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Speaker 0 00:02 A young boy I knew was terribly afraid of water as a toddler. What happens, he'd fallen into a pond and pertinent drown, and from that point on he was just terrified of it. Plumps scared of water. And so when he turned four, so his dad decided it was time for him to get over it, but he's still afraid of water. So sometimes you hear these horror stories about dad taking the kid out to the end of the dock and just dropping him off and it was sink or swim. But that didn't happen with this little boy. His Dad loved his son and so what he did is he started off by having his son hang onto him around his neck, like a piggyback. Then he'd swim around with him on the top, not going under the water and all that until the boy thought, well, that isn't so bad.
Speaker 0 00:41 That's kind of fun. And then his dad would tell him, all right, we're going to go under for just a sec, so hold your breath and you just barely go under and come right back up again before the kid gets scared. He kept doing that. And over time, you know, I mean it's to no happen one day, but over time we can get find reality. That's kind of fun too. She said we're going to go down a little longer and hold on and whatnot. And then one day, eventually he told the little boy, all right, you're not gonna hang on to me and where you can get a little swimming on your own, but don't worry, I'll be right here. I'll hang on d and nothing bad's gonna happen. He and so forth. Of course, at first that was real security too. But after a while, a little boy, uh, he got used to what was going on and got to the point where he didn't need his dad right there next to him.
Speaker 0 01:21 And finally, somewhere in this whole process, the fear left him. You never want to Mettler anything. But he, he learned how to swim and he's not scared of the water anymore. What happened was the love and trust he had and his dad, that absolute confidence that little boy had, as long as his dad was right there close by, nothing really bad could happen. That's a really serious was going to hurt him. That loving po confidence gave that little boy the power or the ability to deal with the situation that at least for him was really terrifying and all that brings me around to what's actually the most important point of tonight's conference and in fact the whole mission. What's the most important point? The conference and the whole mission is to love the sacred heart has for us the love our Lord has for c, just like that knowledge that the little boy had, if the reality of the love and cared closeness of his dad gave the little guy so much confidence and so much security, that gave him an ability to overcome his fears, overcome his tear and worries and learn how to swim.
Speaker 0 02:26 So also the knowledge each one of us has of the love and care and closeness to the sacred hat heart has to us the clothes, how close he is, how much he loves his, that give us all confidence and give us security. It can give each one of us to overcome whatever fears or worries we have, whatever problems we're having in life, no matter what kind of crosses God has decided to place on us. Okay, so we don't ever want to forget the love the sacred heart has for us. They love, he's burning with love for each of us. That's why in the artwork, of course it shows his like it's on outside his chest. That's just artwork. His heart was glowing with so much love that is shining through his chest. It's incandescent with the flames of his love for man. That's why he became man.
Speaker 0 03:12 He didn't do that for days. He did it for us. Why did he become man? Because he loves us. Why did he suffer and die on the cross? Because he loved. Why did he give his mother to watch over us? Because he loves us. Why did he establish the holy Catholic Church? Because he loves us. Why is he sitting there right now in the Tabernacle? Because he loves us. Why does he come to us and holy communion? Because he loves it. He doesn't need anything. He doesn't need to be in the tabernacle. He doesn't need to come to holy communion to us. We need him and he puts himself at our mercy in our disposal. This is the good God that can do everything and he puts it. He's humbles himself so much that he becomes a piece of food and even if we're not properly disposed, even if God forbid we've, we were to make a Sacrad, his communion, he still hummed himself so much that that point in time I give a person at a time to repent, Huh?
Speaker 0 04:14 He hasn't left US orphans. He loves us. He's right here. He's alive. He's alive. He loves us. And the question is, do we love him? Do we trust him? What the sacred heart wants for each one of us is to have that absolute profound trust and confidence for him, a love for him, the knowledge, the confidence these close to us and absolute competencies right here. He's watching over us. He loves us. He wants to give each one of us such profound love for him. Such a profound confidence in him that we can deal with any situation, no matter how terrifying it might seem to someone else. He doesn't want us to panic. He doesn't want us to chicken. That'll even if he puts us in a time when the sky is falling, we don't have to do a chicken little routine. God loves us. He wants us to become saints.
