... and that's all we're saying about the occupation at Parliament grounds for tonight
Father Joe Borg is popularising the Maltese slur "Il-fabbriki tal-varjant" in his weekly column for Newsbook — a leading media outlet owned by the Catholic Church in Malta.
"The dehumanizing term is spreading fast on the island and being used to stigmatize and exclude unvaccinated persons," a priest from Malta told Church Militant Thursday.
Fr David Muscat - looks that's a rosary he's holding |
Responding to Borg, Fr. David Muscat, rector of Our Lady's chapel in Mosta, narrates how a churchgoer accused him of daring to "mix with the unvaccinated crowd, the fabbriki tal-varjant, and then coming to celebrate Mass."
"I will ask for you to be replaced with a true Christian priest who cares for us," the parishioner railed, against the cleric. Fr. Muscat says he was accompanying a vaccine-hesitant Italian friend to the hospital for the jab when the parishioner attacked him.
"I immediately understood that this person was parroting Fr. Joe Borg's prejudices, but since I was very worried for my panicked friend in Valletta, I felt I had to ignore this person and dash to meet him even if that meant mixing with the 'deplorable,'" Fr. Muscat writes in a blog post.
Father Muscat has been repeatedly vilified in the Maltese mainstream media for his uncompromising position upholding Catholic teaching on human sexuality.
Borg's words are "inflammatory and irresponsible" as he "is one of the most visible clerics on the island — both because of his regular presence in the country's media but also part of the bishops' 'magic circle,'" a senior Maltese layman told Church Militant.
Borg chairs the editorial board of the Catholic Church's Beacon Media Group and is editor of Newsbook. He has also drafted the archdiocese of Malta's media policy and is visiting senior lecturer in media and communications at the University of Malta.
In July, Dr. Borg was appointed coordinator of the journalism desk of Signis Europe — an arm of the World Catholic Association for Communication (WCAC).
The layman also commented on the "delicious irony" of "Borg creating a new marginalized and excluded 'Other' comprising of the unvaxxed, while rabidly defending the LGBTQ+ for years and calling for their full inclusion in the Church."
Mental-health ethicist Niall McCrae blasted Borg's "irrational scapegoating" as "itself a danger to society, as it risks lynch mobs, incarceration and worse."
"Most worryingly, this man of the cloth calls anyone doubting the mass-vaccination program as 'a danger to society,'" against whom "the state should act," Dr. McCrae notes, adding:
Father Joe Borg displays the frightening tendency of the religious establishment to throw its weight behind the Great Reset and the greed of Big Pharma. He sees no cause for complaint in the deprivation of basic liberties, forced mask-wearing and the blackmailing of citizens into taking a series of experimental injections.
Stepping up his vilification of the unvaccinated in an August column for the Malta Times, Borg quotes Pope Francis' description of the unvaccinated as "victims of their own imagination."
"And if you think that these words are too harsh a judgment, keep reading on. What follows is harsher!" Borg writes, listing three supposed citations from Pope Francis:
- They "forget or do not care about those who cannot rely, for example, on social security or who have lost their jobs"
- They are "incapable of moving outside of their own little world of interests"
- They are "people with armor-plated selves who live off grievances, thinking only of themselves"
Borg sums up Francis' arguments in his own words: "Anti-vaxxers, with their pitiful and myopic self-awarded status of victimhood, are a manifestation of this hyperinflation."
"Theirs is the reign of inane conspiracy theories and fake news," he rants, stressing "they are, consequently, a danger to society."
"Anti-vaxxers do not only disdain the common good, but they also disparage the truth," Borg concludes, despite a new study demonstrating how people with a doctorate-level education are the most hesitant to take the jab.
The paper, published by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, found that the most educated people are not only the most skeptical about the shot, they are also the least likely to change their minds about it.Jewish anthropologist Karen Harradine stated she was alarmed by rhetoric demonizing a group based on health.
"There can be no comparison to the Shoah, ever," Harradine stresses, "but we must look at the parallels in history to learn from them."
Nazi anti-Jewish poster |
The popular British writer adds:
The Nazis called Jews "Untermenschen" (subhuman) and accused them of being unclean. The use of hateful discourse like this served to dehumanize Jews, the 'Other' in the Nazi mind, making it palatable for ordinary Germans to persecute, torture and murder their fellow citizens.
That similar terminology is being used by Fr. Joe Borg with quotations from Pope Francis to describe those who chose not to get vaccinated is abhorrent, especially evil given that COVID-19 has a low mortality rate and the vaccines are unproven. Why is anti-science dogma being used to demonize the Other, yet again?
Historians record Nazis' health campaigns portraying Jews as vermin, parasites or carriers of diseases who threatened the health of the "German racial community" (Volksgemeinschaft).
German doctors under the Nazi regime frequently argued that Jews spread disease and were especially responsible for outbreaks of typhus.
A 1941 Nazi poster for display in German-occupied Poland carried the slogan: "Jews are lice; they cause typhus." German public health authorities repeatedly urged authorities to isolate Jews further from the rest of the population.
