Posted on 01/27/2017 5:39:31 AM PST by Kaslin
In a conversation about homosexuality a few years ago, a Catholic priest made a powerful observation. "Do you realize Heaven is full of gay saints?" he said. His point: The homosexual condition exists; the exercise is sinful. Those honoring God's law carry an especially heavy cross through life, and for that they are rewarded with paradise.
The atheist cannot separate the sinner from the sin because he doesn't acknowledge the existence of sin. What to do about those who condemn the sin but also demand that the sinner be loved? The atheist hates Christianity, and Christianity-haters have no problem purposely distorting the Church's teachings while slandering its leaders if it will advance their agenda.
Enter HBO and "The Young Pope." In the fourth episode of a ten-episode series, the implausible American pontiff Lenny Belardo, or Pope Pius XIII, proposes to Cardinal Angelo Voiello, a "reformist" prelate who wants to manipulate the eponymous young pope, that all the gay priests be drummed out of the priesthood.
The script reads like a mudslinging advertisement against the Vatican.
The cardinal protests: "It would be a war that would leave the ground littered with corpses, Holy Father. Do you want to know how many corpses would litter the ground?" The pontiff replies, "Two-thirds of the clergy." Since recent gay-activist surveys plot the LGBT segment of the adult population at 3.5 percent, that number is ludicrous. Slander is never having to say you're honest.
But the conversation continues to smear the Catholic hierarchy. The cardinal protests, "Then what becomes of mother church's capacity for forgiveness?" Pope Pius shoots back: "With our abuse of forgiveness, we've become a laughingstock, Your Eminence. As unreliable as some miserable little third-world country." That insult clearly wasn't good enough for the scriptwriter, since the cardinal replies in kind, saying, "With your methods, on the other hand, we are likely to become as reliable as, say, North Korea."
So, take your pick. In HBO's opinion, the world's largest church is either a "miserable little third-world country" or North Korea, which is pretty much the same thing, the latter with a heavy layer of Marxist totalitarianism.
This malignant "Holy Father" doesn't recognize any rules. There's really nothing Catholic about him. In the first episode, when he goes ostensibly to confess his sins to a priest, he demands that the priest tell him the sins of other confessors, which is a confidence, or seal, priests are not supposed to violate. Then, still during confession, he asserts to God: "I do not believe in you. I don't believe you're capable of saving me from myself." When the priest expresses grave concern over this tidbit, he clarifies, "I'm saying I don't believe in God." Then he insists, "I was joking."
Vulture raved that comic book-makers should see this young pope as a model supervillain, as a "sadistically illiberal Batman." Even liberal critics see this pope as a "borderline anti-Christ." He's a powerful threat to everything Christlike in the Church.
The timing for this Vatican drone attack seems a little bizarre, considering how Pope Francis has been persistently pleasing to the left on environmental and economic issues. All this is such an outlandish caricature that HBO might as well just dress Bill Maher in papal vestments and be done with it. It couldn't be any more venomous than this claptrap.
Why would you support HBO, owned by Time Warner?
Time Warner consists of three divisions: Home Box Office Inc. (HBO), Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and Warner Bros.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Turner brands include CNN, HLN, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, truTV, Turner Sports, and more.
Paying for HBO is so 1980s.
It is.
Well maybe the ad guys totally did a poor job at selling me the premise, but the imagery they gave me was of some creepy, almost demonic freak that was looking to dissolve the catholic church from the inside and replace it with some neo-satanic cult order. And of course there were the suggestions of some sexual sub-plot. I really dont want to see that mixed in with a setting like the Vatican.
Not really a prude, just those two things are like oil and water for me.
Not that the CC has been pure and light its whole history, but in light of today’s state of the church and the west, I really got a bad impression that left me completely turned-off.
But I’ll watch some reviews and see if I’m just being a bit to squeamish.
I don't specifically support HBO. It is included in my satellite movie offerings from DirecTV, which is bundled with my AT&T internet, phone, and TV. I live in the country and this is all that is offered out here.
Gee, I must be supporting all those Lefty companies because I am online typing this comment in response to you, via one of those companies supplying my internet provider services. Not very sound logic.
Where do get your internet provider, TV and phone services from, some politically pure company untainted from the evils of the world?
