
Quotations from
Chairman Francis
“Time
is greater than space
”
... and other Philosophical Absurdities

A Clouded Mind
“Time
is greater than space ”
...
This
mantra appears to be quite compelling to Francis:
he includes it in his First Encyclical Lumen Fidei, his second,
Laudato Si, and in its latest iteration within Amoris Laetitia
— all deeply defective and ultimately superficial documents.
The slogan — for that is the greatest
intellectual charity we can ascribe it — is, in two words, intellectual
nonsense. It does not even attain to being called spurious,
for spurious statements can still be logical — albeit untrue — statements:
however shabby their integrity they are comprehensible: they can be
understood — and because they can be understood they can be logically
examined — and discredited. Nevertheless, they are, at the very least,
plausible statements.
I wish to be unsparingly clear: the mantra,
“Time is greater than space,” or “Time is always
much greater than space” (you choose the magnitude) is a
conjunction of profoundly arranged words that possess what can be called
merely the impression of meaning — without possessing any substance.
That is to say, it “sounds nice” and appears “profound”
— but only for a millisecond and beyond that only to minds incapable
of parsing words into something logically consistent. It would appear
that Francis is convinced that the more he utters it, the more credibility
it will somehow acquire; that if he says it often enough it will become
logical. It certainly appears to be the case for at least
one deacon who, through profusion of words, adds not a whit of clarity
to the argument. “our
Holy Father is a process-starter and not a space-dominator.” Indeed.
It is not helpful to the assessment of the mentality of Catholics to
have official nonsense carefully explained by reiterating the nonsense
verbatim — to clarify what cannot attain to clarity.
Sounds
“Cool”
to me!
This is
not to say that it is without merit: it “sounds cool” and, as I had
said, “very profound”. In fact you can utter it, too! That
is essential to the Slogan: anyone can utter it — and sound
“cool and profound” … until the deeply embarrassing moment when he is
asked to explain it. What results is evidence of a clouded mind
radicated in ideology — not theology. If you nevertheless subscribe
to slogans as principles to live by, then Chairman Francis is
your man. Do you wish to add to your repertoire? Here are others, courtesy
of Francis:
-
“Space
hardens processes”
-
“a first
principle for progress in building a people: time is greater than
space.”
-
“spaces
and power are preferred to time and processes”
-
“Time
governs spaces ...
-
“Since
time is greater than space …
Such utterances are troubling because
they are indicative of a deeply troubled mind; a mind that can no longer
differentiate between the logical and the absurd.
The Sovereign
At last we arrive at Francis’s
ultimate goal; a goal he strives for through sloganeering because it
is not attainable through reason and not subject to logic. It is an
open effort, not just to mitigate,
but to abolish doctrine as fixed and immutable — in other
words as intractable to Francis’s will. Francis increasingly
appears to want sovereign, absolute, and discretionary control
over doctrine, dogma, and ultimately, Sacred Scripture itself. This
is delusional.
It cannot happen because God
will not let it happen — and somehow Francis fails to recognize this.
Every reign ends. Every Roman sovereign who has descended into dictator
has succumbed; Commodus, Nero, Domitian — the lesser who make themselves
greater.
Now, if you say the sort of
things that Francis does, you will definitely cause some people to deem
you quite bright — and others to question your sanity. The point is
this: you have caused them to try to sort out what cannot possibly be
logically indexed. You have presented them with, what in philosophy,
is called a “surd”: something not susceptible to reason, logic, and
understanding. You have given them a bone to chew on. Nothing more.
The marrow of the bone? There
is none. It is empty.
In fact, as utterly vacant
as the consistent absence of reason and logic in the chaotic
verbal episodes of Francis — especially at an altitude of 35,000 feet.
Doctrine and Dogma will
not change because they cannot change — despite
the desperate efforts of Francis to subvert them.
It is of the scope and competence
of a Catholic pope to address things of far greater — and lasting —significance
than space and time — such as eternity.
Good heavens, man, read
your job description!
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
For Space and Time
in rational discourse see:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-spacetime/
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Further Reading on the Papacy of
Francis:

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Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome
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opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse
3.8)
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