Hypocritical obituaries – diepresse.com
Voices of lyingness also mingled with the diligent Pope’s diligent appreciates.
Obituary for deceased often falls into an excessive pathos-both in private and public policy. So we heard on the occasion of the death of Pope Francis of politicians of all stripes of the deceased.
In particular, the focus was on its occurrence for a fairer society, for the poor and refugees as well as for a solidarity, peaceful world. All of this is true and makes the profile of this Pope.
However, some comments rightly criticized how a politician in this country who in many things is precisely how Pope Francis represents is in such praise: Herbert Kickl showed up loud ORF « Deeply affected », because with Bergoglio the world is losing an « outstanding moral authority of our time », which « campaigned for social justice » and has always found « clear words against exclusion, poverty and environmental destruction ».
That excludes the floor, it says that one that is always a foreign word when it spreads a foreign word when it spreads hatred against migrants and abuses them as a election campaign topic, one who denies a main concern of Francis, the concern for the preservation of the planet, denied and climate change as an imagination of quasic rim and discredited and discredited the people of other gender orientation. His praise therefore appears to be an embarrassing pandering to a globally popular personality.
Common double standards
However, the legitimate outrage about this mendby should not forget that the representatives of other parties suddenly discovered the appreciation of humanity, the unconditional option for the poor and the peace efforts of this Pope, although their politics looks very different in practice.
Where is the unconditional care of the conservative and « Christian » parties to the poor and socially weakest? Who spares the richest in the renovation of the state budget and rolls off the debt burden on the general public and also the poorest? Who acts under the impression of right -wing election sequence with increasingly restrictive migration policy? Who exuberantly praises the Pope’s peace appeal and at the same time invests more than ever in upgrading with the aim of the “war ability” of the country?
This double morality probably results from the implementation of common neoliberal-political positions (Francis’ « Economy, which kills ») and an overly self-assessment of one’s own humanitarian principles. Self -criticism would urgently be offered here in particular. Ultimately, only a radical « conversion » or at least step -by -step approaches to conductive principles would help, for which Francis stood.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Josef Christian Aigner (* 1953) is a psychoanalyst and educational scientist, formerly University of Innsbruck.
