Posted on 12/28/2017 7:05:37 AM PST by Olog-hai
The editor-in-chief of Die Welt, one of Germany’s leading right-wing newspapers, triggered a social media meltdown on Christmas by complaining about supposed left-wing bias in Germany’s Christmas midnight masses.
Ulf Poschardt wondered aloud on Twitter on Christmas Eve: “Who would voluntarily go to a midnight mass if at the end of the sermon he thinks he spent the evening with the Jusos or the Green Youth?” — referring to the youth organizations of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Green party, who both represent the left wing of their centrist parties.
The statement came a few days after the leader of the far-right nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, made a similar complaint to Focus magazine, by saying that churches had become too “political.”
It was not clear which Christmas mass Poschardt attended, or if he was referring to a specific one at all, but the Christmas messages of many German church leaders have been marked by calls to solidarity with refugees, against commercialization of Christmas, and against property speculation, all of which were likely to irritate a supporter of Germany’s pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), as Poschardt once declared himself to be. One bishop in the eastern German city of Görlitz warned the German corporation Siemens against overzealous “capitalist thinking” in its plans to shut down a plant in the city.
The fallout both for and against Poschardt’s provocative statement was swift. A number of SPD and Green party politicians took to Twitter to answer the editor-in-chief, with the Green party’s chairwoman Simone Peter tweeting in response, “Then maybe I really should go to a midnight mass again. Sounds good. And we need intervention more than ever with inequality, marginalization, and climate crisis.” …
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Seems that the Vatican progressive pope has done very well.
Makes me think of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and Revelation 13:11.
"For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ." Jude 4
In 2 Peter, Peter gives us a warning as to the tactics and motives of these false teachers:
"And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep." 2 Peter 2.2-3
Did you get that? Sensuality is their tool and greed is their motive. Sound familiar?
Only too familiar.
It’s a kind of infiltration, isn’t it?
It’s reported that former Pope
Benedict XVI was aware that homo lobby group had tried to infiltrate Vatican.
In fact most of the German clergy is even worse than Francis.
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