Catholic. Fascist. Coherent. Perhaps Even Loving, Certainly More So Than Some Other Guys (Or Less Un-Loving, Less Fake-Loving)

Trump's REVENGE against WOKE church. [click-bait title]
John Mike Keen | 2 Febr. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiv7XtHRiRw

2:00 When she says that Jesus doesn't want America to be a Christian nation, she's not saying Jesus doesn't at least prefer you are Christian.

She probably, like lots of Protestants in Europe, believes, there is no problem with going to Heaven, even if you aren't Christian.

Some Protestants read Going therefore, teach ye all nations; as if it said (changing from Catholic to JW translation) Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations ... i e just individuals, not nations as a whole.

America has for a long time been promoting "religious freedom" not just as a compromise (Maryland wouldn't be 17th C. Scotland and Massachusetts wouldn't be 17th C. Spain, one of which was a Christian, one of which was a para-Christian nation). But. Also as an ideal that should be imposed on other nations. Like trying to get full liberties for Protestantism and ultimately any religion into a unifying Italy back when the Papal States banned Calvinism, or into Mexico. That woke person is simply repeating that idea consistently.

According to her, Jesus doesn't want religiously monolithic nations. I disagree. You disagree. As a Catholic who thinks the Inquisition was justified (by now it would be useless, error has gone too far), I am consistent. As a Protestant who cheers for Bible Societies getting to the Papal States and thereby preparing the unification of an Italy that wasn't Catholic only or very mainly (though Mussolini restored the "very mainly" and then didn't quite respect it), you are inconsistent.

2:18 When I was a 7 or 8 year old child, before I became a Christian some months before 9, I dreamed of becoming a stage magician, and started learning some things of ventriloquism.

Two things give the illusion it's the puppet that speaks:

• that the other dialogue partner gives the puppet attention
• that the ventriloquist keeps his or her lips slightly separated and unmoving

The funny voice partly comes from the stiffness of the ventriloquist, not just labials are replaced by velars, i e P is replaced by K, M by NG, but also non-tense vowels are replaced by tense ones; then she partly goes falsetto to give the impression the puppet is a child. When a woman ventriloquist speaks to a puppet in deep bass, you may begin to ask if the puppet is a demon.

Some people use a puppet to act as a foil for them. But some prefer taking a legitimate adversary, heavily strawmanning him, heavily doing teamwork to give false impressions about him, so you can quote him selectively and use that as a foil. I think that's more diabolical than what she is doing.

2:45 It could also be that the voice from the puppet was prerecorded and she had rehearsed interaction very well.

Or someone was doing the voice from behind somewhere.

The "yeah" are coming so into her own words, I find it hard to believe it's just ventriloquism, but if it is, it is very good ventriloquism.

2:57 You remind me a bit of a Fascist friend at school who said "fighting for peace is like scr...ing for virginity" ...

But there are other ways of fighting for her ideals than just violence. However, I'm afraid some who are on her side have not been content with that.

This morning, the cover I slept in had water on it on one edge. Emptying cold water on the sleeping bag or (in my case) sheets and bed covers of a homeless man is violence, even if it's not fist fighting. Sleep privation is an act of torture or violence.

I'm known over here as a Trump supporter (relatively, in comparison to Kamala, if they were being precise, which some aren't). I'm known as a Fascist (while I self identify, giving Mussolini and Franco good points each and admiring Dollfuss and Schuschnigg), and so, what's my trouble with someone acting Fascist to me? Well, it isn't Fascist, it's a mean spirited version of bourgeois. I admire Franco and Mussolini for abortion bans (well beyond the post-Dobbs US). I don't admire Franco for picking up on and expanding on a decision made under the democratic and Catholic, but alas a bit too bourgeois Gil Robles (QDEP, I think he may need that intercession more than El Caudillo does).

3:24 If you think the woman talks like she's on drugs, you are simply unfamiliar with the accent that prevails in her home state.

It's simply ignorance.

4:00 You cannot accurately love unless you obey the Father, and you cannot obey the Father unless you repent before Jesus.

And you cannot repent before Jesus unless you are a Catholic or going to be one.

And you cannot be a Catholic unless "love" for the currently unrepentant actually is the love to give them the time and (within laws) unrestricted freedom to do their mistakes and repent in their time, if God so moves them.

There is a certain kind of love that's overprotective and overrestrictive. I'm very sure that such was Cain's love for kid brother Abel up to when God showed him at the sacrifice that Abel doesn't need Cain's correction. That's what angered Cain. Read "am I my brother's keeper?" as "didn't you tell me I wasn't my brother's keeper?" ... the good theology on this one is, apart from the words of God to him and going further about his motivation (along the word of God about him), "keeper or killer, are those the only alternatives?"

If I had been Italian, I'd have loved to go on a Hobbit camp organised by kind-of Fascists .... I don't think Casa Pound spills cold water on sleeping bags of homeless.