Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio At The Door Scenario Nobody Likes To Discuss

WYD 2013

Little spin on the "wisdom" of Mark Shea making this "question" a little more realistic and therefore more frightening:

There’s a knock at the door.  Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio demands to know if you are hiding a six year old boy that he would like to kiss on the mouth.  To save time, all you have do is tell him you deny that there is a six year old boy in the house and he won’t tear your house apart, arrest your family and kiss your male children smack dab on the lips.

The advocates of the “Hell yes, you should lie” school tell me I am an utter fool for saying that you cannot lie and deny that your six year old son is in the house.  As has been said countless times, “If it will save just one innocent six year old boy from being kissed smack dab on the lips by Bergoglio, of course you should lie to Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

So if lying is just fine to save a six year old boy from being kissed smack dab on the mouth by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, what’s the difference between this little white lie and any other little white lie?  After all, we’ve been instructed that what matters is not the content or gravity of the lie that matters, but the fact that the person you are lying to has “no right to the truth.”  So if you deny that your six year old son is in the house to Jorge Mario Bergoglio you are not, we are instructed, *really* lying.

So why not deny Jesus to the Bergoglio or  whoever else you decide has “no right to the truth”–you know, like the Christians whose burning bodies lit Nero’s gardens did.

In case you hadn’t noticed, “Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio at the door” scenarios are emotionally manipulative games (just like “Ticking Time Bomb” yarns) constructed to force you to ignore the Church’s teaching, just as scenarios about horribly deformed children born of incest and rape and begging to be euthanized are likewise emotionally manipulative games constructed to get you to endorse abortion and euthanasia.  Any idiot can construct an extreme and desperate sob story in order to paint you into an emotional corner and portray you as a monster for disagreeing.

Meanwhile, our actual moral model is not some hypothesis, but Jesus–who never, ever lied and who never, ever tempted somebody to do evil. Mark Shea