Sir Basil Hudson-Landry
And That's No Papal Bull!
I guess after being in the ring with those truly Machiavellian millionaires in the Vatican--trying to get them to diversify their portfolios and use at least some small part of their filthy lucre to be more socially active, to get The Church back to a more Sermon on the Mount/Yes, in fact, you ARE your brother's keeper kind of Christianity, on the theory that a Church that is not an advocate for the poor and downtrodden will become a Church that is increasingly irrelevant in an increasingly poverty-stricken and oppressed world--His Holiness figured taking a swipe at The Donald was punching well below his ex-nightclub bouncer's weight. Of course, I don't see that playing the Trump card will have much affect on the match, since the Republican base in general has never had much use for Catholics anyway, and most if not all the Evangelicals among them seem to have flocked to those "God Wants You To Be Rich NOW!!!" mega-church ministries where the theological interpretation of "The Lord helps those who help themselves" is "Help yourself to all you can grab and to Hell with everybody else!"
I need to thank Hello Chicago-Star Trek Forever for giving me the idea--he's the one who first posted a pic of the two them together (or, at least, the first one I saw), which led to my comment on same, and inspired this 'toon.
In fairness, even though the 'toon makes reference to it, I should point out more emphatically that Pope Francis does not support Liberation Theology, nor did he as the former Father and Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, and, in fact, has spoken out against it. However, his opposition would appear to be not against its social activism, but against its use in fomenting Marxist revolution. Which makes sense--godless atheistic communism not exactly being what the Catholic Church is all about. As a Christian, I'm not a proponent of Marxist revolution myself, and neither is my little activista here, either. If she's waving a Kalashnikov and got a copy of Che tucked into her bikini bottom, it's just to serve as a reminder that sometimes your enemies aren't nearly as annoying as some of the clowns allegedly on your side--the ones who seem hell-bent on proving that Marx was right when he said that as the rich grow fewer and richer and the poor become more numerous and poorer, and as the petit bourgeois begin to lose their place and be driven down into the proletariat, rather than make common cause against the common enemy they will become reactionary and cling even more desperately to the old ways in a selfish--and doomed--attempt to retain their position of small privilege. Which leads me to say that, in fairness, maybe I should also point out that The Donald didn't exactly say, "The Pope doesn't know everything!". But, screw that--I'm conducting psychological operations here, not practicing unbiased journalism.
And That's No Papal Bull!
I guess after being in the ring with those truly Machiavellian millionaires in the Vatican--trying to get them to diversify their portfolios and use at least some small part of their filthy lucre to be more socially active, to get The Church back to a more Sermon on the Mount/Yes, in fact, you ARE your brother's keeper kind of Christianity, on the theory that a Church that is not an advocate for the poor and downtrodden will become a Church that is increasingly irrelevant in an increasingly poverty-stricken and oppressed world--His Holiness figured taking a swipe at The Donald was punching well below his ex-nightclub bouncer's weight. Of course, I don't see that playing the Trump card will have much affect on the match, since the Republican base in general has never had much use for Catholics anyway, and most if not all the Evangelicals among them seem to have flocked to those "God Wants You To Be Rich NOW!!!" mega-church ministries where the theological interpretation of "The Lord helps those who help themselves" is "Help yourself to all you can grab and to Hell with everybody else!"
I need to thank Hello Chicago-Star Trek Forever for giving me the idea--he's the one who first posted a pic of the two them together (or, at least, the first one I saw), which led to my comment on same, and inspired this 'toon.
In fairness, even though the 'toon makes reference to it, I should point out more emphatically that Pope Francis does not support Liberation Theology, nor did he as the former Father and Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, and, in fact, has spoken out against it. However, his opposition would appear to be not against its social activism, but against its use in fomenting Marxist revolution. Which makes sense--godless atheistic communism not exactly being what the Catholic Church is all about. As a Christian, I'm not a proponent of Marxist revolution myself, and neither is my little activista here, either. If she's waving a Kalashnikov and got a copy of Che tucked into her bikini bottom, it's just to serve as a reminder that sometimes your enemies aren't nearly as annoying as some of the clowns allegedly on your side--the ones who seem hell-bent on proving that Marx was right when he said that as the rich grow fewer and richer and the poor become more numerous and poorer, and as the petit bourgeois begin to lose their place and be driven down into the proletariat, rather than make common cause against the common enemy they will become reactionary and cling even more desperately to the old ways in a selfish--and doomed--attempt to retain their position of small privilege. Which leads me to say that, in fairness, maybe I should also point out that The Donald didn't exactly say, "The Pope doesn't know everything!". But, screw that--I'm conducting psychological operations here, not practicing unbiased journalism.