Timothy Birdnow

Homosexuality is a mortal sin according to the Catholic Church. A person who is vociferously homosexual is ex-communicated by the laws of the Church. So why is this guy even a priest, much less receiving honors?

I'll tell you why, because he's a BLACK gay priest and the Church is terrified of defrocking him.

FTA:

I guess this theological society hasn't read their Bibles:

That couldn't be any clearer. This theological society is celebrating someone the Bible proclaims "unrighteous".

And worse he's a Liberation Theology guy. A Marxist - racist who demands the world bend to HIS will, not to God's.

Here's the kind of batguano this guy spews:

No, God's vision for the world is one in which all come to Christ, all seek His face and make the arduous trek to the prize at the end. God isn't a God of success and benefits, as he seems to believe. He's not Santa Claus, seeking to bestow whatever someone's little heart desires on them. While God wants to give us good things He has a larger purpose for us here and what this "priest" is doing is desacralizing life and even God. Life is about the salvation of souls; the here and now is simply a vehicle to that end. Life is short - Paul called it "our momentary, light affliction" and compared it to labor pains in a woman who forgets all about them as soon as her child is born.

This isn't to say that we aren't called to help others and be kind whenever possible but that is as much, nay more, for our own benefit than the benefit of others. God Himself needs no help with anything. Ass I pointed out in The Cruelty of Caesar's Charity years ago it was God Himself who created poverty (and of course race and nation) and God can solve it any time He likes. But it serves a useful spiritual purpose - to teach US charity. Making ending poverty or racism or tribalism or any other thing near and dear to the heart of most liberals the primary goal is to grossly misunderstand God's purposes. And those efforts are doomed to fail because they are being done purely in human strength. God does not bless such efforts because they elevate a new god before HIm.

That's why we've spent billions of dollars on the "war on poverty" and have more poverty to show for it; we didn't ask God to bless our efforts, and we committed a crime - we stole money from taxpayers to fund these programs against the will of said taxpayers.

That is what Liberation Theology is - covetousness and envy put forward as a high moral principle. It is not spiritual in nature. In fact declassified documents from the KGB showed they created it to splinter off Latin America from the U.S. so they could subvert the Latin American nations and turn them red. Pope John Paul II wisely suppressed LT and Pope Benedict did likewise. Francis brought it back and now Leo is nurturing the jackal child.

I own the DVD for the television show Evil and was watching it the other day. This particular episode saw the lead character David being tempted from the priesthood by a former priest turned protestant minister. His argument was that David would be free of all the rules and demands of the hierarchical church, and "if you want to do something you just do it". He mentioned how his church had organized a group to go to a Black Lives Matter protest. David, who was black (both of them were) was sympathetic to the social gospel being preached, but only to a point "what about the supernatural" to which the minister replied "oh, the hocus pocus" and made his contempt for the spiritual side of Christianity clear. To him Christianity was essentially a welfare and social justice program and nothing more.

That was an excellent scene in the show because it showed the differences between liberal Christianity and the traditional conservative Christianity; the liberals don't worry about the hereafter or about following the word of God so much as about what they deem to be "love" and that love moves as fashions in society change. There are no permanent things to the liberal Christian. There is no real need to save souls but rather to save bodies alone. In their way of thinking all are saved, God will not turn any away, even those who are evil. It is a very unchristian philosophy; Jesus warned repeatedly about the terribleness of Hell and damnation. He came and suffered and died to try to keep people out of Hell, but He can't do it alone - people have to want to accept His salvation. Too few do. Certainly guys like this "queer priest" doesn't want it.

There is absolutely no point in the social gospel type of Christianity. There are far more entertaining things to do if you remove the spiritual aspects of Christianity from it; may as well just have a secular social service club. They at least will let you drink beer while you are working...

That is why the Church keeps seeing declining membership (and that is why the Catholic Church is so eager to get immigrants from Latin America - they want to shore up their donations and can't figure out how to do it while preaching a content-free version of Catholicism). The Church offers an increasingly content-free product. It's like Falstaff Beer. Falstaff was a brewing company owned by the Lemp family and they had a very predatory practice, targeting breweries in small towns, undercutting those breweries, then bankrupting them and buying them for pennies on the dollar. Falstaff forgot one important point - the beer. They let the quality slide, using cheap ingredients and cutting back on the amount of barley malt and hops. The product declined and sales declined and the brewery found itself overextended with a product nobody wanted anymore. In the end Falstaff couldn't pay their bills and went bankrupt. The Catholic Church is following this very same trajectory.

They've cut back on the amount of spiritual barley-malt and moral hops and now their product is insipid and nobody wants it anymore.

So the Church is turning to guys like this "queer priest" to give the faith an "edge" but that only brings the enemies of Christ in - not the target audience. The Church is not a social club, not a service organization, and not a place of entertainment. Gut the deeply spiritual, stop talking about sin and damnation, angels and demons, right and wrong and you wind up with Falstaff. Insipid, flavorless, content free. And souls are perishing because the Church refuses to tell them that they are.

We need to start formally excommunicating people like this. This is why we ended up with the pedophilia scandal in the first place; the Church refused to acknowledge the real danger posed by filling it's ranks with sodomites just so they could get warm bodies. They would fill their ranks with Godly men if they offered a Godly message, but they prefer friendship with the world over friendship with God.

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