One of the most maddening parts of the nuthouse we’ve been living in for close to 30 solid months now is that real-life events constantly contradict the official version of things, yet that version still persists as if nothing ever happened.
I expect politicians to refuse to understand things. But even your own neighbors pretend these things don’t exist.
Florida’s age-adjusted Covid mortality is better than that of most states. That should not be possible. Not a single, solitary Covid hysteric would have predicted that outcome, and they would have called you crazy and irresponsible for predicting it. Yet it occurred, and it didn’t change their minds one iota, even though it explodes their entire worldview.
When it lifted its state-level restrictions in February 2021 Iowa was called by the media “the state that doesn’t care if you live or die,” but then when you track its health outcomes against other Midwestern states over the ensuing months you cannot tell the difference between Iowa and any other state. If the hysterics were right, this could not be possible. Yet it occurred, and it didn’t change their minds one iota.
Having said all that, let me now share with you another chart from the heroic Ian Miller. This chart, like the other pieces of evidence I’ve mentioned, will likewise do nothing to change anyone’s mind, even though it obviously should.
Athens, Georgia, recently brought back its mask mandate. Athens, Georgia must therefore be doing so much better than other places in Georgia that it just jumps right off the chart, right?
See for yourself:
Wait, what’s that? It’s indistinguishable from its neighbors — like all other such charts?
How about that.
Not to mention: Athens and its neighbors imposed and lifted mask mandates at all different times, and yet their numbers are identical.
So now mask up six-fold and chow down on that one folks.
In reaction to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the independent island nation of Taiwan, communist China is having a bitchfit and launching missiles with flight paths over Taiwan while all but surrounding the island nation with live fire naval and air exercises. According to China, this is all part of the CCP’s “reunification” plan to take Taiwan under control of the CCP, using military force to achieve its goals.
Taiwan is a key strategic supplier of 2nm microchips to western nations, providing critical components to Apple, weapons manufacturers, navigation, transportation and telecommunications industries. Without Taiwan’s steady supply of microchips (and other goods manufactured in Taiwan), western economies would face devastating economic consequences. For this reason, Taiwan holds strategic value for the western world that is far higher in the “critical infrastructure” hierarchy than Ukraine.
Should China choose to blockade or attack Taiwan, the likely counterattack by western allies would involve not just Taiwan, but also Japan, South Korea, Australia, the United States, the UK, Germany and other western nations.
Russia dominates ground warfare, but the USA dominates maritime force
As I detail in today’s Situation Update podcast (below), Russia is formidable when it comes to ground warfare. Russian artillery, Iskander missiles, tactical nuclear missiles and other ground-based systems are the best and most effective in the world. But when it comes to maritime conflict, the United States Navy is irrefutably unrivaled.
The US Navy operates 11 aircraft carriers and 9 helo carriers, whereas Russia has but one carrier and China has only 2 aircraft carriers and 1 helo carrier. China’s Liaoning carrier was purchased from Ukraine in 1998 and is an old Soviet design, which was re-engineered with Chinese technology (largely stolen from the USA) and finally made combat ready after 14 years of retrofitting. The Liaoning is not considered by naval experts to be any real challenge to a Nimitz-class U.S. carrier.
China’s second carrier is the Shandong, a more modern carrier launched sometime around 2020. Even though it is a step up from the Liaoning, it is no match for US Nimitz-class or Ford-class carriers.
Currently in the area of Taiwan are three US carriers (and accompanying strike force groups): The USS America (a helo carrier), USS Tripoli (another helo carrier) and USS Ronald Reagan (a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier). The USS Abraham Lincoln is currently in the Hawaiian island area and is within reasonable reaction distance to Taiwan, if things go hot.
US Nimitz-class and new Ford-class carriers are by far the largest, most heavily armed and most capable warships in the world. Each one holds around 6,000 crew (including officers) and is powered by redundant nuclear power plants that allow the ships to run for 20 years without refueling. (This is an astonishing but true fact. They don’t use diesel fuel, they run entirely on nuclear energy.)
The US Navy’s Carrier Strike Groups (CSGs) are fully capable of defending against incoming missiles of all types, although we don’t yet know the final answer on China’s hypersonic missile capabilities vs. US carrier anti-missile defenses. Those details are likely classified.
China, of course, has plenty of land-based nuclear missiles, and the only real way China could stop the US Navy is to detonate nuclear missiles at altitude, over US carriers (if they could even gain access to that area).
China is vulnerable to Taiwan’s missiles as well as the US Navy’s firepower
Taiwan, meanwhile, has ground-based missile systems that can take out the Three Gorges Dam in China, which would plunge China’s economy into collapse, lead to mass flooding and starvation, and possibly even help topple the Xi Jinping regime due to social unrest and mass uprisings that would take place over subsequent months.
On top of all this, the US Navy has nuclear-capable submarines with ocean-launched ICBMs that can destroy entire cities such as Beijing.
Thus, anything China wants to threaten to use against Taiwan or the US Navy, allied forces can threaten back at a much larger scale. Any escalation by China, it turns out, will only result in China paying a very heavy price.
For example, if China attempts to attack a US aircraft carrier, the US Navy may respond by sinking one of China’s two existing carriers. Should China lose a carrier, this would have devastating consequences for China’s international reputation, and it would show that the US is fully capable of throwing its weight around, even far from home ports.
Here’s a partial infographic showing the capabilities of the new Ford-class aircraft carriers now being constructed for the US Navy:
Why the US is trying to provoke a war with China
Given the disastrous US pullout from Afghanistan under traitor-in-chief Joe Biden, the United States currently suffers from a catastrophic loss of reputation in terms of its military capabilities. This is influencing many nations around the world seeking to move away from the petro dollar and embrace the BRICS nations alternate monetary system, spearheaded by China and Russia. In order to reshape America’s standing among the international community, the United States needs to achieve victory in a significant military conflict that sends the message that America can still dictate terms to the world.
Put another way, defending the petro dollar status — which is what allows the Federal Reserve to print more money and export inflation around the world — requires the United States of America to be “credible” in its projection of power around the world. If the US military can’t win military conflicts, then the world loses faith in the dollar currency.
For this reason, we believe, Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was designed to provoke a military escalation from China in order to justify US entering a war with China.
Right now, the US almost seems to be taunting China into a provocation, hoping that China will lash out in a reckless way that will justify America’s heavy-handed response that could either sink a Chinese carrier or achieve some other highly visible defeat of China’s military.
