Saturday, October 13, 2007

Antipope Rudolphus

What's the difference between Rudy Giuliani an Henry VIII? The king had double the wives and half the desire for power. I'd feel safer under that king than the tyrant running for president, and we all know how rough it was for Catholics in England!
Rudy is an authoritarian, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either a stanch supporter (that is, anyone who says "I'm voting for Rudy" to "I think I like Rudy") or not paying attention. Here's a good quote from him proving the point,
"We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."

Sorry, but true freedom is about submitting to God, His laws, and His Truth.
Rudy is being hypocritical, though. He wants us to submit to his authority, but he refuses to submit to the Pope's authority. If someone calls him out on his heresies, he says we can't judge him. He says it's between him and his confessor. Seems like not even a bishop can judge him. When one said he wouldn't give him communion, Rudy said,
"Archbishops have a right to their opinion, you know. There's freedom of religion in this country. There's no established religion, and archbishops have a right to their opinion. Everybody has a right to their opinion."

There may be freedom of religion in this country, but you're under the Pope and his Bishops, and as a layman, under the priests. There is no freedom of religion in the Catholic Church, pal.
He also said,
"I'm guided very, very often about, 'Don't judge others, lest you be judged,'"

The problem is that he's a public figure and showing himself to be a heretic publicly. Anyone who cares more about terrorism and making us "safe" over the salvation of souls has his priorities messed up. He messed the quote up too. We can judge whether an act is outwardly good or bad, but can't judge the soul and say "oh, he's a saint" or "He's going to hell".
Unless he's the pope, he's not above judgement. It wouldn't surprise me if he made some sort of national parallel church. Every religion must answer to him or else they're extremists? Who knows. He did say we need to give up our freedom to authority, and he thinks like he's the pope.
Antipope Rudolphus? Seems like a possibility.

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