{"id":10577,"date":"2013-12-18T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T18:39:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-12-18T18:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T18:39:45","slug":"dragged_back_to_the_pope_one_more_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/12\/18\/dragged_back_to_the_pope_one_more_time\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragged Back to the Pope One More Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Back to the pope.<\/a> You\u2019ll note that I didn\u2019t spend any time in the first hour on this. I am not striving to keep this alive. I\u2019m not striving to make this about me. But the Drive-Bys won\u2019t let it go. They can\u2019t turn this loose. The latest, Piers Morgan on CNN last night on Piers Morgan Live. He had the noted author and well known conservative raconteur, Ann Coulter. And during his conversation with Coulter, he wanted to bring up me and Il Papa, Pope Francis. And to set it up, this is what he said.<\/p>\n

MORGAN: Rush Limbaugh keeps whacking away at Pope Francis, which is, you know, it\u2019s like watching the devil incarnate taking on Mother Teresa. But tell me why the right seemed to have some big issue with a man who appears to be non-bigoted, incredibly humble, a force for good, somebody perhaps revolutionizing an anachronistic church, dragging them kicking and screaming into the real world, why would this enrage the likes of Rush Limbaugh?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s the question. The devil incarnate. I am the devil incarnate. The pope is Mother Teresa. And you\u2019ll note, folks, look, I don\u2019t want to be subtle about this. It\u2019s Christmastime. Can I take a little credit for something here? (interruption) What, you think you know what I\u2019m gonna say? Here is an avowed leftist who every other day of the week despises the Catholic Church, Piers Morgan. And he\u2019s no different than anybody else out there on the left. Every other day of the week, they hate the Catholic Church. They don\u2019t like the pope because of abortion, because of gays, gay marriage, because of no women priests, because of AIDS, you name it. They do not like the Catholic Church at all, except now since I, the devil incarnate, have entered the fray. These people that hate the Catholic Church are now its biggest advocates. <\/line><\/p>\n

Is that not amazing? Is that not a wonder to behold? I don\u2019t care that he calls me the devil incarnate. He\u2019s speaking out positively about Christianity now. He doesn\u2019t know it. He thinks the pope is modernizing the church in the way the left thinks it should be. See, to the left, a religion is nothing but a malleable, bendable, shapable, flakable, formable thing. And like anything else, it ought to accommodate whatever the will of the people is at that moment. So if the people are for abortion, the church ought to be, \u2019cause the church ought to relate to the people. It\u2019s a total lack of understanding of what a religion is, what a church is. <\/p>\n

For him to call the church anachronistic shows he has no understanding of religion whatsoever. The church, Catholic Church, whatever church, is what it is. And if you don\u2019t like it, it\u2019s your role to get out, not change it. Christianity is Christianity. The various denominations are what they are. If you don\u2019t like it, you move on. It\u2019s not up to the church to modernize. It\u2019s not up to the church to be dragged kicking and screaming into the real world. Yet that\u2019s what he thinks Pope Francis is doing, and it\u2019s not what Pope Francis doing. <\/p>\n

Pope Francis is as rock rigid anti-abortion as any pope ever has been. The same thing on gay marriage, female priests, and all of this. But I still think, folks, that it is a wondrous thing that because of little old me, the devil incarnate, leftists who would otherwise and do otherwise revile the Catholic Church are now singing its praises. It is a beautiful thing. But that whole sound bite is proof that Piers Morgan, incompetence incarnate, hasn\u2019t the slightest idea, slightest understanding of religion. Religion is timeless. Anachronistic, he says? Anyway, here is well-known conservative author and media raconteur Ann Coulter\u2019s answer to Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n

COULTER: In Rush Limbaugh\u2019s case we of course think he is the Pope, so I could see why he\u2019d be angry at it. The statement by the Pope that I find most surprising was his statement that you don\u2019t have to be a Christian to go to heaven. Look, you may think that. Maybe there are a lot of people who think that, but if you\u2019re head of the RNC you\u00c2\u2019re not supposed to be saying, “Oh, don\u2019t bother voting Republican.” That isn\u2019t supposed to be your position.<\/line>