David 🇻🇦☧

If we’re going to gatekeep in the conservative movement, the number one question that should be on the questionnaire is do you believe in the separation of church and state? Do you believe in the first amendment? If the answer to that question is no then you’re not a conservative. It’s really that simple all of this other stuff is meant to obfuscate from that one basic question. So at the end of the day that is the line for the gatekeeping, do you believe that everybody in this country should be free to worship according to their faith. If that becomes a radical idea on the conservative right, then we already lost.

Not going to lie...I'm a little scared to let this show happen without me there to try and keep it on the rails...

Thinking about pretending to be Christian so I can tell Christians how bad they are at being Christian and they'll have to listen to me.

I used to be entirely in the camp that said you should kick your kids out at 18 and force them to live independently and make their own way in the world. I don’t feel that way at all anymore. I want all my kids to live with us until they get married. Even after they’re married, if they want to live on our property, or close by, my wife and I would love that. The important thing is to teach your kids responsibility, which we’re doing. They need to contribute and help around the house, which all of our kids do from a very young age. Provided you aren’t raising ungrateful useless moochers, why kick them out? Why drive them away from your family home? I don’t see the point in it anymore. I actually like my kids and like being around them. Maybe they’ll all end up scattered to the wind. But I’d prefer to keep the family together. Why wouldn’t I?

The story of the Protestant bible

Those Catholic commentators who take the "goldilocks" position re the SSPX/Tradition debate right now ("there is a crisis, but the real solution is to Cardinal Burke/Sarah/Muller harder") don't realize they are like useful idiots in this whole thing. The "Hermeneutic of Continuity" utterly failed; it is a position held by a remnant of academics and people with enough time on their hands to perform some sort of Hegelian synthesis between pre- and post-conciliar documents, but it is not arrived at by mere common sense. The men in charge in Rome today -- none of the "conservative cardinals" have any power or influence, and are in the extreme minority -- are true-blue Modernists, to the point of being Post-Modernist. They are Liberals to the core, and liberalism always leads to Gulags, because it cannot persuade by way of argument, so it must resort to force and punishment, until it destroys itself after a period of time. After that, those who pick up the pieces are the ones who never flinched and never compromised with evil. They think they will have their fancy Mass and be in the good graces of the Modernists, and, they suffer from a delusion wherein they tell themselves they can effect some sort of "change" from within the bureaucratic structure, but they can't. If the Vatican goes nuclear on the Society, you can kiss your TLM communities goodbye, and they won't be back for decades. No one is safe, especially not the Fraternity, Institute, etc. People need to realize that in this moment in history, the Society is like the Cristeros or the Martyrs of the Vendée. You can try and cozy up to the Revolutionaries all you want, but that won't stop the guillotine. You believe you can criticize the hierarchy mercilessly on your podcasts and in your articles, but you will be okay because you cry "schism" about the SSPX? You need to realize that the Revolutionaries keep score, and they smell weakness. They oppose the Society because the Society opposes their Modernism, but they respect them. The Revolutionaries don't respect the "goldilocks" conservatives because they know they ultimately will sacrifice their principles and the logic of their commentary when push comes to shove. This is why Francis respected the SSPX, because he saw their conviction and principled stand, but he couldn't care less about the general TLM groups; he knew they wouldn't put up any meaningful fight, so he nuked them and was generous to the SSPX. The men in Rome right now that have power -- Roche, Fernandez, etc -- are Modernists, but they are not cowards, and they are not merciful. If the hammer comes down, your TLM haven will be gone, and you will be forced to choose between singing "Gather us In" or the SSPX on Sunday.

The image is bad and strikes me as contrary to the spirit of St. Frances of Rome, which is not about meditative embroidery in leisure (probably with servants doing the hard work in the kitchen). Her "domestic cares" included service to the poor, turning her home into a hospital, founding an order that meshed prayer and charity, and so on. It also seems as if the lack of context implies a conflict between spirituality and work - this was not the point at all. The point was the vowed religious life that Frances hoped for before her marriage - that while religious life was considered spiritually superior, life in the home could be a means of sanctification as well. This is just weird.