Speaker 0 05:10 He'll send us whatever grace is. We need to deal with a particular circumstances as long as we strive to hold up our end of the deal by staying in a state of grace, but keeping the commandments by two here, duty in our state of life. Huh? What matters is that a road loves us. He loves us, and if he put us in particular circumstances, it's not a surprise to him. It might surprise us, but it's not a surprise to him and he wants us to become safe in those particular circumstances. Now that being said, let's get started back home in Montana. When we see Moondogs or sun dogs, it's a sign that something's on the way. Okay, father, what's the Moondog or what's his son? Dog and what are they a sign of? Well, first off, at least back home, Moondogs and send dogs are fairly common optical phenomena.
Speaker 0 06:02 They might be here in Kansas, but I don't get outside a lot. Show and check the weather like I shit. But anyway, sometimes when we look up at the moon or the sun, we can see kind of a halo that's surrounding them or maybe just parts of the hill. There's the sun or the moon and there's two little curves off teach side right at either side. And then right on the side of the halo or that little curve on each side. But in each one there's a bright light right here on the right there. So for example, you have the moon and light there and a light there. That would be a moon dog and that'd be the other moon dog where you'd have the sun and that bright light would be a sun dog and there'd be another sun dog. Okay. Sometimes there'll be a whole halo of sometimes only be a curve and you'll see those real bright lights and it's called Moondogs or sun dogs.
Speaker 0 06:43 When we see Moondogs or sun dogs, and like I said, a pretty common, it's a sign that something's on the way. See those Moondogs who send sundogs are produced by moonlight or sunlight that are passing through ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, so there's serious the sheer stratus clouds way up there, which means it's just warm front that's coming off the Pacific Ocean and those clouds that produce those Moondogs or sundogs or the very lead edge, the very thin wedge on the very front of that one front where one front works is you haven't mastered cold air and the warm air comes off the ocean, but because it's warmer and it's less dense, it starts sliding up over that cold air to get a really long thin wedge. So you have really high in the front, that's real thin. And then as you go back towards the Pacific, it gets fatter and fatter til it's finally on the ground over here.
Speaker 0 07:30 And it's moving this way. See it's moving from the west to the east. It was what's coming on West winds there. So anyway, right there and that lead edge of the wedge is where those Siro Siro stratus clouds are they that have the ice crystals that caused those Moondogs or sundogs. So they're on the weed edge way up there. Maybe five or 600 miles away. That one front is sitting on the ground. It might, it might just still be on the Pacific. It might just be rolling off the Pacific, you know. So if 500 600 miles away in the middle of Washington somewhere anyway, what's there? If you go down, the ECO serious show strategy goes down. Pretty soon you get to nimble Stratos cause what it means is in a couple of days you can have weather, might be rained, might be snow, but you didn't have weather, you're gonna get some precipitation.
Speaker 0 08:13 So that's it. When we seem to go few days we've got rain. We know that it's an absolute shot. Once we know what the sign means, we know it's going to happen. Anybody can do it. You see the look up there and see it. Like I said, I don't know how the weather works here, but at home you see him, he go, there's going to be weather and it'll be there. Okay? Nothing new. People have been doing it since the beginning. Our Lord spoke of predicting the weather by reading the signs in the sky. In fact, only the speak of predicting the weather by reading the signs and heavens, he actually castigated the Jews. Why? Because they were able to read the signs and the heaven what was going to happen in the weather, but they were unable to read the signs. The Times, quote the start, Lord, you know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret signs of the Times.
Speaker 0 09:00 Close quote. And when you see a cloud rising in the west, you set once a shower is coming and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blown, he say there'll be scorching heat and it happens. You know how to interpret the parents of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the pleasant time close quote? You know how to interpret the appearance of this guy, but you cannot interpret the signs of the Times. Why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Why do you not know how to interpret the signs of the Times? Let us fit. Question not be asked of us tonight. We're going to spend some time considering a few of the signs of the Times. We'll start by looking at signs and the church and signs our society. Then we'll spend a few minutes considering what the signs ought to mean.
