The first time it was tragedy. This time around, it is farce.
The first time, the Pope coveted that which is Caesar’s.
This time around, men’s assholes.
I generally do not cover the news of the day, because it is best understood a decade or a century after events, but this time around, well, we have been on this path for some time, and we see where it is coming from and leading to.
The latest Pope has just excommunicated the Roman Catholic priesthood’s few remaining Christians.
The postChristian churches are all rapidly dying, while the Christian churches are rapidly growing.
If you attend a postChristian, postModern, church, there is no one left except those with one foot in the grave.
Pretty soon the Pope speaking exCathedra will be yet another letterhead owned by Harvard.
Which is going to force the remaining Christian priests of the Roman Catholic to adopt the protestant Catholic position, the high Anglican position, that anyone with valid Apostolic succession who is in a proper relationship with God can validly give someone else apostolic succession, analogous to early anarchic period of feudalism, when any knight, which is to say anyone with the right to keep and bear the weapons that were expensive and high tech in that day, could give someone else that right, though it was inappropriate and improper to do so without the advice and consent of other knights.
And, in related news, Hollywood just cast an angry plains ape as Helen of Troy, and displayed the ape looking and acting like an ape in their trailer. Obviously that is not going to entice viewers to go see the movie. It was intended as an insult and an attack on the west, western civilization, western civilization’s founding myths, and westerners. If they had intended to attract, rather than insult, viewers, they would have made the species swapped female look and act attractively. If they had intended to persuade people to not be racist against blacks, they would have made the species swapped female look and act human. Helen of Troy in this trailer is going to make black men racist against black women.
And the Pope has been performing insults to Christians and Christianity and attacks against Christians and Christianity in the same way Hollywood, Gillette, Budweiser, and Jaguar have been performing insults and attacks against their customers. If you are Christian and Roman Catholic, the Pope pisses on you, if you drink Bud Light beer, Budweiser pisses on you, if you shave with a Gillette razor, Gillette pisses on you. And if you own a Jaguar — suddenly no one wants to own a Jaguar. New ones are not being sold, and the resale value on old ones has collapsed. Much like the Roman Catholic congregation.
Hollywood is dying because it hates its audience and continually attacks them, and the postChristian churches are dying because they hate their congregation and continually attack it.
A face that launched a thousand quips, indeed. Asmongold has a clip of this negress berating an imaginary Homer for not having enough diversity or some such in his epic poetry. Tempted to see just how bad it is, but I don’t even think an MST3K treatment could make this abomination tolerable.