I don't always agree with movies, or in this case a ten-part TV series, just because I watch them. It is impossible to escape and exclude the world out there we don't like unless we just withdraw and avoid what reality is.
I am not trying to convince you that this series is something that you shouldn't miss. But only that before you make a blanket pronouncement about it being "really disturbing" maybe you should think about seeing what it is about.
I have DirectTV basic with no premium channels. No Cell phone, landline only from CenturyLink and Internet only at work, and they use a local company for access..................
No land lines for over ten years, just cell phones. It's hard to locate my wife on the 30 acre farm from a landline inside the house. She doesn't carry a "land line" with her.
Its nice that your digital life is untainted by the outside world. But I bet you wear or drive or have things in your life that those dastardly liberals or foreigners have had a hand in making. It's hard to avoid it in the modern world.
So you're surfing FR from work? So am I...from the farm. I'm retired.
I’m in Ft. Walton Beach. We shop at Goodwills and Salvation Army, and other 2nd hand stores for clothes and household stuff, on weekends.
I drive a 14 year old car I bought used, and we do not go to movies or buy them, unless it’s used in the thrift shops, so no money goes to the original artists.
We watch mostly HGTV and DYI shows on the TV, and local news channels....................
Granted, the series is absurd, the premise laughable, and the script simplistic nonsense designed to support an all too typical leftist fantasy narrative about reality.
But I take issue with Bozell on two points:
1) Atheists do not “hate Christianity.” Some may, but Bozell forgoes a qualifier, implying that all do, which is clearly fallacious. Many atheists respect ancient religious traditions, and honor their important place in the world. For them, atheism is purely a personal matter of conscience.
2) Bozell seems to believe that the the 3.5 percent number for homosexuals in the general population coincides with its incident among Roman Catholic clergy. As a cradle Catholic whose aunt was a Mother Superior in the Dominican order and who counted two male relatives (now deceased) as priests, I have good reason to believe the Lavender Mafia has the hold on the church that it does because a large number of gays and lesbians are attracted to the “celibate” life the church offers. Percentage-wise, while I hesitate to assert a hard percentage, the number of homosexual men and women among Catholic clergy is certainly many multiples higher than in the population at large.
Yep. Sopranos was awesome as well. Not to mention Band of Brothers. Sure they have some “difficult to watch” shows but they’ve done some of the best work on Tv the last 15 years.
Well... it’s not an IMAM being shown.
Ya might accidently insult Mohamed in some fashion.
HBO is at least THAT smart!
GMTA
Hey!
I got one; TOO!
I hear there are a lot still available.
LIKE?
You've got filthy mouths and bad attitudes
We live on SS income, so we don't have much excess income. We shop at the thrift stores in the big city and always have, even when we worked in our career jobs. Buy and sell a lot of farm necessities on Craigslist for a fraction of store-bought stuff we need. We do all the work on the farm ourselves and have learned how to work on the tractors and equipment without outside help. I am currently wiring a hundred year old shed for electricity to make it more functional. I don't know anything about electricity except what I read in a book but have learned the basics of it and plumbing to get by here on the farm. Last month I replaced the well pump without help. We've learned to make do with what what's available since we don't have much money to throw around. But we live comfortably with a big garden, fruit trees, chickens and beef cattle for some food necessities.
My farm truck is 13 years old that I bought used before I retired. I do go to the movies occasionally when I go to the big city for my VA appointments. Yesterday I saw Patriots Day. Great patriotic movie.
Sounds like we have more in common than not.
You would hardly recognize the place.
We have lived here since 1981 and I hardly recognize the place from what was here when we got here!..............
I am from the West and am used to dry air. I have learned to tolerate the humidity here on the farm in the summer by taking frequent breaks in the house in the air conditioning. I no longer go on long training runs but physical activity outside when it is hot and humid is insufferable.
The humidity hasn’t changed..............
I got out of the Air Force knowing LOTS about electricity; repairing and maintaining racks of tube and newly transistorized equipment.
After four years and a marriage and buying an old house, I was ready to tackle problems.
The first was installing a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink.
I knew that Black was GROUND and thus White must be the power.
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It was a shocking experience to find that houses and 'tronics are; shall we say; a wee bit different!
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