Rabid Apotheosis of Nihilism: The Politicopathic 21st Century Revealed

Rabid Apotheosis of Nihilism: The Politicopathic 21st Century Revealed

By Joseph Andrew Settanni

“Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.” – Dean William Ralph Inge

The nihilistic Culture of Death, spoken of so eloquently by Pope Benedict XVI and others, has substantially triumphed in the 21st century. Increasing millions of people act as if they were mere lemmings that do rush toward the embrace of what used to be classically thought of, in religious terms, as Hell. An increase of atheism, thus, goes well with all this speculation as to fundamental moral disorder.

And, spiritual suicide normally precedes the civilizational kind whenever truth becomes a mere matter of interpretation, never a certainty; whenever patriotism is scorned by the educational, cultural, and political elites. What, however, is here critically meant to better elucidate and illuminate the topic?

More and more of contemporary human reality is and, moreover, seeks to be quite death-centered in its ultimate emotional, psychological, and mental orientation, meaning, finally, the lust manifested toward the warm embrace of nihilism with its much allied blessing of death as the chief, the concluding, aspiration involved. This is a major part of contemporary normality as it gets called, though once, years ago, recognized properly as being a manifestation of insanity or, at the least, a serious lack of respect for truth.

How a Nation Becomes Morally Diseased; How Faith is Debased

It is a gross situation truly amazing to behold and, furthermore, fully unprecedented in all of past human history. How has this situation qua living nightmare occurred? Various elements of pragmatism, hedonism, materialism, positivism, and secularism have all combined to lend a powerful speed to all interrelated developments and trends tending heavily toward economic, societal and cultural Weimarization, i. e., the rather bold pursuit of blatant nihilism so heavily concerned with the political-ideological order of human reality. Are there indications of this asseverated truth definitely encompassing, e. g., Cultural Marxism and its allied PC thinking?

There exist now many millions of people without any conscious feelings whatsoever of what used to be thought of as either shame or guilt for various things they’ve done or are still doing. If the course of America is not changed substantially as soon as possible, the dark future of this country can only be seen in the doings of the MTV generation and the failed city of Detroit. Moreover, the vast majority of such denizens are proud of their, e. g., fornication, sodomy, etc., which they do demand public, legal, full approval of, not simply just basic tolerance. Attitudes held and wrong decisions made do have consequences within the spiritual order.

What the Roman Catholic Church defines as and properly understands to be, for instance, mortal sin (that if left unrepented damns a soul to eternal Hell) is now positively celebrated and, moreover, formally legalized as well. Put simply, many millions of people around the entire world are willingly choosing, as fast as possible, to get to Hell, to actively seek out their own damnation. It is not an accident, therefore, that most of Detroit looks like a version of the Infernal Regions set within a modern urban context. What, however, is the larger picture?

The political regimes or orders that do exist, in the various contemporary nations in both the Western and Eastern hemispheres, are hardly equipped to be superb moral teachers or spiritual authorities regarding what people ought to do with their lives. The USA is a prime example of the illustrative disaster that evidently awaits a nation gone adrift from a needed devotion to metaphysical order, to the Lord of the universe and beyond.

America, for many, has become just a mere place to inhabit, not the beloved patria of bygone days and generations. What used to be known as a Christian nation is now filled with people discriminated against for professing such a religious belief; increasingly, moreover, more and more of these supposed believers refuse to fight for their faith; such timidity gets deservedly punished as aggressive secularization becomes plainly normalized in America and the Western world.

Not only does patriotism, in such a secularized political climate, get mocked; the important love and fear of God, thus, means little or nothing in such an awful context. And, as is or ought to be widely known, modern secularization, moreover, necessarily spurs on increasing degrees and efforts at such aggressive de-Christianization in America and the Western world, which has evident contempt for the Roman Catholic Culture of Life, the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Meanwhile, Pope Francis, the amazing leader of the Church, the Vicar of Christ on earth, feeds into the postmodern nihilism by trying so very hard to seem and to be nice by offering atheists religious hope of genuine salvation, though they seek, by definition, to still believe in nothing, of course. A heaven supposedly heavily populated by overt defiant atheists, however, conjures up a rather strange theological vision to behold, entirely contrary to the proper Catholic dogma of extra ecclesiam nulla salus. It is, moreover, the salvific and primary mission of the Church, though that understanding seems to be, at a minimum, improperly neglected.

There will be those imprudent Catholics who, of course, will so perform mental gymnastics to defend Pope Francis, in a kind of misguided and misdirected sense of old piety. Assuming he is neither a stupid nor an ignorant man, he then ought to have easily known, therefore, that the mass media would run with his assertions and interpret what he had to say in a way suitable to their needs, meaning according the progressive-radical ideological agenda.

His informed cognizance ought to or should have encompassed this perspicuity of epistemic realization as to the broad impact of his words, meaning that he ought not to have let himself be toyed with as if he were a fool. He knows (or ought to) the saying that the truth barely gets its shoes on before a lie gets up quick and races into the world. Only an egotistic jester (or the assumed equivalent) would not profoundly weigh and estimate, measure and consider, his words quite carefully prior to making such statements. Later qualifications and emendations rarely, if ever, get into the public press and, if found, are only truncated, abbreviated, versions.

Popular perceptions, in this heavily media-dominant age, do trump just mere reality. Naively, ingenuously, saying that he was just misquoted or mostly misinterpreted simply fails to address properly the above reasonable and substantive contentions and observations. The Pontiff, being a serious man of mature years and suitably aware of his holy office, ought not to have ever played the game. At a minimum, he was acting irresponsibly; if done deliberately, he was, thus, crudely playing the role of a knave.

Either way, the Church suffers from his incompetence and, consequently, most inconsiderate behavior, while those Catholics trying to be loyal to the papacy must keep on coming up with finer and finer rationalizations, tergiversations, and just plain odd excuses for his so clearly spiritually deviant pronouncements. He is, when all is said and done, a genuine champion of the postconciliar Church that was unfortunately created by the Second Vatican Council.

In the popular mind, the older Catholic understanding of (the preconciliar Church) morality is, moreover, to be now conveniently replaced, according to what the Holy Pontiff has publicly said, by what gets commonly cited as Jiminy Cricket’s morality. And, God help the Pope, no one else really can. A certainly new day, once again, for modern Catholicism has now dawned. Moral subjectivity, no doubt, has just won more applause and approbation in the contemporary world; secularists, naturally, proclaim him as being enlightened since he does not ever wish to appear judgmental.

This directly comes from the Holy Pontiff’s awkward desire to act quite grandfatherly, instead of righteously defending Catholicism as the supreme Pastor, the Shepherd, of the flock of Christ on earth ought to do, instead of being and acting as a convinced man of God. Millions of young people, throughout the world, are to simplistically trust their own (defective) consciences and are not to receive moral guidance. It ought, however, to be properly known that one of the great spiritual purposes of the Church is to assist human beings, moreover, toward the needed goal of having an ethically and morally conversant conscience.

