Monday, January 11, 2010
Useful Idiot XVI
Every now and then Pope Benedict shows oh-so-brief signs of true moral leadership and sense, then he flops back into the warm septic tank of standard hippie-dippie shit.
At the start of his term, for one brief shining moment he opposed Jihad, then he followed Francis of Assisi into abject surrender.
His latest New Year message has the same frustrating mix.
So far so good, except that the blame doesn't belong to "every creature." Those of us who try to live frugally and legally are helpless when the materialistic forces steal our ability to earn a living.
Then he makes a good point about the Soviet Bloc:
Okay, I know nothing about love and truth, but I'll go along with the existence of a Creator who made a plan.
Now he veers off track entirely:
Dammit, man, there is NO resistance in the West to combatting real pollution. Western countries have been trying to control real pollution for 50 years, and have driven the levels of real pollution down to a point of diminishing returns. You're obviously talking about carbon, which is a valuable part of the life cycle, not a pollutant. And there is a small nascent resistance, not nearly strong enough yet, to the efforts by the SAME GREEDY BASTARDS to drive even more people into poverty for the sake of a new Wall Street bubble called a Carbon Market.
And here Comrade Benny is firmly on the side of the greedy bastards.
Sheer nonsense, pure Maurice Strong toxic bullshit.
Shame on you, Comrade Benedict. Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. You're an excellent scholar with a firm sense of logic and analysis, and you goddamn well ought to know better than to blindly follow this genocidal wolfpack of gangsters, Nazis and Communists. ¶ 6:51 PM
At the start of his term, for one brief shining moment he opposed Jihad, then he followed Francis of Assisi into abject surrender.
His latest New Year message has the same frustrating mix.
He noted that humanity in this new year "continues to be marked by the dramatic crisis of the global economy and consequently a serious and widespread social instability."
The "deeper causes" of this situation "are to be found in a current self-centered and materialistic way of thinking which fails to acknowledge the limitations inherent in every creature."
So far so good, except that the blame doesn't belong to "every creature." Those of us who try to live frugally and legally are helpless when the materialistic forces steal our ability to earn a living.
Then he makes a good point about the Soviet Bloc:
"I will offer an example ... from the recent history of Europe. Twenty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the materialistic and atheistic regimes which had for several decades dominated a part of this continent, was it not easy to assess the great harm which an economic system lacking any reference to the truth about man had done not only to the dignity and freedom of individuals and peoples, but to nature itself, by polluting soil, water and air? The denial of God distorts the freedom of the human person, yet it also devastates creation.
"It follows that the protection of creation is not principally a response to an aesthetic need, but much more to a moral need, in as much as nature expresses a plan of love and truth which is prior to us and which comes from God."
Okay, I know nothing about love and truth, but I'll go along with the existence of a Creator who made a plan.
Now he veers off track entirely:
Because of this, he shares the "growing concern" caused by "economic and political resistance to combatting the degradation of the environment."
Dammit, man, there is NO resistance in the West to combatting real pollution. Western countries have been trying to control real pollution for 50 years, and have driven the levels of real pollution down to a point of diminishing returns. You're obviously talking about carbon, which is a valuable part of the life cycle, not a pollutant. And there is a small nascent resistance, not nearly strong enough yet, to the efforts by the SAME GREEDY BASTARDS to drive even more people into poverty for the sake of a new Wall Street bubble called a Carbon Market.
And here Comrade Benny is firmly on the side of the greedy bastards.
"The issue is all the more important in that the very future of some nations is at stake, particularly some island states," he said.
Sheer nonsense, pure Maurice Strong toxic bullshit.
Shame on you, Comrade Benedict. Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. You're an excellent scholar with a firm sense of logic and analysis, and you goddamn well ought to know better than to blindly follow this genocidal wolfpack of gangsters, Nazis and Communists. ¶ 6:51 PM
