My thoughts on the SSPX excommunication of clergy and practicing laity.
(These are solely my thoughts and positions. Read them as such.)

For those who do not know, the modern catholic church has erroneously excommunicated the SSPX, "The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X is a society of Catholic priests, founded by His Excellency, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970. Its main objective is the formation of holy priests using the methods that the Church always used: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, “The Mass of All Time”; the preaching of the Catholic Faith and Catholic morals; the endowment of grace by the administration of the sacraments of the Catholic Church; Catholic doctrine drawn from the best sources; community life in charity and prayer."
https://sspx.org/en/society-catholic-priests-its-main-objective-formation-holy-priests-30297


So to start this off, for those who are not familiar with Catholicism, in layman's terms, the Catholic Church (and the Orthodox Churches; Eastern, Russian, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Syriac, etc.) has a type of 'Authority' that originated with Christ, and revisited with the Holy Spirit, originally given to the Apostles and was handed down from them directly to their successors, who then perpetuated that succession to their disciples, and so one. Unbroken Authority through succession. And yes, that is in Scripture, beginning with Christ giving St Peter the Keys to Heaven.

*Matthew 16:19 (Authority)
And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
*Matthew 28:16-20 (Great Commission)
16 And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
17 And seeing him they adored: but some doubted.
18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.
19 Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

That Authority has two big parts to it - Exorcism and Commission (Vocation: Priesthood). The Commission portion comes directly through the Archbishops and Bishops down to the Priests themselves. This includes the divine Authority of succession and ordination. Meaning, without the perpetually handed down Authority originating from Christ, new Bishops and Priests cannot be ordained (made within the Church as a Holy Authorized vocation).

The problem with Prevost ("Pope" Leo) is two fold. One, he refused to give 'permission' for the Bishops of the SSPX (Society of St Pius the 10th(X) ) to ordain new Bishops.

Why is this an issue?

Because they are the last true diehard Traditional Priestly Order left in the novus ordo Church. The SSPX Churches are like the last lifeboats of the spiritual Titanic that the Church became after the erroneous changes to it, due to the 1962-1965 Vatican II Council. These 'changes' brought modernism and progressivism into a 2000 year old Holy Church created by Christ himself, through St Peter (our first Pope) (*side note - Pope is just another title for Patriarch or Church Father in Greek, Papas. It's how we get the words papal and papacy. It's been in official use since at least 250 AD with the Bishop of Alexandria, and transferred to Rome with Leo the Great (now there's some irony for you) in the mid 400s AD.)

So... the issue with his refusal to approve the ordinations is that he is doing it for modernist, leftist, dare I say demonic reasons. When those very old Bishops in the SSPX die, their would have been no one to take their place and continue the role of leader within the SSPX. No Bishops mean no new Priests in that order. Once the current population of clergy die off, no one replaces them and the Traditional Order that the SSPX holds on to would disappear, in a generation or two.

In other words, the current hierarchy in Rome is deliberately trying to remove what they know is a very old and Holy Order of Priesthood in favor of their more progressive, modernist orders (of which, we are seeing all of the heresies and blasphemies come from).

The second issue is that he is repeating the heresies (and adding new ones, it seems) of Bergoglio with regards to the rainbow degenerates, pagan cults like islam, allowing the Chinese Communist Party to "ordain" their own choice for Archbishops/Cardinals in China (which is supposed a Rome decision, not a commie one), and synodal protestant leanings (such as possible ordination of women, removing the Traditional Latin Mass, considering changing of doctrine and Traditions). This is just the tip of the iceberg. Don't even get me started on this new Fasttrack to "sainthood," which is something that is supposed to take several decades if not centuries.

So, this all boils down to the core issue.
Is the current Roman Catholic Church in the Vatican still a true Church of Christ?

This is a difficult question to answer. Are there members of the Holy See that are anti-Catholic, even anti-Christian in general? 100%. No doubt in my mind. I have read and seen the evil, paganistic things many of them have done over the last 5 years specifically, over the last 64 years generally. The Catholic Church that was the True "One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church" has, to my understanding and research, changed significantly after the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. As with most other things in that time, progressivism, modernism, leftism, socialism/communism/marxism/maoism/leninism had been worming its way through our society, particularly education and politics, ever since the 1930s (probably as early as the 1910s). Eventually, it took root in the Church, and with the help of Congress, Culture, Hollywood, and Industry, it began to dismantle our Christian society a little piece at a time. Death by a thousand cuts. This is how demonic infestation works. Slowly, it enters. Gnawing little bits away until enough has been removed that it either collapses the thing or completely consumes it. With the removal of prayer from Schools (and the pledge of allegiance), with the atheistic separation (actually a satanic temple push for this - look it up) of Church and State (different than what is in the Constitution and Federalist Papers), and the gradual softening of unGodly philosophies and religions via mediums such as movies, TV, magazines, and music, the 1960s brought in a plethora of evil upon America; politics, communism, neopaganism, satanic worship, progressivism, atheism, drug culture, extreme violence, sexual depravity and licentiousness, increased violence, single parent homes, broken families, Godless families, fatherless generations who eventually act more like animals than human beings, the condoning of radically perverse behavior and dangerous mental illnesses.
For this, you need to read a few books on the subject, beginning with...

"What Went Wrong With Vatican II: The Catholic Crisis Explained" by Ralph M. McInerny

"The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism" by Prof Michael W. W. Cuneo

"America's Alternative Religions" (Roman Catholic Traditionalism, p. 101) edited by Timothy Miller

"Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy" by Roger Collins

"Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order" by Malachi Martin

"The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia" by Paul L Williams


The gist of it is as follows:
"A conspiracy theory asserts that Cardinal Giuseppe Siri (then Archbishop of Genoa) was elected pope in the 1958 papal conclave, taking the papal name Pope Gregory XVII, but that his election was suppressed. Siri did not associate himself with this idea. Followers of the theory recognize Siri as "Gregory XVII", and also refer to him as "the Red Pope." Exponents of this theory claim a prolonged emission of white smoke on the first day of balloting at the conclave indicated the election of Siri, but that threats applied from outside the conclave caused his election to be reversed, allowing Pope John XXIII to be elected two days later. The source of the threats has been variously identified as Jews and Freemasons, or the Soviet Union. Adherents of the theory say the election of John XXIII was invalid and regard him and his successors as imposters and antipopes."

Some may ask, "What is the problem with modernism? Shouldn't we stop living in the past? Shouldn't we be up with the times? It's not the dark ages anymore."
I have heard many variations of this debate. Twenty years ago, I was one of those people arguing for the abolition of "old stuff" and "outdated thinking" and "getting with the times."
And I was wrong.

Here's the thing... many folks confuse, or rather 'muddle and merge' various "modern" conceptions. For example... I believe that real prayer can help to heal someone. However, God also gave us the knowledge and inventiveness to reach the current state of medicine (I am speaking of surgical and therapeutic, not pharmacology - though basic pharm, like aspirin and insulin are obviously of good intent and result). I do not believe that if your 4 year old has a 104 degree temperature, you should go down to your local charismatic "church" and have a group prayer. Yes, pray for him. Pray hard. Pray unceasingly.

