Fascism AND Christofascism are on the Poll  

Rivers of stories reviews are flooding out from the media in regards to the explicitly fascist realities of Trump and MAGA followers at Sunday’s Madison Sq. Backyard occasion.  An occasion which made that clear to everybody and which we meditated on in yesterday’s DM.

If you need fascism and Christofascism, a twofer is accessible!  Vote for Trump and also you get each.  Christian nationalism and Opus Dei are completely in mattress with the far-right wing of the Republican occasion at this time. 

Try the massive wigs behind the Napa Institute which was based in 2011 by Opus Dei lawyer Tim Busch, an admirer of Archbishop Vigano whose “agenda” he praised.   Amongst its stars are Steve Bannon, launched below the duvet of darkness from jail at 3 AM this morning; Cardinal Burke, champion of the anti-Francis wing within the Roman Catholic Church; Leonardo Leo, maker of the present SCOTUS; Larry Kudlow, “the free-market cheerleader recruited to Opus Dei” by Father McCloskey whose vocation was to make “converts, usually of the wealthy and Republican” as Gareth Gore reviews in his latest guide, Opus.*   

It seems McCloskey sexually assaulted a lady who got here to him for non secular recommendation, and this resulted in Opus Dei providing the girl a million {dollars} to maintain quiet.  When she realized he was nonetheless working as a priest in Palo Alto, nonetheless, she blew the whistle a second time.

As a theologian, it’s my job to level out the fake Christian dimension to this whole marketing campaign as nicely.  Fascism is fake Christianity as a result of it’s all about Hate.  And Lies.  And Violence.  Susan Sontag defines fascism as “institutionalized violence.”  Trump’s Sunday lineup peddled this unholy trinity. 

Hatred of Latinos and Puerto Ricans particularly.  Hatred of immigrants, calling them “venom” and rapists and murderers, et al.  Despite the fact that research show that immigrants do much less crime than on a regular basis residents.  And hatred of Ukrainians as a result of those that help Putin (which incorporates Elon Musk and Trump and JD Vance) are haters of these whose nation Putin invaded.

Opus Dei was 90 years forward of Trump and his christofascists.  Opus Dei peopled dictator Franco’s cupboard and authorities.  Escriva, the sick priest who started Opus Dei and paid to get himself canonized a saint (sic), was an admirer of Hitler and a hater of the Second Vatican Council. It was Vatican II, in spite of everything, which gave beginning to Liberation Theology with its disturbing information {that a} “preferential choice for the poor” is the gospel that Jesus and prophets earlier than him like Isaiah truly preached.

In the present day Opus Dei could be very nicely represented in Washington DC within the Okay Avenue Ebook retailer, the place the faith created by its members and sympathizers is promulgated amidst the highly effective ones of enterprise and politics.  The Fascist wing of the Roman Catholic Church, who hate Pope Francis and naturally ignore completely his encyclical for caring for the earth, Laudato Si, and are very nicely embodied on the present American bishops Convention, is nicely represented by Leonardo Leo who made SCOTUS what it’s at this time: A MAGA wing in full movement.  

To be continued.

*Gareth Gore, Opus: The Cult of Darkish Cash, Human Trafficking, and Proper-wing Conspiracy contained in the Catholic Church, pp. 272-277.  This guide is essentially the most completely researched research of Opus Dei ever.

See Matthew Fox, “Chapter 6: Opus Dei” in Fox, The Pope’s Conflict: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Campaign Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved, pp. 106-124.

And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.

And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.

Banner Picture: Celebration of Luther Day in Berlin, 1933. Bishop Hossenfelder, ecclesiastical minister of the Nazi German Christians, spoke. German Federal Archives, Wikimedia Commons.

Queries for Contemplation

How do you perceive fascism?  Why do you assume it’s returning in our time not solely in america however in lots of international locations?  What can we do about providing a extra uplifting various in governance?

Really useful Studying

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Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox affords a brand new theology of evil that essentially adjustments the normal notion of fine and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened remedy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we will do about them. 
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