David Frenchism

But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

I think what gets lost in this discussion is how the worldwide Christian church has been damaged by these shameful acts. People are way less religious these days, and it is not simply that they don't want to be told what to do. Hypocrisy is something that people cannot tolerate, and so the entire Christian Church (not just the Catholic Church) has lost its spiritual authority . It will take many, many years to repair this.

Goodbye, Good Men is a sobering, eye-opening, edifying analysis of the failing of bishops, vocation offices and seminaries the last sixty years which have promulgated the gay subculture within the institution and exponentially stoked the priest sex scandal.

While one might think the book focuses primarily on the sex scandal and the gay subculture the primary thrust of the book has to be about the liberal, anti-church dissenters that have invaded the church hierarchy, dioceses, seminaries and liberal laity which have metastasized themselves in local parishes and educational and liturgical programs.

While Michael Rose work acknowledges the present priest shortage in the US, the data clearly shows, beyond a doubt, it is all man-made, contrived, by the wicked and diabolical within the church. These corrupt bishops, priest, seminary rectors, clip-haired, feminazi-nuns and progressive laity exacerbated the pedophile/ephebophilia sexual abuse, injuring thousands of children by fomenting their homosexual subculture. Additionally, their aberrant ideology created four times as many victims by turning away good, pious, orthodox men away from a priestly vocation that would not embrace their homo-heresy agenda, causing deep psychological scars upon these men.

“The Holy Father has entangled the Church in an anti-God philosophy, granting absolution to a political system that has as its primary end the overthrow of the Divine, of all that is sacred,” said Michael Voris.

As a former Catholic, I take no satisfaction from the Roman Church's descent into worship of the creation rather than the creator, a form of idolatry roundly condemned by the prophets in the Bible they no longer preach in Rome. The world needs more forces for good, but has lost he moral authority of the Catholic Church through it's own cover-ups of ecclesiastical corruption. Francis is succeeding in 'modernizing' the church as if the 'modern' culture has saved anyone or protected any truth. He wants to be popular for his anti-traditional stands, which is why he always backtracks when there is resistance from the faithful, but lacks the real authority to lead them to God's culture. Those past prophets and leaders who preached God's law were not popular in 'modern' times; but their words live forever; Francis is headed toward the same ignominy as Epstein.

I quite agree that the Roman Catholic Church has been denuded of any real authority it pretended to have. Clearly we’re dealing with a cult because most members — despite such a large and obvious heterodoxy in their midst — don't seem to care.

I do not believe this has anything to do with Christianity, rather it has to do with state-backed bureaucratic institutions which wish to exert state-sanctioned coercive power over others.

What’s needed is not mere “outreach” to black, Hispanic, or Jewish voters. Conservatives ought to make elevation of African Americans, immigrants, and religious minorities so central to conservatism that all dedicated racists will be thoroughly repelled. If we can’t make them stop calling themselves the “alt-right,” because they won’t want to be associated with us, we can at least disgust them with such a focus.

Of course, neither outreach to nor elevation of these groups is desirable. To begin with, people who want to be racist, or on the alt-right, are going to be so in any event, and assigning some special status to blacks and others would do nothing but bring over to the right a distinctly left-wing problem: the conflicts that inevitably arise from the assumption that one is entitled to things because of one’s “oppressed” identity. It is this assumption that has made the left so comically self-defeating, feminists, gays, trans persons, and other querulous types all being in a mad race to win victimization goodies.

I rather doubt that Carney even knows what he means by elevation in regard to “African Americans, immigrants, and religious minorities.” Precisely how should these groups be elevated? Of what would this elevation consist? Carney doesn’t tell us. Nor is that a wonder. Men like him write in the service of their vague and shallow moral sentiments. Their syntactically correct sentences obscure the fact that they use words without knowing what they mean, and that they write without seriously considering the implications of their ideas.

It is simply not serious to maintain, as Carney does, that since “thousands of young men are shot on the streets of Chicago,” since “tens of thousands of black babies are aborted every year,” and since “hundreds of thousands [of black babies] are born out of wedlock,” blacks are playing a “rigged game.” Nobody is making blacks behave in these ways; they have free will, like the rest of us. Instead of telling blacks they’re victims, conservatives need to address the problems of black culture.

three shockingly violent mob attacks on white victims in downtown Minneapolis were captured by surveillance video. On August 3, in broad daylight, a dozen black assailants, some as young as 15, tried to take a man’s cellphone, viciously beating and kicking him as he lay on the ground. They jumped on his torso like a trampoline, stripped his shoes and pants off as they riffled through his pockets, smashed a planter pot on his head, and rode a bike over his prostrate body. On August 17, another large group kicked and punched their victim until he was unconscious, stealing his phone, wallet, keys, and cash. In July, two men were set upon in similar fashion. Such attacks have risen more than 50 percent in downtown Minneapolis this year.

Conservative intellectuals tend to be a genteel and cowardly bunch.

Their syntactically correct sentences obscure the fact that they use words without knowing what they mean, and that they write without seriously considering the implications of their ideas.