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On the Vague Anti Authoritarianism of Pope Francis

And the Relationship between Vague Anti Authoritarianism in High Places and Moral Depravity in Culture

Vic Biorseth, Thursday, July 16, 2015
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The most prominent source of media quotes and misquotes. 

In a long, three-part interview in August 2013, Pope Francis was given opportunity to expansively describe himself, his past, his formation, his view of the Church and Catholic Faith, and his hopes for his Pontificate.  I don't want to misrepresent his words quoting anything out of the original context, and therefore I urge you, most strongly, to go to the link, read the whole thing, taking notes.  Many of the media quotes charged with being "out of context" highlighting the Pope's extreme Liberal interpretation of doctrine came from here.  If you are Catholic, this is important to you; I urge you again to read the whole thing, slowly and carefully.  You could print it and use a highlighter, if that is your way.  But you really need to read it.  You could keep it handy as your read the rest of this. 

Influential Figures.

Two "contemporary thinkers" held dear by Pope Francis were, first, Henri De Lubac, S.J., and Michel De Certeau, S.J. 

Three of Fr. Lubac's books were suppressed under pressure from the Roman Curria because of pernicious errors on essential points of dogma.  Humani Generis, by Pope Pius XII, was believed to be directed at Fr. Lubac and other theologians associated with the New Theology.  Lubac's view of "Patristic" sources of Catholic thought and authoritarianism opposed his more Pastoral view of the competence of the laity, ever changing history and the need for the Church to be changed by history. 

Fr. Certeau was greatly influenced by Freudianism, and delved deeply into mysticism, phenomenology and psychoanalysis.  He earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne, a fiercely secular institution in which theology may not be taught.  

Authoritarianism.

In his early formation into the man he is today, Pope Francis was made aware of his own "Authoritarianism", and worked to oppose it, and to emerge from it a better man.  Now, there is some room to argue against a pure authoritarianism as expressed in the Scriptures by the examples of the Scribes and the Pharisees.  But that is certainly not to the exclusion or elimination of authority altogether.  One can easily go too far in the other direction, and that proclivity is one that has long been capitalized on by teachers who were taught by teachers who were taught by teachers who were ever increasingly infected with Frankfurt-School educational Marxist indoctrination. 

The original Frankfurt-School "educational" Marxists set about the task of demonizing all social institutions, including Churches, by way of demonizing authority itself.  "Authoritarian Man" was the straw-dog villain indoctrination target, represented by the patriarchal authority of the father in the family, the authority of the Priest in the Church, the authority of the policeman on the street, the authority of the Ruler in the government, the authority even of the teacher in the classroom.  The Marxist goal was, of course, the destruction of the authority of all social institutions, for the purposes of fomenting eventual popular global Revolution, against all social institutions. 

To that end, they set about, educationally, not only demonizing authority, but the building-up, in the minds of students (future teachers included), the image of the hero opposed to authority, The Revolutionary Man, in the hope that some students would become future anti-authority Good Revolutionaries, in the educational image they had conjured up. 

"The revolutionary is the man who has emancipated himself from ties of blood and soil, from his mother and his father, from special loyalties to state, class, race, party, or religion." --Eric Fromm & Abraham Maslow

A pretty good description of a dangerous self-centered sociopath. 

To destroy an institution, first, destroy the authority of the institution.  Do not lose track of the original educational idea, which was the elimination of all social institutions, including religions, governments and nations.  That original idea came straight out of Marx's great masterpiece; his great social Manifesto: 

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. -- Communist Manifesto

This Marxist infiltration-become-commandeering of all formal education was not a small local thing, and not merely metastasizing in America.  It was a global thing; it spread all over the world.  It became an important part of the education of future educators everywhere. 

In Pope Francis' case, however he may have arrived at his opposition to "authoritarianism", the result is his conscious effort toward a Democratization of his own authority - a conscious seeking and encouraging of the advice and consultations of others, and listening carefully.  This seeking of advice or opinion expands out from the circle of Bishops, to the larger circle of Priests, to the larger circle of the laity.  In the image of Christ washing the feet of His disciples, he seeks, perhaps mostly, to serve rather than direct. 

Discernment.

