The truth isn’t complicated
St. Corbinian’s Bear has some rare but much-needed common sense for Catholics today, and also for fans of Pope Francis.
How many photos of polar bears stuck on the ice in the middle of the ocean have you seen? Here’s a newsflash: polar bears live on the ice and in the sea. That’s because their food — seals — live in the same places. It’s their habitat.
Granted, polar bears are not as smart (or as good looking) as the Bear’s own species, ursus arctos, but they’re not stupid enough to swim so far out that they must pitifully die on some oversize ice cube. Where are we to believe these bears came from anyway? An ice floe that suddenly melted while they were off hunting for seals? Or, worse, global warming is happening so fast the ice is melting right under the bear’s feet!
This is agitprop. Propaganda. In a word: fake. So we must ask ourselves, why stage fake pictures that make perfectly healthy polar bears look like marooned buffoons? Because they’re lying to us big time. Climate change is a crock. Don’t believe it and don’t trust anyone who peddles it.
There’s an American kind of wisdom that’s often Protestant. It’s derived from things like scripture, grace, family tradition, self-reliance, and living close to the land. The more faithful American Protestants today are scandalized by our shackled and politicized Church. They see a good Pope pressured to resign and a liberal ringer appearing his place, and they are silent. They see feckless bishops fall in line like cards.
These Protestants don’t feel the need to rationalize, to minimize, or to spin like we do. They look at us today and feel justified in their rejection of the Church’s authority.
We can learn from them, not to reject the Church, but to defend it by thwarting the works of it’s enemies within or without. It’s a great mistake to try and ride the Church like a horse, and to count on the gullibility of the more faithful followers of Christ.