Pope Links Liberal Democracy with Fascism, Attacks Secularism
Phillip Blond and Adrian Pabst write:
Drawing on his own experience of the rise of Nazism, the pope links contemporary liberal democracy with fascism. He argues that when liberals believe in nothing, fascism is not far behind. Goebbels, Hitler's chief propagandist, said as much when he wrote in his diaries that without objective values, there is only power and the sole proof of having power is to break all taboos and transgress all limits in order to better demonstrate supremacy. [International Herald Tribune]
The two writers seem to think it's good and appropriate to link fascism with the liberal democratic system which allows them to enjoy freedom of the press and speech. The irony of an authoritarian leader complaining that a free society leads to authoritarian repression is entirely lost upon them.
The BBC reports:
The Pope told the crowds there were dangers in people finding their own religious routes. "If it is pushed too far, religion becomes almost a consumer product," he said. "People choose what they like, and some are even able to make a profit from it. But religion constructed on a 'do-it-yourself' basis cannot ultimately help us," he said.
Once again, we find that Pope Benedict XVI promotes an authoritarian vision of religion: don't enjoy any liberty to find your own path; instead, do what I tell you. That's certainly understandable, given who he is, but a person promoting authoritarian religion does not have the ability to make a case against authoritarianism elsewhere in one's life. It's not legitimate to argue that only his authoritarianism is OK and even then only to the extent he pushes it, but authoritarianism elsewhere in people's lives isn't OK.
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When I hear talk about the Pope ‘wanting to raise awareness’ I try not to reach for my gun. Presented with such hypocrisy, the whole cavalcade and theatre is more than one can bear.
If the Pope seriously wanted to raise the consciousness of the ibn rent a crowd who belief in the vicar’s wonderful world of miracles, the first thing he should do is recommend that every Christian read Francesco Carotta, Joseph Atwill and the Piso Family History. If , having read these works ,they still believed that there ever was a Jesus of Nazareth , or that the Pope is the vicar of anyone but Julius Caesar , then so be it — but for the vicar of one of the Caesars, Julius or Vespasian, to congratulate the Australian people on showing ‘clementia’ to the aborigines, however charming, needs to be matched by a reciprocal apology by him to Victor Chavez and the Irish people for having colonised the former and driven the natives out of the latter by constant and brute force.
Moreover, if he is really against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan , as he numberless liege Jesuits repeat he is, why rally the cry of ‘Fighting the Terrorists”. In this message there is the unveiled assertion that there are lots of terrorists out there. ‘Us Christians’ know who they are; and , really, when ‘us Christians think about it’, the message is as in was in the Regensburg Lecture — ‘Get Islam’. The legitimation of the Benedict/Blair/Bush Crusade is set against a backdrop of Australian intervention in East Timor to dislodge a legitimate government. !s that not reminiscent of Spain in the 30s? Wouldn’t it be far more efficacious to dislodge the Christian Brother-educated Robert Mugabe!!
Finally, the Pope’s attack on secular humanism lacks conviction. If it was not for the real reflective historicism of the secular sciences –as opposed to Church manipulated ones — we would still be muttering superstitious nonsense at the Heavens, burning witches on the village green, and eviscerating everyone who didn’t agree with the Infallible One.
At this juncture, one might recall that transportation to Australia was caused in no small measure by the religious intolerance of the Papacy. When Adrian IV sold Ireland (by way of the Bull Laudabiliter: see 2.b irish-criminology dot com) into English slavery in the middle ages, he created the preconditions for an on-and-off war that was to last for a thousand years — right down to the NI Agreement, suitably called ‘Good Friday’.
It was as a result of the tensions accruing over the centuries between the English planters brought in by Papal Christianity that the native pagans were demonised, dislodged from their lands and culturally downtrodden in a progressive Christian way. The tensions that inflamed Irish life for centuries, therefore, centred on this initial act of treachery against the most generous of native pagans to the Christian Church. And transportation was to Australia was only one remedy — and not the worst — which the Papacy devised to keep them in their place.
Apologies? That’s the business of secular men and enlightened societies, not of mediaeval throwbacks!
Seamus Breathnach
http://www.irish-criminology.com
The following Letter appeared in the Irish Independent dated Wednesday 30th of July 2008. Its contents , which I believe, and which, apart from other references , is intelligible, hinge not too remotely on Papal hypocrisy as well as the infinite depravity of my country under the Papacy’s influence. The RCC gives even Caaesar a bad name!