The Pope struggles with proper discernment, as most of us do.  Experience has made him wary of the "first decision" because it is usually wrong; the right decision requires the expenditure of prayer, thought and time.  Change should come slowly, never suddenly.  In his own words, 

"In his own way, John XXIII adopted this attitude with regard to the government of the church, when he repeated the motto, ‘See everything; turn a blind eye to much; correct a little.’ John XXIII saw all things, the maximum dimension, but he chose to correct a few, the minimum dimension. You can have large projects and implement them by means of a few of the smallest things. Or you can use weak means that are more effective than strong ones, as Paul also said in his First Letter to the Corinthians."

I'm not sure what to make of that.  What can the result be of "turn a blind eye to much", other than allowing error to grow and metastasize? 

The Field Hospital Church.

Asked what needs to happen in the Church in this historic moment, does it need reforms, the Pope sees the Church as a field hospital after a major battle.  First, heal the wounds, then, talk about the cause of the wounds.  In his view, the Church has locked itself up in small things and small minded rules.  In Pastoral Ministry, we must accompany people, and we must heal their wounds. 

Asked about divorced and remarried couples, homosexual couples, other examples of Catholics with open wounds, Pope Francis emphasizes the need to see the person first.  "We must always consider the person. Here we enter into the mystery of the human being. In life, God accompanies persons, and we must accompany them, starting from their situation. It is necessary to accompany them with mercy."  He elaborated on that:

“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

“The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently. Proclamation in a missionary style focuses on the essentials, on the necessary things: this is also what fascinates and attracts more, what makes the heart burn, as it did for the disciples at Emmaus. We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel. The proposal of the Gospel must be more simple, profound, radiant. It is from this proposition that the moral consequences then flow."

I'm sorry, but I cannot accept that.  Things have gone too far. 

Sodomy has gone public, all over the world.  Openly homosexual people, who loudly and proudly proclaim their homosexual activity to the whole world, are now among the world's celebrities, stars of screen and stage, ranking politicians and even clerics.  Homosexual "Normalcy" and "Naturalness" are now taught even to little children in formal education.  Homosexuality is now protected by civil law, via "Hate" laws, regulations and speech codes.  To Discriminate in any way against any form of sodomite today may be the one and only cultural mortal sin universally recognized.  Human culture itself has become and continues to become ever increasingly morally depraved due to the absolute lack of any serious opposition to the advance of moral depravity in culture.  Especially from the Church. 

Dropping the subject of the mortal sin itself and merely proposing a more simple, profound and radiant Gospel is not going to turn these people away from their mortal sinfulness.  If it brings them back into Church - and many of them never even left the Church - it will only bring massive cultural acceptance of mortal sin into the Church with them. 

Locking People Out.

In a Thursday morning Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae in October 2013, Pope Francis spoke of closed Churches, people outside not able to get in, and the key to the Church in the pocket of a theoretical "Catholic Ideologue" who was overly rigid in his belief in doctrine. 

In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. Of every sign: rigid. And when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought… For this reason Jesus said to them: ‘You have taken away the key of knowledge.’ The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements. The faith becomes ideology and ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people. But it is a serious illness, this of ideological Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?

Ideology is an illness?  What Pope Francis was talking about here (I think) is Catholic Doctrine.  Doctrine that does not allow non-Catholics and/or out-of-grace Catholics access to Catholic Sacrament.  If I'm wrong about that, then, what else could he be talking about?  Someone please enlighten me. 

To me, an ideology cannot be condemned merely for existing.  An ideology must be judged by the idea(s) it proclaims, whether they be good or bad, right or wrong, true or false.  Marxism, as an ideology, is evil.  Catholicism, expressed as an ideology, would be sublime.  While it is a religion, its basis is Truth, and Truth may be arrived at, by seekers, through natural logic and reason, meaning through the development, if you will, of an ideological approach.  The ideas Catholicism expresses are, after all, quite true. 

Our Holy Father was referring above to Luke 11:52, emphasized below:

[37]While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table.
[38] The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.
[39] And the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of extortion and wickedness.
[40] You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?
[41] But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean for you.
[42]"But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
[43] Woe to you Pharisees! for you love the best seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market places.
[44] Woe to you! for you are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it."
[45]One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you reproach us also."
[46] And he said, "Woe to you lawyers also! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
[47] Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.
[48] So you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
[49] Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, `I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'
[50] that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
[51] from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechari'ah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.
[52] Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."
[53]As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard, and to provoke him to speak of many things,
[54] lying in wait for him, to catch at something he might say.

