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Chapter 6
“With No Strings Attached”
Still hazy on how Catholics should view politics[1]? Drift no longer.
by J. P. F. McGuire
a| I love mexico. Mexico is where my Catholic faith grew a heart, and that heart’s name is “Mary.” I love Our Lady of Guadalupe[2]. Guadalupe is the largest pilgrimage site in the world and a continuous miracle, marvel, wonder that knows no equal in either the arts or the sciences, has confounded all who have investigated it and has accordingly earned its place in the United States Calvinist Establishment Index of Forbidden Book Topics just below “creationism.” I warmly encourage you to look into Our Lady of Guadalupe for your own edification. Sancta.org is the site. I am not going to discuss Her here not for want of material but because others have done a far better job than I could ever hope to equal. Words are cheap. More people just need to learn about this and other signs from God with their accompanying spiritually needed messages so we can combat today’s evils. It is as if God were constantly saying, If you’d just humble yourself and glory in my works instead of your own—which are at best mixed in their moral value—I’m on your side against all who set themselves up as tyrants—both logistically and intellectually.
b| The West, once saturated with Holy Faith, is now drunk with ideologies—not direct consequences of democratism or even republicanism please note—and this drunkenness is taking a toll on her heart, Catholicism. Without question conservatism keeps liberalism alive, and liberalism keeps conservatism alive, and together they form a codependent cancer on your culture and mine that stagnates man’s intellect. This is the heart of modern man’s psychological woes some term “emotionalism,” others “narcissism,” others “solipsism,” still others “hubris,” the West’s shameless fixation with feeling. Both “con” and “lib” are how the mentally ill react to each other, each determined to not agree with the other on any point lest God forbid their feelings become tainted by dialogue and objectivity! This is why both are much more familiar with what they oppose than what they promote. That they are dysfunctional there can be no sincere doubt. They are artificial loyalties, viscerally based contrived élitist cults, stealthy weapons of mass-distraction (as all fan clubs[3] are) founded squarely in sentiment, generalities, the observer and self rather than principle, truth, the object and God. So recapping, political party lines exist solely to validate the mental illness that is ideology and keep men enslaved from within aided by addiction to fuzzy feelings.
c| To put it crudely the right-left ping-pong paradigm saves on steel bars ’cause dem suckers are pricey! Why cage us up when you can tie us up in endless vain ideologies? Why the need to toy with us when you can have us treating life as a game and games (like politics) as life? Were the Church an inhuman machine and not a family projecting our United States degenerated political two-party system onto her would I suppose be fine and dandy. Had God not become one of us this might just be humanity’s best bet. But knowing the true Christ and the true Church makes slavery to sin, the world, the flesh and the devil simply repugnant and inexcusable to believers. Humanity’s fate was never up to the élites who are always and everywhere the scum of the earth and the enemies of humanity’s progress though they speak of “humanity” and “progress” nonstop. Bl. Mother Teresa observed, “Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them,” and Dorothy Day vented, “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
d| Disclaimer #1. Ideas vs. ideologies. Both conservatism and liberalism were, and will always theoretically remain, good ideas, but when we treat them as political party ideologies they mutated into caricatures of their former/ideal selves losing their connection with the rest of reality, their one-time imagined purpose a society possessed of greater common sense assigned them, their truth, beauty and goodness. In other words they become cults and false gods and ends unto themselves. Politics ruins everything it touches without exception. That is why it ought to be dialed back wherever possible, perhaps especially in a democracy. Ideology is the only religion known to materialist man. Communism and capitalism each address material but conspicuously not spiritual aspects of life, which is why they make ideal subjects for endless pointless bickering rather than edifying conversation. Remember that debate or that State of the Prison address you tried for days to unravel or unwatch? Communism and capitalism at best can be taken as merely partial policies that leave a black hole in the spiritual sector, not accounting for the reality of man’s higher faculties, veering quite enslaving, and this vacuum invites all kinds of demons if Catholics are unwary. The communist and the capitalist are both “men” who first pour cement into the pit and then try to add rocks. Meanwhile distributism and subsidiarity, which address life as a whole leaving no empty corners open for corruption, are left on the dusty shelf. Modern man is at a crossroads: he may return to Christendom’s universalist paradigms or finish his ride on the right-left pendulum “progressing” all the way to total enslavement.
