“Our God is the God that creates novelties, because He is the God of surprises. It’s not Christian to walk looking down — as pigs do: they always go like this — without raising our eyes to the horizon, as if all our journey ended here, in the span of a few meters of travel; as if there were no aim in our life and no landing, and we were constrained to an eternal wandering, without any reason for our many toils. This isn’t Christian.”
Francis, looking down, like a ....
It’s like modern “art.” Meaningless random marks on a canvas, but celebrated by insane people as wonderful art. It can be interpreted any way you like, can mean anything you want, and therefore has no meaning.
The pope is speaking to nihilists, about nothing, because he is about nothing.
I’ve been thinking again. I’ve been thinking that the Right reacts to Bergoglio (spiritually) as the Left to Trump (politically). Except we know the spiritual, or lack of, is affecting politics, to a crescendo in America.
I reason also that Trump is despised for trying to restore tradition and common sense, while Bergoglio is trying to destroy Tradition and foreign thinking.
Nevertheless, the revulsion meter is running hot for this US Catholic.
And this is why I've never gotten the appeal of Catholicism. The head guy (Pope) is elected by other men of his equal to be the next contact with God and set theological, ideological, economic Vatican policies. I'm not berating Catholics, I have a problem with Vatican politics and leadership, and their situational morality.
Disclaimer: I'm agnostic or a deist on a good day. However, since I grew up, I've always tried to live my life based on Judeo/Christian values and ethics.
