Catholic Dogma and Relativity

Is the truth relative to each man's outlook on the world? Does one truth vary depending on who you ask? Ask your average protestant about a truth of scripture and they will demean your proposed verse as simply your interpretation, making what the Bible says a matter of relativity. In such a case, the Bible could endorse killing and other such things depending on who you ask, thus, can it be so that the doctrine of Christ is actually relevant to the perception of the individual?

Take John 3:5 for example, there are many different ways that it can be taken, but is what this verse is saying relative depending on who you ask? Does not this verse actually say that unless one is born again of water and the Holy Ghost one cannot enter heaven, or is that just an individual interpretation of what that verse really says? Well, in the modern Protestant world, we can see that what this verse really says is, relative to the Protestant that one asks, for one it means, that we are cleansed of our sins and are made a Christian, for another it merely symbolizes this, thus, which one of these is the universal truth, which how can one correctly understand this statement of truth uttered by God Himself? Is there really a truth out there that can be seen and heard by the individual?

To clarify: there are some truths, like, my car is in my garage, it is true now, but after I take it somewhere it is not true that it is in the garage, thus, this is a truth that is relevant to the actions of an individual, that somethings that are true now, might not necessarily be true tomorrow. This is a transitory truth, it is something that is temporarily true, or true under certain circumstances, but not necessarily universally true. Our question is, is this kind of philosophy applicable to all things, including religion? There are some, especially modern philosophers, who will say "yes, your truth is your truth, but it is not mine, I have a different truth than you." Indeed, I do have a different truth than these pseudo philosophers, for in the world that I live in, there are some truths are always true, that cannot cease to be true because I am different, and have different experiences than someone else, for me 2+2 always equals four, no matter how many times one, nor no matter who, adds it up; it is a universal truth, it is a persistent truth, one that is not limited to any individual interpretation. The fact is that it is impossible for truth to be relative, or varying from person to person. If it's truth, then it is truth for all, not just some. But actual belief in the Truth does indeed vary from person to person, it is our understanding of certain truths that can vary between different persons, yet the truth still remains the same, it endures. That two and two is four is a universal truth. It has always been true whether humanity has known it to be or not; and will always be true. The notion that, just because its true for you doesn't mean its true for me is logically impossible. If it's true Truth, then it will be true for all. It can't change because it is an enduring truth, it is something that is not relative to one's understanding of mathematics. In another manner, water always boils at a set temperature, it is true for all persons, and so, no matter who boils the water, it will always boil at the same temperature as it would for anyone else, these are some of the the persistent truths that make the world work. These kinds of truths that we live by everyday, and are applicable to all under all circumstances, are the truths that endure, truths that are always true, and are true for everyone at every time, a persistent truth. That two and two are four, and the temperature at which water boils are these kinds of truths upon which one can trust to solve an equation and to boil a pot of stew.

But what of religion, is religion transitory or persistent truth. Ask Your local Protestant pastor and he may tell you in so many words that it is the first, and then later on tell you flat out that it is actually the latter, but not until he has already proven to you why it is the first; he is a relativist, his understanding of a book, he elevates to be an enduring truth, even though he will admit that his understanding of this "enduring truth" is actually relative to the understanding of the individual, in other words, Baptism might be necessary for all for salvation at all times, this the Protestant might concede, but then, will tell you that someone can have a completely different understanding of that which completely redefines it to mean something completely different, making what he said was eternal enduring truth relative to how one wants to see that particular issue, making in fact transitory, or relative, and not enduring nor universal. The Protestant will do the latter because of his belief in private interpretation of the work from which the rule of baptism is drawn, he must submit his own understanding, and the text itself, to the rule that he and others accept as truth, but then relative, that the truth of the Bible is relative to the judgment and understanding of the individual, he will submit this truth of this work to that rule, because that rule is the reason why he has no magisterium to follow, why he rejects an enduring and persistent truth given by God Himself, which is not relative, and thus would not conform to the way he wants this truth to operate. He will say that the Bible is contained of persistent and enduring universal truths, and then say that they are all relative to how the individual wants them to be, thus, these "truths" of the Bible, such as of the necessity of Baptism, might be true for the pastor, but not for someone else in the congregation, or rather some other pastor, the truth of that verse of the Bible is relative, then in the eyes of the Protestant, because it is not actually an eternal truth, but relative and transitory.

