Bannon on the World

A friend just emailed me a link to a report about how Stephan Bannon sees the world. I found intriguing—and scary—the reading of his presentation, part of a 50-minute Q&A during a conference focused on poverty hosted at the Vatican by the Human Dignity Institute. This is how the new chief strategist of the Trump administration, after describing various forms of capitalism, makes his case for "Christian capitalism" reinvesting wealth into fighting the world crisis.It may sound, at first, like noble thoughts counseling the "use of wealth for good," but then, his message turns into fear-mongering words one might imagine being from the call of Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095 to mount a crusade:

So I think the discussion of, should we put a cap on wealth creation and distribution? It’s something that should be at the heart of every Christian that is a capitalist — “What is the purpose of whatever I’m doing with this wealth? What is the purpose of what I’m doing with the ability that God has given us, that divine providence has given us to actually be a creator of jobs and a creator of wealth?”

I think it really behooves all of us to really take a hard look and make sure that we are reinvesting that back into positive things. But also to make sure that we understand that we’re at the very beginning stages of a global conflict, and if we do not bind together as partners with others in other countries that this conflict is only going to metastasize.

They have a Twitter account up today, ISIS does, about turning the United States into a “river of blood” if it comes in and tries to defend the city of Baghdad. And trust me, that is going to come to Europe. That is going to come to Central Europe, it’s going to come to Western Europe, it’s going to come to the United Kingdom. And so I think we are in a crisis of the underpinnings of capitalism, and on top of that we’re now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism.

Full text at the DHI website: http://www.dignitatishumanae.com/index.php/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world/

Bannon uses the traditional reference of "militant" Church as the basis for countering the effects of this wary world view. Geez, and I thought all that "militant" church phraseology was renewed by the recognition of church as "pilgrim" by Lumen Gentium [§ 49] and the Catechism of the Catholic Faith [§954] . . . proof that the refusal of CUF and EWTN and Msgr. Mannion of Our Sunday Visitor to embrace the present by tenaciously grasping the past really does promote re-entrenchment. As if we doubted it.

Just Google "Pilgrim Church, Church Militant" to see the variety of commentary that keeps this mistaken attitude going. It really is warlike.
And now with Bannon in the driver's seat of a new administration, not only has this church militarism reinforced re-entrenchment. It's "breitbarted" us right into a new world vision based on a twitterdom of narcissistic browbeating.