44 Replies to “Is This The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose?”

  4. The little Beaner is a Bolshevik all right. The question should be, is he a Christian?

  5. Yes he is and you apparently feel perfectly comfortable showing a dark side yourself. Beaner???

  6. He is going to go down in history as the dumbest pope ever – and that is going some.

  7. “… why I’m Protestant …”
    You’ll have to be a bit more specific – that includes the United Church of Canada! 😉
    Ol’ Pointy Hat is just pulling a slight-of-hand: he’s using the climate change bullshit as a tool of political convenience to achieve his goal: wealth distribution to the poor countries where the populations are exploding and the RC church stands to gain an even stronger foothold.
    Nothing like relying on gullible atheists and dumb Protestants to finance the expansion of your empire.

  9. If the Pope wants to be a politician, perhaps he needs a thicker skin. If he decides he wants to be a Pope, he loses my interest.

  11. Pope St. John Paul II would never have allowed those optics to have presented themselves having come from a communist dominated Poland.
    Pope Francis needs a little more media savvy; for projecting very mixed messages.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  12. The Wall Street Journal featured a page one article this weekend highlighting an alarming trend – ‘Europe’s Empty Churches Go on Sale’ as the number of attendees has diminished over many years.
    Journalist Naftali Bendavid reports “the closing of Europe’s churches reflects the rapid weakening of the (Christian) faith in Europe, a phenomenon that is painful to both worshipers and others who see religion as a unifying factor in a disparate society.” By example, the Netherlands is projected to close 2/3 of its Roman Catholic churches in the next decade.
    http://myocn.net/wsj-europes-empty-churches-go-sale/

  15. Pope Francis apparently not amused by ‘communist crucifix’
    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-apparently-not-amused-by-communist-crucifix-33337/
    La Paz, Bolivia, Jul 9, 2015 / 10:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- When leftist Bolivian president Evo Morales on Thursday presented Pope Francis with a “communist crucifix” – a carving of Christ crucified on the hammer of a hammer and sickle – the Pope appeared to say, “This is not ok,” while shaking his head.
    However, at a July 9 press briefing the Holy See press officer, Fr. Federico Lombardi, said that Pope Francis’ remark likely expresed a sentiment of “I didnt’ know”, rather than “This is not right.”
    Fr. Lombardi noted the lack of clarity in the audio of the exchange, and remarked that Pope Francis had been unaware the crucifix was a replica of a Spanish Jesuit.
    Shortly after his July 8 arrival at the Bolivian administrative capital of La Paz, Pope Francis made a courtesy visit to Morales at the Palace of Government. At such meetings, the leaders customarily exchange gifts; Pope Francis gave the Bolivian president a mosaic of the Marian icon of the “Salus Populus Romani,” her role as patroness of Rome.
    Morales explained what his gift to the Pope was as he gave it to him. In the video, filmed by the Vatican Television Center and transmitted throughout the world, the Pope appears to be saying “No está bien eso” – “This is not ok” – while shaking his head.
    The audio is a bit marred by the clicking of journalists’ cameras, leading to some debate over what the Pope actually said.
    The cross with a hammer and sickle is a reproduction of another carved during the 1970s by Fr. Luis Espinal Camps, a Spanish Jesuit who was a missionary in Bolivia who was killed in 1980 during the Bolivian dictatorship.
    Fr. Lombardi claimed that Fr. Espinal’s use of it was not ideological but expressed a hope for dialogue between communism and the Church.
    Morales’ gift has sparked a worldwide controversy, and reactions were not long in coming. The majority of them accuse Morales of trying to politicize the Pope’s visit.
    Morales is head of Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism party, and his adminstration has focused on implementing leftist policies in the nation. Since coming to power in 2006, Morales has frequently sparred with the Bolivian bishops.
    Catholics from various Hispanophone countries rejected Morales’ gesture, considering it offensive to the numerous victims of terrorist groups in Latin America and of the historical totalitarian communist regimes.
    Bishop Jose Munilla Aguirre of San Sebastián, a Spaniard, tweeted: “The height of arrogance is to manipulate God in the service of atheistic ideologies … Today, once again: #ChristCrucified”.
    Fr. Espinal – whose “communist crucifix” was the model for Morales’ gift to the Pope – was a journalist who advocated for human rights and democracy, continues to be a source of controversy in Bolivia.
    While en route from the La Paz airport to the presidential palace, Pope Francis stopped to pray at the location where Fr. Espinal’s corpse was found after his March 21, 1980 kidnapping and murder.
    “Dear sisters and brothers. I stopped here to greet you and above all to remember. To remember a brother, our brother, a victim of interests who did not want him to fight for the freedom of Bolivia,” the Pope said to those gathered at the site, after arriving by way of an open popemobile.
    “May Christ draw this man into himself. Lord give him eternal rest and may light shine for him that has no end.”
    Some regard Fr. Espinal as a martyr who lived the Gospel with the same spirit as Blessed Oscar Romero – who was martyred by right wing Salvadorans two days after Fr. Espinal’s death – while others claim the priest was a communist and became too involved in politics.
    Born in 1932 in Barcelona, Fr. Espinal studied both philosophy and theology before entering the Jesuit novitiate in Veruela in Zaragoza at the age of 17.
    The same year he traveled to Bergamo, Italy to study audiovisual journalism. After two years he returned to Spain and began to work for Spanish radio and television corporation TVE at the height of Francisco Franco’s rule.
    Fr. Espinola denounced the censorships placed on TVE under Franco and left Spain. He moved to Bolivia in August 1968, where he took over as chair in the journalism department of the Bolivian Catholic University, and later become sub-director.
    He was granted Bolivian citizenship in 1970, and over the course of the next 10 years worked in both the written and radio press, produced documentaries on social themes and got into screenwriting.
    As an avid defender of human rights, the priest cofounded the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights in Bolivia in 1976. During the 1971 military coup led by Hugo Banzer Suarez, Fr. Espinola intervened on behalf of persecuted and detained politicians and trade unions.
    In 1977 he participated in a three-week-long hunger strike to gain general amnesty for political exiles, validity of trade unions and the withdrawal of the army from mining centers.
    In 1979 Fr. Espinola founded the weekly newspaper “Aqui,” which was quickly dubbed “leftist” due to its anti-establishment views and vocal criticism of government corruption.
    As a result of his work, the priest was kidnapped by a group of paramilitaries March 21, 1980, while on his way home.
    According to police and reports at the time, the militants took Fr. Espinola to La Paz’s Achachicala slaughterhouse, where he was tortured for five hours before being shot 17 times. His body was found handcuffed and gagged the next morning.
    In 2007, Morales officially declared March 21 as the “Day of Bolivian Cinema” due to the priest’s contributions in the area. On that day, cinemas and television channels are obliged to show national films, particularly relating to the themes of human rights and indigenous peoples.
    Fr. Lombardi noted during a July 6 press briefing that no cause has been opened for Fr. Espinal’s beatification.
    It would appear that Evo Morales was attempting to make a highly political statement…ie creating a media stunt.

