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Mexico, Mass Migration and the Example of Moses Part 21: Robert Filmer, John Robbins and the Biblical Origin of Private Property

Posted in Immigration, tagged Antichrist, Exsul Familia, John Robbins, Mexico Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, Robert Filmer, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Strangers No Longer on March 3, 2019| 2 Comments »

Sir Robert Filmer

“The Prime duties of the second table [of the ten commandments] are conversant about the right of property. But if property be brought in by a human law (as Grotius teacheth), then the moral law depends upon the will of man. There could be no adultery or theft, if women and all things were common.”

– Sir Robert Filmer, Patriarcha

Rome’s teaching on migration, which is the theoretical basis for the ongoing migration crisis in both Europe and the United States, rests on the doctrine of the universal destination of goods.

The universal destination of all goods is the idea, repeated time and again in the official documents of the Roman Church-State, that in the original state of nature, before the fall of man, that God gave the world to mankind collectively. This idea, dating back to the pagan stoics, was picked up by the church fathers, repeated by Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae, and used by popes and other thinkers in the Roman Church-State as the foundational idea for socialist economic and political thought which characterizes the Social Teaching of the Church.

Since Rome’s teaching on migrants is one facet of the Church’s Social Teaching, it should come as no surprise to find that the universal destination of goods is foundational to the Church’s teaching on immigration, migration and refugee resettlement as well.

A second key point to this series is that the universal destination of goods is unbiblical. Rather than positing the idea that God gave the Earth to man collectively, the Bible teaches that private property was the original economic order of things.

The third key point is that, if it can be demonstrated from the Scriptures that Rome’s doctrine of the universal destination of goods is false, not only is Rome’s socialist migration doctrine likewise refuted, but the entirety of its Social Teaching is overthrown as well.

In this week’s post, we shall continue to examine the arguments against the universal destination of goods and for original capitalism made by 17th century English political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer as discussed in John Robbins’ doctoral dissertation, The Political Thought of Sir Robert Filmer.

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Mexico, Mass Migration and the Example of Moses Part 19: The Universal Destination of Goods and Rome’s Ungodly Doctrine of Migration

Posted in Immigration, Politics, tagged Antichrist, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Exsul Familia, John Robbins, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Strangers No Longer, Universal Destination of Goods on February 17, 2019| 2 Comments »

Thomas Aquinas, official philosopher of the Roman Church-State and conduit for the unbiblical notion of the universal destination of goods, an idea central, not just to the Social Teaching of the Church, but to Rome’s destructive doctrine of migration. A doctrine that the Church-State is using to destroy the remnants of the Protestant West.

In Roman Catholic economic thought, there is a hierarchy of principles, and the most important principle, to which all others are subordinate, is the principle of the universal destination of goods.

– John W. Robbins, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, p.39

Last week, we began a more detailed look at the Roman Catholic principle of the universal destination of goods. That post, I emphasized the point that Rome’s doctrine of mass, taxpayer subsidized immigration, migration and refugee resettlement is not some isolated teaching, quite apart from other ideas advanced by the Roman Church-State. Rather, it is part of a larger body of teaching by Rome known as the Social Teaching of the Church.

Economics is part of the Roma Catholic Church’s Social Teaching. And, as noted in the quote at the top of this post, the most important principle in Roman Catholic economic thought is the universal destination of goods. The universal destination of goods rests on the false idea – a false idea promulgated by Greek and Roman philosophers, transmitted by the early church fathers, taught by Thomas Aquinas, the official philosopher of the Roman Church-State, and which serves as the foundation of all of Rome’s Social Teaching – that God originally gave the Earth to all men in common. That is to say, Rome believes in original communism.

Remember, Roman Catholicism is not a random collection of ideas. It is a system of thought. As such, it is held together by certain common ideas. The latent original communism found in Roman Catholic economic thought, what the popes call the universal destination of goods, is one of the consistent threads binding together the vast body of Rome’s Social Teaching, of which its teaching on immigration is a part.

To give you a visual representation of the relationship that exists between Roman Catholic Social Teaching, it’s general position on immigration, and the specific application of its teaching on immigration to the United States. a simple outline will suffice.