However... take him to the emergency room where a doctor will use modern medicine to cool him down, combat the infection, and save his life. Can God do it? Sure he can. Should you wait to see, knowing God has already allowed a means of frontline combat in that battle (a doctor)? No. We do not test our God. We ask him for help, but he also provides methods within his cosmic scope for us to find aid. We do not say "God, I really need to save my child, but I want You to give Me a miracle right now."

So, anyway... modern things, like our advances in astronomy, computing, medicine, and agriculture, are not "modernism." They are modern things in the world. Technological advancements in this 'modern age.'

Modernism (and now postmodernism) is a philosophical notion that we have moved to a stage beyond Enlightenment, beyond Western Christian thought and morals, beyond Universal Truths, beyond Aristotelian utility, even. Modernism is about trying to cope with a cultural torrent of dystopian, nihilistic, atheistic, humanistic, socialistic, marxist scientism, where only the approved "science" and "liberal arts" criteria are true and real, even though they shift to something different every 5-10 years, and we should only do what makes us happy, what makes us feel good, what brings us the quickest satisfaction, what detaches us most efficiently from the world of pain and sorrow, what makes it "all about me" and "let's me be my best self" and "empowers me with 'my' truths and feelings" and all the rest of that nonsense.

And as we have become such a Church-detached society today, by most westerners reckoning, most of the people who think those Modernist notions are true and try to live by them do so at risk, because they do not understand where those notions come from. It isn't from within. Well... I suppose a bit of it is... in the same sense that Eve disobeyed God and took that piece of fruit for herself, for her own gratification and her own 'truth,' even though it was suggested and encouraged by the wicked serpent in the Garden. But aside from that perpetual stain on all souls (thanks a lot, Eve), the real Truth is that these notions are directly opposed to God almighty. And who is his biggest Adversary? Who wants most to upset God's apple cart and bring down humanity with self-delusion, vanity, greed, sloth, gluttony, wrath, lies, violence, sexual depravity? And if you oppose these things, that Adversary rages and pushes even harder, flooding the world with even more depravity, violence, temptations, darkness, blasphemies...

This is Truth. This has been known since the dawn of man. Whether you believe in the protestant notion of a 6000 year old earth (which I do not) or the possibility of a much, much older Earth, created on a long timeline, in a cosmic timetable that a creator of a universe might use, and accept that a preFlood world may be far older than a measly 6000 years due to the massive evidence at hand (that atheists misinterpret as just 'chance' and that something can build itself from nothing misconception). Whichever historical/archaeological/geological root you believe, it does not change how the world is tearing itself apart today, mostly because of
1) modernism/postmodernism/leftism/progressivism/etc.,
2) socialism/communism/marxism, and
3) paganism/satanism/luciferianism/islam (which is really just a variant of satanism. Don't believe me? Read the quran. You'll see it.)

I realize to some, this stuff seems fantastical. In contemporary "academic" circles, topics like the supernatural are considered taboo. I get that. Satan worked very hard to get our 'modern' academia to that position of narrow thought. Gratz to him.

I consider it my job in this life to try and open your mind back up. Remove the scales from your eyes. Restore that understanding/knowledge of your soul's connection to God. To help you find your way home. As it stands, I may be ipso facto excommunicated myself. I am definitely a Traditional Catholic. Admittedly, I am not the most adherent Catholic. The last two years have been rough. I've lost both my parents, a few cousins, a best friend, a mother-in-law. I have two elder sons and a younger daughter who are greatly struggling with life and do not heed their father's advice. I have an older daughter not of my blood, but that I raised and took her as my own, who has not spoken to me for 13 years. I doubt we would have much to say to each other at this point, so I simply pray for her soul and safety. My other four children are on the path, at least. Some moreso than others. But they are on the path.

Regardless, I am still 100% Roman Catholic. I struggle to find peace every day. God's Grace and my stubbornness keeping me going, though.

So, as I was saying, I am a Trad Cath. I was preparing to attend a brand new SSPX Church due to be completed (built) sometime this month. While I theologically and philosophically rest somewhere between SSPX and Sedevacantism, I was not quite ready to fully invest myself in the Sedes (as that would result in, per Rome, immediate self-excommunication). However, now it is more a matter of there are no Sedevacantist Churches within a reasonable distance of me (WA and CO are a bit of a drive from ND). So, the SSPX, even though it remained in communion with the Vatican all these years, trying to steer the Church ship back towards Traditionalism, has found itself in the same sea as the Sedes. But I view them more as an island rather than a piece of wood, adrift in an ocean (ie., other denoms and the novus ordo) being tossed about on the waves, listless and wandering. Again, I know this smacks of vanity a bit. But it does not make it less true.
The modern catholic church has become the "ape of the church" as predicted by Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
(learn more about him at https://fulton-sheen.catholic.edu/bio/ )

Additionally, the third Fatima secret (the alleged true secret) is said to be about this current 'era of a fallen church whose hierarchy has succumbed to the world of the secular, likely to make way for the new world church.'
*You know, by allowing Mayan and Amazonian pagan rituals in St Peter's basilica and on the Vatican grounds,

*or gay parades in the same Basilica,

*or muslim prayer rooms within the Holiest City (Vatican) on Earth
(although, it can definitely be argued that Jerusalem might be considered that, as well. Perhaps we should say One of the two holiest cities.)








By their fruits, you shall know them...
Matthew 7:15-20
15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.



The Third Fatima Secret was stated to have actually been the following:
"Knowledgeable Church authorities have confirmed Father Alonso’s conclusions about the Third Secret, that it concerns an unprecedented loss of faith, an apostasy, from which Portugal will be preserved. In 1984 the Bishop of Fatima said, “the loss of Faith of a continent is worse than the annihilation of a nation; and it is true that Faith is continuously diminishing in Europe.” And in his 1984 interview with Vittorio Messori, Cardinal Ratzinger confirmed this conclusion when he said that the final part of the Secret speaks of “dangers threatening the faith and life of Christians, and therefore the world.” Finally, we know that the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Third Secret began to be realized in 1960 because when Sister Lucy was asked why the Third Secret was to be revealed no later than 1960, she responded, “because it will be clearer then.” Since 1960, we have seen the prophecy of the Third Secret unfold before our eyes, and it is clear that since that time the world has been progressively suffering from a terrible loss of faith."
https://fatima.org/the-real-third-secret

It is about the End Times and the fall of the Church. Not so much about atomic war and Russia, as has been said post-Vatican II.

This really rings true with a bit of Scriptural research.

Apocalypse 18:1-4
1 And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory.
2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen; and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird:
3 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; and the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.

