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Edited on Wed Feb-04-09 10:50 AM by Peace Patriot
that is, pushed way, way over to the far fascist right, in order to prevent real change, when it bounces back to DINO-ization ('Democrat in name only'), where we are now. Our Forever War continues. Trillions and trillions of dollars are still being stuffed into the pockets of the super-rich and war profiteers. Corpo/fascism still rules, but has a prettier face and a few mitigations ("scraps from the table" thrown to the unemployed wage slaves and cannon fodder of corporate rule). Whatever you or I may believe about Barack Obama's intentions, that is the reality. We jump for joy when our president closes the medieval torture chambers at Guantanamo Bay--and who couldn't be joyful about that? (--still not closed, though, please note)--but the torturers and murderers of the prior junta escape scot-free of any consequences, and nothing has really changed as to the rule of law. What one president orders by fiat, another president can undo, and the next just do it again. As for the 'bailout,' Lord, FDR must be rolling in his grave, it is such a bunch of thieving 'robber baron' bullshit.
So-o-o, just as with the Bushwhack/DINO ugly dance, these fascist policies of the fascist Pope are aimed at preventing future reform--reform that is pushing up from the people, all over the world--in an institution that is even more corrupt than the U.S. government, and has been in need of a thorough cleansing for about 1,500 years (when the Church first became viciously sexist and hierarchical--and very un-Christian).
The reforms that are coming are threefold, and all have to do with the male self-worship and hatred of women that are polluting Christ's teachings: Women priests, bishops and potential popes; equal voice to women on Church birth control, abortion and marriage policies; acknowledgment that the notion that God is a man, and not a woman, is a mere projection of male ego and a grave theological error.
Like universal health care, and ending the Forever War, and dismantling corporate rule, here, the movement for these reforms in the Catholic Church has been building for some time--for at least five decades, since Pope John XXIII and the ecumenical movement (as is true of political reform here--building for about four decades, at least since Reagan). The fascist Pope's purpose is not to stop the reforms--he can't; the Church will simply die, if it doesn't reform (much like the U.S. empire is dying). His purpose is to DINO-ize the reforms--when the reform wave hits, to retain some aspects of male self-worship, and some ability of the patriarchs in the Church to control, direct and profit from women's sexuality and fertility. That is what the Catholic Church has been about, for some 1,500 years--hating and controlling women, and slaying the Goddess in God. Reversal of this grave and un-Christian and soul-searing error is the change that is coming. The Church prickdom has fought it with every fiber of their being. Now they have to prepare for, and try to undermine, this long, long-needed change.
The issue is not really this Holocaust-denying bishop--just as the issue with Bush & brethren was never gay rights, or "terrorism." The issue is CONTROL--of everything--to serve the power-hungry dominators of both religion and wealth. With weak reforms, the fascists can come back, time and again, to control our spirits and our minds, and/or to loot our coffers and force their evil--torture, mass death, vast criminality--upon us. So, in both cases--the Bushwhacks, and this Pope--they are pushing a fascist extreme in the face of great peoples' movement for fundamental change, so that people will be satisfied with minor and cosmetic change, to keep the fascist power structures of the world in tact.
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