Thursday, May 24, 2007
Pope makes people mad
On his recent tour of Brazil the pope said that Latin America had welcomed European priests who came with the conquitadore colonists. Brazilian Indians called the pope's comments 'arrogant and disrespectful.' Many have demanded an apology (including Venezulean president Hugo Chavez), and he came close by acknowledging in a recent audience that "It is not possible to forget the sufferings and injustices inflicted by the colonizers on the indigenous population, whose fundamental human rights were often trampled upon."
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The Papacy is not about the personal level, even though it likes most to be thought of as such. The Papacy is a political corporate persona. So, when you say that European PRIESTS came with the conquistadores, it wasn't always that way: but rather that the conquistadores were shanghied into the service of spreading the Gospels according to the Papacy. The ideal and paradigmatic presumption of the Christian Church in taking whatever destructive measures it pleases to further the Christian Conquest can be seen from its first experimentation with the Pagan Irish.
In general Papal treachery (See 2.b. irish-criminology.com) was know to the Gaelic Chiefs, who had given so much to the Monasteries and the innumberable and insatiable 'religious orders'. Despite their primal generousity, the Papacy arrogantly and unconstitutionally sold them into slavery to the emerging English for a rental per household.
Since the 12th century, when the intentional malice of the Papacy agasint the native pagan Gaels became evident, they (the Catholic Priests and Bishops) have governed Ireland unconstitutionally and illegally and having taken in by force, it is perfectily indicative that no 1,000 families currently speak the native Gaelic language, even though it is 'the official language' of the Irish.
Moreover, it is foolish to think that whatever the Pope says, that it is somehow in accord with the actions of either the Pope or the Jesuits or the other endless orders , who seek to interfere in native cultural and political affairs.
There is hardly a country at the moment that is not at war because of Catholic (rather than Christian) militarism. The Orthodox and Evangelical churches never shared the same world-wide messianic intent of the Papacy. Some are even ashamed to be associated with it. But that neither deters the Papacy nor amelioirates christianity generally for the enless enormities it promotes in the name of Jesus.
The political level of the Papacy (Black and White Pope) has , for far too long, escaped critical appraisal by students of political economy and world affairs. Isn't it time to come clean about Christianity, its endless and unaccountable 'charities', its political universities and institutions, its land and other possessions, and its multi-centred attacks on secular life and politics across the globe. The machinations of these religious orders, not just the Jesuits, the Redemptorists , the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Sisters of Mercy, etc. etc., need much greater scrutiny than hitherto they have received. In marginal areas and places like East Timor, Phillipines, Tibet, India , Vietnam, Korea, Venezuela, and the Lebenon, they should be routinely scurtiniesed for their expansive techniques invariably following some Papal outcry of lack of 'freedom' to expand.
The Catholic Chruch is, after all, the biggest corporation in the world and the greatest threat to indigenous cultural paradigms.
Seamus Breathnach
www.irish-criminology.com
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