One of the little things, perhaps, just a minor matter of contention, that Pope Francis has so entirely forgotten, theologically speaking, is that very, very, very few people have the properly informed, appropriately knowledgeable, and spiritually introspective comprehension of what maintaining a good conscience is truly all about as had, e. g., St. Thomas Aquinas. This is, one prudently suspects, rather far from just giving “a little whistle” with Jiminy Cricket to cover any and all occasions or situations, including situation ethics.

What the opinionated Holy Father is talking about, as few non-Catholics would easily know, is only his personal (warped) opinions, not the teachings of Catholicism. This is notably because, e. g., Catholicism theologically teaches that a properly informed conscience is quite a rarity, indeed.

Lacking such an extremely important appreciation of profound religious and moral truth, Pope Francis will, thus, help lead many souls to Hell, as a related consequence of proclaiming Jiminy Cricket’s morality as a contemporary standard for the correct judgment of one’s conscience, meaning requisite discernment and needed perspicacity covering one’s thoughts, words, and deeds. If Christianity in America has become a joke, liberal Catholicism is itself not too far behind that quite realistic characterization, as to the various ethical and moral calculations and rationalizations of typical Americans who like to think of themselves as basically good people.

Possible, e. g., sins of commission and omission just might, somehow or other, get terribly lost in translation, within the perspective and cognizance of the average conscience or worse, which tends to reasonably cover, in general, the vast majority of human beings, i. e., all of the fallen sentient creatures in this fallen world.

Gratification of Civilizational Death Wish: Nihilist Paradise

Of course, the broadly-based Culture of Death, generally inclusive of abortion, infanticide (aka partial-birth abortion), euthanasia, sodomy (aka homosexual liberation, ”marriage,” etc.), divorce, artificial contraception, etc., is set in permanent and unalterable opposition to the Catholic Church’s Culture of Life, especially according to all orthodox, traditionalist Catholicism. In the 21st century, as could also be noticed by old-fashioned Christians, the human capacity for self-extermination and its allied sterility has never been better. How should this be appropriately understood?

With the great horror of abortion, physical and chemical, evilly added to infanticide and the advanced biochemical-technological reality of artificial contraception, the human race can now successfully eliminate itself, as can be seen in, e. g., Japan that has, in noted effect, adopted a conscious policy of racial self-extermination. Their birth replacement ratio has, some time ago, dropped below the absolute minimum of 2.1%. And, moreover, Europe and the USA are not too far behind (if illegal alien births are excluded), in this inherently nihilistic effort, with the here noted birth dearth effect, as demographics is truly destiny.

Nihilism, of all things, has become a highly spiritual philosophy qua postmodern religion of a sort in that, e. g., abortion has now become both a sacrament and religious experience in the degenerate and debased minds of these horrid nihilists, who even publicly insist that abortion is genuinely holy; there are, in fact, today many pro-abortion prayers; and, certain people, also, thinking themselves (demonic) Christians, do insist, moreover, upon the true holiness of this supremely vile form of murder, of bloody human sacrifice.

The equivalent kind of attitude is totally true for sodomite “marriages” (which glorify related sterility) as a now logical part of the so widely celebrated Culture of Death. How has this come about? One sees how when it is known that, directly contrary to Rush Limbaugh’s vacuous optimism, the Republican Party establishment will make certain that Obamacare is funded; as domestic history repeatedly shows, the Democrats create the element of Big Government, as with, e. g., Social Security, and the Republicans always find the ways and means of funding it. As Richard M. Weaver had, many decades ago, stated insightfully (in his book by the same name), ideas have consequences.

The extreme 19th century pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer and his “pupil” or disciple Friedrich Nietzsche are the two principal figures responsible for the substantive influence of this evil strain of thought seen in the contemporary world, though Diogenes the Cynic may be fairly considered an ancient Greek predecessor. He was, at least, a proto-nihilist. In the wider political-ideological realm, one properly encounters Sergei Nechayev, Michail Bakunin, Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, and others who sought to extend, through rationalization and reductionism, the frightening implications and cognate ramifications involved.

Of course, almost all nihilists, especially those who generally would think of themselves as just pragmatists, materialists, or positivists, would be outraged or, at a minimum, would so greatly reject the designation of being a nihilist. How so? Few people, in all of recorded history, have been able to be philosophically consistent enough to have the added requisite intelligence to actually realize the true foundation stone of their innermost beliefs. Ideologists, in particular, are easily equipped at the often subtle art of self-delusion, being that almost all of them are or, at least, think themselves to be intellectuals.

What, however, is nihilism purely defined? It is the total rejection of (all) social mores, as well as the general rejection of whatever is considered established social conventions and beliefs, especially of ethics, morality, and religion, meaning mainly in their particularity. Nonetheless, there is, usually, the much associated notion as the belief that nothing is really worthwhile; a particular belief, to be more definite, that life is, by definition, genuinely pointless and human values, consequently, are just worthless. As William F. Buckley, Jr. was fond of quoting Leon Trotsky, who says A must say B.

For those (tiny minority of) thinkers who are completely consistent (or may claim to be so), it involves an explicit disbelief, absolute incredulity, in all objective truth; it is, thus, the belief that there is, in critical point of fact, no real objective basis for truth itself. Of course, how someone could have the seemingly confident ability and verifiable knowledge to absolutely know that truth does not exist has always been, in terms of logic and reasoning, besides just common sense, a true puzzlement. But, this has never stopped dedicated nihilists from professing their great faith in an exalted meaninglessness, again, by simply ignoring the integral contradiction.

Equally, this noted nihilist attitude or opinion requires the true solipsistic rejection of classical Natural Law teachings (from Aristotle through St. Thomas Aquinas to Heinrich A. Rommen) as well as what used to be called right reason and common sense. Thus, sodomite “marriage” wars ever interminably against Natural Law, right reason, and common sense, though it is now legally enshrined in more and more degenerate countries, which is truly an instance of insanity, though not always properly recognized as such these days.

Of course, all of traditionalist, orthodox Catholicism equally and necessarily rejects any bizarre and illogical, ridiculous and disgusting, notion of what is, by classical definition, still forever unnatural and abnormal. Perversion, as is known, may get legalized but never rationally ceases being what it, in fact, is and forever remains as to a rationalization of a clear form of insanity prefaced upon an ethical and moral reductionism/relativism.

In a milder way, nihilism is a simple viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are merely unfounded and that existence, consequently, is so surely senseless and useless, meaning, in general, a philosophical doctrine then suggesting the bold posited negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of human life. Some more pointed comments may help to further refine the notion being advanced, which include the evisceration of truth itself.

Existential nihilism, if yet more precision may be zealously wanted, is the philosophical theory that all of life itself has no intrinsic meaning or integral value; the formal meaninglessness of existence is, therefore, affirmed as a positive value (without any analysis being done about the insanity involved). As far as is known, the term itself may have first been used, as to wide-scale dissemination, by the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, though derived from its probable earliest origin in the German Nihilismus coined in1817, which, in turn, came from the Latin word for nothing, meaning nihil.