The Social Teaching of the Church (begins with the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, 1891) >

General statement of the church on migration (Exsul Familia Nazarathana, 1952) >

Specific application to the Church’s teaching on migration to the United States (Strangers No Longer, 2003)

Last week, I provided a quote from The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church illustrating the fundamental importance of the universal destination of goods in Roman Catholic Social Teaching. In part, the quote read, “The universal right to use the goods of the earth is based on the principle of the universal destination of goods…The right to the common use of goods is the first principle of the whole ethical and social order’ and ‘the characteristic principle of Christian social doctrine.’ ”

Lord willing, perhaps as soon as next week, I will make the Biblical case against the universal destination of goods. Since Rome’s Social Teaching is systematic, and since the universal destination of goods is, by Rome’s own admission, central to The Social Teaching of the Church, a Biblical refutation of the universal destination of goods constitutes a refutation, not just of Rome’s doctrine of immigration, but of the entire body of Rome’s Social Teaching. That is to say, the whole structure of Rome’s Social Teaching, including its ungodly doctrine of immigration, collapses like a house of cards.

But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. But before laying the axe to the root of Rome’s Social Teaching, I would like to demonstrate to you just how systematically Rome has worked the universal destination of goods into it teaching on immigration.

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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses Part 13: Strangers No Longer, Odds and Ends (B)

Posted in Immigration, Politics, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Church World Service, Mexico Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Strangers No Longer, Universal Destination of Goods on November 25, 2018| 1 Comment »

Migrants attempting to rush the US-Mexico border at San Ysidro, November 25, 2018.

Compassion For Whom?

When it comes to writing about migrant issues, most authors write sympathetically about the migrants, while showing almost complete disregard for the populations called upon to support them.

While I can have compassion for migrants, immigrants and refugees, what about my fellow Americans? Are they not much more my neighbors than someone from Guatemala? Do they not deserve my consideration and compassion?

What about Americans who lose their jobs or have their wages lowered because of increased competition from illegal immigrations? Am I not to be concerned about them?

What about Americans who are raped, killed, and murdered, by those who have no legal standing to be in the United States? Am I to turn a blind eye to the suffering of the victims and of their families?

It’s amazing how little concern the Roman Church-State and the political, intellectual, and business establishments have for the serious plight of large swaths of the American population, some of whose problems are the direct result of the failure of government officials to provide even a minimum level of enforcement of American immigration law, while at the same time presuming to lecture Americans about their lack of compassion for foreigners.

News flash for those concerned about foreign migrants. Americans are real people too, and they have real problems and legitimate concerns that deserve real attention.

Charity, as they say, starts at home.

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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses Part 12: Strangers No Longer, Odds and Ends (A)

Posted in Immigration, Politics, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Exsul Familia, Roman Catholic Economics, Roman Catholic Politics, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Roman Church-State, Strangers No Longer, Universal Destination of Goods on November 18, 2018| 1 Comment »

We seek to measure the interests of all parties in the migration phenomenon against the guidelines of Catholic social teaching and to offer a moral framework for embracing, not rejecting, the reality of migration between our two nations.

– USCCB and the Catholic Bishops of Mexico in Strangers No Longer

Over the past three weeks (please see here, here and here), this author has examined in some detail the document Strangers No Longer
(SNL), authored jointly by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and their counterparts in Mexico. The main purpose of SNL, as the quote at the top of the page indicates, is to bring to bear the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church on the issue of migration between Mexico and the United States.

The three preceding posts on SNL represent my attempt to demonstrate some of the serious, antichristian ideas in the document. To that end, I have analyzed the errors in three broad categories, noting that SNL is 1) a Marian document, 2) a socialist document, and 3) a globalist document.

After considering the express and implied propositions found in SNL, it is this author’s conclusion that the ideas put forth by the bishops in SNL are not only harmful to the people of the United States, but destructive to the point that they imply the end of the United States as an independent nation. Further, it is this author’s contention that the implied collapse of the US is not some accidental by-product of the ideas found in SNL, but actually one of the bishops’ intended effects.

That said, today I would like to turn my attention to a few additional issues in SNL. These are issues that may not fit neatly into one of the three categories listed above – Marian, socialist, and globalist – but which nevertheless are worthy of commentary.

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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses Part 11: Strangers No Longer, the USCCB’s Subversive Pastoral Letter

Posted in Immigration, Roman Catholicism, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Mexico Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, Politics, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Rome and Immigration, Strangers No Longer on November 11, 2018| 5 Comments »

Protesters at US-Mexico border. Bill Wechter/Getty Images

The Vatican called on Monday for sweeping reforms of the world economy and the creation of a ethical, global authority to regulate financial markets…The Vatican called for the establishment of a “supranational authority” with worldwide scope and “universal jurisdiction” to guide economic policies and decisions. Such an authority should start with the United Nations as its reference point but later become independent and be endowed with the power to see to it that developed countries were not allowed to wield “excessive power over weaker countries. “Vatican urges economic reforms, condemns collective greed” – Reuters, 10/24/2011

One of the great frustrations this author has with the way news is covered is the abject failure of the press – and by the press, I mean both the mainstream legacy news organizations as well as the alternate, independent journalists who do their work on blogs, YouTube channels and podcasts – to relate the various political activities of the Roman Church-State to its overarching goal of establishing a new version of the Holy Roman Empire, this time one worldwide in scope.

