HISTORY IS JUST NOT FUNNY

Dennis Hatfield
2 min readJan 1, 2023

--

………AND TRY AS YOU MIGHT……….

…………….IT DOESN’T LIE…………….

Is my heart broken? No. Do I feel sympathy or empathy? No. Do I understand the denial and the lies? No. Do I understand reality? I try, but it’s becoming more complicated. Do I understand religion? No! Do I want to? No! Evangelical Nationalism? I’m not going to say it, but it rhymes with Pottsey!

The death of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, alias Pope Benedict, forced me to do some reading, but, when you read a strange story. do you ever read between the lines?

Let’s go back in time. There was this guy named Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, alias Pope Pius XII, who sat on top of the church from 1939 till his death in 1958. Shortly after Genio’s death a movement inside the church started the process of making this guy a saint, and that movement is still alive! During the Second World War the Vatican claimed neutrality, so as Hitler executed his final solution, Genio sat on his hands while he prayed, but he must have done it in a saintly way? Someone’s going to have to explain that one to me!

On second thought, I don’t really need or want an explanation. It would be like…

--

--