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Sep 1, 2022Liked by Declan Finn

I noticed the author of that piece is Canadian. Figures.

Just to mess him up some more, it would be fun to point him to Rolf Nelson's novel "Heretics of St. Possenti". (A really neat novel, worth reading. It also messes up the people who try to fit books into categories.)

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You did go line by line. Honestly, I couldn't read the whole thing. Maybe I'll comeback later.

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I got a kick out of this fisking, so I posted it in a Telegram channel. A friend of mine responded thusly:

“See how silly and illogical they are? Snicker, snicker. Chortle chortle.”

Meanwhile, they are setting up to kill you for being a Christian. Dead AF"

I'm not sure he's wrong, unfortunately. I've seen the term "Christo-Fascist" being thrown around more and more lately. That bodes ill, I think.

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I don't think I would have had the patience to read to the end of his drivel.

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"Okay, there were Spanish commies who jammed rosary beads into the ears of altar boys,"

The inventors of ear buds.

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"If Rad-Trads rejected Vatican II, they’d be schismatics, on par with Protestants and Greek / Russian Orthodox."

Please permit me to disagree. Protestants and Greek/Russian Orthodox reject specific tenets of Catholic doctrine. Traditional Catholics DO reject Vatican II but do not reject one iota of Catholic doctrine. On the contrary, Vatican II rejects Catholic doctrine. It must be abrogated to remove the justification for liberal inroads in the Faith, such as the James Martins, the bishops that accept abortion and contraception. Here is one link that succinctly covers the words in Vatican II that are poisoning our Church: http://archives.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/q6_vatican_ii.htm

I wrote a Rad-Trad Catholic sci fi adventure, Run. There is a shoot-out with robots, as Catholics rescue an unborn baby and mother from a forced abortion on a mining asteroid. Panneton is not wrong about everything. We will use violence when necessary, as necessary, as we have always done, to protect ourselves and our Faith, when there's no way around it, and he knows it, and the article shows his fear. We will use other means first. We will use all means, as creatures of body and soul. https://malapertpress.wordpress.com

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Good is evil in their eyes, but it's still just so... flabbergasting. Just when I think the Powers that Be couldn't sink any lower, they sink lower. It's like some sort of magical power they have, to have no limit to their degradation...

Next thing you know, they'll be saying it's good to kill babies and right to castrate children.

Oh, wait...

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Thank you for inspiring me to post on The Libertarian Enterprise and elsewhere.

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Wow. Is it just me, or does anybody else get the impression that the professionally Leftist set are catechised into an incapacity for logic or rational analysis? Of ANYTHING?

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Masterful fisk. I think my favorite line of the insane paranoia-fest is "...which provide an aide-mémoire for a sequence of devotional prayers." OOOOOooooooo, " an ide-mémoire" -- what a sophisticated guy this is, with his French and all! In the middle of what comes across as "THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU, HIDE UNDER THE BED!!!" it made me laugh out loud.

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