Showing posts with label Pope Francis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Francis. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2015

TAKE A PILL, CHILL, LOVE THE WORLD - SEPTEMBER 27, 2015


Yes, I took a chill pill.



Enough with being downcast. Cheer up, people said. So I found a sedative somewhere around the house and guess what, the world seems so much brighter. I’m in love. I’m in love with the world. One pill did the trick. In a speech welcoming the Pope, Philadelphia’s mayor Michael Nutter announced that “love is stronger than hate.”


The Pope said so himself. Even my rabbi says so. In fact everybody says so. I used to disagree. I used to see what’s going on and said it’s just the opposite. I said that hate makes the world go round. Just read the headlines. But I’ve changed my mind. My readers turned me around.


They read my recent columns and proclaimed me depressed. “Relax,” they said. “For your own good. Chill.”


“I’m worried about you,” wrote a particular reader. “You seem upset.”


WHO? ME?


Most readers were on my side. I’d say 90 percent were with me all the way. But about 10 percent thought that I was being too hard on the world.


The world needs a break and I need a break, and here’s the point – I agreed with the minority. Time to ease off.


I’ve come to realize, thanks to readers worried about my health, that’s it is not so bad. Life is grand.

All we need is love, right? Love…love…love. So much of it going around, this thing called love. It’s in every song. Watch me sing.


So worry about me no more. I’m in. Consider this a rewrite for the previous six columns or so that were “too hard-hitting” against certain types of immigration. I now see this in a different light. Taking back what I wrote before, I think it’s delightful that a million men coming from Syria are changing the face of Europe.


I think it’s fabulous that many of them are en route to the United States and changing the face of America. Fantastic!


The Pope, speaking in Philadelphia, urged more of this influx. Notice I am not saying “invasion.” That was the old me. The new me says, “the more the merrier.”


Yes, the new me (at least for this column) even uses clichés, and is not bothered by the fact that these men are arriving without women. Who needs women and who needs women of the past when there are so many women of the future waiting for them from Stockholm to Philadelphia?


Do not be troubled because the BBC falsifies the entire story. It’s simply the usual media deception that’s happening all over. Nothing new. Be happy.



[Repeat after me]: I am not afraid. I am positively thrilled about this different culture coming in from Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan.
It could be worse, though I don’t know how.

In Philadelphia the Pope said that we should not be afraid of “different cultures.” Who’s afraid?


I am not afraid. I am positively thrilled about this different culture coming in from Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan.


I used to be troubled by the fact that most of these men were quite possibly deserters. They ran from the fight.


Now that I am cured, I say, who cares. Who gives a damn? About anything! It’s a different culture. Why even our own culture is different.


We kill living babies and no matter how late the pregnancy, Democrats says go ahead and abort.


That’s because it’s all about love. Yes…love…love…love.


Love makes the world go round. Even in Afghanistan.


Over there our troops are forbidden to interfere when they catch one of our “allies” sodomizing a boy.

They must remain silent. It’s official policy.


If you are reading this for the first time, well, it’s true, and if you shudder at the thought – don’t. People won’t say you are in love.


People will say you are depressed.


Don’t be depressed. Be like me. Cheerful. Upbeat.


So Americans are expected to turn the other way because --- well because it’s a different culture.


Their love is different from our love.


Ask the Israelis. They know what to expect from that different culture. They get it every day.

They can tell stories about being on the receiving end of the most brutal forms of daily terrorism – but who wants to hear this?


That might keep us from being lighthearted and remember, this column, even this world, is all about being lighthearted.


We do not want to get upset with so much good feeling going round.

All men are brothers! Do you believe? Yes, I believe!


Only a few days ago the top mullah from Iran told us not to take it too seriously, y’know, when he and a million Iranians take to the streets and chant “death to Israel” and “death to America.” Come on. This is not what you think. This is simply a different culture. Actually, it’s about love.


For the sake of our happiness, prosperity and peace of mind, we had better start getting used to it, and fast, as fast as they keep coming.


While Christians in America have been celebrating so much goodwill thanks to the Pope’s visit, meanwhile Christians in another part of the world…


Oh never mind. Let us not get glum and start getting depressed all over again. Let’s talk about love, so much love going around that it hurts.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

DOES ABBAS OWN THE POPE? - MAY 18, 2015

His Holiness met with the un-holiest, creepiest man on earth, Mahmoud Abbas, and gave him everything he wanted.

My Catholic friends, we need to talk.

Those pictures of Pope Francis hugging and smooching Mahmoud Abbas are making me squirm. How about you?

Sorry to be disrespectful. But somebody needs to break this up. This needs intervention.
I cite myself as a friend of the Church, as an admirer of the faith and of the faithful. To prove this I have credentials. The Church of Toulouse saved my family when the Nazis came marching into France. Other Jews in the region likewise owe their lives to the Archbishop of Toulouse, Jules-Gerard Saliege – God bless his name.

Somebody needs to break this up. This needs intervention.
Indeed that’s what my parents did here in America. They blessed Saliege and FatherLaRoche, who studied Talmud with my fatherand sheltered us against the Gestapo. I wrote about this frequently and lovingly and included a chapter about it (“The Cardinal”) in my book of memoirs Escape From Mount Moriah.

Then there’s John W. Cassell. We lost him only a few weeks ago. How tragic that a man, a writer so stouthearted should die from heart failure.
We were on the phone practically every day. For 10 years we spoke about my Jewishness and his Catholicism and how beautiful it is that so much of Church liturgy comes from the Hebrew Bible. Except for this and that, we have so much in common.

So now what the hell is going on, if you’ll excuse the expression.

Well, we know exactly what’s been happening. His Holiness meets with the un-holiest, creepiest man on earth, Mahmoud Abbas and gives him everything, nearly the entire Vatican. Abbas wants official recognition of “Palestine.” There is no Palestine, never was, but the Pope complies, as painful as that is to Israel – and to his own flock being slaughtered round the world.

Whatever Abbas wants, Abbas gets. Does Pope Francis know that Abbas is a mass murderer of Jews – and Christians? The big picture on this,here.

Either way, we’re witnessing a nauseating performance, which didn’t start today.
We go back exactly a year ago when the Pope visited the Holy Land. Here’s what I wrote for Arutz Sheva under the title “Pope’s Visit To Israel A Victory for Islamic Terrorism” (May 27, 2014). So from that alone you get the picture what I had in mind and worse, what the Pope had in mind.

I quote from the piece: “The trip had absolutely nothing to do with Israel. It had nothing to do with Jews or Catholics. It was all about Islam and its grievances. Whatever Abbas wanted, The Pope complied.”

Yes, Mahmoud Abbas was in charge. Mahmoud Abbas was the boss. He took over the Pope’s itinerary. He took over the Pope.

So then I wrote: “If the Pope’s journey to the Holy Land was to justify terrorism, mission accomplished.”
Followed by: “Abbas took the stage and never let go. He wrote, produced and directed the entire spectacle…and the Pope obliged.”

Here’s Cassell’s comment: “As an American Catholic I am ASHAMED. And to think Jack's father taught his children to respect the Catholic Church.”

Once upon a time it was different.

“That was Pope John XXIII who (quoting Genesis 45:4) declared to the Jews, ‘I am Joseph, your brother.’
“No, this Pope is Islam’s brother.”

Back to the moment at hand: What hell…I mean what in Heaven’s name is going on?

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com