In a previous Lay Pulpit article,
we stressed the importance of keeping a cool, level, charitable head in combating Islam, and of the importance of
creating the right “atmosphere” for doing so – but also how the campaign of
misinformation waged by the media makes that so difficult to do. Is there any evidence that
“misinformation” is doing that?
You bet there is. More than
one acquaintance of this writer thinks that the “solution” to the problems over
in the Middle East is to “carpet bomb the entire region” -- men, women, and children alike. Indeed, U.S. vice-president Joseph
Biden advocates using drones over there to do pretty much the same thing, with
little regard for “collateral damage” – and many, including several “traddies,”
agree with him.
What has helped bring them to
this sort of thinking is, no doubt, the spate of recent atrocities that have
occurred there in the Mideast (including the beheadings of two U.S
journalists). There is nothing so
graphically riveting as a beheading to inflame one’s emotions of hatred and to
enkindle one’s desire for “retaliation.”
But, gruesome as that sort of thing is, it is not justification for
unbridled vengeance.
“Retaliation” or “tit for tat” is an “Old Testament” thing – what the
Jews of old practiced -- and what, unfortunately, the Jews of today are doing (as they just
demonstrated in the recent Gaza City fighting: a dozen or so Israeli dead (and
negligible property damage) vs. over twelve hundred Palestinian dead (and billions
of dollars in property damage).
Secondly, we must realize,
again, that all the “reports” coming out of the Mideast are coming from our media – which should make us very
suspect. To repeat what we said in a previous
article, “that should worry us.” True, we have a moral obligation to
fight injustice and to “do the right thing”; but we must do that and
no more – and we must not be too hasty in deciding what constitutes “the right thing.” Acting hastily and emotionally in a “knee-jerk” fashion invariably produces the wrong
results; it usually brings on, not resolution, but escalation.
Also, we need to look “beneath
the surface” and take in the whole picture:
the Islamists, bad as they are, are not our ultimate
enemy: the Zionists are. (Yes, Satan is the real “ultimate enemy”; but his main instruments here on
earth are the Zionists.) The Moslems, just as we, are simply fellow pawns in the Zionist chess
game. It is the Zionists who are
orchestrating things over there (and here*). Just as the Zionist-controlled media misrepresented the
facts in the shooting of an “unarmed teenager” in Ferguson, Missouri, they are
doing much the same in the Middle East: they are doing their best to foment
hatred on both sides, and to cause as much confusion and misunderstanding as
possible. And right now, many inflamed Americans – including many traddies –
are being “sucked in” by this; they cannot see the Zionist forest through the
Islamic trees.
One of the Zionists’ reasons
for stirring up this “ISIS” trouble – or, rather, for orchestrating it -- is that they needed to divert attention away
from themselves: they had just taken
a lot of criticism from European public opinion (in spite of the fact that they
control much of Europe’s media) on their handling of the recent events in Gaza;
and they needed to take the “heat” off themselves, and focus it somewhere
else.** But their main reason is
that “stirring up trouble” is just part of their overall “divide and conquer”
strategy: they themselves are too small in number, so they must set others at one another’s throats to do
the “dividing and conquering” for them.
And, of course, who is more easily manipulated to do just that than a
bunch of fanatical Islamic militants?
In today’s world, “dividing and
conquering” is going on almost everywhere – and it is in high gear. Under the guise of “egalitarianism” and
“civil rights,” the races are pitted against one another, women against men,
and children against parents – not to mention, “discrimination” against someone
based on one's “sexual preference” (homosexuality). Even harming an animal can get
one a prison sentence, while killing an unborn baby is a “right” protected by law. Meanwhile, morality is disintegrating
on all fronts. The traditional
family, as we know it (i.e., husband, wife, and children) is disappearing. In fact, the word “family” itself is
now going through an Orwellian transformation: homosexuals can now get “married” and call themselves a “family,”
and can even adopt children.
And if anyone objects to such an arrangement, he can be convicted of a
“hate crime.”
More importantly, because of
the mainstream media’s relentless campaign of misinformation, people are
actually getting used to and accepting “such arrangements.” More and more, people once violently
opposed to homosexuality are coming to look on it as “acceptable” and as merely
“an alternate lifestyle” – and to actually condemn anyone who thinks otherwise. The misinformation juggernaut, which
began as a trickle, is now a torrent: things like abortion and homosexuality,
universally condemned evils not all that long ago, are now not only accepted, but are rights protected by law.
And, as said before, the scary part
is that people are accepting all of
this. Actually, they’re embracing
it. But that should not come as a
surprise; that is today’s mentality: short memory spans, and a propensity to
accept anything heard through “official channels.” And if it “looks
good” or “sounds good,” they’ll go
for it – especially if it’s repeated often enough. A prime example of this is traddieland -- especially the culties of SGG. They have fallen “hook, line, and sinker” for the pontifical
pageantry of Dolan and the faux
“scholarship” of Cekada, because the former looks
good and the latter sounds good –
even though neither one is
good.
