Repaired: Does Israel survive? Do Jews want to be hated? Jews Contra Christians; Jews Contra Jews

Friends,

Somehow this article was replaced by another. I've now restored it:

Israeli Defense Forces recently killed some Egyptian border guards, of some type, somehow. If the Israelis want a much wider war, they can hardly do more to start one. 

Inshallah, if Allah wills it

The Muslim people of Egypt want war, or are at least, in classical Muslim fatalism, ready for it. "Inshallah" means pretty much whatever happens, Allah has willed it. This is the famous Muslim fatalism. The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is in Peking (I know, old spelling) begging the ravenous Red Dragon for help, along with Saudi Arabia, etc. Isn't that nice? (Sisi knows he's hated by the "Muslim-on-the-Street".) Ironically, the Chinese slaughter the Muslim Uighurs for their organs, and the Muslim world ignores that. Inshallah. Instead, they focus on Israelis killing Muslims "closer to home". That's a lot less acceptable. Whatever.

Muslims-on-the-Street seem to only care about violence to Muslims if Jews or Christians are somehow involved. All the Middle East is seething over Israel's smashing of Gaza. Their rulers bide their time; if the opportunity arrives, however, they themselves would slaughter every Jew "from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean sea." In a heartbeat. Inshallah! Other than that, they talk nicely about peace. "Taqiyya" is another Islamic doctrine: to dissimulate or openly lie for the good of Islam.

As for Israel, and for Jews in the USA, sometimes having too much is just too much. Having too much money, too much influence, too much self-confident chutzpah can bring one down. Hard. Yet to even survive in an area that hates them so, Israelis have to have all three: more money, power, pride. The Jews and Israel are in this doom cycle; and, as I've written before, Jews need Jesus now more than ever. (See my essay on that: https://corvinescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2024/04/they-need-christ-more-than-ever-instead.html) Of course, Our Lord, a Jew Himself, is the last person either Jews or Muslims would turn to in order to escape all this "blood sacrifice" both sides are engaging in, and escalating. In this essay, I'll consider the Jews and Israel. In a subsequent one, the Muslims.

Israel

Israel is in dire straights, on many levels. The goals of the Hamas terror attack on October 7 attack last year are still being fulfilled as Israel in retaliation reduces the Gaza strip to rubble, and accounts multiply of Israeli atrocities going on there of the worst kind – and growing revelations of Israeli bad behavior in the West Bank – as bad as anything the Israelis have been on the receiving end of. That was a Muslim goal of the attack. All of which attracts renewed world attention in the unique Israeli apartheid state (i.e. the privileged position of Jews in Israel, which, after all, was founded precisely to be a Jewish state). This is another Hamas goal. The war is not going the way Israel wants it, either; in other words, it is dragging on and on. Hamas is quite pleased. Sun Tzu said a long war benefits no one. Gazans of all ages die, starve, and suffer, and Israel's casualties increase as well. They're paying the Gazans back for October 7. "Turn the other cheek" is not an option with either people. And of course, Hamas is VERY pleased.

As fighting in Gaza itself breaks out behind the Israeli advance, Israel is also attacked by Hezbollah from the north and Iran in the east. (Foolish American commentators boast how Israel shot down Iran's missiles, but now Iran knows where Israel's missile counter batteries are, A, and B, Israel spent incredible amounts of money on its missile counter attack and it will be difficult to replace its counter-fire missiles.) Israel's economy is under great stress, if not near meltdown, its people tied up in the various military fronts, all of which temporarily covers up deep splits in Israeli society and body politic between its own factions. 

• Now the International Criminal Court is seeking indictments of Prime Minister Netanyahu and his defense minister. Little will come of this except bad publicity for Israel. The prosecutor also seeks indictments against Hamas leaders, but he has been careful to have arranged for a committee of international lawyers to investigate "genocide" allegations against Israel, and this committee has now unanimously stated genocide exists in Gaza. Whether true or not, it is very damaging to Israel's credibility.
  
• Israel's neighboring Arab states offer only an old two-state solution (i.e. the creation of a Palestinian state out of Gaza, the West Bank, and bits of Israel, like East Jerusalem) that almost all Israelis categorically reject. As long as Israel exists, no two-state solution will exist. As long as Israel is the toughest dog in the yard, however, these other countries will not attack – but if Israel loses or even falters much further in this Gaza war, then all bets are off. Inshallah!
  
