“culture of waste”

The Victar of Christ has thrown off the robe of Saint Francis ‘The Good Shepherd’ to reveal the Conquering Roman Wolf – the Papacy has always been!

Modern Popes have been in awe of the rise of the Christian-right who have employed the fiction of Tim LaHaye, to take away SHEEP from the Catholic church, and line them up for the End Times and Joyous Rapture. Many will be taken up before Jesus-God destroys most of THE LIFE on Earth. With the ruling by Clarence Thomas, whose wife was close with Beverely and Tim LaHaye, Pope Francis HOPES to become bosom buddies with THE TRIBULATORS and join forces in destroying LGTBQ people, who THEY ELECTED to be the Powerful Forces of Satan. MILLIONS MUST DIE so God can rid the earth of THE COMMON ENEMY who hates human life.

For making this EVIL ALLIANCE I am instructed by God to take John The Baptist AWAY from all of Christiandom. You Devils do not get this devout Jew and his devout parents to be complicate in MORE CHURCH MURDERS!

John ‘The Nazarite’

The Catholic Church holds that life begins at conception and must be protected and defended until natural death.

The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to “thwart the desire to bring new lives in the world,” called for them not to cling to selfish desires.

https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/209618/reconsidering-the-apocalyptic-left-behind-series

The Judeo-Christian World is sustained on Fear Of Other. What are its merits? Suposedly Jesus was spreading a radical teaching, that was so dangerous, un-named powers gave Saul-Paul the authority to hunt down members of the first church, and torture and kill women and children in order to get them to “denounce their Lord”. Then, Paul encounters Dead Jesus, has a change of heart, and becomes the Leader of Christianity. Will we see an Arab radical killer become the President of Israel? Will this Arab President bid his people to convert to Christianity, and thus the Jews will be spared during the Tribulation like Tim and Beverly La Haye predicting in their terror-filled books?

https://leftbehind.fandom.com/wiki/Left_Behind:_The_Kids

Pope Francis presides over a mass celebrated by U.S. Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for the participants into the World Meeting of Families in Rome, Saturday, June 25, 2022. The World Meeting of Families was created by Pope John Paul II in 1994 and celebrated every three years since then in different cities. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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Pope Francis presides over a mass celebrated by U.S. Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the participants into the World Meeting of Families in Rome, Saturday, June 25, 2022. The World Meeting of Families was created by Pope John Paul II in 1994 and celebrated every three years since then in different cities. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Ginni kept Trump in a hysterical paranoid mood in the Oval Office. In theory, Starfish, and her lover, Victoria Bond, have defeated Ginni, the evil spirit of Tim LaHaye, and, Donald Trump. Did the Thomas’s know Putin was on a crusade against LGBTs?

My plan to sue the Oregon Family Council is justified because their questionnaire is indicative of the real paranoid witch-hunt the Christian Coalition, and the Tea Party Patriots, have been on. They spend millions of dollars of their secret funding on hiring and firing people according to their paranoid religious views.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion.

Francis didn’t refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion in his homily. But he used the buzzwords he has throughout his papacy about the need to defend families and to condemn a “culture of waste” that he believes is behind the societal acceptance of abortion.

“Let us not allow the family to be poisoned by the toxins of selfishness, individualism, today’s culture of indifference and waste, and as a result lose its very DNA, which is the spirit of welcoming and service,” he said.

The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to “thwart the desire to bring new lives in the world,” called for them not to cling to selfish desires.

“You have been asked to not have other priorities, not to ‘look back’ to miss your former life, your former freedom, with its deceptive illusions,” he said.

Francis has strongly upheld church teaching opposing abortion, equating it to “hiring a hitman to solve a problem.” At the same time, he has expressed sympathy for women who had abortions and made it easier for them to be absolved of the sin of undergoing the procedure.

ABORTION

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The Catholic Church holds that life begins at conception and must be protected and defended until natural death.

Francis delivered his homily in a packed St. Peter’s Square at the end of the World Meeting of Families, a four-day conference held every few years aimed at helping church workers provide better pastoral care for families, especially those in difficulty.

The head of the Vatican’s laity office, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, celebrated the closing Mass before tens of thousands of people given Francis has a bad knee that makes it difficult for him to stand for long periods of time.

The pope instead sat to the side of the altar and delivered the homily seated, though he was able to stand up easily for the reading of the Gospel and other moments with the help of a cane.

The Vatican welcomed Friday’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that provided constitutional protections for abortion in the U.S. The move opens the doors for individual states to ban or restrict abortion access, with bans now expected in about half the U.S. states.

The Holy See’s main bioethics body, the Pontifical Academy for Life, said it “challenges the whole world” to reopen debate about the need to protect life. Abortion is legal in Italy and most of Europe.

