The Mandiner has brought it down again, and that's exactly what Rita Perintfalvi, the extreme liberal "Catholic theologian", was expecting. When he announced that all decent people should be there at Pride, he will definitely be there, he is deliberately provoking people to talk about him, he should be on the front page of the newspaper again, it is also good if he is condemned, because the more people talk about him. That's exactly what he plays for, he enjoys being in the media. On his page, even now, he slanders what he considers to be far-right, fundamentalist Christian politicians, the Orbán government, Csaba Böjte, and boasts of his sold popular book in which he undermines the church.

This is what his Facebook activity consists of, where he proudly reports that he now has 30,000 followers and has sold 5,000 of his church-destroying book. His followers surrender the horse: "I am grateful that you stand by us, even more so that you did not forget Gergely". Here we are talking about Gergely Homonnay, the homosexual young man who recently died of a drug overdose and insulted Orbán. The prime minister was targeted, as was Perintfalvi, because the Basic Law prohibits homosexual marriage, protecting the sanctity of the family, which can be established between a man and a woman. The same rights in the partnership are not enough, because same-sex marriage is "natural" in the liberal West, but not in our conservative, far-right, religious fundamentalist country - as the Perintfalvi people say.

Rita Perintfalvi at Budapest Pride / Photo: Rita Perintfalvi's Facebook page

He wants to convey a "message of love" with this information that "this year there is a place for all good-natured people at Pride". She illustrated all of this with the 2016 Pride picture on Facebook, when she appeared there for the first time, for being a Catholic theologian. Long live, a "religious person does not judge us", his fans write. This is a religious man, but he is primarily an extreme neoliberal, so his religiosity is just a pseudo-religion. It mainly consists of selecting from the Bible, accepting the things he likes as "God is love" (which he also misinterprets), rejecting others. This is what the sectarians, religious falsifiers, and apostates do, who make a mess of God's word. Perintfalvi and his colleagues do not accept those parts of the Old and New Testaments that condemn homosexual acts. The homosexual lifestyle itself is called love, while its restriction of marriage and the protection of children against their violent propaganda are called hate speech, just like in the "progressive West". There is already a penalty for hate speech, which is actually not hate speech, but the protection of God's word, in a society that has reached a crisis.

Perintfalvi calls the government's activities a policy of hate, and condemns "fundamentalist groups of religious people" (in his view, those who adhere to the Word of God are fundamentalists), Christians, Jews, and Muslims. According to him, their position is rigid and they have ideas devoid of love. This may remind us of a Christian saint's vision of hell. There he saw people living as homosexuals, one of whom said, despairingly, "On earth we called this love." The Perintfalvi people are also in error, who will be very surprised if they are transferred to the other world, because everyone has to go there one day and will answer for their actions before Jesus. It is true that "God is love" and does not want to send anyone to hell, but he is also a just judge. The one who treats God's love, mercy, and justice as unequal is wrong. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, the first part of which is the Old Testament, which is the basis of all 3 religions, Christian, Jewish and Muslim. This is the reason for the similar assessment, which Perintfalvi calls fundamentalism. However, this is just the truth.

It tells "religious fundamentalists" (actually believers in God's inspired Word) that they don't need to heal gays and LGBTQ people, but rather their sick image of God. Perintfalvi does not want to know that God really loves all people, but he calls sin, and especially this kind of sin, "an abomination". In fact, even the devil turns away when he sees such a thing, for he is a spiritual being. It leads people into sin, but they cannot bear to see it either - we can know this from the vision of a Christian saint.

Rita Perintfalvi at Budapest Pride / Photo: Rita Perintfalvi's Facebook page

In fact, Perintfalvi's and all liberal Christians' image of God is distorted and one-sided, very false. In addition to love, there is no justice, this was liquidated from their image of God, for which they will have to pay a heavy price. But the theologian also threatens that everyone will be held accountable for the politics of hate (meaning opposition to homosexual marriage, the banning of LGBTQ propaganda from schools) for the way in which society has been destroyed and poisoned. He says hate speech has been raised to the level of the constitution. He literally threatens: “The time will come when you will answer for this. And not just over there!". He expects that Orbán's child protection and family protection will suddenly come to an end, and that the corrupted Western practice will win, along with impeachment. In the West, for a Facebook post that does not support homosexuality and LGBTQ people, you can be fired from your job, sanctioned, or sent to prison. The theologian would also like to see this liberal dictatorship at home.

God save us from this!

He will be there at Pride in the "Hugs" tent, because supporting and propagating homosexuality is love. According to him. Yes, "we called this love," said the soul from hell, who regretted it long ago, but could no longer do anything.

"Tell the people, announce it, give a sign, announce it, don't hide it! Say: Babylon has been captured! Bél was ashamed, Marduk was broken; his statues are put to shame, his idols are broken." (Jer 50:2)

Author: Katalin Pók

Cover photo: Rita Perintfalvi at Budapest Pride / Photo: Rita Perintfalvi's Facebook page