Regardless of what the current, modernist, anti-Catholic hierarchy in the Vatican is doing, there will remain pockets of the True faithful Catholics, like the SSPX and Sedevacantists, or the Eastern Rite Catholics, or even the Easter (et al.) Orthodox Churches east of Rome. It is of this brotherhood that I find myself being led to. Prophecy states that there will be far fewer Christians in the End Times, due to deception by the false church, false teachers, false witness and prophets. Many will fall away, as Scripture states. This really began in earnest in 1520, with Martin Luther. He was excommunicated for fifty different violations of Church and Scriptural law at the time. He also demanded to be made a Cardinal or Bishop, because he wanted more authority. He was also involved, allegedly, with a nun, in a romantic relationship (which is why he wanted the celibacy thing removed). But more importantly, he was (by witness accounts, as well as his own) demonically tormented on an almost daily basis. Today, we call this demonic oppression. It is one stage away from full possession. Some believe that by 1521, he had become fully possessed. Either way... what Luther did caused a schism over the next century, of damning proportions, and damning results for those who followed his rebellious path. Today, even though the Holy Church is on the verge of it's own schism, there is still a core Catholic Faith. Luther's rebellion, however (much like Satan's rebellion in Heaven) has caused the fall of many, resulting in 47,000 different denominations or protestantism today. 47,000 different types of "christianity" that all think they are the true path to God. They cannot even agree of how many Sacraments there are, let alone the correct nature and utilization of the few Sacraments that most of them seem to acknowledge in some fashion.

So, here we are. Five hundred years later. That rebellion led to atheism and the depravity our western world is filled with today. Just as the first huge rebellion led to a third of the angels being cast out of Heaven, down to the Earth, and the establishment of various pagan traditions all over the world so that the fallen angels could further mislead humanity away from God.

Modernism is just one more of those deceits. Misleading millions of people further from God. Clouding their perceptions to the point where most of them no longer believe in anything that is not mundane. Certainly not anything to do with God Almighty.

*Side note - Did you know that Darwin was originally a Christian, but became angry with God when his little girl died. He blamed God. He was also at odds with his father, who was Christian. This eventually led Darwin to develop a festering dislike for Christianity, and he claims to have further found more "natural evil" than "natural good" in nature itself, eventually leading to his agnosticism (not atheism). He even referred to himself on one occasion as the "Devil's Chaplain." Pain and sorrow misled him away from God... not what he saw under a microscope. And, did you know that Marx hated the Church? Marx was even considered a self-admitted satanist in his day. Read his earliest work. A play. About the devil. Or just read "The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration" by Paul Kengor. Two of modernism and scientism's most important icons were both very screwed up and demonically deceived men. Let that sink in.

I fear the modern catholic church - the novus ordo church - has fallen into the chasm of Modernism, fully. So many of my Catholic brothers and sisters have been deceived, all under the auspice of "If the Pope says so, it cannot be false." Well, boys and girls, I hate to tell you this, but Papal Infallibility only applies to very few situations, of which there have only been a couple in Church History, and Vatican II was not one of them. They are both are about Mary - "her Immaculate Conception (declared by Pope Pius IX in 1854 and grandfathered in after the First Vatican Council’s declaration of papal infallibility in 1870) and her bodily Assumption into heaven (declared by Pope Pius XII in 1950)."

So, beyond that, the Pope can most definitely commit errors, such as in the deconstruction of the Traditional Latin Mass, the invitation of demonic influences into the Vatican (such as synodal synods ad nauseum), and the invalid excommunication of those who are fully within their Authority handed down from Christ to ordain new priests and bishops within their already established and valid Catholic Order (such as the SSPX). The ONLY reason the modern church and it's current leadership would desire to stop the ordinations is to ensure that it eventually died out. The same gaggle of clergy that seem hellbent on removing Traditional Latin Masses, taboos on sin, clear lines between true Christianity and schismatic denominations (such as 47,000 variants of protestantism) and demonic cults (such as islam, hinduism, buddhism, asatru, voodoo, satanism), and seeking ordination of women (which St Paul was very clear on this NOT being allowed - remember how Eve screwed things up? There is a laundry list of said screwups throughout history), condoning and blessing gay unions and gayness in general (remember when God wiped out a couple cities because of this depravity? Not to mention wiping the Earth clean in a pretty catastrophic flood?), and generally ringing comparisons with the no-no lists in Apocalypse (Revelation for protestants), such as bending the knee to secularism and trying to bring about a one world church and govt.


And in all this... the SSPX said no. They maintained the Catholic Traditions to the best of their ability, in the face of the modernist shift in the Vatican. They tried to steer through the storm that the Vatican II Council unleashed on Catholicism. In the end, the modernist leftist "pope" from Chicago cast them to the curb. But in doing so, he caused the first rip in a new Schism that has been building for a couple decades, now, and forced into existence by the acts of Bergoglio (Francis) and Prevost (Leo).

At the end of the day, I will remain Catholic. I will side with God. I stand with my outcast brethren. The novus ordo church is anathema.

*Galatians 1:9
"9 As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema."
(But he who is separated from God is united to the devil, explains St. Paul (1 Timothy 1:20; 1 Corinthians 5:5))

Short Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel

The well-known short version of this prayer follows in English and Latin. The Pope ordered this prayer to be recited daily after Low Mass in all the churches throughout the Catholic world. However this practice was almost completely swept away in the 1960s by liturgical changes made in the wake of Vatican Council II.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

Sáncte Míchael Archángele, defénde nos in proélio, cóntra nequítiam et insídias diáboli ésto præsídium. Ímperet ílli Déus, súpplices deprecámur: tuque, prínceps milítiæ cæléstis, Sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos, qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in múndo, divína virtúte, in inférnum detrúde. Ámen

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Traditional Saint Michael Prayer

"Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel

One day, after celebrating Mass, the aged Pope Leo XIII was in conference with the Cardinals when suddenly he sank to the floor in a deep swoon. Physicians who hastened to his side could find no trace of his pulse and feared that he had expired. However, after a short interval the Holy Father regained consciousness and exclaimed with great emotion: "Oh, what a horrible picture I have been permitted to see!"
He had been shown a vision of evil spirits who had been released from Hell and their efforts to destroy the Church. But in the midst of the horror the archangel St. Michael appeared and cast Satan and his legions into the abyss of hell. Soon afterwards Pope Leo XIII composed the following prayer to Saint Michael, which is the original version:

“O Glorious Prince of the heavenly host, St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the battle and in the terrible warfare that we are waging against the principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against the evil spirits. Come to the aid of man, whom Almighty God created immortal, made in His own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of Satan.

“Fight this day the battle of the Lord, together with the holy angels, as already thou hast fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer, and his apostate host, who were powerless to resist thee, nor was there place for them any longer in Heaven. That cruel, ancient serpent, who is called the devil or Satan who seduces the whole world, was cast into the abyss with his angels. Behold, this primeval enemy and slayer of men has taken courage. Transformed into an angel of light, he wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, invading the earth in order to blot out the name of God and of His Christ, to seize upon, slay and cast into eternal perdition souls destined for the crown of eternal glory. This wicked dragon pours out, as a most impure flood, the venom of his malice on men of depraved mind and corrupt heart, the spirit of lying, of impiety, of blasphemy, and the pestilent breath of impurity, and of every vice and iniquity.

“These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where the See of Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth has been set up as the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.

