Wednesday 17 July 2019

The best thing I have read about the Pope and Donald Trump

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I ask your forgiveness. I do not always pay enough attention to the very interesting people who comment on this blog. 

I shall do so. Toma has led me to what looks at first sight like a remarkably interesting Canadian blogger called David Warren.

Apparently, he used to write for the Ottawa Citizen and since 2012 has written the blog 'Essays in Idleness'.

He said when he began:
Our ambition is to try a blog entitled “Essays in Idleness”; which hyperlinks only sparingly, and always with caution to the MSM; which does not celebrate the incursion of “events”; which may sneer at “breaking news,” ignore the polls, and give no advice in an election; which makes statements that could actually be contradicted, but only by someone who knows something; which rebels against the oppression of “democracy”; then flees from its howling mobs. (…)
Fifteen continuous years assembling daily newspaper columns as a political pundit, and we achieved what? Approximately two million wasted words. For the world was not listening to our instructions; and anyway should not have, in our candid review. We pray to our Lord that by His grace instead, somewhere in the dark, we lit one holy candle.
This man is a genius. What I'd give to have written this:
I get so outraged by Donald Trump, when he tweets what most of the population are thinking; until he says it and they line up to condemn him. He is such a racist. An anti-Semite, and what makes it worse, a Zionist and an Israel-
lover. A guy making jobs more plentiful for Blacks and Hispanics, just to buy them off. (What a corrupt person!) An Orange Supremacist. He even has an estate in Florida.
A Fascist, who wants to enforce immigration laws. There are concentration camps all along the Mexican border now, with millions of people trying to get into them.
Was anything better ever said about Donald Trump?
I shall try to use fewer hyperlinks and talk much less about current affairs, but this is the blog.


On Pope Francis he is even better:
Allow me to agree with Pope Francis that Holy Church owes the world some “outreach.” Of our 266 popes (plus or minus), I mention that one in particular because he has had more to say about politics than, possibly, all the rest combined. His views on social class, income distribution, imperialism, colonialism, general oppression, environmental issues, anthropogenic climate, immigration controls, and many other topics not traditionally considered to be any of the Church’s business, are broadcast constantly. Moreover, his neglect of her primary mission — the salvation of souls through propagation of the faith — has underlined this revolutionary contrast.


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