"Quo peregrinatur grex, pastor secum." Usury is a sin. Sodomy is a sin. Abortion is a sin. Neglecting the Poor is a sin. These cry out to Heaven for vengeance.
Catholicism: D&D, God is the DM, so many rules you can't follow them. DM works with it anyway.
Orthodoxy: D&D, God is DM, errata and homebrew rules based on locality.
Protestantism: Choose Your Own Adventure Story™️ God is the author but you're the DM. Same book every game.
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My boy: "But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time I have showed you how fast I can run in challenging you to a race, and I have become exceedingly efficient at it."
[*soft wheezing*] "Good job buddy!"
People post this nonsense thinking Rural Americans won't resort to unspeakable tactics against "those people" the next time this nation boils over.
Imagine a literal Baptist Taliban numbed to pain by the very opioids the shitlib-regime sends to their towns scalping these people.
Smash is a Calvinist but this meme is spot-on. Nowhere would it apply more than the Catholic Church. I'll never forget a mass I attended following bad storms where people lost their homes or had property damage. The prayers and collection were for *GUATEMALA*.....
There is something to men who grew up watching PBS after school--Wishbone, Reading Rainbow, The Magic Schoolbus, Mr. Rogers, Bill Nye--and those who became the most Right Wing generation of our age. I grew up watching these and I'm practically a Fascist.
Strange stuff. 1/3
I'm amazed that Protestants travel to the Holy Land, see all the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches, liturgies, Pilgrimage sites, and ancient traditions *in action,* and never make the connection that their Protestant Faith is wrong. Powerful cognitive dissonance at work.
Prediction Thread🧵: I'm going to speculate about the next few years with regards to America beginning with the election.
The RW lads saying the illegals are going to vote are 100% right. We've had record immigration, both legal and illegal. 1/10
There are certainly many directions this could be taken, but I've already strung together thirty-odd tweets so I'll cease this here as I think I've explained the basic point.
God bless you. Leave the Lodges. Repent! And Be Baptised. 32/32
I was a young man (early 20s) fresh from military service. A great-Uncle convinced me to join the local Lodge. After a trip to the local Fire Station to get some paperwork I was up and running; I submitted my petition to the Lodge and heard back within the week. 2/xx
Napoleon's troops would have men disappear overnight only to find them flayed to death by Spanish guerillas the next morning.
That will appear to be an episode of Barney & Friends by comparison when this tinderbox gets lit.
Imagine Warner Sallman's 'Head of Christ' looking squarely toward you with a stern countenance. That was what I saw.
I mentally pushed it away with great effort and it was supplanted by a brief vision of an orb of Light surrounded by darkness. 14/xx
St Boniface was a Benedictine Roman Catholic bishop in communion with the pope.
Protestants didn't exist in his time but the faux-masculinity peddling e-prots love to try and appropriate him.
Christmas trees are Christian
After seeing pagans worshiping an Oak Boniface chopped it down
He then preached the Gospel to them and said the young fir is a reminder of Christ, “It’s the sign of an endless life, for its leaves are ever green. See how it points upward to heaven
For the Lodge to claim to *not* be a Church and Freemasonry *not* a religion, it is absolutely pregnant with the form, matter, and intentions of a very religious act. I would not understand this until 7 years later when I became Catholic. 16/xx
The world was not, as I thought, "just stuff." Symbols were often more than what they seemed. And when I joined the Church I saw that the entirety of Freemasonry was her opposite; a bizarro-world reflection of Catholicism (ESPECIALLY the pre-Vatican 2 form)27/xx
A kind, portly retired telephone technician then took me under his wing for the purpose of "catechism." A word I had never heard of prior. I still hold a lot of respect for the man, who was (is/not sure if he's still living) a 33rd degree Mason. 3/xx
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"Jews were desperate to get out."
A tale as old as time: They try to create Gay Space Communism for themselves, it goes poorly, they leave, they go elsewhere, they try to create Gay Space Communism for themselves again, it goes poorly, they leave......
This was the right answer, but when I said "God" I had a stab of guilty pain in my chest as one feels as a child when scolded by your Dad or Mom. An image entered my mind's eye, pushing out all other imagery:
It was that Man.