Notably, China has a massive military in terms of ground personnel, but even if you have 100 million armed soldiers on land, that does absolutely nothing to alter the conflict on the high seas. Thus, America’s Navy maintains key advantages when the conflict can be waged in the oceans rather than on land. Taiwan’s existence as an independent island nation means that if China hopes to take Taiwan, they must engage in naval warfare first, presenting a nearly impossible barrier to the taking of Taiwan, unless the US Navy abandons the defense of Taiwan.
China would prefer to weaken America through unrestricted warfare, and topple America from within
This is why China’s key strategy in global warfare is to first take down the United States of America. This is in the process of being accomplished through:
CCP infiltation of the establishment media in the United States (Reuters, AP, NYT, WashPost, etc., are all puppets of the CCP, and many of them take money directly from the CCP to run pro-China propaganda disguised as news).
CCP blackmailing of the Biden regime due to Hunter Biden’s laptop evidence involving under-age, trafficked Chinese prostitutes.
CCP infiltration of academia, now abundantly evident in the libtard class of school teachers and college professors becoming full-blown Marxists.
The development biological weapons via gain-of-function research, even in collusion with corrupt, treasonous US operatives (Anthony Fauci, the NIH, the NIAID, etc.) in order to achieve economic destabilization and depopulation.
CCP bribery of US governors such as Newsom, who has received billions of dollars in illicit kickbacks from the CCP via money laundering operations disguised as PPE purchases for covid. GOP governors are also on China’s payroll. (Georgia, anyone?)
CCP control of Big Tech and censorship of anti-CCP content in the United States.
CCP ownership and control of pop culture, such as the CCP owning or influencing nearly all of Hollywood and the entertainment industry.
Pushing LGBT themes, transgenderism, grooming, pedophilia and other twisted perversions on the US population while specifically prohibiting such expressions in China itself.
Colluding with Mexican drug cartels to smuggle fentanyl into the United States via the open southern border, taking the lives of over 60,000 young, military-aged American males each year due to overdose and substance abuse.
CCP sabotage operations targeting the US economy and fiat currency system. Port lockdowns in China, for example, weaken the US supply chain and are causing havoc among US retailers such as Amazon and Walmart. Amazon just clocked a $2 billion loss for the second quarter, and Walmart has just fired hundreds of top executives.
CCP infiltration of America’s telecommunications infrastructure (Huawei) and cyber systems in order to establish cyber dominance and backdoor access to take down key infrastructure components at will.
Why China has been forced to accelerate its schedule
This process of taking down the USA via infiltration, cultural warfare, financial warfare and bioweapons takes time, of course. Thus, China’s preferred strategy in all this was to wait another several years for America to become weak (and divided) while China produced more aircraft carriers. However, this timeline has been accelerated against China’s wishes. The accelerating has been caused by:
Trump’s highly effective trade war against China, involving tariffs and trade restrictions that, predictably, Joe Biden is rolling back in China’s favor.
The fact that Joe Biden’s time in the Oval Office is quickly coming to an end. Once Biden is removed (by whatever means), China loses key leverage against the Biden Crime Family, over which China has enormous quantities of blackmail material.
China’s own collapsing domestic economy (Evergrande and Ponzi property developer collapse, bank bail-ins, domestic uprisings against property developers and banks, etc.) is driving the CCP into a corner where they need a war in order to quell rising domestic unrest and financial instability. China is mired in debt, and much of the Chinese economy has been built on a Ponzi scheme.
Thus, China appears to be forced to accelerate its attack against the United States, bringing it forward from 2035 into the current year, 2022. As previously reported in the media, leaked audio from Chinese generals reveals that China is in the process right now of loading maritime ships (both military and merchant ships) in preparation for a very large-scale assault to take place seemingly within just a matter of months. This also explains why China just announced another lockdown of one million people, stemming from four “positive” cases of asymptomatic covid. These lockdowns have nothing to do with public health; they are designed to clear the streets and allow massive military movements involving equipment and personnel, loading transport ships and repositioning domestic military equipment in preparation for war.
Interviewed were JR Nyquist, Dr. Yen Li-Meng and whistleblower Jennifer Zhang on these issues and more. According to the best and most credible information, China is gearing up for an attack on the continental United States.
China’s real military strategy is now being revealed right out in the open
China is unlikely to assault Taiwan with amphibious landings. Rather, China is going to blockade Taiwan with naval and air forces. In fact, this blockade has now begun.
The real attack by China will likely target the continental United States, with beach landings in California, coordinated with treasonous CCP puppet Gavin Newsom. Once Chinese troops land on the beaches, they will seize California’s ports and dock larger military transport vessels to unload tanks, artillery and other land-based military equipment that will serve the PLA’s invasion and occupation of America’s western states (at least, that’s the plan).
Understand that Gavin Newsom’s effort to criminalize AR-15s and other rifles in California serves a dual purpose: He wants to make sure armed California citizens can’t fight back against the impending Chinese invasion.
How will China make it to the West Coast of America with all these ships? Many will be disguised as merchant vessels and container ships. Parked offshore, containers outfitted with medium-range tactical nuclear missiles can open up and fire these missiles at strategic targets inside CONUS, such as California’s National Guard bases, hydroelectric dams, railroads, power stations and other critical infrastructure.
The US Navy, meanwhile, will likely be given a stand down order by treasonous Pentagon officials who are following orders from Joe Biden, a fake president run by the CCP via blackmail leverage. It will be up to individual Navy commanders to break ties with the treasonous “woke” Pentagon and defend America against China’s invasion force, even at the risk of being fired upon by other US vessels who are following orders from the swamp. Thus, the risk of a US military civil war is very real and quite high. China is counting on this, knowing that Joe Biden would authorize the use of nuclear missile strikes against US Carrier Strike Groups that do not obey orders to stand down.
This is why “white hats” in the US military must immediately arrest all traitors, including fake president Joe Biden and the entire cabal of Democrats who rigged the 2020 election in order to put themselves in precisely this position where the United States of America could be successfully invaded and occupied by China. All the Democrats who participated in the election rigging of 2020 — from the lowest-level local Democrat mule to the highest-level operative — must be arrested and charged with wartime treason.
What happens if China lands troops in California?
