| At the risk of sounding like Chicken Little, I've dedicated this site to the proposition that a universal apostasy is upon us. The devolution of all religions is approaching warp speed. The Roman Catholic religion, as a result of its Second Vatican Council in the early 1960's, was the last to join the rout of faith. Here you will find the information you need to resist the force and become a remnant. Only the few, the honest, and the brave need apply themselves. God Bless, Albert Cipriani |
| The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory. -- Matthew 12:20 |
| Lone Voice of a Traditional Catholic |
| You say, “I don't believe in Catholicism." I say, who can blame you? Especially when you can plainly see the mud hole our apostate bishops have driven us into. Rancor, division, and confusion reign. Who would want to join us in our mud fights? ... The kind of people who -- being so in love with the truth -- were willing to join us in the Roman Coliseum as lion food. A Brief History For 1,000 years Catholicism was virtually the only religion in the known Western world. Then, when the universe revolved around the earth and kings revolved around the Vatican and thoughts revolved around mortality, there was virtually no reason not to be Catholic. Today, with the universe revolving around our relativistic perspectives, and revolving-door rulers answering to no one, and thoughts revolving around how to best be entertained, there is no egocentric, political, or personal reason to believe in Catholicism. But egocentric, political, and personal reasons to believe in Catholicism are unworthy of Catholicism. The one worthy reason to believe in Catholicism today is the self-same sane reason there has always been to believe in Catholicism, and that is that it’s the most rational religion in the world. Any theist who accepts the premise that God is a communicative God, ultimately must accept Catholicism as the only coherent embodiment of that communication. Of course the 5 billion non-Catholic inhabitants of this earth would disagree. And probably 999 million of the 1 billion ostensible Catholics would disagree to boot. The truth is always outnumbered. To the degree otherwise rational people accept the incongruities of their religion, they insult God. It’s their way of telling the Divine Perfection that they do not expect perfection from Him. It’s their broad-minded method of forgiving God for not getting it exactly right. |
| A Case for Catholicism |
| Sure, they believe that God can do anything and that whatever He does, He necessarily does perfectly. But far be it for Almighty God to be able to prevent us from mucking up His perfection. So though God went to the trouble to speak to us in the form of a burning bush and to part the Red Sea through which He saved His Chosen People and to Incarnate Himself for the salvation of mankind, He could not manage to prevent scribes from mis-copying the Bible. So the Word of God can mean anything Protestants want it to mean, as attested to by their 20,000-and-still-counting denominations. God can’t contradict Himself; Protestants, heretics, and heathens do it for Him. Moslems and Jews contradict the Bible as well. The rest of what passes for religions in the world are so far out in La La Land that they are incapable of contradiction. They are at best, poetry, and at worse, bad poetry (i.e., philosophy). Contradiction As Performance Art The fundamental issue is mental – mankind’s kindly tolerance of contradiction. Our minds are far more capable of embracing mindlessness than our bodies are capable of infection. We have an inexhaustible capacity to entertain reasons that are inimical to reason and welcome as long-lost brothers thoughts that are as foreign to the thinking process as viruses are to our body’s immune system. A human body will reject its heart if it detects genetic incompatibility. Oh were it that our minds were half as vigilant, half as discriminating when bedding the syphilitic whores that masquerade as embodiments of the truth! To the average person, it’s no big deal that all religions contradict one another. All these fissures in our crumb cake can be frosted over with big globs of our sweet love of God -- on most Sundays. We’re so full of it that we suppose God gets stuck on our saccharine cover-up and doesn’t notice the intellectual crevasses beneath. Continued |
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