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Fight the Real Enemy: Sinead O’Connor on the Horrors of the Catholic Church in Ireland

Posted in Roman Catholicism, tagged , , on July 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Singer Sinead O’Connor tears up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, October 3, 1992.

Back in 1992, I recall watching Saturday Night Live when musical guest Sinead O’Connor ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II.  My initial reaction was to get upset.  Given my frequent writings against the papacy and many denunciations of it as Antichrist, this may come as a bit of a surprise to regular readers of this blog.  But remember, I’m speaking of an event from 31 years ago, and a lot has happened to change me in those ensuing years.

At the time, I was, as many people were then and still are today, under the mistaken impression that the pope was a representative of Christianity.  I had barely begun to read reformed writers and had very flawed ideas of what Christianity was.  Not having a reformed background, I took my cues on Christianity from the surrounding culture.  And the surrounding culture said that Pope John Paul II was a Christian man, a heroic fighter against communism, and one of the big reasons the West had recently triumphed in the Cold War.  Just two years earlier the world had witnessed the unthinkable when the Berlin Wall came down, and the press was full of glowing stories about the Polish Pope’s – Karol Józef Wojtyla, AKA Pope John Paul II was born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland – role in bringing down communism.    

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You Are the Population They Want to Reduce

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , on July 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the conclusion of the Investing in America tour at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 14, 2023. Kamala Harris appeared to make a blunder by describing plans to “reduce population” during her speech. SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

  • Deuteronomy 28:62

In a recent speech, Vice President Kamala Harris raised a few eyebrows when she said, “When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.”

Wait, what? The Vice President wants to “reduce population” in the US?  Well, no.  At least according to the White House, who updated the transcript of Harris’s speech, substituting the word “pollution” for “population.” 

Now we can all misspeak from time to time and not say what we intend to say. Maybe Harris really did mean to say “pollution” and not “population.”  But here’s the thing, I don’t know that this is the case.  Part of the problem is the neo-Malthusianism of the globalists, of which Kamala Harris is a prominent representative.  These people have who have openly talked about the “problem” of overpopulation now for over fifty years.  And given the open hostility and hatred the Biden Regime has shown to the American people – and I mean here, particularly white, conservative, Christian Americans – from its inception, it’s disturbing to hear such language coming from the mouth of a high government official. 

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Viktor Orban: One Man Against the Pope’s Migrant Hordes

Posted in Immigration, tagged , , , , , , , on July 16, 2023| 3 Comments »

Migrants cross into Slovenia, 2015 Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

When one surveys the Western world in 2023, he finds a most amazing phenomenon: with one exception, all the governments of the West express open hatred for their own people and are actively attempting to destroy them. 

I covered this topic in my recent post “The Trouble with Scotland.”  Here in America, the Biden Regime demonstrates its hatred for ordinary Americans in any number of ways, but perhaps in no way more dramatically than its treasonous border policies that have resulted in millions of illegal aliens pouring across our southern border with Mexico.

What is more, it doesn’t seem to matter at all what the people of the West actually want or whom they vote for.  Just last year, newly elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who ran on a platform of immigration control, has seen migration across the Mediterranean double in the past nine months and recently granted work permits to 425k non-EU workers.  The conservative government of Great Britain has done nothing to halt the flow of welfare migrants coming across the Channel. 

I mentioned above that there is one exception to the migration madness that’s overtaken the West.  That exception is a man I’ve mentioned before in this space, Hungary’s Viktor Orban. 

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The Trouble with Scotland

Posted in Globalism, Immigration, Politics, tagged , , , , , on July 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Urquart Castle and Loch Ness. Photo: Alinute Silzeviciute/Shutterstock

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

  • 2 Kings 21:13

“The trouble with Scotland is that it’s full of Scots.” Or so said the evil English king Edward Longshanks in the movie Braveheart. 

I bring this up because Edward’s view of Scotland, at least as depicted in the movie, seems to have been adopted by every government, every university, and every institution of any power in the Western world. 

Except for Viktor Orban in Hungary, I cannot think of a single head of state in the West that is not openly working for the destruction of his own people.  It’s an amazing phenomenon to behold and one that demands an explanation.

In Canada, Justin Trudeau is at war with the Canadian people.  The trouble with Canada is that it’s full of Canadians. The current occupant of the White House (I do not call him president) has openly and repeatedly expressed his disdain for a large swath of the American people.  The trouble with America, in Jesuit Joe’s opinion, is that it’s full of Americans. The seed was sown for recent Islamic riots in France by the French government’s policy of importing millions of Muslims into the country over the past several decades, such that Muslims now make up about 10% of the French population.  In Great Britain, the government’s decades-old immigration policy has reduced London’s white British population to minority status, while the government shows no interest in stopping the illegal alien invasion coming across the English Channel.  In the Netherlands, Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s government has attempted to destroy the nation’s farmers under the guise of fighting climate change.  There are reports that Rutte’s government intended to take 3,000 farms and use the land to house migrant invaders.  And speaking of Scotland, the new Scottish First Minister is a Muslim named Humza Yousaf.  Imagine that.  A Muslim ruling in the land of John Knox.  Apparently, Scotland is no longer as full of Scots as it was in Edward’s day.

I could go on, but the pattern is clear.  Western governments have abandoned the idea that they are the servants of the people and are instead attempting to destroy their own people.

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The Protestant Reformation and the American Republic

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on July 2, 2023| 4 Comments »

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

  • Leviticus 25:10

As we approach the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I’m moved once again to consider what a precious and rare commodity liberty is. 

Throughout the course of human history, most people have lived under some form of lawless tyranny.  Whether it was the pharaohs and kings of the ancient near east, the Caesars of Rome, the medieval popes, or the fascist and communist dictators of more recent times, the lot of most men in most places at most times is to have their rulers “lord it over them” as Jesus put it.

Given the long history of tyranny experienced by the human race, it’s worth asking why it is that we in the West have experienced such a long and blessed period of liberty.  Growing up, I was taught that our constitutional republic was the product of the Enlightenment.  It wasn’t until I was long out of school that I learned that the liberty that we historically have enjoyed as Americans was not the product of secular thought, but of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

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