Posted on 12/10/2015 1:05:46 PM PST by BlatherNaut
With a sense of disgust, but of course not of surprise, Yours Truly reads all those paid bloggers, and paid journalists, who are now trying to minimise the gravity of what has happened two days ago. They all perfectly well know that their grand-grandmothers, and all their ancestors before them, would have been utterly horrified at such an exercise; but they consider themselves smarter than their grand-grandmothers, and are therefore not bothered (or else they are prostitutes; one of the two). I do not know whether the grand-grandmothers were smarter, though they very probably were; what I know is that their elementary piety puts to shame the faithlessness of our time.
Firstly, the secular element: the probably most beloved and certainly best known sacred building of Catholicism has been gravely abused to push an entirely secular agenda. If one has no sense of scandal and horror at this, clearly he has lost every notion of the sacredness. The fact itself that St Peter was used as a canvas for such a show must horrify you whatever the motive of the show. Now, in this case the motive of the show was rubbish itself. But the scandal would have been there even if the motive would have been smart - say, the fight against excessive taxation - because the issue would have remained: you do not abuse sacred buildings to promote political issues.
Secondly, the (ir)religious element. The show clearly sent a signal of "it's so awesome there are many religions", in that he promoted the cultural multiplicity of a world that rejects Christ.
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Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of
God.
Amen, brother.
Bloggers suck.
;-)
Christianity doesn’t have sacred buildings. That’s a Jewish/Muslim thing.
I’ll never believe that Benedict elected to retire himself.
I forgot my sarc tag. I agree with your point.
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