Icons of ugliness. Capps captions the left photo as "JPII with the lizard on a stick'.
The BLOBifix captured from a priest's Tweet last June 25: "Sorry, no place for the ridiculous notion of a 'man-god' on a cross".
The COMMIEfix, top right, given to Bergoglio by the proudly Marxist Bolivian president:
"Excellent blunt instrument to inflict massive head trauma immediately upon receipt. Other than that, no."
And bottom right: "The industrial RUSTIfix in the chapel of the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows
means far more than the modern faddishness that have given us a disgusting parade of human ugliness"
To post the above photo, I availed of a feature on this forum that I never used before - on the postbox, one can upload a photo, retrieve the URL and put it into the post. Of course, it doesn't help me get back the thousands of images I have in Photobucket, but I am looking for a hosting service that will be able to do that. Meanwhile, I apologize for the visual nightmare presented by all the Photobucket notices all over the pages.
This pope's new BLOBifix
announces triumph of gnosticism
by Tim Capps
ST CORBINIAN'S BEAR
June 29, 2017
Our immediate reaction is disgust with Francis for reducing the crucifix to a Star Trek original series prop. The Bear sees something far more serious than bad taste, however.
"Christ crucified" was the center of St. Paul's preaching, even though the idea of a God in the flesh who was crucified was foolishness to the Greeks and a stumbling block to the Jews. In fact,
the Catholic Church has always been distinguished from Protestantism by the image of the Crucified Christ versus the "victorious risen Christ" empty cross.
There is little any Protestant could complain about with this abstract, headless, "Chromium Christ." Of course, this is no accident. But neither is it the end of the analysis.
Catholicism has always been closely allied with art. Think of the patronage it gave to Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel. It is impossible to think of the history of Western art without considering the Church.
Art has always been used to express the Faith, even when the art has been more worldly than Christian, more naive than skilled. Art, good, bad or indifferent, cannot help but say something about the Faith when the Church puts it to official use... Now, here is the West, with the Pope bearing an anti-icon for an anti-Catholicism.
When it comes to what the Church really believes, it is not so much the creed we mumble on Sunday, but the architecture around us, its decoration (or lack thereof); its music; its sound bytes; and the behavior of its priests and prelates with adolescent boys. (The last is not gratuitous and the Bear shall make the connection.)
The art of the new gnosticism
The BLOBifix does not give us a man on a cross. God has not become man. The God-Man has not borne our sins and died a shameful death. If the BLOBifix is not a denial of the incarnation, the Bear knows naught of religion nor art. A few chromium lumps declare the destruction of Christianity and the triumph of Gnosticism.
Imagine you are a detective putting together clues. This is how Trial Lawyer Bear cannot help but see things. Everything means something. From the RUSTIFIX to the COMMIEfix to the BLOBIfix and to the ;izard on a stick'.
The BLOBIFIX is more than another bouquet thrown to Francis's Lutheran sweethearts. More than bad taste, faddishness, or even blasphemy. The Bear sees
the shining glyph of an ancient heresy being crammed down his throat.
Ah, greetings to our old enemy: Gnosticism.
The BLOBifix is a heretical symbol of the anti-Christ. Anyone who denies Jesus Christ came in the flesh is an anti-Christ, says St. John, to the few Catholics who still read and believe the Bible.
The plain, empty cross of the most rustic Protestant is preferable to the visual revival of the first serious heresy that tried to throttle Christianity in its crib. Now, the Church has become as weak as an ancient, raddled, lecher, and once more vulnerable to its original enemy.
For the second time and in the same way, the Adversary takes advantage of a weak Church to promote a beautiful vision of spirituality without sin. Of adultery without consequences or even disapproval. That vision has always had a name: Gnosticism.
But as we fixate on Francis, we must remember that he is but the symptom of an advanced stage of a long-term disease.
