{"id":1624,"date":"2023-02-14T17:41:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/has-satan-taken-up-residence-in-the-vatican\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T17:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:41:34","slug":"has-satan-taken-up-residence-in-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/has-satan-taken-up-residence-in-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Satan Taken Up Residence in the Vatican?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reach for a supernatural explanation only after having exhausted naturalistic ones. That's a maxim of mine.  But there are so many outrages being perpetrated these days by so many people who ought to know better, people in high places, that I am sorely tempted to suspect something diabolical at work. And I am not the only one given to this suspicion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is an example. "An Italian monastery worth millions is another in a succession of religious houses being shut down by the Vatican for questionable reasons." You decide what's going on here.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to secularize and thereby destroy Christianity, an otherworldly religion if ever there was one, then you are well-advised to demolish the monasteries, not all at once, but slowly, one by one, so as not to call attention to your Satanic mischief. An incremental approach to the excremental, to put it scatologically.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kierkegaard (1813-1855) rightly described Christianity as "heterogeneity to the world." Monasticism is one form this heterogeneity takes. I must immediately point out, however, that S. K. was himself anti-monastic.  I have a post on this which I need to find, revise, re-think, and upload to Substack<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

While you are at Crisis Magazine<\/em>, please read the pithy A Brief History of Our Annihilation<\/a>. I could quibble with some of the points, but the basic drift, I fear, is correct. And the drift is downward, into the Pit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along the same dark downward trajectory, Satanic Grammy Awards . . . Brought to you by Pfizer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I did not watch the Grammies because of my personal 'no pollution' policy: do not allow toxins into your body or into your mind\/heart except in such limited quantities as are harmless or necessary to stay informed of such developments it would be imprudent to remain ignorant of.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, The Return of the Anti-Christ<\/a>. You will know him by his lies, descended as he is from the Father of Lies.  No, not Joey B, or Alejandro Mayorkas, or or Al Gore of the "boiling oceans" climate prophecy delivered to the faithful in Davos.  You know who I am talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as I said at the outset, we invoke the supernatural only after we have exhausted naturalistic explanantia<\/em>. So, secularists, what explains these developments?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reach for a supernatural explanation only after having exhausted naturalistic ones. That's a maxim of mine.  But there are so many outrages being perpetrated these days by so many people who ought to know better, people in high places, that I am sorely tempted to suspect something diabolical at work. And I am not the … Continue reading “Has Satan Taken Up Residence in the Vatican?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}