Why Pope Francis Adores Islam

You have to feel sorry for Catholics. Their new Pope seems more excited about Islam than his own religion.

Pope Francis also thinks that the Muslim-inspired attacks on Paris last year were due to income inequality, not religious or ideological hatred. He blamed those attacks on the fact that terrorists grow up in “ghettos.”

And they say that Donald Trump talks like an ignorant blabbermouth at a bar? Consider the rambling and raving of what passes for a Pope in the early twenty-first century.

Breitbart.com reports: The Pope has hailed the election of Sadiq Khan as “Muslim” mayor of London, claimed mass Muslim migration is “necessary” for Europe, and blamed Paris and Brussels for the attacks on European soil.

In an interview with French newspaper  La Croix, Pope Francis strongly implied that the terrorists who attacked Paris and Brussels did so because they “grew up in a ghetto.”

He also applauded the election of Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, stating it “illustrates the need for Europe to rediscover its capacity to integrate,” evoking “Pope Gregory the Great, who negotiated with the people known as barbarians who were subsequently integrated.”

Does growing up in a slum make you into a terrorist? What about all the people who grow up in a ghetto or slum and who do not become terrorists? Many go on to make something of their lives in science, business or athletics. How insulting to them, to claim that those who grew up in a slum and did become sadistic killers had no other choice.

The Pope is supposed to be an expert on morality. This view represents the most amoral approach to personal responsibility you will ever find.

Yes, this Pope is “cool.” The media and academic elites love him.  He is a Pope for our times, but that’s not a compliment, because we live in truly moronic times. Pope Francis has found the perfect blend of political correctness, self-effacing love of one’s most brutal enemies, and warmed over Marxist, victim-inspired socialism. He has blended them together to make a toxic stew which suicidal Westerners on both sides of the Atlantic seem all too ready to swallow.

Pope Francis is a fool. And I suspect a lot of Catholics know it.

Yet he’s in high profile company. Look at America’s president. America’s president has acted and spoken like a fool for eight long years; and a plurality would probably vote for him again.

Pope Francis also claimed Europe’s declining birth rate is a “grave problem” that makes mass Muslim migration “necessary.” He described this “demographic emptiness” as a result of “a selfish search for well-being.”

If a selfish search for well-being leads to emptiness, then what’s the alternative?

Should we all be in a selfless search for death and destruction, since the Pope finds the search for well-being empty? If happiness is empty, then are misery and suffering meaningful? Speak for yourself, Pope Francis. You might relish being miserable, but some of us seek to be happy.

The Church promises a utopia in life after death, so long as you follow the dictates of faith-based dogma while on earth. Marxism promises a secular utopia by joining with the collective and letting a totalitarian government rule every aspect of our lives.

Pope Francis promises both: Utopia on earth, via Marxism, as well as utopia after death. Like traditional Catholics, the Pope frowns upon secular happiness such as sex for its own sake, which is one of the reasons he opposes homosexuality, gay marriage and abortions. Yet like contemporary progressives and Marxists, he condemns the selfish pursuit of happiness on earth, reserving his sternest rebukes for the social system which supports that prosperity: capitalism.

I find it telling that the socially conservative Pope and left-wing, socialist utopia progressives feel kinship. Despite their very significant differences on abortion and gay marriage, something more fundamental and therefore emotionally comfortable unites them: Hatred of life on earth. Progressives aim their weapons at capitalism; the Pope, who’s far more consistent, aims his weapons at everything secular, at happiness itself.

Francis may be a fool. But he’s truly lethal in his consistency. He hates life on earth. He’s against sex and material pleasure; and he’s against economic freedom.

No wonder Pope Francis embraces Islam. Islam, taken seriously, despises man’s productive purpose and happiness on earth, as well. Even if you’re Catholic, you’d do well to run for your life from this man. Unless, of course, you do not think life matters.

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