It is perfectly normal for seemingly good people to believe deranged, wrong, and even despicable things. But sometimes we take it a step further.

I understand Queers for Palestine. They consider themselves queer. They’ve also been told to see white people as evil colonizers so they root for the Palestinians and hate Israel. They overlook the fact that a majority of Palestinians would stone them to death if Israel hadn’t turned all the stones into pebbles with their bombing.

It’s also kind of like when some Irish Catholics kind of sorta’ rooted for Hitler in World War II because he was battling England. They just had to overlook the fact that Hitler despised Catholicism as well and wanted to wipe it out. I guess the Irish thought they’d deal with one problem at a time.

Step 1) Watch England get destroyed.

Step 2) Enjoy reminiscing about how England got destroyed.

Step 3) Who cares?!!!!!

But this is all beside the point. Why I’m saying is I get how a hatred of one thing can fog your strategy, make you think unclearly.

But saying you love two contradictory things is difficult.

Look, you can say that the Catholic Church is one that accepts mysteries, even embraces them.

DEAR CHURCH, please explain the nature of the Trinity?

Dear Matt, This is the Church. We have thousands of pages written by the most brilliant and holy minds who’ve come to the conclusion that Heaven can never be fully understood.

Oh.

OK then. Well, then can you describe exactly what Heaven is like. Surely you must know that as the institution that Christ himself founded on Earth?

Dear Matt: “Yeah well, not so much but we know it’s going to be awesome.”

So yeah there are many mysteries but one thing the Church is very very very clear about is “thou shall not kill.” It’s in the top five of the Ten Commandments, which is essentially a God’s Greatest Hits compilation. Kind of the whole bedrock teaching of Christ is that we to love one another, not kill one another.

But about two thousand years after Christ, some brilliant Catholics came up with the idea to combine Catholicism and killing. That’s right. That’s how we’ve got “Catholics for Choice” which is Catholics for killing very small humans and now “Catholics Vote Common Good” which supports not very small humans killing themselves.

Kudos to them on the flexibility of their morals. Perchance, have they ever heard the term “mutually exclusive?”

“Catholics for Abortion” and Catholics for Assisted Suicide is like “Vegans for Bacon” or “Nickelback for Quality Tunes.” It’s just self-contradictory and sad.

You can’t just play Jenga with the teaching that life is sacred. That’s a fundamental one. The whole thing tumbles down without it.

This is not a new rule. This is one of OG rules of Catholicism.

But what these organizations are saying is they’re Catholic and therefore believe that life is sacred but they also very much appreciate killing and suicide. OK? How do we square that circle?

It’s like the flat-Earther who boasted, “The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.”

It’s because you’re not just wrong, your “you’re making my brain hurt” wrong.

Look, if you’re for killing small humans, assisting in humans killing themselves, and untimely death in general that’s fine. Many people are. To be fair, most of their are in jail but hey, that’s your thing.

If you’re Catholic that a whole other thing because you’re for life, love, mercy and helping others.

Trying to fuse them together is like having a MENSA meeting with AOC and MTG. It just doesn’t work and the memos from that meeting will make you confused and sad.

So when I see a group calling itself Catholics Vote Common Good advocating for the right of depressed and ill people to kill themselves, with the help of doctors, it boggles my mind, breaks my heart, and hurts my soul.

I fear for those who will be confused by such things because confusion is what they want. That’s their stock in trade. That is the intent.

When the angel approached the Virgin Mary, she said yes to life, despite knowing that life would be difficult. When death and violence gathered around Jesus he chose life. He didn’t tap out in the Garden of Gethsemane. He still had a job to do.

Life and death is God’s job. When you take that into your own hands, you are seeking to make yourself a god. And if you’ve read Genesis, you’ve heard that line before.