13/xx
Now, I took all of these oaths on my path to Master Mason, which took several months to accomplish. All were done within a highly ritualized environment which, to a young impressionable man in his early 20s, are both strange, mystifying, and numinous. 7/xx
Of course there are many other liturgical and philosophical and doctrinal reflections: To use a very modern reference: Catholicism is Link. Masonry is Dark Link: they are opposites and yet similar. 31/xx
Halo and associated lore is a deeply Christian work of Science Fiction, and I am not kidding in that the Spartan, John 117 is a type of John the Baptist, a type of Christ, and a type of John the Beloved. A 🧵
All of this stuff is--as my Mentor pointed out--no longer a secret "due to the internet." He was frustrated by this; but the material was new to me because I didn't grow up with easy internet access. The only part of the catechism that was not printed was the sworn oaths 5/xx
What will Trump do? Probably the same thing he did last time: nothing. I suspect he's compromised and, despite undertaking the biggest restructuring of the GOV since Teddy Roosevelt, lost the Deep State Civil War. They run this show with impunity now. 4/10
I went to his house for lunch and was given a Masonic Blue Book, Floor Manual, and pamphlet catechism for an Entered Apprentice. It was like a script for a play or movie, I opted to memorize my "part" in long-form which impressed the other Masons (it was several pages). 4/xx
Upon joining the Church, I rejected the idea that Man is capable of improving or saving himself under his own power-a central Masonic teaching (at least at the lower levels of which I was a part). But the real eye-opener was the acceptance of a sacramental World. 26/xx
I finally made it to a Master Mason. Where I was given the whole story of Hiram Abiff, a man who allegedly built Solomon's Temple, was murdered by 3 workmen in a manner reminscent of the Masonic Oaths, and then grabbed by the Hand of Solomon and lifted from the Grave 17/xx
It must be the timeless appeal of objective reality and man's curiosity in exploring it juxtaposed against the sterile path the Left was always marching down, one where they-as it's been said-scream at God for the injustices of their own existence.
Sunday Reflections. 3/3
This meme has been making rounds again and
@Scarred_Tissue
asked me to do a thread. So I'm doing a short thread on this to attempt at doing it justice. I've left much out for sake of brevity; a full treatment deserves an article or blog post. Here we go🧵1/x
Now, I am no mystic nor pretend to have any spiritual gifts. This is simply what I saw in that moment before continuing the ritual of the Entered Apprentice and taking an oath upon the Bible, Square, and Compass. 15/xx
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Military Service followed by coming home and losing out on a job because of affirmative action--only to be called by said employer weeks later after the diversity hire underperformed...
Upon entering the Lodge after memorizing my catechism "parts." I was to wear what equates to a simple white smock (nothing else but boxer shorts underneath), given one penny after relinquishing my effects to include my wedding band, and blindfolded. 8/xx
>Never waivered
>Boiled in Oil by Domitian; unscathed.
>Exiled to Patmos after failed boil
>Writes Revelation
>Returns to Ephesus
>Converts everybody else
>99 years old and still preaching
>Walks into his own tomb one Sunday Morning
>Surrounded by light and assumed into Heaven
I hesitated. I had lost the Baptist faith of my childhood a year prior while still in the Army and had a very Deistic idea of God. He asked me again and squeezed my hand: "IN WHOM DO YOU PUT YOUR TRUST??!!"
I simply said: "God."
12/xx
The news media will draw a correlation between the amount of *legal* immigration being higher too--and run some stories about them voting for Biden. There will be pretense for mail-in ballots but it doesn't matter, Those People™️ own the voting machines and their tabulation 2/10
The worshipful Master sits in the East, with junior and senior wardens in the South and West. The central teaching around all of this? Man is both sculptor and clay. By your own powers you perfect yourself unto eternal reward (You are your own redeemer). 20/xx
Despite how weird it was; there was also a genuine camaraderie there and much mirth from the other Masons, who ribbed me and made various jokes about goats and other livestock. When it was time to enter as an Apprentice, I was escorted by a "brother Mason" into the Lodge. 9/xx
many more like me got involved and simply disappeared into the background until they stopped going to Lodge completely. The old men, mostly Boomers, could not fathom why the post WW2 Masonic Boom was now, forevermore, busted into obscurity. 24/TO BE CONTINUED...
Of course this idea are quite pervasive today, and a man raised in the modern world probably won't take much issue with it because one can always "plug in" some extras-as many protestants in the Lodge certainly did. Like modern Western Democracy™️? Go thank a local Mason. 21/xx
software, too. They got a bit sloppy in 2020 but, now being perpetually at the intersection of malignancy and real competence, they won't make the same mistakes again. We can only hope they make new ones. Joe will win with even more votes, perhaps pushing 90-100 million. 3/10
"Hey bro, I agree with you on *EVERYTHING*...except for one little thing."
"What's that?"
"I think gays should be able to pay women to rent their wombs to create a vanity baby that they can raise to perpetuate their sodomitical lifestyle."
"Oh...uh...hang on just a minute..."
