Monday Pile of Prep

Mandeville, LA – Today’s Pile of Prep: most of the stories and research used to put together the Mike Church Show on the Veritas Radio Network’s CRUSADE Channel. 2016 is here and WELCOME to the All-New, Mike Church Show on the CRUSADE Channel, listen LIVE for Free (don’t cost nuthin’).

Sapientia et Veritas – “”And it must be remembered that the most purely practical science does take this view of mental evil; it does not seek to argue with it like a heresy but simply to snap it like a spell. Neither modern science nor ancient religion believes in complete free thought. Theology rebukes certain thoughts by calling them blasphemous. Science rebukes certain thoughts by calling them morbid. For example, some religious societies discouraged men more or less from thinking about sex. The new scientific society definitely discourages men from thinking about death; it is a fact, but it is considered a morbid fact. And in dealing with those whose morbidity has a touch of mania, modern science cares far less for pure logic than a dancing Dervish. In these cases it is not enough that the unhappy man should desire truth; he must desire health. Nothing can save him but a blind hunger for normality, like that of a beast. A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

The Heresy of Capitalism Cannot Be Disproved By an Episode of South Park – Joseph Pearce zeroes in on the “branding” of Mega-lo-marts like McDonald’s as being more analogous to propaganda than to advertising and wonders why so many of us won’t visit the neighbor who is a farmer but will visit and eat stuff prepared by the stranger in a Mickey D’s visor? “I have witnessed at airports long lines of people lining up at McDonald’s for breakfast, while a kiosk selling breakfast items twenty yards away had no line whatsoever. Is this because McDonald’s offers better or healthier food? Of course not. It is because people are creatures of habit, and often bad habit, and have bought into the McDonald’s brand, expressing their loyalty to it by their willingness to line up patiently for ten minutes to be served. They have been brainwashed by the megabucks that McDonald’s spends on advertising, which is really a nice word for propaganda, and have been branded by the brand, much as cattle are branded by their owners. It is not the quest for good food that unites those in the line for McDonald’s but the herd instinct. Is being the member of a herd, branded by our brand loyalty, a mark of freedom? Or do we express our freedom better by ignoring the propaganda and heading for the anonymous kiosk to take a look at its menu.”

DeceptiCONNED, The Establishment Strikes Out Over Trumpzilla – “Intellectual conservatives” are feeling threatened by the existence and persistence of Trumpzilla and the even more terrifying, to them, persistence of the hoi polloi in their devotion to Trump. Rod Dreher explores the “meaning” of conservative as it applies to these people: “…at some point very soon they (again, we) should all ask ourselves why none of us saw Trump coming, and what that says about how out of touch we are with the conservative-leaning people of this country.” What is funny about Dreher’s woe is that he has woe over the fact that someone who is not on the 3×5 index card of approved political people. To put that in perspective imagine a “conservative”, catholic,  small town doctor in 19th century France, losing sleep because Jean Marie Vianney – The Curie of Ars – began performing miracles instead of Pierre Marie Faucout (a name I made up). The Doc should be focused on the miracle and not the person performing them. Similarly, it is “conservatism”, if there is such a thing anymore, that is at issue, not who is “conservative”.

Where Are Trumpzilla Supporters in NH? – Byron York reports from NH that he cannot locate a solitary supporter of Donald Trump, not one. But then again, York is hanging out inside the belly of the DeceptiCON establishment which has just excommunicated Trump and his supporters from their fake “conservative” club. Maybe York should have visited  a VFW hall instead of steak dinners at Ruth’s Chirs?

The Pagans Are Coming, The Pagans Are Coming! – The City of New Orleans, which should be one of the most Catholic cities in ‘Muricah, manages to prove the maxim that ‘Murican life is based on Catholic tradition that has become perverted beyond even the pagan perversions, pre-Constantine. Behold, the Krewe de Vieux, a Mardi Gras marching club dedicated to bringing XXX debauchery to the streets of New Orleans, my, how original, public sex acts performed by perverts in masks. note bene, Mardi Gras is based on the millennia old beginning to Lent. THAT’S how it got on the calendar and yet there is now no connection to it, publicly, whatsoever. How fitting that a government obsessed by the existence of bronze statues of fully dressed, gallant men, has no problem with undressed perverts “parading”.