• The leaders of these states could not care less about the actual Gazans and West Bank Arabs – they care about their own people no more than any Muslim terrorist does; this is traditionally true. There's not much "love" of Arabs for Arabs. Taqiyya, and all that. Their own Arab populations, however, the non-terrorist Muslims-on-the-Street, are growing extremely outraged in a Muslim-level pan-Arab/Muslim sympathy for Palestinian Arabs and traditional Muslim hatred of Jews. How long can the governments therefore "keep the lid on"?
  

America

Meanwhile, in the USA. the most supportive country of Israel, the Jews are demanding that Christianity shut down by changing its central teachings. That's the result of their Congressional Bill in the U.S. that would label as "antisemitism" any sort of criticism regarding Jews or Israel. How in the world could Jews do that, and why would they, you might ask. Is this the time to outrage the average American Christian against Jews? Again, the American government is committed to Israel, for the crappy reason of being paid to be so, as I detail below. But the people? The U.S. Congress is trying to pass a law that would essentially outlaw Christianity. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!

House Bill 6090

OnePeterFive has a great article (yes, I know, but it is not written by Tim Flanders) on this issue: https://onepeterfive.com/the-house-endorsed-definition-of-antisemitism-provokes-a-rift-with-christianity/. The author, Carina Benton, gives a succinct overview of the problem. The American government seems about to make Christianity – and certainly orthodox, Traditional Catholicism – illegal because of "antisemitism". They want to make the core teachings of Christianity into "Thought Crimes" by labeling them "antisemitic", a "phobia" of Jews. We can add that to Islamophobia and Homophobia and Trannyphobia, all "thought crimes" that government must pass laws against. And of course free speech and civil rights be damned. But notice there's never a Christophobia or Catholicphobia?

We Catholics hardly need this problem as we have Bergoglio constantly trying to incinerate us as it is. His recent 60 Minutes interview was simply grotesque: Bergoglio's silly double-talk makes a laughing stock of the Church; just about everything out of his mouth screams "I am not a pope, haha!" so of course the hierarchy keeps the Toad in place, to the detriment of the entire world and the Church's own demise. Though he'll never be charged with it, Bergoglio exhibits a perfect Catholicphobia, all right.

Now we have Jews telling us, as a certain Rabbi Michael Barclay told conservative pundit Candace Owens that essential Christian teaching – from the beginning of the Faith, you understand – is the reason for the world's antisemitism. (Owens rebelled at that, and eventually after various twists and turns, got fired from where she worked.) Basically, if this Bill 6090 becomes law, then the Gospels, especially the Gospel of St. John and much of the writing of St. Paul, etc., becomes illegal antisemitism because they teach that the Jews got the Romans to kill Christ, and are described generally as religiously blind and lost souls cut off from the ancient covenants that define them as a people. (For details on how religious Jews view Christianity, which they consider an anti-Jewish pagan idolatry, see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-noahide-laws-a-universal-religion-without-christ/; the Noahide Laws are what they want to replace Christianity and Islam with.)

Even strongly pro-Israel and yet conservative American pundits like John Zmirak are opposed to H.B. 6090. Its passage caused him to write this article: https://stream.org/unconstitutional-speech-ban-it-may-sound-good-but-dont-fall-into-this-hate-speech-booby-trap/ Zmirak might well condemn me as a vile Jew hater, but he still protests this anti-free speech bill that the Jewish lobby is buying from Congress. I think this thought-police ploy just backfires on everyone, however, especially the people paying for it. It's all so self-defeating, an "own goal".

So, why do it?

1. Ostensibly, this is about the raging antisemitism on America's elite college campuses, Academia's mix of Israeli politics and war as way to "tar and feather" American Jews, and the general social violence and rising crime and open assault on American streets.
2. Jewish students have been harassed or beat up or threatened, and riots ensue. It's been developing over time. In New York, Blacks have attacked Jews often enough that it has become a problem before the latest Israeli war.
   
3. Basically, for modern-day Jews in urban America it is become about like what it was for Catholics during the Know-Nothing era before the U.S. Civil War. Back then, no "phobia" gambit existed; now, however, we get House Bill 6090. 
4. One would deduce the importation of Muslims into America has a lot to do with this, and it massively does – the extreme antisemitism in Europe is a direct result of the Islamification of Europe – but you can't say that without being politically incorrect and perhaps investigated by the FBI. Taqiyya has Deep State teeth! In England, they appear to be going to pass an "anti-Islamophobia" law as strict at H.B. 6090. What irony! A world in which neither Jews nor Muslims can be criticized! But Christianity can be emasculated. Literally, with Christ reduced entirely.
   