For those who may like briefer views pertaining to this depressing subject, nihilism is either the full rejection of all established laws and institutions, outright anarchy, terrorism, or other such revolutionary activity; or total and absolute destructiveness just done for its own sake without ideological justifications or rationalizations. From a true nihilist point of view, morals are totally valueless, therefore, and only hold a suspect place in society as then necessarily false ideals. All of this is set well beyond any proper sense of (classical) normality that one might, perhaps, wish to possess against the sad arrival of the Nietzschean abyss, of the war upon truth itself.

The heuristic point of all of the aforementioned discussion and analysis is that the topic is well known and understood and, yes, profoundly comprehended here, as to its various implications and cognate ramifications. It is quite verifiably evident, therefore, that nihilism has certainly achieved its apotheosis and related reification, in the 21st century, to the true detriment of man’s humanity, besides, of course, giving immediate and necessarily enormous offense ever to the Lord God Almighty.

The latter consideration being mainly of little real concern, of course, to any truly dedicated modernists or postmodernists, especially those interested in ego satisfaction, inclusive, one guesses, of militant atheists.

In the now past 20th century, unfortunately, two horrific world wars, bloody genocides, and much else did not, apparently, get the ever needed attention of human beings, as to God’s deserved punishment for seeking out the secular attainment of anthropocentric values, not theocentric ones. One suspects, moreover, that a much harsher discipline must be now more severely applied to a recalcitrant people, namely, the human race as a whole.

The Supreme Being, in this regard, can always oblige; hint: that is why, e. g., the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel are still forever lost. There are notable consequences to gross disobedience. It is quite frightening (as an understatement) to consider, therefore, just what must be done on earth to get human beings to really take proper notice regarding the surely seething wrath of the Lord.

One stream of the grave offense against the Deity has become a raging river in basic terms of the reification of naturalism to now mean whatever someone may wish it to mean, inclusive of the demented thoughts of the Marquis de Sade held supposedly to be natural. Consequently, all the foregoing assembled efforts at, thus, properly achieving a substantive and substantial definition concerning nihilism should, moreover, remove any possible rational or reasonable doubt as to its revealed, so evident, success and advancement within the postmodern mind.

Since, the reductionism in logic goes, a person is a part of nature and the nature of a person is defined as human nature, then, therefore, anything in terms of human belief (aka lust) qualifies as being natural, as with, e. g., sodomy. This turns traditional Natural Law upside down and inside out concerning what gets properly defined as being, thus, thought to be simply natural.

Even though, in the vast majority of reproductive cases in the natural world, the normal condition is, by definition, that a male and female of a species produces offspring, this is no longer to be applied as normal if sodomite relationships are to be preferred as being the new normal, fully enshrined by law no less. It is aided and abetted, furthermore, by the evil of establishmentarian politics favoring Big Government, meaning the statism, tyranny, inherent within democratic despotism and the collectivism of domestic interventionism. Utopia is thought to be

In addition, the new naturalism, as it may be called, can be instituted and simply upheld by the artificiality of any man-made law in the raw service of such tyranny; nothing, within such an abnormal context, can be then truly defined as perversion, much less positive moral evil. Reductionism and rationalization are, therefore, to be combined for better insuring that the highly perverse logic applied will directively reach the certain predictive goal of justification.

This is surely intended for openly supporting the (quite bizarre) assertion, for instance, that homosexuality is today to be just reasonably or pragmatically accepted as being just another normal (read: natural) human orientation, not an entirely distorted sexual viewpoint, contrary to (what used to be appropriately defined as) normal human nature.

This is not, however, a civil-rights issue or question at all, as the liberals, progressives, and radicals do so often allege. While it has been documented and proven, many times over, that people can will themselves to cease being homosexuals, it is ever infinitely impossible for, e.g., Black Americans to so equally will themselves to become White. The two cases are totally incommensurate and, moreover, never rationally comparable or parallel as such.

What is set at work is then merely Cultural Marxism, the quest for Utopia, and its cognate PC thinking regarding the ideological dictates of homosexual liberation, which then superbly, of course, provides all of the aforementioned reductionism and rationalization involved for reaching an insane conclusion, for supporting that which is clearly, by definition, unnatural, abnormal; it is, therefore, clearly illustrated by illogical sodomite “marriage” of any kind and without question, as is completely demonstrated by the aforementioned argumentation.

Regarding utopianism, this civilizational development (that is actually dis-civilizational in effect) has had baleful consequences, as could be suspected. It is not enough that sociopathic and psychopathic characters have multiplied in this day and age; there has been the complementary or reciprocal reality of what could justly be called “politicopathic” political reality within the body politic of modern Western nations that allows, e. g., for the full legalization and legitimation of sociocultural and sociopolitical homosexual liberation.

All this is supremely in line with the freaky growth of degrees and kinds of insanity accepted as being quite normal that is manifested clearly, moreover, by the predominant elements of the ruling-political class, the triumphant oligarchy, unfortunately governing America and, of course, the other such regimes controlling the Western world in general.

A man who had an insightfully keen appreciation of reality and its associated consequences, G. K. Chesterton, early in the 20th century, had so critically remarked how that century was sadly determined to make that which is abnormal into becoming recognized as being normal. A degraded society and debased culture, a diseased civilizational structure, that truly seeks to be so completely anthropocentric in its most fundamental orientation must become, sooner or later, thanatocentric regarding its then necessarily related nihilistic desires and aspirations.

A Lost Country Set Adrift: the New Amerika

For instance, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and John Kerry, among many, freely exhibit what needs to be perceived as being nihilistic politicopathic behavior; this is directed toward the pragmatic furtherance of the Weimarization of the USA by instituting and supporting, urging and favoring, numerous nihilistic policies and programs; these are both domestic and foreign in their major effects and implications that do range across socioeconomic, sociocultural, and politicocultural aspects of a truly declining society, culture, and civilization with a jocular regard for public virtue among the too often jaded citizenry. How may this be critically verified?

Obama’s absolutely and integrally incoherent and inchoate (current?) foreign policy position regarding Syria can be easily cited as an excellent case-in-point, so proving the highly certain validity and obvious reality of what is being above quite confidently asserted; it is an instance of remarkable political insanity, openly played out upon the world stage, for millions upon millions of people to now candidly see.

Fecklessness, unimpressive as to the proper statecraft of true statesmanship, is never a valid substitute for any mature and substantive foreign policy. A surrealistic theater of the absurd, in shocking contrast, exists for the sake of this odd crisis, for Obama’s arming, e. g., of Al Queda should, logically, be regarded as an overt, nihilistic Act of Treason suitably worthy to be written up as at least one of the Articles of Impeachment against him. They are, of course, the self-declared enemies of the United States and known terrorists. If this blatant and outrageous public act of treason goes unpunished, the prestige and honor of this country are lost forever.

