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[Jesus] does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them
Yep. Take that George Washington. Take that Founding Fathers. Take that FDR. Take that Eisenhower. Take that Pope Urban II. Take that Joan of Arc. Take that - any leader who has ever waged war in or out of the Bible. Apparently God has ignored every prayer by these and others because - of course He does.
He's the God of Love and Peace. Not right or wrong. Not defending the innocent against evil. Not justice. Not good or bad. Not anything really. Just the assurance that as long as we don't wage war against evil, whatever evil does is small beans. Barney the Dinosaur never said it so well.
Of course I'm reading into this. It was likely just a swipe against Trump and the war against Iran. Likely without much thought about the larger, yet entirely logical, ramifications of what he just said. A lazy, sloppy, social media era postmodern dig. Like most of our postmodern leadership and scholarship. It's true now because it jabs Trump. It tells us what we want and owns the other guy. Later it will be revised for obvious reasons that a modicum of historical studies will reveal. Such is post-Truth modernity. We won't even get into the Protestant anti-Catholic talking point that Catholics believe popes and God merely swap nameplates. Which is why, apparently, popes can always say just what prayers God is and isn't listening to.
Like his predecessor, I'm getting the feeling that Pope Leo will speak the words beloved of modern post-Western globalism, whether or not it stands up to common sense scrutiny, much less historical Catholicism. Like Pope Francis, he speaks the words the modern World wants to hear. The impact it has on the faithful, the faithless, or the Faith in general, increasingly seeming to be of little concern.
The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.
ReplyDelete-Exodus 15:3
Sometimes the "Catholics don't read the Bible" jokes almost write themselves...
The Pope isn't helping that impression.
If it was only the Bible it would be bad enough. But just consider the swipe against everyone in history. It's one thing to say we don't need to be like those military idiots and fight stupid wars anymore. It's another to say nobody should ever have fought a war to begin with, no questions asked. Since sorry Moses and Judas Maccabeus, God never heard your prayers. I mean, that's like saying 'All women hate trains.' It's nonsensical. I wonder if those on the Left, though, really are dancing in the street, or are they trying to sweep it under the carpet before people think too much about it.
DeleteAnother pope with nothing in his head but conventional liberal platitudes. Please, God give us an actual Christian next time, will you? Preferably one with a brain in his head. --- G. Poulin
DeleteThat is harsh, but unfortunately, I'm having a hard time justifying calling it out, given the utterly jaw dropping level of context missing for that to be true. As I told Nate, it's like saying all women hate trains. There is nothing close to any reality or anything close to historical Christianity in that, unless I'm really missing something. It also makes me sad because this is why many Protestants become Catholic, to avoid this sort of thing. Not that we imagine we won't run into the odd Catholic who says such things. But we generally don't think it will come from the papacy.
DeleteThis, and worse, has been coming from the papacy for some time now. It is high time for Catholics to start re-thinking a few things... there is no magic cloak that a pope can put on that will prevent him from teaching stupid and false things. Too many Catholics imagine that the existence of the magisterium relieves them of the responsibility for discernment. And that is why so many non-Catholics see the Church as little more than a cult, in the pejorative sense. --- G. Poulin
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