  16. Oh Gawd I forgot about that. I’m Anglican – normally identifying as high church, but with Francis in the Vatican, maybe sliding over to low church (it’s a trick only Anglicans – oh fine, “members of the Anglican communion” – can pull off).

  20. Hans, Pope Francis called right wing fundamentalist Christians “sick” and said that humans are turning the earth into a “pile of filth.” (Most of Vancouver Island is paradise…and a lot more natural than The Vatican!) The Pope sorely needs to do some soul-searching. I’m beginning to think he’s a U.N. plant, like Obama.

  21. This pope reminds me of the Renovated Orthodox Church that split from the Russian Orthodox Church and worked with and under the direction of the NKVD. I may be wrong but it does appear that this pope would fit in with that ideology.

  22. Pope Francis is as authentic as a 3 dollar bill aManchuran Canadate Pope a FAKE an a FRUAD Satans Choice for pope

  24. The Pope is ambushed by a three time popularly elected commie with an inappropriate gift and it’s the Pope who is at fault? The faux outrage on SDA is hilarious because most of the anti-Pope commentary is nothing more than the usual anti-Catholicism uttered by typical heretics and atheists.
    Jesus accepted the cross, the most obscene symbol of those days, and He will conquer the Marxist ideology, and its official creed – atheism.
    I’m certain the Catholic haters are/were equally distressed by Pope Leo XIII’s Quod Apostolici Muneris.
    “At the very beginning of Our pontificate, as the nature of Our apostolic office demanded, we hastened to point out in an encyclical letter addressed to you, venerable brethren, the deadly plague that is creeping into the very fibres of human society and leading it on to the verge of destruction; at the same time We pointed out also the most effectual remedies by which society might be restored and might escape from the very serious dangers which threaten it. But the evils which We then deplored have so rapidly increased that We are again compelled to address you, as though we heard the voice of the prophet ringing in Our ears: “Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet.”(1) You understand, venerable brethren, that We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning – the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever.”
    http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_28121878_quod-apostolici-muneris.html
    I don’t worry about the Pope or a Pope; I worry more about marxist libertarians masquerading as conservative capitalists. And then I remember that Jesus said the gates of Hades would NOT prevail against His Church.

  27. The pop worships the false religion of Envromentalism which demands the sacrifice of humans to their pagan deities the tree huggers/gronola munchers worsip during their dumb Earthday Celebrations

  28. This pope is just another hispanic victim as I can tell. He is head of one of the biggest fantasy clubs in the world. Bigger even than the head-hacker religion of peace.
    So many fools actually believe there is a divine being who is in charge of everything including the entire universe … so you can expect anything from these whacks. They are all collectives in their own right and they depend on obedience, extortion and fear to fund their operations.
    F**k them and their imaginary deities.
    Try living in the real world where things are … well …. real!
    Much less guilt and much more freedom.