Do Jews Want To Be Hated?

The burden of this essay weighs the question: Do the Jews who are getting Congress to pass this House Bill 6090 (as they have done in a number of states already with something similar) want to make themselves hated – actually hated, as opposed to just resented or considered an annoyance. I ask because this legislation attacks directly their strongest U.S. supporters, Evangelical Christians. Oh, sure, the American Jewish Lobby, AIPAC, owns most politicians and can buy their "support". But real support, emotional and spiritual support, the true "friends of Israel" are the Christians. And this attempt at thought control will just tick them off. 

• The Catholic Church's Vatican II hierarchy has bent over backwards to be nice to the Jews, doing a series of mea culpas for the Holocaust (even though pagan Nazis inflicted that horror and Christians saved many Jews, something Pope Pius XII personally did). All that, only for all Christians to be formally told, "You guys and your false religion is the root of the whole antisemitic phenomenon, and we need to pass that into law."

Human Nature, People; It Isn't Nice, But it IS predictable

Jews – i.e. speaking collectively of Jewish movers and shakers, opinion and policy makers – don't seem to realize that being the single most privilege ethnic group in the U.S. and in the West generally – as they most certainly are on many levels, in terms of influence, education, and income – people can get very tired of an ethnic group bearing such weighty influence that yet also claims victimization status. I refer to their constant "wailing and gnashing of teeth" shtick about how the world hates Jews. This is, after all, the rationale for Israel: a safe-haven for Jews in a hostile world. Well, beware of human nature. Keep telling the world they hate you and they might just develop a hatred for you! That's not news; it is hardly antisemitic. It's human nature. And it is predictable.

• The Black Americans a century and a half ago were literally slaves, then 3rd class citizens for another century. 
• Beginning in the 1960s, they began to be placed on a pedestal by Democrats, given welfare money and Affirmative Action. The Democrats ironically are the ones who enslaved them and kept they on cotton plantations; a century later they re-enslaved them and stuck them on asphalt plantations. And equally incongruous, at the same time, the Democrats made them feel privileged, in perpetual need of assistance.
  
• So, after decades of special status, hiring, college admissions, etc., human nature kicked in and Whites (and certainly Asians and Latinos) began to resent all that special status, and began to seriously tire of the 'We're so oppressed" shtick. Again, that's human nature. Again, it is predictable.
  

Persecution Is Now Real

Now Jews are facing a serious rise in actual, real-time true Jew-hating antisemitism throughout the entire West – mainly because of Israel's wars in the Mideast. But other causes exist, as well. They are now running out of friends, both Israel as a country and Jews in general. They can buy political support – to a point. But real friends? They seem to endorse Lord Palmerston's famous comment (short version): "England has no friends, only interests." And "interests" are fickle, especially bought ones.

So, sensing the mood changing indeed, the Jews now will antagonize even more people. And again, remember, they are the most privileged minority group in the Western world. Jewish bankers actually won the Russo-Japanese War for the Japanese, for a well-known example. The Japanese won the battles at sea and on land, but were bankrupt. Jewish bankers in New York, hating the Imperial Russians for persecuting Jews, loaned the Japanese government the money keeping the war going long enough for advantageous negotiations. Now, that is clout!

• In the U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, they've produced this House Bill 6090 that's gone to the Senate. It casts an extremely wide net about "antisemitism": talking or writing in any way that is critical or maliciously critical of Jews, like, you know, Jews run the banks! Jews run entertainment! Jews run academia! Jews run the American Government! Israel bosses the U.S. around! Myself just writing this essay, the law would make me an antisemite. And soon it might land me in jail.
  

Oh, wait, you thought all that was true? That some privileged Jews, and no, hardly all Jews all the time, but their power brokers, have stupendous influence in everyone's lives? You thought that was self-evident?

1. Well, regarding banking, it is true in the sense that banks have traditionally been Jewish strongholds because in Medieval times, Christians couldn't charge each other interest, but Jews could. (The Reformation changed that, and thus the Protestant countries developed capitalism economically faster than the Catholic ones could.) And also Jews were restricted in the occupations they were allowed to do, so many went into banking. Think of the international banking family of Rothschild; that's how they started. Or think of George Soros today. Not all bankers are Jews, obviously, but still even now they have a tremendous deal of financial clout. They've been on the inside of that business for literally centuries. And Congressmen dance to the tune of those who give them money, not "the folks back home".
   
