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Is Nancy Pelosi a Satanist?
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| 06/27/13
| John Zmirak
Posted on 06/27/2013 6:17:44 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
Is Nancy Pelosi a Satanist?
There have been plenty of religions in history that'd agree with her that the murder of innocents is sacred - but the Catholic Church is not one of them
A secular radio host called my cell phone while I was busy at a conference, asking me to explain to his non-Catholic listeners whether the Church really considered abortion sacred. I was, for a rare moment, speechless. He pointed me to the news piece reporting Nancy Pelosis statement to a Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack, summarized as follows by
The Blaze on June 13:
McCormack asked the California Congresswoman how she reconciles her professed disgust for Gosnell with her condemnation of a bill that would prohibit abortionists from terminating the life of a child moments before birth.
The former House Speaker was not at all pleased with his line of questioning.
Youre probably enjoying that question a lot, I can see you savoring it, Pelosi said in response. What was done in Philadelphia was reprehensible and everybody condemned it. For [the drafters of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act] to decide to disrespect a judgment a woman makes about her reproductive health is reprehensible.
Next question, she added.
McCormack wasnt finished: So whats the moral difference? I just asked a simple question.
Whats the moral difference then between 26 weeks elective abortion and killing of that same infant born alive?
This is not the issue. They are saying that theres no abortion. It would make it a federal law that there would be no abortion in our country, she responded.
As mentioned in the above, the bill doesnt ban all abortions.
As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this, she added. This shouldnt have anything to do with politics.
Prominent Catholics, such as Priests for Life president Fr. Frank Pavone, have responded forthrightly to what Pelosi said:
With this statement, you make a mockery of the Catholic faith and of the tens of millions of Americans who consider themselves "practicing and respectful Catholics" and who find the killing of children -- whether inside or outside the womb -- reprehensible.
Whatever Catholic faith you claim to respect and practice, it is not the faith that the Catholic Church teaches. And I speak for countless Catholics when I say that it's time for you to stop speaking as if it were.
But I didnt even have time to read Fr. Pavones sound and principled statement. I had to go on the air in 5 minutes to respond to this gruesome scandal, so I was forced to wing it. I answered, in essence, as follows:
If Nancy Pelosi says that partial-birth abortion is something sacred in her religion, I think its only right that we take her at her word. There have been a number of religions throughout history that relied on human sacrifice, some of them associated with quite advanced civilizations. (Think of Aztec Mexico.) A few of these civilizations have even practiced infant sacrifice, such as Carthage. Indeed, G.K. Chesterton in The Everlasting Man saw the Punic Wars as goaded by a healthy Roman disgust for their enemies annual slaughter of every first-born infant, offered to their gods in return for guaranteed wealth and success. Which those gods duly provided. More modern religions that practice or advocate such sacrifices include some wings of Satanism. Im not sure which of these religions Nancy Pelosi practices. The one thing we do know is that she isnt a Catholic. There is nothing Christian or Judaeo-Christian about a practice that the Jewish prophets denouncedpreparing the way for Jews and Christians to rescue unwanted, abandoned infants from the walls of Rome itself.
To be fair, Nancy Pelosi probably does not belong to a cult that sacrifices children to a god or gods in the hope of gaining prosperity or conquering Rome. But there is a strange religious impulse at the heart of the pro-choice ideology she represents so ably in the Congress in defiance of Catholic teaching. And she does seem to have shoehorned what tenets of Catholicism she still accepts into this new religion she practicesrendering whatever creed Pelosi holds a kind of syncretistic mish-mash like Santeria. Her creed maintains that individual choice is absolutely sacred in certain matters and not in others. She isnt a libertarian who wants to legalize drugs and prostitution, to peel back minimum wage laws or bans on racial discriminationall of which would follow from a consistent belief in absolute private autonomy. No, as a modern progressive she believes that the common good can trump a persons decision, to work for $1.00 per hour, snort cocaine, or refuse to hire minorities.
But there is one area that Pelosi regards as completely sacred, and that is sexual acts. Here we see a superficial resemblance between her beliefs and what Catholics hold: we also see sex as sacred. But the Catholic view is that its sacredness rests in the entire action in context: an action that unites two married people while remaining open to the creation of a new immortal soul. Pelosi, instead, finds sacredness in just one narrow segment of the act: at the moment one whispers, Yes!
Now Catholics can agree with her up to a point: No one wants the state to regulate which adults can consent to sex. Thomas Aquinas taught that not even every action which breaks the natural law is prudent for us to punish. There is a very large realm of autonomy that the government prudently leaves us, to avoid imposing a tyranny that might damage the real goods of personal liberty and family life.
Where Pelosis religion is different is that she elevates this state-free gray zone into a mystical good in itself, and extends the aura of sacredness for nine long months. The holy autonomy of a womans sexual choices is so transcendent and inviolable that she is exempt from accepting any consequences for her actions. She retains even the right to end the life of a nearly newborn baby complete with a heartbeat and brainwaves. That is a very large sanctuary Pelosi has built to the god of Sex-Choice, and its altar is daily splashed with innocent blood. So maybe Pelosi was right to invoke religious language; there is no rational case she can make for what she believes.
