Since
the time I was a very
young man, I have
stated repeatedly that
there are two events
which I believe signal
our irreversible entry
into the latter days.
The first is
the detonation in
anger of a nuclear
device, and the second
is the Chicago Cubs
winning the World
Series.
As of
November 2, the latter
of these conditions
has been met and,
given the current
state of world
affairs, the former
may be soon to follow.
Indicative of
this is the fact that
Russia has proudly
announced the addition
of the Satan 2 to its
nuclear arsenal.
This is a 16
warhead, 2000 megaton
devil capable of
wiping out an area the
size of Texas, and it
is being paired with a
delivery system so
swift as to render our
current defense
systems helpless
against it.
Russian
President Vladimir
Putin likes to show
off this abomination
that maketh desolate
like a proud papa.
This calls to
mind numerous
prophecies in the book
of Isaiah [1],
as
well as the words of
Major T.J. “King” Kong
in the movie Dr.
Strangelove:
“Well, boys, I reckon
this is it — nuclear
combat toe to toe with
the Roosskies.” [2]
We do indeed
find ourselves in
perilous times.
However,
I believe it is also
time to stand back and
take a look at the
bigger picture so as
to come to a greater
appreciation for these
strange days that have
found us.
The full
title of Dr. Strangelove is Dr.
Strangelove or: How
I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love
the Bomb.
While I am
not arguing that the
bomb itself is anymore
lovable than it was
when this film debuted
in 1964, I am
suggesting that it is
high time we stopped
worrying: stopped
worrying about not
only the potential for
nuclear holocaust, but
also about all the
other boogeymen and
long legged beasties
and things that go
bump in night that
terrorize us.
Terrorism
itself is only
effective when we are
terrorized. Confront
and conquer our fears
and even the dogs of
Al Queda and Isis will
simply slink off
whimpering into the
dark night of the
impending apocalypse.
Let
me explain.
The
election cycle just
passed has
demonstrated in no
uncertain terms what I
have been harping
about in this column
since it debuted in
December of 2012: the
problems of humanity
are too deep-seated
and rooted in sin to
be solved in any
meaningful way through
the political process.
This has been
the truth of the human
condition since the
hunters and gatherers
organized the first
mammoth hunt and had
the strongest in their
midst rise up and
exert command over who
got the meat.
And it is
true today in a world
in which the most
wicked and cunning
rise up and exert
command over the rest
of us in the guise of
establishing a fair
and equitable (for
them) New World Order.
This is
actually nothing new,
just another attempt
at global domination
brought to you
courtesy of the latest
despots in a long line
of despots so
inclined. Like Dr.
Strangelove might have
said, “Die
Neuordnung
der
Welt!
All hail the
Fourth Reich! Sieg Heil!” The more
things change, the
more they stay the
same.
The
first of these Reichs, was, of course, the Holy Roman Empire.
It came into
existence under the
reign of Charlemagne
in 800 AD, some eight
centuries after Jesus
had his experience
with Imperial Roman
democracy at the hands
of Pontius Pilate.
This
election, as recorded
for us in the gospels,
pitted our Lord
against the robber and
insurrectionist
Barabbas, and the
prize they were vying
for was freedom for
the winner versus
death by crucifixion
for the loser.
We all know
the outcome and I
suspect it was rigged.
Again,
nothing new under the
sun, just as Qoheleth
pointed out in the
book of Ecclesiastes.
Now
the point of all of
this is that I am
writing it for Christian
Democracy, which
is
a very intellectual
online publication
that endeavors to show
by superior reasoning,
and through the citing
of irrefutable
evidence, that the
democratic system of
government, when
enlightened by the
higher principles of
the Christian religion
(particularly as
espoused in Catholic
social teaching), does
provide a worldly
solution to the
ongoing problem of
man’s abject (and long
term) failure at
self-governance.
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And there is no
greater example of
this failure than the
case of Jesus of
Nazareth as stated
above, wherein the
King of the Universe,
and the Son of God
Himself, is subjected
to trial in a human
court and suffers the
most egregious
miscarriage of justice
ever recorded.
That this
miscarriage is
conveyed through a
corrupted democratic
process in which the
election is tilted to
a miscreant and
criminal candidate
merely shows once
again, in light of
recent events, that
little has changed in
two millennia.
Time marches
on but humanity’s
inability to govern
itself, in a truly
fair and equitable
way, remains forever
with us.
It is for
this reason that we
should be neither
disappointed, nor
falsely buoyed, by the
defeat of Hillary
Clinton and the
ascension to the
presidency of Donald
Trump.
What
this election did
demonstrate, and the
aspect of it that I
have found the most
interesting, is the
way in which Catholic
online media has come
of age as an
alternative to the
secular mainstream
media.
Since 2005,
the purpose of the
Radio New Jerusalem
website has been to
provide an access
point to this Catholic
media in a way that
encompasses the
broader spectrum of
it, and which presents
the Catholic faith to
the world as something
sacred and eternal
rather than as a mere
extension, and
“Catholicized”
version, of each
contributor’s personal
religious, secular and
political views.