  29. Mark 13 5-27 And JESUS said to them 5 Jesus said to them: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 6 Many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and will deceive many. 7 When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.
    9 “You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them. 10 And the gospel must first be preached to all nations. 11 Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
    12 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 13 Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
    14 “When you see ‘the abomination that causes desolation’[a] standing where it[b] does not belong—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 15 Let no one on the housetop go down or enter the house to take anything out. 16 Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. 17 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 18 Pray that this will not take place in winter, 19 because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.
    20 “If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them. 21 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it. 22 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 23 So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.
    24 “But in those days, following that distress,
    “‘the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will not give its light;
    25 the stars will fall from the sky,
    and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’[c]
    26 “At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 27 And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.
    this about sumsit all up

  30. “F**k them and their imaginary deities.
    Try living in the real world where things are … well …. real!
    Much less guilt and much more freedom.”
    Anything about acceptance, humility, modesty and decency?

  31. Doesn’t the conditions of your release prohibit use of the internet? Hope you are not frequenting playgrounds and swimming pools etc.

  32. Dirty Dogans? You are a delightful character, do people cross the street to avoid you? Spare us your nasty name calling.

  33. “F**k them and their imaginary deities”
    Another profound message from young Jaimie. After consultations with all the great theologians and Mrs O’Malley on her way to mass he decides to return to War Craft. It’s the ” real world where things are … well …. real!”

  35. The office of the Bishop of Rome has been embracing the wisdom of the world for many centuries now.
    Its errors have logically led to the type of liberation theology practised in South America. And, yes liberation theology does have proven Marxist influences in its history.
    Western Christianity has much to learn from its mistaken path and this is just another logical step toward its irrelevance.
    Protestantism will fare no better (check the United and Anglican paths) as its message continues to turn off the populace.
    There is a place for understanding humanity’s purpose. And, no, there is no salvation for doing the right thing in secular humanism. There are plenty of examples of failed systems which purport to be compassionate and the imminent collapse of the European welfare state will provide yet another valuable lesson to those dignity-challenged systems.

  36. Geez, you bigots are making me ashamed to be an Orangeman. And that takes some industrial strength shaming.
    On the eve of the glorious twelfth, all together now: “Oh, the colours bright and beautiful flew above the battle joined…”

  37. I agree with much of what you say.
    The Catholic Church is not alone, and as you say the United, Anglican, and the US equivalents to United and Anglican have embraced Marxism to some extent. Many of the smaller denominations such as the Presbyterian, some of the Mennonite churches, parts of the Lutheran, and others have also done so. It is as Paul in Calgary suggests, the churches have been infiltrated by the Dark One through the phoney Social Justice Marxist ideology and its partners the Gia crowd.
    This has happened before with the Eastern and Russian Orthodox Churches under the communists, and this is why we should not condemn the Catholic Church as an entity since it stood against the Communist attempts to take over the world. The Catholic Church will survive this infiltration after some hurt. We should only condemn this pope’s flirting with the radical left, apparently, as the article suggests, he was not impressed with the hammer and sickle/cross abortion he was presented with. I should add that I am not Catholic. So pick on this Pope if you will, but even with its faults and lapses over the centuries the Catholic Church has tried to help people.
    About environment, he is right in the sense that we should not abuse the earth’s resources with pollution, but he is wrong about man being the cause of climate change. climate has always changed or the dinosaurs would still be roaming the earth, Noah would still be fishing from the ark, and the Vikings would not have found grapes on the rock or planted grain on Greenland. You get my drift.

  38. I’m really not interested in what anyone who is not a practicing Catholic has to say about what they think the Pope is or is not. They are irrelevant. I am a practicing Catholic and will tell anyone who cares to listen that I believe that this Pope is a communist. He is dangerous to the free world and must be challenged and resisted. He obviously does not understand that the problems of latin America and many other poor countries are that way, not because of free enterprise, but because of cruel and despotic leaders. The world is not well served by this…Pope.

  39. Really John? You became protestant because of this Pope? You mean you were actually a practicing Catholic just before this guy became Pope? Somehow I really doubt that….. John – you don’t really know why you’re ‘protestant’ – do you?

  41. Tu Est Petrus! Francis may not be the best in presenting Catholic dogma, but then, he’s not asking for our vote! Is he speaking In Persona Christi, everytime he opens his mouth? I think not, but if you think he is going to give us tips on the stockmarket, you’re wrong there too. The guy who understands this mysterious man best, I think is David Warren over at Essays in Idleness – check him out.

  42. As long as we understand the Bishop of Rome represents a specific geographic area and not all Christian thought, we can get along as equals.

  44. Holy Mackerel , how do you do that? Read the invisible print between John Lewis’ lines?

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