Note: Andre Gregory and Wally Shawn are not cardinals, and have never dined with Scott Pruitt. One of Scott Pruitt's favorite hobbyhorses in his first year as EPA administrator -- and one of his excuses for jetting around the world for the fun of it -- was the dream of holding a great big
You see, this is how it happens. We don't call out anti-Semitic memes when our own side/friend makes them; then we act SHOCKED AND APPALLED when the Right points out our hypocrisy.
The meme about the "Old Testament" being super-specially problematic is anti-Semitic in origin (coming out of Catholic anti-Semitism), so for liberals and even worse atheists to be repeating it is bad news.
Its more complex than that. In many ways the Vatican Bureaucracy is set up to limit Papal power, because Lord knows there have been some crazy and bad Popes. The Pope is not a dictator, he is rather at the center of a wheel with each Spoke a different organization pulling in a different direction.
Plus, the Pope's word is only regarded as infallible under certain conditions and on certain subjects, usually simplified as "Faith and Doctrine." There is a rather long process to sending out an infallible deceleration, and it involves a lot of input from a lot of parts of the Church, and none have been sent out in decades.
Regardless, Climate science does not come under "Faith and Doctrine," so Pell would not have been condemned for speaking out against a Papal Encyclical. He would not have won many friends anywhere for doing so, however. Encyclicals are in essence official statements and are considered authoritative teaching, since Popes speak for the church. So Pell was in essence talking against the formal policy of the Church, which is like a Government minister talking against the formal policy of the Government. Looked down on, and you will get a severe but only in extreme cases would you lose your job over it and they may let you do it for Political or other reasons.
Yes maybe technically, but fuck him. My good karma and deeds far outweigh the pure intense extreme hate I have for ALL of these evil assholes. I just want them to go away, so we can all get back to some kind of normalcy
With somebody like Cardinal Pell, there's a bit of a tendency to overcompensate for little things like sexual crimes against children by going full on reactionary, not to say fascist, in the political arena.
The utility of that is that it guarantees that by the time official charges are filed against you, you'll have the full-throated (ahem) support of people from right-wing political parties around the world, who will then have a stake in smearing and silencing your accusers and derailing investigations against you, accusing your accusers of having a "political" motive for daring to suggest you've been a bad, bad boy.
Australia's Catholic establishment tends to be right wing only to the extent that Australia itself tends to be quite right wing--Australia is a secular society (indeed, oddly enough, the Parliament is more "Christian" than the country as a whole), and the odious Tony Abbott was the first ever Catholic to serve as PM.
The continent is dominated, not by the Church, but by the Murdoch press and the fossil fuel billionaires (can't have one without the other), the oligarchs in mining and extraction who are gleefully killing off the coral reefs and timberlands and wildlife in dear old Oz. So it's quite natural for Cardinal Pell to try to ingratiate himself with both the press and the oligarchs.
Of course, whether we're talking about Australia, the US, or Mother Russia, the oligarchs have found conservative religions--Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox alike--- to be critical allies as they've targeted democracy for extinction. These churches don't like democracy any better than the fossil fuel billionaires like it.
Anyhow, it turns out that if the right-wingers like you, often enough you can do stuff to children and get away with it.
Given the known practicality of the (serial) Dread Pirate Robert/s, he has probably noticed the increase in violent storms at sea and believes climate change is a thing.
be sweltering in 100 degree heat in the middle of May.Already here where I live (Mohave Desert) but much drier than it used to be.
116 in Death Valley a couple of days ago.
Oh, the horror of that pun
Mnuchin was busy?
That's some bride-of-Christ-al gown there!
I found it sorely lacking in cleavage.
You see, this is how it happens. We don't call out anti-Semitic memes when our own side/friend makes them; then we act SHOCKED AND APPALLED when the Right points out our hypocrisy.
The meme about the "Old Testament" being super-specially problematic is anti-Semitic in origin (coming out of Catholic anti-Semitism), so for liberals and even worse atheists to be repeating it is bad news.
To be fair, it was a long winter.
So why hasn't he fired Cardinal Pell? Science denier AND child abuser??
Its more complex than that. In many ways the Vatican Bureaucracy is set up to limit Papal power, because Lord knows there have been some crazy and bad Popes. The Pope is not a dictator, he is rather at the center of a wheel with each Spoke a different organization pulling in a different direction.
Plus, the Pope's word is only regarded as infallible under certain conditions and on certain subjects, usually simplified as "Faith and Doctrine." There is a rather long process to sending out an infallible deceleration, and it involves a lot of input from a lot of parts of the Church, and none have been sent out in decades.
Regardless, Climate science does not come under "Faith and Doctrine," so Pell would not have been condemned for speaking out against a Papal Encyclical. He would not have won many friends anywhere for doing so, however. Encyclicals are in essence official statements and are considered authoritative teaching, since Popes speak for the church. So Pell was in essence talking against the formal policy of the Church, which is like a Government minister talking against the formal policy of the Government. Looked down on, and you will get a severe but only in extreme cases would you lose your job over it and they may let you do it for Political or other reasons.
Yes maybe technically, but fuck him. My good karma and deeds far outweigh the pure intense extreme hate I have for ALL of these evil assholes. I just want them to go away, so we can all get back to some kind of normalcy
Well, now we know what that sound proof phone booth was for.
With somebody like Cardinal Pell, there's a bit of a tendency to overcompensate for little things like sexual crimes against children by going full on reactionary, not to say fascist, in the political arena.
The utility of that is that it guarantees that by the time official charges are filed against you, you'll have the full-throated (ahem) support of people from right-wing political parties around the world, who will then have a stake in smearing and silencing your accusers and derailing investigations against you, accusing your accusers of having a "political" motive for daring to suggest you've been a bad, bad boy.
Australia's Catholic establishment tends to be right wing only to the extent that Australia itself tends to be quite right wing--Australia is a secular society (indeed, oddly enough, the Parliament is more "Christian" than the country as a whole), and the odious Tony Abbott was the first ever Catholic to serve as PM.
The continent is dominated, not by the Church, but by the Murdoch press and the fossil fuel billionaires (can't have one without the other), the oligarchs in mining and extraction who are gleefully killing off the coral reefs and timberlands and wildlife in dear old Oz. So it's quite natural for Cardinal Pell to try to ingratiate himself with both the press and the oligarchs.
Of course, whether we're talking about Australia, the US, or Mother Russia, the oligarchs have found conservative religions--Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox alike--- to be critical allies as they've targeted democracy for extinction. These churches don't like democracy any better than the fossil fuel billionaires like it.
Anyhow, it turns out that if the right-wingers like you, often enough you can do stuff to children and get away with it.
To quote a friend of mine quoting her Korean Buddhist preacher..."yes, it was not very enlightened, but it was very in the moment."
Word.
Given the known practicality of the (serial) Dread Pirate Robert/s, he has probably noticed the increase in violent storms at sea and believes climate change is a thing.