ROME, January 3, 2013 (
LifeSiteNews.com)
– Readers may be surprised to hear that Jesus Christ was the first
socialist; every word of every article in the Vatican newspaper is
“virtually dictated” personally by Pope Benedict; every country in
Europe – indeed in the whole world – is socialist; the Catholic Church
“thrives” under socialist regimes; and Fidel Castro’s mass murdering
regime is on a moral par with the Catholic Church because they both
allegedly want to “eradicate” homosexuals.
All of these assertions have come from the mouth of MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who recorded a strange and confused
3.5 minute tirade against Pope Benedict XVI’s
Christmas address,
in which the pope warned that abortion and the advance of the
homosexualist political and social agenda is a threat to the stability
of human societies.
O’Donnell included several astonishing whoppers, including the
assertion that a vow of celibacy automatically renders those who make it
“tragically ignorant about marriage.” This despite the indisputable
fact that the Pope, as well as nearly all clergy, are themselves the
product of marriage, are surrounded like everyone else by married people
and minister to married people, in addition to presumably being in
possession of the normal human rational capacity that would allow them
understand common cultural concepts.
Mr. O’Donnell appears not to have noticed that the Catholic
Church, whose clergy have been celibate for centuries, has been
administering the sacrament of marriage, counselling married people and
generally been intimately involved in the institution of marriage since
the founding of Christian civilization.
Another jaw-dropper was the astonishing news that Jesus Christ
“was the original socialist” because he fed the poor and admonished the
moneychangers in the Temple. Because apparently in Mr. O’Donnell’s odd
universe, no one other than socialists have ever done any of these
things.
Demonstrating his deep penetration of Vatican affairs, O’Donnell
goes on to say that “everything in the Vatican newspaper [L’Osservatore
Romano] is virtually dictated by the pope”. To which assertion many
long-time Catholic observers of the Vatican scene will doubtless respond
– after they pick themselves up off the floor – “Oh, would that it were
so!”
But it is when O’Donnell equates the Catholic Church’s teaching
on the meaning of human sexuality with the mass murders undertaken by
Fidel Castro’s regime after his takeover of Cuba, that the Wonderland
Whirl really begins. So dizzyingly bizarre are the comparisons and
insinuations that it becomes difficult to sort out just what point Mr.
O’Donnell is trying to make.
“The most hard-core socialist practitioner of all time was also
viciously anti-gay,” says O’Donnell. Castro, “who started life as a
Roman Catholic,” rounded up homosexuals “and sent them to re-education
camps.”
“In Fidel Castro’s socialist utopia, gay sex was a criminal
act,” O’Donnell continues. “Castro believed he could actually rid his
country of all homosexuality, and he did everything in his power to
achieve that.” Therefore, O’Donnell said, socialism “has not been a
special friend to gay people”.
At the same time, O’Donnell claims, the Catholic Church “has
thrived in socialist countries around the world,” although it “this week
seems to want to pretend it is suddenly threatened by socialism”. These
socialist countries, he says, include Italy. “Yes, Italy is a socialist
country, as is every country in Europe, as is every country in the
world, to varying degrees,” he adds.
He declined, however, to mention the countless thousands of
Catholic inmates who perished in the Gulag system, prisons and torture
chambers of the countries of the Soviet Union. He seems also never to
have heard of any of the writings of any of the popes, largely before
the 1960s, warning the world of the threat of socialistic Communism.
Untangled, O’Donnell’s message seems to be that the Catholic
Church is socialist, because it follows Jesus Christ, the “first
socialist,” and it is therefore exactly like Castro in its desire to
persecute, torture and murder homosexuals – presumably with the approval
of its socialist Founder.
Fortunately, Pope Benedict, who has been known to read a book or
two now and then, was rather more coherent in his message for
Christmas. However little Mr. O’Donnell may be aware of it, there is
very little dispute in academia or among the more serious-minded public
commentators that the “
gender theory”
driving the far-left, homosexualist political agenda is an offshoot of
radical academic feminism, that is itself the child of Marxist theory.
So much can be discovered by simply Googling the search terms “Engels,
monogamous, family.”
It is hardly credible to dispute the connection of the “LGBTQ”
agenda with the left, particularly in Europe where it forms a
cornerstone of all the socialist, leftist and green parties’ platforms.
Benedict is among the many who have personally experienced the effects
of socialistic theories put into practice in various totalitarian
regimes in recent European history, and is well placed to issue warnings
against its re-growth under new names.
In the Christmas address that Mr. O’Donnell was at such pains to
ridicule, Benedict warned that the attack on the family “goes much
deeper” than was previously believed. It is a product, the pope said,
ultimately of a foundational error about what it means to be human. It
is a refusal to accept the very notion that there is such a thing as
human nature, connected to their “bodily identity,” which we all share.
“While up to now we regarded a false understanding of the nature
of human freedom as one cause of the crisis of the family, it is now
becoming clear that the very notion of being – of what being human
really means – is being called into question,” Pope Benedict said.
Gender theory’s adherents, and the many more people they have seduced,
“deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given
to them, but that they make it for themselves”.
In the gender ideology, “sex is no longer a given element of
nature, that man has to accept and personally make sense of: it is a
social role that we choose for ourselves, while in the past it was
chosen for us by society.”
The theory denies the immutable, dual nature of humanity, that
“being created by God as male and female pertains to the essence of the
human creature.” But, “this duality is an essential aspect of what being
human is all about,” Pope Benedict said.
“If there is no pre-ordained duality of man and woman in
creation, then neither is the family any longer a reality established by
creation,” he said.
“The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our
environment is concerned, now becomes man’s fundamental choice where he
himself is concerned. From now on there is only the abstract human
being, who chooses for himself what his nature is to be.”
L’Osservatore Romano
followed up
the pope’s address with the observation that the new theory of a
mutable, essentially self-determined human nature, is part and parcel of
the socialist attempt to entirely re-write the nature of human beings
and human societies. Lucetta Scaraffia, an eminent Italian historian who
has also presumably read a few books, wrote that gender theory and its
political causes are in fact the ultimate expression of Marx and Engels’
initial call for the abolition of the two-parent, biologically-based
family.
She warned that the societies will “pay a high price” for the
attempt to found a society on these premises, “as has already happened
in the past when we have tried to achieve a complete economic and social
equality.”
Pope Benedict warned, perhaps most ominously of all, that the
final results of the implementation of this theory is the total
objectification of human beings, particularly children. “From being a
subject of rights, the child has become an object to which people have a
right and which they have a right to obtain.”
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