Irish complicity in West’s war crime
Wednesday July 30 2008
M ROSS’S letter (’Poisonous feuds led to bloodshed’, Letters, July 29) was a whiff of fresh air amid the bland xerox chorus that journalism has become. An equally generous dose of fresh air, from John Laughland, can be found at http://www.brusselsjournal.com.
Surprisingly to many people, Ireland has connections with the late Yugoslavia. I refer readers to Church of Ireland cleric Hubert Butler (and his book ‘Escape from the Anthill’), who taught in Croatia in 1938 and returned there to document the massacre of a million humans, mostly Orthodox Serbs, then Jews and Gypsies, by fascist Catholic Croatia. The biggest death camp in Europe, after Auschwitz, was in the Nazi puppet “Independent State of Croatia”, close to Zagreb.
All this was known to the Vatican. The forced conversion of a quarter of a million Orthodox Christians by the Catholic statelet of Croatia was never rescinded by the Holy See, although all communists were excommunicated.
In the garb of a Catholic priest, the Himmler of Croatia, Andrija Artukovic (”Father Anic”), arrived in Ireland after WWII. His escape via Austria and Switzerland and concealment in Ireland was arranged by the Order of Friars Minor, with the collusion of the Irish hierarchy. It’s doubtful if the government knew who or what “Father Anic” was. He subsequently found refuge in California and was returned to communist Yugoslavia in 1986, where he was tried for crimes he did not commit and not tried for crimes he did commit.
The troubles there are not the fruit of Serb nationalism. “Greater Serbia” was the WMD war cry of Austro-Hungary up to 1914 and from 1991 of the West and the so-called international community.
Ireland has not only permitted CIA “rendition flights”, but in 1999 lent her airports to the Pentagon in violation of Ireland’s constitutionally mandated neutrality for logistic support against the Christian Serbs and in support of creating new German puppet states (Croatia and Slovenia), as well as Islamic states in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Targets in the 78-day Blitzkrieg of 1999 included empty government buildings across the street from the US Embassy in Belgrade, Danube bridges, markets, civilian trains, Serb TV, the Chinese embassy, schools and hospitals.
Serb mothers delivered babies under NATO/US bombing, with doctors working by the light of torches.
Over a quarter of a million Serbs were expelled from lands which had been theirs since the time of the Battle of the Boyne. Not “Connacht or hell”, but Serbia or hell.
Milosevic, by the way, barred the refugees from entering Serbia while he held a May Day parade in Belgrade in 1995. Some nationalist. The refugees were for the most part put up in Serb Bosnia.
Last, but not least, the goal of the US/NATO humanitarian bombing — RAF and Luftwaffe flying wingtip to wingtip –was the creation, at the sacrifice of Christians, of Islamic states in the heart of Europe.
That’s why we got cheap oil.
JP Maher PH D_Professor Emeritus,
Citizen of Ireland and USA,
Veteran US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps,
Yugoslav Desk 430th MI BN,
Serb-Croat Linguist,
Northern Italy 1959-61_Chicago IL 60630_USA
It’s probably a bit late in the day to refer Benedict XVI to the works of Joseph McCabe, an ex- Franciscan who outlived religion and became an outspoken atheist. Joseph McCabe, an inveterate writer and commentator against religion, died on January 10,1955, at the age of eighty-seven
With respect to this question of liberalism, secularism and fascism, Benedict XVI and , more importantly, everyone who has to listen to him, might do worse than read Joseph McCabe’s account of ‘The Vatican’s Last Crime’. What McCabe calls the ‘Foulest War In History’ was for him orchestrated entirely by the RC Church. He delineates the manner in which the RC church set about WW11 and how it duped the US into supporting it. The great thing is that it is available on the internet, so that critical minds — and those lucky enough to be out of reach of Vatican censorship — can read what this honest man’s thought of recent history.
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/big_blue_books/book_01.html#4
Of course , it was not the Vatican’s ‘last crime’. Russia, Korea, South America, Vietnam, East Timor, and the interplay between the Jesuitical ‘Universities’ and the CIA in the more recent theatres of war, are perfectly ascribable to the Vatican and its neurotic sense of missionary and messianic subversion.
Nevertheless, for a contrasting view of what Papal propaganda is about, McCabe is worth reading.
Seamus Breathnach
http://www.irish-criminology.com