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Pope Francis Bobbleheads

“In America we have a two party system,” explained the Republican congressional staffer to a group of visiting Russian dignitaries, “the stupid party [Republicans] and the evil party [Democrats]. “I’m a proud member of the stupid party.” “From time to time,” the staffer continued, ” the two parties get together and do something that’s both stupid and evil. This is called bi-partisanship.” Although there is some debate as to who actually said this – some attribute it to the late conservative columnist Samuel Francis – it’s a funny quote. And one that rings true as well. And in light of the endless propaganda blitz from the mainstream media about Jorge Bergolio’s (dba Pope Francis I) upcoming visit to the United States, it seems particularly apropos.

The visit, a result of a bi-partisan invitation to the pope by John Boehner (Republican) and Nancy Pelosi (Democrat), is the very definition of stupid and evil. During his stay in the US, the pope will, among other things, meet with President Barak Obama at the White House, parade through the streets of Washington D.C., deliver a speech to Congress, address the United Nations, visit Independence Hall and there deliver a speech using the same lectern used by Abraham Lincoln for the Gettysburg Address, and hold a Papal Mass for the World Meeting of Families.

The invitation is stupid, because politicians representing the people of the United States, supposedly a nation that values constitutional capitalism, have voluntarily brought the Antichrist head of the aggressively globalist, anti-republican Roman Catholic Church-State to our shores. Throughout its long, bloody history, the Babylonian Harlot of Rome has always favored repressive monarchies over against Biblical, representative government. It has always hated capitalism and favored collectivism of one sort or another. The pope is no friend of the Biblical ideas of limited government and laissez faire capitalism on which US was founded. Inviting him to trample three of our greatest cities with his parades, speeches, masses and blasphemies is an act of the crassest stupidity on the part of Congress.

The invitation is evil, because promoting the pope and his agenda is the same as putting light for darkness and darkness for light. While visiting the US, not only will the pope promote the unbiblical politics and economics of the Roman Catholic Church-State, but more importantly, he will be given the biggest possible stage, amplified by all the hype a star-struck media can muster, on which to advance Rome’s soul-destroying false gospel of faith and works, while those who believe the true Gospel of justification by faith alone are cast into the shadows.

Pusillanimous Protestants

And what has been the Protestant response to Antichrist’s trampling of our nation’s capital? If the internet is any

Franklin Graham

indication, silence. No condemnation. Just thunderous silence. The only recent of any substance I could find on the pope’s visit was this one in which Franklin Graham weakly huffed about the left-leaning cavalcade Barak Obama is bringing to the White House during the pope’s visit. On his facebook page Graham whined,

It’s wise of the Vatican to question President Obama’s guest list for the Pope’s visit next week – that list should raise a lot of eyebrows! The Wall Street Journal says those invited to the Pope’s welcome celebration include transgender activists, the first openly gay U.S. Episcopal bishop, and an activist nun whose organization supports abortion. This is disgraceful and obviously inappropriate. Is there no end to the lengths the president will go to in order to push his sinful agenda?

So, Graham doesn’t like Obama’s guest list? Very well, neither do I. But there is something far more obviously disgraceful and eyebrow raising than the president’s not-too-surprising poor choice of house guests: the fact that Antichrist has been invited to visit the White House in the first place. And not only that, but the fact that a high-profile Evangelical cannot so much as bring himself to denounce it. The real sinful agenda here is not Obama’s guest list. Rather, it is the pathetic and disgraceful disinformation campaign waged by Graham and other Evangelical leaders to convince the public that the pope is a Christian and that he represents the interests of Evangelicals.

Benjamin Disraeli

There was a time when even politicians possessed enough wisdom and insight to see the Roman Catholic Church-State for what it is. Take the following comment from 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli,

What is this power beneath whose sirocco breath the fame of England is fast withering? Were it the dominion of another Conqueror – another Bold Bastard with his belted sword – we might gnaw the fetters which we cannot burst. Were it the genius of Napoleon with which we were again struggling, we might trust the issue to the God of battles, with a sainted confidence in our good cause and our national energies. But we are sinking beneath a power before which the proudest conquerors have grown pale, and by which the nations most devoted to freedom have become enslaved – the power of a foreign priesthood (in Popery the Foe of the Church and of the Republic, Van Dyke, 21).

Disraeli had a far better understanding of the threat Rome presented to Great Britain than just about any current-day American Evangelical minister does of the threat it poses to the people of the United States. Graham completely misses the point, and his compliant about the guest list is worse than useless. It is a great betrayal of the Lord Jesus Christ. For it implies that inviting the pope to Washington is a good thing, but one that is being sinfully spoiled by a few poorly chosen invitees. If Graham were half the watchman he seems to think he is, he would be shouting denunciations of Antichrist from the rooftops. As it is, he is simple another of the pope’s legion of nominally Evangelical useful idiots.

In the same article, Rush Limbaugh weighed in with comments similar to those of Graham. Said Limbaugh,

Some people are saying that this is perfectly Obama. He’s got the Pope coming, and he wants to insult the Pope, put pressure on the Pope, and challenge the Pope.

And Limbaugh may well be right. But so what? It logically possible for both sides in a controversy to be in the wrong, and such is the case here. And by calling out Obama and taking the pope’s side, Limbaugh shows himself to be just as much a tool of Rome as Graham.

One Congressman’s Remarks

The only intelligent criticism of the pope’s visit seen by this author, surprisingly, has come from Arizona congressman Paul Gosar, himself a Roman Catholic. In a Townhall.com column, the congressman announced his intention to boycott the pope’s 9/24 address to Congress, writing,

Media reports indicate His Holiness instead intends to focus the brunt of his speech on climate change – a climate that has been changing since first created in Genesis. More troubling is the fact that this climate change talk has adopted all of the socialist talking points, wrapped false science and ideology into “climate justice” and is being presented to guilt people into leftist policies…

The earth’s climate has been changing since God created it, with or without man. On that, we should all agree. In Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment (written with the consultation of that great seminary the EPA and its embattled head Gina McCarthy), he condemned anyone skeptical of the link between human activity and climate change and adopted the false science being propagated by the Left. If the Pope wants to devote his life to fighting climate change then he can do so in his personal time. But to promote questionable science as Catholic dogma is ridiculous…

So at this pivotal moment in world history, His Holiness, Pope Francis, is intending to spend the majority of his time on one of the world’s greatest stages focusing on climate change. I have both a moral obligation and leadership responsibility to call out leaders, regardless of their titles, who ignore Christian persecution and fail to embrace opportunities to advocate for religious freedom and the sanctity of human life. If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.

Imagine that. A Roman Catholic congressman who understands he has a, “moral obligation and leadership responsibility to call out leaders,” for their mistakes. In my book, that makes him much more a Protestant than the fawning, blind, and cowardly Evangelical leaders who cannot muster even the slightest criticism of the pope and his bogus economics, let alone actually do their real job and defend the people of God by warning them about the evil globalist agenda lurking behind the papal Antichrist’s climate change propaganda.

Conclusion

The Roman Catholic Church-State is an institution recovering from a mortal wound inflicted by the Reformation. Revelation prophesies a time when it will attain its long sought goal of becoming dominatrix of the world. We live at a time when even the Evangelical church is incapable of recognizing the pope and the Church of Rome for what they are. And if we Evangelicals cannot get it right, is there any reason to expect the world not to follow the beast? It is at least possible that this generation will witness the coming of the world-wide kingdom of Antichrist. But if not, you can be certain that the Man of Sin will never stop until he achieves his evil end, only to be destroyed by the return of Christ, the Man of God’s own choosing.