If either clownish Obama or fickle Kerry were a fat man, the duo would be duly dubbed as dithering dunces of diplomacy, in the comic manner of a Laurel and Hardy team; but, the former always gets a free pass, as is condescendingly known, because of his protective skin coloration; the latter because he is, after all, a notorious veteran who had so absurdly served in Vietnam; they are, in short, the proverbial blind leading the blind; the duo chase through a maze created by an insane actor who, unfortunately, happens to also be the nation’s Chief Executive plagued by diverse and multiplying scandals, both domestic and foreign in nature.

The insanity involved allows them to make Bashar al-Assad, a brutal dictator, appear positively heroic in contrast, a now supposed David (Syria) fighting or, rather, incredibly outwitting the fumbling American Goliath. But, what is really going on? The Obama scandals are not phony, all the investigations are; one needs to see that regime’s establishmentarians, in both major political parties, are united for tyranny. This is, therefore, a deliberate foreign distraction.

As a convenient dodge for domestic troubles, the American warfare-welfare State requires aggressive foreign interventionism, a future attack upon Syria, as a quite logical Machiavellian complement to its domestic interventionism, for the Obama Administration has (at least) three more years to exist. It has to create a “foreign devil” to hate as yet another needed diversion, though not since the infamous 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis has a sitting president loused up so vigorously and thoroughly, set beyond mere contempt and condemnation, toward righteous suggestions for the urgent need for his much deserved formal Impeachment.

The world leadership role of the United States is, nonetheless, crumbling into dust amid a display of epic, nearly unprecedented, diplomatic clownishness; what used to be referred to as the strength of American resolve is equivalent to just pouring a glass of water into a vast desert, which strongly suggests that Syria is, in fact, a mere intended distraction. The many failed domestic policies and programs of this socialist Federal Administration are not harmed in the slightest by foreign misadventures, as was true, e. g., concerning LBJ’s Great Society fiasco balanced off by his Vietnam War; history, when lessons remain unlearned, gets repeated.

Not even, e. g., the tremendous Benghazi fiasco and its aftermath had been able to really stop Obama; he is, surely, the demonstrated menial master of American decline and depravity aided by his very terrible desire to create a national-security State (aka police-state) for crushing any basic semblance remaining of free, representative, republican constitutional government qua governance.

As to proper cause and effect being correctly perceived, it is the mental disability, caused by fanatical adherence to Obama’s neo-Marxist ideology, which then causes the incompetence to become, in effect, a deliberate result, not accidental or merely coincidental. To call upon, in addition, the well-known Hans Christian Andersen story, the emperor has no clothes and, in this actual case, no tangible sign of brains as well. Politicopathic behavior is, however, ideologically induced by a tremendously perverse act of will and, thus, cognitively required by what Eric Hoffer had insightfully called the true believers.

His unbelievable, nearly indescribable, September 10, 2013 oration, thus, has to be one of the most intellectually vacuous speeches in all of the recorded annals of American diplomacy, guaranteed as such, incidentally, by the suspected “adjunctive” input of a blatant fraud by the name of Elizabeth O’Bagy. It is known, therefore, that her very spurious “scholarly” writing exists as having been publicly cited, by no less personages, than the current Secretary of State and US Senator John McCain.

Obama’s odd performance was notably weak, unctuously disgraceful, direly ineffectual, drearily pathetic, and sincerely disgraceful beyond any rational question. But, what is even much more terribly frightening and nauseating is that this exceedingly vile piece of unmitigated trash in the White House makes the Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin, the last former head of the infamous KGB, look like a (putative) statesman of a high caliber, which, in fact, is shockingly weird.

Of course, the mass media and national propaganda networks, as is always expected, willingly play up Obama as if he were the “champion extraordinaire” of this filthy crisis, one largely of his own making, incidentally. But, nonetheless, objectively speaking, Putin had quite deservedly humiliated Obama, cleaned his clock, in the ungraciously mordant and tendentious pages of the New York Times, an establishment publication of the first order, a nihilistic mouth organ of the ruling class itself.

Contrary to them, the neocons, and RINO Republicans, America should stay out of the tragic Syrian civil war. The engagement of the USA there would, thus, surely be the proverbial wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time. One so rudely suspects, of course, that calling this entire extraordinary matter, especially the September 10th talk, utterly strange or extremely bizarre is quite surely a major understatement, as well as then doing a significant injustice to the truth. [Yes, it is known that Pontius Pilate had rhetorically asked: What is truth?]

Under normal circumstances and for the grave sake of the national interest, moreover, such a deranged politician would be properly removed from office and, also, simultaneously declared mentally incompetent to correctly perform his presidentially required public duties. Obama’s requisite Impeachment for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, since he obviously hates America, would, therefore, be a quite proper venue as a, thus, much needed constitutional response to this dangerous cognitive incoherence, noetic unintelligibility, pertaining to important American foreign policy. It is, in short, a rather monumental failure of statesmanship. Thus, historical observations are here provoked as to political pathology and its candid recognition as such.

As is seen throughout the course of human history, dying societies and cultures, as with all failing civilizations, are so overtly marked by the presence of an overabundance of definitely politicopathic politicians gone power mad. As with the ancient Fall of the Roman Empire, only Christianity (aka Roman Catholicism) was available to then help restore Western civilization. The officials of the Obama Administration are, in a sense, the disgusting maggots quite happily feasting upon the rotting cadaverous flesh of the existent political entity, nation, or empire under discussion and review. Must history repeat itself? Does religion offer hope?

But, the power elite, especially Obama in particular, are not satisfied with the slow progress of Weimarization in America; and, Obama himself is lustfully desperate to attack Syria for the sake of starting a world war in that the empirical height of nihilism’s most sincere fulfillment consists of waging a truly major military conflagration, of the immediate gratification gained by killing massive numbers of people. A confirmed nihilist only has cold contempt for any metaphysical order, for the traditional religious perspective upon life and reality.

This then appears as just a simply logical conclusion within the deracinated mind of a dedicated nihilist, which to any truly normal person would be recognized as a form of insanity and set far from the spirit of Christianity. As could be guessed, moreover, there is no desire, on the part of the cultural, social, academic, entertainment, and political elites in this country, to restore all things in the name of Christ. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve stays with the QE program, as a sop to the elites, to Wall Street and others, into supposed infinity toward national bankruptcy.

Conclusion

Regrettably, when the compulsive ideological decision, based upon Weimarization [the Weimar Republic with its hyperinflation], has been forcefully made to leap blindly into the ever terrible Nietzschean abyss, no way out exists for those committed to nihilism except death, inclusive of seeing the supposed many positive benefits of suicide, personal or national makes no pragmatic difference, at such a truly harsh point in time.

Truth becomes epistemologically bastardized in the pursuit of power, contrary to public virtue, when a citizenry abandons both patriotism and the love and fear of God, for traditional religion is urgently needed, not shallow religiosity or dubious spiritualism of any kind, type, or sort.

Without the adamant reaffirmation and profound recovery of intense spiritual resolve, in a true Christian religious sense, as to the theologically concrete, valid notion of a right versus wrong morality, nothing really effective can be done to so reverse the decidedly nihilistic course that the political-ruling class has, thus, freely chosen for this country and its tragic future failure that can be, in effect, logically guaranteed.