In an editorial Saturday entitled “For Life, Always,” the Vatican’s editorial director, Andrea Tornielli, called for that debate to move away from polarized ideology to a dialogue that takes into account concerns about maternal mortality rates and helping women, especially poor ones, with paid parental leave and other assistance when they bring children into the world .

“Being for life, always, also means defending it against the threat of firearms, which unfortunately have become a leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the U.S.,” Tornielli wrote.

Farrell, in his closing remarks at the end of the Mass, thanked Francis for his many initiatives in favor of families, citing in particular his teaching on the value of grandparents and his “many pronouncements in defense of life.”

Playing The Fearful End Time Race Card

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press

https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/209618/reconsidering-the-apocalyptic-left-behind-series

The Judeo-Christian World is sustained on Fear Of Other. What are its merits? Suposedly Jesus was spreading a radical teaching, that was so dangerous, un-named powers gave Saul-Paul the authority to hunt down members of the first church, and torture and kill women and children in order to get them to “denounce their Lord”. Then, Paul encounters Dead Jesus, has a change of heart, and becomes the Leader of Christianity. Will we see an Arab radical killer become the President of Israel? Will this Arab President bid his people to convert to Christianity, and thus the Jews will be spared during the Tribulation like Tim and Beverly La Haye predicting in their terror-filled books?

Almost all Evangelical prophets and leaders do not want Jews, to remain Jews. Netanyahu knows this, as does every Jewish Rabbi. Yet, the Judeo-Christian-Voting-Right is going to play their evil game of Liars Club in order get votes – and stay in power. What does God have to do with it? Denying people of their rights and freedoms is what Benee and Trumpee are all about! They are mentally, fucking, ill! Was Saul-Paul mentally fucking ill? Was he a mass-serial-killer? If so, why would Jesus make him the head of his church? Wouldn’t the survivors of his evil purge – leave the first church in droves? Yes! And they did! The Jews walked out of Paul’s church that would persecute them ever since!

Jesus was not teaching a radical teaching as depicted. It is pure fiction designed by Paul in order to wrestle the Judaic First Church away from the Jews, and go on the road with it – for money! Trump tells Republican Jews, Netanyahu is their president. Trump is fucked up in his head. He is a dangerous lunatic!

John Presco

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/07/donald-trump-jewish-vote-2020-1260172

LAS VEGAS — Republicans are planning a multimillion-dollar offensive aimed at fracturing the Democratic Party’s decades-long stranglehold on the Jewish vote.

Spearheading the push is the Republican Jewish Coalition, which receives substantial funding from casino mogul and GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. On Friday morning, the group’s board members — many of them prominent Republican Party donors — gathered in a conference room at Adelson’s Venetian resort, where they were briefed on plans for a $10 million-plus blitz geared toward attracting Jewish support for President Donald Trump. The investment, people familiar with the early discussions say, will far surpass what the group has spent in past presidential elections.

Tim LaHaye, one of the best-selling writers in American history, died July 25 at the age of 90. Along with Jerry B. Jenkins, LaHaye, a prominent Evangelical minister, co-authored the Left Behind series—16 novels about a vision of the Christian end-times that have sold a combined 63 million copies. For comparison’s sake, that’s 13 million more copies than Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 100 Years of Solitude.

And had it not been for an Introduction to American Studies lecture I took in (probably) 2008, this literary phenomenon would have passed me by entirely.

I forget much of what I read in college, but the first Left Behind novel—and snippets of the climactic scene of one of the final Left Behind novels—are drilled into my memory. And why wouldn’t they be? People get raptured off of an airplane in the series’ very first pages, the Antichrist (a power-hungry Romanian politician named Nicolae Carpathia) uses his position as secretary general of the United Nations to impose an anti-Christian secular world government, and the whole thing culminates in a phantasmagoric battle over Jerusalem. It’s a beach-ready, conspiracy-heavy invitation to envision the end of the world. What could be more exciting—or more baffling?

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The 16 Left Behind novels tell the story of the period between the rapture and the return of Christ to Earth. In its telling of the apocalyptic war between Christian believers and the Antichrist, the series turns a particularly American version of an even more particularly Protestant eschatology narrative into the stuff of page-turners. Lest we get too carried away admiring Left Behind’s deft and even Dan Brown-like synthesis of the action novel with paranoia-tinged popular religious themes, the series has a notably bizarre attitude toward Jews.

