Your slip is showing.
You are free-falling through the abyss of conspiratorial thinking and "all the way down" you have mistaken falling for flying.
The Thinking Housewife Plunges Into The Abyss Of Conspiratorial Thinking
Blessedly, your astute reader Robert Marchenoir is kind enough to issue a wake-up call.
A Fake Suicide Bombing In Paris
Since you are fond of conspiracy theories -- even identifying them in the papacy itself -- I propose that those popes who, over time, developed the Doctrine of Infallibility were part of a power-seeking church-state conspiracy to render Catholics docile in order to control them.
It is likely you will consider this allegation outrageous - another example of Liberalism's "satanic rebellion against God."
Liberalism: "Satanic Rebellion Against God?" (The Thinking Housewife)
Even so, a church-state conspiracy to make Catholics docile is a more intellectually rigorous hypothesis than the conspiratorial logic you apply to every mass murder.
Twenty innocent kids get slaughtered in Newton, Connecticut, and you not only fail to champion their cause but argue that Homeland Security staged the event. (It is estimated that Herod's "Slaughter of The Innocents" took the lives of 20 infants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents)
PBS: The Categorical Transformation Of Christianity By Emperor Constantine
I must add that The Church also imbued her Flock with keen appreciation for family, home, parish and domesticity, qualities that are bedrock marvels of the human condition.
However, these same gregarious qualities reside at the heart of Mormonism and account for the unquestioning commitment of "Latter Day Saints" even though founding prophet Joseph Smith was a sexually predatory scam artist.
"Mormonism Is Not A Christian Religion. Founding
Prophet Joseph Smith Was A Sexual Predator"
Prophet Joseph Smith Was A Sexual Predator"
I grew up in a very Catholic, pre-Vatican II home, embraced by a charmed Catholic family, surrounded by the heartwarming comforts of my Catholic parish.
I look back on the cheer and conviviality of my formative years with profound satisfaction.
I look back on the cheer and conviviality of my formative years with profound satisfaction.
However, the rigidity of infallibility (a tautological doctrine strongly opposed by devout Catholic scholar Lord Acton) is simply not a livable model for a Living God.
You may have read my favorite Merton quotation which I've coupled below with another of Father Louis' mordant observations:
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
"Authority has simply been abused too long in the Catholic church, and for many people it just becomes utterly stupid and intolerable to have to put up with the kind of jackassing around that is imposed in God's name. It is an insult to God himself and in the end it can only discredit all idea of authority and obedience. There comes a point where they simply forfeit the right to be listened to."
Thomas Merton in a letter to W. H. Ferry. Dated January 19, 1967, 23 months before Merton's death
More Merton Quotes
In light of "power politics" (and Lord Acton's dictum below) it is eminently reasonable that papal precursors-of-Hitler like Pope Paul IV would participate in a corrupt lineage, orchestrating massive deception of "the sheep" since a long line of power-hungry popes were wolves in sheep's clothing.
Pope Paul IV, 1476 - 1559. Proto-Nazi?
"The Thinking Housewife's Passion For Pope Paul IV Who Initiated Jewish Ghettos"
The Bad Popes
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes
Wikipedia Excerpt:
In 1870, along with his mentor Döllinger, Acton opposed the moves to promulgate the doctrine of papal infallibility in the First Vatican Council, travelling to Rome to lobby against it, ultimately unsuccessfully.[12] UnlikeDöllinger Acton did not become an Old Catholic, and continued attending Mass regularly; he received the last rites on his deathbed.[13] The Catholic Church did not try to force his hand. It was in this context that, in a letter he wrote to scholar and ecclesiastic Mandell Creighton, dated April 1887, Acton made his most famous pronouncement:
"Why The Catholic Church Must Change: A Necessary Conversation"
You put great stock in The Magisterium and the inter-related infallibility of conciliar pronouncements.
I will conduct ongoing research into such contradictions but for now I draw your attention to Pope Innocent III's condemnation of archery at The Second Lateran Council.
Pope Innocent III Condemned Archery At The Second Lateran Council, 1139 A.D.
Does this condemnation not qualify as "magisterial" and, if so, why does this moral teaching not pertain to all projectile weapons.
I encourage you to share this communication with Thomas Bertonneau.