A restored and revitalized Christendom is not, however, a very likely possibility set under the present conditions sanctioned by the Obama Administration and its vile and degenerate efforts hypocritically aimed toward both maintaining crony capitalism for the corrupt elites and cold collectivism reserved for the mainly enervated masses, through the demagogic courtesy of democratic despotism.

It is a certainty, therefore, that the predominant political leadership of this nation would never, e. g., turn toward traditionalist, orthodox Roman Catholicism. Their quite sordid preference is a desire and lust for death as a positive accomplishment (that philosophically contradicts the negating spirit of nihilism), while yet pragmatically and surely achieving its so horrid and fatal consummation, which could, thus, very well be Obama’s rather ardent desire for starting World War III.

His own genuine nihilistic contempt and considerable hatred of America would, also, be then fully consummated as a direct sad result, especially, for instance, with his making a war against Syria, a victim of Obama’s overall failure of leadership.

God help America.

Catholic Postmodernism Endorses Nihilism: The Amnesty Debate

Catholic Postmodernism Endorses Nihilism: The Amnesty Debate

By   Joseph Andrew Settanni

Since it is now publicly known, e. g., that American Hispanics are warmly converting to Islam in ever increasing numbers and that, furthermore, amnesty for illegals will bring more millions of Hispanics into America, besides those already here illegally, the odd question must be critically posed: Is this part of an effort to give an opportunity at least for possibly allowing for more predictable conversions to Islam?

Of course, the still predominant majority of Hispanics tend, starting practically at birth through their baptism, to be Roman Catholics; however, one can easily perceive that life in the USA affords them the genuine prospect, if wanted, to then freely become Mohammadans. Amnesty, therefore, allows for such a troubling side effect to be exacerbated, meaning a yet greater loss of the (former) faithful.

And, the general disintegration of most of domestic Catholicism, of course, relatedly continues apace. It is so well known that, e. g., the mainstream Catholics are, on the whole, merrily contracepting and aborting themselves out of existence.

Moreover, the Roman Catholic Church’s morally corrupt hierarchy, as seen in its September 8, 2013 unfortunate push for amnesty for the millions of illegals, would, thus, surely have this rather curious above noted result, meaning as to a number of the Hispanics.

Equally, as has been extensively documented over many years, growing numbers of Hispanic apostates do chose various forms of Protestantism, contrary ever to their original or traditional faith. Is this push for amnesty a supposed idealistic and purely noble act of gracious charity for man or, more likely, just a cynical and vile, contemptible and duplicitous, attempt to (somehow or other) desperately save a dying Church in America? The latter case, in pragmatic terms of what may be thought tangible rather than solely ethereal, seems more reasonable, on average, and quite likely as well.

What, nevertheless, may be here understood? One certainly must greatly factor in the truly horrid aftermath and terrible results of the Second Vatican Council, which had legitimized progressive/radical dissent.

Embrace of the Nietzschean Abyss

Obviously, the quite degenerate ethical and moral vision of the postconciliar Church, in this country and elsewhere, very substantially exhibits postmodern thinking, upheld by philosophical nominalism, in that it is both post-existential and post-phenomenological in its basic orientation. Concern for the many illegals manifests a most curious dispassion, profound detachment, as to whether or not they may or may not wish to remain Roman Catholics in their choice of a religion. This is curious.

The too strange ethics and morality, rather bizarrely displayed, is so clearly, therefore, postmodern in its overt strong attitude that significantly indicates a great affinity for and, in effect, a blatant endorsement of nihilism. Let this fact be understood clearly. This has been cooperatively aided, in addition, by the baleful influences of subjectivism, relativism, and overall situation ethics that do pervade what gets normally taught in the main colleges and universities of the Western world. Can all this empirical consequence of the vast deformation of human thought be, therefore, unknown or unknowable to the hierarchy? Again, this is curious.

There is a pervasive blindness exhibited toward revealed causes and effects by which ethical and moral viewpoints become quite necessarily abstract; these then pronounced abstractions, in their turn, are fully allowed to govern progressive Church policy, in this momentously debatable matter, related to the burning question of amnesty. Postmodernism, in contemporary ethics and morals, cannot but help having a fairly logical affinity with gross nihilistic beliefs and practices that do evilly disregard noted certain malevolent consequences, as to many possible diverse impacts upon human lives.

The radical and ever radicalizing Spirit of the Second Vatican Council (postconciliar Church) introduced the ways and means by which the evil of nihilism would and could be legitimized within the rancid cognition of the hierarchy and elsewhere; this is because the heresy of modernism, warned against by Pope St. Pius X, was itself mainly legitimized.

With that former barrier successfully leaped over many decades ago, there was then really nothing to stop the, thus, logical progression, favored by nominalism, by which postmodern attitudes would come to pervasively dominate what can be obviously termed progressive or liberal thinking.

In its parody of Utopia, the nihilistic Nietzschean abyss has, therefore, been wholeheartedly embraced by the vast majority of the hierarchy, as is so quite superbly represented by, one could here guess, the ethically and morally corrupt National Council of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). How can this attitude be obviously detected?

Amnesty fits in properly with the realities of the American welfare-warfare State in that the basically socialist policies and programs of Obama and the Democrat Party, aided by many RINO and neocon Republicans in the GOP leadership, are politically congenial to the contemporary needs and desires of the Church and, of course, the NCCB. The decline and degeneracy easily seen in the nation’s society and culture, furthermore, adds to the overall immoral inclination of the Church’s venal hierarchy to just go with the flow of many national events, not to seek victories for Christ and His Church.

However, noted major activism explicitly done on behalf of the Obama-Rubio amnesty, as with the September 8th efforts, plunges this religious organization directly into the national political debate upon a subject that is a hot button item. It is, in many ways, ripping the nation apart.

Amnesty, as has been documented, will certainly accelerate rapidly the nihilistic decay of this country’s institutions; the Weimarization of America would then become nearly completed in that millions of native-born Americans will feel, increasingly, alienated from what was once thought to be their country, which would be, in effect, handed over to millions of foreigners. The Catholicism of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Catholic traditionalists would then have to be repudiated as reactionary and atavistic, which is an even more serious matter, meaning especially for Catholics, of course. It just seems that Utopia can’t wait, though, as is known, it never arrives.

The hierarchy, in their perverse policy attitudes, violates the notion that charity first begins at home. About thirty million American workers, at a minimum, are either unemployed, underemployed, or have taken premature retirements or disability escapes; this is surely due to the nasty Obama economy in its horrid transition toward a European-style, social-democratic State that seeks to eventually absorb the entire economy, meaning as to its basic functions and organization as such. The plainly unholy alliance between this social-market/collectivist economy and the Church appears as if it were a marriage made in Hell, though claimed to be the assumed favoring of social justice (aka Utopia).

The fact of amnesty, therefore, gets sadly added to the noted national debauchery and depravity that is engulfing the sociopolitical and sociocultural realities of this country, as it spirals ever downward into the welcoming cesspool of world history. Instead of the Church valiantly resisting the vile trends, its leadership, however, turns a blind eye toward the inherent and logical consequences of their many harmful decisions that freely fuel the fires of this nation’s evident destruction, of its noted decline.

