To get to the text I’m afraid there are a couple of introductory quotes, again from the gnomes at Social Matter, who give a good summary this week as usual. They fit with the first part of the text, when a hymn is sung. That the great whore, Babylon, has fallen. Bruce at Cambria over estimates the depth with which Christianity has entered the West, but he notes that Christendom was functional, and it has taken a long walk of the Whigs and their successors through the institutions to remove us from God, Blood and Soil.

St. John tells us that, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” and later he tells us that, “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us…” It has been my contention — and it remains my contention — that the Word of God, which is the Gospel of Christ crucified, Christ risen, sank deep into the hearts of the European people, so deeply that it became part of their blood. They could only be divested of that faith by a long, painful process that drains the lifeblood from a man. That process is called liberalism. It starts with an intellectual premise that the real man, the advanced man, is pure intellect. From that premise the deblooding process begins.

The first deblooder was the devil. He appealed to Adam and Eve’s intellects to convince them that their filial relationship with God the Father was unnecessary. Smart people do not need a filial relationship with God, they only need a vague intellectual attachment to God. That has always been the story of man’s rebellion against God – “We are too smart to submit to God.” It has been the task of the Europeans, the men of blood, to tell the great intellects, who want to return to paganism through intellectual Christianity or through one or more of the pagan philosophies, that they are not that smart. For once a man ceases to think with his heart he becomes a tool of Satan.

Throughout the Christian centuries there were always the deblooders in church and society at large who wanted to make all of existence an intellectual proposition. But it was not until the American Revolution that the deblooding process became institutionalized. America was a propositional nation from its inception. The French Revolution took the implication of the U.S. Revolution to its logical conclusion – Man is God.

I would add that we were better when we lived where we were planted. The Lord… or at least good Lords, paid an interest in their tenants because their income depended on having enough healthy bodies to bring in the harvest. There were lost skills: my grandfather could build a haystack by hand, but now the fields have stacks of plastic covered hailage — not as good as a winter feed, but much more cost effective to produce — that require less men, less connection to the land, and ensure that most men have to suffer under petty tyranny.

Many women make petty tyrants. Smart women get out: they know their gender. Which brings me to the second quote — and as someone who has managers who were nurses, I can confirm that they make ineffective managers.

If you have women in your organization, they need to stick to making coffee and such. The smarter ones can do a decent job at database organization and some kinds of database programming, and there are plenty of good female content creators, though the top ones are always male. But women are maladapted to large group dynamics. They are better than men at one on one social dynamics, for example superior ability to read people, but though this impressive in family scale groups, women fail disastrously at functioning larger groups, and if you give women leadership roles in such a group, the group will not accomplish its goals. Gays similarly, although the way they fail is different from the way women fail.

The trouble with convergence is that it leads to obvious and spectacular failure. The converged organization just cannot perform its goals. (Remember the Obamacare website.) Now someone is going to say NAWALT (not all women are like that. But if you have any group of substantial size, the rare exceptions, supposing the rare exceptions exist (and the lack of credible poster girls suggest that they do not exist) are too rare to have much effect on the overall group dynamics. And a group of women, or a group containing any significant number of women, cannot keep its eye on the group goals. Women have to operate under male supervision.

This creates a problem in that if the supervision is actually effective, they will seduce their supervisor. The traditional solution to this was either that they were married to their supervisor, or an all female group with an female hierarchy, but with males monitoring the performance of the all female group at every level, for example the traditional system in hospitals where the doctors and orderlies were all male, the nurses were all female, and were under the authority of a female head of their organization, the matron, but the male doctors monitored and directed the nurses moment to moment.

What I can do — and I have been accused by plenty of women who think by feels of being on the Asperger’s spectrum — is look at people as building blocks. This person can fit here, do not put that person there, they will be miserable and fail. I do not see people as interchangable. Modern management does.

And as a result, they want people with general ability: good at many things, but great at none. And thus, people reduced to commodities, resort to anything that can make them differentiate. For women, that is, too frequently, their sexuality. They look at the Kardashians, and think being a thot is good.

But it is bad to be a thot for a woman, and no woman should ever go full Kardashian.

This tyranny is what we seek liberty from. It is why we will rejoice when Babylon falls.

Revelation 19:1-10

¹After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, 
     “Hallelujah! 
     Salvation and glory and power to our God, 
²        for his judgments are true and just; 
     he has judged the great whore 
          who corrupted the earth with her fornication, 
     and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.” 
³Once more they said, 
     “Hallelujah! 
     The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.” 
⁴And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who is seated on the throne, saying, 
     “Amen. Hallelujah!” 
       ⁵And from the throne came a voice saying, 
     “Praise our God, 
          all you his servants, 
     and all who fear him, 
          small and great.” 
⁶Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty thunderpeals, crying out, 
     “Hallelujah! 
     For the Lord our God 
          the Almighty reigns. 
⁷   Let us rejoice and exult 
          and give him the glory, 
     for the marriage of the Lamb has come, 
          and his bride has made herself ready; 
⁸   to her it has been granted to be clothed 
          with fine linen, bright and pure” — 
for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

⁹And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are true words of God.” ¹⁰Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your comrades who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

I have reached the point where I hate it when I’m right. I don’t think of myself as a prophet — I have frequently prayed that I never have that gift, because there are too many false prophets, many of whom sit in pulpits. But this is scripture. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The testimony of Jesus is always true.