Despite his ideological slant, professor Bertonneau is smart enough to 1.) approve your faithful promulgation of one viewpoint but I think he will also 2.) acknowledge that other points-of-view exist and that they are neither anathema nor ungodly but well-reasoned alternatives to The Official Story just as your own views of 9/11, the Aurora cinema slaughter, the carnage at Sandy Hook and the suicide bombing in Paris are thoughtful alternatives to The Official Story.
Simone Weil
Wikipedia
The Question of God
Other Voices
PBS
Concerning the "fake suicide in Paris" (referenced below) I am repeatedly struck by the un-self-reflective way you impose your own norms on the (presumably) "proper reactions" of bereaved parents... how the aggrieved "should" look-and-act... and, in this same vein, how a suicide scene "should" look.
Perhaps your passionate emotionality prevents you from seeing any alternative beyond your own feeling-saturated conviction that reality must correspond to your own assumptions and presumptions.
There is something oddly self-centered in all this -- a kind of "God-bless-me haughtiness" which recalls Bush-Cheney's emotional impetus to invade Iraq. (See Footnote)
Consider.
If the supposedly fake suicide bomber in Paris put too little explosive in his vest, the force of the blast would have been plenty to disembowel him without causing much damage to the surrounding space.
When I was a freshman at Aquinas Institute in Rochester, New York, the student who sat next to me in Fr. Ware's first year Latin class blew his thumb off with a firecracker, an explosion that would have caused him no damage had it detonated a foot away.
Think Laura.
Few things in life are as simple as "the ultra-orthodox" would have us believe.
Similarly, few things in life are as simple as "the ultra-orthodox" would have us believe.
And few things in life are as simple as Orthodoxy forces "the orthodox" to believe.
I encourage you to undertake a study of all the words Jesus actually said (and the context in which he said them).
I make this recommendation because "the dogmatically orthodox" are quick to overvalue formal structures at the expense of Yeshua's actual teaching, including Yeshua's teaching about formal church structures!
Jesus Rails Against Human Traditions Of "Our Great Leaders Who Lived Long Ago"
The Gospels With The Words Of Jesus In Red
Footnote: I do not know your stand on the Iraq invasion but your emotionality and contempt for Islam suggest likely support. Is my supposition correct?
"Israeli War Historian, Martin van Creveld's Startling Commentary On The Iraq War"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/israeli-war-historian-martin-van.html
Excerpt: "For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president’s men. If convicted, they’ll have plenty of time to mull over their sins." War historian Martin van Creveld is the only non-U.S. author whose writings are obligatory reading by America's Officer Corps."
George Will: "The 2003 Invasion Of Iraq Was The Worst Foreign Policy Decision In U.S. History"
***
A Fake Suicide Bombing in Paris
November 17, 2015
ONE DOES not have to be Sherlock Holmes to know that the events that took place at the Comptoir Voltaire in Paris last Friday night were not as they have been reported by the French government and the media. A simple review of the news reports reveals that the story is, at least in part, a fabrication.
Does that mean that no one was murdered in attacks in Paris on Friday the 13th? No, it does not. Does that mean there are no Muslim terrorists in Paris? No, it does not. Does it mean the other Friday the 13th attacks may involve disinformation too and represent a treasonous, war-mongering psy-op against the French people and the entire Western world for the sake of attaining certain objectives in the Middle East? Yes, it does.
On Saturday, one day after the attacks, we are told that Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, detonated a suicide bomb at approximately 8:45 p.m. in the small cafe, the Comptoir Voltaire, on the Boulevard Voltaire (nice bit of advertising for the ferocious French revolutionary), in a Jewish quarter of Paris close to the Bataclan Theatre, which was also attacked during an Eagles of Death Metal concert. Abdeslam allegedly blew himself up instantly. This is the account reported in all the mainstream media, although initially it was said he blew himself up outside the cafe.
I invite readers to go to Google and query “suicide bomb restaurant Israel” and view, if you have the stomach for it, the kind of devastation a suicide bomb causes. You will see imploded windows, partially collapsed roofs, exposed beams and general havoc. You will also see what are indisputably images of people who have been maimed by an explosive device. One does not have to be an explosives expert to know that one of the characteristic consequences of explosives is chaos, not discreet damage here and there.
At the Comptoir Voltaire, however, we see something entirely different. We see a few overturned chairs and, oddly, what appear to be an unbloodied jacket and coat on the sidewalk outside the cafe, as if the bomb neatly blew off a few garments without disturbing a sidewalk sandwich board nearby. The above video shows a government forensic team in the cafe examining the body of Abdeslam, whom we are told was a pot-smoking hedonist, a disappointment to his wife and family — not exactly the stuff of a martyr for Allah. In other photos, we see a few holes and cracks in the cafe windows, but that is all. A blackboard near the bomber’s table appears untouched. Chairs on the other side of the window from where he sat are not even overturned. Pictures and signs on the walls and windows show no damage. A coffee cup and a tea cup containing a used lemon are completely undisturbed.
