[betty boop]

No, if you are honest with yourself, you will see that you view him primarily from the perspective that he’s some holy man, and then profess astonishment that someone else might view him from the opposite perpective, same coin, different sides

Not at all, 1000silverlings. People see what they see. But the criterion here is not what people see, from their viewpoint. The criterion is the Truth of God.

[1000 silverlings]

What “Truth of God”?

[Quix]

And the TRUTH OF GOD IN PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE about the END TIMES

and the TRUTH OF REALITY ON THE WORLD STAGE HAVE MET, COINCIDED MOST CONGRUENTLY, MOST IDENTICALLY AT ANOTHER SUPREME FULCRUM POINT IN ALL OF HISTORY.

imho, talking about the encyclical while refusing to face that fact is more than a LOT of folly.