The Church's Homosexual Abuse Crisis
As for the connection between all of this and Gnosticism… Cardinal Pell from down under has been charged in connection with molesting minors. The Bear uses this as an illustration, rather than proof of anything, and considers Cardinal Pell innocent until proven guilty.
There is a reason for statutes of limitations. It is tough to defend against five decades-old accusations.
[I once explained my use of] the term "Homosexual Abuse Crisis," based on the gold standard report commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2002. It was conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York to estimate the nature and scope of reported sexual abuses committed by priests against minors and children between 1975-2002. The report was published in 2004.
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Nature-and-Scope-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-and-Deacons-in-the-United-States-1950-2002.pdf
However, it disingenuously exempts homosexuals in its findings. The data, however, could not show a clearer picture of classic homosexual grooming and abuse of adolescent or near-adolescent boys. They make up the overwhelming majority of victims and reveal the unmistakable signature of the homosexual predator.
[NB: The latest USCCB annual report does acknowledge that. I append part of the news item reporting this earlier this month.
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2017 (ChurchMilitant.com) - A new report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) confirms that the clerical sex abuse scandal is a crisis not of pedophilia but of homosexuality.
The USCCB annual report on clerical sex abuse, released Thursday, confirms earlier findings that the priest sex abuse crisis is a homosexual problem.
According to the report, "Eighty-one percent of the victims were male," and when the age of the victim was determined, only "one in ten were under age ten." The report further confirmed that these findings were "similar to those reported for year 2015."
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice reported similar findings. After the sex abuse crisis exploded in the media in 2002 following the Boston Globe exposé, the USCCB created a National Review Board and tasked the John Jay College to conduct an investigation into clerical sex abuse.
The College's 2004 report revealed that 80 percent of the victims were male, and almost 90 percent were post-pubescent. A report issued in 2011 affirmed these facts, finding 81 percent of sex abuse victims were boys, of which 78 percent were post-pubescent.
Pedophiles are entirely different and usually target much younger children (as young as babies) and are often indiscriminate as to the sex of their victims. The Bear knows this because he was counsel in many, many cases involving both homosexual predators and pedophiles. (Why? Few criminals have the means to afford private counsel - unlike meth dealers, homosexual predators and pedophiles often maintain a respectable place in society, and can hold down decent jobs. Like being a priest, for example.)
Homosexual predators usually respond poorly to treatment because they rarely see anything wrong in their actions. Oft times they have been victims themselves, and as one client put it to the Bear, "It didn't hurt me any, so I don't see what's wrong with it."…
Mercy and the new Gnosticism
Let's take another look at the homosexual abuse crisis that plagued the Church throughout the 20th century. Gnosticism denigrated matter (recall how the headless body of the Crucified One disappears into the BLOBifix) as unspiritual in a scheme where only the spiritual counted. Sin did not matter, since matter was irredeemably evil, anyway. Whatever one did in the flesh could not possibly make the flesh any more evil than it already was. One's spiritual being floated pure above it all.
Can one not hear the echo of Gnostic teachers in the neat division so many churchman have made between homosexual predation and a career devoted to the Church? The natural child of Gnosticism is Antinomianism, an extreme view held by a minority of Protestants that sin does not matter because grace covers all.
Whenever we hear (or must conclude) that sin does not matter because it is expressed through mere matter, over which spirit - called by "mercy" or some other name - must triumph, we should discern the dim advance of ancient Gnostic ghosts threatening to break out into the present.
One might accuse Francis of many things, but false advertising is not one of them.
Remember the monstrous monstrance used in Fatima last month???
I hope the images I have recently posted from the Forum's own upload feature stay. With the first two that I tried, the images appeared but after a while they were replaced by the Image URL preceded by a little icon, so I have tried to repost them (the photo at the top of the page, and a temporary montage serving as signature at the bottom of each post.
P.S. Oh no! The images are disappearing again. Can anyone tell me what it means to get that little icon preceding an image URL - and how does one recover the image???[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 30/06/2017 21:45]