Forensic police search for evidences inside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe in Paris. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images)
When a person blows himself up, it is typically difficult to identify the body, but Abdeslam was identified by the very next day even though, judging from this video, his body remained in the cafe as late as Saturday morning. Normally, a suicide bomb strong enough to kill would destroy identifying papers too.
Was Abdeslam simply incompetent? Did he make a weak bomb? Then we must ask how he was instantly killed and why he wasn’t taken to the hospital right away. The objective of suicide bombings, by the way, is not suicide. The objective is homicide. Abdeslam killed no one at the Comptoir Voltaire. One person was reportedly injured (even though papers on the wall were not damaged).
One must seriously question the motives of this alleged terrorist. Did he wish to close the borders of France to Muslim immigrants? To launch war against Muslim countries? Then he was a suicide bomber in every sense of the word — and a blank slate upon which an ongoing fiction can be drawn.
Abdeslam’s brother, Salah, a sensitive- and intelligent-looking immigrant to Belgium, was also allegedly involved in the attacks and is now one of the most wanted men in Europe.
— Comments —
Robert Marchenoir writes:
I’m French. You’re being downright insulting.
I used to read your blog with great interest. I learned a lot. We have been in touch once.
I read Lawrence Auster for a long time. He was one of the wisest men on the Internet. I’m sure you helped him tremendously.
I stood aghast and mute when you started to lose the plot, with all this 9/11 stuff and the evil Joos. You even gave credence to one loony loner who says the 7/7 bombings are a “false flag operation”. I’ve read my fair share of silly, nasty conspiracy theories, but I wasn’t aware that someone managed to pull the mantle of slander and denial over that atrocity also.
I read his “book,” by the way. The one you heartily recommended. It’s composed of words, forming sentences from a recognisable language, but there’s nothing else linking it to a “book.” It’s a heap of pure nonsense.
And now this. As if the slaughter by itself was not enough. You had to add insult to injury.
This is a war crime. We know who did it. We know their names, their faces and the history of their lives. They told us why they did it. They had warned they would do it. They claimed responsibility for the fact after they did it. They now warned they would do the same to you, by the way.
And you have the nerve to pretend all that does not exist because of some sick nit-picking you’ve been doing over a pixellated photograph? I have lived in the area. How many of the medics or policemen attending the crime scene have you been talking to? How many of the witnesses have you interviewed? Can you even read French?
Salah Abdeslam is one of the two mass-murderers still at large, he’s the most wanted man by the French anti-terrorist police right now, and you have the chutzpah to call him “a sensitive and intelligent-looking immigrant to Belgium”?
You call yourself a Catholic, and you write :
“One must seriously question the motives of this alleged terrorist. Did he wish to close the borders of France to Muslim immigrants ? To launch war against Muslim countries ?”
So, you claim to be a better Catholic than the Pope himself, and you think it would be a bad thing to close the borders of France to Muslim immigrants? You think it would be a bad thing to launch war against Muslim countries, which have for decades sowed terrorism upon Europe, and made Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” come true?
The sources you give in your blog tell me you’ve been hoodwinked by the sly and sneaky disinformation of Russia’s secret services. Which is no excuse, really.
Even a modicum of research into the subject would teach you that Russia — and Russia’s Orthodox Church — are no friends to the Catholic faith. Quite the opposite.
Any plans to put back the “thinking” into “The Thinking Housewife”?
Laura writes:
You haven’t responded to a single of my points about the crime scenes. I was a newspaper reporter for seven years and have been physically present at many crime scenes and sat through capital murder trials. I know something about standard forensics. You haven’t explained why the police left gravely injured people in piles on the concert floor. You haven’t explained why there is no real sign of a suicide bomb at the cafe. You haven’t explained why there are no pictures of Muslim terrorists in the concert hall. Having lived in that neighborhood does not qualify you as an expert on what occurred there.
By the way, I have never claimed to be a better Catholic than “Pope” Francis. One has to profess the Catholic faith in its entirety to be Catholic. He does not. A non-Catholic cannot be a pope.
