Both Bagger Vance and a Catholic priest flunky of Bari Weiss, Gerald Murray, think they know more about the theology of just war and related issues than does Pope Leo XIV.
Bagger Vance is of course fine with authoritarian religious hierarchy as long as its headed by AI Jeebus, Donald Jesus Trump.
But, Leo XIV? Bagger thinks he knows more theology than Leo, in fact warning him:
“I think it's very, very important for the Pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology,” Vance said.
There you are. If you can't teach from The Book of Armaments, Chapter 5, about counting to three before lobbing a Holy MOAB of the Pentagon at Tehran:
You need to shut up, Leo.
Jokes about AI Jeebus aside, that IS where we're at.
Trump lying, which he does as soon as he wakes up, and claiming he thought that was a doctor.
As I said when first posting the link, Vance doesn't even have the excuse of dementia.
He then gets worse, with a laughable self-own:
Vance said the pontiff should be as careful talking about theology as the vice president is when talking about public policy.
Really? You're as careful about that as you would be about not checking wind direction before peeing outdoors.
And, beyond Bagger, other elected Rethuglicans, by not calling the piece blasphemy, enable him:
"I know he's trying to be funny, but it was a foolish post," said GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who has been a critic of some of the president's policies. "I saw a lot of Republicans commenting in it last night. Some saying he's just trolling, and others saying it's anti-Christian. When you divide your own party it is self destructive. To me it was a gaudy and juvenile post."
And, yes, Religious Right wingnuts, if they were true to theology (back to YOU, Bagger) would call Trump's AI Jeebus for the blasphemy it is.
One person actually did:
"The media is paying attention to podcastistan breaking with Trump over Iran," conservative podcaster Erick Erickson wrote on X. "What they really should be paying attention to are the Christian Trump supporters who have stood with him through Iran, who are waking up to his blasphemy."
There you are.
So, re Bagger, if Satanyahu is the actual Satan of Tel Aviv, then Bagger is the Satan whisperer in Trump's ear, and of course Trump is not telling either one of them to get behind him.
Now, off to Fr. Murray, himself no Brother Maynard.
He, too, is a liar, right in the subhed of the piece:
Eliminating a nuclear threat from a determined enemy is a noble reason to make war.
He doubles down shortly before the paywall:
The United States and Israel undertook the attack on Iran principally to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons.
Anybody who knows the truth about Iran knows that it has never actually sought a nuclear weapon. Anybody who knows the truth of the current situation knows that Iran avowed that in the negotiations before Trump started the Iran war at the behest of Satanyahu.
Even if Iran has one-half metric ton of 60-percent enriched uranium, and even if it would not take that much more work to enrich to 90 percent, you still have to convert that uranium hexafluoride to metal. You have to have, even for a crude U-235 "gun" bomb, the assembly mechanism. You have to have a bomb big enough and an airplane big enough, if you're doing that old method, or a missile big enough, for delivery.
Israel, on the other hand, already 20 years ago had missiles that could deliver a nuclear warhead anywhere in the Middle East. And, that's from a US government-funded organization that writes the bare bones about Israel, but attacked Iraq at the run-up to the Iraq war, and now Iran.
As for why Iran has enriched to the 60-percent mark? The US-Israel dynamic duo brought this on.
Leo is probably thinking something along the lines of "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest," if Fr. Murray is even on his radar screen.
This is Murray's first piece for Bari Weiss's Zionists, but his profile page notes he's already a commentater for Fox News. He's also a commentator for EWTN, which Pope Francis accused of bad-mouthing him. For the unfamiliar, Eternal Word Television Network is the Catholic equivalent of a conservative evangelical, but not fundamentalist, Protestant television network.
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