Speaker 0 09:51 Does okay. Now through the whole conference, the quotes have been abbreviated cut and pasted to save time. I've added my own editorial comments and so forth and so forth. All right, let's start by considering the size of the time and the church. Now, obviously you don't need to come here to have me tell you that the state of the church snaps that catastrophe. I mean it's a wreck. It's a disaster of biblical proportions. Okay, we already know that. But what we want to do is focus a little more closely and what we're going to do to start off is focus on attitudes and beliefs. The Catholic Lady, not because I'm a priest and want to pick on the lady and so forth, but because we have the data, we have the data, number one and number two. Frankly, I think that for the most part, the lady are far more conservative than the clergy.
Speaker 0 10:35 So if what we see in the lady, if it's a bad, it's going to be worse than the clergy. That's how it works. Okay. This part, there will be some numbers and all that. It's just in the beginning. Don't worry cause then we'll analyze it later. But I don't want to think you sit here and I'm going to do statistics all night. No Way. But we need to get some hard data and we'll go from there. Okay, so let's get started with our first sign of first sign is the beliefs of Catholic elementary school religion teachers. All right. Survey was taken a while. It was published in 2000 it's probably taken in 99 it summarizes the beliefs of religion teachers in Catholic elementary schools, the beliefs of Catholic elementary school religion, teachers to percentage of lay religion teachers and Catholic elementary schools. White identify the churches position on a falling issues with their own churches position with their own, and remember this information is already almost a decade old percentage of religion.
Speaker 0 11:40 Teachers in Catholic elementary schools will identify the churches position on artificial birth control at their own is 10% 10% of Catholic elementary school religion teachers agree within salvo teaching the church in regards to birth control. In other words, 90% of religion teachers and Catholic elementary schools are not Catholic. 90% of religion teachers in Catholic elementary schools belonged to a different religion. That's the first statistic. That's the first thing we notice elective abortion at 26% 26% of Catholic elementary school religion teachers agree with in foul teaching. The church in regards to abortion, which 74% disagree. So religion teachers, infallibility of the pope, I'm making some progress now, 27% given the first two statistics, the fact that only 27% of the Catholic tree schools believe the pope is infallible shouldn't come as a big surprise. Euthanasia, 31% the male priesthood, 33% indissolubility of marriage, 54% the real presence in the Eucharist, 68% now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 0 12:57 I don't know what the other two to 2% believe in divinity of Jesus. 91% so roughly 10% of Catholic religion school, elementary teachers don't believe Jesus is God. So let's summarize this section really quick. What have we seen so far? Even if we grant a generous margin of error to the results, we could still characterize these results as symptomatic of profound apostasy and descent from infallible teachings, especially the infallible moral teachings of the Catholic Church. And remember, this is among religion teachers in Catholic elementary schools. That's outrageous, but surely it must be better in the pews sign. We'll check the attitudes in the pews by taking a few minutes to consider some statistics, which for the most part were reported recently in the new Oxford Review. So these are by gout surveys over the years asks, can you be a good Catholic without this, without obeying the church? Hierarchy's teaching regarding abortion, 1987 39% agreed.
Speaker 0 14:01 Yes, you can be a good Catholic without agreeing with the churches. Teaching an abortion 2005 58% so you go from 39 saying you can descend to 58 sand, you can descend. How about default teaching and divorce and marriage? 1987 57% 2005 66% without their marriage being approved by the Catholic Church. 1987 51 said you can dissent 2005 67 so you can descend without a vantage. Churches, hierarchies, teaching and birth control. 66% said yes. 2005 75 there's a trend and in 1934 survey, 29% of Catholics thought it would be a good thing if when we were allowed to be preached. 1985 47% of Catholics, 1992 67% of Catholics. We're seeing a trend situation comes into clear focus when the answers, we break them down by the ages of the respondents. We'll be done with all these stats in just a minute. 2005 Longitudinal Study of pre-Vatican to Catholics. These were ages 65 and older in 2005 Vatican two Catholics.