The Real Roots of Mardi Gras or Shrovetide.

The Libertarian Party Has Produced A New Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Austin Peterson to the madness t6hat is 2016

The Snow Mass of The March For Life – The March For Life might have been “snow blinded” but the snow could not dampen the spirits nor the Grace of Dowling Catholic’s bus full of students and a priest. The group built an altar of snow and had the priest perform a Mass and even distributed Holy Communion

DeceptiCONNED II – Fake conservatives launch THE fake conservative campaign to prove that Donald Trump is not a “conservative” opponent of Big Government, War mongering, ethanol subsidizing, Boeing apologizing hacks that they are. Oh and please, pedestrian reader-peasant, acknowledge that WE-The Editors- ARE THE Conservatives – YOU – have been waiting for and we can prove it, just read our writings that say so… for a mere $7.99 per month! Folks, the “conservative movement”, thanks to these self-exalted cranks, is now officially dead, and this is their Requiem Mass’s program. These turkeys have enriched themselves with hundreds of billions in the subsidy they hate yet love. If the enemy had plotted a coup, it would have had little chance of execution but with the friendly’s (these cranks) prideful war and nation lust, it was made real. The Beautiful, theTrue and Good remain, surviving these conciliar partisans. Don’t take them in without a confession.

Spirits [of “conservatives] Having Flown – George Panichas reminds the Christian politico that the divorce of the soul from political life is THE fatal flaw of “conservatisms” assault on Modernity. “Such a conservatism, to be sure, has achieved institutional prominence and electoral popularity, and its glamor has even appealed to the electronics media. It is, in an organizational and popular sense, strikingly successful. But all these external trappings do not satisfy the higher spiritual demands and responsibilities that are inherent in the conservative metaphysic.”

Whoopi Goldberg Threatens To Leave ‘Muricah, Maybe She’s Onto Something? – Whenever a Hollywood celebrity threatens to leave the USA the knee-jerk reaction of “conservatives” is to shout “traitor” or some other pejorative and then raise funds for their airfare. Such will be the case with Whoopi Godlberg’s musing that “maybe its time” that she considers leaving the USA. But folks, in our zeal to SECEDE by withdrawing our consent, that is precisely what WE are advocating as well, isn’t it?

DeceptiCONNED II – Ilana Mercer wonders why the alleged über “conservative”, Glenn Beck has endorsed Theodore Rafael Cruz and slammed Donald Trump’s promise to repeal “executive orders” he thinks are “bad”. I didn’t hear what Beck said but I do know the constitutional principle that one Congress cannot bind another, save for amendments applies to Presidents as well. Good grief, where do these ridiculous ideas come from!?

Humility of Heart In Real Life – I pursue the Grace of Humility in everything I do. Note that I “pursue”, I never “attain” because as Augustine says (from Humility of Heart) ““The more man thinks he has reason to be pleased with himself, so much the more I fear his self-esteem will displease God, who resists the proud.” These words from my patron Saint echo in my mind as I read the mea culpa, mea culpa issued by our friend Joseph Pearce on the essay he wrote about David Bowie quoted today as Veritas et Sapientia. Let Pearce’s Humility be a chastising lesson to all of us in publishing and prognosticating: “Post Script: Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I confess to Almighty God that I have gravely sinned. Upon finishing this essay, I read it to my wife, expressing my discomfort at the harsh and even uncharitable tone with which it seemed to have been written. She agreed with my misgivings, especially the final part in which I purported to know the state of Bowie’s “apparently atheist” soul at the point of death. Could I be sure that he died impenitent, taking his sins with him to the grave? Did I know for certain that he hadn’t made his peace with God before dying?”

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