Saturday, August 12, 2023

How Little Things Change

 If you are like me, you have probably scratched your head over just why the FBI felt the need to infiltrate the Catholic Church.  The reason given, that Catholics were a hot bed of white supremacy rang hollow.  While I do not agree with all the Catholic theology, and one must buy the whole package, the basic theology is the same as Lutheranism.  So it was with interest that I read John Daniel Davidson's article at The Federalist entitled The FBI Targeted Traditional Catholics Because The Will Never Accept The Left's Pagan Morality.

It turns out the FBI memo targeting Catholics as potential domestic terrorists wasn’t limited to “a single field office,” as FBI Director Christopher Wray claimed under oath last month to Congress. In addition to the Richmond, Virginia, field office, the agency’s Los Angeles and Portland offices were also involved.
The memo, which was leaked earlier this year, singled out what it called “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” who attend parishes that offer the Latin Mass, which the FBI seems to think are hotbeds of “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists.”
Outrageous as it was for the FBI to try to monitor, surveil, and investigate American citizens based on their religion, it appears to have been a coordinated effort — an effort that Wray lied to Congress about, according to a newly unredacted memo obtained by House Republicans after months of FBI stonewalling.
Setting aside the absurd pretext that traditionalist Catholic parishes are fonts of “white supremacy” and potential terrorism, it should come as no surprise that the FBI would target Latin Mass-attending Catholics.
Why? Because the FBI has become a tool of the permanent regime in Washington, which will tolerate no resistance to their ideology — an ideology best understood as pagan morality. Abortion, gender ideology, and the thinly-veiled racism of critical race theory in particular are considered sacred by the regime. Traditional Catholics — or “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” in FBI parlance — oppose these things and will never accept them.
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The reason why is that Catholics who attend Latin Mass tend to take the Catholic Church’s teachings seriously. Unlike supposedly “devout” Catholic Democrat politicians, including President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Latin Mass-attending Catholics oppose abortion, gay marriage, transgenderism, and racism in the guise of CRT.
They oppose these things not because they’re on the political right but because they accept the Catholic Church’s teachings on marriage and homosexuality, as well as the doctrine of imago Dei, that all people are created in God’s image, regardless of race or sex, and therefore all are equal in the eyes of God. This doctrine, by the way, is one of the pillars of Western civilization, without which our entire system of constitutional self-government would collapse.
I have attended mass at Catholic parishes, and sat in Bible study with other Catholic men. They like are "conservative" because the the Bible is "conservative," now. But when God first revealed himself to mankind and set these rules in stone, they were radical, and most people rebelled, preferring the pagan gods. How little things seem to change. I pray God sweeps these demons out of our lands and turns all eyes to him. Amen

2 comments:

  1. I gave up on the Catholic Church long ago for many reasons. I now go to evangelical services, where the Pastor is "packin' at the pulpit" and so am I in the rear pew with a good view of the entry to the sanctuary, and he knows it. That church is the safest place in town on Sunday morning.

    So how you like me now, fed?

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  2. Glypto Dropem,
    First of all, good to hear from you. I considered converting to the Catholic faith for personal reasons, but as I got into it, I couldn't reconcile the various conflicts with Biblical teachings.

    I wear a gun to church as well. Trusting in God does not mean being passive in the face of lethal force. God expects us to defend our lives and the lives of others. Indeed, to be deliberately disarmed is to risk suicide, a sin. No one ever said being Christian was easy. Right?

    Wade

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