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
ThenWhatYourBornAs

Death Cult Discipline of the Secret

If you still have your kids in Death Cult Seminary school, and you think you know what's going on there, think again. Because Cultist teachers now think they're 100 percent justified in keeping their grooming secret from Christian parents. A Washington teacher complained on Friday that many schools’ “guidelines and…
February 28, 20234 Comments
Burning Branches

A Branch That Withers

File under: Schismatics gonna schism. A group of 12 Anglican archbishops from around the world have announced that they no longer believe the Church of England to be their “mother church” after the General Synod voted to allow priests to conduct blessings of same-sex couples in civil union. In a…
February 23, 20235 Comments
Ash Wednesday

The New Adam and the New Eve

In honor of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, I think it's fitting to start today's post with a perennial memento mori. Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You…
February 22, 20237 Comments