You are not supposed to say “the Roman Catholic Church”. You are supposed to say “the Catholic Church”.

Nobody worries about that nowadays because Catholics are fair game for anybody today just like white Southerners are.

Methodists and Presbyterians and Lutherans and Baptists call themselves “catholic,” with the small “c,” because they are open to all mankind.

Communists and liberals and conservatives claim to be catholic too.

Go to a Catholic or a Baptist or a Presbyterian Church and try to take communion. To take communion in a Catholic Church takes a year in catachmen classes.

Anybody can become a Baptist or a Presbyterian once they take the classes and prove to the preacher that they BELIEVE.

In the real world a person cannot change his real beliefs any more than he can change the color of his skin.

Universalists say that if everybody believed what they believe, human conflict would cease. Meanwhile in the world I live in, millions of people are slaughtered by one universalist faith like Communism because they adhere to another universalist faith like Christianity.

Meanwhile us provincials, us racists and nativists and nationalists, can live together in peace.

Us provincialists and racists and nationalists say awful things like. “Stay out of our country, stay away from intermarriage with us, and you can live in your own lands.”

But for univeralists, no one else has any lands of their own. By definition the universalist wants it all. For the universalist there is no “you,” there is no “us.”

So naturally Christians have always killed Christians without mercy. Naturally a true disciple of Allah has no mercy. No advocate of True Communism can afford to allow an enemy of his faith to live.

Every universalist says he comes to bring peace to everyone of every race and nation. And once everyone of every race and nation is a True Believer, there will be peace.

In the meantime, things will be a little rough.

Someone else wrote me that the Bible was the key to America’s salvation. This often goes with quotes from the Old Testament about saving the People of Israel.

That use of God gives me the chills.

This was my reply:

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His Only begotten Son, who was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered unto Pontius Pilate, was crucified dead and buried.

On the third day He arose from the grave and ascended into heaven whence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the holy spirit, the catholic church, the communion of saints and the life everlasting.

Amen.

The Amen means that that and that ALONE, is what I must try to believe in. It is the ONLY religion I believe in, and mostly I don’t believe in that. I try to have faith the size of a mustard seed, and it is not easy for me.

CS Lewis warned against “Christianity AND …” The second you begin to use God for a political theory, the Senior Demon Screwtape told his nephew Wormwood in letters straight from Hell, you have diverted it, done away with it.

He also pointed out to Wormwood that it made not the slightest bit of difference what the “AND” referred to. It can be an obsession with fighting poverty, but it can also be an obsession with fighting evolution.

God is not a politician. Satan is not a politician.

Screwtape, the practicing professional in damning souls, said that all that mattered was getting people off of concentrating on Christ and salvation and making them think about “the Crisis” (He specifically mentioned on great line, “Christianity and the Crisis”). Get them thinking that True Religion is about social policies like abortion or evolution or the poor.

To damn souls, said the successful old professional Screwtape, you just need to get people off of seeing Christ as a means to Salvation, and as a means to something else that they think is Good. Anything else will do.

Screwtape told Wormwood that in order to damn people, you need to make them think they have mastered salvation, and can now go on to more relevant stuff. What the “relevant” stuff is makes no difference at all.

Screwtape pointed out that the sin of gluttony has nothing to do with overeating. Jesus Christ was not a dietitian. As an example, Screwtape pointed to a very thin woman who was on the path to damnation through gluttony. She was obsessed with eating very little, and made unreasonable demands on people, especially overworked waitresses, to cater to her exact diet.

Today’s vegetarian fanatics will fit very nicely into the place Screwtape has prepared for them. Gluttony is OBSESSION with food. It doesn’t matter what form the obsession takes.

An obsession with using God in politics is a fine wide road to seeing Screwtape up front and personal. He doesn’t care what the politics happen to be, and the damned won’t either when the time comes. The obsessive pro-lifers and the socialists will be right there together.

The only thing I use God for is salvation. Jesus said stick to the Golden Rule and worry about your own soul. If the High Priest demands more, I will let the High Priest follow his Law and his scriptures where they lead him.