Once China lands troops in California and unloads heavy military equipment via California ports, it will be up to armed citizens to wage guerilla warfare against an invading enemy in order to save America from being overrun. This will be made extremely difficult by the fact that the US military, under orders from treasonous Biden, has sent the vast majority of anti-tank weapons, artillery weapons and other military resources to Ukraine. These various munitions are in low supply and cannot be manufactured by the United States in any sort of timely basis due to the fact that America’s industrial might has long since been offshored to countries like China. Thus, Russia’s Special Military Operation against Ukraine achieved a key strategic goal of occupying America’s military resources in the Ukraine theater of war, making America extremely vulnerable to an invasion by China.
Once the invasion begins, California will fall quickly, and Chinese forces will push eastward, ultimately hoping to seize the fertile farmlands of the Midwest in order to produce abundant food supplies for the Chinese people. (China is currently unable to produce enough food to feed its population and must import the food from other countries.) As part of this goal, China intends to execute every living American, including those who went along with China’s invasion. China’s admitted goal in other words, is full-scale genocide.
In this scenario, the United States of America will be fighting a determined, domestic guerilla war against both occupying enemy forces and the treasonous, rogue US government which will unleash US military troops against the American people in order to aid the communist Chinese. This is why the woke Pentagon is rapidly purging Christians, patriots and Trump supporters from the ranks of the military. When the Pentagon orders the military to start executing American citizens on American soil, they need to make sure all the remaining troops will say, “Yes sir!” and carry out the executions on command.
Understand that the Biden regime will be working alongside communist China to overrun CONUS and execute all Americans on sight. This plan has been in place long before Obama was placed into power, by the way.
This can all be stopped, but it would require removing the traitors from power
The above scenario describes where things are headed if they stay on the present course. This course can be altered, but any such alteration would require removing the traitors from power in the United States federal government. This includes treasonous actors in the US State Department and the DOJ. The coming mid-terms, should Republicans win a majority in the House, could be a turning point which might avert the worst case scenario. However, it’s now rather obvious that Democrats are trying to start World War III before the midterm elections so that they can suspend the elections, declare military control over the entire country, and maintain an authoritarian military dictatorship for years to come.
Joe Biden’s deliberate takedown of America’s food infrastructure and energy infrastructure is all part of the engineered takedown of America. Everything is proceeding according to plan.
In summary, the Democrats have already come to realize that if they allow democracy to function, they lose power because most of their ideas are abhorrent to the American people, and their economic policies are catastrophic. The only way the Democrats can maintain power is to suspend elections, start a war, declare an emergency and use the cover of that emergency to carry out targeted assassinations and arrests of patriots, conservatives, Christians, gun owners, dissidents and anyone else they find sufficiently annoying to the regime.
The FEMA camps are very real. The illegitimate occupying Biden crime cartel plans to commit genocide against the American people and turn over the country to the communist Chinese.
This is the reality we’re all facing under the tyranny of the Biden regime and Biden’s controllers (Obama and key globalists).
Anthony Fauci was recently asked what he would do differently about the coronavirus response if he could turn the clock back to 2020.
His answer?
He would have recommended that the government impose “much, much more stringent restrictions.”
That’s what he’s claiming the last two years have taught him. Imagine that!
So forget all the studies (as if we needed studies) outlining the catastrophic effects of lockdowns, the data showing no connection between stringency and health outcomes, or the two years of real-world experience demonstrating the uselessness of masks.
None of that even enters the equation.
With this fiasco winding down, it’s tempting to think our side proved its point and they’ll be more restrained next time. But Fauci’s conclusion is that next time the state should be even more savage.
So it’s still important to think about where would be best to live in case they try to pull something like this again, and how to move to that place without breaking the bank.
It’s important to make connections with sensible people in your area whom you could count on in another emergency like this.
It’s important to be prepared.
It’s important to be able to make a living in a way they can’t destroy.
Now that they’ve had a taste of a level of power as intoxicating as this, is it so much of a stretch to wonder if they’ll want to exercise it again, under whatever pretext?
I refuse to give in to defeatism, which is rampant in some libertarian circles. No matter what you come up with, the defeatists have 37 reasons it won’t work. I’ve had it with that.
But I also refuse to continue business as usual. We can’t be just about “educating the public,” as important as that is. If our enjoyment of a fulfilling life, and flourishing as human beings, depends on persuading 80 million people to agree with everything we think, we are going to be disappointed.
We need to do MORE. MUCH MORE.
We either start doing more or we end up doing what our tyrannical dictators tell us to do.
If we measure the success of a government by how it reflects the will of the people, then our democracy is a failure. This has always been one of the long-discussed dangers of democracy: that it may cease to be a government “by the people.”¹ Let us admit that the danger of democracy has been realized.
The revolution you see today had to start at the top because the people – the voters – were unwilling to spark revolutionary change. Power then imposition, through the institutions and the bureaucracies onto the population. Enabled by the constraints on bureaucratic power being unenforced and the limitations on legislative authority being ignored. Elections thought to reflect the will of the people instead force on the people the will of the elected.
The people don’t want to be murdered in the streets, but the policies of criminal-friendly prosecutors – those who predicted their acts would result in innocent deaths – demand their blood.
The people prefer common-sense immigration policies, which include the deportation of criminal illegals. And yet federal and local officials refuse to act, leading to the rape of minors and last year’s decapitation of a Minnesota woman, her body dumped in broad daylight on a residential street. Both acts conducted by illegal immigrants with criminal records.
The people would like to see their children educated. A minority of those in power would pervert the wishes of parents, following the guidance of their predecessors who advocated for American schools to become committed to the proselytization of liberalism and dedicated to achieving a more radical and progressive social order. As a result, we see the state pushing radical gender theory on children, transgender indoctrination of grade schoolers and sex-ed starting in kindergarten. (Andrew Sullivan can object to the grooming all he wants, but he should know the broader revolution that he helped lead won’t stop when he asks nicely.)
The personal costs of the new order are dismissed. All revolutions require sacrifices. Lives are destroyed, children are scandalized, heads are severed, and bodies are buried as they remake the world…
Remember how in the old days, older folks used to talk about how easy the younger generation had it, compared to them?
Why, in my day, I had to trudge through the snow to get to school, etc. All that stuff.
I don’t think it works anymore.
It’s true that in some ways the rising generation has it easier, and certainly so when it comes to technology.
But in other ways I think young people are getting a pretty raw deal right now, and it would be foolish and wrong to lecture them with comparisons to generations gone by.
We know all too well what was done to them during the lockdown frenzy, and all the irreplaceable experiences and memories they forfeited in the name of useless mitigation measures.
Their parents didn’t want to give them the shots, but without those shots they couldn’t participate in hobbies they loved, or other extracurricular activities. With that, Anthony Fauci thereby invaded the home and the parent-child relationship itself.