“Arise then, O invincible Prince, bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits to the people of God, and give them the victory. They venerate thee as their protector and patron; in thee holy Church glories as her defense against the malicious power of hell; to thee has God entrusted the souls of men to be established in heavenly beatitude. Oh, pray to the God of peace that He may put Satan under our feet, so far conquered that he may no longer be able to hold men in captivity and harm the Church. Offer our prayers in the sight of the Most High, so that they may quickly find mercy in the sight of the Lord; and vanquishing the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, do thou again make him captive in the abyss, that he may no longer seduce the nations. Amen.
V. Behold the Cross of the Lord; be scattered ye hostile powers.
R. The Lion of the tribe of Judah has conquered, the root of David.
V. Let Thy mercies be upon us, O Lord.
R. As we have hoped in Thee.
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.

Let us pray.

O God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we call upon Thy holy Name, and as supplicants, we implore Thy clemency, that by the intercession of Mary, ever Virgin Immaculate and our Mother, and of the glorious St. Michael the Archangel, Thou wouldst deign to help us against Satan and all the other unclean spirits who wander about the world for the injury of the human race and the ruin of souls. Amen.”

Roman Raccolta, July 23, 1898, supplement approved July 31, 1902,
London: Burnes, Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1935, 12th edition.

Why are we letting our hobby (and civilization) be destroyed?

9-17-25

Why are we letting our hobby (and civilization) be destroyed?

First, I would like to express my sorrow for the unjust, insane, and evil slaying of Charlie Kirk. May God rest his soul and give his family strength in this dark time.

He did not deserve this untimely end by a mentally disturbed coward who felt violence was an appropriate response to his inability to debate in the most basic, civilized, intellectual fashion.

When I was first introduced to roleplaying games (TTRPG, as it is referred to these days), I was about twelve years old. It was 1980. My cousin and a friend at school - two different occasions/sources - opened up for me the amazing fantasy world of AD&D, D&D (the red box), and Villains & Vigilantes. I actually think V&V might have been the next summer. It all gets a little blurry after so many years.
Anyway, before good special effects in movies and tv (not all shows were bad, but the immersion was just not there), before non-basic pixel video games (I am talking PRE-Mario Bros.), all we really had were things like books, sports, Atari, boardgames, cards, darts, pool, pinball, music, rollerskates, bikes, our imaginations in the backyard, ...and D&D.

I still remember the smell of a new book or module at Walden Books, in the mall. The thrill of opening it up for the first time. Excitedly skimming through the pages before settling down on the sofa or my bed, a Faygo Rock & Rye soda on the endtable, to begin reading from cover to cover. The maps, the traps, the monsters
(yes, Orcs were and still are monsters. They were created by an evil deity and are beyond redemption or compassion. Period. Hunt them down wherever they dwell, whenever they breed, whatever they do. They are basically demons made manifest),

and once in awhile... the plot. While, in my opinion, some stories were just dumb (and in the case of Barrier Peaks, didn't really have any place in a fantasy game), others were pretty good. Prime example - Ravenloft.

We used to play every weekend. Sometimes, during the week, too. A few friends, a few pizzas, way too much soda and crackerjack, and we had the makings of a fun night that transported us into a realm of danger, excitement, treasure, achievements, and glory. Hunting orcs, infiltrating thieves' guilds, spelunking into deep dark caverns, tomb raiding, sailing against pirates, sailing For pirates, taking on quests to find religious artifacts, save the noble's daughter, find that Holy Defender sword for the Paladin, or (trying) to slay the black dragon terrorizing the peaceful farming valley. It was a non-stop ride through adventure after adventure.

Now add other genres to the mix. TTRPGs about superheroes, superspies, an apocalyptic future of wars fought by tribes of bikers and cars, giant battle robots you pilot from inside, investigating Lovecraftian horror mysteries, actual space operas, cowboys and marshals, psionics, you name it. Most of them very enjoyable games, depending on your personal tastes. Many of those RPGs actually improved our skills in math, language, writing, accounting, cartography, public speaking, teambuilding, tactics, history, engineering, or a few dozen other fields. These weren't video games. We had to work at it for success. Or just to learn the game. But most importantly, it helped us to make friends and be part of a community that welcomed outcasts, geeks, nerds, spazzes, and all the rest of the awkwardites. Then companies like Wizard of the (Left) Coast bought some of the RPGs. At first, we were pleased (well, maybe half of us). TSR had a bad falling out. 2e AD&D was not the hit they were hoping for. The company had been sued some years prior and was struggling. We really thought one day soon, they would be done and we'd only have our books and nothing new ever again.

Then 3rd edition came out. I admit, I was cautious at first, but then I came to really like it. I think they fixed a lot of grey areas and conflicts in the old rules. They added a fair amount to character building and flavor. It just seemed like an upgrade that was long overdue. I mean, the diehard BECMI guys hated it, but my counter argument is that we were already using damned near everything out of Dragon Magazine anyway - from new classes to crit charts to skills and feats - so why not just officially bundle it all up into some revised hardback books and get the party restarted?

And that's what they did. Next they printed a fair amount of decently good content over the next several years, which also sparked a creative restart by third parties like Mongoose, Green Ronin, Paizo, and other companies back in the day. In my opinion, they made some really good stuff.

But then WotC decided to try to create a whole new D&D (4e). It failed. Badly. It felt like someone who played too much World of Warcraft tried to dumb down D&D into a min/max build system. I read through a friend's copy of the player's handbook. That was enough for me. Total garbage. Most other folks in the hobby felt the same way. So, into the dustbin of history it quickly went. For most of us.
We continued playing 3/3.5e.

Next came D&D 5e, to which many of us older gamers asked "Why?"
They claimed it was streamlined, simplified, quicker to make characters, easier to understand, blah, blah, blah...
That was a lie. They just changed around some of the 3e mechanics, added some unnecessary gimmicks (like advantage rolls), and then began to slowly reshape the community itself. This is where the social engineering crap began. First quietly, by inches, forcing more ghey stuff on us, the normalizing of evil, reshaping the game into something more anime, gonzo, furry, perverted... and far less about honor, chivalry, good, righteousness, guardianship, and defending the weak.

Finally, over the last few years this was getting done far more loudly, obnoxiously, and with a whole lot of deceit, vitriol, and bigotry. The original outcasts have once again become the outcasts, but from their own subculture. Hence, the Grognard/OSR movement - our war against this insanity, to retain the greatness of our hobby, in the face of such mental illness and sick hatred.

Along the way, other games began to shift, too. Such as PathFinder (which is really just a D&D 3e ripoff but with added rules, spells, effects, gimmicks, etc.). It is a way over-encumbered version of D&D. Nothing more. The more I play PF 1e, the more I see it.

Not to mention the hard left turn Paizo has taken, as well. Here's a mentally ill dude on one of their scripted liveplay fiascos.







