What strikes me as especially significant is how outrageously, uncontrollably infantile are the people who are busily debating why the Pope met with Kim Davis and his gay friend from Argentina and what it all could mean.
These folks can’t bear the burden of taking responsibility for their own convictions and look to the figure of the Father (il Papa) to give them permission to have opinions. Saying “I support gay marriage because I believe that it’s right” is intolerable because they don’t know how to fill this “I” with meaning and authority.
The thought that their Papa has preferred another child (Kim Davis / gay friend) to them switches on the existential angst of a jealous toddler.
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It’s all about self-justification. The Pope is an “authority.” Kim Davis is a self-centered egotist who no one recognizes as an authority on anything. Unfortunately, some of her critics are in the same category.
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Absolutely. And needing approval from authority to hold opinions is infantile.
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