The narrative of this world is comfortable, inclusive, and reliably false. But people will vote for licence and sloth, though the world crumbles around them. The media are doing a victory lap about gay marriage. But it is not marriage as it was from the beginning: the state version of marriage is serial concubinage with multiple trips through the divorce industrial complex, not becoming one, and being for life, as it was from the beginning. It is calling a sea horse a horse.

I was pleased that 40 percent of Aussies voted against the narrative and all political parties. There are still those who have not bowed to Molech, nor kissed the pole of Asherah. Christ only needs 12. But this means we must be serious in our faith. It is time to stand with Briggs, who is correct in his prescription.

Nones are those who profess, when asked by marketers and other such people, no religion. Since this is scarcely possible—even atheists believe in scientism—we can blame the non-specificity of the definition. Nones are those who have given up, or were only mildly exposed, to Christianity. As such, Nones in the West evince a mixture of the most popular Christian heresies. Which, to be fair, so also do many who profess Christianity. To evangelize Nones, then, would seem to require the same techniques used to talk heretics out of their mistakes.

Now many Nones are Millennials, kids unused to hearing they have made mistakes and are either appalled or indifferent to being told they hold false beliefs. How to get to them? Barron has five ideas.

First, begin evangelization by commencing with the beautiful. Before arguing about the Good and the True, show Beauty. In an era of ugly clothing (“designer” ripped jeans), ugly architecture (glass boxes with unopenable windows), ugly music (primitive unnatural sounds), ugly art (giants asses for giants asses), ugly movies (Bad Teachers “will ‘F’ you up”), ugly television (willed ungraceful sodomy), ugly language (heard everywhere) any exposure to Beauty will come as a relief.

So much in art, music, and the rest seems designed to attack the soul. It is as if the art, and not only the artist, hates us. It’s almost as if it’s all intentional, that it’s planned. That couldn’t be, could it?

The Catholic Church has an enormous repository of Beauty. In every instance when confronted by the Ugly, respond with Beauty. Show what happens when man directs his energy to something greater than himself.

Second, stop dumbing down the faith. Barron told the story of a woman who brought her eight-year-old daughter to work. The little girl proceeded to launch into an intricate description of the Star Wars universe, displaying full knowledge of minute details of the timeline and familiarity with all the minor characters. If she can memorize who Obi Wan Kenobi was, she can memorize Methuselah.

This does not mean Thomistic theology need be preached on street corners (we’ll save it for blogs), but it does mean not fearing to be misunderstood. Barron points to Vatican II and the wave of anti-intellectualism it created and ushered in what he called the “banners and balloons” era.

We should (and we do not here) not fear confrontation with, what are at least thought to be, our strongest intellectual enemies. Since one of the biggest errors going is scientism, it’s best to begin by cutting away at its shallow roots. (Scientism is, as has been pointed about endless times, self-defeating: there is no scientific proof it is true.)

Third, learn again to tell a good story about Israel. There were reasons our Lord showed up where he did, and when he did, and under the circumstances he did. Somebody page Cecil B DeMille!

When I was a boy a young atheist asked me “What if Jesus was killed with a shotgun? Would Christians wear little shotguns around their neck?” I thought that argument convincing during my days away from the Church. The answer is, of course, that Jesus chose to appear before shotguns. If you can understand that, you have gone a great distance.

Barron says that if we do not see Jesus as the culmination of the Jewish story, then “Jesus devolves in short order into a sage…a teacher of eternal truths”, a man of no more importance than Socrates, certainly no deity. And the man most people now see.

Fourth, emphasize the god of the new atheists. Nobody believes in the god constructed by new atheists. If the new atheists had any victory it was in convincing people that their fairy story was the God. God is not “one being among many”, as the NAs have it. He is not a fairly but-not-too intelligent scientist magician who lives on the other side of the universe pressing buttons on some sophisticated machine. God is the ground of all being. Not only does He exist, it is necessary that He does so, for if He did not, noting else could.

Fifth, engage in radical witness, by which Barron meant a “recovery of a radical form of Christian life.” Act like we’re here only for a little while. Act like we mean it when we say we believe Jesus. Act like all that stuff in the Bible is true, and better than (say) politics.

Folks, it is time to stand with those of the faith. And worship God: seek beauty and truth. We can have a beer and discuss theology, after evangelization, armed if needed.

For this I know. At the last day, there will be papists and prods, Orthodox and pentes, all praising God. All repenting of their errors. And Christ will heal us all of the needle of our culture and the damage that has been done.