I was walked around a bit, each turn being a sort of liturgical step with military precision made at right angles on every turn. The ritual is available online so I won't go into painful detail except for my inward disposition during it. 10/xx
Joe will almost certainly pass away in office. At that time he'll be given a widely televised Catholic Funeral with Cdl. Wilton Gregory presiding. This will, of course, cement the fact that the Church is all-in with the Regime (and by extension the UN) in the American mind 5/10
Be it known I hope I'm wrong and I know this is an oversimplification, but I'm simply trying to read the room as it's arranged, not how'd I'd like it to be. 11/11
their loyalty to the previous revelation of the State Religion. By State Religion I mean all the shibboleths downstream from the Civil Rights Act and Immigration Act of the 60s presented to us daily in every form of media with a drop of influence, IYKYK. 8/10
I was prompted to kneel and entered into the grip of the Entered Apprentice when a question was posed to me that was *not* part of my Catechism. "Cool! Uncharted waters!" I thought.
"In WHOM DO YOU PUT YOUR TRUST?" was asked by a Mason with a slight speech impediment 11/xx
It is not apparent if Abiff was, technically, resurrected per se, but that he was a rotted corpse able to give secrets to Solomon regarding the building of the Temple. If these secrets are expounded upon at some point within the Masonic Path I was never privy to them. 18/xx
Since PBS is a Left Wing organization, did they know? Is there some grand conspiracy whereby the Left sought to create the very monsters they search their closets for each night? Perhaps, but I don't think it was intentional. These programs were wholesome, real. 2/3
The reasons for that are many and deserve their own thread. I digress.
I spent the next 7 or so years searching and discerning. I was, mostly, a post-Protestant, Right Wing, Agnostic Deist and materialist. After 7 years adrift God re-revealed Himself 25/xx
capitulated long ago. Then Harris will take over and choose the next Democrat president as her VP (likely Newsom). Meanwhile the GOP will continue to transmogrify into the "conservative" parties of the UK and Europe, shrinking, insignificant, and ever signaling 7/10
are critical to boiling the proverbial frog here, letting them croak and ribbet all they want while turning the burner up. Will there be a "Civil War" that everybody likes to talk about? No. I expect not. We lost the spiritual war a long time ago and the physical will follow10/11
The reason Hollywood pushes this is because this is how male-to-female transexuals appear after cosmetic surgery. They are trying to normalize this as a beauty standard among real women to give credence and validity to men who want to *be* women.
Women need to stop plastic surgery until we figure out what's wrong. Why would you ruin your face like this?
This is Erin Moriarty from The Boys...she was already very pretty.
@CryptidPolitics
2020 was the trial. Now it's the Standard. This is the End of the GOP unless the remaining GOP States make voting on election day the standard.
We are witnessing the total victory of revolutionary thought and political forces. All the commentators point to this with objection, but that they're even allowed to complain is just due to nascent noblesse-oblige of the State. Those People know that verbal release valves 9/10
The beautiful thing about our Religion is that you can fail throughout your life at attaining perfection, but if these are your last words--and you truly mean them--you are going to make it. Just beautiful.
Ironic that the same materialism Masonry philosophically led to and fomented in the world was what led me away. I suppose I can thank Carl Sagan and his 'Demon Haunted World' for that. Masonry, the brethren opinied, was dying out! Young men were not interested and--23/xx
It will prove a powerful signal to the faithful where the Church's institutional heart presently lays. Christianity's Main Character will have more of its skin pulled off and draped upon the State Religion. A nudge toward the sorry state of Mainline Protestant Churches that 6/10
So at this point we have a liturgical, systematized ritual whereby one knocks on the Door, is clothed in white and given a white apron; you are ritually struck upon the head, fall down (you land in a blanket like some old-timey firefighter scene) and are raised up again. 19/xx
When you joined the Church during the old times, you were a catechumen not admitted to the deeper mystery of the Eucharist. Masonry mimicked this: baby-Masons could not be admitted to the deeper mysteries of a Master Mason. 28/xx
I got involved as a Tyler (door guard) and Junior Warden (sort of like a deacon or altar server) for a while until Materialism won over. I was full of youthful Pride and had no desire for esoteric mumbo-jumbo. 22/xx
Catholics are given a white garment symbolizing that same filth has been washed away by Jesus Christ-and it *remains white* while you do the good works He has laid out for *you.* 30/xx
Catholics and Masons both have sponsors/mentors. Both wear white upon receiving baptism before taking communion-a ritual of death and rebirth. Masons are given a white apron made dirty by their works of improvement (saving yourself) 29/xx
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Performative contradiction like this is how we eventually ended up with drag queen abortion advocate "pastors" in many churches.
Why pretend when you could instead repent and be baptised? Christianity isn't good by mere utility; it's good because it's True.
We are the last bastion of intelligent life remaining in the entire universe following the War in Heaven. We are so important that God Himself became Man and dwelt among us. The rest of the material universe is just a beautiful graveyard...