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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr. Oohay
On Thursday, April 16, 2026, 4:36 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr Oohay,
You have the temerity to say “ This Chicago-raised first USAmerican pope also apparently forgets THE crusades. “ ?
There's the WSJ article on Why Pope Leo Is Such a Challenging Opponent for Trump
His Holiness the Pope - no dictator is he, was democratically elected, presumably guided by the Holy Spirit ! The world waited anxiously for the white smoke to come curling out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel , and I for one prayed that it would be an American Pope this time. Consequently, there is of course a plurality of voices and all kinds of disagreements within ( and outside) the Holy Catholic Church. I’m not surprised for instance that you may even find some succour in a kindred spirit namely your fellow anti-marxist, the retired Cardinal Robert Sarah inveighing against “the dangers” of Islam, braying here, “Wake up. Islam is a danger. If Christians don't start caring about our faith, Islam will take over the West.”
This was my reply to that item in Facebook :
Cardinal Robert Sarah hails from Guinea Conakry a Muslim majority country where Muslims and Christians live amicably, side by side. He could at the very least, show some charity, some Christian tolerance.
Instead of endorsing - even cautiously, the spirit of Pope Leo XIV’s message on Islam he seems to be hell-bent in resurrecting the ghost of Eurabia and the Gates of Vienna
The inflammatory, dangerous, provocative, self-infatuated bigotry issuing from Cardinal Sarah can only contribute to promoting the Islamophobia and xenophobia and fear of the other that is already bedevilling anti-immigration Fortress Europe.
Surely, gone and never to return are the times of the inquisition and other devil-inspired pogroms, witchhunts, antisemitism, Holocaust and religious persecution.
Cardinal Robert Sarah and his faction ought to be more familiar with Hans Kung (
He should continue with the peaceful propagation of his faith and leave some room for what Bishop Krister Stendahl referred to as “ holy envy”
I believe myself to be familiar with the subject matter and prepared to discuss or debate it ad infinitum…
Gloria Emeagwali
Cornelius Hamelberg
Yes, “Maga-ism trumps Catholicism, apparently.”
Next stage, since he does his mouth shooting from the hip - one of these days, it's possible that in an unguarded moment, he might find himself blurting out - just like John Lennon but in his case about his MAGA-movement, “We're more popular than Jesus”. And the fallout !
Hopefully, he will not exceed all bounds by making that kind of mistake. His mega base is, after all, evangelical.
It’s the age of The Hollow Men
Indeed, in the ego-bloated super hollow mind of the wannabe emperor of the world, USA’s Mago Mago President is showing symptoms of some kind of messiah complex.
Poetry:
That’s the diagnosis
of the neurosis.
Crazy:
World Emperor. His Dreams of Empire.
The big white ape in the big white house.
Post-Eichmann, it’s probably the other corrupt war criminal awaiting trial in the holy land that's giving him that kind of big idea that he is the Moshiach, the conquering lion king of the tribe of Judah armed with the MAGA version of excalibur - for might is right and although physically he might look a little flabby fighting here with the late Pope in TRUMP VS POPE, in actual fact (not fake news and not the new testament either), in actual fact he thinks that he is the military muscle plus the strategic thinking brain behind the US+Israel war on Iran and most importantly that he is Israel’s American saviour -
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
The other fact is
Trump is in plenty of trouble.
Big trouble.
He thinks that he can dis Pope Leo XIV -
by far the most loved and respected
American dude on the planet
and get away with it?
He had better think again.
The good news is that by altercating with His Holiness in that manner, Trump has thereby lost the Catholic vote.
Dr. Oohay
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Since the great and little Satan’s war on Iran started I haven’t visited any of these American Conservative News sites for some clarity on how his home boys and girls are thinking
Re - “This Chicago-raised first USAmerican pope also apparently forgets THE crusades.”
In the Middle East context, that pithy, Parthian shout hits a sensitive central nerve which Trump ( Wild Bill Hickok) for all his usual bravado, bluster and abrasiveness ( like the unruly kind of critter that he is, as a boisterous American bull/ bucking rhinoceros/ wild hippopotamus let loose in a China shop has been careful to avoid :
Any wording that smells of THE CRUSADES or crusader type propaganda language in his and Netanyahu's war on Iran.
He & his buddy Netanyahu will go the extra mile to avoid saying that it's a religious war, that it’s Western Civilization’s Judeo-Chrisitian war on Islam, a war on the Infidels , because if he & Netanyahu said that, overnight, such a statement would electrify and unite Muslims worldwide - would unite Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Sardauna of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano, all branches of Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, Islamic State etc. all the African Jihadist Muslims the world over, South of the Sahara, not to talk of the Sharia law-abiding Algerians, Egyptians, Libyans, unite even the uncle tom Arabs, the Malaysians and Indonesians, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Pakistan said to have “the Islamic bomb” and Türkiye with the strongest fighting force in Europe against kufr, the identifiable enemy…
Back in 1973, King Faisal who was then King of Saudi Arabia is reported to have said “We can live on dates and water, but we will not give up an inch of Jerusalem”
Over there in DRC which is over 90% Christian, their wakeup call is Nouveau Testament
And it's Jerusalem that's at the epicentre of the fast-evolving history.
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwdjhIcp0EOQh6tROqvnCeA)
So far Iran has severely hit Tel Aviv. Jerusalem is too sensitive to hit or be hit, and so is the Al-Aqsa Mosque said to be currently occupying the exact spot where the Temple Institute and Trump’s Evangelicals wanna erect their third temple
Here’s Professor Marandi’s prediction about how the war on Iran is going to end
Cornelius Hamelberg
As Meidastouch often puts it,
“It’s not looking good for Donald Trump” :
Trump is now threatening to rain down hellfire on Iran if Iran does not agree to whatever deal
he is offering.
Let us pray