Trump v Pope

 

It’s time for Reverend Dave to step up to the pulpit with my sermon, “Why Trump hates the Pope”, (and MAGA is ok with it.)

If Trump isn’t the antichrist, he certainly comes closer to being that than anyone else in this century. He is a racist, grifting, sex offending, extortionist and felon who pardons powerful drug kingpins, protects rapists and child molesters, and richly rewards the worst oligarchic servants of mammon in history 

Yet he’s “God’s Chosen” in eyes of his deluded cult and duped supporters. He can do no wrong that would elicit their disfavor and diminish their devotion.

The truth is the last thing the MAGA cult is interested in. Trump’s word is their gospel, and journalists who don’t praise him are their hated nemeses.

Last October Pope Leo said journalism is "not only an act of justice, but a duty of all those who long for a solid and participatory democracy."

He quoted Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" in asserting that the world needs a free press and objective information. He cited her warning that "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

"With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing.”

That went over like a garlic-covered silver cross would with vampires. In Trump’s view the Pope is supporting the “enemy of the people”.

The Pope’s next blasphemy against MAGA was directed at Trump’s alcoholic, spouse-abusing war monger Pete Hegseth for invoking Jesus in justifying the slaughter of Iranians:

“This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’” 

Leo reminded us and warned others, "Blessed are the peacemakers! Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. 

The “Woke Pope” even dared to mention the characteristic shared by every anti-MAGA and anti-war resister. 

It is a world turned upside down, an exploitation of God’s creation that must be denounced and rejected by ​every honest conscience."

Pope Leo didn’t neglect to include the likes of Putin, Orban, Netanyahu, and the Iranian leadership. He meant ALL tyrants.

"The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters!" he said.

But it gets even worse, as the “Woke Pope” transformed into the “Commie Hippie Pope”:

"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to ​rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration ​are nowhere to be found."

There it is. Trump virtually sees the Pope as a woke leftist commie hippie, a threat to his imperial rule, and enemy of the people.

Wasn’t Jesus similarly deemed by the authoritarians in charge back in his time?

Maybe Trump will want to bomb the Vatican next, so they don’t develop a nuclear weapon to wipe out Mar-a-Lago?

Nothing is too deranged anymore. Nothing.