They can't see that Dolan’s pageantry
and his pious “sweet nothings” served up weekly in his Bishop’s Corner are only so much window dressing -- cosmetics. They fail to see that if he were truly Catholic, he wouldn’t dismiss the
SGG principal’s sons’ watching porn as “boys will be boys,” he wouldn’t
tolerate the brutal treatment the SGG school children at the hands of that same
principal, and he wouldn’t ask his parishioners to pay for SGG’s heating bills
while he himself is away enjoying winter junkets to Argentina and Baja. And if Cekada were truly Catholic, he
wouldn’t have justified the murder of Terri Schiavo (where he violated just
about every Catholic moral precept regarding the dignity of human life), nor
would he have so vindictively (and arrogantly) denounced all those who opposed
his monstrous position on Schiavo.
But to the culties, none of this matters. To repeat, they go
for the stuff that looks and sounds good – for the cosmetics. That’s why things such as “dress code” and “rites and
rubrics” count, but Catholic principles don’t. And, consequently, that is why SGG’s
culties can swallow Cekada's Schiavo swill and still fall for the dynamic duo's sanctimonious
drivel.
That is why they can conveniently disregard Dolan's laissez faire attitude about the porn -- because they
have been mesmerized by all the pomp and pageantry that these two impresarios
put on. And that is why they can
continue to bankroll the dynamic duo’s luxurious lifestyle and not complain –
because these two hucksters put on a good show.
But principles do
count. In fact, they’re the ONLY
things that count. Catholic
“trappings” without Catholic principles
are NOTHING. SGG’s parishioners ought to know this;
but, apparently, they don’t. And
that is why they really aren’t
Catholic – because they want the former but ignore the latter. If they really were Catholic, they’d heed
those principles -- and would probably pack up and leave SGG in a heartbeat. But they won’t, because, at SGG, they
love their “Show” too much. For
them, it’s “The Show” that counts.
Just as the
American public-at-large has been manipulated and misled by misinformation, so
too have SGG’s parishioners been manipulated and misled by the dynamic duo’s own brand of
misinformation: saccharine sanctimony and pretentious pageantry, specious
dogmatism, cult-like intimidation – and the emphasis on things like “dress-code” while at the same time flagrantly disregarding basic Catholic moral principles. This is a strategy that cost SGG half
its parish in 2009, and that continues to “divide and conquer” them to this day
– a process which needs to be reversed. And the best way to arrest and reverse that process is simple: just
stop giving the cult-masters your money; keep it in your wallet.
That is the “divide and conquer” strategy to follow.
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*In the U.S. (and, through it,
just about every developed country in the world) it is a well-documented (but
little-publicized) fact that it is Zionists
who control (and manipulate) just about every facet of our society: the motion
picture industry, TV, the press – and especially our financial
institutions. Just about every
major bank -- both here and abroad -- is headed by individuals who are
professed Zionists, including the present head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and
her three immediate predecessors (not to mention, the vast Rothschild banking empire overseas).
And, one has only to look at
U.S foreign policy over the years to see that America has been (and still is)
the world’s chief apologist for Zionism and its secular state (Israel),
beginning with our formal diplomatic recognition of that country fifteen
minutes after it was “formed” -- and formed by wresting Palestine from its Arab
inhabitants, who were dispossessed of their land to accommodate the Israelis’
two thousand-year-old “biblical” claim to it. Ever since then, the U.S has been Israel’s chief supporter,
and has put Israel’s national interests above even its own. In fact, several key figures in our
government (including Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz) hold dual U.S-Israeli citizenship (as did
Henry Kissinger, who served as U.S. Secretary of State under presidents Nixon
and Ford) – something which the average American is probably unaware of. [For a more extensive list of persons
holding (or having held) dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, click here.]
** Our press reported that
Israel “retaliated” against Hamas rocket attacks; but in their “retaliation,”
over 1200 Palestinians died (most of whom were civilians) vs. a dozen or so
Israelis (most of whom were soldiers).
The unprovoked bombing of civilians – including children in hospitals --
by Israeli forces was so blatant that it was roundly condemned -- even by our
“Zionist-friendly” press. But not
to worry: our media did their “damage control” best to minimize its impact; and
it was quickly “deflected,” explained away, and then forgotten by all – when all the “ISIS” “news” came out.
But was it really retaliation? ”Deflection” or “explaining away” of Israeli aggression is
routinely done by our media – and easily
done: many times, Israeli “retaliation” is actually a case of them committing the initial act of
aggression – but an act which goes unreported (what else would one
expect a Zionist-controlled press to do?). Then, when Hamas (or some other Arab combatant) responds,
that same press reports it as an “unprovoked” act, thus requiring “an Israeli
response.” And when they cannot
possibly hide an Israeli-instigated aggression, they try to put a “positive
spin” on it, or to mitigate it in some other way, as they did in Gaza City.
In all fairness, it must be
admitted that the Israelis do not have a monopoly on this sort of subterfuge;
it is done all the time, by all nations -- ours included. Declassified documents, for instance,
show that we routinely fired on German U-boats prior to our formal entry into
WWII, in an effort to provoke a response.
And when there was a response,
our press reported it as an “unprovoked act.” This, though, is to be expected: it’s called “war
propaganda.” One expects one’s own press to back
it up. But what sets today's biased
reporting on Israel apart is that
it’s not their press but ours (which is supposed to be “neutral”)
invariably taking Israel’s side.
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