The Nazi propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) compared Jews to rats that spread disease and contagion throughout nation while devouring its resources.
Earlier, Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told CNN that unvaccinated people are "potential variant factories."
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pro-lgbt-maltese-priest-demonizes-unvaxxed
*Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released data indicating that children who received the COVID-19 jabs have suffered a death rate 54 times greater than that of their unjabbed counterparts.
Bear in mind that already, over 200,000 New Zealand children aged 5 - 12 have already had the Pfizer jab. TvOne 'News' tonight was quite excited by today's toll (slip of the tongue, of course we mean 'total').
February 08, 2022
Pfizer Seeks COVID Shot Authorization for Children Under 5
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
> February 1, 2022, Pfizer/BioNTech asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to grant emergency use authorization (EUA) for their COVID shot to babies and children aged 6 months through 4 years
> The EUA will be for a two-dose regimen, with the possibility of extending it to a third dose, as two injections have been shown to be ineffective in 2- to 4-year-olds
> Children aged 6 months to 4 years will get a dose that is one-tenth the adult dose
> Were Pfizer to wait until the triple-dose experiment is completed, the EUA request would not be possible until late March 2022, and federal officials are reportedly “anxious to begin a vaccination program for the youngest children because the studies showed there were no safety concerns with two doses”
> Meanwhile, Pfizer’s own data raise massive safety concerns, as they received 42,086 injury reports, including 1,223 fatalities in the first 2.5 months of their COVID jab rollout for adultsDespite conclusive evidence that young children have virtually no risk of severe complications or death from COVID-19, Pfizer is hustling to get our infants and toddlers injected with their experimental gene transfer technology.
"Positive pediatrician vaccinating cute child" (CDC) Pfizer’s own trial data, which are starting to be released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FDA, also do nothing to assuage safety concerns. Quite the contrary. Cumulatively, between December 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021 — a period of just 2.5 months — Pfizer received 42,086 injury reports, including 1,223 fatalities.
Compare that to the 1976 swine flu vaccine, which was pulled after 25 deaths. Pfizer even acknowledges the abnormal rate of injuries. They actually had to hire more data entry and case processing personnel to handle the influx of adverse events reports. Still, they insist everything is hunky-dory and there’s absolutely no problem.
Initially, the FDA wanted 55 years to release all of Pfizer’s trial data at a rate of 500 pages per month. After finding another trove of related documents, they asked for 75 years. A judge denied both requests, ordering the agency to release the data at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, starting March 1, 2022, to finalize the full release in about eight months.
It is understandable that the FDA does not want independent scientists to review the documents it relied upon to license Pfizer’s vaccine given that it is not as effective as the FDA originally claimed, does not prevent transmission, does not prevent against certain emerging variants, can cause serious heart inflammation in younger individuals, and has numerous other undisputed safety issues.’
Why is the FDA risking our children?
As mentioned, we already know children are essentially at zero risk of dying from COVID. They might test positive. They might develop symptoms, but they get through it just like they get through the common cold or flu. There’s no reason to jeopardize their long-term health with a COVID jab. They don’t need it, and therefore ANY risk of the jab, no matter how small, is unconscionable and unacceptable.https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/02/08/pfizer-covid-vaccine-for-kids.aspx
On second thoughts, here's a little something else from the occupation at Parliament grounds:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1876770255843196/posts/1885871614933060/
St Juliana of Nicomedia, February 16 |
O God, who gladden us today with the annual commemoration of blessed Juliana, graciously grant that we may be helped by her merits, just as our lives are lit up by the splendor of her example of chastity and fortitude. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
(from The Roman Missal: Common of Martyrs—For a Virgin-Martyr)
Your opening remarks about the gay cult need to be tempered by viewing on YouTube the doco 'For the Bible Tells me So.' you might have a different attitude after viewing. Don't bury your head in the sand.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous.. I love your optimism but you can't change God's law to suit a group of people. Homosexual acts ARE an abomination in God's eyes - NOT SAME SEX ATTRACTED PEOPLE - who are very much loved by God.
ReplyDeleteAre your lesbian theologians ready to tell God He made a mistake, a huge mistake destroying Sodom and Gommorah? (where did the term 'sodomy' come from'??)
We all have weaknesses and temptations. We all sin, but unrepentant sin leads to spiritual death.
I have a loved one who is an alcoholic. That is her weakness, it has nearly killed her in years gone by. Should she be encouraged to keep drinking because she identifies as an alcoholic? Or should she learn to live and negotiate life with that cross?
Any sexual relationship outside of holy matrimony (one man, one woman) is sinful. Mortally.
Unfortunately being celibate is not in fashion. It's not easy taking the road less travelled, resisting your demons.. Fighting the good fight. But who said getting to Heaven would be easy?
I haven't got time to watch your (very long) recommended doco. If you could give a brief review and 'blow (my) theology to bits', I'd love to hear it.