In school they get crazy ideologies rammed down their throats, and social ostracism if they object.
Then they’re sent off to college, where the various federal grant and loan programs have pushed tuition costs sky high. So now they find themselves propagandized even further, and with even more social pressure to deal with, and now they get to add debt on top of that.
And then, to add insult to injury, some 43% of college graduates wind up underemployed, after all that time and expense and sacrifice.
Please pray for this country and the change in mindsets to follow God. Please pray.
You remember when the health establishment warned us not to eat eggs, which in fact are some of the best things you can eat.
You remember when they urged us to consume 11 servings of grains per day. (It’s now six to eight, but that awful food pyramid is still largely unchanged.)
Now you’ll say: Woods, nobody’s perfect. Science is an ever-evolving search for the truth. Give them time, and they’ll get it right.
If that’s what we were dealing with, that would be one thing. As more research is done and more information comes to light, it’s to be expected that we’ll adjust our views. I get that.
But apart from how unreasonably long it seems to take for a faulty health conclusion to be reversed, and how dogmatically the health establishment insists on things it couldn’t possibly have known with the requisite degree of certainty (since, after all, they later turn out to be false), something more seems to be at work.
As with other parts of academia, health research gets skewed by funding sources, and by a pro-consensus bias that makes it difficult to impossible for dissident paradigms to get published, funded, or even acknowledged at all.
Work in support of the existing consensus, meanwhile, is not scrutinized as thoroughly as it should be.
Recent case in point: the past 16 years of Alzheimer’s research may have been directed down a dead end, thanks to the uncritical acceptance of crucial papers by Sylvain Lesné.
Neuroscientist Matthew Schrag recently pointed out multiple examples of faulty data in Lesné’s papers; they are cases of “shockingly blatant” image tampering, according to Donna Wilcock, an Alzheimer’s expert at the University of Kentucky.
Lesné’s research supported the dominant so-called amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s, and Schrag, speaking to Science magazine, amplified one of the points I just made here: supporters of the reigning hypothesis were much too uncritical of research that supported their view, and were not the noble exemplars of pure “science,” unaffected by anything other than strict reliance on the data, that we read about in fairy tales.
Then, too, we’re now learning that the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression, upon which many people based their therapeutic regimens, may turn out to have been b.s. all along.
Covid research is a fiasco unto itself. Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya says that having Anthony Fauci as “de facto head of covid policy and also in charge of billions of dollars for government grants to scientists is also a conflict of interest.”
My point is this:
“Public health” officials give lousy health advice.
Lots of economists nowadays give lousy economic advice.
Most historians teach their political agenda rather than history.
One “expert” class after another has to be viewed with skepticism, to put it mildly.
How are we supposed to navigate a world in which ideologues are trying to colonize our children’s minds, official “health” recommendations are sometimes downright moronic (remember Michelle Obama’s school lunches, drawn out of the nutritional consensus of 1977?), economists gaslight you about inflation and the Federal Reserve, and the list just goes on and on?
Not to mention, these people aren’t exactly sitting there quietly publishing studies.
These are the people who came for your job, who destroyed the value of your money, who are coming for your cheap energy, who are making food harder to produce – these people, in other words, don’t just write articles. They take action.
We can’t just write about this stuff either.
Time for our side to take action. Legal actions that produce positive results to correct all of this bullshit.
Nitrogen is to food what oxygen is to people. Reduced fertilizer means less food and reduced nitrogen-based fertilizer means lower crop yields. One would think that at a time of food shortages, record high corn, wheat, and chicken prices, and limited fertilizer supply, we would be finding innovative ways to grow our food supply. Yet, the maniacal global elites are now trying to do to food what they have done to medical care: create a food crisis and then aggravate it even more to make us feel the pain.
In case you haven’t gotten the message, the creation of COVID and the response to it was the opening act of the Great Reset. Just like they don’t want you to have access to effective medical care, they don’t want you to have access to cars, fuel, and now food. The needless rallying behind a corrupt regime in Ukraine to hold on to land they were never capable of holding – despite the U.S. pumping in unlimited funds to their war effort – has created the worst food crisis ever, built on top of the already strained supply chains from the COVID lockdowns. Anyone who thinks this happened by accident should take a look at what governments are doing now to aggravate the situation.
If COVID was an innocent mistake or a natural phenomenon, we would have expected global governments to embrace rather than censor early treatment. Likewise, if the food crisis was natural, one would expect governments not to do what the Dutch are attempting to do to their farmers. In May 2019, the highest court in the Netherlands ruled that the country was in violation of EU nitrogen emissions standards and that to continue construction of important public projects, nitrogen emissions would have to be reduced. In June, the government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, a rising star in the World Economic Forum, responded to the growing crisis by threatening to confiscate the land from farmers if they don’t reduce nitrogen use in some areas by up to 95%. In order to achieve this dystopian goal, the Finance and Agriculture Ministry are calling on farmers to reduce their livestock by 30%. At present, the Netherlands is the largest exporter of meat in the European Union.
This has led to a full-scale farmer’s rebellion in which they have been blockading food distribution centers, highways, and other public areas under the rallying cry of “No Farmers, No Food.” This is not just some vacuous slogan; it is literally about feeding humanity, not just about the livelihood of farmers. Nitrogen use with the synthesis of ammonia in farming is quite literally how the global population has doubled since the 1970s without a massive starvation crisis erupting alongside. As we are keenly aware, the powers that be behind these policies among the Davos crowd are not very excited about that population growth, so causing a mass famine would be a feature of, not a fault in, their plan.
Now, if this was just simply about concerns regarding the “climate,” why would they choose to declare war on nitrogen and ammonia at a time when food prices are at record highs, the supply chains are strained, and fertilizer is scarce? Why would they maximize rather than minimize the pain? The answer is self-evident. It’s the same reason they are declaring war on cars precisely at a time of record prices for fuel and car purchases. It’s also not a coincidence that BASF, the world’s largest chemical producer, plans to cut ammonia production at this time, which will further exacerbate the fertilizer crisis.
This is truly a global fight as Canada’s Justin Trudeau is now calling for agriculture to cut nitrous oxide emissions by 30% by 2030, over the protest of the provincial governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Irish government is seeking a 30% cut in carbon emissions on all farms. New Zealand plans to tax cattle farmers for the burps and methane emitted by cows. Their goal is to turn every Western country into Sri Lanka, which was a test-run for bans on nitrogen in farming.