I'm just a nobody layman, but to me, this Scripture is talking about Pharisaic rigidity on ritual washings, not on absolute moral depravity and sexual licentiousness.  I see a difference.  Is that wrong? 

At what point is an increasingly depraved culture still redeemable? 

The moral degradation of civilization is ramping up and going into hyper-drive, with the American Supreme Court temporarily leading the way, in league with the American President, the American Marxocrat Party, and with weak resistance and bipartisan cooperation of the American Republicrat Party.  And the Church in America, for the most part, is standing around almost as a disinterested non-participant, tut-tuting now and then, and making vague, inclusive, non-judgmental, tolerant and non-discriminatory little homilies.

Once upon a time, repentance, confession, penance and absolution were parts of a very public process.  Civilized culture encouraged the virtues and opposed the vices.  In the early Church, a mortally sinful person would do penance first, before receiving absolution for his sins.  Publicly.  He would remain outside the Church, but near the door, while others went in, asking them to pray for him.  Exclusion from the body of the Church was part of the penance.  Once absolution was granted, the former sinner would enter the Church again with a great celebration.  It was nearly the opposite of Scandal.  No one felt particularly scandalized because the virtuous were inside, and the vicious were outside, where they belonged. 

That was then, this is now.  Today, confession is an intensely private thing, and absolution is given on the promise of penance, before acts of penance are performed.  I'm not saying that's a bad thing; it just needs to be pointed out that, along with the closed confessional, there began to grow a lessened sense of anathematizing, separating from and shunning the mortal sinner.  It may be a good thing that confession is now private.  But it is, in my opinion, not a good thing that open, publicly admitted, unrepentant sinners are allowed to be among us, as a normal part of us.  Even with the best of intentions.  It is a scandalous thing.  It adds the sin of scandal to whatever the original sin was. 

In the name of tolerance; not to be judgmental; to encourage diversity; in the blessing of social justice; in avoiding class war by encouraging egalitarianism; in just being super-ecumenical, and "loving people into the Church".  Right.  Why, you should be able to love Satan himself into total conversion.  That seems to be the theory of the new Church of Nice, where everybody is happy and nobody goes to hell. 

Today, my guess would be that public scandal is the most prevalent sin in the Catholic Church, at least in America.  It began with clerical open resistance to the continuous unchanged doctrine on the sinfulness of Contraception, and it spread out from there to cover every sexual perversion of nature that flowed from that single major cultural acceptance. 

Unrepentant mortal sinners of many varieties come forward and receive Holy Communion in Catholic Churches every Sunday, and everybody knows it.  The laity know it, the clerics know it and the Bishops know it.  People pronounce it, openly discuss it, even broadcast it.  It's a normal part of everyday conversation; what's wrong with that?  They're "good Catholics", understand; they just don't accept the Church's teaching on contraception, or divorce and remarriage, or cohabitation, or homosexual lifestyles, or masturbation, or abortion, or eugenics, or euthanasia, or whatever. 

Catholic celebrities among all these habitual unrepentant sinners actually broadcast their personal "choices" of sinfulness over the airwaves; politicians even include mortal sin in political agendas, speeches and campaign material.  And they still come forward and receive Holy Communion, seeing nothing wrong in it, let alone adding the sin of sacrilege.  And all the clerics know it, full well.  

Mustn't be judgmental; the new rule is to abandon all moral judgments and even simple adult judgment, deny objective Truth and adopt universal moral relativism, like the rest of this rapidly declining culture.  Get with the times.  Most Bishops appear to already be on board; perhaps some of them were the first ones on board.  And if most of them are not in agreement with, if not complicit in all this mortal sinfulness, they've got a funny way of showing it. 

To them, apparently, there is no such thing as scandal. 

Only the now demonized judgmentalism, which must be avoided. 

It's not enough that majority populations in places such as San Francisco and Orlando fly the rainbow-flag to celebrate sodomy; political activists like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the whole Marxocrat Party fly that flag too.  But that ain't all.  A whole lot of Catholic Parishes proudly display the rainbow flag and most of the congregation, and the Pastor, celebrate sodomy every Sunday. 

It's no big deal any more, and that's the problem. 

The Need for Authority and Clarity. 