And lately, I have just been growing weary of their whole system. PF seems to train the DM (PM? GM? PFM?) to roll for EVERYTHING. Which is just dumb and lazy.
For example, Perception. This is a skill that was added first via Dragon magazine, I think, in 2nd edition? Then after 3rd edition. It has been used by many other RPGs since the 70s, though. Used correctly, it is a very useful skill. I discovered this playing Eden Systems games such as AFMBE (All Flesh Must Be Eaten), Buffy, and Conspiracy X.
Now, Perception is generally based on your wits. Your common sense intuition of your surroundings. In other words, it is a situational awareness skill. Are you as sharp as a Navy SEAL? Or as clueless as the Three Stooges? Specifically... what did you "notice"? That is what this skill is used for. To NOTICE something, at the edge of where your five senses and your subconscious meet.
Example, "You walk through a room. Nothing really amiss. But... (roll Perception, succeed) you back up a few steps and look closer at a bookshelf as something niggled at your attention and then you see it. The Necronomicon, shoved deep in the shelf between two larger books."
THAT is how you use Perception.
Perception (nor Spot) is not "Look" or "Eyesight" or "Vision." You do not roll it to 'SEE' something. Even then, you do not use Spot to check if you can see the bad guy running across an open courtyard, in front of you, in broad daylight, with you at one end and him only a 100' away (twice the length of an average ranch house). That does not require a roll.
Here is how that scene Would require a roll. It's dark. Night time. Many shadows. Dense fog. Blizzard. Monsoon downpour. Someone threw sand in your eyes. THAT is when you might need a Spot or Perception check. Not for a normal, everyday activity that your character does reflexively a million times a day.

Now, do not mistake me. Some skills are 100% necessary. If you want to sail a ship, you need sailing. If you want to effectively ride a warhorse, you need Riding 'and' Handle Animal (in my games, at least). If you want to try and quickly figure out what some wizard is chanting, you must have knowledge arcana or spellcraft AND be a fellow MAGIC caster (not a cleric, shaman, etc.)(Clerics do not cast spells - they Pray for divine intervention). Now, it may be possible for a cleric to have studied arcana, in which case I would allow a tougher Knowledge Arcana roll (but not Spellcraft).
The same logic applies to spellcrafting a Cleric who is currently casting a divine spell. If you're a mage type without an aptitude for divine casting (ie, you have one or more levels in a cleric type class), or Knowledge Religion and Spellcraft, you won't be getting a roll to determine what (prayer) spell the cleric is casting.

See, some skills make sense. But you have to Use them sensibly. GMs are the ONLY anchor in RPGs that keep the games from becoming utter dogpiles of illogical, chaotic, nonsense. Most players hate nonsense. If the game sessions are already challenging, never make it harder (ie, worse) by tossing in the nonsensical without a damn good reason. "Because it's in the rules" is not a good reason if it contradicts logic, physics, reality, common sense. GMs must use the rules as a guideline and Think for Themselves. Make a smart decision. Use your own wisdom. Stand by it.

Here is another example of the subtleties that escape too many GMs these days. A player wants to 'climb' a wall. They do not have Climb or Athletics. But they do have Acrobatics. So... that's a no. No skill bonus to add. Acrobatics are not for wall "climbing." The player would just roll and add his Strength bonus, and hope for the best.
Same player wants to parkour (sp?) his way up a 10' wall. NOW you can use Acrobatics (or just Dex bonus). Do you see the difference?
Logic Must have a place in RPG mechanics. Just rolling dice cannot resolve everything. And some skills are just not suitable for what players might think they are. And sometimes, you don't need to roll at all. Unless they are blind, just tell them what they see. If they want to do a simple action, like climb up a sturdy 8' ladder, unless they are being attacked or in an earthquake or something similar, the player should NOT need to make a climb check to go up a short ladder. Yes... that happened to me once.

In the last decade and a half, many GMs have gotten very lazy and have players roll for everything. Perception is the worst of the lazy.
Example, "Hey, GM. I am looking at that bookshelf across the room (bookshelf only contains maybe a dozen books). What books do I see?" GM, "Roll Perception."
No! That is not how you use that skill. You either tell the player exactly what they see, or you tell them they cannot make out the titles or see well enough from where they are - which necessitates the character moving Closer to the bookshelf. You don't roll a Perception.

Perception essentially replaced Spot and Listen, but vaguely. It really is just situational awareness. Spot and Listen were separate skills because they are, well, separate skills. You might have great hearing and sucky eyesight. Or vice versa. You might have good peripheral vision, but are tone deaf. So Listen and Spot were separate. Now, I never agreed with the OD&D concept that you had to be a thief type to have these skills. But, thief types should have a class bonus to those skills. In my opinion, so should Rangers. Any class that truly relies heavily on hearing and/or sight, like rogues, hunters, certain sailing professions (just sight for those guys), should have a bonus to that basic skill because they use it more. The distance sense-perception, I mean. And strolling around in jingling, clinking armor and a ruck should reduce the Listen skill. Common sense logic.

Another example of skill abuse is in a modern game I played recently. Driving a car. The character is American, early 30s, grew up around cars, has an automotive repair skill, and a driving skill. Now... the driving skill (in any other game) is for difficult maneuvers. Drifting, bootleggers, hard 90 or 180 turns, driving 90 thru a narrow residential zone, offroad in a hurry (or just in bad conditions like mud or sand). Stuff like that. The drive skill is Not intended to roll a check when driving 30 mph, slowing down, and making a normal left hand turn onto another street. That's illogical. Yet it happened.

So... the overuse of skills has bogged down games. It has made GMs (and players) lazy. I have seen games where literally everything is rolled on the dice. Even the player unable to decide if they want to eat in a tavern. "Barwench asks you if you would like food or just ale." Player rolls a 6-sided, "I guess I'm hungry."
/facepalm

This is where the game stops being an RPG and just becomes a weird boardgame that Looks like an RPG. Too much rolling... not enough 'role'ing. In other words, RPGs are Roleplaying games, not Rollplaying games. Yes, we roll dice to determine outcomes when necessary, but the emphasis is on the Roles we assume, in the game, to make our way through that world and accomplish whatever goals or quests we need to. Otherwise, if you roll for everything... you're really just playing a video game on paper. AND it slows the game down. Combat is sluggish enough. We don't need extra, unnecessary, and sometimes utterly useless dice rolls.

When you couple the excessive dice rolling for every single thing your character needs to do with a nonstop combat agenda, it turns the game into a bogged down merderhobo (*misspelled intentionally - blame the leftist nanny filters) slugfest. Additionally, when you have gamers start their RPG careers in games in those conditions, it adversely affects their ability to effectively run their own games, one day (unless, of course, they recognize the errors in running a dice heavy slugfest). The sessions end up becoming a semi-railroady, hack-n-slash marathon. Those are truly the worst kinds of game sessions/campaigns (not even sure if it can be called a campaign).

They cause burnout quick and sour the experience. They rob the players of immersion, story, adventure, and true character development. I truly loathe "games" like that. In the past, I would normally remove myself from those games. Occasionally, however, I stuck with it solely out of friendship. But, that usually makes the burnout worse. That is the point I would begin planning out my own campaign and then just take over the GMing.

Our TTRPGs (Table Top Role Playing Games) are meant to be immersive and grandiose to everyone's imagination.
They are Not video games. Our goal is not supposed to be blast/hack your way through scenes in order to reach the end of said scenes, just to gain new levels, in order to immediately go back out and hack/blast your way to the next goalpost. That is what video games are for.
An RPG game session is a story. An inquiry. A mystery. An exploration. A quest. A journey. An adventure.
This is the purpose. This is the point.

This is also where I strongly disagree with, at least in part, some semi-prominent OSR styled commentators and bloggers, who loudly proclaim "You are a GM, not a story teller."
In the words of my Granddad... that's horsesh!t.

