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  • From: Robert Waldrop <bwaldrop1952@att.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Anti-catholicism, was Re: The people of Tibet need help now - Boing Boing
  • Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:55:43 -0700 (PDT)

I am not clicking on a link to read more anti-Catholic propaganda. I thought
this was a Permaculture listserv, not a place for rants from the professional
anti-Catholic crowd. if I were elected pope, ludicrous as that possibility
is,
the professional anti-Catholics would find plenty in my personal history to
make
noise with, egged on behind the scenes by all who would see my election as
dangerous to the status quo. The subliminal narrative of these anti-Francis
rants is exactly as I have fired back at you -- we must marginalize this pope
because he is dangerous to the world system of bombing, looting, and
destruction. And the forces behind it are not those of beauty, wisdom, and
truth, but instead they are the demons which prowl about the world seeking
the
ruin and death of all that is good, true, and wise.

I think the permaculture movement should not carry water for the
billionaires,
but instead welcome Francis as an ally.

People complain about JP II, maybe that's because he was one of the few world
leaders to unequivocably condemn the US aggression against the peoples of
Afghanistan and Iraq. And we can't have anyone challenging the right of the
United States government to kill anyone it wants, anywhere it wants, for any
reason it wants, right? Therefore, the Pope in Rome must continually be
marginalized as irrelevant, dangerous, contrary to the spirit of these times,
an
archaic hold-over from the past, etc.

Those who proclaim that JP II somehow has reneged on the promise of the 2nd
Vatican Council have obviously never read any of his encyclicals on social
issues, such as Laboren Exercens, On Human Work, or Solicitudo Rei Socialis,
On
Solidarity, or Centessimus Annus, The 100th Year, all of which, among many
things which could be cited, condemn totalitarian capitalism right alongside
totalitarian communism as dangerous economic errors. I have read those, and
studied them, as well as the documents of Vatican II, most particularly
Gaudium
et Spes, the Church and the Modern World, and I try as best I can to live my
life in accordance with the beauty and wisdom found therein. Those who
proclaim
that Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI have "reneged" on the promises
of
Vatican II haven't much of a clue what those promises were in the first
place,
nor what has happened with them since. Anyone who has studied the history of
the Catholic Church knows that it takes about one hundred years for the
reforms
of a Church council to work their way through the Church. And that is not a
joke. The Catholic Church is big and ancient, and despite the claims of many,
it
is much less centralized than most people think, both in and out of the
Church.

Did Francis do all he could have during the Argentinian troubles? I don't
know,
I wasn't there. If you're going to quote Monbiot at me, you should remember
that
Monbiot has decided that peak oil is a mirage, which gives me pause to wonder
about his observation abilities. Who writes his paycheck, I wonder. The
sudden
ferocity of the outburst against the new pope is interesting and I've been
wondering, "who's writing those paychecks?" Yes, I am saying that then
progressive/left get the same hermeneutic of suspicion treatment from me when
it
comes to mass media issues as much as Fox News and etc. I think the
billionaires
running the world system are pretty crafty, and I would not be surprised if
we
were eventually to discover that those who bomb, pollute, and destroy are
manipulating this smear campaign.

Whatever he did or didn't do, my question is, if he did wrong, or didn't do
enough right, has he repented and changed his life and learned truths for the
present? If he did right, has he learned from those lessons truths for the
present? In the meantime, on the world stage, he is saying some good things,
quotes that we can use. We should be happy somebody, anybody, with some
authority is saying the things he is saying about caring for Creation and
standing with the poor. Instead, we join in the cry of the crowd "CRUCIFY
HIM,
CRUCIFY HIM!"

Bob Waldrop
Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House
Oklahoma City
http://www.justpeace.org




________________________________
From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, March 19, 2013 2:29:31 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Anti-catholicism, was Re: The people of Tibet
need
help now - Boing Boing

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Robert Waldrop <bwaldrop1952@att.net>
wrote:
> Like I said, shut up that pope, keep him silent,. DO NOT ROCK THE WORLD
BOAT!
> Let's not do ANYTHING that might signal a break with the status quo.
Let's keep
> on bombing and polluting and killing. And while we're at it, let's shut
up all
> those other scheming Catholics out there feeding the poor and etc. They
are
> doing nothing but defending useless eaters anyway. The world would be
better
> without them, right?

Read this, Bob, and forward to others.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-EQ5DfDxGiKI/TtJsEj3jSxI/AAAAAAAABHE/cI4CUJL1z94/s451/171247_501568877152_579517152_6201709_5391004_o.jpg

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