Bill Barr, God’s Little Soldier (and Trump’s Eternal Boy)
Pundits are falling all over themselves trying to explain why Bill Barr, after debasing himself before Trump, then describing the disgraced former president as a human horror, has capitulated yet again, gone back to Trump’s knee, and proclaimed he’ll vote for him again in the next election. Even though he has “no future” in the Republican Party or indeed in politics at all. They’re all wrong. The reason is so much simpler, and has to do with one remarkably spectacular case of religious abuse and brainwashing.
As originally I published in 2017: ‘…Betty Clerment, the author of The Neo-Catholics: Implementing Christian Nationalism in America, wrote in her Catholic watchdog blog post of March 26, 2019 (titled “William Barr is Opus Dei”) that the Opus Dei Catholic Information Center’s members and leaders “continue to have an outsize impact on policy and politics. It is the conservative spiritual and intellectual center … and its influence is felt in all of Washington’s corridors of power,” as was also reported in the Washington Post. “Barr was on the board of Catholic Information Center. The priests who manage CIC are all Opus Dei members and it is generally believed that membership is required of the board of directors. [However] [y]ou will never be able to prove it, [since] Supernumeraries and Cooperators keep their identities secret.” Opus Dei is a wealthy and influential conservative group, and an Opus Dei priest once served as Barr’s speechwriter. “Barr’s five-year tenure on the board of directors for the Ethics and Public Policy Center — an anti-abortion think tank dedicated to framing public policy along religious lines — rounds out his profile.”
‘The Attorney General has consistently spoken in language and with talking points that are in line with the goals of both Opus Dei’s and the EPPC’s [the Ethics and Public Policy Center where Barr was director from 2004–2009] overlapping agendas. “This past December Americans United’s Rob Boston reminded us of Barr’s past theological screeds. These run the gamut from condemning public schools (they had undergone a ‘moral lobotomy’); in a 1992 address to Bill Donohue’s Catholic League, he called for the imposition of ‘God’s law’ in America. In that same address he went after contemporary supporters of the separation of church and state (‘The secularists of today are clearly fanatics’).”
‘On May 09, 2019, Laura Murray-Tjan published an article titled “William Barr’s Crusade For ‘Traditional Moral Order’” (Cognoscenti Journal) that included the following insights: ‘In 1995, Barr wrote that he was troubled by the “steady erosion of the Judeo-Christian moral system” in the United States, and argued that law should aid in the restoration of the “traditional moral order.” Roe v. Wade has contributed to the nation’s “permissiveness,” Barr argues, by causing fewer people to view abortion as “evil.” In short, the “character of the judiciary” is crucially important because, Barr believes, our morals track what judges say is legal. Although Barr wrote that article during the first Clinton administration, he’s been pursuing similar goals for a lifetime. Barr remains a member of the Knights of Columbus, an organization he joined in 1984, and where he served for years as a “Supreme Board Member.” One of the Knights’ primary objectives is to reduce abortion by funding pro-life pregnancy centers.
‘…By “traditional moral order” Barr means the ultra-conservative Right-Wing Catholic playbook of supporting Republicans like the current faux-president, who will “sign whatever we put in front of him” (Mitch McConnell, 2016), including Supreme Court appointee referrals by the covert fundamentalist Christian organizations, The Heritage Society, The Atlas Society, and The Family. The judges of the highest court in the land can then be counted on to support the deregulation of any and all corporate restrictions on pollution, rampant environmental destruction-for-profit, and support of Zionism (so that we can have the Apocalypse and Armageddon with the Jews’ rebuilding of the 2nd Solomonic Temple, at which point all the Jews that don’t convert to follow Christ will all be wiped away). All this so that he may please his various ‘Masters’ — ‘God’ of course, and his handlers in Opus Dei and those radical Vatican factions also frequented by White Nationalist misogynistic anti-immigrant Fundamentalist Catholic nut-case Steve Bannon. By these means he hopes to realize the repeal of Roe vs Wade, see women’s Reproductive Rights repealed (including easy access to safe birth control options), obtain a return to “traditional, moral” control over women and women’s bodies, skip purgatory, evade Hell altogether, and be rewarded in the Afterlife in Heaven by being tapped to sit at the right hand of God the Father. ‘No shit. That’s the playbook. For real.’
Bill Barr is a religiously indoctrinated authoritarian who deeply believes in the ‘infallible’ rule and moral ‘rightness’ of executive power. Each believes that, if a man occupies the seat of near absolute power, it can only be because God has placed him there for His own inscrutable reasons — like Cyrus in the Old Testament. According to this logic, Trump, like Cyrus, is God’s flawed vessel. In the case of Trump, God’s purpose for him has to do with Zionist victories over the Palestinians, so that the Second Temple can be rebuilt on the Temple Mount, where now stands the oldest mosque, Al Aqsa, so that God can destroy the Temple of Solomon yet again, for a third time, and most of the Jews with it, so that Armageddon, the Apocalypse and the Second Coming of Christ can occur, with the Rapture airlifting the ‘good Christian believers’ out of the fray to sit at the Right Hand of God the Father, and witness the inauguration of the Thousand Year Reign of Christ on Earth — the so-called New Jerusalem. Barr has declared this belief, out loud, on many a podium, in many a venue, for the record.
No one who doesn’t support a total ban on abortion and the short-term victory of Israel in obtaining control over the area of the divine showdown even registers on his self-serving, fear-addled consciousness. His eyes are fixed on some mythical afterlife whereby, for his pains, he has racked up loads of ‘Brownie Points’ with Jesus, and can look forward to a cushy eternity with immortality and all the perks. This is what Barr meant when he (when asked about the hit-job he’s performing on his own career and reputation by defending and protecting Trump’s overt criminality) said, “I am at the end of my career…Everyone dies, and I am not, you know… I don’t believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?”
He meant that “immortality” comes when you die, and only when you die — when you gladly leave this ‘vale of tears’ in the best ascetic/Catholic ‘contemptus mundi’ tradition, and are given your ‘reward in Heaven’ by the so-called Grace of ‘God,’ due to having faithfully and obediently served your religious hierarchy’s male authoritarian masters and Church doctrine, most of which — if you look at it — concerns the rigorous suppression of women as ‘Daughters of Eve,’ maintaining an invasive degree of control over their bodies, and keeping them out of the priesthood until Kingdom Come. All else — America, American Constitutional Rights, the Constitution itself, Human Rights, democracy, human decency, the law (except for Church Law), his decades-long friendship with Robert Mueller — is immaterial.
When Bill Barr says, “I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda…Trump may be playing Russian roulette, but a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide in my opinion,” he means that Biden will restore Roe vs Wade, and make the Roe decision a Constitutional Amendment, guaranteeing the Human and Civil Rights of women over their own bodies in U. S. law, nationwide. And THAT is what he regards would be (is trained and indoctrinated to think and believe is) “national suicide.”
He means soul “suicide” of course, and an eternity in Hell for transgressors, like him, who get, or abet, or failed to prevent accessible abortion. But it’s not ‘the nation’ he’s worried about. He’s always only really concerned with himself, and his own piddling fate in the eyes of an overtly violent, punitive and deranged god, one of his own, and Agnus Dei’s, delusional making.
