During most of World War II, the leader of the Catholic Church was Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius was a controversial figure because he did not clearly and explicitly condemn Nazi atrocities in official statements or public speeches. He avoided naming National Socialism, Adolf Hitler, or Jews directly in wartime messages.
Today, Pope Leo XIV criticizes Christians and Jews who take up arms and degrade the capacity of the new fascist threat to humanity, Shi’a Islam, while leaving free of criticism the clerical fascists who are massacring their own people, organizing terrorism, waging war by proxy, and seeking nuclear weapons.
If the Islamic Republic had its way with the world, if it were able to impose its vision on the West, we’d all be Muslim or dead. Women would be subordinated to male power. Homosexuals would suppress their nature to avoid public hanging. To ensure Islam can do none of these things, the West must degrade its capacity to wage war—and close the Western gate on mass migration from Muslim-majority countries.
The Red-Green Alliance couldn’t be happier with Pope Leo. He shames the enemies of unfreedom for resisting Islam’s ambitions. Anarchists and communists find useful those who tell their enemies to bow their heads and passively welcome the blow. Turn the other cheek lest you be a hypocrite—so that the other cheek may be struck.
Nietzsche criticized Christianity for promoting what he saw as a life-denying moral system. His disdain extended to the emphasis on pacifism. In The Antichrist, he argued that Christian ideals such as turning the other cheek, humility, and nonresistance were not virtues but symptoms of weakness—strategies developed by the powerless to restrain the strong.
For Nietzsche, pacifism suppressed natural human drives like ambition, strength, and the will to assert oneself. Denying these drives ultimately undermines human flourishing. A moral system that elevates conflict avoidance represents a dangerous decline in vitality. Such a system constitutes slave morality. I agree with that point for sure.
But not all Christians fit Nietzsche’s description. Christian men are not obliged to be the sheep of other men. In the Middle Ages, Christians took up swords against the barbarians and drove them out of Europe. They did not deny their natural right to defend themselves and their families. (See The Woke Emasculation of Christianity and the Road Back to Integrity.)
Pope Leo preaches today that we should not learn the lessons of history and leave the Islamic Republic and its proxies to gather power. Confronted with the oppressions of Islam and Communism, we should not fight but offer up our necks to the sword.
The strategies Nietzsche identifies are not the work of the powerless restraining the strong—at least not in the present case. In the present case, it’s the contrary. Today, those with ambitions of world domination—Shi’a Islam, Communist China—enjoy a pope who seeks to disarm those who would resist totalitarianisms by shaming them for their instinct to rise and fight—and for praying to God for protection and victory.
Readers must not forget Pope Leo’s criticism of restrictions on mass migration to the West. To be sure, he has—to appear reasonable—recognized the right of nations to enforce their borders; at the same time, he has condemned what he characterizes as harsh or inhumane treatment of migrants. His call for compassion, fairness, and respect for human dignity is for the migrant, not the people native to the Americas and Europe, who he asks to endure the effects of mass migration.
“Those who have built their lives over many years should not be cast aside without regard for their human story,” Pope Leo says. But what about the human stories of the native born and naturalized and well assimilated upon whom the consequences of mass migration are placed—the disordering of their cultures and communities, the loss of jobs and wage suppression, the drain on their resources, and the rise in crime and violence? “The suffering of migrants and refugees calls us to solidarity, not indifference,” he said. What about the suffering of nations caused by the migrant? What about the threat to the Western way of life? Shall we be indifferent to that? What solidarity is possible between those who love the West and those who despise and destroy it?
There’s a perfect metaphor for Pope Leo. Do I even need to say it? For the record, I warned you about this pope and his fondness for totalitarianism (see Pope Leo XIV and the Vatican-CCP Agreement). No man who asks Western men to turn the other cheek can speak for their civilization.
The globalists frame the contest between Trump and Pope Leo. In doing so, they elevate the status of a man whose loyalty is not to Western Civilization, but to its enemies. They legitimize the pontiff in a struggle between free societies and the twin totalitarianisms of Communism and Islam. They make holy an unholy father. They do this to diminish Trump to advance the transnational project.
Here’s my response to Pope Leo on X:
In No, Trump Did Not Signal Genocide. He’s Signaling the Destruction of the Islamic Republic and Beyond Regime Change: Iran, the Rise of China, and the Trump Doctrine, I write about the right-wing voices critical of Trump who argue that the US–Israel intervention was driven by a Zionist agenda. I pointed out that such claims often draw on conspiratorial frameworks with antisemitic roots.
To remind readers of the most prominent figures, they are Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Candice Owens, and Nick Fuentes. Their zombie followers are out in force at the moment (overnight was wild), attacking President Trump and his supporters. They gassed out on how much they sacrificed to see him elected to office, only to see him betray them and America First. For them, America First means severing ties to Israel (the Zionist puppetmaster) and going it alone in the world.
Three of the four are far-right Catholics. Carlson is Episcopalian, but is enamored by right-wing Catholicism. You’d think they’d get the threat Islam poses to the West. But antisemitism warps them. The zombies they control chant “America First,” but there is no America First until we’ve secured the realm. The West fought Islam and totalitarianism before. Were the Crusades orchestrated by the Jews? Would Carlson and his bunch have taken up swords? Did the Jews engineer the Cold War?
Pope Leo (who’s actually a king, by the way) is on their side, as well as the Reds and Greens who despise the West. Pope Leo spends his day condemning America and Israel and says not a damn thing about the thousands of Iranians butchered by the Islamic Republic. Antisemitism drives the madness common to the turncoats and woke types. How about Pope Leo? Is he antisemitic, as well? Do they altogether seek a Woke Reich?
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