Next Pope Won’t Be A Woman
The next Pope won’t be a woman and what does that tell us? It tells us that the Roman Catholic Church is a patriarchal construct. A boy’s club established by a bunch of power hungry men some 2 millennia ago. Thus, these were not cutting edge folk in terms of how we view the world today. Therefore, carrying on with such out of date stuff is beyond foolishness. We do not see the world in the 21C in any way like those who constructed the Roman Catholic Church. Women are treated like second class citizens in the Vatican and in the Catholic Church – this is just not good enough.
I Bet The Pope To Follow Francis Will Not Be Female
Il Papa, the Holy Father, the clues are all in the names and titles. This exclusive ‘men only’ hierarchy contributes greatly to holding back human culture from progressing beyond a world ruled by ‘might is right’. The Church and all its customs are the invention of a bunch of men. It is gilding the lily to claim divine intervention. Every religion does, of course, but the actual facts point to ‘man-made’ articles of faith. The hocus pocus, miraculous claims, are the smoke and mirrors that every superstitious belief system surrounds itself with. Many people want to believe in something supernatural and they have been accommodated by those in the religion business.
Boys Own Pope & Male Violence
The next Pope won’t be a woman. We live in a world, where there still are insecure men like Vladimir Putin who covets his neighbour’s territory. Violent, despicable despots in positions of temporal power. Warlords and dictators running totalitarian regimes in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. These men promote brutality and might is right. Thus, although sections of global societies live progressive and peaceful existences men such as these hold a gun to their heads. Populist demagogues like Donald Trump seek to profit from the instability of a world riven in places by genocide and violence. Ukraine and Gaza have been smashed and drenched in blood for very different reasons but the end result reeks the same. Profiteers of war are, perhaps, the lowest of the low. Pope Francis was a more humane leader of the Catholic Church but did not prevent the bloodshed in these warzones.
Brute Force & The Billions Spent On Defence
The next Pope won’t be a woman. Humanity is dragged down by its worst male members and their thirst for power, wealth, and violence. Every country has its share of these types of men. Some nation’s fall prey to these men controlling their institutions and security forces. On this basis every nation state is coerced into spending large amounts of money on weapons it thinks it needs to defend itself. Many men feed on this and make their economic living servicing this presumed requirement. A lot of graft and wastage goes on around the military industrial complex and its control of the defence departments of governments. In the US, trillions of dollars are spent each year and fat cats luxuriate amid the largesse. The push right now is to increase the percentage of GDP spent by nations globally on their defence budgets. The Trump regime are pushing this agenda particularly.
“ICE grabbing people off the street in America and transporting them to El Salvador, where they are imprisoned, is completely illegal. The Trump regime have made up laws to facilitate this gross malfeasance. Everything about Trump’s El Salvador solution is illegal. There is no due process occurring, no presumption of innocence and no trials. Basically, if you have a tattoo and look like you are from Central or South America you are in trouble. The Trump regime has declared a Venezuelan gang to be a terrorist organisation associated with the Madura government. Neither of these claims are true. It is more BS and lies coming from a known compulsive liar and his team of yes men and women.”
The Male Fear Mongering Game
This is a fear mongering game, where politicians like Peter Dutton spread their alarmist message to worry old ladies and paranoid folk more generally. Trump has caused untold economic damage already with his tariff trade war diatribes. Many people are feeling insecure and that the globe is now a much more unstable place. This assists his desire for greater spending on arms and armaments around the world. Trump has attacked verbally both friends and foes, threatening Canada, Greenland and Panama. Electing a compulsive liar to head the free world is an unhinged and deeply irresponsible thing to do. It speaks of the disdain Americans must feel for the rest of the world.
The next Pope won’t be a woman…
“The rule of the Church in earthly possessions and the authority of the Pope over civil territories belonging to the Church, as in the Papal States. This power is in addition to his dominion in spiritual matters and becomes necessary if freedom from civil power is to be assured. It is presently exercised in relation to Vatican City or State since the Lateran Treaty of 1929. The term may also refer to the exercise of political influence by the bishops formerly through landed estates and currently through financial and other means.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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