e| Disclaimer #2. No, really. I say all this in the full, sober knowledge that there are those, on a good day just a handful, who will blow off my and history’s warnings telling yourselves repeatedly, nervously as you’re taught that the world, the flesh and maybe the devil have all the tools to make our lives “perfect.” “Our problems are man-made; therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings”[4]. Such is the modernist’s creed. The vast majority believe, or passively accept so as to fit in, this deist’s security blanket. There is a “reason” they do this, though reason has nothing to do with it. It is because we have come to build our lives upon matter, to substitute all spiritual (nonperishable) goods with material (perishable) goods, throwing the Gospel right to the wind. Rather than keep Christmas we buy it, which makes us first euphoric and then miserable. We all know the real reason suicides peak on New Year’s even if we don’t want to admit it to ourselves or each other. Yes, it is an addictive cycle. In place of the confessional we have the psychiatrist’s couch. But what spirits hover there? On Sundays those who still attend Mass wash it down immediately with the bone-cracking gladiators of American football which makes for ideal background music for those wishing to reflect on the Gospel counsels discussed that day and be intimate with Jesus from whose total gift of love they just benefitted—or hopefully benefitted. And even on those rare moments when we step into the church we are usually treated to endless chatterings attempting to explain away the Faith—make that a cardboard cut-out version of the Faith—into Zenothing and to live Richard Rohr’s nightmare of a “cosmic christ” and “emerging church” rather than troubling to delve into the mystery that’s right in front of us. Oh yes, Faith has found its match in materialism. And why is this?
f| Contrary to popular blindness materialism has a real religious aspect to it, but it isn’t Christian. Materialism is the counterintuitive arm-twisting of the intellect to fixate exclusively on the material, the technical, the physical, which we’ve become twisted enough to consider “solid” and “real” while regarding the spiritual as “vague” and “dreamy.” From here to deep ecology (earth worship) it’s at best a ten-minute walk. Since any true Christian can tell you that God sustains all things in existence by continuing to think about them, materialism is clearly not a Christian philosophy. Deism would preach that God wound up the universe like a cuckoo clock and left it ticking, and we don’t know when He’ll be back, nor do we see even Him as “spirit” as Jesus affirmed He is. So deism is more akin to materialism than Christianity ever was. Deism and materialism take the spotlight off God and generally off all spiritual matters pertaining to persons, things and events, vainly waving the searchlight around seeking material substitutes. Sound like what you and I are living? So deism, as the “muscle” driving materialism, is the religion that militates against legit religion without quite going to the dingbat fest of denying God’s existence. No philosophy but only a religion can replace a religion in any culture. You’ll note that deism does not deny the existence of the spiritual but only “enlightenedly” encourages us to forget it, to ignore it, to shun it at any cost to reason. The Occult is based on the exaltation of matter above spirit and self above God. No one (credible) denies spirit or God. Deists (read Masons) just try to keep us trained on energy and the universe, which are pseudoscientific concepts within their pathetically small cosmos, their shell of a religion.
g| It is useful to note that New Age originates in Masonic terminology referent to the imminent “Age of Aquarius” coming on the heels of the “Age of Pisces.” The concept of Four Bimillennial Ages[5] in the life of man, now being the end of the third, comes, along with most speculative Masonry, from Egyptology. But virtually all ancient sources on the theme give the earth and man a similar age (six thousand years), the only difference being one of interpretation and praxis stemming ostensibly from different attitudes or spirits. There really is a living cabal that detests legitimate hierarchy both ecclesial and civil—not because they are oppressive but just the opposite—and wants you and me to forget our Faith and adopt their Occultism. Furthermore the age-old Serpent wants this and empowers them to work to this end. Yet whereas the Church has hierarchy the Masons have lowerarchy; whereas the Church rules visibly the Masons rule covertly; whereas the Church thrives on and spreads life and light emanating from Jesus the Masons thrive on and spread death and darkness wafting from Lucifer. But look: the particular danger of conservatism is becoming phobic of everything that doesn’t come from a miter rather than being mentally healthy. The healthy thing would be to realize that, though divinely appointed, the bishop is, in one sense, just one man filling just one office. Therefore we ought to esteem what the bishop says as coming from a bishop, what the medic says as coming from a medic, what the master stone-layer says as coming from a master stone-layer. As a case in point, though papal authority is limitless (though much contingent upon the person occupying the chair) papal infallibility ends where faith and morals end. This is another function of common sense lost somewhere in the Enlightenment, exchanged presumably for hubris.