Last year, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was recently forced to flee the country due to a full-scale rebellion stemming from severe shortages and poverty, imposed a 100% ban on chemicals in farming. The World Economic Forum even touted Sri Lanka’s “ESG” plan as a way of making the country rich. It has since deleted that post, which can be found here. Now, the country is facing the threat of a full-blown famine.
In other words, if you like what they’ve done to coal-fired power plants over the past decade, you will love their plans for food production. If not …
Farmers understand what is at stake, which is why farmers from Germany, Italy, Poland, and Canada have joined in with their Dutch counterparts. They understand this is about more than one country or one issue. This is about a global “Great Reset” to use the destruction from COVID fascism – both economic and psychological – to forge on with taking everything away from people.
As the World Economic Forum tweeted out in 2016 – speaking of Agenda 2030 and “Build Back Better” – “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.”
\u201cWelcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better @IdaAuken https://t.co/6BKymvbKB5\u201d
— World Economic Forum (@World Economic Forum) 1481555459
At some point, Republican politicians need to take their heads out of the sand and realize that this is about a lot more than a “recession” and inflation. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is correct in asserting that this is not a recession but a transition. They want to transition us into being ownerless QR-code-carrying metaverse bots conditioned to subsist on bug-eating, obeying the global government, and actually being happy with it.
“I am of the opinion, to be sure, that the old rite should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it. It’s impossible to see what could be dangerous or unacceptable about that. A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden, and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent. Can it be trusted any more about anything else? Won’t it proscribe tomorrow what it prescribes today?” —Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (before he became Pope Benedict XVI), in his book-length interview Salt of the Earth (1997), published by Ignatius Press, pp. 176-177 (link)
“Three parishes [out of 21] were granted permission to continue celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in their parish churches for a term of two years.” —Bishop Michael Burbidge, in his decree restricting the celebration of the old Latin Mass in his diocese of Arlington, Virginia, issued on July 29, 2022, three days ago. Even in those places where the old Mass will still be celebrated, the plan seems to be to continue for only two years, then to end the old Mass entirely (link)
Letter #94, 2022, Monday, Aug 1: Pathologies of affection
“Imagine a world,” I wrote last week (link) “where the ‘work of God’ [that is, the divine liturgy, which offers praise and thanksgiving to God as the first and most fitting of all human actions] is forbidden by the authorities.”
This week, there is no longer any need to imagine: we live in such a world.
It is a world in which Church leaders impose restrictions on the forms of prayer and liturgy that Catholics may use, saying they are doing this for the spiritual good of the people, to “help them” spiritually, and to “preserve the unity of the whole Church”… even as those who attend the old liturgy feel perplexed, powerless, abandoned, lost…
It is also a world where a peculiar pathology of the spiritual leaders, a pathology that is cognitively dissonant, leads the leaders to act with great spiritual and psychological cruelty, causing great psychological and spiritual pain, yet all the while declaring their intentions to be great charity, broad benevolence, and paternal love. “We know this decision will be painful for you, but, though you do not understand it now, putting you through this suffering now if for your own good, and for the common good of the Church,” these modern Church leaders are saying with almost one voice. Thus has the leadership of the Catholic Church in recent months fallen into a crisis of “affectional pathology” in its efforts to weed out all elements ofalleged opposition to a revolutionary event from the 1960s that they refer to as “the Council” — and to prepare the Church to make other changes in her governing structures and moral teachings at the Synod of Bishops on Synodality which will be held in just over a year, in October 2023, in Rome. This is the reason all this is happening now.
For the current crop of Church leaders, the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) — which threw open the doors of the Church to the world in the 1960s — must be finally and fully “implemented”… even if doing so frightens and leaves in spiritual desolation and darkness many who are in the Church’s care.
It is, seemingly, a seamless ideology of modernization, the cruel implementation of which willingly tramples under the souls of many simple faithful.
Again, it is the cruelty of these ideologues which surprises me.
An old person who wishes to continue to attend the liturgy he or she has been used to during a lifetime suffers when that liturgy ceases, when the church doors are locked, when there is no access to those channels of grace that had existed for centuries.
For this reason, Pope Benedict in 2007 arrived at a compromise solution, and said the old liturgy would still be respected, venerated, and celebrated, even as it was set aside in the majority of cases, and the new liturgy, introduced after 1970, was celebrated.
That compromise is what has now been abandoned.
It is not a time for compromise, in the Church today, on this issue, only a time for ideological purity and blind obedience from the cadres, whatever the cost to individuals, even as they approach the end of their lives…
One by one, these churches are being closed to the use of the old Mass, despite the suffering it causes to many souls.
Imagine a leadership of the Church that could be so cold, cruel, pitiless, ideological, as to tell an old couple, or a group of young children, that the Mass they love has been forbidden.
You do not have to imagine it: it has happened.
And the resulting scene is reminiscent of Bolshevik ideologues decrying the corruption of the Russian bourgeoisie and heartlessly destroying things precious to individuals who wished to cling to the beloved past, but whose “clinging” was seen as an “impediment to the revolution.”
So it is the cruelty of these “very good, very kind” Churchmen which astonishes me, and puzzles me. Do they not sense the strangeness and cruelty of what they are doing?
In recent weeks, many bishops — in Chicago (link), in Savannah, Georgia (link), in Washington D.C. (link) — at the request of Pope Francis, have restricted or forbidden the celebration of the old Catholic Mass — celebrated throughout the Church for 400 years , from 1570 to 1970 — in their dioceses.
The bishops’ announcements have come about one year after Pope Francis promulgated Traditionis custodes (July 16, 2021),a motu proprio which placed sweeping restrictions on the celebration of Mass using the 1962 Roman Missal, also known as the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, the Tridentine Mass, and the Traditional Latin Mass. (You can read a further explanation of the document here.)
The latest example comes in Arlington, in Virginia, a diocese which stretches west from Washington D.C. to the border of West Virginia, where Bishop Michael Burbidge just published his decree on Friday, July 29 (three days ago, link).
A traditional Mass celebrated in one local church in a small town in the sprawling diocese will be moved to a gymnasium some six miles away, and only for two more years — then it is (evidently) scheduled to cease altogether.
And the hearts of those who are carrying out this purge are not moved by the simple request of these people, old and young, to be allowed to continue to pray as they have prayed for generations.
Let us imagine something else. Suppose someone were to command the people could no longer pray the Our Father (perhaps because it has a patriarchal word, “father,” at its outset). Would that be acceptable? Or would it prompt outrage and protest?