Jesus Christ said "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will not pass away", so, in essence, we have an assurance from the God-man Himself that the Christian religion that He founded is based on persistent and eternal truths, not transitory earthly truths, that pass away, and are relevant to certain circumstances. Quite simply, then, Protestantism is not contained of nor following, the words of Christ Jesus, because Protestants follow relative transitory truths, and not the objective universal truths of God. The nature of Christian dogma is that of an enduring eternal truth uttered by God. One can either build his religion or philosophy based on the sands of transitory things, or he can build his foundation on the rock of the persistent truths of the universe that always were and always will be. The Pastor, then, does not have in his own philosophy the enduring truth of Christian dogma.

This philosophy of relativity in religion is based on the fact of whether or not some one actually believes these truths is relative. By this it is meant that one person may believe that 2 + 2 = 4 and another may not; but either way, we know that the one that believes it to be true, is indeed correct in his belief, and the other is not. Applying this to religion, we come to the same conclusion. However, in religion, we don't have the same sense of understanding the truth. Well, what do I mean? Well, let me explain by using gravity as an example. Now, it is a universal truth that gravity exists, we all know this, it is an enduring "persistent" truth, but what about relativity? Gravity is always acting upon us, whether we like it or not. Now, suppose someone does not believe that gravity is true. Under the terms set forth by the relativist pseudo philosophers just because its true for you doesn't mean its true for someone else, thus, if the said person were to actually disbelieve in gravity, then gravity would have no effect upon him, because it is relative to whether or not this person accepts it as their truth. Now, were that person to go the tallest building they can find and jump from its heights, according to their belief system, since they don't believe in gravity, they won't fall to their instantaneous death. Obviously this is not so. If one were to jump from a high place, they would fall to their death because they are bound to the universal "persistent" truth of gravity, which is a persistent truth, applicable to all regardless of whether or not they believe it its reality; so much for relativity. Obviously, truth is not subject to the limited understanding of the individual, whether someone understands, or believes, a certain truth does not alter is truthfulness, does not lessen its effects in reality, truth is not subject to one's understanding of it.

Likewise, if the religion founded by Christ is such a universal and persistent truth then regardless of what all others believe, all will be held accountable to this truth, because, like gravity, it is applicable to all. The truths set forth by God apply to all men who are made subject to the laws of God, thus, they are responsible for knowledge and practice of these Truths. Such is the truth of John 3:5, as it says all men must be born again of water and the Holy Ghost to enter the Kingdom of heaven, it is a universal truth applicable to all men, who are all subject to this fact, this eternal Truth of God, all men are bound to observe and keep this observance, otherwise, the sentence is being barred the kingdom of Heaven, for the rejection, or failure to observe this Truth, is the failure to observe and obey the authority and Divinity of the God Who instituted it, it is to show disobedience to, or disregard for the the Divinity and authority of God.

Since we believe that Jesus Christ is God made man, then indeed, we should do as He commanded, and obey all things that He commands, thus, it is much more logical to follow this course of action, than the objective relativist view that God may not exist for someone else, and according only to one. Now, answering the Protestant relativity of truth. According to the 33,000 different Protestant sects, He [God] wants us to proclaim His only Son, Jesus Christ, as lord and savior, and all is fine, nothing more, nothing less; and even there there is no real agreement, since this only according to the relative interpretation of a book that can be obscure in one or more areas, thus they have no real agreement on the truth, what is objectively true, and what is actually false, they don't really have the concept of truth. Protestant proclaim this, and claim that it is eternal persistent truth, but then will submit that to the private judgement of the individual Protestant. This is the root of the relativist philosophy, for it is the concept that one persons' interpretation of the scriptures is as good another, thus, the whole relativist philosophy that is destroying Christianity now is actually drawn from the Lutheran and Zwinglian philosophy of private interpretation, made more abstract and obscure via sola scriptura. The only thing that unites them is their disdain and hatred for the Catholic Church.

Now, continuing with our previous line of thought concerning persistent truth, since there is a universal truth of God, we need to know which Truth is of God; the following quote from St. Alphonsus Liguori will serve our purpose in discerning which church contains the persistent truths about God:

"A church which is not one in its doctrine and faith can never be the True Church ... Hence, because truth must be one, of all the different churches ... only one can be the true one ... and out of that Church there is no salvation. Now, in order to determine which is this one true Church ... it is necessary to examine which is the Church first founded by Jesus Christ, for, when this is ascertained, it must be confessed that this one alone is the true Church which, having once been the true Church must always have been the true Church and must forever be the true Church. For to this first Church has been made the promise of the Savior that the gates of Hell would never be able to overturn it (Matthew 16:18) ... In the entire history of religion, we find that the Roman Catholic Church alone was the first Church, and that the other false and heretical churches afterwards departed and separated from her. This is the Church which was propagated by the Apostles and afterwards governed by pastors whom the Apostles themselves appointed to rule over her ... This character can be found only in the Roman Church, whose pastors descend securely by an uninterrupted and legitimate succession from the Apostles of the world (Matthew 28:20)"

Clearly, then, if indeed the Roman Catholic Church is the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, then what it teaches is applicable to ALL, being universal and persistent truths, this Church being the one true Church then is true for all, and thus, since in it alone is salvation found, as a persistent truth, it is true for everyone, not just those who believe. The Truths of this Church are then universal and persistent truths applicable to all, this is the nature of Catholic Dogma.

