Theocracy/Gaslight Watch
What Kind of Demonic Deity Sends Aborted Babies to Hell???
They never even woke up, ffs
My initial reaction on hearing the King (or is it Emperor?) of Rome weighing in on our POTUS24 election was, roughly, “Quiet, priest. When we want your meddling opinions, we’ll ask for them… And don’t hold your breath.” But that might be a little harsh.
To say nothing of off-putting to Catholic and other supernaturalist readers who aren’t familiar with the editorial position of Purple Reign, starting with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-RI) thesis that the reactionary and dangerous New Right theocracy scheme is much more Rome’s than Dixie’s.
In a sentence, the boundary between religion and theocracy is Law. Don’t give the theocrats a pass and fall for their “Meanie, stop picking on religion” smear.
Francis (né Bergoglio) is not just a top cleric, the pontifex maximus of the religion, he’s also (and mostly) a foreign sovereign Unitary Theocratic Absolute Monarch, per the Vatican’s own portal definition. (Note the top middle, and largest, of the Imperial and Royal crowns of Europe shown above.)
Religions do not issue passports and have diplomatic immunity … nor royal courts (in Latin: curia), nor princes with heraldic coats of arms and mottos, nor ambassadors (in Latin: nuncio). (Yes, I know … the Latin vernacular is a big part of the smoke screen.)
In the same way that we expect King Charles III of the UK, and Emperor Naruhito of Japan (both heads of state and their nations’ religions, as well) to stay out of US politics, so too should Francis.
Wearing that other humble hat/beanie provides him a shield and a pretext, though. As part of the Big Gaslight he can adopt his faux-meek priestly persona and say he’s only providing “spiritual guidance” to his flock of sheep. The voting instructions are in code, wink, wink:
‘Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who (supports) killing babies,’ Francis said. ‘Both are against life.’
Hold this thought for a sec. So far, so superficially, Jesuitically, neutral. Here comes the code [emphasis added]:
Asked though what to do at the polls, Francis recalled the civic duty to vote.
‘One should vote, and choose the lesser evil,’ he said. ‘Who is the lesser evil, the woman or man? I don´t know,’ he said. ‘Everyone in their conscience should think and do it.’
Pshaw.
How big a twit do you have to be to think that “kicking out migrants” is a greater evil than “killing babies”?
For the sheep too dull to get the coded signal, the monarch leaves the clarification to his underlings:
The U.S. bishops conference, for its part, has called abortion the ‘preeminent priority’ for American Catholics in its published voter advice.
How this does not violate separation of church and state, only a Samuel Alito grade sophist can rationalize. As he and his other Jesuit-educated conservatives on the SCOTUS, of course, would be happy to oblige.
Which brings us to the title of this column. Romists love to preen themselves as the valiant defenders of Life. They do not mean mere earthly/biological life, however. They mean the eternal life that begins at conception, but then carries on in perpetuity either to the Good Place or the Bad Place, after earthly death.
The life not of the body, but of the soul. The little ghost that makes it a throuple after the sperm has drilled its way into the egg.
This diagram provides a helpful illustration of Rome’s doctrine:
The incoherence of their position on abortion, though, is that for it to be evil, their god would have to condemn the sleeping little babes’ ghosts to “Hell - Eternal Punishment”. Otherwise, what is the evil in sending them straight to Heaven, bypassing “Human Birth (original sin condemns)”, and the roll of the dice that the little bundle of joy might not choose the “personal decision for Jesus at maturity” … or commit a “Grave Sin mortal”?
Wouldn’t that be the ultimate Good, rather than Evil, to take the top left shortcut through this flow chart?
“The church trusts that infants who die before baptism […] receive God’s mercy.”
Why would any loving Catholic parent jeopardize their child by letting it be born???
How did Luther ever break the spell, indeed.
Foreign monarchs, nobles and domestic agents thereof: don’t meddle in American elections.
