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I’m not a Catholic, but I admire their unity and still relevant cultural power. Despite some of the things I don’t understand or agree with, they’ve been right on so many things.
- Just War Theory — The right to battle and fight for God and what’s right. Try talking to a Christadelphian or a Quaker on those subjects. And I know the Crusades had more than their share of grifters, but without those Crusades, we might not have had a Christian West.
- God to Government relationship — After 400 years and the decline of the West, it sure appears liberalism has failed. I and others are whispering our possible desire for a Christian monarchy again. This book that posits a Catholic monarchy in the future: Star-Spangled Crown.
- Family — This is upstream from abortion and same-sex marriage. It was the Catholics who rightly realized that first contraception, then pornography were precursors to the gender affirming care we are faced with today. Fail to value children and family and you have the rampant birth rate decline across the world.
- Abortion — It was the Catholics who steadfastly opposed this on better philosophical and theological grounds than the Protestants, in my opinion. I’m partial now to the abortion abolitionists.
I also have Augustine, Thomas Moore, Thomas Merton, G.K Chesterton, and Thomas Aquinas all on my shelf. So it wasn’t a surprise when YouTube’s algorithms presented this to me: We Are All Under the Influence of a Cult.
TLDW; It’s a great video about the philosophical underpinnings of the Cult of Sex in the modern West. The culprit? Liberalism. And guess what, I have a book, by a Catholic of course, on that as well: Liberty, The God That Failed, by Chris Ferrara. While a bit of a tome, Ferrara, takes to task the philosophers that laid the rotten foundation for what we are suffering under today: J.S. Mill, Rousseau, Machiavelli, Locke, and others.
There is a host of Protestants who’ve recognized and written about this too over the years. C.S. Lewis is the most well-known. Other Protestants have written on these thinkers. Apostate by Kevin Swanson is an excellent work. He names these and others as root causes in the baked in decline of the West. Josh McDowell, Doug Wilson, and others contribute mightily to these issues.
I would also add the antinomianism of most Evangelical Protestants. You need more than just belief in Christ. If you don’t have actions that reflect your belief, you’re not a disciple of Christ. The Ten Commandments were not the 10 Suggestions, as Ted Koppel famously quipped.
These are universal morals and values, common to every civilization in history. Those of us who have read history understand the historical bubble we are living in right now. It’s not the end of history or the penultimate peak of progress, as the Left would have us believe. We forsook God and His ways to follow compromised philosophers in Locke and Hobbes, and godless philosophers in Hegel and Nietzsche.
We live in Sodom and Gomorrah.
Well said. Ecumenicalism has a place in the defense of Christendom. I won’t begrudge a Catholic or Independent Fundamental Baptist giving me ammo when it is needed.
As someone who used to post here every now and then and was already into the nostalgiaof being a Western Man, I realized the joke if United Europe when it was the Protestant Revolutionaries who destroyed solidarity and unity and morality of The West. The Spanish and Irish and Austrians kept it – but Protestant nations lost it (after butchering all their brave Catholic martyrs). I Entered The Roman Catholic Church Eater Vigil of 2024 and all I can say it is wonderful to actually BE a Roman, actually BE a Latin (no not a Latin Mass Rad Trad New Lutheran dork, just a Latin Rite Catholic). The Catholic Cathedrals and Shrines, Basilicas and Gardens are “hidden” everywhere in plain sight. Ever doctrine you think they teach that is wrong is easily explained in the Catechism and let me tell you… The Eucharist, The Lembas, is as REAL as REAL can be and it is POWERFUL!
Viva Cristo Rey y Maria de Guadalupe!