h| There is much in which Catholicism and the Occult agree and are both correct. We agree on most everything in terms of matter. We agree on man’s history. We agree on so much pertaining to the interpretation of Scripture it’s almost eerie. Mainly I’ve found today they are sharper—more intellectually Catholic—than we in this sense. This might have to do with that they infiltrate us but we don’t infiltrate them, though if doctrine isn’t taught uncompromisingly and authoritatively soon we may see many of our own joining them and every other novelty out there. We diametrically disagree on questions of man’s truest nature and health, which should come as no surprise since we are coming from totally different places spiritually (where all the action happens). Materialism has thus the effect of quashing any internal spiritual discernment which was erstwhile a built-in mechanism to fend off heretical infiltrators within the Church by the laity. Suddenly the bishop is on his own in debugging the clergy because the laity is suddenly oblivious to the true spiritual point of departure the whole Faith is based on, all the reasoning becomes horizontal, all doctrine becomes arbitrary and optional and abuses become mainstream to the point where an antidoxy starts to congeal in the ensuing mess, “order through chaos” being the Masons’ stated mission. Looks like the Masons understand natural law better than Catholics any more. Nature abhors a vacuum. What a shame we just happily surrendered all skill to evil, for how else can we straight-facedly sum up the appreciable aftermath of the Second Vatican Council? At this stage the small sane remnant finds itself all but naked in the face of the orc armada of “white lies” being sold to parishes side by side with the Gospel. The safeguards that were once in place, such as the Saint Michael prayer prayed after each Mass, a sharp attentiveness to the Fatima Prophecies and vigilance and discipline overall have now been put on the back burner to make room for more “enlightened” man-made, demon-inspired innovations. The visible difference between the Occult and Catholicism is that the Occult utterly depends on Catholicism but Catholicism doesn’t depend on the Occult.
i| Catholicism and the Occult agree, for example, on the events at Eden. The only difference is the Occult (Masons) sees the Fall as the Rise, the Serpent (Lucifer) as helping man to evolve to rival his Creator. This is a clue as to their fetish for matriarchy. Catholicism, the Occult and anything else with a clue about unanimous ancient record on man’s origins will agree on the general timeline and events of the past. The Occult praises the succubæ of the days of Noah who mated with men and taught them Occult secrets about the earth’s elements. There are dabblings by God’s servants before He sees fit to put a stop to them and begins to punish them.
j| You can go through the Bible point by point and realize there are two sides to all the events, the Bible being almost miraculously balanced and careful to tell things just as they happened heedless of reputations or prestige, that they all denote not simply interesting histories but an unrelenting spiritual conflict, that God’s revelation was in no way “nifty” but necessary to save man from other forces that would have almost certainly dragged him down into the abyss time after time. The Bible is not just some collection of scrolls the Council of Nicæa deemed were technically the most literary or agreed with some dude’s arbitrarily preconceived ideas. The Canon of Scripture was weighed on salvific import and that alone. None of this could have been accomplished except by the authority of Christ Himself and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It responded to the need the Lord saw, the mission at hand, and was not a luxury item or a safeguard of doctrine based on any human judgment. The experience of being truly Catholic is one of total rapture, fiat, deactivating not only one’s outward controls but more crucially one’s inward inhibitions. Whether or not the reader understands this he does well to bear in mind that it is the key to the Church’s life in its infinite variety of implications in every time and every culture.
k| The Church’s battle is not conservatism vs. liberalism but light vs. darkness. Ecclesial policy flows from doctrine not sentiment, for sentiment is always and everywhere subjective and relative. Inasmuch as it bolsters hubris beyond what the well-adjusted individuals can do alone party is a worse guide than mere emotion. Hubris is out—and party is ancient history—when you venture into true Catholicism. The Catholic Church’s teaching always has an eye to the common good because charity is radical or it is a joke. There is no room for partisanship any more than for racism among living members of the Church. There is far too much at stake to indulge in such luxuries but perhaps especially at this hour when, if you would know the gravity of the situation, possessions and exorcisms are at a record high.
l| By way of landing this thing, fear not; pray always. Don’t be less political; be more than political. The Church does not exact nor does she recommend uniformity of thought or feeling, only of Faith. This is because common sense clamors for a subsidiarity that skirts the edge of anarchy. Be free in the Truth.
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[1] Synonyms include Hebraism, Hebrew, Israelite, Judahite, Judaism, Judean, Levite, Pharisee, rabbi, Sadducee, Semite, and Yid (and “they who wield the weapons of mass-distraction”).
[2] See http://sancta.org/.
[3] Excepting baseball and bluegrass. I’m talking about Naziism, Zionism, the Taliban, K.G.B., C.I.A. and M.I.6.
[4] The Late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
[5] These are analogous to what Scripture holds about the earth’s age. According to the Egyptians the first age was perfection, the second a fall, the third a redemption and the fourth was a restoration.