If human life is cheap enough that it can snuffed out at the brink of birth, then no human choice is logically sacred. The woman whose Sex-Choice Pelosi worships was once a silent, pre-born infant fit for destruction, fair game for her mother to terminate at will. At what point did that girl attain some supernatural dignity, which renders her choices too sacrosanct for the state to mess around with, or for a Weekly Standard reporter even to ask about? It wasnt birtha newborn is not medically different from the late-term fetuses Pelosi would let men like Kermit Gosnell destroy. Given that Sex-Choice is the only area where Pelosi does not support the government stepping in to corral individual citizens activities in support of the common good, I think we have our answer: Personhood begins at puberty, at the moment when we gain the power to say yes or no in bed.
From all this we can conclude the nature of Nancy Pelosis religion. Described in anthropological terms, it is a sex cultbut not a fertility religion. Instead it centers on pleasure, happy feelings, and multiplying the sheer quantity of moments when a person feels upbeat and chipper before she dies. Helping the average Jane feel as many such moments as possible before she keels over (or is euthanized) is the purpose of the government, and the job of civil servants is to help benighted citizens who have trouble doing the math to really, really maximize the number of happy moments. Thus does Rep. Pelosi interpret the Founders phrase, the pursuit of happiness. The average person need not be given too much freedom in most matterseconomic, medical, or even political. The only area from which (for religious reasons) the government must step back is in womens Sex-Choicewhich is for some mystical reason, sacrosanct.
I would like to thank Rep. Pelosi for sharing with us her religious beliefs. I leave it to her local bishop to decide whether they qualify her for receiving Holy Communion.
John Zmirak is the author, most recently of, The Bad Catholics Guide to the Catechism and blogs regularly at The Bad Catholics Bingo Hall.
TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: pelosi
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To: Brian Kopp DPM
People like Pelosi are willing tools of Satan.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:20:48 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
if someone snipped her head off with a big pair of shears we could just call it a post birth abortion and i am sure she would be cool with it
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:23:02 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
To: laplata
Pelosi is not smart enough to be a Satanist! She is a Satinist! OOH Smooth and silky!
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:23:05 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
She is of the Church of Selfishness.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:23:49 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
In my opinion, Stretch is just corrupt and rather dumb. She is probably not even aware of the contradictions she lives with.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:24:00 PM PDT
by
Trod Upon
(Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
That is kind of interesting. She’s young enough to have gad an interest in groups that started out as satanist worshipping murder and “evil”, and who later became prominent on the left.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:24:28 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
To: Brian Kopp DPM
That’s the best picture I have ever seen of her.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:25:02 PM PDT
by
South40
To: Mastador1
Satan has his useful idiots also.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:28:23 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receilpt.)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
“To be fair, Nancy Pelosi probably does not belong to a cult that sacrifices children to a god or gods in the hope of gaining prosperity...”
Oh, really?
Just what, exactly, do you think the Democrat Party is?
It is “a cult that sacrifices children to a god or gods in the hope of gaining prosperity”...and POWER!
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:28:51 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
Nancy Pelosi is worth millions and has political clout. Here’s a guess: she writes big checks and lets the bishop and her pastor hobnob with all the beautiful people so the spineless twits - the bishop and the pastor - have sold their souls. They aren’t alone. The Catholic hierarchy and the Catholic priesthood in the US are over run by liberation theology gays. The American Catholic Church - with a few exceptions like Bernardin, Chaput, the guy in Peoria - are not Roman Catholic anymore. It is a schismatic church. If it weren’t, Pelosi, Cuomo, Kerry and the Kennedys would have been publicly excommunicated long ago.
To: Brian Kopp DPM
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:30:08 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
Father Pavone appears to know about Catholicism, it’s her Bishop that appears to be ignorant.
The catholic Church is busy trying to bring in Mexicans and Catholic Hispanics to fill their pews , so they avoid any issues with Pelosi.
They let her tell them what the Church teaches so that she will help them bring in the Hispanics.
It’s a deal with the Devil.
I could be wrong ,but all indications point that way.
They haven’t blocked her from any of the Sacraments.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:30:19 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Brian Kopp DPM
She bows down to Satan/Lucifer, but we don't know if she realizes it.
Of course, Satan/Lucifer is a slippery guy...this is the way he moves about and gains in popularity.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:30:44 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(You can't eat Sharia)
To: CrazyIvan
Well Pelosi would be one but she got it wrong and prayed “Hail Satin” and got frustrated.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:31:29 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
I had never thought about it but some of her proclamations are so far from what Christianity teaches that one would wonder.
I doubt she thinks of herself as a child of Satan but she may actually be.
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:33:13 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(There Are Three Things That Remain--Faith, Hope, and Love--and,the Greatest of These is Love..)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:33:53 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
“By their fruits shall ye know them” - Jesus Christ
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:34:41 PM PDT
by
SENTINEL
(Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
To: Mastador1
she might have gone in smooth and silky but she came out looking like a pile of sheet
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:34:50 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
To: Brian Kopp DPM
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posted on
06/27/2013 6:35:16 PM PDT
by
onyx
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