I am the grandson of a Methodist circuit rider. My first ancestor in America was the Reverend Alexander Whitaker, the son of a Cambridge professor. He was the first Anglican clergyman in America, arriving at Jamestown in 1609 “to convert the savage Indians.” He baptized Pocahontas and wrote the first book in English in America.

His book, Whitaker’s Good Newes From Virginia, is online and it is twenty thousand words long. It contains long quotes in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, all of which he had mastered. He was a very literate man, which becomes relevant below.

The Reverend Alexander Whitaker died in Jamestown before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
But as soon as the Methodist Church arrived in America, my literate ancestors left the Anglican Church and became Methodists.

John Wesley, the founder of the real Methodist Church, lived and died a High Church Anglican. In his Anglican church, the Nicene Creed was what adults use. The Apostles’ Creed, which I recite above, is what children recite in the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches.

My literate ancestors knew that, and they chose to be Methodists.

Most Methodists were the coal miners, the frontiersmen, the people the Established Church ignored. Many of them never heard of Christ until Wesley came to them. My VERY literate ancestors joined his church. We are the children’s church, the catholic church.

We knew that, too.

Wesley went out to the people the High Priests would not touch. So did Jesus.

And when Jesus spoke of the Kingdom, He never pointed to the High Priest. He pointed to the children.

All this religion stuff embarrasses the mainline preachers. So they got together recently and declared that Christianity is all about helping poor people. This is a line that was old two thousand years ago.

Some people tried that line out on Jesus. He replied, “The poor we have always with us.” He then explained that He was on this earth about salvation. His concern was not about Liberation or abolishing poverty. He was more worried about what greed did to the rich man’s soul than about social conditions.

Jesus did not just minister to the poor. He ate with the rich tax-gatherers.

That embarrasses the High Priests of today exactly the same way it embarrassed the High Priests who spoke to Jesus. For today’s leftists clergy the rich to are The Enemy. Today’s mainline clergy wants to be “relevant” to THIS world and stop talking about a theoretical Other World they don’t believe in anyway. The High Priests love the Old Testament because it talks about history and social conditions and other “relevant” things a lot.

For the old High Priests, Jesus was monomaniacal and just plain silly. For the new High Priests, Jesus IS monomaniacal and just plain silly.

What Jesus did not say was “read the scriptures to attain salvation.” What Jesus did not say was “Praise God” in the old heathen way. He said LOVE God. The God of Jesus knows who He is. He needs no reminders from down here.

God is not a dietitian. God is not a cosmologist. God is not obsessed with THIS life. A person who thinks God is about the six-day creation or taking care of one’s body or changing social conditions make great fuel for Screwtape.

Jews kept reminding Jesus that the Old Testament Messiah would come to save the Jewish nation. Every time they brought that up Jesus said, in every way he could, that “My Kingdom is not of this earth.”

For those who want to show how “relevant” Christianity is, the Old Testament Messiah is very useful. He came to save Family Values. He came to save America.

And Screwtape says, “That will do just fine.”

The official doctrine of the Catholic Church is that life begins at conception. That means the life of a fertilized egg is as important as the life of any young person.

The official doctrine of the Catholic Church, emphatically restated by the current pope, is that for a married couple to have sex for any purpose but procreation is a sin.

In the real world, if a married Catholic man says to the priest in confession, “I have sinned because I had sex with my wife four times this week without any intent to procreate” the priest would reply, “Stop bragging and let’s back to your confession.”

As I have said before, no one could have been a Catholic bishop and not been aware of the wholesale rapes of little boys unless he was not an idiot, and no Catholic bishop is an idiot. You don’t get to that position if you are not bright.

When the scandal finally became public, not one single Catholic bishop was even reprimanded, no matter how many little boys he helped to get raped.

But the pope is worried to death about a fertilized egg.

I just got back from a reunion with the mountaineer half of my family, the Snyders.

The Bible-thumpers have taken it over.

