Based_Church

From a Based Church, Lord Deliver Us

With the rise of dissident politics have come renewed assaults on Jesus from the right. The intersection of LARPy neopaganism and crude race worship has produced a small yet stridently single-minded contingent of screwballs bent on taking out their racial animus on the Church. Wiser heads have pointed out that…
May 17, 202315 Comments
High-value Man

Hustlers and Hucksters

A relative newcomer to Catholic Twitter that's impressed me of late is Pinesap. I'm serious. This kid is on the ball theologically. Give him a follow:   If you need reassurance that not all Zoomers are deviant heathens, Pinesap's content is for you. Prime example: his recent thread on Manosphere…
May 10, 202310 Comments
ZHPL Blocked

No Christendom Without Christ

I regret to inform you that the Big-brain Nietzsche Boys are shilling for apostasy again. That's nuPaganism apologists for you. The second their backs are turned to Christ, it's right back to the child sacrifice. And it's not just the BAPists who are trying the "How do you do, fellow…
April 18, 202322 Comments
negativity

Say No to Negativity

A major occupational hazard of being a dissident is the tendency to get black pilled. In terms of theology, aka real psychology, black pilling is the condition that results when someone's powers of observation have become so acute at detecting negatives - i.e. "noticing" - that they're dulled to discerning…
April 12, 20234 Comments
Glencairn Pieta

It Is Finished

So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here they crucified him, and with him two others–one on each side and Jesus in the middle. Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened…
April 7, 20232 Comments
Pope Francis Puffer

The Cure for Francis Derangement Syndrome

Just as it is incumbent upon every son to defend his mother and father from spurious insults, it is every Catholic's duty to defend Holy Mother Church and her visible head on Earth, the Holy Father. In that regard, an ongoing project of this blog has been refuting the steady…
April 3, 202320 Comments
Tobit

In Defense of the Deuterocanon

Yesterday on Twitter a friendly ecumenical dialogue developed around the Witch Test. The biblical Deuterocanon came up, and the resulting discussion struck me as a perfect teachable moment. If you're not familiar with the Deuterocanon, it refers to the parts of the Bible that Catholics and Orthodox accept as divinely…
March 28, 202318 Comments
St. Patrick Getty Images

The Breastplate of St. Patrick

In these days of growing persecution, it's more important for every Christian to put on the armor of God. St. Patrick provides the Breastplate. I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through belief in the Threeness, Through confession of the Oneness of the Creator of…
March 17, 20233 Comments
scruples

A Question of Scruples

Being a theologian who travels in circles that take their faith seriously, one of the subjects people ask me about most often is scrupulosity. In case you don't know what scruples are, the term comes from the Latin idiom for a pebble in one's shoe. It's a nagging irritant that…
March 9, 20233 Comments
The Pillcoaster

The Pillcoaster

A vicious cycle that tends to afflict dissidents is the white pill-black pill rollercoaster. You see this phenomenon when some news story seems to signal a reversal of--or at least a pause in--the West's long cultural decline. The white-piller gets a dopamine rush that puts him on cloud nine. When…
March 7, 2023