Following these few paragraphs is just one of many daily headlines of similar character. The social revolutionaries and global government elites are pushing hard on the gas peddle for sure with little in the way of organized resistance to stop them. The conditioning of our youth over the last several decades in secular atheism, self indulgence and media-driven shallow thinking has created fertile ground for the rise of some truly frightening, evil, figures in global politics.
Many youth of today will gladly vote themselves into an equality of squalor and a government controlled prison for the promise of some free treats from the oligarch -- and to feel like they are part of the club. This is where the sting of the current crisis in the Church is so sorely felt, for a greater part of her human element has deprived our young people of a supernatural vision and guiding purpose, leaving them prey to any huckster peddling green Utopian visions and a natural path to Nirvana.
Christ IS the only answer. The only thing that will be achieved if He is thrown aside will be hell on earth, a fact that history has repeatedly borne out for all who have eyes to see. Some of these very same youth may, by God's grace, in time awaken and see that they have been duped -- hopefully before it is too late. Those who still have the faith should pray and fast hard for this, particularly in this season of Lent.
Just in from Canada:
A crucifix that has hung on the wall of Montreal’s City Hall since 1937, reminding city officials to let God guide their decisions, will be taken down for a renovation project, never to be put back, local sources have reported.
City councilor Laurence Lavigne-Lalonde made the announcement at an executive council meeting this week.
“The crucifix was installed during an era that was completely different than the one we live in today,” Lavigne-Lalonde told the council, according to CTV News Montreal.
“We now live in a society that has evolved and is represented by democratic institutions that must be secular, neutral and open to all citizens,” Lavigne-Lalonde added.
Just what have we "evolved" to I wonder? In National Socialist fashion we, even against all scientific evidence to the contrary, declare unborn children at all stages of gestation to be something less than (or even other than!) human and undeserving of rights, ripping them literally limb-from-limb from their mother's wombs by the tens of thousands annually. Naturally following, the elderly, infirm, and sick of all ages are now targeted for a similar end in the name of compassion.
We are now "open to all citizens"... except those we find embarrassing or inconvenient. For those, our evolved compassion will help set them free. We are really not far at all from Hitler in principle, nor Joseph Stalin nor Mao. When I was a younger man, I could not fathom how the German people could ever have voted Hitler into office. Now I am beginning to see and understand. It is happening again, though the violence so far is different -- conducted more discreetly in clinics and comfortable hospital rooms all over the world. Few lift a finger let alone raise a voice. Those that do are not heard.
Just in from the UK:
Another woman in Britain is facing a police investigation – and potentially, a jail sentence – because she wrote things online about sex, gender and a person who changed gender.
So far, so familiar, but this tale has a significant feature. The woman is a journalist. A British police force is investigating a journalist over words that she published.
Caroline Farrow, 44, is the subject of an investigation by Surrey Police over tweets she sent referring to the adult child of Susie Green, head of Mermaids, a charity concerned with transgender children. Farrow says the investigation arises because she ‘misgendered’ the child, who was born male but now identifies as female.
The philosopher Etienne Gilson in an address given in 1948 titled "The Terrors of the Year 2000" offers some sobering and prophetic insight:
The entire human order totters on its base. Antichrist is still the only one who knows this, the only one who foresees the appalling cataclysm of the "reversal of values" which is in the making, for if the totality of the human past depended on the certitude that God exists, the totality of the future must needs depend on the contrary certitude, that God does not exist.
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Have we understood at last? That is not certain, because the announcement of a cataclysm of such magnitude ordinarily leaves but a single escape: to disbelieve it, and in order not to believe it, to refuse to understand it. If Nietzsche speaks truly, it is the very foundations of human life which are to be overthrown...
"He who would be creator, both in good and evil, must first of all know how to destroy and wreck values" [Nietzsche writes]. They are in fact, being wrecked around us, and under our feet, everywhere. We have stopped counting the unheard of theories thrown at us under names as various as their methods of thought, each the harbinger of a new truth which it promises to create shortly, joyously busy preparing the brave new world of tomorrow by first annihilating the world of today....
Since men have refused to serve God, there is no longer an arbiter between them and the State which dominates them. It is no longer God, but the State which judges them. But who, then, will judge the state?
