Friday, April 12, 2013

Perfect

Gonzaga University is a Jesuit-run university. Which would assume that it's Catholic. (Unless you've met any Jesuits lately.)*

Anyway, they recently rejected the application for a chapter of The Knights of Columbus to set up shot on campus because, not only is it exclusively male, but it is exclusively for Catholics. Yes, ma'am. That was the reason. The oldest Catholic fraternal organization in American is not inclusive enough for a contemporary Catholic university which worships a new Trinity of Diversity, Inclusion and Sensitivity. "Radical inclusivity" is, ironically, the religion of our elites and their increasingly irrelevant chaplains.

The logical Alinsky-ite** conclusion was pointed out by a very savvy Mr Carl Olson in this article: namely, that because they are an all-male and Catholic-only organization, the Jesuit order itself needs to be banned from their own university.
[I have wondered, BTW,  if any of the liberal Jesuits who favor ordaining women have pondered how unrecognizable their order would become if they opened their own entirely male Company of Jesus to female members...]

(Update. In response to outcries, the Jesuit and Catholic University will take 30-45 days to review this problematic issue...)

Mother of God.
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If all the devotees of this Trinity --in academia, government, the arts, the media, etc.--were to follow it to its conclusion, how many of them would be left with their own jobs?

They're like mid-level White bureaucrats in a Third World colony that's about to be dumped liberated by its old European master, expecting to be kept on to help the local folks through their period of adjustment to self-rule. After all with our combination of skills to teach and our good feeling toward the new regime, we're invaluable.

And they deserve the same fate.




*The present Pope is a Jesuit, and there are some orthodox Catholic ones like him, but the strongest tendencies of that order in the last 50 years has been to subordinate doctrinal orthodoxy --for which Jesuits once went to Protestant England and were hung drawn and quartered--to universalist "social justice" orthopraxis.

The "social justice" point of view is massively tied the assumption that the poor are poor because the rich are rich, that the rich have set up a system which keeps the poor poor --the poor themselves would be well-off otherwise-- and that "the force of human will suffices to resolve economic questions, and that reason and the conclusions of economic law can be safely neglected, even scorned." 

**Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to his own rules.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

So, combining something you said in some earlier posts: “In politics, we have the Platonic prescriptive (of what should be) and the Machiavellian descriptive (of how the world really works)..... Christian morality – which I certainly do not dismiss as a whole – is nonetheless infected with this idealist highminded dreaming. Without its bloody mythology, creedal self-confidence, and doctrine of Original Sin, it becomes Liberalism.”

With something I read on theopedia.com:
“ Theological liberalism, sometimes known as Protestant Liberalism, is a theological movement rooted in the 19th century German Enlightenment. Liberalism tends to emphasize ethics over doctrine and experience over scriptural authority. Liberalism came to dominate American mainline churches in the early 20th century. Protestant liberal thought in its most traditional incarnations emphasized the universal Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the infinite value of the human soul, the example of Jesus, and the establishment of the moral-ethical Kingdom of God on Earth. It has often been relativistic, pluralistic, and non-doctrinal. Liberalism birthed other movements such as the Social Gospel, theological Feminism, Liberation theology, process theology, and the Jesus Seminar, as well as the heretical Myth of Christian Origins which denies the divinity of Christ and the authority of scripture.”

I agree that liberalism is the devolution of historical Christianity. it also allows me to pin the source it on the german intellectuals again, because i have found that ALL of the thinkers I hate the most (luther, marx, the New Leftists, Nazis, german tradition in general, and many others). ButThe question I am faced with though, is ultimately, which do you think is more "true", the doctrines created by people speculating on very little concrete information, or is the general themes of Christianity that lead to liberalism closer to the truth? (and by Christianity, I mean Catholic-Orthodox religion).

In my own search for the "truth" (which I only recently restarted), I am realizing that I know and understand a lot of what you "think", but I cant really figure out what it is that you "believe. You have done a lot of self-defining with words and I support this and dont support that, but I cannot figure out what you believe about "truth". i dont suspect you are a naturalist or a materialist, I know you like Catholic Christianity but no longer believe it so to speak (maybe you want to still believe it, but cant, like me); but I dont know what it is that you believe about the nature of the universe and human existence. like, are you really raciss or are you just railing against the simple-minded implementation of liberal values leading to cultural-marxism that damages civilization?

(I am not articulating myself very well here, but I hope you can figure out what I am trying to get at.)


OreamnosAmericanus said...

Good question. Lemme think (!) on it.

Unknown said...

I ask because over the past 6 months I have been upset with my theology courses because I feel like they are just making shit up to justify their pre-judgments, instead of using a disciplined methodology that is distinctly catholic. But after a while I came to realize that there really isnt' one specific theology in the Catholic Church and there never has been just one. WHen asked "when Trent says "and the Traditions", what does that mean?", and I find I am unable to respond clearly and specifically what exactly "the traditions" are (theologically speaking; besides apostolic succession and "union" with Rome, whatever that actually means).

In otherwords, I have begun to question whether or not the entire Church tradition and theological development has anything to do with the "truth", if not just Protestant and liberal theology but even Catholic and Orthodox Theology is not just a bunch of rather groundless speculation and culture. IS theology anything other than cultural-legitmization and transcendentalized self-expression?

So, my question is.....WHAT do you believe? What do you understand to be the "truth". Is murder (or anything) actually wrong or is just unpleasant and impractical to tolerate so we say it is wrong? Was Jesus somehow a revealer of God, or was he just a Jew dissatisfied with the people and culture he lived in? is there a god at all, or is it just an impersonal "source" that we can tap into with spiritual practices. Or is existence just an accident and there is nothing deeper than biological and chemical processes and random chance? IS there value in self-denial/asceticism, or is mindless hedonism completely ok in the end because there is nothing beyond the material?

What is your current world-view? What is Ex Cathedra's "religion"?

Unknown said...

sry, i didnt realize you had responded to my first comment before i posted the second.

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