The rapid increase of the welfare population in America, including more and more people on food stamps, to be brought upon by the expected amnesty can only end up provoking ever higher and higher taxes upon the then dwindling middle class. Actions and ideas have consequences; they do not exist in a vacuum. In observable terms of human liberty and constitutional order, this is an unsustainable, greatly untenable, outcome as to the unfortunate future that can be beheld by objective observers. The bread and circuses of ancient Rome had basically the same results, including being overrun by the barbarians (aka illegal aliens of that past era).

The rich and wealthy, as usual, will find the various ways and means of minimizing or totally escaping taxation, inclusive of renunciations of citizenship, which is now occurring at a historically unprecedented rate. The poor and the then growing lower class are to naturally expand as the economic, social, and cultural misery also necessarily increases, along with the hyper-centralization of the State wanted by Obama and his evil Leftist minions.

One sees here how the hierarchy becomes a committed accomplice to all this evil, done in the Catholic name of social justice no less. In practice, so-called social justice becomes a mere synonym for tyranny, which incorporates injustice, corruption, vice, and oppression; it will not, moreover, fight against the rise of anti-Christian bigotry in America; Catholic religious institutions, thus, will not necessarily accrue more assumed sympathy or respect.

The Catholic Church, by its implicit cooperation with the transition toward the social-market economy, then becomes a willing partner to the disastrous consequences that must occur after amnesty takes full effect. It is expected, of course, that some kinds of religious rationalizations are to come forth by which postmodern degrees of reasoning can then be applied ad hoc to the increasingly debased conditions of the impoverished populace.

One can, at that time, observe how many will try to supposedly make the best of a bad situation, including the suppression of the Roman Catholic Church that would have served its purpose in better securing the immoral triumph of tyranny in this nation.

No intermediate institutions are to exist between the State and its subjects, the former citizens of a once free, representative, constitutional republic. The Church will be considered as being unneeded and entirely superfluous or just reactionary. All assumed essential and permitted social service functions and operations are to be taken over completely by the ever centralized political institution, the mortal Leviathan as Thomas Hobbes had called it. Many within the hierarchy, moreover, can be so counted among those who will side with the heinous notion that the Church has, thus, become an obsolescent organization no longer meaningful in the lives of people.

Postmodernism in thought, as ought to be seen, can become rather infectious, as rationalization poured upon rationalization merely comes, thus, to provide a grandiose self-justification for spiritual suicide and its results. Added to pragmatism, positivism, and secularism in cognition, nothing, furthermore, needs to hold the line against whatever specious argumentation may be shallowly sufficient and pleasing to the powers-that-be, the ruling-political class, regarding the wanted glorification of the State, the New Order, highly favored by Obama.

Nihilism is then to be provided with convenient euphemisms by which to conceal the demonic thinking that really supports this radicalization of the society and culture, eventually beyond proper recognition. As always, however, it helps to follow the proverbial money trail. Church organizations have willingly received, e. g., many pro-abortion Navigator Grants as a now fundamental part of Obamacare, which, supposedly, the Catholic Church has rejected as to its explicit Culture of Death orientation. But, then again, Utopia just can’t wait.

There is a strong stench, therefore, of Machiavellian quid pro quo about these contemptible matters that urgently screams to high Heaven and reaches down to low Hell. The sordid relativization of ethics and morals gets completed, moreover, when money coopts ethical and moral decisionmaking processes.

Furthermore, this is surely how postmodernism, via the demonic radicalism of the Spirit of Vatican Council II, has shamefully captured the thinking and motivations of the hierarchy as the evil basis for an overall nihilism in approach that vilely grips the souls of these despicably depraved clerics and their many necessarily compromised supporters.

The cognitive affect of rationalism eventually yields to the core rationalization of anything that basically serves to fulfill the ends sought by those who are in situational charge of the institutional reality of any organization, civil, social, or religious. But, when this happens, ends and means become distorted and convoluted, as with the openly self-serving cognition in Machiavelli’s The Prince.

Rationalization covers not only self-justification and self-righteousness; it conveniently encompasses a variety of sins, including those of omission and commission. The Catholic Church’s overt support for amnesty seeks to rationalize supposed Catholic teachings into providing religious coverage for those who have knowingly broken a country’s immigration/naturalization laws.

An error in ethics and morals gets committed. Two wrongs are said to make a right. The objective breaking of the law and the seen rewarding of people for breaking the law (aka amnesty) are quite conveniently rationalized into becoming the proper legitimation, for the assumed Catholic position, favoring the illegal aliens. The wish becomes father to the thought.

Postmodernism in ethics and morals is revealed, therefore, as supportive of the trend in thought that aligns itself with liberal or progressive political Catholicism, which becomes hardly distinguishable from outright adherence, as so thought needed, to mere positivism or pragmatism on the highly problematic issue of amnesty. Concern for poor people, a priority of Catholicism, gets itself oddly convoluted into becoming the having of a warmly solicitous regard for these obvious lawbreakers, those who crossed the border illegally, of course, meaning, by definition, criminals. Again, this is a curious matter.

Absolutely nothing (in comparison) is really said about the well-known massive corruption, economic oppression, and social injustice of the Mexican regime that eagerly creates terrible conditions that do force the Mexican poor and uneducated to flee their own country for the American welfare-warfare State up North. There is a virtual silence in this matter as compared to strong leftist denunciations of the USA in line with PC thinking and its Cultural Marxism. It is, as ever, curious, indeed.

Equally, nothing is much mentioned, relatively speaking, about the known tens of millions of people who properly accept the process of legal immigration and naturalization, nor the fact that about one million people are naturalized in America annually; this is, quite remarkably, more than the entire rest of the world’s countries combined, as to the creating of new citizens.

This, it must be said forthrightly, is hardly the action of an ungenerous or just quite stingy nation supposedly unwilling at all to, thus, reasonably accommodate and accept new people, meaning immigrants. Yet, this extremely important fact is rarely, if ever, mentioned by the mass media and the national propaganda networks.

The illegals, therefore, as can be then fairly perceived, have a very unjust cause. The Catholic Church’s bizarre championing of such an excessively unfair cause is prominently, ethically and morally disturbing to say the least.

It is not surprising, given their rather open support from the American Left and the Church, that the vast majority of the illegals now simply think that they do have (somehow or other) actually acquired a right to citizenship by the bold act of their knowing trespass and occupation on the soil of America. Logic gets thrown out the window, apparently, whenever bold rationalism is so confused and confounded with rationality, which, of course, is of the noetic essence of rationalized postmodernism itself.

It is historically argued, nonetheless, that the Catholic Church in America was once fundamentally an immigrant Church in that it existed to meet and greet the millions of 19th century Irish and others who came to these shores. But, the preconciliar ecclesial organization that existed had not lost its moral compass as is basically true of the later postconciliar institution. A quite different reality exists today.