Or let us imagine that someone were to command people to no longer pray the Rosary at all (perhaps because, it might be argued, it is too “rote,” too “repetitive”). Would that be acceptable? Would such a command be obeyed?
Here is a letter sent to the offices of Bishop Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, by a Catholic father of four children, who has given me permission to publish his letter here: “July 30, 2022 “To whom it may concern:
“I am the father of four young children, whom we are raising in the Traditional Rite, and thus significantly affected by Bishop Burbidge’s recent implementation of the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. We live in the Front Royal area, and will now be going to the Canons of New Jerusalem in West Virginia, or the SSPX chapel in Front Royal when that is not possible. I respect that Bishop Burbidge, who has been most generous with the TLM [Note: TLM stands for “Traditional Latin Mass”] in the past, felt that he had to do this, but the effect of his implementation is only to destroy or hurt several thriving Catholic communities, and thus endanger the souls of those faithful affected, which includes my family, whose salvation is my highest duty.
“I appreciate that Bishop Burbidge has reportedly permitted a TLM to be offered in a gym at Chelsea Academy (notwithstanding the presence of several fully adequate and dignified chapels nearby) for a period of two years, where we will presumably be catechized to appreciate more fully the blessings of the Council and its Mass, but from its inception, it will be a community created to die, and does not offer the stability that my young family deserves and needs. I add that the optics of relegating the community to a gym, when there are so many fine chapels available are extremely ugly.
“We have no intention of going to the Novus Ordo ever, at least on a regular basis. While we recognize it’s validity, as a father who grew up in it, I am also acutely aware that it is an insufficient bulwark against the world, and that Catholics formed in it and its “Catholic Lite” spirituality are much more prone to falling to the call of the world — drugs, homosexuality, birth control mentality, etc. As a father, I have a duty to avoid it at all costs.
“We can no longer trust the hierarchy to get us to Heaven. Sadly, the Church is like a dysfunctional family with dysfunctional parents. It is still a family, and we can’t change that, but as faithful, we have to manage up, and ‘cover the nakedness of our father.’
“We were never militant TLM Catholics, but we are increasingly becoming so, and largely because of the persecution of the Catholic life of faith and morals, and now the TLM by Pope Francis. I do not accuse Bishop Burbidge of this, but I have to note that his implantation of TC is nevertheless not helpful.
“While we will avoid the Masses in Virginia in communities that are engineered to be destroyed in a few years, to the extent possible, we will nevertheless maintain our visible communion with the Holy Father, for whom we pray daily, by going to the Mass with the Canons in West Virginia. When that is not possible, frankly, at this point, we will simply go to the SSPX [Note: SSPX stands for the priestly “Society of St. Pius X,” the traditional Catholic group founded by French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre] chapel in Linden. The SSPX is canonically irregular (for which reason we will prefer the Canons) but nevertheless preserves visible and unbroken unity with the Holy Father and the Roman Catholic Church. This has been attested several times by the most senior Roman officials, including Pope Francis himself.
“Please assure Bishop Burbidge of my continuing respect and prayers for him. I acknowledge that he made this decision under protest, but under protest or not, I still have to deal with its detritus, and limit its damage on the souls of my children.”
[End of letter]
“The maniacal crusade” (link) “The maniacal crusade Francis has against the traditional Latin mass is simply bizarre,” writes American journalist Rod Dreher, who some years ago converted from Catholicism to Orthodoxy, at this link.
First, I wrote a column about my own personal Covid vaccine death and disease cluster. I wrote about my wedding November 21, 2021 to the beautiful Cindy Parker Root. We’re still in our honeymoon year- that was only eight months ago. But a strange and tragic thing has happened since that date. 33 people that my bride Cindy and I know have either died suddenly, or suffered severe disabling health issues.
33. That is a remarkable number. That is an unimaginable number. That is an impossible number. That is a one-in-a-billion number.
Even more remarkable, I did my research and found out all 33 were vaccinated. Yet since that same date eight months ago, not one person I know who is unvaccinated has either died or gotten seriously ill. Quite a case study. Quite a damning cluster of death and disease for one group- the vaccinated.
I hate to be harsh, but if you see that story and don’t believe something is very wrong…don’t suspect the Covid vaccine is a killer…don’t demand an investigation…don’t demand questions be asked…or still trust anything the government, Biden, Dr. Fauci, the FDA, CDC or your own doctor says about the Covid vaccine…you’re a brain-dead sheep.
The second remarkable thing that happened last week, is I was a guest on The Brannon Howse Show on Mike Lindell TV, where I told this remarkable story. I also mentioned that over the past few months I have compiled the most detailed and comprehensive list of credible medical studies and government data from around the globe proving the Covid vaccine is a dangerous and deadly disaster. And I offered to share it with anyone who emailed me.
I expected to get anywhere from 20 to 50 requests. And I was prepared to sit down at my computer and email my list to each of them. Instead, I received thousands of requests from the viewers on Mike Lindell TV. THOUSANDS. I’ve lost count because they are still coming in one week later. But suffice to say, I’ve been both a host and nonstop guest on TV and radio for almost forty years and never in my life have I ever seen a response like this.
The biggest companies and retailers in America have always said that each letter, or email from a viewer, listener, fan, or consumer, actually represents thousands of people. Because very few people ever get off their couch to take action. That one person who does write you, is doing what thousands wanted to do, but were too busy, lazy, or jaded to get off the couch and do.
At this point, I realized a couple of interesting things. First, I have one heck of a story that Americans want and need to hear.
Second, Mike Lindell has been mocked and slandered by the liberal media, but it turns out he is a hero to average everyday Americans. Based on my incredible, over-the-top response, Mike Lindell TV has an audience of millions of Americans on his streaming TV network. And the mainstream media hasn’t got a clue.
Third, the mainstream media and social media have banned, or censored all the government data and studies from across the globe that prove the Covid vaccine is dangerous, deadly, and without-a-doubt, the worst disaster in the history of healthcare. And the American people are clamoring to finally hear the raw truth.
So, rather than continue to sit in front of my computer for hours a day sending out my list one-by-one, to thousands of wonderful Americans who want to hear the truth, I’ve decided to just release the entire list right now, right here, for all the world to see.
I hope you appreciate my thousands of hours of research to review and choose these studies and reams of data. It’s all factual. It’s all out there for anyone and everyone to see. But I don’t believe anyone has ever compiled it, categorized it, and put it in one place for the whole world to see.