Well, look what all this has brought us to, as a once distinct Christian People.  Clerics resist refusing Communion to any well known scandalous public sinner, using the excuse that the public refusal might itself cause another scandal, if someone somewhere among the lay witnesses to the event still didn't know about the publicly outed sinner. 

Gimme shelter.  This is scandal growing itself with the aid of clerics. 

The problem Bishops face now is that this clerically-induced gigantic public scandal situation may have grown so big that it cannot be reversed simply, or easily, or quietly, or without itself being blown into a gigantic, loud, highly scandalous fight within the Church, to the delight of all who oppose the Church.  And that just may include some Bishops. 

The Church will survive all of this, but it is unpredictable what she will look like when this passes.  Some courageous, self-sacrificial Bishops are going to have to take the reigns out of the hands of the Bishops leading their flocks into sin.  I predict a split; perhaps more than one; perhaps a splintering.  But emerging from this self-destructive battle will be a stronger Church, if smaller, but perhaps more committed to the original unchanged Gospel and unchanged Creed than ever. 

Now, public scandal is so broad, deep, widespread and not even recognized as scandal that it will take something near the old public absolution of known sinners to eliminate it.  If a publicly "outed" mortal sinner repents, confesses and returns to faith, how does the public know he did that, unless and until he just as publicly "outs" himself as a repentant returned-to-the-faith practitioner of the faith?  If no one in the congregation knows he converted, and he still comes to Communion, they will still be scandalized.  Scandal still persists.  People will still be scandalized. 

And millions of Catholics, including big-shot public figures, are not going to publicly out themselves as having repented and returned to the faith.  That just ain't gonna happen. 

What started all this was direct opposition to Church doctrine by some clerics, including Bishops, aided by others who did not oppose it, or who opposed it weakly.  Allowing it to grow.  You can probably count, among our Bishops, the strong, authoritarian leaders with a crystal clear message of objective Truth on your fingers.  The rest use vague generalities, inclusive language, politically correct doctrine and non-authoritarianism. 

That's the problem. 

Where is this going?

I really hate to say this, but we do not have a strong, clear minded, clear speaking, decisive leader sitting on the chair of Peter at this moment in time.  He resists assuming or using his own authority.  If anyone knows where he stands on various important moral issues, I wish you would enlighten me, because everything he says is either so vague or so questionable in some way as to require expert interpretation of his words.  And the expert interpretations are multiple and widely varied, still requiring further clarification. 

He's not supposed to be a Marxist; that's what all the experts say, and he has not publicly pronounced himself to be a Marxist.  But the one and only thing he has repeatedly condemned, and with great clarity, is Open Commerce in the Natural Free Market, i.e., Capitalism.  In favor of some Unnatural form of Forced Egalitarianism, through a Forced Redistribution of purely material private property, i.e., Wealth.  You may call that whatever you want to call it, but I call it Marxism.  That's closer to the truth than any other description I can come up with. 

As far as his reading of the Moral Law ...

It's hard to read between the lines and decipher vague and unclear statements of anyone, but in my estimation Pope Francis, at the very least, leans toward allowing mortal sinners access to the sacraments.  I just don't know how else to interpret what he says about himself and about the Church and about contemporary contentious moral issues. 

He cannot abrogate Revealed Doctrine, but he can come close.  And he can look the other way while others do it.  The public figures he seems most attracted to are all Marxists, including Comrade Obama, peace be upon him.  Clear opponents of the faith, and opponents of all that the Church teaches. 

I cannot tell you why, or what his motivations are, but that's where I see him going. 

If I am wrong, please show me.  I really, really need to know. 



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Roman Catholic Marxism? Excuse me? Who is evangelizing whom?  Roman Catholic Marxism explores the Politics of Private property v. Collective property (i.e., Marxist Redistributionism.) 

On the Vague Anti Authoritarianism of Pope Francis  And the Relationship between Vague Anti Authoritarianism in High Places and Moral Depravity in Culture

Do we have an anti-American Pope?  A Pro-Obama, Anti-Capitalist, Redistributionist, Utopian, Pro-Illegal Alien, quite consistently Anti-American, Pope Francis? 

Delusional Pope Francis, molding world culture into one undefinable hodgepodge.  Does the Pope want International Communism, or just a border-less, all inclusive, nonsensical, global non-culture?

The Religion Politics Nexus: If the Religion is not true, Politics become evil.  For Martin Luther, Politics drove Religion. For Pope Francis, Religion drives Politics. Or does it? 