Conspiracy Theory

We seem to always be hearing about conspiracy theories these days, that there is a conspiracy behind this, or there is a conspiracy behind that. A couple of months ago, I was at home with nothing to do, and found a movie titled "Signs", which was one of Mel Gibson's movies, and at one point there sitting on the coutch Gibson asks another character "is it possible that there are no coincidences?
Are there really no accidents, or do you believe that people just get lucky?" or words to that effect.
This is a significant point because so much hinges on whether or not there is a purpose behind many of the events that happen in our world. The point being that if we really believe in the supernatural, if we really believe that there is a God who created all things, and that there is a devil seeking the ruin of souls and the corruption of all things, can we really believe that anything is vain, or happens for no purpose? Is it possible that everything just happens for the sake of happening?

Alluding once again to popular culture, there comes to mind the series "The X-files" with two principle characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, where Mulder is always convinced that something behind the scenes is taking place, and is always contending with Skully's sckeptical outlook, that there really is a supernatural, but that Skully is always looking for some reason to explain the unexplainable. Strangely enough, if one took that sckeptical outlook and applied it to everything, one would eventually come to believe in a supernatural, that there is a reason for everything, rather, that if Skully took her skepticism far enough, that she would go full circle and end up with Mulder's unquestioning belief in the supernatural. If one believed that there is a reason for everything, that everything can be explained logically, that the most logical thing to do would be to form an logical explanation, and skully simply did not make it the other side of the circle sooner becaue she would not accept Mulder's explanation of the events, even though she herself could find no logical explanation, she defied her own logic in that she would not accept the logic that was present in Mulder's views, she was being illogical because she would not hear logic, if for the sole reason that she would have to admit error and concede to that which she refused to accept.

There is currently in the world two types of people: those who believe in a reason for everything, and those who believe that everything is chaotic and serves no purpose.
There are those who believe in a God, or gods, who believe that that divine entity, and/or entities, created all of that which surrounds us. Then there is he who believes in no God, or any entity, and that everything just naturally comes together as it has and will continue in that fashion.
Those who believe in a God, who has a purpose for this creation, must believe in a conspiracy, a scheme for all of creation, that there is a reason for all of the things that occur in this world.
Here we will focus on the one who believes in God and a reason for all that has happened.

The most common belief of a creator that we are bound to run into in this age in the USA is that of Christianity. In Christianity we believe that there is an omnipotent God who created all things, and that this God also created beings called angels. They believe that a certain one of these desired to be like the Creator, and thus led some of these beings against the Creator.
Christians call this being the devil, and those mutinous angels demons, thus illustrating two opposing forces - those of the Creator [God from here on] and those of the devil. Those who believe in Christianity and the existence of this devil believe in a conspiracy, and they must or cease to be a Christian for the sole purpose that they would not longer fit the definition of such, that this devil conspired against God and His designs.

Presently there are many conspiracy theories, and most of them are pretty far-fetched, compiled by curious minds who inquire into certain events and conclude that such events occurred because someone willed that events should happen in that manner - a conspiracy theory, it's wacky because they attempt like Skully to insert their own opinions and logic into the theory to help it make sense, but then, only to themselves, thus, the larger number of them are senseless to the majority of mankind, and are probably not true for the reason that there are better explanations, and ones that better be labelled a theory because it can be tested, otherwise, it could only be called a "conspiracy hypothesis", because it is only a theory when it can be tested, and also usually requires a precedent, that the thing in question actually has happened before, helps to substantiate a theory, and can thus provide a basis for such a theory, because since history repeats itself, could happen again, or rather, could be happening again. But mainly, one must try to stick with the one that is most credible, or that really can be tested, and when fully considered leads back to the source of all things, if it is good, as all truth must, and that is God, otherwise, if it is erroneous, one can be almost certain that it proceeds from another, more ominous entity.