I’m not an inventor, or creator, or adventurer. I haven’t ever discovered cures for disease. I know my role. I’m a conservative talk show host. I’m Paul Revere updated for the 21st century. My job is to spread the news, loudly, from the highest mountaintops. Except I’ve updated Paul Revere’s warning from “The British are coming. The British are coming” to…
“The vaccine is a killer. The vaccine is a killer.”
I’d love to say, “Here it is. Enjoy.” But these revelations are anything but enjoyable. This is pure tragedy and mass murder, mixed with fraud and cover-up. I think the right words to introduce this list might be, “Read ‘em and weep.”
TO START, SOME KEY DATA AND STUDIES
This has been “the greatest manipulation of science in world history.” It’s ALWAYS been a “pandemic of the vaccinated.” FACT: Anyone who received four doses of Covid vaccine or more is 100x more likely to be hospitalized than the unvaccinated:
UK government data shows children who are vaxxed are 4,423% more likely to die from any cause, and 13,633% more likely to die from Covid. These are our CHILDREN:
Here’s FACTUAL news on life insurance payouts from Lincoln National- they paid out 3x more in death policies in 2021 than 2020. Non-Covid deaths exploded in first year of vaccine:
As of June 2022, this detailed survey from Steve Kirsch shows over 871,000 dead in U.S. directly from Covid vaccine, with 5 million disabled and unable to work…16 million hospitalized…and 30 million vaccine injured. 90% of Americans who died from Covid had at least one vaccine:
EVERYONE SHOULD SIT DOWN AND READ EVERY WORD OF THIS FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT BY A HOSPITAL ICU NURSE ON THE FRONT LINES OF SEEING VACCINE INJURIES AND DEATH:
Finally, an international study concludes the unvaccinated were never a threat to spread Covid and were never a burden on the healthcare system. They managed to treat Covid successfully with Ivermectin plus vitamins:
WHY WOULD ANYONE BELIEVE ANYTHING GOVERNMENT SAYS? IT’S ALL ABOUT THE FRAUD AND COVERUP, STUPID.
These are the lies, fraud and Nazi/Soviet-level propaganda being used by CDC and FDA to recommend vaccination of children. They are literally making up data that does not exist, and purposely ignoring data that disagrees with their evil plan:
Can you Imagine? Top FDA officials resigned because they didn’t feel booster was necessary, yet government mandated it, based on pressure from Big Pharma:
THE VAERS REPORT- “THE GOLD STANDARD” OF VACCINE REPORTING FOR DECADES
Latest VAERS Report as of 7/22/22– over 29,000 dead from vaccine, over 246,000 serious injuries, and over 1,300,000 injuries/adverse effects- including over 12,000 vaccine injuries among 5 to 11 yr olds and over 32,000 for 12 to 17 year olds:
Government data (ie FACTS) from UK, Australia, New Zealand prove the more you are vaccinated, the weaker your immune system becomes, and the more likely you are to get Covid, or die of Covid.
US govt KNEW Ivermectin kills Covid- just as I’ve reported to my fans & listeners for almost 2 years. They badmouthed, slandered & banned it while Americans died.
In Alberta, Canada the leading cause of death in 2021 is “unknown.” 2021 was the first year of the Covid vaccine- mandatory for all in Canada. Is “unknown death” a code word for Covid vaccine deaths?
UK government data shows children who are vaxxed are 4,423% more likely to die from any cause, and 13,633% more likely to die from Covid. These are our CHILDREN:
US govt KNEW Ivermectin kills Covid- just as I’ve reported to my fans & listeners for 2 years. They badmouthed, slandered & banned it, while Americans died.
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Sorry, but many people and sources have been telling you for over 30 years that the globalists want to reduce the population by over 90%. I can understand why, for a while, some thought we were crazy. Population reduction was being done quietly through abortion, vaccines to sterilize people in Third World countries, promoting the gay lifestyle that can only bear children through surrogates, and convincing people that bringing a child into this world is a sin.
For years, the Left have bemoaned the burden of overpopulation.
“It’s terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn’t even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.” Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Either we reduce the world’s population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally.” Maurice Strong
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.Maurice Strong
The world’s population has more than tripled to seven billion since Ted Turner was born 73 years ago. He believes it must be stabilized at near two billion, or “we’re just going to have more and more catastrophes.” Ted Turner
“What we need to have for 100 years is a one-child policy …If everybody voluntarily had one child for 100 years, we’d basically be back to two billon people.” Ted Turner
“We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.”Maurice Strong
The biographer of billionaire investor and donor Warren Buffett describes him as having “a Malthusian dread” of population growth among the poor. In 1964 he set up an Omaha foundation centered on stopping that growth, both domestically and abroad, and to this day, the New York Times summarizes, “most of the foundation’s spending goes to abortion and contraception.”
Buffett’s charity, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, has contributed $1.5 billion to help fund the abortion industry in the U.S., making it the largest financial backer of abortion in the country. Between 2003-2018, Buffett’s foundation donated $565 million in support of “reproductive rights.” His first public undertaking came in 1952, when he initiated the convocation of the Conference on Population Problems, in Williamsburg, Va. The discussion took up food supply, industrial development, depletion of natural resources, and political instability resulting from unchecked population growth. The presence of medical doctors, chemists, geologists, economists, and other scientists gave serious weight and prominent attention to the emerging and unrecognized facts of demographic change.
Soon after this conference, Rockefeller established the Population Council. From philanthropic funds at his disposal, he provided $1 million within the first year of operations.
In 1952, Margaret Sanger said:
“If the millions of dollars which are now expended in the care and maintenance of those who in all kindness should never have been brought into this world were converted to a system of bonuses to unfit parents, paying them to refrain from further parenthood, and continuing to pay them while they controlled their procreative faculties, this would not only be a profitable investment, but the salvation of American civilization.
“I believe that now, immediately there should be national sterilisation for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them.”
And our government in the mid-1960s” when the U.S. Congress, responding to the agitation of overpopulation ideologues, finally appropriated federal funds to underwrite first domestic and then foreign population control programs. Suddenly, instead of mere millions, there were hundreds of millions and eventually billions of dollars available to fund global campaigns of mass abortion and forced sterilization. The result would be human catastrophe on a worldwide scale.”
Now, besides using the COVID vaccine to sterilize people, the globalists are getting up-front about eugenics.
