Lots are splendid, but the things that aren't stand out like sore thumbs. So does the fact my comments were censored, cannot be interacted with, since disappeared from under the video.
Are Christians Just Sexual Hypocrites?
Shameless Popery | 6 Febr. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYM5w4wtiLo
1:59 I think there are occasions for throwing batteries in the Mediterranean.
Like, when you want a tracker to note where your ship is intercepted.
That's perhaps a good point if the interception, masked as an arrest is outside the arresting power's territorial waters. Making it an act of piracy.
3:12 If you say that a "homosexual is called to chastity" and don't add "like anyone else, and obviously including marital chastity, i e fertility and faithfulness" you are not setting a high bar, you are setting a wrong bar.
1) Because prior to Montini actual Popes have not set that as the bar (a document from 1568 concerns sodomites caught after already obliging themselves to celibacy, and they are obliged to celibacy ... and loneliness and shame ... because of that kind of vow).
2) Because to "Catholics" who believe that, calling someone homosexual, whether true or false, becomes a dog whistle for preventing him from marrying, therefore fulfilling a prophecy St. Paul gave St. Tim. I mean, such people may have sufficiently seared consciences to also prevent the same person from fasting.
4:51 The point of the 1568 document was, celibates should not have to live together with Sodomites.
And the point of things prior to Montini, celibacy is chosen. Including by persons who are feeling same sex attraction (but in that case they do well to stay out of seminaries and convents). It is not an obligation.
There are SSA people who are more allergic to OS than to celibacy. There are SSA people who are more allergic to celibacy than to opposite sex. And there are people who are not (or not very) SSA in the first place and who get squeezed because a sectarian of Montini believes a Priest of Apollo Delphicus (more usually shrink than tarot reader) that so and so is SSA.
8:13 That's not just too high for normalcy, but also too high for toying around with ideas like "that boy grew up without a father, ergo he's probably SSA" ...
Even in 1968, the number of boys this happened to by far surpasses the number of homosexual men today.
8:33 "single moms doing their best"
Which is sometimes very well indeed. I think my mother heard what you said from Heaven (in her case, I don't count Purgatory as realistic, she was a white martyr).
9:04 OK, you have shrinks speaking probabilities, like the Priests of Delphic Apollo they are.
With sodomy, you only bring up AIDS, which is a new problem.
Have you considered the punch line in St. Thomas' basis?
Sin against nature depopulates. And old generation of 5 million is likely to die pretty uncomfortably if all they gave life to under age 60 are just 1 million. Among Albigensians, this was not totally unheard of, btw.
A little tamer but closer to our reality, a girl the age I might like to marry one regretted the degradation of the "mentor" archetype. She brought up 1977's Obi Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness, RIP or OPN, whichever) and compared to more recent films.
I made stats on this issue. That is, I compared US census stats from 1977 and 2025. The sections age 20 to 24 have gone down from 4.6 / 4.7 % of the population to 3.4 / 3.2 %. The mentor ages (above 60) have increased their portion, from 60 to 64, 2.0 / 2.3 % then and 3.1 / 3.1 % now, to 90 to 94, 0.1 / 0.1 % then, 0.2 / 0.4 % now.*
Supply and demand. A young person is less likely to want a mentor now. An old person is likelier to want someone to mentor now.
Some of the bad solutions involve pushing people into caring homes to avoid having them as mentors. And some of the bad solutions involve chasing non-young people one could also mentor. For instance, someone of age 57, whom some think of as 17 just because some network spread the rumour he grew up without a dad, and who has not succeeded, this man in this situation thinks I have had opportunity on opportunity wasted by people wanting, very improperly, to mentor me. My youth was misspent by people wanting to mentor me. Including a granny who couldn't, because she was atheist and my mother had made me a Christian.
9:30 Teen abortions would go away if teens could marry, but no one could abort, instead of many being able to abort (depending on state and moment of detection) but most teens not being able to marry.
In Sweden, teen abortions are a higher percentage of abortions than in France. Sweden also raised marital age or nuptial age for women to 18 way earlier than France, whose benighted president Chirac did so in 2006. 7 years nearly on the date before the legalisation of SS-"M" (just exchange the 3 and 4 from month to second digit of day).
10:03 Yes, there certainly are reasons to regret the passing of régimes like Benito's and Francisco's (mother made an essay on their patron saints, while in school) in which abortion was simply a crime, and could simply be punished.
Like 2 to 5 years, both for mother above 14 aborting with medical assistance and for the one providing such. Codice Rocco, 1930, Italy.
If the mother was under 14 or mentally deficient, she was legally not deemed to have decided the abortion, but someone else to have forced her. 6 to 12 years.
13:05 I don't like the comparison to drivers' licences.
Reminds me too much of how in some places doctors can deny people marriage licences, just as they can lock them up, on too loose grounds.
Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that have known the truth
[1 Timothy 4:3]
16:58 Just in case someone wants to demonise my blogs as those of someone oversharing my faults, no, I'm not.
It's more likely that someone complaining of my "oversharing" is complaining of my sharing the story of their wrong doing (like people who take turns destroying my sleep some nights) or think of things as discrediting which I definitely do not find discrediting. If you drink beer with the food, do you think you should hide that from either your children or your audience? Me neither. You probably have Bavarian heritage, I was raised partly in Austria.
20:23 I definitely can't tell some drinker in Paris' streets I used to drink too much, because it didn't happen.
It was so far from happening that I'm not even fit to advise any drinker on how to stop.
You recall that Irish writer who said "na, I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem" ... my own writing problem being so grave, it very much stifled me as a prospective drinker. I never got around to habitually getting drunk.
On healthy definitions, Bavarian and Austrian ones, not Arabic or Swedish ones.
21:43 "sexual sin or addiction"
Sorry, were you a Catholic or into the cult that a Christian Emperor rooted out from Delphi, again?
Addiction, if real, is a weakness, not a sin. However, a habit may or may not be from addiction.
If I had belonged to a religion saying "even a small quantity is forbidden" (which thank God I have not done), drinking a beer per day might be a sign of weakness, for instance the weakness of addiction. But belonging to the Catholic Church, I do not think it is sinful to get very slightly tipsy if that wasn't the main reason, I do not think it is sinful to get a heightened tolerance to alcohol, I do not think it's sinful to drink a pint of beer per day, and usually not get tipsy.
Therefore, doing so is not a sign a weakness, and addiction should not even be considered.
But some people read in their tea leaves that someone else is addicted, and some people read it in their own (false) religion and their inability to fathom the Catholic one. Let's briefly touch on cases where some might suspect addiction, like people smoking diverse not very legal things to sleep in the subway. Some of these are people who are being continuously sleep deprived and have a repeated need for some compensation, in my case usually coffee in morning hours and up to past noon. In the case of some others, they are being sleep deprived by people despising as "addiction" the habits they have of getting a douse lasting some hours.
* Mentor / Mentoree Dynamics Changing with Age Pyramid
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2025/08/mentor-mentoree-dynamics-changing-with.html
