Fifthly, years ago the SG said that the Council texts are “95% acceptable”. HQ explains that he was speaking of the letter and not of the spirit of the texts.
So what the SSPX condemned in the Council was not of the Council, but only an interpretation of it? Is that it?
Once again, you've got to consider what is NOT being written.
If the SG was speaking about the letter as being 95% acceptable, AND,
the SG (according to HQ) was NOT referring to the
spirit, THEN,
what would be the acceptability percentage of
the spirit of the council? (Jeopardy theme playing here: duh-duh-duh-duh .. duh-duh-duh...
duh-duh-duh-duh-
DUH! .. da-da-da-da-da/ duh-duh-duh-duh ..
duh-duh-duh ....
DUH .. DA-DA . duh . duh ... duh .... duh.)
And the answer is --> 100%! .......... I.e., the spirit is entirely reliable.
Process: many moons ago, the SG made this statement, 95%, which at
the time served its purpose. But now, it has become an inconvenience!
Why, see this Eleison Comments rag keeps coming out with higher
mathematics, DARING to subtract the 95 from 100 and getting 5%
poison --- POISON, OF ALL THINGS! Well, we just can't have mothers
thinking about poison in any part of their children's cake. GRRRRRR!
You would think that a good-ol' excusion, a (how do you say?)
exclusio! -- would have been sufficient to put a lid on that, but
NOOOOOOOOOOO! Now he's out with another one, and it's the
same ol' - same ol' -- same cake, same poison, same 5%. Now what?
While HQ would prefer to be able to erase the fact of history that this
had ever taken place, it cannot, because you and I and ten thousand
witnesses remember that he said 95% at that time, and the effects of
that statement were what they were, in objective reality (HQ
hates objective reality! It's - so, well, inconvenient.)
SINCE the end can
sometimes justify the means, not in general, of course, but when you're
really, really in a pinch (and this is a real pinch!),
AND we absolutely
need to find some way of "redefining" the whole point of that 95%
figure having been hung out like dirty laundry for the whole world to
see,
MAYBE we could now claim that it was 95% of something
ELSE,
something
OTHER than that of which the whole world thought it
was 95%. Let's say, "Not of the letter but of the spirit!" Yeah! That's
the ticket! The 95% figure was referring to the letter and we're all a lot
smarter than that, because we've got THE SPIRIT, man! And the spirit
of Vatican II is entirely reliable! Why? Because we SAY it is! Bottom
line: That Was Then And This Is Now. No more 95%. Now it's "go for
broke." Now it's 100% -- all the chips on one square. Okay, turn that
Roulette wheel. (Good thing it's not Russian!)
(UUUhhhh.... wait: the
unclean spirit of Vatican II is reliably
what? Unclean??)