When I was at the Council of Conservative Citizens, I watched the dedicated and inarticulate people who had founded the CCC being steadily replaced by the preachers. The attendance at the conference was, of course, way down.

In both Pigeon Forge and at the Snyder family reunion, I rode around the Tennessee and North Carolina mountain area and watched the handiwork of these self-styled “Christians.” There is a big building in Hendersonville, North Carolina, set up by these “Christians” and dedicated to interracial adoptions.

The anti-white left could not penetrate those mountains, but these “Christians” can, so the Christians are pushing third world adoptions to penetrate white enclaves. I saw many a white woman pushing her little black or Oriental child around. This gives the Bible-thumpers big brownie points with the liberals who control the media.

I was talking to one of the South Carolina Bible-thumpers who have taken over the Snyder reunions and asked him about Beasley’s blasphemy and the Baptist lack of reaction to it. He got a look on his face that I have seen before many, many times on the faces of Communist Party members and Catholic and Presbyterian theologues. It said, “This man has stepped over the Party Line.”

He acted like I hadn’t said it.

The Modular Man is coming. By the middle of this century human parts will be developed in labs. If person has bad lungs, it will be easier just to put in new ones than to try to repair the old.

Parts of the brain will also be replaced. So where will the “Christians” and the sociologists who call themselves “bioethicists” going to be when that happens? Their propaganda campaign against cloning and embryo research is based on the idea that science is “crossing the line” into making new humans.

That is good fodder to make idiots put money in the collection plate or give a professor a good living right now, and that is all the preachers and professors care about.

But the simple fact is that the “line” they are talking about is not just going to be crossed, it is going to be stomped on and totally destroyed by the footprints of people who are not going to live with brain damage or heart disease or spend their lives in a wheel chair just to satisfy the preachers.

On the night before He was arrested, Jesus spent the night praying to be released from the terror of crucifixion that he faced. He needed a friend to share His burden, so he took Peter with Him.

Peter fell asleep. Jesus was terribly disappointed. He was hurt that in the time when He had to wrestle with Satan and his final commitment, not even His most faithful follower would stay with Him.

But Jesus did not even consider wavering because He was disappointed in Peter.

We are all hurt by how stupid and slavish our people are. Why can’t they stand up and fight back while our borders are violated, our women are violated, all decency is violated?

It is inexcusable. It is cowardly. These people are not worth our concern.

All of this is true. None of this matters.

We will fight the fight and we will win for our people, despite our people.

Not because they have earned it, but because it is right.

I wrote this to a retired Methodist minister.

Fashionable preachers must tell Buddhists and others that Jesus wasn’t all that special, but the Jews are. After all, they must demand that America kill an awfully lot of people and spend a lot of money to help Israel keep the land it took from the Arabs.

You are in the position the Church was in when Galileo proved that earth is not the center of the universe. The idea that Jews invented monotheism and were God’s special pets was OK in the Middle Ages, but it’s silly now.

It will take a long time before the churches stop justifying all those killings in the name of The Chosen People, just as it took the church until the early 1800s to let Galileo back in the Roman Church.

I understand Pope John Paul recently forgave Galileo once and for all for his crime of being a heretic.

It will be a while before theologians stop demanding killing and billions of dollars for God’s Chosen Country in Israel, just as it took a long time after Galileo for the church to stop killing people who said the earth wasn’t the center of the universe.

If you admit Israel is not God’s central concern, you might lose your pension.

Anyway, all that will be needed is a change of fashion for Israel to go out of style, and, once Europe has a Moslem majority, that change of fashion will be right along.

As you said, it takes two hundred pages to justify this nonsense now, and it’s getting longer every day.

I have been attacking preachers a lot lately, and this gives me the fear that some Catholics might think I’m a good guy. I am NOBODY’S good guy.

So let me take a blast at the Pope here. Everybody loves him, like everybody loves Winston Churchill and the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation.

The Roman catholic Church has Eastern Rite Churches. These are churches whose entire ritual is Eastern Orthodox, with a single exception. That exception is that in their Nicene Creed they says that the Holy Spirit proceeds from “the Father and the Son” while Eastern Orthodoxy says the Holy Spirit proceeds only from the Father.