Our job, as a Game Master, is to be a Referee. An information Kiosk. A worldbuilder. A Narrator. A coach. And a Storyteller.
It is literally our primary job to flow the story and umpire the game. Storytelling is 50% of our work. It is part of the world build, sometimes right off the cuff. Winging it. In the moment.
It is our job to assume every npc role, from villain to stablemaster, barkeep to henchmen. We account for armies, history, politics, civilizations, and the metaplots of the entire game world we are within. That is what a good and experienced GM does and is responsible for.
Now, you can take the simplistic approach. Roll the dice for everything. Encounters, reactions, directions, weather, terrain, features, etc., etc.. But, in my opinion (all 45 years worth of GMing opinion), that is the method of those who are 1) not really invested in their campaigns, 2) struggle from poor imaginations and need a lot of help, or 3) just not very good GMs.
I am bound to p!ss off some "GMs" here, but them's the facts, Lords and Ladies.

IF you invest a fair amount of time in prepping, learning your system/mechanics, reading a good amount of fiction in the genre (or even in that world, if you play in a prefab setting, like Forgotten Realms or GreyHawk), and just trying... putting yourself and your (growing) talent for narration out there, in your game sessions, then you can become a very good GM. Not just a ref. But a GM, which involves copious amounts of storytelling.

One variant, however, would be those who like to HexCrawl blind. Now, I have no issues with this style of gaming. It's actually fun, with a decent group of exploration-minded players and GM. You roll for every 2, 5, 6, or 10 mile Hex on the world map you are building as you go. Creating the game world you are playing in, step by step. This is also a method of RPG, but different than what I am referring to. My games are mostly written ahead of time, in either established worlds or new worlds that I have created, and I already know what lies ahead in most directions. However, storytelling works in HexCrawl, too... it is just more challenging because you are doing everything 100% improv. That takes a very special and experienced GameMaster to pull it off well.

Two great examples of this HexCrawl gaming/creation style can be found here: (fyi - I am a fan of their methods, but do not equate them with my political or religious views. They are their own free thinking men and not associated with me or my ranty blog.)

Crit Happens by Flint Fireforge - http://www.youtube.com/@FlintFireforge

and Hexed Press - http://www.youtube.com/@HexedPress



But here is the difference (back to my story teller discussion), and I think some RPG commentators get this a little confused... I do not mean run a game like you are directing a play. Do not play like those poseurs you see on Critical Role or that nonsense liveplay garbage Paizo does. I do not mean write a script and railroad the story into existence and turn your players' characters into parts of Your attempt at a larped novel.
I am referring to allowing the players to direct the campaign, within their abilities, and you narrate the results. You literally improv build the detailed portions of the world, as needed, but also have a good chunk of the important information already established, memorized or written down or easily accessible in notebooks/tablets/corebooks/etc.

Do not be a railroad. Do not force the characters in a linear progression because you wrote a story.
Rather, be an open world that you already know, even if you had to create that region the week before the game, and narrate the players through that area while encouraging them to make decisions that may either further the story or cause you to toss out that week's notes and wing it. But keep narrating their tale and the effects.
And yes, this is done with dice, as well. But not all of it is a dice roll. Use common sense. Imagination. Realism within the fantasy. And even let the party take the lead. Encourage them to. Then, it will end up a pretty good story after all is said and done.

Again, this is the purpose. This is the point.


But sadly, many of the current RPG "tourists" have taken license with part of that practice, abusing the hell out of it, to ridiculous proportions, equating (in their approach to) games like D&D with a diversity lecture, a rainbow bake sale,

a pseudo-intellectual trip to the local cafe for a soy latte, or a radical protest in order to destroy what D&D (and every other infected TTRPG) is/was (in their deluded minds) in order to turn it into something it isn't (wasn't meant to be) and further muddling the gaming experience, particularly for the new and/or younger players who do not have an old skool baseline with which to compare.
The "tourists" have inserted their own imagined slights and "microaggressions" (w/e t. f. those are) into our subculture and beloved RPGs, and in some cases have turned a wonderful fantasy gaming framework into a unicorn battleshriek against white men or some troon flagwaving cry for blood.

They have used false equivalency, strawman, red herring, and half a dozen other logical fallacies in order to smear gaming, plant racism, pretend they see misogynism, and utterly lie to the consumer base as to why the founders of D&D (Thank you Gary, Dave, Rob, and the rest of the early Geneva crew) were (a few actual genderconfused within the industry in the early days notwithstanding) evil and fascist.
All the while literally acting racist, misandric, bigoted, dishonest, and violently hateful themselves. They are so deranged that instead of sitting down and having a rational discussion, they would rather burn cars and buildings, scream/shout/blare airhorns to prevent us from speaking, assault us, dox us, stalk us, fire us, try to shame us, come after our kids, attack our churches, use lawfare against us, steal our work, help flood our communities with hostiles and illegals... the list goes on and on.

And it's not just in gaming. It's in every aspect of our current society. It has become a cancer that has festered and rotted our broader western culture, and especially our gaming culture. Nerds and Geeks used to be relatively safe within their own subculture. Now, if you are white, straight, male, and (GASP) Christian - Or even any two or more of those categories - you are a target for the raging loonies that cannot even confirm what gender they are, let alone if reality is really real.

I will bring this to a close by stating a few things, so there is no confusion. If you wanna be ghey, that is your business and that is between you and Christ. I had ghey friends in the past. Had because they are no longer with us. But I never got on them about their choice of partners. AND they never shoved it in my face or became radicalized and tried to force in on children or into our places it didn't belong in a displayed fashion. In other words, it is about attraction and sex and has no place being a primary pillar of an RPG. I loved my friends, but considered their nocturnal habits rather disgusting, abnormal, and an abomination. But again... that was between them and God. As far as troons (I use that word because I cannot use the normal word without getting flagged unfairly), I do not hate them. They anger me with their behavior and threats. They really angered me last week with the erasure of an important intellect and Christian voice (Charlie Kirk) for GenZ and Gen Alpha. He was about half a step away from becoming Catholic, like his wife, and I believe that is why the Adversary had him removed from this world. Kirk, being who he is And leading more of our young back to the true Church... that would have done a lot of damage to the evil agenda of this world. As it is, he became a martyr and will affect change in a slightly different way, but hopefully nearly as potent. Anyway... I don't hate troons. I pity them. I feel sorry for them. I have prayed for them. They are obviously mentally ill and belong in an institution where they can receive proper care. Thinking you are the opposite sex (gender is a socially constructed word/concept - it has no value beyond its deceptive nature) is clearly mentally unwell. It's akin to thinking you are Napoleon. Or a dog. It has the highest self-deletion ratio of all the unnormals walking around in society today. And after meatball surgery, the ratio actually inches up. Normalization is not the answer. A mental hospital is. And as they become more violent (with boomsticks and sidearms, anyway), the realization of this well-known fact of old is finally becoming refamiliar, cutting through the crazy leftist propaganda machine one centimeter at a time. I pray this understanding finally reaches everyone before we have another Children's Mass or Kirk incident.