They actually have become comfortable saying they want to reduce the population and now we are seeing our food supply being shut down. Hmmm. Do you think there might be a connection? Food storage and production plants burning down. Farmland gobbled up by the global elites. Big portions of 5 states being made sterile so carbon (which is not deleterious to us or the land or the air) can be piped a thousand feet below the surface.
Some of us little people are up in arms over the promotion of electric vehicles (EVs) over “gas guzzlers”. Could it be that the intention is that the rich will be the only ones who can afford to purchase them. Under Agenda 21 nobody but the rich are supposed to be left on this earth to want to purchase them.
When you see something that doesn’t add up, guess what? It probably doesn’t in the real-world, but it certainly will in the Agenda 21/Sustainable Development world. As Richard Gardener’s 1974 article, “The Hard Road to World Order”, notes “In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion’, to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.” And that is exactly what we are seeing in our schools, in movies and television, even in governing bodies. There it is, in black and white, stated almost 50 years ago, now in full bloom. And using asymmetrical warfare – nary a shot fired – yet.
This has been the plan in the making for over 100 years. Those behind it have had pretty much free rein for most of that time. Oh, yes, we have had victories over the years, but in the scheme of things, they are but blips. I’ll drop my snark and quit bemoaning the fact that too many felt more comfortable being conned – it was easier.
It is time to get to work, to get the silent majority speaking out, building freedom pods, organizing their neighbors to be a bulwark against the aggression that will soon be upon them. Our civilization can only survive if we stand up en masse and in time. We are doing just that. And achieving great victories, but, so far, our victories are few compared to the Left’s. Please don’t wait until the food runs out before you speak out. The seeds of Agenda 21 were spread beginning at the end of the 19th Century, sown in 1976 in the Vancouver Declaration, birthed in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit, and has gone through early childhood, and adolescence with the Millennial Goals, Goals 2020, and is maturing with the Green New Deal and the Great Reset. We didn’t nip it in the bud, but we need to take its head off now before it is too late.
What’s so great about the rainbow? Many things, it turns out, provided you get it right. And what’s so great about pride? Not much.
“Pride Month”—the entire month of June—is now barely in the rearview mirror, with “LGBT History Month” not so far away. This means that for two entire months every year, we are compelled to glorify what Pope St. Gregory the Great called “the queen of sin”—specifically, in this case, pride in a sexual orientation that is “objectively disordered” and inclines people to “acts of grave depravity” (CCC 2357). Pride, too, is intrinsically disordered; it is a capital sin that “seeks attention and honor and sets oneself in competition with God,” disordering and damaging our relationship with our Creator and Sustainer.
Pride’s antidote, humility, leads the Christian to acknowledging God as the author of all good. It is, in a sense, the acceptance of reality—that God is good, and truth is good. And the truth is that God created the universe according to certain rules and laws. He created humans to obey certain rules and laws—not just arbitrarily, but for our own flourishing and ultimately for heaven.
In being given this gift of flourishing, we do best when we recognize where we have failed and our fallen state, which is where our failures ultimately come from. This recognition is foundational to a life of poverty of spirit. It is not the imposition of a “vengeful, bearded Sky Daddy bent on eternal damnation for anyone struggling with [insert sin of choice here].” Rather, it is grounded in objective morality, based on our nature as humans.
To attempt to circumvent, disobey, or override the moral laws of God betrays a refusal, an anti-fiat toward him who created us, exemplifying pride in our ability to say “no thanks” to God and pursue a course that suits our own subjective sense of morality. We set ourselves above God this way.
That certainly does not sound like something to celebrate or take lightly.
But now we are to take the sin of sexual immorality lightly—with parades, drag shows, story hours, store discounts, fundraisers, colorful merchandise, and more . . . all pointing to a refusal of God’s laws, and a proud refusal at that.
The revelers may say, “That’s not the type of ‘pride’ we’re advocating for. It’s about being unapologetic about who we are and how we love ourselves and others!” Yet it is one thing to love ourselves for who we are, accepting how God created us, and bearing daily the crosses that come from our individual proclivities to sin. This is the path to holiness. It is something else entirely that “Pride” advocates promote. These advocates want us to celebrate not the heroic efforts of the people who experience non-heterosexual attractions and are doing their level best to live in accordance with God’s law, but the sin itself, which is as disordered as celebrating any other sin.
The “I’m okay, you’re okay, we’re all okay” mentality is patently false. God made each of us in his image and likeness, but we are not he. We are all broken and sinful, able only to reflect the good that God authored and is. God gave us sexual love—the parameters of which, far from being arbitrary, are set up for our flourishing. This love is a beautiful and fruitful thing. But sexual activity removed from that life-giving context becomes disordered. We can’t expect true happiness from these disordered activities—regardless of the fleeting biological or emotional satisfaction they may provide, regardless of how the culture pushes them—any more than we can expect happiness from eating thumbtacks. Some things are just really good for us, given our nature, and some things are really bad. Not even God can change that.
Rather than justify and celebrate behaviors and desires that go against God’s plans for us, we ought to be apologetic. Each of us has turned away from God. As the Confiteor goes: “I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do.” That is what makes the sacrament of reconciliation such a stunning act of love: God fully restores us to himself. He is the only one who can. None of our own attempts comes close.
This can be seen in one of the central emblems of the “Pride” movement: the rainbow. Biblically, the rainbow denotes God’s covenant with us—his promise that he will never again destroy creation with a great flood. He hung up his bow in the sky to show us that his “weapon” has been put to rest; he is at peace with us. God’s rainbow, too, signifies perfection: six days of creation and a seventh of rest. On the other hand, the colors in the “Pride” rainbow, as it stood for years, prior to its redesign in 2021, numbered only six—the “number of man,” a symbol of humanity’s attempts to create and work as God, but ultimately and always falling short of his perfection.
In the book of Joshua, we see man doing his own work, marching around the walls of Jericho for six days. Ultimately, it is the glory of God that makes those walls fall . . . on the seventh day (Joshua 6:1-20). In Genesis, we read that God worked for six days and rested on the seventh, blessing this seventh day and making it holy. As for us, we may labor and do all our work during the first six days of the week, but the day afterward is to be kept separate and holy—not through any effort on our own, but because of the Lord’s command (Exod. 8:8-10). On the sixth day, too, Jesus was crucified and buried. What terrible work of man in nailing the Creator of the universe to a cross! But even in man’s worst work, God was not defeated. Rather, he brought something infinitely more beautiful from it.
This is a word of caution to those who work to change God’s designs for human sexuality. As with all other attempts to effect change that isn’t in his plans, these, too, will ultimately fail.
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