God created Man, and placed him in a place of Paradise with Himself, and gave man free will.
In this paradise, at some point, the devil appeared and tempted man to disobey God, it was a conspiracy, the devil told man that God had lied, and that man would not die if he disobeyed God, and that there was a conspiracy against him to take away his liberties, to restrict him. In fact it was the other way around, it was the devil who was conspiring against God, using man, His creation, as one of his tools for such. For man's disobedience God cast man from this paradise and into the world that we know now. Thus any Christian who believes in the above, as many do, and also in the devil must believe in a conspiracy theory since it necessarily follows that all events happen because one of the two above described forces are in some way or another involved in the unfolding of events in this world.

God loved his creation, and desired to redeem man from his fate, and sent His Son [Christ from now on] as a redeemer to redeem man from the dominion of the devil. Christ died for the salvation and redemption of man from the devil and his realm, and founded a Church through which all men could now come to obtain the benefits of this redemption. The devil continued in his mutiny against God and His Church. so now we still have conspiracies, the conspiracy of the devil to use all of his means against the Church of Christ [see the St. Michael Prayer].

There are certain societies and groups who have assaulted, and continue to assault, this Church, most notably the Freemasons. It is believed that there was a freemasonic conspiracy to subvert the Church from within, and during the reign of Leo XIII it became known that some of these Freemasons had worked their way all the way to the top of its hierarchy. On October 9, 1958, Pope Pius XII died, and soon a conclave began that would decide the identity of the next Pontiff. This is the crux of this conspiracy, that these masons who had worked their way to the top of the hierarchy would work to place one of their men on the Apostolic See, who would then work to destroy the Church from within. A few days later an event happened that remains controversial, but that it was announced that a Pope had been chosen by the conclave, and then that they were unsure, and then again the announcement that a Cardinal had been chosen, and then again uncertainty as the color of smoke changed again.
Finally, not long after that, a man walked out onto the balcony attired as a Pope who took the title of John XXIII. The conspiracy was that a man had been chosen Pope who was not Roncalli, and was forced to abdicate, and that another Cardinal, Cardinal Siri, had been elected instead of Roncalli.

Roncalli [John XXIII] convoked an ecumenical Council which opened in 1962, and this council worked many changes in the Church, including the sacraments, the interpretation of dogma, a complete overhaul of everything was committed by this council. The conspiracy was that Siri and the Council were part of a Freemasonic plot against the Church, to destroy it from within, and that John XXIII, and his successors were not valid Popes of the Catholic Church, but anti-Popes elected in an uncanonical fashion. During the implementation of these changes by the Council, certain men in the curia saw the contradictions with traditional Catholic doctrine, and drew up a critical study of the new liturgy invented by the council, that study was called the Ottaviani Intervention, named after the principle signer Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani.
This is questioned and dismissed by the majority of people nowadays because it is what it is - a Conspiracy Theory. But the point is that it is questioned by those who believe, those who believe in a God and in a devil, but it seems ludicrous to them because it is a conspiracy theory.
We live in a world that does not believe in conspiracy theories, a world that does not believe in God, or in a devil, and thus, they dismiss anything of the sort, including evil and conspiracies.
The idea that the Vatican could ever fall under the control of the Freemasons seems so unlikely to them that it is simply not possible, but to dismiss such is to dismiss the concept of the devil, to dismiss the fact that this entity seeks the destruction of Christ's Church, that he would never make such an attempt to destroy it as a parasite from within. But for those who do believe, who do believe that there is a conspiracy of the powers of darkness against the Church of Christ, this does not appear too far off the wall, but is in fact a possibility, and for some, even a reality.
What is certain is that what happened between 1958 and 1969 did result in a mass apostasy from the Church, tens of thousands of priests did leave their vocation, hundreds of thousands of religious did leave their houses and flock to the secular realm, Things did turn for the worse, and many evil things have resulted since then, and these facts must be admitted.

Independence day: Independence from what?

Yesterday America celebrated the anniversary of its independence from Britain. On July 4, 1776 the thirteen colonies declared themselves to be independent of British rule. It proceeded to declare for the American citizen certain rights which it held to be "inalienable". One of these was the right of free speech. Properly exercised, this right is a good thing, when one is free to speak and do what is right, proper, and moral, that which is good for society overall. Strangely enough, it did the opposite. Free speech has reduced Truth as each man's opinion, truth as relative to how each man perceives the world. Combined with compulsory education, now, each man sees the world as he is educated, how he is trained by his government to understand his world, so that man now only echoes the voice of his government under this "free speech"; and since the state is Godless, can we expect a God-fearing population? We are not free to discuss what is right, as Gilbert expressed in the below citation, we now express what is profitable to "progress" and on every man's lips now is the praise of public education. True, now all men read and write, but are they really educated? The question is really, educated in what? He is educated in falsehoods and propaganda, all of which subsequently profits the system. The "history" that he learns is not history but revisionism, the rewriting of history to make a certain few groups who challenged authority and order in society for anarchy appear great while demonizing the other. Literature is now nothing more than the study of certain ideas the like of which savour of communism; which is evident from the almost religious study of the Communist manifesto by Karl Marx in modern high schools.

