The media loves Pope Francis. \u00a0I mean it. \u00a0They may take or leave John Lennon. \u00a0Kennedy might still be OK. \u00a0Martin Luther King, Jr. still has his holiday. \u00a0But they are absolutely mad about Pope Francis. \u00a0This is obviously because they see Pope Francis as being liberal, modern liberal, and ready to push the Church in the direction of the modern, post-Christian progressive movement.<\/p>\n
This movement, of course, is a heresy. \u00a0If Arianism was one of the greatest heresies according to orthodox belief, then the modern Left is all that squared. \u00a0After all, Arianism still placed Christ as the greatest of created beings. \u00a0He simply was not divine. \u00a0The modern left reduces him to a philandering son of a first century whore. \u00a0At best. If he existed at all. \u00a0Just like all other religions, ours is merely a collection of myths, lies, fairy tales and legends. <\/p>\n
With that, eternity is more or less irrelevant. \u00a0We probably all go to some happy place. \u00a0Or become worm food. \u00a0Either\/or, the salvation of humanity lies in moon colonies and intergalactic space travel. \u00a0On an individual level, it\u2019s more or less relegated to behind the stove, much less the back burner. \u00a0Really. \u00a0When was the last time anything in the modern, secular left even came close to acting like the hereafter held any importance at all?<\/p>\n
As a result, the here and now becomes the sum total of everything that matters. \u00a0And as my boys appraise it, the modern Left promises a world in which I am affirmed and celebrated, I get everything I want, with whoever I want, as often as I want. \u00a0And I shouldn\u2019t\u2019 have to struggle for it and if anything goes wrong, it\u2019s everyone else\u2019s fault. \u00a0Oh, and no stuffy noses or bruised elbows.<\/p>\n
To that end, free sexual indulgences without consequences is the bread and peace, meat and circuses of the modern left. \u00a0It is the carrot that it dangles before a population increasingly droning on like so many extras eloped from the set of the Walking Dead. \u00a0And in its continued assault on reality, the issue of homosexual normality has become the crux. \u00a0Not only does it fulfill the ultimate promises of unlimited sexual pleasures (without gay sex, you can\u2019t easily indulge in group sex), but it is the wedge between any traditional religious understandings of morality and modern understandings.<\/p>\n
And given that Pope Francis has repeatedly reserved his passions and anger for those things despised by the Left, while setting aside the sins of the Left as being those minor issues with which we can respectfully and lovingly disagree, it\u2019s not hard to see why the Left loves the man.<\/p>\n
After all, he could change Church teaching. \u00a0Catholics say it could never happen. \u00a0 But it has happened. \u00a0The Catholic Church today would be a foreign world if you dropped a 11th century Catholic in a modern parish. \u00a0And not just because of electricity and fashion. \u00a0The Pope, with the vested power of the doctrine of Infallibility, could conceivably change things. \u00a0The insistence that no pope could ever do so is, itself, a belief. \u00a0Even without invoking ex cathedra<\/i>, he can certainly tell the Church how to do things differently with almost anything outside of dogmatic utterances. \u00a0Hence the Death Penalty. \u00a0After 2000 years changed, with no real clear explanation for why. \u00a0Not one that makes sense anyway.<\/p>\n
But if Pope Francis doesn\u2019t change Church teaching, he\u2019s done enough. \u00a0As far as the press is concerned, and the majority of liberal Catholics who are loving it as well, he has made it clear that those sins associated with the Left are off the table. \u00a0Sure, in some old, dusty canon law book on a shelf somewhere, it is still wrong. \u00a0But does it even matter? <\/p>\n