Pope Speaks Out Against Middle East Peace Talks

According to the Pope, “spe salvi”.

This is the title of his latest infallible rant, and is a small nugget of Latin taken from the Bible, where it means “in hope, we are saved”, apparently. (As is my way I’ve linked there to the full rant, not the little snippets in the news.) So what does the Pope have to say for himself this time? Let’s take a look.

Here’s some from section 42, in-keeping with the Christian tradition of numbering all text:

The atheism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is’”in its origins and aims’”a type of moralism ... If in the face of this world's suffering, protest against God is understandable, the claim that humanity can and must do what no God actually does or is able to do is both presumptuous and intrinsically false. It is no accident that this idea has led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice; rather, it is grounded in the intrinsic falsity of the claim. A world which has to create its own justice is a world without hope.

Here, the Pope explains that mankind should not try to deliver justice or alleviate suffering. Presumably he thinks all laws should be repealed, all governments shut down, all charities disbanded (which would be a cunning way out of the Amnesty International-shaped hole he dug himself into all those months ago), and all peace talks immediately halted: they are presumptuous, after all, and grounded in the intrinsically false idea that mankind can and must create its own justice.

He really would rather live in the middle ages, wouldn’t he? He’s essentially saying that we should just sit back and watch the world go to hell in a handcart while we sit around being insufferably pious until the biblical “Last Judgement” rolls around and we all get to live forever in paradise. Which to be fair sounds like a terrific plan as long as we can rely on the eternal paradise bit actually happening.

The nerve of the man to accuse atheism of being “intrinsically false” when he believes an invisible wizard from space is going to individually judge everyone in the world and actually physically resurrect all the ones who’ve obeyed his arbitrary set of rules to live forever in an earthly paradise to which, presumably, the second law of thermodynamics does not apply. He criticises Marxism when his proposed solution is to sit back and do absolutely fuck all about the injustices and suffering in the world (many of which are created by his own organisation) and let an imaginary sky fairy fix everything with his magic wand.

I honestly think the Pope is one of the most dangerously insane human beings alive today.

Somebody explain to me why Catholics still exist. I can’t imagine what justification could possibly be given for supporting, even implicitly, this dangerous organisation when there are so many flavours of Christianity which don’t require you to listen to a word of the tripe spewed by the Vatican City.

Personally, I think Italy should demand the country back. Even if the Vatican refused, I think it’d be a pretty easy place to take by force.