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Friday, September 14, 2012

Pacem in Terris

What with the presence of the Deity doing so much for the cause of peace in the Middle East, the sixteenth Daddy Goodspeak has embarked upon a quick pilgrimage to Lebanon. Benedict's chum in Christ and sometime peace envoy, the Reverend Blair, is apparently busy with more profitable undertakings; so it has fallen to the Pope to make the usual noises "as a friend of God and as a friend of men", with the usual staggeringly effective results. As a friend of God, the sixteenth Daddy Goodspeak denounced religious fundamentalism, because everyone should be as reasonable as the Vatican, as moral as the Curia and as tolerant as the Inquisition; as a friend of men, the sixteenth Daddy Goodspeak denounced the import of weapons into Syria, without which the war could not continue and in which the Vatican presumably has little or no financial stake. The papal spokesbeing did not rule out a meeting with supporters of Hezbollah, which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by the United States, and therefore presumably by the Reverend Blair as well; despite this, and despite the sixteenth Daddy Goodspeak's enthusiasm for the Jew-baiting Tridentine Mass, the risk of a targeted air-strike by the Righteous State has apparently been judged acceptable.

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