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“Authoritarian leaders are the antichrists of our time.”
Left-wing Jesuit priest Thomas Reese has just accused former President Donald Trump of being a form of the “antichrist.” Ordinarily, Reese spouts opinions and ideas more inane than those held by the oft-caricatured tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist but with a progressive bent almost comical in its extremity.
Reese has promoted the “seamless garment” or “consistent ethic of life” theological theory, which places the systematic slaughter of millions of unborn babies on a moral par with such issues as minimum wage and social welfare programs. He has argued that Pope St. Paul VI’s landmark encyclical Humanae vitaemade a “mistake” in forbidding Catholics from using artificial contraception to thwart God’s plan for sex and procreation. He has also (unsurprisingly) issued endorsements of openly gay clergy and advocated for the Catholic Church to alter her unalterable moral teachings on homosexual acts.
Ordinarily, the sight of Reese’s name in an article’s byline is enough cause to dismiss the argument and its claims out of hand, so perverse a progressive propagandist is he. But however misguided the Jesuit’s aggressive animus is toward Donald Trump, he does actually have an argument to be made in this case. In a recent op-ed for the largely leftist Religion News Service, Reese writes:
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Left-wing Jesuit priest Thomas Reese has just accused former President Donald Trump of being a form of the “antichrist.” Ordinarily, Reese spouts opinions and ideas more inane than those held by the oft-caricatured tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist but with a progressive bent almost comical in its extremity.
Reese has promoted the “seamless garment” or “consistent ethic of life” theological theory, which places the systematic slaughter of millions of unborn babies on a moral par with such issues as minimum wage and social welfare programs. He has argued that Pope St. Paul VI’s landmark encyclical Humanae vitaemade a “mistake” in forbidding Catholics from using artificial contraception to thwart God’s plan for sex and procreation. He has also (unsurprisingly) issued endorsements of openly gay clergy and advocated for the Catholic Church to alter her unalterable moral teachings on homosexual acts.
Ordinarily, the sight of Reese’s name in an article’s byline is enough cause to dismiss the argument and its claims out of hand, so perverse a progressive propagandist is he. But however misguided the Jesuit’s aggressive animus is toward Donald Trump, he does actually have an argument to be made in this case. In a recent op-ed for the largely leftist Religion News Service, Reese writes:
Continued below.
Jesuit Priest Declares Donald Trump an Antichrist - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Left-wing Jesuit priest Thomas Reese has just accused former President Donald Trump of being a form of the “antichrist.”