Pope Francis just said WHAT? Excuse me?  Can anyone out there help me reconcile what Pope Francis just said with Catholic Revealed Truth? 

Marxists running the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Social Science?  Died in the wool Marxists in the Vatican's P.A.S.S. No wonder Pope Francis favors the Socializing Frauds of "Sustainable Development", "Climate Change", etc.

Disorder and Confusion from the White House. And from the Vatican, too?  The growing disorder in Obama's America, and in Pope Francis' Catholic Church. 

Pope Francis receives an Open Letter calling for his Papal Resignation.  "Year of Mercy" begins with an Open Letter: An Urgent Appeal to Pope Francis to Either Change Course or Renounce the Petrine Office.

Globalist Pope Francis' Marxist Program to End All Sovereign Nations.  Our Globalist Pope leads the attack on all National Sovereignty to bring an end to all national borders in favor of Total Global Disorder, ostensibly for the good of the Planet and the Poor.

Looking more closely at Pope Francis' chosen Papal Pals.  If a critter walks like a duck, talks like a duck and is constantly seen in the company of other ducks, the logical conclusion is that he most probably is a duck.

Globalist Stupidassism in the Vatican.  Globalist Fraud after Hoax after Scam, all promoted in the Pontifical Academy of Science and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences "Workshop on Biological Extinction."

On the new (to me) heresy of Popalitry.  False belief that a Pope can do no wrong leads to Pope Worship.

Do we have a Diabolically Controlled Pope?  Every time he opens his mouth, he makes himself a fool. 

The Dubia Aftermath shows that Pope Francis still doesn't get it.  Non-response to the Dubia means a Warning; non-response to that means a second Warning, and finally, a non-Pope Council to depose the Pope.

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Linda Kimball

The evil materialist faith of global Luciferianism, Technocracy, Socialism, and Marxism

Prayer Against Wicked Ideologues Rescue us, O Lord!

System of Lies: Ideological Paradise on Earth and Why the Bloody, Violent Dream Will Not Die

Christendom and Protestant America’s Apostasy into Paganism A Timeline

The presence and influence of powers, principalities, and demons in our age of apostasy into godlessness

Nihilism…All That Exists is Matter and Energy The Worldview that Caused the Collapse of Christendom and Protestant America

Revisiting Nihilism: The Will Turned Toward Evil and the Destruction of Western and American Civilization

The enemies of God, reality, truth, western civilization and our souls Linda Kimbal column

The Last Hour and the New World Order Prayer

Our Call to Battle: Rise of the Spirit of Antichrist Prayer Article: “And this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.” (1 John 4:3)

God to Mankind: NOW Do You See the Stupidity, Depravity, and Evil in Your Hearts?

Raising the New Tower-- Occult Evolution: Antediluvian, Babylonian and Modern Expressions

Psychopathy and the Western and American Tyranny of Evil Leftist Progressive Myths

Supernatural Genesis 1-11 vs. Pagan Darwinism God and Liberty or Fallen Mankind and Tyranny

Luke 21: 29-31: Some Signs Of America's Abandonment And Spiritual Bondage

Eternal Paradise Or Hell? How And Why Both Choices Are Freely Made

Luciferian Humanists: Citing the Genesis Account is Evil "Any country grounded in Judaeo-Christian values can't be overthrown until those roots are cut ... "

Who is intolerant because ashamed: Creationists or Evolutionary Theists?

Death of the Christian God in Hearts of All Humans Why America and W. Europe are Committing Suicide

THE WORLDVIEW OF EVIL SPIRITS - an article by Linda Kimball MAGICAL MYSTERY CHURCH

Pagan-Darwinian-Materialism Redoubt of Miserable Self-Deceived Non-Self Nihilists

Americas' Spiritually Dead, Deep State and Ruling Class Nihilists Walking Dead Parasitic Idolaters

Doctrines of Demons and the Modern Pagan and Pantheist Antithesis The West's Greatest Threat

Gnosis: The Main Expression of Paganized Christianity in the New Age Inner Knowing, Self-Salvation

Our Age of Malicious Perversion How Truth, Meaning, and Reality Have Been Perverted

The Serpent's Gnostic Luciferian Elite Oligarchy and Global Powers Demonic Darkness Over the West and America

