help them buy houses. According to Sharia law, muslims are forbidden to pay interest on loans, thus making it impossible for most of them to buy a house. Mayor Murray wants to meet with lenders to solve this “problem”, and possibly put the rest of the public on the hook for the debt.
Black Belgians Refute ‘Poverty, Discrimination’ As Causes Of Arab Terror - It's A Cultural Thing
“You know, we hear a lot about how the Arabs are a fragile community that suffers, but we, ‘les blackies,’ are discriminated against, too, and we hurt nobody”, Nico Atoba, an African Christian living in Brussels told the National Post for a feature the Canadian newspaper was assembling.
On encountering my insense dislike of the Labour Party, people asume I am a Conservative. WRONG! I have never supported The Conservatives and have never voted either Conservative or Labour in my life. Politicians should never be trusted, I but what sets Labour politicians and activists above the rest in terms of being worthy of only contempt is the hypocrisy.
Senior German Government Figure Calls For Mandatory Pork Ban In School, Government Canteens
The gulf in attitudes between the political ,business and academic elites and reality is growing wider at an accelerating rate. While ordinary people hold onto the values and traditions of Europe's 5000 year old civilisation, the elites seeme determined to sell our contintent from under our feet to immigrants who have contributed little but want to impose their religion and customs on us. Here's an example ...
Britain’s report on Muslim Brotherhood contradicts U.S. views on group
A spate of warning on the imminent threat of more and increasingly bloody attacks on Britain and Europe by Muslim terror group Islamic State have been issued by British government security agencies in the past few days. As well as one from the Police covert anti terror unit, reported here, another, Muslim Brotherhood Review has been featured in the Washington Times
USA Extends Drone war To Africa
So why we wonder is the USA taking its drone war against the third world into deepest, sub Sahran Africa? There cannot be any reason for it, the cited aim of neutralising Boko Haram is not valid because boko Haram are not a standing army but a guerilla force that strikes and then melts away into the civilian population.
Jews Fleeing From France In Record Numbers Because Of Antisemitism
Europe's new wave anti - semitism. Jewish people are fleeing france but not because of Front National or nationalism. The stupid, self righteous left alone must take credit for this outbreak of Jew hating.
Die Hard With A Tribal Mask: 23 Dead After Al-Qaeda Storms West African Hotel
The renewed turmoil in Burkina Faso the landlocked country which is Africa’s fourth-largest gold producer and which has been torn by civil conflicts since it gained independence from France in 1960. Coup d'etats in 1966, 1970, 1977 and 1983, with changes of political style from the new regimes each time destabilised the country and obstructed progress.
Indonesia Tells Aussie Loudmouth Tony Abbott, STF UP Over ‘Reform Islam’ Call
The solidly Muslim government of Indonesia has attacked former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott after he said that Islam needs to be reformed. Sources in Indonesian capital Jakarta dismissed Abbott's comments as “unhelpful” and “divisive”. Ambassador to Austrialia responded to Mr Abbott’s critique by adding that violent extremism is “common in all faiths.”
Christians Are Not Safe In Europe, European Parliament President Says
In a meeting on religious tensions in Europe today (3 December, 2015), European Parrliament (EP) President Martin Schulz said that the persecution of Christians in Europe is under - reported and does not receive enough media attention, which has also meant that it "has not been properly addressed".
Killjoymas - the favourite festival of The Bansturbators
But Christmas is approaching again so perhaps it is time to give it a revamp. It is interesting to note how the Politically Correct Thought Police have progressed from banning Christmas festivities on health and grounds to banning everything on the grounds that it might offend Muslims.
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There is no getting away from the fact that the Church in the West declined precipitately during his papacy. This great pastoral Pope as some people are describing him didn't persuade people to follow him back to the pews or the seminaries or to embrace communism, Islam or chicks-with-dicks. Indeed the one area of growth, the traditionalist wing, he supressed quite brutally.
Having been married to a very lapsed Roman Catholic for 45 years and knowing the opinions of her family I personally doubt that there was any great affection for him among ordinary worshippers, not least because almost every word he uttered was in Italian or sometimes Spanish. It is difficult to form a connection with a public figure who doesn't speak your language or a language you understand. Grinning benignly from the popemobile only goes so far. I also doubt that he was universally popular with priests because he was forever upbraiding them for some collective failing or other. Indeed, very often his self-promotion seemed to be at the expense of his priests and bishops.
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