Stupid things religious people say

[Fake Messiah]

"The movie One Battle After Another offends Catholics because it is subliminally claiming that Mary was not a virgin but was raped by a Roman soldier—a story that Jews invented to insult Christians. And now the Jewish Hollywood, they are mocking Christians on big screens."

And no, this is not from a KKK site, but from The Catholic Stand.

One Insult After Another: The Heresy in “One Battle After Another”

But to really understand what is going on in Anderson’s One Battle After Another, we must ask, ” What kind of narrative structure does it have and what references does it make?” However, first we need to first revisit an old heretic story. Namely the one about Mary, Jesus and a Roman officer or soldier.

In short, in several Jewish exegetic works appears a counter tradition to the Catholic one, for instance in the Tosetfa, the Quhelet Rabbah and the Talmud, that claims that Jesus was not the son of a virgin Mary but instead of an adulterous one: that she cheated on Joseph with a roman officer or soldier, and that Christ was begotten though this adultery. That Mary was either seduced or raped and that the child, subsequently Jesus, went to Egypt, taught himself black magic and came back to Galilee as a false proclamation of the Son of God.

The heretic story itself, that of Christ not being divinely conceived, was mainly perpetuated by the Jews, as Tertullian famously testified to around 200 AD. But what does this have to do with the aforementioned movie? Let’s get to the point.

The movie tells the story of a far-left revolutionary group called “The French 75”, that perform subversive and terroristic acts against the government. The story itself is centered around three characters: Perfidia Beverly Hills played by Teyana Taylor (who also plays Mary Magdalene in the blasphemous The Book of Clarence, stoned for sleeping with a Roman soldier), Pat Calhoun played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and their daughter Charlene or “Willa” played by Chase Infiniti. The problem with the latter, as we come to find out as the movie progresses, is the fact that she’s not really the daughter of Pat, but instead the result of an affair between Perfidia and Steven J. Lockjaw, a soldier and officer in the US military, played by Sean Penn. The plot then encircles this intrigue, weaving it together with their antagonistic roles as outlaws and agents in a militaristic hegemony, not unlike the Jews and Romans of Jesus’ days. Which is not the only thing that bears a striking resemblance.

Let’s take a look at Perfidia. The picture that is painted is not particularly flattering: a thrill-seeking criminal, obtuse and unsophisticated, observed through an oversexualized and fetishizing gaze, and a mother that abandons her child before selling out her former friends to become an informer. What binds her congeniality to Mary, the virgin mother, is not only in the exact inversion of Mary’s righteous character but also in Perfidia’s identity and subject: she is a revolutionary, just as Mary is the ultimate embodiment of a revolutionary act, giving birth to Christ outside the usual order of things.

Perfidia, on the other hand, does not conceive through Annunciation, but through the adulterous encounter with the soldier, Lockjaw. Whether or not it is consensual or rape is unclear, but the result is the messianic figure and successor “Willa”, Charlene. So, here’s the irony, because even though the story follows the same structure as the heresy of Mary’s alleged adultery, it also inverts the image of the child: it is not Jesus that comes fourth, no, it is a baby girl. Almost as if the entire story has been inverted, following parallel to the historicity of Christ. The movie then goes on with the girl and her father, the heretic Joseph-variation, trying to escape authorities in the foreground of the unrevealed fatherhood of the girl, depicting the adoptive father as someone weak and broken, lost and unrighteous. Unlike the true Joseph, who instead was strong and steadfast, reliable and righteous.

The movie was well received. Not surprisingly, mainstream mockery seems to strike a subconscious tone with the audience these days. Last year, for instance, we saw how a half-naked blue and obese man, appearing in a context that can only be likened to the scene of the last supper, became the main symbol of the French Olympics.

https://catholicstand.com/one-insult-aft...r-another/

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^’Mother, were you raped?’

‘Well…at first.’ - Life of Brian

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Pope: "We here in the Vatican love women, but we just don't want them to ru(i)n things, like funerals. Just as we love gay people but not their sin/ gayness, we love women but not their femininity. We have to keep to Jesus's words and Jesus wanted a sausage party to be in charge of everything."

Vatican commission says 'no' to women as Catholic deacons

A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday.

The commission, in a 7-1 vote, said historical research and theological investigation "excludes the possibility" of allowing women to serve as deacons.

Catholic deacons can baptize people, witness marriages and preside at funerals, among other duties. In some areas of the world they can also lead parishes in the absence of a priest, but a priest must still celebrate the Mass.

The role, for centuries considered only a stepping stone to the priesthood, was reenvisioned as a permanent post for married Catholic men after a series of reforms by the Church in the 1960s.

Some women have said they believe God is asking them to take on the post, which is understood by the Church as a role of service.

The panel, led by a cardinal and a priest from the Vatican's top doctrinal office, included men and women church scholars. They said in the report that their assessment against women deacons was strong.

The Women's Ordination Conference, a U.S.-based group, criticized the commission for not soliciting input from more women in its discussions and called the decision a "deep, and theologically unsound, insult".

Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the ban on women serving as priests in 1994, but did not specifically address the issue of women deacons.

Advocates point to evidence that women served as deacons in the early centuries of the Church. One woman, Phoebe, is mentioned as a deacon in one of the letters of the apostle St. Paul.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vat...025-12-04/