Myths that Glenn Beck told you: Poland is now a fascist state

So, on the 7/21 radio show, Mr. Beck declared that Poland is becoming fascist by removing justices from their court.  Note to Mr. Beck, Poland is not the US, they dont claim to have our values (we dont recognize virtues in America, but value are easy to change) but they do have principles and virtues that have been time honored and have sustained them for a thousand plus years... compared to the what? Less than 300 years here in the US?

So whats the story?

POLAND TO PURGE COURTS OF COMMUNIST-ERA JUDGES

Thats the headline on Church militant today.  Since i dont want to reinvent the wheel here is the link:

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/tbd8

Poland recognized Christ as King and even brought in E. Michael Jones to educate them on western manipulation though "libido dominandi.

I stand with Poland and Hungry as the only sane nations in Europe proper that remain.

Myths Glenn Beck told you: Dark Ages were against reason

The other day, Mr. Beck delivered another monologue wherein he again propagated the notion that Thomas Jefferson was so honorable for saying to: "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."

Now, I'm not against anyone using reason to come to the knowledge of God.  St. Paul tells us this is just and the First Vatican Council made it a dogma wherein anyone that denies God can be known by reason is anathema. The issue is that Mr. Beck, as Mr. Jefferson did, is utterly fascinated by the myths of Carl Sagan, and how Sagan revealed the supposed lack of reason and pure superstition the Church was guilty of in the Dark Ages.

First, this notion of a Dark Ages are a matter of Modernity seeking to belittle Christendom and it's culture. That the Dark Ages propogated "blindfolded fear" is a petty shun. Jefferson was no Aquinas, Bellermine, Aristotle or even a Dante. He was a typical revolutionary age thinker, bound to the notions of Locke and Hobbes (both of who hated the Church and were not opposed to lying to bash Her).

It is libertarianism and conservatism of modern America that inherited the non-sense of the liberal thinkers of such an era “The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected," Chesterton tells us. We don't want to really look at the liberalism that all the major American political groups come from. We are a nation of revolution and aggressive trigger fingers. We invented total war and unconditional surrender... USA, USA, USA. We cant bring ourselves to really revisit things like the "need to go to war to free the slaves" or the "need to drop the bombs to bring Japan to their knees". All of these ignore facts to promote the American ideal. Justification is our passion!  The Dark Ages were bad because the Church didn't let heresy to spread everywhere! Good thing we are now all about dialogue with these principled men of modernity.

The idea that its more enlightened to allow falsehoods to spread everywhere is a type of indifferentism. We know the truth, we can come to it through the natural and divine law (both of which can be shown through evidence to be true). I'll keep Bellermine and Aquinas over Jefferson any day. Virtue much?

> Muh Light

Breaking Luther and Myths Glenn Beck told you: Luther made it possible to have a personal relationship with Christ

The idea that the corrupt Catholic Church of the renaissance was not, and could not ever be conducive to providing for and maintaining a personal relationship with Christ pure pandering to the emotionally obsessed. You will see it all the time with people asking “Have you accepted Christ into your heart as your personal Lord and savior?” At the heart of it, Protestantism is the religion of emotional experiences devoid of any objective means to place any trust in the doctrines it proposes. What does it even mean to say one has accepted Jesus into their heart as their personal Lord and Savior? It is true that we will all be judged separately, but it is not true that we will be saved based solely on a personal relationship with Christ. Our Lord tells us that He and His Church are one. He does not look at his Bride in multiplicities. He has one body by which we as people enter into through Baptism. This Baptism is not had apart from His Bride. Baptism is not just a indivual act. We cannot baptize ourselves. St. Paul puts it this way

 20 But now there are many members indeed, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help; nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of you. 22 Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. 23 And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. 24 But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour,25 That there might be no schism in the body; but the members might be mutually careful one for another. 26 And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it; or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members of member. We as individuals are brought into the Church and sanctified through Her. This is done with the help of the sacraments and in unison with the prayers and intercessions we make in Christ on behalf of one another.

Martin Luther and Glenn Beck both have something in common, they are addicted to the notion of rugged individualism. That understanding God will save us apart from others and that all he wants us to do is say we believe and that is all we need is a passing of the buck.

If we fail to do the spiritual works of mercy when they are justly presented to us we fail to observe the order that has been presented us in this world by God who has put His Order (will) into His creation to observe. If we willfully choose not to observe this ordering we create disorder, in other words sin. And we do this of our own free will. Luther, like Calvin, ultimately denied free will. By saying the individual is more important than being part of the One Body, Christ’s Church – the Catholic Church – Beck and Luther fail to observe the virtue of Humility, falling to pride. I did it my way is the song of those in Hell, not those that are humble in observing the virtue of obedience. Great, know Christ personally, but realize that Christ does not leave us to our own means to know who he is and how he wishes to bring us into a family relationship with him. Left to our own rugged individualist desires we will most assuredly seek after means that will placate the senses like warm feelings and agreeable ideas to the way we currently live our lives. So like the Ethiopian Eunuch, we are not just called to say we have faith and be content in our personal interpretations. God has placed in his Church authorities over us as Paul relates later in the same verse. To know this authority we are not left with warm feelings like the Mormons and Lutherans ultimately have to appeal to when declaring their doctrines to be true. Through the laying on of hands we have an objective means that can be traced to the Apostles themselves who appointed and gave their authority to others to continue on until the end of time teaching the faith and confecting the sacraments.