In the books, Israel has made peace with all of her neighbors, and invented astounding, perhaps even miraculous, technologies that have made the desert bloom, thus fulfilling two crucial prerequisites for the authors’ vision of the end-times. Nicolae Carphatia is assassinated by an Israeli botanist named Chaim Rosenzweig (don’t worry; Nic soon comes back to life as the incarnation of Satan himself), and a Jew and rabbinic scholar named Tsion Ben-Judah is one of the heroes of the series’ apocalyptic final battle. The Jews even get to rebuild the Temple at the start of the “Tribulation,” or the seven years of the Antichrist’s persecution of religious believers.

As author Glenn W. Struck notes in Mark of the Beast: Left Behind and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity, there’s some unsavory theology hovering just in the foreground here. “LaHaye and Jenkins’s attitude toward Jews reflects the carefully nuanced viewpoint of dispensational prophecy belief,” he writes, using the scholarly term for the Protestant end-times theology that the Left Behind series novelizes. “Prophecy writers insist they are philo-Semitic, supporting the state of Israel at every opportunity. Yet their attitudes toward Judaism as a religion, along with their attitudes toward individual practitioners, reflect the latent, although occasionally more obvious, anti-Semitism found in the history of dispensational prophecy belief.”

In other words, the Jews are tolerated and even celebrated in Left Behind because of their role in bringing about another religion’s messianic redemption, which occurs at the expense of the Jews’ metaphysical truth-claims and their existence as a religion and a people. “When Jewish people such as yourself come to see that Jesus is your long-sought messiah, you are not converting from one religion to another, no matter what anyone tells you,” one character tells a terrified group of Israeli Jews before the final battle against Carpathia in Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle for the Ages. “You have found your messiah, that is all.”

Maura Spiegel, a senior lecturer in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, explained that she assigned sections of the series to my class back in 2008because of the troubling divisions it suggested within contemporary American life. She believes there is pedagogical value in exploring the cultural dissonance the series embodies, especially for students at a liberal arts institution who are unlikely to really ever meet or even think about the Left Behind-reading demographic in non-abstract terms.

“Something in the mix of this religious narrative with this sort of low form intrigued me besides just the fact of its enormous popularity and the reality that most of the books were not sold and still are not sold on the East Coast,” she explained, suggesting that you might have to put a little extra effort into finding copies of Left Behind in the Godless Northeast. “It felt to me like, we don’t know about this. This is a massive event occurring off of our radar.

“One conclusion is that we are living in separate realities in this country. And we’re seeing it right now playing out bigger than it’s ever played out with this presidential election. It’s like two different languages.”

LaHaye wrote a work of titillating apocalypse porn, a trashy epic of conspiracism and fundamentalist wish fulfillment. Yet Spiegel’s observation of the book’s separateness from the secular American mainstream implies a certain responsibility to find a more sympathetic reading of the man and his work.

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At its core, the Left Behind series posits that through individual and collective effort, and faith in God’s pre-ordained historical order, the world and the soul can transcend the violence and corruption afflicting them and affect a utopian redemption right here on earth. It’s a fine message. But the series poses a troubling final question: Does such a message have to come at everybody else’s expense? And would the series be as popular as it is if it didn’t?

For East Coast college students—and particularly for Jews—the runaway popularity of the Left Behind series might motion towards the dark inner yearnings within some substantial number of our fellow citizens, who are treated to the vanquishment of secular pluralism, and the attendant triumph of an evangelical theory of history and reality itself. It’s a story that ends with the Jews being subsumed into non-existence, and that’s after it’s demonstrated that their entire purpose was to bring about the return of another religion’s messiah in the first place. But horror is an insufficient response to LaHaye’s work, which was an apparent source of inspiration to millions of productive, law-abiding, utterly normal, and outwardly tolerant Americans. It’s easy to understand the appeal of Left Behind, which is an addictively readable melding of the lowbrow thriller with high theological drama. But in deference to the literary tastes and fundamental worldview of tens of millions of Americans, let’s try, momentarily, to find what’s good about them, too.

The best thing that can be said about the Left Behind series is that it’s a work of optimism. The saga begins in a world that’s utterly mundane and disenchanted, yet governed by a hidden and inevitably redemptive metaphysical order. It’s not just that history has meaning—it has a happy ending too, even if it’ll take 16 volumes and a Tribulation and war with the Antichrist and the deaths of several main characters to get there.

And you, reader, will have a happy ending as well. Messianic return and eternal life are coming, and there’s no need to fret in the meanwhile, even in your fallen and impure state. The heroes of the Left Behind series aren’t the raptured, but flawed souls here on earth who are tasked with the real heavy lifting of redemption. Imperfection is not damnation in the Left Behind books. To be “left behind” is a marker of an individual purpose, itself joined to a higher metaphysical duty.

These are worthy, ennobling messages. But they’re packaged in a way that’s almost calculated to appall most liberal sensitivities—and to keep Americans living in different worlds, speaking different languages.

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