As you can see, this (RPG tourist diversity/rainbow agenda) is clearly a bigger problem than just our hobby. It cuts across every aspect of our lives, our children's lives, our grandchildren's lives... this is about an evil that has crept into our nation nearly two hundred years ago. One that was reinforced and emboldened almost a hundred years ago, by inundating our centers of higher learning with radical staff from Germany and Eastern Europe after WWII ended. When the hippies started fomenting their unrest, our society became pretty much broken, it just didn't know it yet.
This is all just above and beyond (or really just an appendage of) the age old evil we've been warring with for two thousand years.
I'll have more thoughts soon. For now... enjoy the memes.

August 30, 2025

A meandering of thoughts, positions, and warnings


A lot has happened this year. Some good, some bad. Some unexpected.
Of course, the worst for me was the death of my mother. Not sudden, but it was a terrible loss regardless. I miss her greatly. But I had missed her for a few years before she passed. She had alzheimers, so she sort of left us a while ago. The mother I grew up with disappeared in a fog of confusion and erased memories. The first time she forgot to call me on my birthday, I knew things had changed forever. A couple years later, when she asked me who I was, I knew my mother was gone. So, this was a slow roll toward the end. Do not mistake me. I know she is in a far better place spiritually. She is on her way to God. That gives me some comfort. But it's not the same as having your mother in the world with you.
At her funeral, I discovered two of my favorite cousins had passed on, and no one bothered to inform me. I am still sore over that. I also discovered an old gaming friend, Kirk, had passed away a few years earlier.
A couple months ago, my younger cousin Brent died unexpectedly. That hurt. I had not seen him in many years, but we were close in our youth and that bond was still there. He had a hard life. He deserved better than he ended with.
And that news came on the heels of me finding out my best friend from High School had died in the winter of early 2024. His name was Craig. That poor guy had a difficult life. Childhood diabetes, daily insulin shots, strict diet, and even then it wasn't always enough. He spent a fair amount of time in the hospital over it. By the time he was 40 or so, he was on social security disability because he began having seizures randomly, his eyesight began to fail, and his legs started to atrophy. His marriage began to suffer, as well. His ending was very sad, from what I read in his obit. Basically, he passed away in a nursing home. Alone.
I'm still working through that one. I'm angry, to say the least. But at least he, too, had become Christian in his final years. Hopefully I will see him again one day.
So yeah... it's been a rough first half of the year. I have been thinking of my youth, and the family and friends from that life. Some of whom are no longer here, others have drifted off into another life of which I have not been part of for a long time. Some I have purposely discarded due to betrayal. I do miss some of them, but that was another life.
And then there have been changes and events which have been life-altering. The birth of my last child nine years ago. My newest granddaughter a year ago. My youngest son's first Reconciliation & Communion. My next youngest son's new career in intelligence in the Army and getting stationed in Europe. My youngest daughter marrying into a fine Lakota family. My other daughter engaged to be wed next year. My third son becoming a Marine and getting married. My second son finally getting his life together and driving longhaul truck in a steady career he likes and is helping him finally get out of his financial hole. My brush with death six years ago. My first ever vacation, with my wife, to a beautiful island in the West Indies. Our tenth wedding anniversary this year. My conversion to Catholicism, Rome approving my annulments, and my Confirmation into the Roman Catholic Church & first Eucharist on Easter Vigil.
I am thankful, as well as grateful to everyone in the Church who helped make it happen. Overcoming mistakes of the past is always the first step toward seeing your future and working towards it.



On that note, please pray for the families who have had their futures taken away or permanently stained because of the vile, evil acts of the demonically possessed and mentally unhinged. Pray for the victims, and their families, of the most recent tragedy in the Catholic School attack in that deep blue wasteland we know as the Twin Cities. These malevolent events, whether enacted by troons, jihadies, demsocs, or marxist pyschos, are the worst sort of betrayal. Especially in situations like this last one, where grade school children had just started their weekly Mass (prayer) in the school's chapel. This one hits home for me. My youngest child goes to Mass every week, at his Catholic School's chapel. He is in grade school. We are under the ArchDiocese of St Paul, same as the school just attacked in Minneapolis. As a Catholic parent in the same scholastic situation, this hits hard. I feel the loss of those children every time I look at mine.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,
blessed are thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Our Father, who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come; thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses; as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
Amen.


But it also angers me. This should never have happened. And that retard of a mayor in Minneapolis rushed to lay blame on our second amendment and those on the rightside of the political spectrum. How absolutely shallow, insensitive, self-absorbed, and moronic. He should have been working to console the families and community. Working to help find out who the perp was and how he came to be this evil.
Instead, that dolt of a mayor chose the route of political flamewars and deception. I have come to expect nothing better from the Left, to be honest. Twits like him are why I eventually got redpilled and walked away from the Left, and their insane, inane, inept, and ignorant perspectives. In the 90s, I just went with the flow. I agreed with my circle of friends because I figured surely they, as a group, must know better than me. In the 2000s, I went along with them because of those I had been married to and what I was being fed in college.
It wasn't until I had been out of academia for a time, and began to do my own research, outside of the echo chambers of "Liberal" Arts, that I realized how corrupt and indoctrinating universities (and public schools, K-12) were. As I looked back on my time at IU, I realized how subtle it was. Writing a paper? Be sure it is relevant not just to the subject matter, but to the professor's approved list of perspectives. Using sources? Be sure you only use approved and credible sources from the approved list (which only ever included left media, magazines, authors, etc.). I recall asking once, as I looked over the approved list for news sources to use for a paper, why FOX news was not approved. I was told that they were not a serious news organization and tended to leave out important info. I realized later that what he meant was they offered a different perspective than the approved opinions of the Left. The deeper I dove into researching this, I came to discover that the bulk of "approved and credible" sources were all hard Left (democrat, marxist, socialist, communist, progressive, modernist, postmodernist, nihilist, atheist, darwinistic, etc.). The Atlantic, Huffington Post, NPR, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Daily Beast, Wire, Slate, Mother Jones, Washington Post, NY Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, BBC, CBC, CBS, ABC, NBC... all of them. This became so apparent during the kung flu nonsense, that even clueless folks began to see it. Remember the scene from (again) Minneapolis with the token minority field reporter standing in front of a neighborhood being razed to the ground and him blathering about how the "protests" were "mostly peaceful"?

And then we saw just how vile, lying, and corrupt the Left and many on the Right (RINOs) really were, over the next few years. Forcing an untested, unproven, and dangerous experimental shot on innocent civilians and military. The theft of our tax money to prop up violent protests by cowards in masks, entitled and miseducated minorities angry over events that happened two centuries prior, push an agenda for aberrant and mentally ill deviants and then try to push it on our young, and then we finally discover that all of the bs purported against the 45th president was made up by his opposing candidate, outgoing executive branch, their political party, our own intel community with the help of our federal law enforcement and the UK's intel agencies. And WE paid for all that nonsense. How about the hundreds of billions of dollars that they poured into the unwinnable war Ukraine was in - money of which most is still unaccounted for but yet the Left pushed hard to keep pouring money into it. Every person in Congress and the WH who was proUkraine needs to be audited and explain how their financial portfolios increased by 1000s of percents. Then there is the corruption within the UN, mainly directed at jokes like China, Pakistan, Sudan, Algeria, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iran being put on their Security and Human Rights Councils. Then we have the hobby organizations of the uber-rich, like the W.E.F. and financial fronts such as Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street interfering with the wealth and the Rights of the world, forcing up property values, working to eliminate the middle class in order to reestablish the former peasant/aristocrat system most of the uber-rich families enjoyed for several centuries before America gave them the middle finger and became an independent nation.