By clipping
the bandwidth to
largely exclude the
extreme sedevacanist
right of Catholic
expression that would
move us back to the 14th
century, and the
extreme modernist left
which would move us
into a dystopian
future in which
globalist liberalism
is substituted for
legitimate Catholic
teaching, one is left
with a daily
compendium of Catholic
news and inspiration
that is both helpful
and enlightening.
And it has
gained a new and
powerful voice in
determining political
outcomes.
It
should not, and must
not, be lost on us
that it is the
perciptious shift in
Catholic support
caused by the
“Catholic Spring”
revelations that cost
Hillary Clinton the
presidency.
This was
accomplished by
demonstrating, in no
uncertain terms, that
this globalist
liberalism,
substituted for
legitimate Catholic
teaching, was not the
stuff of conspiracy
theory but was instead
conspiracy fact.
And it was
none other than Julian
Assange, the master of
Wikileaks, who
provided the emails of
John Podesta, et
al, to prove it.
These emails
were then disseminated
far and wide and,
while being largely
shrugged off in the
liberal mainstream
media, they were
discussed and debated
at length and in
detail within the
Catholic media, and
the result was the
greatest upset in a
presidential election
since Truman defeated
Dewey.
Frankly,
I’m glad to see Julian
Assange back from the
troubles I wrote about
in my column of
September 1, 2013
titled, “Invasion of
the Soul Snatchers.” [3]
This piece is
an allegory in which I
compare the government
of the United Stated
to the situation in
the mythical town of
Santa Mira, California
as portrayed in the
classic, 1956 sci-fi
movie Invasion
of the Body
Snatchers.
I mention
this here because John
Podesta’s attempt to
alter the Catholic
faith in the United
States to match the
godless agenda of the
Democratic Party
demonstrates the
reality of what I
meant then when I
wrote, “The government
is comprised of two
soulless parties, each
of which offers a
hypocritical and false
lip service to God,
and neither of which
looks to heaven for
guidance. They offer
alternatives designed
to put the people at
each others throats,
and they offer no real
solutions, merely
different routes to
the ruin of the
nation…”
Within
this context, I
referred to the
Wikileaks revelations
of Julian Assange, in
his attempts to
provide “open
government” as,
“turn[ing] over a
truck full of seedpods
on the information
superhighway.”
It was the
load of seedpods
represented by the
Podesta emails that
resulted in the
revelation among
faithful Catholics
that such “pod people”
Democratic Catholics
as Podesta were fully
about the task of
substituting the party
politics of abortion,
euthanasia, gay
“marriage” and the end
of religious
expression in the
public square for the
true expression of the
Christian faith as
expressed in Catholic
social teaching.
And, thanks
to the exposure this
got in the Catholic
media, it cost Hillary
the election.
It should
have.
She earned
it.
The
bigger picture,
brought into view by
yet another truckload
of Wikileaks seedpods
tipped over by
Assange, is seen in a
series of articles
that columnist
Elizabeth Yore has
done for The
Remnant [4].
These
articles, which are
based upon a
significant dump of
emails from George
Soros’ Open Society
Foundation, implicate
the hierarchy of the
Catholic Church from
the United States
Conference of Catholic
Bishops, all the way
up the ecclesial food
chain to the Vatican,
in a “pay for play”
scandal that
ultimately promotes
the same globalist
agenda that we witness
in the Podesta emails.
Just as it is
no coincidence that
Hillary Clinton was
openly promoted by
Soros as his candidate
of choice in the
election just past, it
is also no accident
that the American
Catholic bishops were
largely silent in
opposing the unholy
and un-Catholic
“progressive” agenda
of the Open Society
Foundation she
represented.
And if the
behind the scenes
machinations that
brought Trump to power
instead of Hillary are
yet to be revealed by
Julian Assange and
Wikileaks, that will
be yet another
fascinating truckload
of seedpods.
Say what you
will, this stuff is
never boring.
If
we are to believe that
George Soros is truly
the king maker that
Elizabeth Yore makes
him out to be, then
Trump’s election takes
on an even more
interesting
significance.
However, the
Republicans remain
merely the other
soulless party, and we
shouldn’t be fooled by
the lip service they
classically give in
opposition to the
anti-Catholic agenda
of the Democrats.
In the
Confetior of American
politics, it is the
Democrats who have
greatly sinned by what
they have done, and
the Republicans by
what they have failed
to do.
To my cynical
mind, Trump’s
candidacy was always
about trying to gain a
more level playing
field and not be
squeezed out of the
big money by such
truly mega-rich
globalist players as
the likes of Soros and
Warren Buffet.
He seemed
willing and able to
destroy the tattered
remnants of the
Republican Party to
gain power, and it
remains to be seen, in
the wake of his
election, just what
will become of the
“Grand Old Party.”
While it is
easy enough to malign
the two party system,
we would do well to
remember that the only
thing worse is the one
party system: see Nazi
Germany, the Soviet
Union and the present
day Russian Republic
of Vladimir Putin.