We are saved through the Church who is one with Her Bridegroom. And no one comes to the Father but through the Son. As the Apostolic Fathers and all others that were taught by the Apostles themselves taught the Bishops are the successors to the Apostles and in them is Christs authority to loose and bind. Christ said to them “He who hears you hears me, and he who despises you despises me”, I will be with you until the end of time”, the spirit of Truth which he granted to the Apostles “will lead you to all truths”. This is not a subjective matter but a reality that can be known objectively. That Luther struggled with the understanding that the sacraments are not dependent on his own ability to deserve or merit their graces clearly shows his distaste for anything objective. Everything was determined by feelings. He felt it right not to obey a Pope if he did not personally give his consent to him… like a Pharisee to Christ. Because Luther was nothing more than a Pharisee in his own day, unable to see the gift given regardless of the person, and to submit in humble gratitude for the gift.

Gratitude, Humility and obedience – these are gifts a Catholic possesses because he realizes he is not his own.

Myths Glenn Beck told you: Islam, like Catholicism in it's day, needs a reformation

The notion that Islam needs a reformation, in the same manner that Christianity (ie: Catholicism) needed one in the 16th century, almost gets it right. The problem is what today appeases the masses as the reformation, was not a reforming of the faith (which would come later under great saints like Philip Neri and Ignatius of Loyola) but a revolution that tore Christendom into pieces of silly string.

The protestant revolution did not lead to holiness, it did not lead to peace, it did not lead to holy souls.  Its fruits are there for all to see today. Just some to consider:

1. Confusion: as 30,000 plus man made religions find themselves in open contradiction. All claiming to be filled with the spirit, yet under this notion God is pitted against himself

2. Lies and black legends formed to slander Catholics: In order to strip even the pious men of their authority in the faith, slanders and calumnies were employed to pit peasant against his brother, Lords against the clergy and Kings against kings.

3. Iconoclasm and avarice reigned among the people, especially among the royals.

4. Reason and faith were separated to the point that philosophy no longer sought to understand reality, but to find any manner by which creation could be inverted to play to the desires of any one person.

5. Virtues were replaced with values. Formless as they were, tolerance became a greater pursuit then order which had made Christendom. Soon all things would be given a place at the table, because no one wanted to offend anyone else, since it wouldn’t feel good.

And this is only a start to the fruits of the protestant revolt.

So if a revolution happens in the Islamic world, you are not going to get the desired result. Why? Because Islam is not one as Catholicism is. It is much closer to a mix of Orthodoxy and Protestantism.  Orthodoxy in that There are at least 5 different schools of thought, which disagree with each other all the time leaving nothing ever to get done or affirmed over the whole.   Protestantism, in that it is a pillaging community that values a lack of reason in favor of emotions. Yes that is Protestantism in a nutshell.  Ask Luther to write more theology from the toilet.

The goal is not to see Islam reformed. That is not what our Lord willed so why do we encourage such?  Let the goofy evangelicals and Mormons that push their universalism fall in their own ditch on the matter.  We as Catholics can only be for one thing, the absolute abrogation of the Islamic religion. Not by force, but by use of reason and prayer. Rosaries and Thomistic studies are going to be key tools in such.  That they may be one.  The Church is already one, she never lost that.  She calls the Orthodox, the protestants, the Mohammadans, Jews, etc into that singular communion – Outside of which there is no salvation.

Merely calling for Muslims to not be open to following the example of their revered founder, but instead to practice the values of America… somehow that is supposed to fix things.  Americanism is not an improvement from Islamism, it is a heresy and leads to indifferentism (being lukewarm, at least the Mohammadans are cold).

I don’t want an Islamic reformation, I want the reign of Christ the King and the exposing of all false practices including all protestant sects and muslim and jewish faith pillars.

In the end her Immaculate Heart will triumph and Russia will be consecrated.

+JMJ+

Myths Glenn Beck told you: An Introduction

The other day I found myself listening to the Glenn Beck program, on Podcast of course cause listening to Mike Church (an actual Catholic) on the Veritas Radio Network is way better. I was prepared to enjoy the show, when (like often happens) Glenn made a point of distorting history to suit his values.  In other words he bashed Christendom and the Church.

Now it would be easy to just make that statement and not substantiate it, so I have downloaded the most frustrating segment for your listening before I go on:

So as you can see, there are so many issues with what he said that it is literally maddening. And the worst part is that so many Catholic buy into what he has to say, because most of us dont know anything about the faith so anything that itches the ear and has a conservative tone is a seemingly worthwhile cause.

This new series will pin-point and correct the errors proposed by Glenn Beck, both heard in the video and more. I hope the series will be of help to you and so any Beck fan's out there, cause we are promised we will know the Truth and it will set us free. So truth has an objective means by which it can be ascertained, that is by is Body the Church.

Before I get into one of the errors, it is good to review Americanism, which is a chief problem (obviously) affecting many American Catholic minds that follow him