Both churches have murdered and demand a lot of people over that.

Jesus said “of such is the Kingdom of Heaven,” referring to children. Those must have been some extraordinary children if they stayed awake at night worrying about whether the Holy proceeds from the Father and the Son or just from the Father.

Anyway, this is called the filioque, and having the right filioque is what God is all about, say the theologians.

I think I already pointed out that all theologians are psychopaths.

Anyway, Eastern Rite churches are interesting. The Ukrainian Eastern Rite Church has millions of members. The Melkite and Marionite Churches, both Lebanese Eastern Rite, make up most of the Christian population of Lebanon, which used to be the only Arab country with a Christian majority.

Eastern Rite priests are Roman Catholic priests, but they are married. In the Orthodox Church a priest can be married if he marries before ordination. A lot of Orthodox priests finish seminary and put off their ordination until they are married. Eastern Rite priests do the same thing.

I said, “Eastern Rite priests are Roman Catholic priests, but they are married. ” An Eastern Rite priest would not like that sentence. They insist that they are Orthodox. The local Greek Orthodox priest told me that part of their regular reading is Melkite writings.

The Catholic Church recognizes an Orthodox priest and an Orthodox service to be as valid as a Catholic one, and vice-versa.

So recently the Melkite Church asked that their members be allowed to go to either Orthodox or Roman Catholic services, as they chose, in the many places where there is no Melkite Church. It was the Pope who refused, for all his talk about Church Unity.

St. Francis Xavier (Xavier College), heir to Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, went to India, had most of his ministry there, and died there.

Xavier would not take Mass from Indian priests because they were colored.

Xavier had the same problem with brown priests that American Catholics will have with female priests after their church backs down on that, too.

The only similarity between me and Jesus Christ is that I will probably end up getting lynched too.

But I try to be good Christian, and one reason I think I am succeeding is because I am the exact opposite of professional preachers.

I don’t think there is anybody anymore who thinks liberal professional preachers regard their religious pretense as anything more than a useful pose for pushing their political agenda.

But a lot of people think professional conservative preachers actually believe what they say.

When conservative preachers find something their congregations want to believe, or when they need to say something to pacify liberals, they drag a quote out of the Old Testament to back up whatever they need to say.

If a conservative preacher is desperate enough, he will even quote Jesus, though they hate to do that and almost never do.

My situation is entirely different. I will work something out, boil my belief down to its essence, and then suddenly remember that Jesus said the same thing better two thousand years ago.

For example, I denounce the professors, who are almost universally evil people.

And yes, Virginia, I DO know the difference between “evil” and “honestly mistaken.” I meant evil.

Then I realize that Jesus said the same thing, but better, about the Learned Doctors of His own time, the priests and scribes and Pharisees. They were almost all evil men. I meant evil, and Jesus called them that.

Pat Buchanan really got into the kook category in the 2000 campaign when he announced that the world had to be created in six days because he didn’t want to be kin to a monkey. This has nothing to do with the argument over evolution. It is just plain childish. The idea of grown man saying that is bad, the idea of a serious candidate for national office saying that puts him beyond the pale. That was the day Pat Buchanan put himself in a category with the Vegetarian Party.

Nobody in the media noticed this because they wanted to blame Buchanan’s poll collapse on his limited opposition to immigration. But that was when he became totally discredited. Buchanan always ends up being a harmless religious nut.

The whole right is going that way. They demand that everybody be kept on life support until the body actually begins to stink, the family’s wishes be damned. They fanatically demand the rights of mindless embryos over sick people, they want as much agony as possible for a person who is dying. The actual support for any of this among sane people who have a conscience is nil. The Spanish Inquisition has more real, serious apologists than this crap, but it is rigid conservative doctrine.

It isn’t liberals who are now discrediting conservatives. It is this pseudo-Pro-Life silliness.

I am ashamed to call myself a conservative today. I am anti-liberal, but I am not an idiot or a nut or a sadist.