The Pope's Visit.

So the Pope has come and gone in our absence leaving behind, “Paedophilia is an illness in which free will cannot function” or words close to that effect. As effective in a court of law as saying, “I’m a good bloke really your honour, I just wasn’t myself when I murdered my parents.” I’m left wondering why milkmen and plumbers don’t, as a result of their profession, also succumb in appreciable numbers to this paedophilic illness: Or perhaps the Milk Marketing Board are keeping a closed lid on it. And then there’s his aid who was left at home due to ‘illness’ for saying, “landing at Heathrow airport was like entering a third world country.” Yet I’m left thinking Britain will shortly be a third world country if we don’t regain some faith in the core of the Christian message. A dilemma that, as it takes shape in my mind, is strangely between politics and science. Christianity began as one man talking to individual men and women about their place in this bountiful complexity. Science, though it is tainted by our human intents, is somewhat similar, with individuals sharing their finding with others. Politics however is for mass consumption, a deal between establishment and society, and unfortunately what binds a mass together, be it an establishment or its society, is usually our lowest common denominator, fear. In this instance the Pope was the politician and his aid a scientist sharing his honest findings. The two cannot be seen together. I’m wondering if Britain’s cultural decline, and possibly Catholicism’s, is in this dichotomy. So much of what we think and do is as a member of a mass, be it fashion, music, media, poverty, illness, news or politics. And with each membership comes its own fear to not be the wonderful, perverse individual that you are. I don’t think Jesus wanted us all to be ‘good’ but for us to process the fears that withhold our own goodness. Maybe the Pope made a good point clumsily. That paedophilia is an illness, a deep animal fear of not seeding one’s genes due to an establishment denial, and that without the imposition of such fears one’s ‘free will’ or ‘beautiful self’ will be Godly. Or maybe he was just being a politician talking on behalf of a frightened establishment.