Now it is forbidden to attempt to speak of truth and morality, with illustrations of which the Ten Commandments represent, which are now forbidden to be placed in any public location. Now, certain speech is not permitted, speech about the races, and religion are now dismissed as "hate speech" in order to keep certain forms of speech from reaching the ears of the public. Things good and salutary are not permitted to be spoken because it is not favourable to certain people, but what these do not understand is that not every man can be pleased in a country as diverse as this one, so they seek to please such men, offending the majority who demand moral principles. They seek to please man, and not God. God's laws are taken down and trampled while the vile laws of an infidel nation are placed on a pedestal. In such cases Free speech is not a good thing, but a terrible thing, because it really is free speech, but not that of a good kind; it is the freedom to speak only that which is favourable towards immoral minorities, and those things which ignore or deny the very existence of God.

Religion is now an afterthought in the mind of the average American, they seek to place schools in the place of the Church. The lower schools are their catechism classes in which they are catechized in the doctrine of the Godless state. Colleges and universities are now as secular seminaries in which now they are seminarians in the priesthood of the state. The evil in such education is not that every man receives it, nor in that it is education, but that it is education in the wrong things. In such places children spend more time than they do with their own parents, thus, the Godless state virtually raises the children of its country. Free speech, that which speaks the praises of the Godless minority which seeks to place the state on an equal plane with God, as such did the Roman Emperors, but they did it with the help of the religions, not education, they controlled the religions as the state controls the education nowadays.

Oddly enough, each of these "inalienable rights" have been alienated by the very state that proclaims them. We are not free to denounce immorality as such, we are not allowed to expose falsehoods, and the reason is that the Godless state is immoral, and that it is the one promulgating such falsehoods. "They should realize that a government... must ...present a one-sided justification of its action... Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed, and a picture presented which by its crude colouring will persuade the ignorant people that their government is blameless, their cause is righteous... there are evasions, half truths, which are more subtly misleading, and gradually became governmental habit"(Ponsbury, Falsehood in wartime). There is not free speech, but only that which is favourable to one clique or another.
Nearly all of the "rights" in the "Bills of Rights" has been in one way or another violated, the freedom of religion is down trodden by the media in that only certain things may be freely expressed. With the idea that the rights of the state supercede those of the Church, the idea of free speech has acted to destroy Catholic truths as mere foolishness and outdates mythology from the dark ages. This bill has been used by the Education system to replace the Ten Commandment, so that now, children can recite the Bill of Rights and the preamble to the Constitution, but they cannot recite the Ten Commandments. Examples of this is that it is forbidden to denounce the immorality of homosexuality, and forbidden to question the now dogma of the "holocaust"; but as pointed out in previous posts, free to doubt and deny and denounce the dogmas of the Catholic Church.

This nation is made out to be great, when in reality no nation on the face of the earth has done more for the destruction of Catholicism within the last 200+ years of its history than Uncle Sam. It is almost impossible to find 5 consecutive decades in the history of this country in which it was not engaged in warfare. It has made war, and through such wars many of the good and the brave died and many of the bad and the cowards survived. The wars that have ensued from it were directed in some way towards certain nations that contained a sizeable Catholic populace, and little more than two decades later, Catholicism was a minority. Its media and culture have waged all out war on the Catholic Church, ridiculing its doctrines as superstitions and other such nonsense, and it was this media that has supplanted many of our greatest feast days with fairy tale characters from Pagan mythologies. And the feast day of this state is celebrated with such splendors and the aroma of barbeque steak fills the air every fourth day of July; but Easter is not observed at all, instead, they play with plastic eggs and place everywhere the image of an animal when they should display the image of the saviour of mankind - Jesus Christ. They should be in the Churches celebrating this most wonderful feast with the utmost solemnity. It is thus how the feat of Christmass is celebrated. Images everywhere of a fat man in a red costume in sleigh with reign deer and a big bag of who knows what. Such paganinity is displayed by the majority of this nation which has forgotten its saviour, and delivered itself into the hands of the pagan ideas and the feast days of the atheist state. In its popular culture is everywhere the most abominable impurity imaginable combined with the worst abominations ever conceived, while treating with content the ordinances of God. It is feasts as this one as shows where the loyalty of this people lie - with their godless state and their sports and food, and not with God, true freedom and eternal life, they celebrate the independance of a nation from God.