Had to spend many years denying the trauma set upon myself and my family for decades because the act of reviling those who caused the conflict was too unproductive and was likely to inflict more harm than good on loved ones. Tyranny is the problem that the American revolution tried to overcome. The high connectivity of the modern world d…
Had to spend many years denying the trauma set upon myself and my family for decades because the act of reviling those who caused the conflict was too unproductive and was likely to inflict more harm than good on loved ones. Tyranny is the problem that the American revolution tried to overcome. The high connectivity of the modern world does not provide relief from such “big city” is a small town concerns but intensifies them.
We should recognize that a house divided against itself will not stand is a vital teaching. Also consider the facade towns of the American west with a complete hidden underground infrastructure just behind the false fronts. How capital built them and the corruption became ingrained and the normative. Without such formation the emphasis on abortion and the death culture could have never arisen.
The good old days of the happy village, with rare exceptions, never were. Exploitation, greed and inhumanity are persistent in a fallen world. False hopes of dialectical progress and utopian dreams are the Koolaid that many drink. The drink that is necessary is that which we celebrate this month. The Sacred Blood of Jesus. The only cure for the ruler of this world is The Kingdom of God.
Holiness is the goal, to be a saint. The only safe and effective remedy is The Sacred Blood, that with which we have been purchased. Fear not the one who can kill the body but the one who can kill the body and then throw you into Gehenna. Repent and be baptized for The Kingdom of God is at hand. There is no way in the village of yesterday nor that of tomorrow except to pick up your cross and follow Jesus.
The more things change the more they stay the same. A fitting cliche for the changing community that stagnates more than flows.
I'm a devoted Catholic Catechist, Jesus Christ is indeed my Lord, but I disagree with your corrupt American West facade culture as quite simplistic and unreal. Without Christian morals and reliance on authentic American values the West could not have happened. All those new thriving towns and cities took people with vision to create and build. Brave people of faith. Your scenario is missing that blaming capitalism for the abortion and death culture forming today in America and throughout the world. That is a product of the rise of atheistic modernism devolving into decadence. Not Western American values.
I was speaking of those very real and specific railroad brothel towns built with actual false fronts. These were not the dominant types of town in the west but were generally associated with regions of eminent domain corruption. That is in areas stolen by the robber barons from the good people who went to peacefully settle in fertile lands. These criminals were atheists but often found a ( often alcoholic ) preacher as a front man for the brothel towns.
These were indeed few and some may never have been revealed for their origins. That is, such early history may have been paved over in a town or two with no one ever catching on. But they fed the worst of DC politics. That is my point. The corruption in DC has a long and dirty history.
We're called to perfect this earth and this world creating a reflection of heaven on earth - so some of these earth people are corrupt yet they build things with the tools available such as capital and will power. We're called to build things that are not corrupt with the tools available such as capital and God's will power. Just don't lose sight of that as you witness and experience all this corruption.
The world is more corrupt than it ought because too many modern Christians complain in fear instead of being Christians and doing the works of Christ. We have a prayer we say every day and its second phrase is, "Thy Kingdom come they will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." We are God's body on Earth to make that will happen. Our Father has no other body on this Earth. He gave it to us to do - that is our work. Do it and you'll see corruption diminish much quicker than most think possible.
The narcissist culture that leads to loneliness, fear and division is a root cause for the virtue signaling and identity politics that underlie the ghosting phenomenon. What you speak of is the light of Christ and God making all in all. The woke and communist pundits see a dialectical progressive agenda as equal or greater than the truth of which you speak. Prayer is the only way to open these eyes to the attachments of the poor in spirit lost in deceit.
We can understand redemptive suffering in contemplating His Passion. It is that mercy that fills and repairs the wounded world and soul.
Had to spend many years denying the trauma set upon myself and my family for decades because the act of reviling those who caused the conflict was too unproductive and was likely to inflict more harm than good on loved ones. Tyranny is the problem that the American revolution tried to overcome. The high connectivity of the modern world does not provide relief from such “big city” is a small town concerns but intensifies them.
We should recognize that a house divided against itself will not stand is a vital teaching. Also consider the facade towns of the American west with a complete hidden underground infrastructure just behind the false fronts. How capital built them and the corruption became ingrained and the normative. Without such formation the emphasis on abortion and the death culture could have never arisen.
The good old days of the happy village, with rare exceptions, never were. Exploitation, greed and inhumanity are persistent in a fallen world. False hopes of dialectical progress and utopian dreams are the Koolaid that many drink. The drink that is necessary is that which we celebrate this month. The Sacred Blood of Jesus. The only cure for the ruler of this world is The Kingdom of God.
Holiness is the goal, to be a saint. The only safe and effective remedy is The Sacred Blood, that with which we have been purchased. Fear not the one who can kill the body but the one who can kill the body and then throw you into Gehenna. Repent and be baptized for The Kingdom of God is at hand. There is no way in the village of yesterday nor that of tomorrow except to pick up your cross and follow Jesus.
The more things change the more they stay the same. A fitting cliche for the changing community that stagnates more than flows.
I'm a devoted Catholic Catechist, Jesus Christ is indeed my Lord, but I disagree with your corrupt American West facade culture as quite simplistic and unreal. Without Christian morals and reliance on authentic American values the West could not have happened. All those new thriving towns and cities took people with vision to create and build. Brave people of faith. Your scenario is missing that blaming capitalism for the abortion and death culture forming today in America and throughout the world. That is a product of the rise of atheistic modernism devolving into decadence. Not Western American values.
I was speaking of those very real and specific railroad brothel towns built with actual false fronts. These were not the dominant types of town in the west but were generally associated with regions of eminent domain corruption. That is in areas stolen by the robber barons from the good people who went to peacefully settle in fertile lands. These criminals were atheists but often found a ( often alcoholic ) preacher as a front man for the brothel towns.
These were indeed few and some may never have been revealed for their origins. That is, such early history may have been paved over in a town or two with no one ever catching on. But they fed the worst of DC politics. That is my point. The corruption in DC has a long and dirty history.
We're called to perfect this earth and this world creating a reflection of heaven on earth - so some of these earth people are corrupt yet they build things with the tools available such as capital and will power. We're called to build things that are not corrupt with the tools available such as capital and God's will power. Just don't lose sight of that as you witness and experience all this corruption.
The world is more corrupt than it ought because too many modern Christians complain in fear instead of being Christians and doing the works of Christ. We have a prayer we say every day and its second phrase is, "Thy Kingdom come they will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." We are God's body on Earth to make that will happen. Our Father has no other body on this Earth. He gave it to us to do - that is our work. Do it and you'll see corruption diminish much quicker than most think possible.
The narcissist culture that leads to loneliness, fear and division is a root cause for the virtue signaling and identity politics that underlie the ghosting phenomenon. What you speak of is the light of Christ and God making all in all. The woke and communist pundits see a dialectical progressive agenda as equal or greater than the truth of which you speak. Prayer is the only way to open these eyes to the attachments of the poor in spirit lost in deceit.
We can understand redemptive suffering in contemplating His Passion. It is that mercy that fills and repairs the wounded world and soul.