We shouldn't let him get away with calling
himself "Pope Benedict Arnold XVI", or whatever
he is calling himself. We should keeping referring
to him as "Pope Ratzinger I", and try to make it stick.
What a lovely spin the media puts on it.
Oh, he served in the Hitler Youth, but don't
worry about it. It was mandatory. And it was
only for a short time. And he wasn't very enthusiastic.
Well, that's certainly enough to blow away all of
my concerns. How 'bout you?
Of course, nothing is "mandatory" for a true Christian
martyr. A man of great character, who is Pope material,
would politely tell the Nazis that a true Christian cannot
be affiliated with a brutal, militaristic, hate-spewing
organization like the Hitler youth. When they put you
in prison, you bear your cross, graciously.
Not to worry. After his brief, mandatory, unenthusiastic
stint with the Hitler Youth, he served in the Luftwaffe.
But he was drafted. And he "risked his life" by deserting.
The connection that the media doesn't make is that
he deserted only when the Nazis were about to get
overrrun by the advancing Allies. Why should the media
be so sure that his desertion was an act of conscience,
of a man who just couldn't take the Nazis hatred and
brutality anymore, instead of being just the desertion
of a rat who is abandoning a sinking ship?
Why do I have this nagging suspicion that if Hitler
had won the war, then "Pope Ratzinger the First" would
be bragging as proudly today of his service in the Luftwaffe
as George Bush the Third (grandson of a Nazis
financier) is "proud" of his service in the Texas Air National
Guard?
What we are seeing is a Church that has a long history
of fascist tendencies, getting more blatant in its reborn
fascist tendencies, all the time.
They get painted as plaster saints because their biggest cheerleaders
are a craven media establishment, controlled by the puppet strings
of a government that is also showing its fascist tendencies
more blatantly, all the time. One hand washes the other,
until there is nothing but filth all around, like novelty soap.
The joke is on everybody.
Tom Keske
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