Now when one begins talking about the push for world government, it’s not uncommon to be charged with “fear mongering” and “pushing conspiracy theories.” But Rome’s lust for world government, while certainly a conspiracy, is perhaps the least secret, most openly admitted conspiracy in history. Many people suppose that, if the Vatican really did want world government, you’d have to go looking for proof in some musty, dusty ancient codex buried deep in a monastic library in some exotic location.

The truth is that proving Rome’s desire for world government is, as they say, like shooting fish in a barrel.

Take, for example, the passage quoted at the top of this post. It’s from a 2011 Reuters article about a new document issued by the Pontifical Council For Justice And Peace, the full title of which is Towards Reforming The International Financial And Monetary Systems In The Context Of Global Public Authority (emphasis mine).

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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses Part 10: Strangers No Longer, the USCCB’s Subversive Pastoral Letter

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Migrant caravan departs Ciudad Hildalgo, October 21, 2018.

In last week’s post, we began our look at Strangers No Longer (SNL), a 2003 document issued jointly by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Bishops of Mexico.

As the title to last week’s and this week’s post indicate, SNL is a subversive document. It is subversive in at least three ways. First, in that it is a Marian document, it is subversive of the faith once delivered to the saints. Several times in SNL, the bishops proudly reveal that the satanic Marian cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a key reason for their call for mass migration from Mexico, and by implication, from other places into the US.

Second, in that SNL is a clarion call for international socialism, it is subversive of capitalism, the economic system of the Bible. As the Bible clearly teaches throughout the pages of the Old and New Testaments, the ownership of capital goods, that is to say, the means of production, are to remain in private hands. Further, the Bible teaches that title to property, apart from punishment for a crime, is absolute. “Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things,” said the vineyard owner in Jesus’ parable. Rome, on the other hand, takes a far different view.

Finally, in that it is a globalist document, SNL is subversive of good government. SNL is part of the Babylonian Harlot’s multipronged, centuries long attempt to reinstate the Holy Roman Empire, this time on a worldwide scale rather than the regional scale she achieved during the middle ages.

Last week, we looked at the Marian aspect of SNL. In today’s installment, I shall discuss the document’s socialist subversions.

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Mexico, Mass Migration, and the Example of Moses, Part 9: Strangers No Longer, the USCCB’s Subversive Pastoral Letter

Posted in Immigration, Roman Catholicism, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Politics, Pope John Paul II, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Roman Church-State, Rome and Immigration, Strangers No Longer on October 28, 2018| 5 Comments »

The migrant caravan on its way to the United States. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops calls them missionaries. Others may use a different term.

One of the mains goals of this blog is to bring a Scripturalist analysis to bear on the events of the day. That is, it is my aim to apply the Scripturalist axiom that the Bible has a systematic monopoly on truth to current events.

As Christians, it can be easy to fall into the trap of supposing that, while the Bible is good for learning about how to be saved, when it comes to the important political and economic questions of the day, we need to look for answers elsewhere rather than in the Word of God.

For a number of years now, the related issues of immigration, migration and refugee resettlement have been at the forefront of the news in Europe, the United States and other areas of the world.

Because of its prominence in the news and because the subject, for the most part, is treated incompetently by the mainstream media, liberals, conservatives, and even Evangelical Christians, I had long wanted to write about immigration but felt somewhat inadequate for the task.

My first systematic foray into the topic was with my series Immigration, Citizenship and the Bible, which I wrote on this blog over a period of about a year and a half from September 2016 through the spring of 2018.

I guess I just can’t leave well enough alone. For it was a just a few months later that I started a second immigration series, this time called Mexico, Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, of which this post is the ninth installment.

This new immigration series was prompted by an extraordinary statement made last summer by then Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO as he is known in Mexico). Said AMLO, “And soon, very soon – after the victory of our movement – we will defend migrants all over the American continent and migrants of the world who, by necessity, must abandon their towns to find life in the United States…It’s a human right we will defend.” That was in June 2018.

I have to admit that I didn’t plan it this way, but just a few months later it appears that, with the Honduran migrant caravan getting a free pass through Mexico as I write, the Mexican government appears to be attempting to make good on AMLO’s promise, and he isn’t even scheduled to take office until December 1st!

