I
am not surprised. I've been thinking that a subterranean effect of the scandal
in the Church would be to encourage radical elements to take it down
entirely--an attempt that has been ongoing, but which now will have added fuel
because of the scandal and the pope's completely ineffectual response to
it.
Jack Kemp adds:
Dana, you may also recall that I interviewed and wrote (at the
Aviary) about a Protestant clergyman in Manhattan who invited the Occupy Wall
St. crowd into his church and then promptly stole the church's Mac laptop (with
all their records on it) and the cover of their baptismal font. Before talking
to me, he went to the NY Post, not a left wing bastion, and complained in print
about these thugs who he originally thought were true Social Justice Warriors
instead of spoiled rich yuppies and other assorted crazies. The Occupy Wall St.
crowd, when also given housing in a church in Brooklyn, promptly urinated on the
floor of the church and trashed the place.
And from Dana:
Yep, that's usually what happens. You lie down with dogs
(well, not with Bijou), you wake up with fleas.
Leftists and liberals (and yes, sometimes there is a
difference, I'm told) always seem to evaluate everything based on the purity of
their own motives. That in itself is bad enough, but then they go further and
assume that everyone else will do so too. They are horrified when, as in the
case you mention here, it doesn't work out that way. But they seem to expect
that the next time it will.
"Gonna wake up tomorrow, be a whole new world out there."
Yessiree. (I should write a song but I'm sure millions of destitute songwriters
have beaten me to the punch.) Definition of insanity is. . . AND Lucy pulls the
football away once more.