And, of
course, the New World
Order.
Conveniently,
this brings us back to
where we started,
which was with the
tongue-in-cheek
observation that the
World Championship of
the Chicago Cubs, and
the sabre rattling of
Mr. Putin, have
brought us to a Dr.
Strangelove-esque
end time scenario.
From this
beginning, we went on
to explore the
“practical politics”
of the globalist
agenda as opposed to
the “holy politics” of
Catholic social
teaching, and we have
seen, thanks to the
truckloads of
Wikileaks seedpods
overturned by Julian
Assange, that it is
impossible to
implement this holy
politics when the
political game is
rigged against it.
And it is
easy enough to
demonstrate that the
game is rigged against
it when it is revealed
that those Catholics
who are in positions
of power, and who
should be working for
the kingdom of God,
are actively working
for the devil’s New
World Order instead.
And this
means it is rigged in
favor of a theory of
“sustainable
development” in which
the world’s population
is to be reduced by 80
to 90 percent through
abortion,
contraception,
euthanasia, eugenics,
war and virtually any
other means that
opposes Catholic
social teaching,
natural law and basic
human decency. [5]
The
election our Lord lost
at the hands of
Pilate, and the
leaders of the Jews
who insisted upon his
persecution, was for
our benefit and
enlightenment.
It shows us
that the testimony of
each of us in this
first century of the
second millennium is
to be the same as that
of Jesus and the
martyrs who gave their
lives willingly for
Him in that other
first century so long
ago: “My kingdom is
not of this world.”
The beauty of
this is that we are
bound for heaven and
the only requirement
to get there is that
we do not lose faith
or courage, but merely
believe.
The crisis
that confronts the
Church today is a
crisis of faith.
So many
members of the body of
Christ – laity,
clergy, religious and
hierarchy – just
simply don’t believe
the old faith of the
cross and have traded
it instead for the
false faith of the New
World Order: the
globalist agenda that
teaches modernism over
tradition, and science
over the revealed
truth of Scripture,
and which poses as a
new Catholic teaching
that has supplanted
the original.
And the
original is eternal
and so are we.
In
the end, it matters
little who is
president in a nation
where Christ is no
longer king.
And should
the slaughter of the
unborn, and the
domination of
globalist sin in the
United States and
throughout the world
continue unabated, the
king we once elected
to the cross will
enlighten us in a long
prophesied and
terrible Great
Chastisement.
This should
be the witness of the
hierarchy of the
Catholic Church in the
world.
That it is
His Blessed Mother who
issues this very
warning, through
children and the
innocent souls she so
chooses, indicates
that the Church that
compromises itself to
the moneychangers of
the world must repent
of this or stand
judged with them.
The gates of
hell shall not prevail
against the Holy
Church of Christ, but
God help those who
position her so the
King Himself must
return to assure that
this is so!
So
what’s not to fear?
Like Pogo
said, “It is always
darkest before it goes
pitch black.”
However, like
the Cubs found out,
the game only really
gets good when your
back’s against the
wall and the Indians
are up three games to
one.
In these
perilous times, we
must play the game out
and seize the
opportunity provided.
Donald Trump
became president by
reassuring Catholics
that he got it and
Hillary didn’t.
As Catholics,
we should do our best
to hold his feet to
the fire, and, with
conservative changes
to the Supreme Court,
and a Republican
Congress for at least
the next two years, we
should apply all due
pressure to see that
not only Roe v. Wade
is overturned, but
that a constitutional
amendment is passed
protecting the lives
of our unborn citizens
across the nation.
The new
political climate
means the time for
making excuses has
past – and the window
of opportunity will
not remain open long.
This is
merely a start at
taking back our nation
and our world from the
New World Order which
is, in reality, merely
the latest incarnation
of the Old World Order
that crucified our
Lord in the court of
Pontius Pilate.
Should our
nation and our world
continue in the ways
of Satan the original,
it will find the
judgment of the Lord
the world has denied a
much greater threat
than that of the
namesake nuclear
device, Satan 2.
Will
we succeed?
Probably not.
And that is
why we must trust in
God all the more and
in an ultimate future
in which all good and
just things are
realized.
We must,
through prayer and
faith, be crucified
with Christ, and, with
our Lord, look out
from the cross at the
human condition and
see beyond it, with
the eyes of faith, the
eternity that is ours
if we endure.
We have
nothing to fear if we
can say from the
summit of Calvary’s
hill, “I have been to
the mountaintop and I
have seen the Promised
Land!”
And if we can
embrace the faith of
the cross, then we
will have the courage
to ride the Satan 2 to
the Promised Land
without fear, and, in
the last scene of our
last act on earth, we
can wave our cowboy
hat over our head and
call out in the words
of Major T.J. “King”
Kong,
“Yee-Hah!”
*This
article was not
published in Christian
Democracy
due to the author's
refusal to accept
editing of content
vital to the
integrity and
meaning of the work.
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