The Reverend Antonio Spadaro, a close confidant of Pope
Francis, recently wrote- in a Vatican-approved magazine- a piece condemning
some American evangelicals and their Roman Catholic supporters for mixing
religion and politics. Rev. Spadaro, editor of the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, said their
worldview promotes division and hatred, and has inspired an “ecumenism of
conflict” that demonizes opponents and encourages a ‘theocratic type of state.”
Apparently,
even the Vatican doesn’t want Christianity to spread.
Spadaro
also accused conservative religious supporters of President Donald Trump of
promulgating a “xenophobic and Islamophobic vision that wants walls and
purifying deportations.” Like the walls around the Vatican, perhaps, Reverend
Charlatan? And aren’t “purifying deportations” on par with exorcisms? Spadaro
co-wrote the article with Marcelo Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor who is the
editor of the Argentine edition of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, in the Pope’s native country. It would seem
that higher-ups in various Christian religions are in agreement that
Christianity is dangerous.
Which
is particularly bizarre and disturbing given the fact that we don’t see devout
Christians rioting in the streets, looting and assaulting others. The sowing
division, hatred and conflict thing belongs to the secular left- or the
fundamentalist Muslims.
The
righteous Reverend was also in the news recently for averring that, unlike in
mathematics, in the religious world, 2+2 can
equal 5. Here is his Twitter tweet from January 5th, 2017:
“Theology
is not #Mathematics. 2+2 in #Theology can make 5. Because it has to do with
#God and real #life of #people…”
Why do
the most powerful people on earth insist on making fools of themselves on
Twitter?
In
point of fact, St. Thomas says, in Summa
Theologica, that theology has a “greater certitude” than any other science,
and that mathematics, and other similar speculative sciences, “derive their
certitude from the natural light of human reason, which can err.” While
theology, on the other hand, “derives its certitude from the light of divine
knowledge, which cannot be misled.”
We can
believe whatever we wish, of course (as long as we don’t say it out loud where
a leftist might hear it). I know I don’t have all the answers. But I do
recognize that humans didn’t create themselves, their brains, or the universe.
(We did create Twitter, however)!
Therefore,
we don’t even know what we don’t know. And people who don’t know that…are often arrogantly rioting in the
streets, blindly sowing division and hatred.
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