English Catholic: anti usury/capitalism: commodification/pornification
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Cardinal Cupich has misused Nostra Aetate to compromise Church teaching.
The Second Vatican Council referred to abortion as a crime. The Jews call abortion a fundamental Jewish value. Cupich’s Nostra Aetate Award to Michael Sacks, who has shown his allegiance to that fundamental value, is a disgrace.
Catholic-Jewish dialogue means chumminess with rich Jews in the hope of getting Jew money. It’s been a disaster for the Church and the world.
“But that perceiving directs itself toward a perceived or, speaking formally and generally, relates itself to it, is surely too self-evident for such a thing to need to receive special notice. Kant indeed says the same thing when he talks about the thing, the perceived, entering into relation with the cognitive faculty, with perceiving, when he talks about a subjective synthesis. Moreover, this expressly noticed relation of perceiving to the perceived also belongs to other modes of comportment: to mere representing, which relates to the represented, to thinking, which thinks the thought, to judgment, which determines something judged, to love, which relates to a beloved. These, one might think, are unsurpassable trivialities which one ought to shrink from pronouncing. Nevertheless, we shall not deny ourselves the explicit formulation of this discovery. Comportments relate to something: they are directed toward this whereto; or, in formal terms, they are related or referred to it. But what are we to make of this statement of the relation of the comportments to that to which they comport? Is this still philosophy at all? Whether it is or is not philosophy we may leave undecided. We may even admit that it is not or is not yet philosophy. Also, we are not really concerned as to what we are to make of the identification of the alleged trivialities, whether with them we shall or shall not be penetrating into the mysteries of the world and of the Dasein. The only thing we care about here is that this trivial identification and what is intended in it should not escape us—that we should perhaps bring it closer to us. Perhaps then the alleged triviality will turn into a total enigma. Perhaps this insignificance will become one of the most exciting problems for him who can philosophize, who has come to understand that what is taken for granted as being self-evident is the true and sole theme of philosophy.”
- Basic Problems of Phenomenology by Martin Heidegger
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It is not true, no matter how many times the lie is repeated. And the arguments for it are pure sophistry, as I showed in this article: edwardfeser.blogspot.com/202…
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Tu deviens catholique, donc tu ne procrastines plus le dimanche matin.
Tu deviens catholique et tu as arrêté le porno : ta santé mentale est sauvée.
Tu deviens catholique et tu es devenu royaliste, donc tu as compris le vice de la République.
Tu deviens catholique et tu sais affronter les épreuves sans te gaver d’antidépresseurs.
Tu deviens catholique et tu pries chaque jour : ta conscience est en paix.
Tu deviens catholique et tu as retrouvé un sens clair à ta vie.
Tu deviens catholique, donc tu pardonnes plus facilement et tu es moins rancunier.
Tu deviens catholique et tu construis une famille au lieu d’enchaîner les flirts qui mènent à rien.
Tu deviens catholique, donc tu vis avec plus de discipline, de gratitude et de joie réelle.
Vive le Christ Roi.
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In 1980s 'fascist' Ireland, a man in his 20s with a decent job could buy a nice house and have 4or5 children while the wife stayed at home.
Thankfully, we've 'progressed' since, and now with both parents working, they'll be mortgaged until they're 70 and lucky to have 1 child.
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Europe is giving asylum and welfare to people who admit they killed a woman at sea on the way over there for being a "witch." Just think about this for a second.
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“...it is always Others' desires which derive from vanity, for we are all under the impression that we desire more [genuinely] than Others.”
— René Girard, ‘Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,’ ch. 1
ALT The publican and the pharisee.
“Desire is not mimetic only in mediocre individuals, those whom the existentialists, following Heidegger, branded as inauthentic, but in everybody without exception, even in those who appear the most authentic in our own eyes, namely ourselves.”
— René Girard, ‘All Desire is a Desire for Being’ (ed. Cynthia L. Haven), ch. 1
ALT The temptation of Adam and Eve.
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Pope Leo XIII: "The equal toleration of all religions ... is the same as atheism."
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“Being, in the traditional sense, absolute being, is something I don't have in me. I don't feel it. I feel my emptiness. But the Other always seems to have more of it than I have—unless, of course, the other surrenders to my desire, in which case being flees him very fast and I contaminate him with my nothingness.”
— René Girard, CBC
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Liberalism is a sin and those who ascribe to its philosophy are part of a cult of "reason" and "logic".
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Straight out of George Orwell’s 1984 playbook.
The spectre of perpetual war. A population kept permanently frightened. An endless state of emergency in which fear becomes the instrument of political control.
How convenient for those who govern us.
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An honest ‘student protester’ in France explains why he’s protesting.
The question: “Why are you protesting?”
He replies: “I don’t know. I’m just here to smash and destroy things.”
But they just want a better education, you guys.
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Si vous êtes blanc, deux choses sont vraies :
- vous êtes victime d’un génocide à grande échelle
- vous subissez la plus grande guerre psychologique de l’histoire de l’humanité
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EMJ looks forward with hope and confidence to Europe's eventual return to its true form: the Catholic Church.
"Remember the prodigal son, this is the prodigal daughter, the eldest daughter of the Church giving up on its revolutionary illusions and coming back to the form."
"The form in Europe is the Catholic Church."
"The form in Ireland, in Spain, in France is the Catholic Church. There would be no Europe without the Catholic Church!"
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A Single Somali immigrant is estimated to cost Finland €951,000 over their lifetime. A native Finn contributes a net €3,400 per year. It takes 280 working Finnish people to offset a single Somali migrants arrival. #Finland #Somalimigrants #Benefitscammers #CloseTheBorders
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“[Individuals] borrow their desires from the Other in a movement which is so fundamental and primitive that they completely confuse it with the will to be Oneself.”
— René Girard, ‘Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,’ ch. 1
ALT The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert
“Mimetic desire is when our choice is not determined by the object itself, as we normally believe, but by another person. We imitate the other person, and this is what ‘mimetic’ means.”
— René Girard, Conversations with René Girard (ed. Cynthia L. Haven @chaven), ch. 9
ALT Don Quixote, by Gustave Dore (1863)
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G.K. Chesterton demolishes radical skepticism in a single paragraph
ALT But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. . . . As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. . . . The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern r