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Friday, November 21, 2008

STFU

The "Black Pope" (a.k.a. the Jesuit Superior General) needs to shut the hell up. As a priest used to say to one of my friends, "If you don't open your mouth no one will ever know how truly stupid you are."

The Black Pope has been mouthing off that Liberation Theology “is a courageous and creative response to an unbearable situation of injustice in Latin America. As with any theology, it needs years to mature. It’s a shame that it has not been given a vote of confidence and that soon its wings will be cut before it learns to fly. It needs more time.”
"Along these lines, some go so far as to identify God Himself with history and to define faith as 'fidelity to history', which means adhering to a political policy which is suited to the growth of humanity, conceived as a purely temporal messianism. A radical politicization of faith's affirmations and of theological judgments follows inevitably from this new conception. The question no longer has to do with simply drawing attention to the consequences and political implications of the truths of faith, which are respected beforehand for their transcendent value. In this new system, every affirmation of faith or of theology is subordinated to a political criterion, which in turn depends on the class struggle, the driving force of history."
-CDF, Libertatis nuntius
Roma locuta est, causa finita est. Move the fuck on... After all, Judas Iscariot was looking for a socio-political messianism...