NATIONALISM AND THE NEW PHARISEES, PART III

      Washington State, whose current Governor Bob Ferguson is a notoriously vicious anti-Christian fanatic, is pushing a Bill through the State Legislature which would jail Catholic priests for breaking the privileged Seal-of-Confession. The move is part of the general breakdown of our Legal Establishment as we move further into an outright Police State. The Courts have recognized privileged communications for decades, (e.g. Priest/Penitent, Doctor/Patient, Attorney/Client and spousal immunity) from testimony) although the Uniparty's thirst for power and American society's general indifference to Privacy Rights could well break down this precedent too.

     Tom Homan, a former Obama immigration official who switched sides after 2016, now is the so-called 'Border Czar' in the Department of Homeland Security. DHS is run by Christian Nationalist Kristi Noem, who has no issue with Homan's goons kicking down doors of churches to drag off those subhumans in chains and no issue with cutting off funding to Catholic relief agencies who don't toe the Party Line on immigration. Of course, when Democrats do these things, it's bad: but when Republicans do it, American Catholics can't seem to fawn over them effusively enough. 

      Christian Nationalism by its definition is a religion of partisan politics and not of Faith. The Catholic Church learned from experience the folly of mixing faith and government during the Middle Ages; it led to two schisms (three if we count the French Revolution), some of the most corrupt Popes, and produced a society that paralyzed Western Civilization for nearly 1500 years. Fake Catholics like former Hollywood/Silicon Valley corporate lawyer JD Vance have been dispatched by the White House to try and win over the skeptics in the Church with pious platitudes. Vance is an admirer of the Mediaeval Social Order, just as many Christian Nationalists in the Administration admire the theocratic monarchies of the Ancient Middle East. Both movements, of course, fit snugly with the Great Reset ideology of a utopian society run by a Technocratic Elite and faith is considered a useful tool to keep the masses under subjugation.

     The dangers of utopianism and millenarianism were highlighted last week when the White House announced an absurd scheme to form an Anschluss of sorts with the Zionist Regime in Israel. The plan revolves around depopulating the Gaza Strip and 'relocating' the estimated 1.8 million of the survivors of the Zionist onslaught to Concentration Camps elsewhere. The majority of these people---who really were displaced by immigrant invaders---are suffering from malnutrition, dehydration, various diseases brought on by lack of basic services, and severe physical and psychological wounds brought on by Zionist barbarism; hence many are not likely even to survive the transit, should it happen.

    Now, we don't yet know whether or not the Neocons can or will actually do this, but it illustrates the brutality and disregard for human life underlying the Christian Nationalist movement. Both them and their Zionist confederates believe themselves a Chosen People with a Divine Mandate to create a Millenarian Utopia. Their misinterpretations of Biblical prophecy have deluded them into believing that the modern State of Israel somehow factors into what they call God's Plan, which they presume to know. 

   Mike Huckabee was appointed US Ambassador to Israel, pointedly bringing Real-Estate mogul Steve Witkoff in tow. Huckabee is connected to televangelist James Robison. During his Presidential Run, he was funded by the Hollywood producer of the Left Behind series, Tim LaHaye. “We never can accept the notion that Israel will be divided, that Jerusalem will be carved in half. Let us be clear: The boundaries of Israel are not given by the United Nations but by almighty God,” Huckabee said in 2015. His positions haven't changed, upon being appointed Ambassador he gloated: "The title deed was given by God to Abraham and to his heirs. So you want to talk occupation? I never use the term West Bank. I find it offensive. We’re talking about Judea and Samaria.”

    Pentagon Chief and former Fox News host, Pete Hegseth is a Christian Nationalist in addition to being a White Supremacist. He likewise holds Millennarian fantasies; speaking before the Arutz Sheva Conference in 2018, Hegseth remarked of his trip to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that:  “As you stand there, you can’t help but behold the miracle before you. And it got me thinking about another miracle that I hope all of you don’t see too far away. Because 1917 was a miracle. 1948 was a miracle. 1967 was a miracle. 2017, the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital, was a miracle. And there’s no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible.”

    There are no shortages of crackpots like these in positions to do actual damage. House Speaker Mike Johnson holds to the same beliefs, as does Trump's 'spiritual adviser, televangelist Paula White, among many others. The Catholic Catechism, however, stands opposed to these millenialist and utopian schemes.  

# 675 "Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. [Lk. 18:; Mt. 24:12] The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth [Lk. 21:12; Jn. 15:19-20] will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh." [2 Thess. 2:4-12; 1 Thess. 5:2-3; 2 Jn. 7; 1 Jn. 2:18, 22]

# 676 "The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgement. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, [DS 3839] especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism. [Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, condemning the "false mysticism" of this "counterfeit of the redemption of the lowly"; cf. GS 20-21.]

    Thus we see that these movements, despite their claims, are in no way consistent with the teachings of actual Christianity. 

    Those who have studied the histories of religious movements are universally agreed that there are tendencies towards dangerous cults arising within them throughout history. Cultures much like Postmodern America: legalistic societies where normal sexual love, emotional expression, and personal freedom are heavily restricted are breeding grounds for these evil doctrines. It becomes even more dangerous when fueled by hatred and paranoia, because the adherents of such doctrines psychological project all of their fears upon their perceived enemies. This explains the sheer callousness and demonic fury that looks with glee upon scenes of the utmost cruelty and horror with complacency. The New Right's motto, Facts Don't Care about your Feelings, sums up their entire social philosophy succinctly.

     Just as the New Right is the Reactionary concomitant to the Whacko Left; the Christian Nationalists and their associated cults are the reactionary counter-extreme to Rainbow Churchianity. This is why we should trust in the established teachings of the centuries when we have questions of faith; and not be led astray---and ultimately to disaster---by the posturing of charlatans and neurotics.