How fortunate it is that killing other people isn’t a mortal sin.
The New! Improved! Catholic Pope has gotten some flack over being a member of the Hitler Youth when he was a kid, when the moral thing would have been to decline (yes, and then risk death in the concentration camps. The moral path is not always the easiest path to take, and you can't blame people for not taking it if they later repent their acts.) Now, given that (at least according to the Jewish heresy that he's just been appointed to lead) he's the voice of G-d, you might wonder if this means that G-d approves of moral relativism.
Well, apparently so. Last year not-yet-Pope Ratzinger sent out a threatening letter to American Catholics, telling them that it was sinful to support a Catholic politician who supported abortion rights. Trivial things like false witness and supporting preemptive war, well, the church disapproves (wink! wink!) of it, but it can be left up to Caesar's discretion and it's not sinful to support a (non-Catholic) politician who does it. And, after all, Hitler may have been a bad man, but he disapproved of abortion, and that trumps the deathcamps right there.
It probably doesn't hurt that non-Catholics are taking the brunt of the horror in both cases. Pope Ratzinger hasn't traditionally shown much respect for anyone outside his faith (with the notable exception of Maximum Leader Genius, who, it should be noted, does disapprove of abortion), so the destruction of the Christian communities in Iraq (some of which are ancient and may have predated the Catholic church) are simply collatoral damage, and whether or not they are important are, once again, left up to Caesar's discretion.
Given Ratzinger's approach to the child abuse epidemic in the church (Waaa, the liberals are being mean to us!), must I also assume that child abuse doesn't count as a mortal sin, but just one of those things, like jaywalking, that doesn't really count?
Some Catholics may consider the appointment of the new Pope to be a terrible insult to the Catholic faith, but they're not thinking positively enough. You've got to think like a bigot; if you hate gay people and think that women should be nothing more than self-propelled incubators, G-d will let you sodomize children, lie, and commit mass murder on the flimsiest of pretexts!
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Dearest orc:
I am so very, drearily weary of you people riding and beating your bedraggled moral hobby horses all willy-nilly hither and yon across the modern socio-political scene. The Old Church is in Rebirth. The new Pope, Joey Ratz, "The Vatican City Madman", is sure to restore order, respect and discipline which have been lacking for far too long in this Corporation of such immense Potential.
Very soon, too be sure, cries of "Rack 'em and stack 'em!" shall ring throughout the Hallowed Chambres once more.
Indeed, the children are our future. Use them well.
Severly Yours.