The Creation Model Versus Modern Pagan Models
2 Corinthians 10:5

What Kind of God Do You Believe In?
2 Cor. 10:5 Destroying 'scientific' arguments for false Gods

Evil Spirits, Death of God, Satanic Inversion Pagan America's Reality of Madness, Demonic Bondage, and Non-Self

Judgment and Wrath The Biblical Explanation for Madness and Evil

The Worldview of Evil Spirits Revolution, Evolution, Materialism, Nihilism, New World Order, and More

Gnosis The Main Expression of Modern Paganized Christianity

America's Transformation Into A Mystical Pantheist God-State What the Death of God Has Wrought

Message to All Wearied Truthtellers: Let Isaiah Be Your Inspiration the Remnant

The Triune God, Supernatural Heaven, Souls, Hell, and Demons Do They Exist?

Teachings of Demons The Aeon of Horus, Reign of God-Men, and End of the Christian God

Revelation 2:7" ...the closing of a steel door – a solemn, cataclysmic slamming of a door."

Systemic Nihilism: End of the Human Race Eternal Damnation of Human Souls

Infernal Apocalyptic Atmosphere Over America Disintegration into nothing

Global and Ruling Class Criminal Elitists Their Ring of Power and Pact with the Spirit of Death and Hell

Blessed is the Man Who Does Not Listen to Falling Stars Who Follow After Damnable Heresies

Darwinism: An Abomination Aborting and Rotting the Church. The falling away and apostasy from the one true and personal Holy Triune Creator God has not ended

The Evil One and the Impenitent Who Receive His Mark“. And the LORD God formed man (and) breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7

The Fall of Mankind, the Religion of Evolution, and the Antichrist. "Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18

Why Secular Liberals Actively Promote Evil. Mentally Retarded Liberals

Cultural Marxism. The Many Hidden Faces of Living Active Communism

The Devil, the Big Bang, Evolution, Extraterrestrials and the Genesis Problem

The Ascension To Power Of Misogyny. Hatred of Women

Gnostic Chiliastic Evolution: Satan's Alternative Plan of Salvation. The Great Reset

Why Proclaiming Jesus Christ the Word Became Flesh is Offensive. The Technocratic Utopian World Order

The Divine Androgyne, Pandemonium, and the Battle for Our Souls. Satan's Rising New World Order

America's Modern Pagan Oligarchy, Aztec Gods, and Human Sacrifice. Isaiah 57 Revisited

The Peace Symbol: Occult Sign Meaning Death Against Christians. Hatred of Jesus Christ and Christianity

Americas’ Spiritually Desolate, Parasitic, Ruling Class Nihilists. Satan and Powers and Principalities

Global Oligarchy, Forces of Darkness, and the Spirit of Antichrist. Forces Darkness Within Church and State

Darwinism: Idol of mind symbolizing hatred of Triune Creator God. And Logical End of America

Is the World a Computer Simulation in the Minds of Robotic Overlords? Magic Science, Transhumanists, Gnostic Physicists.

Your soul: Cost of admission to the Progressive Pagan City of Man. New Egypt, Babylon, Sodom and Gomorrah

Iron Curtain Over American Minds Progressive Marxisms’ Ideological Utopia

Satan’s New World Order Blueprint and Key Strategy. Christian Capitulation To the Serpent's Consensus Process

Chaos, Breakdown, Demoralization, Destruction: America's New Normal. How it came about and where we are going.

Demonic Darkness: America's Invisible Wave of Evil. Staring into the abyss

Cain, Marxism, Leftism and America's ruling class of 'superior' humans. The dragon they have in common

Modernist Christians in a Man-Centered Universe. Scientific Neutrality and Biblical Deconstruction

The Connection Between Baphomet and Why Researchers Are Creating Interspecies Embryos. 2 Corinthians 10:5

Isaiah 57 revisited: America's progressive pagan elites. Staring into the Abyss

Evolutionary Theism Implies That Christ is Wrong About Creation. "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" John 5:46-47

Utopianism. Progressive Utopian Cultural Marxism Poisoning Minds, Churches, Schools, Politics

Acts 17:18-19-modern pagan and pantheist antithesis of the Word of God Ecclesiates 1:9 "What has been is what will be.."

