The Pope Strikes Back Against Liberalism

Folks,

The following essay, The Pope Strikes Back, by Theodore Dalrymple at The Salisbury Review in the United Kingdom deserves the reader's full attention. A few excerpts are most noteworthy:

A great deal of the hostility to the Pope’s visit was likewise caused by his having been right, at least in some things, such as the insufficiency of consumerist materialism as a basis for a satisfactory existence. There are few human types less attractive, surely, than failed materialists, which is what the British, or at least so many of them, now are. They consume without discrimination what they have not earned: which is why many of them are so grotesquely fat as well as so deeply indebted. Indeed, there is scarcely any kind of debt or deficit to which we as a nation have not resorted in order to continue (at least for a time) on our vulgar and degraded way. A nation that behaves thus is quite without honour or self-respect, collective or individual. All this Benedict XVI has seen with a perfectly clear eye; and if what George Orwell once wrote, that we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men, we might even call the Pope the George Orwell of our time.

Gratitude is seldom the reward of those who see an unwelcome truth more clearly than others; quite the reverse. But Benedict’s ‘crime,’ apart from being German, goes much further than his failure (or worse his refusal) to screen out the unpleasant consequences of consumerist materialism from his vision, which it is the duty of all right-thinking people. He lays down a ethical challenge to our utilitarian ways of thinking; in other words, he is a heretic to be excommunicated from the Church of Righteous Liberalism....

....It follows from this that, if the Pope should be arrested for crimes against humanity, so should the following categories:

Divorcees with children

Step-fathers

Single mothers

Feminists and all other proponents of lax marriage and easy divorce, including journalists

All legislators who have eased divorce laws and all government ministers who have either failed to support marriage by fiscal means or have actually weakened it by those means

All judges and other lawyers who have administered easy divorce laws instead of having refused to do so

All social workers and social security officials who have sought advantages for or administered payments to non-widowed single parents and no doubt many others.

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Yes, the Pope did strike back against godlessly wicked liberalism in his visit to the UK, and we should follow his example. Rampant divorce, fatherless children, sanctification of filthy sodomy, adultery, fornication, baby-murdering - all these crimes and more lay at the doorstep of liberals and progressives who know no limit to their nefarious malevolence. And yes, for these evil acts liberals should be tried for crimes against humanity. The blood of fifty million murdered babies in these United States alone since Roe v Wade cry out for justice. The open practice and sanctification of sodomy to a degree greater than that of Sodom and Gomorrah demand no less. The best liberal is the defeated, muzzled and emasculated liberal permanently incarcerated with no hope of escape for the remainder of his miserable life.