Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Conspiracy quark from the cardinal
Great God, it is rumored in the Vatican
A comment by Thomas Schmoll
Church bashing is often blanket and excessive. But the nonsense that Cardinal Müller uttered can only be scourged. The whispering about the “Great Reset” is inhumane. The monosyllabic nature of the conference of bishops is also sad.
Normally, the two large Christian churches in Germany, which have been badly shaken by exits, would have to benefit from uncertain times like these and enlarge their congregations again. They would have the spiritual means to give comfort and support in a world in which today no longer counts what yesterday or the day before yesterday still had value – in a material and immaterial sense. Here and there the churches manage to live the beautiful thought of charity and to strengthen solidarity. This is mainly thanks to the hard work of simple parishioners.
Church continues to do good too. The bashing against them in this country is often excessive, blanket and unfair, also in relation to the Catholic Church. Not every (male) Catholic is an angel, but neither is a child molester guaranteed. The unspeakable handling of the abuse allegations, the eternal silence in the ranks of full-time clergymen, is largely the responsibility of the church leadership up to the Vatican. The arch-conservative and anachronistic image of women defended by the curia, including the demonization of sexuality and physicality, testifies to deeply patriarchal thinking. Ugh Deiwel!
But this joy in a life in yesterday is a matter for the Church alone. She has to deal with the associated loss of reputation, attractiveness and influence on her own. The Catholic Church had 2,000 years to reform. Nobody expects her to move anymore. However, when a cardinal publicly celebrates his incarnation as a conspiracy mystic, tells nonsense about the alleged “Great Reset” and uses anti-Semitic clichés on top of that, it concerns society as a whole – especially now, when fanatics everywhere in Europe sow hatred and violence as a means of conflict preaching.
So much earthly nuisance
The German Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, also a judge at the Vatican, spoke in a video about “a certain chaos, a mess, born on the one hand from a lack of knowledge and ignorance about the effectiveness and danger of the virus, on the other hand also born from the will, the opportunity to bring people into line, to subject them to total control, to establish a surveillance state, as the representatives of Big Set, Reset, have now said themselves: Klaus Schwab, Corona is an opportunity. “
The clergyman went on to say: “And then there are people who sit (on) the throne of their wealth and are not touched by all these difficulties, who then proclaim big that this is a chance to get their agenda through,” a plan that arises “Constitutionalism is based”, namely the assumption that “we could now use modern technology or communication to bring about a new creation, create a new person”. The cardinal “just doesn’t want to be created and redeemed in the image and parable of Klaus Schwab or Bill Gates or (George) Soros and all these people who whiz to Glasgow with private jets and then the masses, as they put it, now the Imposing major austerity measures and restrictions. In fact, politically speaking, that has nothing to do with a democracy. “
It is astonishing that a person who believes he is in a higher sphere can speak so much earthly nonsense in a little more than two minutes. It has to be quoted in full to grasp the extent of the oath. Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, described ideas for reshaping the economy after the corona pandemic in his book “The Great Reset”. Out of this, conspiracy ideologues have made an alleged plan to install a “new world order”, which in right-wing extremist circles is hailed as “Judaism”. Soros is a Jew.
The bigotry is stark
Schwab and his employees receive death threats, Soros is also attacked worldwide, even by state governments. A devout Christian, a cardinal anyway, should stand by those who are threatened instead of participating in the – thank God, virtual – hunt for them. The diabolical talk is inhumane. What kind of charity should that be? Is the eighth of the ten commandments “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” in the Vatican once again ineffective? A cardinal is not just any priest in a dump. He comes directly behind the Pope in the Catholic ranking and is allowed to vote for him.
It is understandable that even a member of the Roman Curia, whose employer is past his prime, feels fears of doom. Bigotry, however, is awesome. In the Vatican people have always sat on thrones of their wealth and, unaffected by the difficulties of the people around the world, have seized every chance to get their agenda through. With its missions on several continents, the church took part in an actual “reset” and amassed a lot of money as a result. This is not the responsibility of Cardinal Müller and his colleagues in the Vatican. But he could think about it before telling rubbish.
In addition, it is a sacrilege to declare that it is not his God as the overpowering, omniscient and all-regulating being who controls the world, but a handful of entrepreneurs. The connection between the conspiracy quark and the climate conference in Glasgow is absurd. A congress of this kind is just as democratically legitimized as the election of the Pope. A few people think, negotiate, weigh and vote. And isn’t climate protection also about preserving creation?
It is not just the clergyman’s whispering that is unsettling. It is also bad that the Vatican was silent and the German Bishops’ Conference only took a minimal stand. Your spokesman Matthias Kopp tweeted two sentences: “One is very surprised about these theories! Cardinal Müller speaks here – I assume – as a private person.”
And if not? When is a cardinal a private person at all? Whatever: For the Bishops’ Conference that is a lot of distance, because cowardice is part of Catholicism like the amen in the Church. The cardinal will probably soon speak of a misunderstanding. Until the next speech, which he presumably sees as an awakening experience for sleeping sheep.