CATHOLICS AND THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST TRAP

       It is commonly believed that the scourge of Christian Nationalism is confined to certain cultish Megachurches which nominally are Protestant, and that the poisonous doctrines haven't infiltrated Catholicism to the same extent. After all, Pope Francis and several high-ranking officials in the Church have denounced the movement, and there is precedent for it as well. After the suppression of the Cathars in Mediaeval Europe---whose doctrines contemporary Christian Nationalists mirror in many ways---the Council of Florence convened under Pope Eugene IV ruled in 1441:

    "Whoever, after the passion, places his hope in the legal prescriptions of the Law of Moses and submits himself to them as necessary for salvation and as if faith in Christ without them could not save, sins mortally. It does not deny that from Christ's passion until the promulgation of the gospel they could have been retained, provided they were in no way believed to be necessary for salvation. But it asserts that after the promulgation of the gospel they cannot be observed without loss of eternal salvation."

    Christian Nationalism has strong ties to the Zionist Cult; both believe themselves people chosen by God (i.e., a Master Race) to impose their interpretations of the Old Testament via the Force of Law upon their 'inferiors.' Many Catholics seem to be under the delusion that the Christian Nationalists include them in their chiliastic and nihilistic fantasies as well, despite all of the evidence to the contrary. In fact, the Worldwide Web during the last two weeks have been filled with some of most appalling and degrading degrees of fawning apologies for, as well as revolting displays of utter servility to, the Uniparty; even when the very leadership of the Church---whom we presume are better versed on Christian Ethics than Deep State technocrats---say otherwise.

    The Department of Homeland Security---an institution which really has no justification for existing under our form of Government, is currently headed by a rabid Christian Nationalist, former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. Governor Noem recently staged a photo-op in New York City of herself posing as the Aryan Valkyrie leading the White Knights into battle against the foreign-born who are corrupting our Blood and Soil. 

       It doesn't seemed to have dawned on these very based and Red Pilled Catholics that around 100% of the immigrant roundups and forced deportations are targeting people from predominantly Catholic countries; or that Governor Noem singled out Catholic Services for the proposed funding freeze. Only few years ago, when the Democrats were attempting to defund Catholic organizations over their refusal to implement pro-abortion and pro-homo policies, that was an assault on religious liberty and overt discrimination against Catholics. But when Republicans do it, in the service of the same Uniparty though re-packaged and re-sold under a different agenda, the Catholic laity decides to sit on their hands and do as they're ordered.

     Some of the apologists for the New Order emphasize the few crumbs that the Republicans have tossed us on Social Issues, and blown the significance of these things wholly out of proportion. These actions aren't being done because the Administration cares so deeply about issues important to Catholics; they are doing them because they happen to dovetail with issues pressed by the Christian Nationalists. On top of that, they are mostly hollow gestures: publicity stunts that won't actually effect much of anything. Terminating Federal support for things like Abortion Mills and homo 'equality' doesn't mean making these things illegal: the Reactionaries are simply outsourcing Woke Ideology to State Governors and Wall Street Corporate Oligarchs.

     Why are so many Catholics falling into the Christian Nationalist trap? Like many other Americans, they value the security of an authoritarian government more than things like religious liberty; and---also like many Americans---live in a State of Denial that Government Overreach will ever be employed against them. Many Catholics in 1930s Germany made the same rationalizations and it didn't work out so well. 

    It's not going to work out this time either. The Reactionaries have a history going back several years outlining their plans to usher in their version of the Great Reset; and their contempt for Catholicism has been noted for just as long. At best, they consider all religion a useful tool to keep the masses in subjection---an ideal not far removed from the typical Megachurch leadership, but considerably far from the traditions of the Catholic Church. Denial and refusal to stand on principle has never worked, and never will.