You write:
…”and you think it would be a bad thing to close the borders of France to Muslim immigrants? You think it would be a bad thing to launch war against Muslim countries, which have for decades sowed terrorism upon Europe, and made Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” come true?”
No, that’s not what I think regarding the borders. The borders should have been closed long ago to prevent jihadi attacks. Why weren’t they? It wasn’t Muslims who kept the borders open. But my point was that these are the inevitable consequences of large-scale Muslim terror attacks at this point. These terrorists were certainly not acting in their own strategic interests.
Your dismissal of the work of Christopher Bollyn (I assume that’s whom you meant) as “pure nonsense” indicates to me that you have an agenda. One may reasonably not accept what Bollyn says, but to dismiss it as pure nonsense shows you cannot engage with the physical facts of what occurred on 9/11. I have no desire to believe in crimes of treason, but the facts speak for themselves. I’m going to quote from the 2009 preface to Bollyn’s book about 9/11 to let readers judge whether it is “pure nonsense” and because it is germane to the events in France. However, before I do, let me just say that I do not automatically rush to the conclusion that no devastating Muslim terror attacks can occur because of the lies of 9/11. I do, however, approach all these events with an open-mind and do not accept reports from the media blindly. From the preface:
Eight years have passed since the terror atrocities of September 11, 2001, heinous false-flag terror crimes which took the lives of thousands of innocent people and led to drastic changes in the United States and around the world. Although the terror attacks have yet to be properly investigated and prosecuted by the federal government, we now have scientific evidence that proves that the official explanation is nothing but a pack of lies, a massive deception foisted on the public by corrupt government officials and the controlled media. Most significantly, this deception was promoted by officials and media owners who knew it to be false. The U.S. Department of Justice, for example, oversaw the destruction of many tons of structural steel – crucial evidence from the crime scenes.
On one hand, the government and media have intentionally pushed a fabrication that a band of Islamic terrorists hijacked airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, causing the complete destruction and pulverization of two 110-story towers and a 47- story building in lower Manhattan. Using this deception, the federal government and its agents have created a police state in the United States and forced Americans and other Western nations to participate in an utterly fraudulent “War on Terror,” waging illegal wars of aggression and occupation in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. Untold thousands have died in these illegal wars of aggression.
On the other hand, we have scientific evidence that the Twin Towers were blown up with an advanced form of super-thermite, chips of which were found in five different samples of the dust from the demolished towers by Dr. Steven E. Jones of Brigham Young University. This crucial
discovery, published as a peer-reviewed paper in March 2009 with other scientists, completely disproves the official version that the Twin Towers fell as a result of fires caused by the plane crashes. This discovery also explains the explosive destruction and pulverization of the immense steel-frame and concrete buildings. As Professor Jones says, “The data doesn’t lie.”
discovery, published as a peer-reviewed paper in March 2009 with other scientists, completely disproves the official version that the Twin Towers fell as a result of fires caused by the plane crashes. This discovery also explains the explosive destruction and pulverization of the immense steel-frame and concrete buildings. As Professor Jones says, “The data doesn’t lie.”
Rather than addressing the evidence that the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives, however, the new administration of President Barack Obama continues to use the 9- 11 deception to increase the war effort in Afghanistan, occupying a nation that had nothing to do with the terror attacks in the United States. Neither Osama Bin Laden nor the Taliban had anything to do with the demolition of the World Trade Center, which the evidence proves was carried out using an advanced form of Thermite created using nano-technology. Nor did the airplane crashes themselves cause the towers to collapse. The plane crashes were merely part of the deception, meant to provide a plausible explanation for the pre-planned explosive demolitions that followed.
This is why 2009 is such a crucial year for 9-11 truth. A modern republic like the United States cannot continue for very long as a free nation with a government and media that lie to the people about the murder of thousands of its citizens and illegal wars supposedly waged on their behalf. This is clearly a state in the process of a revolutionary change. The American people will not tolerate a police state using such outrageous lies to rob them of their money and freedom.
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,” President John F. Kennedy said in 1962. “For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” So, who is really afraid of unpleasant facts and the truth of 9-11? It is not the people, but the culprits of the terror atrocity and the subsequent cover-up who fear the truth.
My work provides some of the unpleasant but essential facts about 9-11. It represents eight years of work and is dedicated to the truth and the people who died on that day. It is unacceptable that their deaths, and the suffering of their families, have been exploited to deceive the world and wage illegal wars.
No comments:
Post a Comment