Journalist: Obama is More Hip Than the Pope

Pope Benedict XVI (Credit: Tadeusz Górny)

Dr. Theo pointed out an incredibly arrogant piece of rot to me today. It’s from Newsweek and its’ written by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. It has the incredulously snotty subtitle “Why Barack Obama represents American Catholics better than the pope does.”

I wouldn’t recommend wasting your time by reading this Obama-worshipping piece of trash unless you really feel the need to read the depraved rantings of someone who isn’t the slightest bit grounded in morality or reality, but have at it if you must. It might give you a fresh appreciation of the level of brazen propaganda Joseph Goebbels used to peddle.

On what does Kathleen Kennedy Townsend base this absurd assertion?  Well, the pope just ain’t hip, man.  He ain’t with it.  The pope ain’t down with what the people think.  The pope is behind the times.  The pope doesn’t realize that truth has changed.  The pope hasn’t figured out that wrong is the new “right” and right is the new “wrong.”

In short, the pope ain’t list’nin’ to the people like President Obama is.

The hierarchy ignores women’s equality and gays’ cry for justice because to heed them would require that it admit error and acknowledge that the self-satisfied edifice constructed around sex and gender has been grievously wrong.

The pope apparently hasn’t figured out yet that he’s supposed to quit listening to what God has to say on right and wrong, and start listening to what the people on the street think; they are, after all, much smarter than God.

As the article indicates, poll numbers show the people don’t want to hear what God has to say, either.  They know they’re smarter than God.  And if the Vatican is reminding Catholics of what God said, then they’re smarter than the Vatican, too.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend makes that relationship clear to us:

Yet polls bear out that American Catholics do not want to be told by the Vatican how to think. Despite the rhetoric of love and truth, the Vatican shows disdain (if not disgust) toward gays. But 54 percent of American Catholics find gay relationships to be morally acceptable, according to a 2009 Gallup poll. Meanwhile, against all scientific evidence and protestations from clergy on the ground, the pope claims that condoms aggravate the spread of AIDS. Seventy-nine percent of American Catholics disagree, according to a 2007 poll by Catholics for Choice.

Kids with signs wait for Pope Benedict XVI outside of the United States Department of the Treasury Wednesday, April 16, 2008 (Credit: Patrick Tierney, White House photograper)

This ultra-liberal journalist just doesn’t seem to have a firm grasp on reality. Apparently it escaped Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, but truth and what’s right aren’t subject to polls and majority votes.  If 54% of American Catholics believe something contrary to what the Bible teaches, it isn’t the pope who needs to adjust, it’s that 54%.

She and some other folks are going to find themselves hit in the face with a cold bucket of reality when they someday stand before their maker and try to sell him on the notion that all their friends said the way they were living was just fine.  Some folks might buy that lemon here in this life, but it isn’t going to sell on Judgment Day.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend also has (as liberals typically do) a weak grasp on what constitutes “scientific evidence” and what falls under assumptions and sometimes even propaganda.

Condoms–when used at all–have a failure rate of around 15% on average. And if you use some of the Planned Parenthood variety of condoms, the failure rate is even higher. Condoms have tiny holes in them called “voids” that are usually small enough to stop a sperm, but are much bigger than the tiny AIDS virus liberals hope to be protected against.

Besides, we’ve been preaching condoms nonstop since the 1980s, yet homosexual males (while making up less than 2.9% of the population in America) constitute 72% of AIDS cases in the United States. I’m no rocket scientist, but it seems pretty plain to me that pushing condoms is a pretty pathetic solution to a problem brought on my immoral conduct–conduct clearly stated as immoral by the holy book the pope is going by when he says it’s wrong.

Yet again the fact that truth is not subject to polls eludes Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on the issue of communion:

When Sen. John Kerry, a pro-choice Catholic, ran for president in 2004, several bishops decided to deny him communion. A poll done at the time by Time magazine showed that 73 percent of American Catholics disagreed with that decision, and 83 percent said the bishops’ move wouldn’t change their vote. In fact, more than two thirds said the church shouldn’t try to influence the way Catholics vote at all or tell candidates—even Catholic ones—what stance to take.

The Bible is pretty plain that communion is not for someone who is living habitually in sin, and further, unrepentant of that sin (murder of innocent human beings is also plainly a sin in the Bible):

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep [died]. But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment. When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

Communion is only for people who have actually been born again into the body of Christ, and even then only those who are in good moral standing with God (i.e. have examined themselves and repented of all their sins).  Nowhere in the Bible will you find an exception for communion or anything based on poll numbers.

The Bishops were actually doing Kerry a favor, but he was too hardened of heart to even realize it.

In her final burst of arrogance, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend claims the pope should be sitting at Obama’s glorified feet so he can learn from The One about what is right and wrong:

The pope has a lot to learn about Catholic politics in America. Barack Obama can teach him.

I don’t think so.

People who vociferously promote abortion, infanticide, homosexual behavior, the counterfeiting of marriage, hangs around with terrorists and the like, are not exactly moral giants who are in a position to teach religious leaders about right and wrong.

Besides, if the pope bases his statements on what the Bible says, and if the Bible is God’s instruction to humanity (and I am convinced it is), then when Kathleen Kennedy Townsend smirks and thumbs her nose at the pope, she is actually thumbing her nose at God himself.

I hope she figures out before it’s too late how profoundly dangerous that is…

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