If nothing else, the caravan certainly makes the timing of this series propitious. But it gets even better.

As part of the Mexico, Mass Migration and Moses series, it was my intention from the start to write about one of the key documents supplying the intellectual foundation of the caravan, a 2003 pastoral letter by the Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States titled Strangers No longer Together on the Journey of Hope (hereafter SNL).

John Robbins often made the point that the things men do, their practices, always are based on some prior theory. As practical Americans, we tend to disdain theory and focus only on actions. But if it’s true that man’s actions always represent the practice of some prior theory, and it is, then it is theory that is primary and actions that are secondary. Further, it is theory that should interest us the most.

If a man’s ideas about the way the world should work are sound, his practice likewise will tend to be sound. If his world view is based upon false ideas, his practice will tend to be corrupt.

In my review of SNL, I would like once again to focus on the Roman Church-State’s theory of migration – in two earlier installments of this series I focused on the most important Roman Catholic migration document of all, Pope Pius XII’s 1952 apostolic constitution Exsul Familia; you may read these installments here and here – by comparing the words of the bishops who wrote it with the Word of God. If their ideas – that is, the intellectual foundation of their calls for mass, taxpayer subsidized migration – do not hold up under the light of Scripture, then likewise their proposals for mass migration, immigration and refugee resettlement – including their defense of the caravan – fall too.

And not only does a refutation of SNL devastate the Roman Church-State’s theory of migration and nullify its petulant demands that nations pay it heed, it also exposes AMLO’s proclamation – which is nothing other than a restatement of Exsul Familia and SNL in his own words – to defend the right of all migrants to come and live in the US as the dangerous absurdity it truly is.

The truth is, refuting SNL from the Scriptures is not all that difficult. In short, SNL is a very Marian document, it is a very socialist document and it is a very globalist document, all which ideas are antithetical to Biblical Christianity. In my following remarks, I shall take on each of these ideas in order.

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Mexico, Mass Migration and the Example of Moses Part 8: The Caravan Cometh

Posted in Immigration, Roman Catholicism, tagged Antichrist, Exsul Familia, Immigration, Mexico Mass Migration and the Example of Moses, Politics, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Roman Church-State, Rome and Immigration, Strangers No Longer, Universal Destination of Goods, Westphalian World Order on October 21, 2018| 3 Comments »

While a candidate, Mexican president elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) promised to defend the right of everyone in the world to migrate to the United States. The migrant caravan making its way through Mexico appears to be a down payment on that promise…and AMLO hasn’t even taken office!

The pope, more than anybody else, has driven the migrant crisis in Europe…The Catholic Church is one of the worst instigators of this open borders policy.

– Steve Bannon, Former White House Strategist, June 2018

We interrupt this program…

When thinking about what to write for this week’s post, it was my intention to continue with my series on the 2008 financial crisis. But with the embarrassment of riches in the news just begging for a Scripturalist commentary, sometimes I find myself, as did the dog in the movie Up, saying “Squirrel!”

The squirrel, in this case, is the news of the Honduran migrant caravan slowly wending its way through Central America with the goal of arriving in El Norte. the United States.

Many commentators have speculated about the origins of the caravan. While it appears to have mysteriously sprung up almost overnight, given its size and the apparent organization, not to mention its timing near the November mid-term elections, it is difficult to believe that the caravan is a spontaneous uprising.

Among conservatives, it is fairly common to blame the United Nations and George Soros for instigating this latest attack on the United State’s southern border.

Donald Trump has tweeted that the fault lies with the Democrats and their lax approach to border security.

One financial commentator I follow has suggested, if I understand him correctly, that the migrant caravan was organized by financial interests in the federal government to give the Trump administration the excuse to borrow more money to fund the construction of the proposed southern border wall with Mexico. In the opinion of this financial commentator, the federal government must borrow cash into existence in order to pay the interest on the existing government debt. Deficit spending on the wall is one way of doing this.

While this suggestion is not as off the wall (pun intended) as it may seem, it is not my intention to explore it here today.

In fact, it’s not my intention to do a deep dive consideration of any of the popular theories about the source of the caravan’s organization and funding. It may well be that some, or even all, of the above suggestions are correct. It is not my purpose here to rule out any of them. But what I will say is that, even if they are true, none of them are adequate, for they fail to identify what is almost certainly the single most important sponsor of the caravan: The Roman Church-State.

It is the studied opinion of this author that the principal cause of the migrant crisis in Europe and in the United States, what Pope Francis has called a ‘sign of the times,’ is the Social Teaching and political activism of the Roman Church-State under the direction of its Antichrist popes.

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