I have to say that I find Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium to be absolutely vomit-inducing. The adoration of this disgustingly hypocritical piece of writing by some pseudo-Liberals is misplaced, stupid, and offensive.
Let’s see what the Pope has to say:
Yet we desire even more than this; our dream soars higher. We are not simply talking about ensuring nourishment or a “dignified sustenance” for all people, but also their “general temporal welfare and prosperity”. This means education, access to health care, and above all employment, for it is through free, creative, participatory and mutually supportive labour that human beings express and enhance the dignity of their lives. A just wage enables them to have adequate access to all the other goods which are destined for our common use.
Obviously, the only thing that can give half of the population of this planet access even to the mere hope of employment for a just wage is freely available contraception. Pope Francis heads an organization that is completely opposed to any form of birth control. Yet at the same time, he insists that human beings can only express themselves fully through working for a good wage. This can only mean one thing: for Pope Francis, women are not human. It doesn’t even enter his mind that the definition of humanity can include women, those same women who are excluded from free and creative labor compensated with a just wage if they are forced to get pregnant every year of their adult lives.
There is absolutely nothing in the world that prevents the Pope from reversing the Church’s unjustified position on contraception. As we all know, Jesus never said a word against condoms or oral contraceptives. Abortion was of no interest to him either. So the Pope could easily make it easier for all of the women who belong to his Church to “express and enhance the dignity of their lives.” He could but he will not because for him women are not people. What is even more disturbing is that, for male professors who gush over the Pope’s writings in class, women are not human either.
I have to say, I liked Pope Benedict more than Francis. He was a jerk and a woman-hater, but at least he was honest about it. He didn’t try to disguise his vile policies in the verbiage bound to attract the most brainless among Liberals.
Let’s see another excerpt from the exhortation that made my hair stand on end:
Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.
The viciousness of this piece of garbage is mind-boggling. His policies directly lead to the creation of an underclass of outcasts in Africa where HIV condemns crowds of people to exclusion. He believes that gay people deserve to become outcasts simply because of who they are. And then he writes a cute little speech and gets idiots to swoon with joy over his “progressivism’?
In his most recent book, even Žižek recognizes that those of his Marxist brethren who insist that every oppression is caused by economic oppression are idiots. Asking women, gays, and the HIV-positive to put their grievances aside and join in the self-promotional efforts of a guy who denies them basic humanity is offensive and wrong.
Before people gush about the beauty and importance of the Pope’s exhortation, they need to remember that he heads an extremely rich organization that for centuries has exploited the fears and the ignorance of the poor to bilk them for money. This organization’s core beliefs are hatred of women, gays, and representatives of other religions. It is within the Church’s power to start reversing its own hateful policies today. Until that happens, though, I believe that Pope Francis should spare us his saccharine platitudes.
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Hi Clarissa,
Allow me to use your tone and tell you that I find your post vomit inducing not only for your unfair interpretation, not to say extrapolation, of the texts you quoted but also for your lack of historical perspective in assessing how Pope Francis is to address the enormous and diverse changes needed in the ancient, retrograde Catholic Church. I haven’t read the Evangelii Gaudium and will do it when I have time. I will then express my views on what Pope Francis is trying to convey. In the meantime, two questions for you:
Just tell me one leader in the contemporary world who had tried to effect change overnight, as you seem to desire, in a contemporary complex organization and has succeded?.
I want to watch a tennis match right now and will continue in the next couple of days. Thank you.
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“Just tell me one leader in the contemporary world who had tried to effect change overnight, as you seem to desire, in a contemporary complex organization and has succeded?.”
– I’m not seeing ny efforts on the Pope’s part to effect any change. He is lecturing other people on the need to change yet never mentions how the activities of his own organization contribute to the ills he denounces. Which is precisely what my post is about.
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Almost a half of Haredi women in Israel work, and less % of men works. I am sure Catholic women don’t have more children than Haredi ones. And, as I heard, usual Catholics do use birth control, regardless of what the church says.
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“And, as I heard, usual Catholics do use birth control, regardless of what the church says.”
– That’s precisely why I talk of hypocrisy. The Church obligates the absolute majority of its followers to transgress in order to maintain a permanently guilty congregation that is permanently shelling out huge amounts of money to the Church to buy absolution. And then the leader of that Church – who runs around in hugely expensive vestments and lives in a palace – lectures others on greed.
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Interesting, at least he’s not alone at being a hypocrite.
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Yes, well of course, he is a Christian, so he speaks to the herd, who are be definition not morally discerning, but just enjoy safety barriers and are prepared to accept a lot of systematic ill-treatment so long as these are in place.
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“The viciousness of this piece of garbage is mind-boggling.”
Wonderfully ironic.
(Nice blog, by the way.)
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Let’s use terminology correctly, OK? There is no irony here, just anger.
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It is all true; gtood post.
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*good, I mean.
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My instincts are to agree with you here, but sadly, the Pope would likely say he is not opposed to birth control. Specifically, he would say that not having sex at all is the proper action when one does not want children. Xtians of all stripes seem to favour this method of contraception. This applies equally to everyone, and is not assuming that women are not human at all.
Of course, I personally find this a horrifying approach, but it is not anti-woman any more than it is anti-human in general.
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I’m not familiar with the details of what Catholic doctrine is today but historically, you are right, Catholicism imposed the idea that sexual desire even within marriage is sinful and that the only legitimate reason for married sex is to conceive. So I think you are right. Which, of course, doesn’t make this discourse of the Pope’s any better.
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It does not make it any better, but it does mean that he is not behaving hypocritically.
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He knows that it is not humanly possible to abstain from sex. I’m also guessing that he might have read the bible and knows that biblical teachings mandate regular sexual activity for non-reproductive purposes. So he’s still a hypocrite.
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Clarissa
For someone who has obvious influence on a great number of people worldwide do you think he is better or worse than his predecessor?
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I just read this great post on the impact of Pope Francis: http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2013/12/theyve-absolved-themselves-last-week-i.html A agree with this analysis fully. His is empty verbiage that is interpreted in a variety of self-serving ways. This is very fitting for a self-serving piece of writing.
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Superb post!
“I have to say, I liked Pope Benedict more than Francis. He was a jerk and a woman-hater, but at least he was honest about it. He didn’t try to disguise his vile policies in the verbiage bound to attract the most brainless among Liberals”
I’m totally in agreement with this!
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Thank you for the support. I fear I will be once again accused of hating Catholics although I believe I have made it abundantly clear that I detest all organized religions.
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Inspired by your post, although, verily, I was just waking up this morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKGm76VhUuI
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Since I’m not a catholic I don’t especially care about doctrine inside the church as long as it’s kept clear and separate from civil law.
On Pope Frankie, I think that the media is addicted to reformer narratives and pounces on scraps to make him seem like a reformer (whereas a real reformer has about as much chance of being selected pope as you do).
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“On Pope Frankie, I think that the media is addicted to reformer narratives and pounces on scraps to make him seem like a reformer”
– That’s exactly what I think. Ranting against the sins of others is easy. Acknowledging your own is much harder.
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Before we could ever listen to the advice of any Pope they must give the churches riches to feed the poor. Until they do that they are hypocrites of the umpteenth degree.
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