So the Pope did what nobody was asking him to do: sign a document that appears to have emanated from Harvard's SJW dungeon, the same serpent that had such a hard time convincing Eve to eat that apple whispering into the authors' ears.
Why the Pope signed I leave for you to tell me. Here, the highlights (all emphases mine) from "A document on human fraternity for world peace and living together."
Through faith in God, who has created the universe, creatures and all human beings (equal on account of his mercy), believers are called to express this human fraternity by safeguarding creation and the entire universe and supporting all persons, especially the poorest and those most in need.
Creatures are equal to human beings? Mary remove mousetraps what a dumb thing to say. Surely they can't mean it. Look at those parentheses: I'm misreading it. Maybe they only meant to imply the false and pernicious lie that all people are equal, a belief contradicted directly in scripture?
Now if this description of this Netflix cleaning show is accurate, people have a hard enough time safeguarding their sock drawers, so I don't know how they're going to begin to safeguard the entire universe. Who's going to be in charge of the extra-galactic patrols?
This transcendental value served as the starting point for several meetings characterized by a friendly and fraternal atmosphere where we shared the joys, sorrows and problems of our contemporary world.
The meeting was, after all, sponsored by Kleenex&tm;.
There followed some words about "therapeutic achievements", "social injustice", "inequality", "discrimination", and so on, cut and pasted from the New York Times opinion page. Then came the real meat.
In the name of God who has created all human beings equal in rights, duties and dignity…
No, no, and no.
In the name of human fraternity that embraces all human beings, unites them and renders them equal…
No.
Now war, poverty, torture, calamity, and other assorted horrors the document decries are bad and undesirable. Which everybody knows. And which everybody has always known. While there does exist the odd bloodlusting fool who calls for torture and terrorism, these people are not what anybody would consider to be a pressing problem. Not when — ahem — people are apostasizing on the pretext that today is Tuesday.
Surely the eternal souls of his flocks are of more importance than their attitude about recycling? The document nods in that direction:
[T]he most important causes of the crises of the modern world are a desensitized human conscience, a distancing from religious values and a prevailing individualism accompanied by materialistic philosophies that deify the human person and introduce worldly and material values in place of supreme and transcendental principles.
This is profoundly true. And so is this, more or less:
While recognizing the positive steps taken by our modern civilization in the fields of science, technology, medicine, industry and welfare, especially in developed countries, we wish to emphasize that, associated with such historic advancements, great and valued as they are, there exists both a moral deterioration that influences international action and a weakening of spiritual values and responsibility. All this contributes to a general feeling of frustration, isolation and desperation leading many to fall either into a vortex of atheistic, agnostic or religious extremism, or into blind and fanatic extremism, which ultimately encourage forms of dependency and individual or collective self-destruction.
Over-reaction is not as good as reaction — be a reactionary — but it is not a surprise it occurs, especially in a declining civilization.
But then comes this, the most curious and inexplicable bullet point, which is here broken in two pieces.
Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action.
That there is or should be freedom of expression and action is utterly false. It is as far from truth as infinity is from 0; this sentiment is even the opposite of what they preached earlier about having no freedom of action to commit torture, etc. In children, there is not and should not be freedom in thought and belief. Consciences have to be formed, not discovered. Keep children in mind when you finish reading the paragraph.
Here is where the meat turns rancid.
The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept;
No. But if it were true God wanted diversity of religions, then He should not have issued that first Commandment. And then we may as well embrace or have "dialogue" with Santeria Voodists, worshippers of Santa Muerta, Wiccans, Satanists, Baalites, Aztec heart surgeons, Planned (Un)Parenthood baby-blood drinkers, whatever demon Nancy Pelosi bows to, and on and on. If what this paragraph says is true, then there is no need for the Church, and thus no need for the Pope. Smart money says he doesn't resign, though.
The rest of the document, littered with "rights", and no remembrance Christ said he came to bring the sword.
If you cannot say This Is Right, you must bow to somebody who will.
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