The illegals are not made subject to any assimilation or acculturation, as had been true in the past; they come now substantially as colonizers who have no real intention of becoming Americans; their offspring, furthermore, are made to think of themselves as permanent outsiders, having a separate existence, who just occupy the land. This is, of course, a sure devaluation of American citizenship into becoming a mere utilitarian status symbol, not a part of republican civic virtue, not an attribute of Americanism nor patriotism.

Conditions and circumstances today are extremely different from what they were well over a hundred years ago; back then, there was no (existing or generous) welfare State, even in a primitive form, to lavishly greet and meet the immigrants, legal and illegal, as is so obviously true in this era. The Church is now, as can be easily noted, in a rather tight ideological alliance with Obama and the Democrats.

While it is historically true, in America, that the Democrat Party has usually been the natural home of immigrants, however, a truly full-scale welfare State, with a surely secularist orientation and existing bounteously in this present age, provides both the material and ideological means for separating such Catholics from their faith, not otherwise.  Is this an unfair statement to make?  How could it be really otherwise?

The highly different reality of this postmodernist era is a new existential situation by which millions of illegals are to be ideologically prepared for a diversity-oriented, multiculturalism inspired, and pluralism obsessed sociopolitical order that has nothing to do with supposedly helping Catholics to remain united to Holy Mother Church.   The primary purpose of the Church is the salvation of souls, not the spreading of niceness throughout the world.

Once this significant and critical fact is clearly recognized, therefore, the overt activism on the part of the hierarchy and those who foolishly or otherwise cooperate with it can be realistically seen in a light revealing the harsh outlines of a nihilistic regard for truth.   What is meant?

The logically and reasonably expected secularization of the masses is to then rather predictably occur, not the assumed anticipation of their warmly attending to the possible religious affirmation of an ardent Catholicism surely. The contemporary Western world, with the USA certainly part of it, is truly being enthralled to the neopaganization of its debased society and culture; de-Christianization, therefore, is the easily observed norm, not the exception.  Secularism is, moreover, considered the normal point of view by “sophisticated” minds and contemporary intelligences.

With its overt affinity for and ideological integration with the aggressive, American welfare-warfare State, the Church’s morally degenerate hierarchy is, furthermore, involved with the secular process of de-Christianization, regardless of any vague or meaningless protestations set to the contrary.  Reasoning as to generalities and particulars gets, moreover, thoroughly confused and greatly confounded through an unneeded ambiguity as to any requisite moral thought.  Catholicism, however, is still supposed to be rightly defended, not debated.

How has this disgusting situation come about?   The advance and assimilation of postmodernism in much prevalent cognizance has, thus, created certain situations such as, e. g., having a theologically confused pontiff, Pope Francis, who publicly says, for instance, that he cannot judge homosexual priests. The Holy Father seems to forget that, according to Catholic teaching, God does the ultimate moral judging at both the Particular Judgment at death and, later, the General Judgment at the final end of time.

Pope Francis, however, as an ordained priest of the Church, is religiously supposed to always judge and condemn all sin unequivocally, whether ever committed by heterosexual or homosexual people is not ever the issue.  Does he not understand this theological fact?   What sadly occurs when a priest, in this manner, forgets his vocation?   The rights, honor, and glory of God have become sadly neglected in a misguided desire to be nice.   The greater metaphysical order of reality gets lost, as when, as yet another example, the pope bows down to mere foreign potentates.

As the proclaimed representative of the eternal King of Kings on earth, the Vicar of Christ, his then excessive acts of humility become seen much more as a source of inordinate pride, not the vain presumption of a seeming desire to appear humble as supposed.   After all, there is known the hoary joke about a bunch of zealous monks in a monastery furiously arguing over who is the humblest of them all.   What needs to be understood, therefore, for properly elucidating this profound matter under serious discussion?

The supreme leader of the Church Militant, meaning the ecclesial reality on earth, possesses the high dignity of his exalted office; thus, to knell and kiss the Ring of the Fisherman is not meant to honor the mere personage of the temporary holder of the office, it is done to honor the current Vicar of Christ, not the man himself, not even just the Bishop of Rome.   The Apostles Creed, which is surely known to Pope Francis, speaks eloquently of the Catholic dogma involving the extraordinary Communion of Saints; this noted matter, fully and gloriously, includes the Church Militant, the Church Suffering (Purgatory), and the Church Triumphant (Heaven).

Thus, one can logically perceive, therefore, that the great defender and champion of the Communion of Saints ought not to be some sort of supposed lackey who bows and scrapes before the ordinary powers of this fallen world.   Pope Francis, as many perceive him, is a clearly neo-hippie pontiff so desperately seeking to be, in general, a lovable character who takes a grandfatherly approach toward his children.   What is, however, at the basic root of all these contemporary problems, lapses of needed moral and spiritual thought, so sadly afflicting Sancta Mater Ecclesia?

The Conciliar Captivity

Pope John XXIII and all those who followed him had been made subject to what may usefully be called the “Conciliar Captivity” created by the malignant Spirit of the Second Vatican Council; it is similar, in certain fascinating ways, to the Avignon Captivity of the Renaissance Papacy in that the crude kind of corrupted thinking to be found, under such circumstances, must ever remain within the now well-worn grooves of Vatican Council II. There appears currently, at the least, to be no escape from this mentality.

This is, sadly, known as the now weakened spiritual and theological condition of the postconciliar Church, with its Novus Ordo (New Mass) being the central part of this theological syndrome, which keeps captive, has nastily caged, the thoughts and general mindset of the hierarchy and their many sycophants; they are stuck in the 1960s. That era now defines the past as well as the future for them.

Consequently, in America, it ought not to be surprising that the hierarchy eagerly sides with the illegal aliens, the law breakers, and strongly against the suffering majority of the people of this nation who do oppose any amnesty that, in effect, openly rewards such criminality.

This matter reflects back upon the noted Conciliar Captivity that is not a physical place, as was the case with Avignon, France, but, instead, is a kind of place of mind seemingly guarded round by the obsessive Vatican II Spirit. What then needs to be here properly understood?

The preconciliar Church would not have (nihilistically) entertained such bizarre cognition that readily accommodates increasing degrees of secularization of attitudes to then match the prevalent conditions necessarily created by the expansive secular reality of the modern State. A St. Catherine of Siena is needed to admonish Pope Francis, as was done regarding her influence on Pope Gregory XI during the period that is known as the Babylonian Captivity or Avignon Papacy.

What exists today may be called the Conciliar Papacy, defined by the ‘60s “flower power” Spirit of Vatican II, that seeks degrees of compromise with the world; and yet, it knows that, realistically speaking, there can be no real compromise between the Culture of Life, the doctrines and dogmas of orthodox Catholicism, versus the always nihilistic Culture of Death.

Therefore, what critically needs to be comprehended carefully is that the embrace of amnesty aligns itself with the Culture of Death, which now clearly encompasses Obamacare with, as is known, its evil pro-abortion demands. It is impossible to dance with the devil without being burned as a result. The political and ideological forces favoring amnesty are, therefore, highly congruent with and supportive of the aggressive or militant secularization of American society and culture.

