I cannot begin to process the audacity of the corpulent Caligula, junior varsity and little Mikey saying the Pope doesn’t understand theology. Did they miss the part where he’s been a Priest his whole bloody life.
From his controversial theater piece (half cantata, half musical) Mass (and which I adore), his secular liberal Jewish-guy take on a Catholic Mass, with Latin from the choir aplenty. It premiered in 1971 and I suspect it influenced oodles of progrockers. This sprightly little 7/8 jaunt is a parody of call-and-response Evangelical preaching (although I'm not sure that's intentional) and runs through the list of all my favorite arguments against Abrahamic religiosity.
I'd say google the lyrics but they're sung clearly enough. This one's a real hoot:
Rick, we come to the decision of whose path do you follow? While this hysterical, it is also deadly serious. I hope this is a wake up call for the RC's and mainline protestants supporting Trump.
Historian Francesco Guicciardini could just as well have been writing about Donald Trump as about
Pope Alexander VI in saying that he…
“possessed singular cunning and shrewdness, excellent perspicacity, [and] amazing powers of persuasion… but these qualities were far outweighed by his vices: the most obscene manners, hypocrisy, immodesty, mendacity, infidelity, profanity, insatiable greed, unrestrained ambition, a predilection for viciousness that was worse than barbarian, and a fervent hunger to exalt his many children, among whom there were several no less repellent than the father.”
Quoted in The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert.
You had to do it Rick. And we’re dam glad you did.
Sweet Jesus!
MAGA faithful will love this believing it’s a Turning Point ad for trump.
Thank you, Rick, from someone who attended 17 years of Catholic schools.
I cannot begin to process the audacity of the corpulent Caligula, junior varsity and little Mikey saying the Pope doesn’t understand theology. Did they miss the part where he’s been a Priest his whole bloody life.
Excellent!
Now playing: Leonard Bernstein, God Said
From his controversial theater piece (half cantata, half musical) Mass (and which I adore), his secular liberal Jewish-guy take on a Catholic Mass, with Latin from the choir aplenty. It premiered in 1971 and I suspect it influenced oodles of progrockers. This sprightly little 7/8 jaunt is a parody of call-and-response Evangelical preaching (although I'm not sure that's intentional) and runs through the list of all my favorite arguments against Abrahamic religiosity.
I'd say google the lyrics but they're sung clearly enough. This one's a real hoot:
And it was good, brother
And it was good, brother
And it was good, brother
And it was GODDAMN GOOD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MwnIRdQzY
👍👍👍🤣
Brilliant!
Robert Francis Prevost (Pope Leo XIV) is still an American citizen. RFP for President!
Excellent - He's *Catholic
Reminded me of another dark era when James Blaine fought against Catholic immigration
https://thomasnast.com/cartoons/the-american-river-ganges/
You DID have to. And I am grateful!
Rick, we come to the decision of whose path do you follow? While this hysterical, it is also deadly serious. I hope this is a wake up call for the RC's and mainline protestants supporting Trump.
Rick, I believe you said you wrote the copy for this latest LP ad. Very good, sir, very good indeed!
Ok, that was as funny as only the Lincoln Project can make it, which is to say flipping hilarious.
Historian Francesco Guicciardini could just as well have been writing about Donald Trump as about
Pope Alexander VI in saying that he…
“possessed singular cunning and shrewdness, excellent perspicacity, [and] amazing powers of persuasion… but these qualities were far outweighed by his vices: the most obscene manners, hypocrisy, immodesty, mendacity, infidelity, profanity, insatiable greed, unrestrained ambition, a predilection for viciousness that was worse than barbarian, and a fervent hunger to exalt his many children, among whom there were several no less repellent than the father.”
Quoted in The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert.