May God bless Mundabor and all the crunchy Catholics who will snarl and bite and call this reformed misanthrope a heretic. I will say it again, God bless them. even though they have significant errors in their theology.
Because they preach the gospel despite their church. Despite their leadership making all the errors the Protestants made when I was in nappies, pandering to the liberals, and being afraid of saying something hurtful.
I’d rather be told I’m wrong: Mundabor has done this more than once — because he is Roman, in the full sense. We disagree on many things. But not the gospel.
Picture the usual halfway formed Catholic – or Christian – unable to understand what is happening, not well formed enough to mount his own reaction, and with the nagging suspicion that there is, in the end, no difference between the Church and a political party, ready to shift “priorities” as the mood around them changes. And therefore, no Truth. And therefore, very probably, no God. One blog, one blog only can make a huge difference in such Lives. Then, they will say to themselves, I am not alone. Then, there are many like me. Then, there is a lot to learn and read, many other blogs like this perhaps! Perhaps books, and fora, and conferences! Then, Truth has not died!
Oh, how I yearned for information like the one I hope to spread with my blog; how would I have delighted in a call to battle with my fellow soldiers, rather than calls to be a nice neighbour who never kicks the cat, loves peace, sounds at all times like a man of questionable virility, and never forgets to water the plants.
True, we all had the Gospels. True, self-evident Truths were as self-evident then as they are now. But for most people, including myself, it takes the clarion call to discover the one and the other; it takes the place where one can go and be told: “we are not in the business of appeasing here; we are in the business of fighting for Christ. You will lose friends and acquaintances, you will be considered a very strange man and a hypocrite; you will be belittled, provoqued, perhaps worse. But the Truth we fight for, it has already won; and may we, with God’s grace, avoid going down the canalisation, and in the mouth of Satan, like those stupid grown teens”
Now, more than ever, it is the right time to blog.
He’s right, you know. We need to blog now, before the censors filter us along with those others they deem hateful and evil.
So I have one suggestion for my Papist Brother: self host your site: WordPress can and will take it down if the nomenkultura complain. Back it up, and self host.