2. Jews also indeed are influential in the entertainment industry, which caused the Catholics to form the Legion of Decency, an organization that Archbishop of Cincinnati John T. McNicholas founded in 1933. Why was this so? Hollywood and movies were a big deal in the 1920s and '30s, of course, but Jewish producers and writers always tended to push the carnal envelope simply because the "Judeo-Christian" morality is something of a myth. 
3. It's a myth because many versions and types of Judaism exist, so which "Judeo" does the phrase refer to? Clearly, for every straight-laced Orthodox Jew there's a large number not so "inhibited" by Judaism's 613 laws. These less religious or non-religious Jews – most Jews are "non-religious" – saw sex-related things a bit differently than Christians did, which is an understatement. Sex sells, and they sold it.
   
4. Archbishop McNicholas was opposed to that. So, Catholics created an organization to oppose their influence and try to restrict what the Church saw as immoral or irreverent content. It is a simple equation: in its heart, Western Civilization is the product of Medieval and Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which had a fading echo effect in Protestantism. (I.e. Protestant countries became more sexually "progressive" than Catholic ones.) Judaism had a completely different culture and religion to begin with. (The Torah allows divorce, for example, and even polygamy; see: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/770990/jewish/Why-Does-Torah-Law-Allow-Polygamy.htm) And on top of that, non-religious Jews carried the day culturally. They had their own much more materialistic culture than religious Jews did. A powerful dynamic of cultural change brought on by making money, and a warping of cultural standards, resulted, such that when one considers the entertainment industry of today: it produces by and large either mindless titillating trash or a constant engine of violence and an obscene sexualizing of the kids.
5. And the same could be said of academia, too. Although Orthodox Jews, like Catholics, created their own educational institutions, less religious Jews, many of them Socialist or Communist, coming into the country at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, had by the 1950s and '60s changed American academia massively from what it had been. But that's not from JEWISH believers' perspective, you see? Again, most Jews are not "religious", actually. And a lot of Jews were Socialist because they had abandoned their religion over in Europe.
   
6. Then, finally, of course the American Government. It is heavily influenced by The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Jewish lobbying group. On a recent show of his, Judge Andrew Napolitano discussed with Colonel Douglas Macgregor how those Republican Congressmen, about 15 or 20, who recently voted against House Bill 6090 and also against more money for Israel were removed from AIPAC's website as punishment for their vote. (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswQ9w5wETI at 33:15 minutes in.)
7. At AKA Catholic, Louie Verrecchio has an article: https://akacatholic.com/antisemitism-awareness-attempt-to-silence-god/ on this, and mentions one Benjamin Freedman, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who said back in 1961 that: "Here in the United States, the Zionists and their coreligionists have complete control of our government." Listen to Freedman's speech here: https://soundcloud.com/zionistreport/benjamin-freedmans-1961-speech-at-the-willard-hotel-complete/sets.
   

So, round and round it goes. The most privileged ethnic (some might say religious but they're not really that "religious") group in the Western world is wealthy enough to buy legislation that not only silences critics, but makes illegal the core tenants of the world largest religion (assuming Christianity has more believers than Islam, which is a question these days). Certainly, I would be considered an antisemite for even writing this, or at least not in condemning antisemitism every other sentence. It's absurd, and that very absurdity will hurt the Jews themselves, like an ancient Greek drama where the hero does something to avoid a nasty fate, but the thing he does is the very act that makes the fate inevitable.

So, does Israel survive? It has lasted about as long as the Crusader States did in the Middle Ages. That's something, I guess.

AnP

The U.S. is in real trouble...

 Amici,

It is murderously difficult to try to watch Joe Biden talk. He has trouble reading his teleprompter, gets confused, looks around. At one point he said: "I’m just waiting for them to tell me when we get going here since we’re live streaming this,” Biden said not realizing the live stream had already started. “I’m supposed to look over here and not at you guys.”

It's all just insulting beyond words.

The U.S. is in real trouble. A long-time friend of mine wrote me the other day to say that he's never, in a long life, seen the U.S. go so far downhill so fast as under the Biden administration. He's right. We are watching an astounding national (and global, of course) disaster as the U.S. falls to pieces.

Just take this example: the gasoline shortage mess. One person on Twitter wrote: "This is crazy. I stopped for gas just now having no idea what was happening. It’s out. People here told me they’d been to other stations and found the same." It's bad enough that the governors of North Carolina and Florida have called state emergencies. Just four months of Biden, and we're back in Jimmy Carter land.