The logic of what is wanted, meaning by the laicist politicians and their ilk, cannot, moreover, be simply discounted by supposing that the raw veneer of religiosity can provide supine cover for what must, thus, happen naturally consequent to the full realization of the amnesty and its baleful effects. Increasingly, it ought to be plainly expected that, over time, fewer and fewer Hispanics will want to remain within the old faith of their ancestors.

Amnesty, as should be rightly noted, cannot rationally be perceived as being a victory for the advance of Catholicism in America. On the contrary, predictably divergent forces will come to impinge upon the Hispanic community as to the ever expanding pluralism and heterodoxy in beliefs to be easily found in contemporary America. Such reasoning should not be doubted given the empirical realities confronted as the Weimarization of this nation, the now basic thrust toward a European-style, democratic-socialist regime, evidently continues apace.

These marked domestic tendencies will then include, of course, Protestantism, Islam, and, as ought to be suspected, just outright secularism. Liberal or progressive Catholicism with its New Mass structure has not proven itself religiously powerful enough to firmly maintain and attract generations of believers because of the unauthoritative posturing that generally characterizes the usually lax appeal made.

This is surely true for both the non-Hispanic and Hispanic populations, as adaptations are, therefore, willingly made toward the secularized sociocultural and sociopolitical order now developed so militantly by the welfare-warfare State, especially under the nihilistic Obama Administration.   But, for the Church, what happened to the salvation of souls?

Moreover, e. g., the tremendously illegitimate or strange fears of the illegals are disproportionately absurd; there would never ever be any kind of police-state roundup of them; among other reasons, it would be simply inordinately expensive to attempt to actually capture and physically house about 12 to 20 million people, besides making the supposed cure much worse than the disease.

They are, in fact, allowed to openly roam about America and protest freely in all major and minor cities, which, incidentally, would never be permitted elsewhere in almost all the other countries of the world.   Their absurd hatred of this nation is, therefore, both unfair and ironic, while they so haughtily, snootily, keep demanding citizenship no less (called an amnesty).   Ingratitude is not charming.

Meanwhile, America’s secularist therapeutic culture is just ethically and morally disarmed in the face of such bold absurdity.   Mainstream Catholicism, in this degenerate nation, participates so easily with the noted therapeutic culture, which sees nothing actually wrong with the Obama-Rubio amnesty now supported by the Church.

Attitudes among the jaded hierarchy, however, are not expected to really change much, as long as the corrupting Spirit of Vatican II lingers on as it seems to, while the ever misinformed laity gets further and further befuddled as to what Catholic teachings are supposed to say about this terrible situation.  The Church, as a direct result, yields more and more real authority and power to the modern State, the assumed engine of most contemporary niceness and pleasantry, the goods and services, of a proficient tyranny, of the Big Nanny State.

Church politics and Leftist ideology, consequently, do then demonically combine to favor the blurring of moral right versus moral wrong, which, of course, satisfies easily the callous desires of those who want to maximize solicitude for the lawbreakers who claim, in effect, that they righteously may inhabit this country at will. Subjectivity, backed by a willing pragmatism and an often covert positivism, rules over all this vile mess, as the clerisy proclaims its ardent love for the downtrodden, which is so economically profitable for them, considering all the Federal welfare programs and policies that do lavishly exist.

The discussed Conciliar Captivity will never allow for any true reconsideration, much less fundamental questioning, of Vatican II as having created the Postconciliar Church with its wide openness toward the anthropocentric viewpoint, which all contemporary religious dialogue is to revolve around interminably. Pope John XXIII’s perverse Council is, thus, to forever endure as the core alpha and omega of theological dialogue, as long as there remains any leadership still enthralled by the Spirit that just cannot seek any real compromise.

One can guess that the final truth, the Philosopher’s Stone, has supposedly been found; it must then be myopically and dogmatically defended, regardless of the still many verifiable, demonstrable, negative consequences that are notably strangling the Church, especially in Europe and North America. This horrid mindset continues to destroy and stultify any possibility for having a hearing of genuine thought contrary to the superstitions created that condemns any fundamental questioning of the evil results of Vatican II.

The neo-Catholics, as they have been denominated, firmly support the “new orthodoxy” that was developed and hardened into dogma by that mid-1960s gathering.   All seemingly possible valid criticism, if made acceptable, can only be, reductionistically, made to support the redundant reform of the reform of the reform, which becomes merely absurd.

The enormous errors, the heresy, residing inevitably at the demonic center or core of the assumed reform discussed must, however, remain either completely or substantially unquestioned. Why? This further insures the odd legitimacy demanded for Vatican II, regardless of the tremendous suffering and anguish it has obviously caused and can only continue to undoubtedly foster, far into the future.

Until the equivalent personage of a St. Catherine of Siena (or, perhaps, a group or saints) can come along to appropriately right this wrong, by seeking to reorient significantly the jaded thinking of the papacy, nothing much would seem likely to bring about the needed and requisite change. Fr. George Rutler’s A Crisis of Saints truly defines the fundamental and explicit remedy needed for strengthening contemporary Catholicism. A movement is required to end this Conciliar Captivity.

The traditionalist, orthodox religious orders, such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, Institute of Christ the King, and Society of St. Pius X, can be expected to generate a natural block of determined opposition that may very well produce the saints needed and requisite to the spiritually urgent task.

Conclusion

The coming September 8th pseudo-humanitarian niceness extravaganza is, surely, much more a product of the bizarre reflections that developed, as part of the mental, moral, and spiritual aftermath of Vatican II, than will ever be publicly acknowledged as such.

As a greatly deleterious spiritual result, the much damaged moral compass of the Church’s substantially failed leadership will come to celebrate a nihilistic regard for the truth, as the illegal aliens get depicted as the supposed victims of an oppressive country; thus, cold cognitive postmodernism, in its nominalist mode, unites plainly with nihilism in its favoring of a bland utopianism founded upon secularism.

Until some fundamental semblance of religious and theological normality may get needfully restored, perhaps, through the traditional teachings of Thomistic morality and Catholic orthodoxy, the Church in America can only sink ever further into the menial morass of viewing itself as a sort of adjunct social services agency obedient, more or less, to the laicist ideological dictates of the State.   Democratic despotism is to reign supreme as the sole judge of pragmatic, convenient, or relative truth.  For defending (orthodox) Roman Catholicism, however, what must be done?

The Conciliar Captivity, at a minimum, must be brought to an end as a means of joyously freeing, liberating, the Church from this bizarre attitude that minimizes the Gospel message, meaning as the evil tyranny of the modern State gets, resultantly, more maximized.  A great lion of the Church, a saint, is needed today to combat the forces of spiritual decay.

Only an adamant affirmation of the orthodox understanding and comprehension, therefore, of the three main pillars of the glorious Faith, meaning Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium, can properly produce the revitalization, the spiritual revival, which is so necessary for rightly proclaiming and advancing true Catholicism, not the secularist desire to be nice.

Athanasius contra mundum!