*Sigh...
Sorry for the rants and the not-so-nice names. Even though they are well-deserved.
If you really want to understand what has been happening politically and financially, for the last century, start with a couple books. A two-volume set by Whitney Webb, titled "One Nation Under Blackmail"
There are many other sources out there, now. The list grows daily, it seems. But Whitney is one of the best places to start.

But, all that being said, the deepest roots of all this wickedness and deception thrown at us goes back millennia. Eons. It is supernatural. It is the purest evil. It is older than almost anything else effecting change on this world - but only ill change, unholy change. And all of these things, all these events throughout time, occurring now, yet to come... they all spawn from a single source of darkness that has prowled through time, seeking the ruin of all humans. This is what I eventually came to realize, to witness, to discern. Most of us (humans) have been duped into a lulled sense of blasé, or false contentment, or misconception of the true fight we should be involved in. As prophecy states, many will fall away. Many will be misled before the end. The gate is narrow. Most will not give up their material things, their idols of modernity, their notions of false virtues, or their outright depravity and evil. Most will be on the wrong side of the spiritual warfare because they are too worried about losing their freedom of lust, gluttony, hate, anger, ignorance, apathy...


This year, I chose the only winning side. Personally, I have a long way to go, as I am a sinner, like every once else. And I feel more attacked today than ever before. That goes with the territory. The adversary hates to lose anyone he has snagged.
I am stating all of this so that you know where I stand and to give you something to think on.
For many years, we have been lied to by those we considered virtuous, ethical, intellectual, scientific, philosophic, and beyond reproach. In universities, in schools, in govt, in business, in the medical and pharma fields, even in many "churches" (looking at you, protestants). Even my own Church has been suffering a quiet schism since 1962. When you count out all the entities who you cannot trust to be honest or good, the list of trustworthy becomes radically small. I can tell you all of those whom I think should be trusted, but many of you really need to deep dive into this research and see for yourselves.
And most of all, I pray my eldest daughter does this for herself. She has not spoken to me in 12 years. Sadly, I helped walk her down the wrong information path very long ago. I misled as I was misled. Then her attendance of the same university as me further cemented that indoctrination.
Only she can correct her course, now. All I can do is give her buoys by which she might find her way.


*Also, public service announcement - for those of you who still game, abandon the woke trash that is D&D 5e and beyond.
Play Shadowdark. Play Baptism of Fire. Play Traveller. Play Cthulhu (older versions). Play Battletech (FASA version, not CGL), and play old school D&D. Don't give time or attention to all this garbage that WotC and others are putting out. Get back to the roots of the hobby. That's where the fun and adventure still lives.
For those who know me, I still have the same email addy I had 15 years ago.

"What Would Jesus Have Said to the Christian Nationalists?"

(A question posed in a video, from a channel created, and wholly produced, by Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen)
(btw - I like Bjorn. He's generally very considerate, intelligent, and kind, as well as an author and traditionalist. Check out his channel. Good stuff.)

(In response to his video, link posted below)
First, allow me to state that I enjoy your show. I appreciate the plethora of topics you speak on, particularly your common sense bearing on the errors of wok(e)ism and the feminization of our young men (and some older men). However, I think perhaps you're a bit out of your element on this one.
You admit you're not a Christian, yet you feel educated enough on the subject matter to speak on it. You're not American, but you feel informed enough to speak on it (MAGA, politics, etc.), as well.
Here is my position. I hope it helps your understanding.
I'm American. 10th generation. My ancestry is Scot, Irish, Saxon, and Norwegian. Probably why I like your show. I come from a very long military lineage. Even two of my boys are military - one Marine, one Soldier. I'm a Traditional Catholic (pre-Vatican 2 and pre-progressive/modernism). I'm an historian, philosopher, and archaeologist, by education. I'm a Constitutional Conservative.
When I was young and understood much less, I was democrat, progressive, liberal, and pagan. After years of education and research, and a few undeniable nudges from God, my world view changed. Essentially... I grew up. I put away the notions of youth and idealistic notions of utopianism. That is not the world we live in, nor was it ever. Our world needs order. It needs to hold on to traditions. I'm positive that you appreciate That one. Our world also needs God. When we do not follow him, our societies eventually fall to ruin, our moral center decays into nothing, and our very children pay the price for such hedonism and evil. That is also evident everywhere on this Earth, more so today than much of the past.
To be a nationalist is to be a patriot to your country. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as that country tries to maintain goodness and takes care of it populace, does not act out of evil or malice towards its own or its neighbors, exudes truth and good morals, protects the weak, aids those in need without compromising its own values or people. Too many people get this silly knee jerk reaction that "nationalism" means aryan, or national socialism, or fascism, or despotism... it does not. Those things are counter to true nationalism because they ultimately threaten the very thing they claim to protect.
You want a good example of nationalism? America, 1942.
You want a good example of Christian Nationalism? America, 1942.

Wanting the country founded upon God and Christian values to remain a Christian nation is not a bad thing.
It's the correct thing.
It doesn't mean forcing others to become Christian. That's between the nonbelievers and God. But it Does mean having a society that operates under the tenets of that religion (such as no murder, no theft, be honest, etc.) that gave those people the very freedom and peace they enjoy.
It also means not forcing demonic or insane garbage upon the Christian people of said nation because a loud, unhinged minority feel compelled to undo said nation, at the very fundamental core of its being.

Do I think America should be Christian Nationalist? Only if it is done right and not allowed to become a tyranny. Adhering to our core values as a Christian nation would see to that.
Do I think America 'will' become one? No. Because in this mortal life, we are not to find that sort of peace again, until Christ returns and the last great war is fought. That's Scripture.
It has hints of Ragnarok to it. Curious, no?

As far as MAGA goes... it's just a patriotic movement and slogan. We've had many over the last 250 years. This one will eventually fade into the history books, too. But for now, we need it. We very nearly lost this country to an evil, insane, despotic oligarchy taking orders from another evil, insane, tyrannical oligarchy (who probably meets in Davos every year).
We're trying to save our nation. And whether our cousins across the pond like to admit it or not... if We fall... eventually You all fall.
Pray we are successful. This fight will take a generation or more. If we're lucky.
God bless. Gruß Gott. Skol. 🤟

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMp6MGmKvw

*FYI - This was a comment I originally posted on a yourube channel (link above), which the fascists running yourube (not the channel owner - he's cool) quickly removed w/o warning. Since I felt compelled to write it, and it took a little thought and had some meaning (at least to me), I'm reposting it here. Yes... in years of dealing with the purple hairs at yourube, I have learned to copy/save all my lengthy comments because yourube is actually run by modern day nazi scum, and I do not trust them any further than they can throw a football.


If you're interested in this subject (Christian Nationalism), here is a concise, thoughtful piece written by Prof. David Carlin:

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2024/07/08/on-christian-nationalism/