Truly, we've not seen this since Jimmy Carter was president, and the Gulf Oil Crisis/Iran Hostage mess. Now, this particular Biden-Era gasoline-supply fiasco is supposed to be incidental to some cyber attack, from Russia, the Democrats' favorite whipping boy, to say the least. 

But there are those who are not buying that. An excerpt:

"When the state police tell us something prudence dictates we evaluate their motive against previous state police statements and make an independent decision.  That’s the basis of not being a victim to professional lying.  That said, which is more likely:

A) A random cyber-hack from a dubious eastern-European source, has compromised the refined fuel capacity in the United States?

~ OR…

B) The FBI, a political division -and state police- acting on behalf the U.S. intelligence community, are making this claim in order to provide cover for the Biden administration’s purposeful policies that are skyrocketing the price of fuel?

An P again:

Widespread belief exists to the effect that the "Intelligence Community" is actually running the country. "Intelligence" is not a word I'd use.

Biden was on camera trying to explain about the fuel shortage and was obviously in over his senile head. To watch him is to cringe. Yet Biden is the front man for whoever is running the country, and perhaps it actually is most likely the "the Intelligence Community"; they seem to be in the driver's seat, them and the Rockefeller Foundation, George Soros, and of course Klaus Schwab. A lovely combination of thugs and wackos. Bill Gates is in that mix, and others like him.

Overall, though, this fuel supply mess is just part and parcel of the freak-show disaster the pResident has inundated us with. For example, inflation, and see also this. 

Joe Biden, our actual, real-life Manchurian Candidate. Utter incompetence. He really doesn't know where he is half the time. For example this, and this, and then this. He thinks his policies are on the "right track"; it is just too pathetic for words.

He is raising taxes, too. Higher taxes and inflation. As Newt Gingrich said the other day, this is as old as the hills. If one can't raise taxes because of public resistance or poverty of the masses (both elements of the French Revolution, remember), and you have to keep raising spending to pay off your political cronies and allies, Gringrich said (and the Dems do exactly that, and have done so since FDR; Republicans often do it too, but not nearly so much), then "the only way you make up the difference is through inflation". Just remember, my friends, the Western Roman Empire fell because its taxes were too high, and the value of its currency decreased -- so, desperate local communities turned to Barbarian overlords because they demanded less tax from the locals. The empire didn't collapse; it was liquidated in bankruptcy court and sold to newcomers.

On top of all that, we have a bizarre "Woke" cultural war raging.

Victor Davis Hanson's essay here; it details the absurdities of the Maoist culture war being waged. An excerpt:

The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking revolution to Oprah at her $90 million castle, as Mark Zuckerberg throws in $500 million here, and his colleagues $400 million there, and as the top executives of Coke, Target, and Delta Airlines believe their $17 million-a-year salaries make them experts on the crimes of non-diversity, exclusion, and inequity. Anytime revolutionaries at the outset of their enterprises seek exemption from the consequences of their own ideology, we know their plans will end badly for everyone else.

And he makes an essentially important point:

What is saving the country, for now, is not the third of Americans who have bachelor’s degrees, given the university has become a woke deductive, anti-empirical, anti-Enlightenment institution. For now, the more practical two-thirds of the population who did not graduate, and either never experienced the academic mind or got out quickly after they did, are our rear guard at Thermopylae. I concede, with the sadness of a former believer in higher education, that an entire institution has failed its pledge to the Enlightenment and we are back 2,700 years to Hesiod’s warning that with material progress comes moral regress.

And see this video interview with Hanson here, via The Conservative Treehouse. 

As you-all known, I've been writing a lot about Covid lately, but Covid is just one aspect of all the madness. It enabled the election theft, for one thing. Yet this crazy "Woke" Maoist-style Cultural Revolution is an essential part to it, as Hanson explains, and so is the non-president "pResdent" Biden (they keep trying to push forward Camel-Toes to replace him but she is so utterly unliked as to be astounding). The-powers-that-be try to say Biden is well liked, but who believes these polls? 

Excerpt:

Lastly, I’ll note that this massive approval, even if it truly exists, is not translating at the ballot box. Democrats were just shut out of a Trump +3 district in Texas via a special election. The Republican candidates took over 60% of the vote and the top two finishers who will go to the runoff are goth in the GOP. And while the turnout was low, as is to be expected, those same dynamics of lower turnout will exist in 2022 because it is a non-presidential election.

