Posted on
September 29, 2017
Lighten Up, Francis
The Pope’s grim, anti-human worldview
by
Daniel
Clark
There are perfectly valid reasons why somebody might
question President Trump’s veracity when he says he’s pro-life. The explanation Pope Francis gave is not
among them. Admitting that he had
insufficient knowledge of what he was talking about, the pontiff criticized
Trump’s decision to rescind President Obama’s executive order on “Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA), which allows people to remain in the
United States if they had been brought in illegally as minors.
“The
president of the United States presents himself as pro-life, and if he is a
good pro-lifer, he understands that the family is the cradle of life and its
unity must be protected.” That’s
stretching the definition a bit, but more importantly, it gets the issue
completely backward. Even if DACA is
reenacted, illegal alien parents who brought their children here illegally
would still not be entitled to stay.
Deporting the children to their home countries along with those parents
is how to keep their families unified.
It’s letting them stay that could break families apart.
“I think the law comes not from Parliament but from
the executive,” he continued. “If that
is so, I am hopeful that it will be re-thought.” Would it be too much to ask the Pope to have
some knowledge of American civics, as long as he is going to offer policy
advice? His attempt to lend moral
authority to open borders advocacy by tethering it to right-to-life issues is
more hypocritical than any hypocrisy of which he’s accusing Trump. For it is Francis whose other political
positions demonstrate a radical disrespect for the value of humanity.
During that same interview, the Pope turned to his
favorite issue, “climate change” – the belief that the earth is threatened by
human freedom, human prosperity, and ultimately humanity itself. “Whoever denies it has to go to the scientists
and ask them,” he said, “They speak very clearly. Scientists are precise.” Is that why they use the terms “carbon” and
“carbon dioxide” interchangeably? Just
curious.
These precise scientists are the ones who have told us
that manmade global warming causes more hurricanes. No, fewer.
No, more. Well, they’ll get back
to us on that. They also precisely
insist that we are hurtling toward global destruction from “climate change”
even though far more violent swings in the earth’s temperature have occurred in
the past, without any such catastrophic effects. When their projections for temperature
increases don’t pan out, they go back and arbitrarily lower temperatures from
decades past, so that today’s will appear higher by comparison.
It’s
not science about which Francis hears them speaking clearly, but their
completely undisguised political ulterior motives. What are the solutions the voices of science
prescribe for “climate change”? Global
wealth redistribution, anti-industrialism, population control, elimination of
property rights, a contrived, dramatic reduction in people’s standard of
living, and a general reordering of the universe guided by an extreme
devaluation of the human race. In other
words: socialism.
No wonder he’s so eager to accept their
pseudo-scientific pronouncements on “climate change,” whereas he might not want
to ask likewise politically corrupted scientists for their opinions on
intelligent design. If socialism is
what’s going to “save the planet,” then that surely justifies his
fraternizations with some of the worst people on the face of the earth.
Francis has infamously accepted a
hammer-and-sickle-shaped crucifix from Bolivian Communist goon Evo Morales. He’s
visited Cuba, in a public relations coup for the Castro government, where he
conspicuously avoided any mention of its many offenses against humanity. He’s gone to Korea, to scold the South
Koreans for the alleged evils of their economic system, and demand that they
try harder to get along with the Communist government in the North.
While absurdly blaming “unfettered capitalism” for
many of the world’s ills, he has consistently aided and abetted a socialist
philosophy that has not only literally murdered tens of millions of people, but
has robbed countless others of their rights to liberty and property, as well as
their self-respect, work ethic, ambition, ingenuity, and even their right to
their own thoughts. “Capitalism” is a
pejorative term that Karl Marx used to describe free enterprise. By demonizing capitalism and excusing
Communism, Francis is explicitly rejecting freedom in favor of tyranny, slavery,
and the devaluation of human life. And
why not, as long as he believes human freedom is the greatest threat to the planet?
Until Pope Francis cleanses his own mind of this grim,
anti-human worldview, we should thank him not to question the pro-life credentials
of our nation’s leaders.
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