Trotsky's Permanent Revolution From Hell In America. The Soviet System in America

Why Transgenderism Is Being Forced Upon America and Our Children. The Divine Androgyne

The Evil Eye Of Envy: Why Being ‘White’ Is Offensive To Some People. No Vice Worse Than Envy

Absolute Nothingness and Non-Self: The Reigning Worldview of Global Power Elites and Western Ruling Classes

What is Evil? Man-made alternative realities

America's Survival Inc.

Cliff Kincaid

Trump is Destroying Reagan's Legacy By Cliff Kincaid

Trump is a Marked Man By Cliff Kincaid

Terrorist Attack in Baltimore By Cliff Kincaid

Moscow Terror Attack is Another KGB Operation to Fool the West

Obama’s New Nazi-Communist Alliance

On the "Days Of Rage" Planned For The 2024 Marxocrat Party Convention Some of you just couldn't believe that the formerly Democrat (Confederate) Party had already gone totally Communist before the 1968 Party Convention

Making Russia Great Again By Cliff Cinkaid

De-Nazification and De-Communization in Russia The The mutual non-aggression Hitler-Stalin Pact, which started World War II, has been carefully “forgotten”

Climate Emergency To Produce a New World Order By Cliff Kincaid

The Next Phase of Obama’s “Permanent Revolution” By Cliff Kincaid

Evil in the White House In This War, The Enemy Is In The Ranks, Standing Right Next To You

Satanism, Communism: What's The Difference? Look To The Roots Of Communism

Fox Is the Leading "Trans" Channel There are some rather peculiar goings-on at the Fox News Channel.

Trump and His Communist Enemies The Demonized Joe McCarthy Turned Out To Be Accurate In Everything He Claimed: Fox News Is Wrong About Him And About Much More

The Five Stooges on Capitol Hill They Think We Need Even More Doped No-Hopers In The American Intelligence Community

The Biden Doctrine of Demoralization and Defeat By Cliff Kincaid

A Republican Church Committee? Do Pro-American Republicans Even Know Who Frank Church Really Was?

A Top to Bottom Housecleaning of America When we clean our house, my wife has a slogan, “Top to bottom,” meaning you have to target the whole house. The same advice applies to nations.

China's Mass Murder Experiment Phase Two

Bury The Dead And Move On Fuggedaboutit!

9/11 Truth This is the real 9/11 Truth: Our “intelligence” agencies are infiltrated.

Moving Toward Gorbachev’s “World of Communism” It's called the Monster Plot.

The Errors of Russia, the Dupes of Putin, and Another Holocaust Can The Increasingly Faithless Free World Be Saved From Russia?

World War Quietly Conquering A Distracted and Blithely Unaware World. Could it actually be Satan's world war on despised humanity?

Stand With Ukraine Against Russia and China By Cliff Kincaid

Tucker Carlson Carlson Gets His Comeuppance. Tucker's View: It is not moral for us to intervene in support of any nation's (Ukraine's) democratic self-determination and against Soviet military expansion.

The Need for Secure Borders. Have we so easily forgotten what borders are for? Have we forgotten that evil exists in the world? Have we forgotten how to keep apart from this evil?

Can Ukraine Survive Putin and Biden? Can America? Can the Free World? Can Faith in God?

The Soviet Union: Back From The Dead The Return of the Evil Empire

Could an American Surrender be in the offing with Biden at the wheel? Is this not the perfect time for Communism to strike, with Commies now governing America, China and Russia? What would Biden do?

Abortion and Communism. If you ever wondered where all the popular abortion-contraception-sexuality-perversion nuttiness came from, look to Marx's Communist Manifesto.

The Secret Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. A life almost totally at odds with his reputation as a minister of the Gospel.

"We belong to the Church militant; and She is militant because on earth the powers of darkness are ever restless to encompass Her destruction. Not only in the far-off centuries of the early Church, but down through the ages and in this our day, the enemies of God and Christian civilization make bold to attack the Creator's supreme dominion and sacrosanct human rights." --Pope Pius XII

"It is not lawful to take the things of others to give to the poor. It is a sin worthy of punishment, not an act deserving a reward, to give away what belongs to others." --St. Francis of Assisi

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.—Ayn Rand

Atheist Genesis:

In the beginning there was nothing, and nothing happened to nothing.
And then nothing accidentally exploded and created everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally encountered other bits of everything and formed some new kinds of everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into self-replicating bits of everything.
And then some self-replicating bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into dinosaurs.
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