You know the polls are bogus because of stories like this one reported here. This article sport a number of videos taken by people that show no one, NO ONE bothered to turn out to see the 81 million vote getter.

And once Biden got into the water plant, he shuffled about with his cue cards because of course he can't remember anything.

Bottom Line:

I don't think China will wait till the American elections next year to seize Taiwan. Maybe they can steal the 2022 election the way they stole the last one, but things have fallen apart already in the U.S. and the meltdown is exponentially growing (consider the Border and the tens of thousands flooding across it). I just can't imagine -- even with all the election stealing -- they can maintain their grip on power. Perhaps it all depends on whether the Republicans in Arizona can complete their Maricopa County audit. The Antrim County election fraud case is with the judge now in Michigan, who will decide if it proceeds on May 18.

Personally, I blame Donald Trump for letting the election get stolen. He should not have allowed it, and should have raised hell about the 2016 election stealing in California – but then he should have never let that happen. Of course, he would have had to be part Machiavelli and part Napoleon to have outmaneuvered the forces arrayed against him. And "hindsight" is so crystal clear.

But "we the people" are stuck with this mess, and it will profoundly affect the entire world.

As Buckaroo Banzai famously said, "No matter where you go, there you are."

An Préachán

"George III was but a boy stealing a peach from your lunch..."

"...by comparison with our plumed and puffed liberty-thieves and governors."

So writes Anthony Esolen in an article here at American Greatness. Good article, and a lot of quotes from ol' Herman Melville. But of course the doom for the U.S. was written on the wall at the beginning. "Liberty" was a false god, a sort of pied piper leading its adherents along the famous "primrose path" until boom, disaster befell them. Esolen writes eloquently (when does he not?) :

"We need not confine ourselves to the legal. There is also the customary. Free men honor the good and wise, the benefactors of their nation. Slaves toady to the famous. Free men make their own entertainment. Servile men are content to consume it ready-made. Free men seek out the dangerous space, as Melville sought out the sea. Servile men demand the safe space, where they may suck their thumbs. Free men fight in the open. Servile men sneak about, bear tales, attack the weak like a pack of jackals, and couch their enmity in soft and seductive slogans. Free men raise their own children. Servile men submit their children to be raised by others. Free men take their pedigrees from almighty God. Servile men seek out means of establishing a factitious superiority over their peers or their betters: a diploma, a bank account, a big house, a title, a special status as favored victim."

Reads like a description Cicero could have written. So we are replaying the drama the Romans lived through. What recreated Rome in the East, in Byzantium, and in the West, ultimately as the High Middle Ages, was Christianity, and not imputed-grace Protestantism but rather the Theosis-Faith of the True Church, that God became Man not merely to save us from our sins, but to elevate us as new creations in Christ (as St. Paul wrote so often and in so many ways, as did St. John). For a fascinating discussion on Theosis, the forgotten teaching of the Church, see this podcast at (rather absurdly named) "Pints with Aquinas". The theologian being interviewed is Fr. James Brent, O.P.

But America, the United States, never had that, a secure foundation on the profound teachings of Historical Christianity. Instead, the country was founded by Puritan fanatics in New England and Capitalists in Virginia, and then given a national government by the godless (James Madison, Alexander Hamilton) via a Constitutional Convention they themselves created in Philadelphia (after a failed attempt a year before – 1786 – in Annapolis). The new U. S. Constitution intentinoally left God totally out of the picture and if God is out of the picture, no "rights" of any sort can be guaranteed, and even the nature of man and the point and bounds of his life are all "up for grabs". Which, need I point out, are precisely what plague the poor country today, what with its Gay marriage imposed from above, and Tranny rights, and absolutely shocking political malfeasance.

"Liberty" is the false god, "freedom" the true one – if one understands by "freedom" the freedom to be what God intended you to be. As I have written many times, and as have others before me, we're like gasoline engines, we humans; i.e. we're like engines meant to run on gasoline, and gasoline only. Not kerosene, not diesel, not propane, not natural gas or whiskey or aviation fuel. "Liberty," that pied piper, would have one believe one can run on anything one wants. The more choices the more "liberty". Simple enough, except that it doesn't work. And when you of course, necessarily break down, when you "crash and burn", well, too bad. 

With most everyone in the U.S. now wanting to run on everything from unicorn urine to sea water, it's no wonder the country exhibits the morals that even the pagan Cicero would lament. 

An P