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Polemical Rogue John Bugay Blames Catholic Church for ISIS

Polemical Rogue John Bugay Blames Catholic Church for ISIS

Last updated on: April 7, 2018 at 12:40 am by Scott Eric Alt

Polemical Rogue John Bugay Blames Catholic Church for ISIS 2018-04-07T00:40:28-04:00 Scott Eric Alt

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No doubt, dear reader, you have been reading serious things about the wicked horror and evil that does its Satanic deeds under the name ISIS. Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, the polemical rogue John Bugay—a man whose reason turned vagabond long before—has once more become possessed by the mad desire to out-do Jack Chick for clownish buffoonery. Listen to his newest dumb outrage upon good sense. (But pray do not have food or drink in your mouth, make sure you are secure in your chair, and say a few Aves first. Okay, here we go.)

Roman Catholicism, in its comprehensiveness, is a major source of evil in the world.[Take a breath, we’ll get through this.] Certainly some good Roman Catholics have done some good things [Don’t you just want to slap him?] and it may even be said that Roman Catholicism helped to enable a world to follow-up [sic] with the sciences.

What a self-imposed void this poor man lives in. I’d say he should sit down and read a book for once, except that when he tries, he cannot stop himself from leaping seven moons beyond what the writer is talking about just so that he can attack the Church again. If he was reading a cookbook, he’d find in it a lesson on all the errors of Rome. So no book could help this man.

Insofar as Rome disfigured the gospel [Dear reader, here is where you must brace yourself.] it was an enabler of Mohammed. … [I]t became a teacher of, a motivator for, and an example to, radical Islam today: that heretics must be tortured and killed.

I know not whether to be amused or offended by all of this. Mr. Bugay cites no authority for any of these claims, apart his own musings in a combox on Facebook. But so we’re clear here, Mr. Bugay has just compared the Catholic Church to the evil monsters who slice the heads off of babies.

Dear reader, the polemical rogue has officially lost it. If there were doubt before, there can be doubt no longer. There is no sewer into which the man will not step and thank God for the smell.

Now, I don’t make a habit of taking offense at much, particularly not the feverish ramblings of a hate-filled, bigoted, smarmy anti-Catholic like John Bugay. More often than not, the poor man deserves laughter, eyerolls, and pity. (And he has my sincere prayers when I’m not in a mischievous mood.)

But this crosses a line that ought not be crossed, and Mr. Bugay should be ashamed of himself. Because even he should know better. Even he. And if you are Catholic, and your love for the Church is but a nanofraction of his hatred for it, you should take offense too.

I will tell you why.

There is great and unspeakable evil going on in the Middle East. It requires a holy response. It requires prayer, it requires spiritual sacrifice, it requires God, and it may require just war. And it requires the seriousness of a man, not the clownery of a pompous jackanapes full of hate and breathing stench.

(Mr. Bugay being the man who once photoshopped Hitler’s moustache onto a picture of St. Therese of Lisieux.)

On other blogs beside Mr. Bugay’s—sensible blogs, not crackpot ones—serious Catholics are writing serious things about the goings-on in Syria and Iraq.

And what, by contrast, do we get from Mr. Bugay? More hatred and bigotry. More ranting at the bogeyman. Anti-Catholicism might be amusing, most of the time. But this latest screed at Failablogue shows that there still lurks, underneath the clownish surface, a dark and soulless cesspool of hatred with no sense of proportion or truth.

Truly, anyone who can seriously compare the Catholic Church to ISIS, and keep a straight face, will not be helped by any gentle, good-natured lesson in truth. Such a man needs the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. And perhaps an exorcist.

Of course, to be clear: The truth does help. Mr. Bugay’s “thesis,” if I may give it so grand a word, is that the Catholic Church was a “teacher” to radical, murderous Islam because of—brace yourself against guffaws of laughter here, lest you strain your left side—the Crusades.

Now, if I recall correctly, the Crusades were fought against the evils of Islam. Remember that, Mr. Bugay? Does the word “Lepanto” mean anything to you? Your ignorance is inexcusable and embarrassing; and your attempt to compare what ISIS is doing today in the Middle East to anything that Catholics did in the Crusades lacks merit, excuse, depth, honor, and even a minimum of intelligence and sanity.

But: I don’t know that truth matters to the man, at least not when it is inconvenient to his hatred of Catholicism.

For my part—I hope you may listen very carefully, Mr. Bugay—I will make sure that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered for his immortal soul.

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