I actually missed "The Pope" in the title (it's early already) but "hate the people" also applies.
The Reich wing is a cult. Cults are run by very strict hierarchy and defined by "not being THEM", that is: defined not by self, which changes as the lie du jour is issued, but by who they are NOT.
This is the opposite of a society in which "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me".
Brothers and sisters, not suckers and losers, not rapists and murderers, all projections of the dark side of the groundless accuser.
Projection works both ways. The cult sees its dark side in everyone else, and considers them "lesser" . A true leader sees the divinity (or Buddhahood) in everyone else, and considers them "equal, but marvelously different, every one".
The cult is always at war (like "Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia." ) and tries to rewrite history as conflict.
On the other hand, there's cooperation.
Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda:
To end the human institution of war, to relegate it to history with such barbarous practices as slavery―at one time also considered a natural, inevitable, “part of human nature”―we must establish respect for the inviolable dignity of human life as the core value of our age.
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
One's own lack of dignity and self-respect is simultaneously their view of others. Rules are written to maintain that distance from humanity, racism is invented, religious division is created, misogyny is invented, nationalism is invented. All to keep a few in power, be they cult leaders, "priests", presidents, oligarchs, who substitute control for the happiness they lack inside.
They all want to be "God", but a cruel and manipulative god that they invented like Iago in Shakespeare's and Verdi's Othello.
I believe in a cruel God
who created me in his image
and who in fury I name.
From the very vileness of a germ
or an atom, vile was I born.
I am a wretch because I am a man,
and I feel within me the primeval slime.
Yes! This is my creed!
I believe with a heart as steadfast
as that of the widow in church,
that the evil I think
and that which I perform
I think and do by destiny's decree.
I believe the just man to be a mocking actor
in face and heart;
that all his being is a lie,
tear, kiss, glance,
sacrifice and honour.
And I believe man the sport of evil fate
from the germ of the cradle
to the worm of the grave.
After all this mockery then comes Death.
And then? ... And then?
Death is nothingness,
heaven an old wives' tale.
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