We were too quick to laugh at the hysterical and bigoted moonbats at The Atlantic for denouncing the rosary as “an extremist symbol” and “a weapon.” Christopher Bedford makes the case that they have stubbed their toe on the truth:

[I]n a world that calls sex love, puts money over people, vandalizes churches, firebombs pregnancy clinics, aborts children, harasses priests, arrests pastors, fires and demonizes Christians, mocks God, and celebrates public pride in deadly sins, the rosary is indeed extremist — a rejection of a fallen society and the ugliness it wallows in.

The rosary is indeed a weapon, too. Since ancient times, we’ve believed we must “put on the armor of God,” and that, “our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.”

There is even such a thing as Combat Rosaries:

They’re prayer beads designed by Wisconsin priest Fr. Rick Heilman. In a post on his site, Heilman describes his frustration with the delicate and effeminate nature of most rosaries, and how he designed his Combat Rosaries as an homage to those that France and the United States provided to Catholic soldiers during the First World War. …

[T]he commander of the Vatican Swiss Guard called these rosaries “the most powerful weapon that exists on the market.” Of course, concepts like evil, demons, masculinity, and religion make modern, secular liberals deeply uncomfortable.

That rosary beads have set hair aflame at The Atlantic proves they are weapons in the hands of people degenerate establishmentarians would regard as extremist.

The rosaries today, just as in medieval times, are an explicit rejection of the sins of our culture, the sins that surround us.

When you take an honest stand against a fallen world, don’t be surprised if that world doesn’t embrace you, or even accuses you.

When taking an honest stand, don’t hesitate to employ extremist weapons like the rosary.

On a tip from Blackjack.

Under moonbat hegemony, good and evil are reversed. Symbols of America’s glorious founding, including the Betsy Ross and Gadsden flags, are explicitly regarded by the FBI as extremist symbols (i.e., evidence of thoughtcrime). If the Democratic Party continues to consolidate power, both are likely to be illegal soon — as are rosaries:

Atlantic contributor Daniel Panneton declared that the Catholic rosary has become a “symbol” of religious radicalism.

Rosaries are considered to represent a Catholicism that believes in itself. This stands in conflict with the blasphemous sham practiced by cafeteria Catholics, who select for acceptance only the shallow trappings of Christianity that do not conflict with their actual faith, which is moonbattery.

Panneton slammed an entire online ecosystem for disseminating imagery featuring Christian warriors both historical and modern, suggesting that “social-media pages are saturated with images of rosaries draped over firearms, warriors in prayer, Deus Vult (‘God wills it’) crusader memes, and exhortations for men to rise up and become Church Militants.”

Panneton admits that “many take genuine sustenance from … the tradition of regarding the rosary as a weapon against Satan.”

Consequently, the rosary must be denounced harshly:

“Catholic imagery now blends freely with staple alt-right memes that romanticize ancient Rome or idealize the traditional patriarchal family.”

The leftist agenda calls for eradicating both the West’s great history and the traditional family.

Panneton also frets that the conflict between Catholics and Protestants is fading away, as they have become united against the common enemy: satanic degenerates — or as Panneton calls them, “abortion-rights advocates.”

It may be only a matter of time until the moronic bumper sticker slogan “Keep Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries” becomes the basis of law. Rosaries will need to be stored in secure hiding places for when the FBI launches Mar-a-Lago style raids in search of extremist symbols.

On a tip from MrRightWingDave.

The first pope was aptly named, because Peter means rock, and the Catholic Church has stood as solid as a rock for 2 millennia, withstanding all manner of storms. But can it endure the insidious corrosion from within that leftists have used to subvert virtually every other institution? Or will it be subordinated to a depraved, anti-Christian ideology? Let’s hope this is not up to Pope Francis.

Because she is an extreme advocate of abortion who has soaked herself in innocent blood, Nancy Pelosi was denied communion by her archbishop, Salvatore Cordileone. But not by Francis:

Pelosi met with Pope Francis and received Communion on Wednesday while attending a Mass presided over by the pope.

This happened in St Peter’s Basilica. Thankfully, she did not receive communion from Francis himself, which would have been the ultimate blasphemy short of Satan taking communion.

Pelosi and her husband Paul also received a blessing from Francis during her visit, according to one of the Mass attendees.

She made a further mockery of the spectacle:

Pelosi spoke about the necessity of preaching the gospel with actions, not just words.

According to her words, Pelosi is a Catholic. According to her actions, she is a radical proponent of both abortion and the belligerently anti-Christian LGBT agenda.

Pelosi responded to being barred from communion by her own archbishop by implying that the Church is hypocritical and denouncing Cordileone as a homophobe — possibly the worst insult imaginable from her liberal point of view. Francis has effectively sided with her.

Meanwhile, the government represented by Pelosi taunts the Vatican with open disrespect by displaying the LGBT flag at the US embassy there:

On tips from Blackjack and Ed McAninch.