The quote is from Steve-O-in NJ’s most appropriate comment on Pope Leo’s call to “ban” aerial bombing in his response to last night’s post, “The EA “Imagine” Award Goes To Pope Leo, Who Should Put A Bag Over His Head…”.
Steve’s comment begins with “This is an embarrassment”—it is—and ends with a declaration for the ages:
“…[T]he leader of the world’s largest Christian sect needs to do better than be absurd.”
Exactly. Pope Leo is in a particularly important role not to misuse by shooting off his mouth irresponsibly, because millions of people around the world assume that he has moral authority, more wisdom than they, inherent virtues, and a pipeline to God. When I hear someone say something that stupid, I assume that they are stupid, or posturing, which is a type of lying. That is not a good look on the Pope.
Steve’s bon mot also follows neatly on what I wrote in the post, which was, “The more revered and powerful the advocate for virtue-signaling nonsense, the more unethical such demagoguery is.” There is far too much of this flagrant abuse of position and authority going around.
Ethics Alarms 
Genesis 19:24
I wonder how the pope feels about this part of the bible?
I think he’s on record of wanting to ban weapons that turn people into salt….
First aerial bombing, now a salt weapon???
Well, don’t forget the SALT treaty….
Honk! Honk! Wocka! Wocka!
Heh, in spite of my comprehension lapse yesterday, I got that one !
Not sure about Jack, he may have to say it out loud 😉
Late to this discussion, my apologies. The Pope does indeed have moral authroity over the faithful. However, the faithful are responsible for their well formed conscience. This concscience cannot not be violated, by anyone, even the Pope.
“A well formed consciende is upright and truthful. It formulates its judgments according ot reason, in ocnformity wiht the true good willed by the wisdom of the Creator…The education of conscience is indispensable for human being who are subjected to negative influences and tempted by sin to prefer their own judement and to reject authrotiative teachinings.” [Catechism #1783]
Man is sometime confronted by situation that make moral judgments less assured and decsion difficult…to this purpose, man must strive to interpret the data of expereince and the signs of the times assited by th evirtue of prudence, by the advice of competetn people, and by the help of the Holy spirit and hsi gifts.” ]Catechism 1787-1788]
If by example the Pope encourages political activism from the pulpit, in America at least, he risks the devastating loss of religious non profit tax status.