Speaker 0 15:16 Those were 45 to 64 in 2005 post Vatican two Catholics, 26 to 44 in 2005 and millennial Catholics ages 18 to 25 in 2005 so they did a longitudinal study. The Catholics were asked to respond to this statement. You can be a good Catholic without attending mass every week. Now, there's a complicated statement, but we're talking about a commandment here. Can you be a good Catholic without attending mass every week? The ones that agree pre-Vatican to Catholics, 69% say yes. Plus Vatican two Catholics, 76% say yes. Millennials, 95% say yes. These are statistically significant, but I mean, you know, you don't know what they do. At jaw drop or what? Of that 95% say I can be a good Catholic and I go to mass every week. Okay, next one, individuals as opposed to church hierarchy, have the final say on abortion. pre-Vatican to Catholics. 31% cs post Vatican two Catholics, 44 millennials, 77 Catholicism contains a greater share of truth than other religions to pre-Vatican two Catholic, 61% think so.
Speaker 0 16:30 Millennials, 44% now in another survey they did around college among cods millennials only 19% agree that Cath Austin contains a greater share of truth than other religions too. These clots, millennials are the people that in theory at least would be the leading tier of future Catholics intellectually, right? But they're not Catholic on abortion. 1987 42% of prebiotic to Catholic. So the final authority in Church leaders, 24% of posts that come to Catholic stuff, final authority and church leaders, that's 87 2005 pre-Vatican. Do Catholics go from 42 to 33% post static come. Two Catholics go from 24 to 19% on perverted behaviors. pre-Vatican the two Catholics in 1987 46% in 2005 33% plus Vatican two Catholics in 87 26% a 19% in 2005 on non marital sex in 1987 47% of pre-Vatican to Catholic saw final mode of 13 church leaders in 2005 it was 30% in 1987 23% of post Vatican two Catholics said authority in church leaders in 2005 21% last statistic in 2005 43% of pre-Vatican to Catholic said they have a high commitment to the Catholic Church.
Speaker 0 18:02 17% of post Vatican two Catholics said they have a high commitment to Catholic Church and amazingly 0% of millennial Catholics did. They have high commitment to the Catholic Church. Conclusions. Again, even if we grant a generous margin of error to these results, we can still characterize them as being symptomatic of a profound and growing apostasy and a growing descent hasn't slowed down. It continues to grow a grow into central and teachings, especially the moral teachings that are infallible. The church amongst Catholics and the pews, the authors, right? Quote, Catholics have increasingly seen authority and their individual conscience while the acceptance of church leaders as the local locus of moral authority declines. No kidding. The authors say, because older Catholics have higher commitment than young adults. One cannot expect any increase in high commitment Catholics in the near future and as new Oxford viewpoints out, what an understatement we're done with the new Oxford view.
Speaker 0 19:08 Two very important points to meditate on briefly. The first point inside the church, the pews, the class room, certainly in the pulpits there seems to be an absolutely astronomical level of what I call graduates of the Jimminy Cricket School of Moral Theology. By that I mean people that say, well, let your conscience be your guide. That's the rule. Just let your conscience be your guide and they run around and seeing like Jimmy Cricket to Pinocchio. That's fine and true. As long as your conscience is conformed to reality, to the natural law and a divine laws of God. Okay, then if that's true, what? But if we can confirm our conscience and other way of seeing that is we have to take every effort to conform our conscience to the teachings of Holy Mother Church. God set up the church precisely so we know he can know without any shadow of a doubt what we must do and what we must avoid in order to obtain eternal life.
Speaker 0 20:10 When we are baptized, God gave us this new kind of life, supernatural life. He placed it into our souls when we were born and what this life does, it gives us the ability to get to heaven and to live there. When we die by our own nature, we can either get to heaven, nor can we live there. Heaven is completely inaccessible to us as mankind. It is completely inaccessible. You point out, if we want to go down and look at a coral reef 200 feet under the water or 150 feet or whatever, we can do that. Not of our own nature. You can't get down there, but we can use technology, you know, diving Bell Scuba tanks, the submarine. There's different things that we could go down and spend time to Lindt around 150 feet under the water. Huh? Not ever own nature, but we can get build technology for rented or something.
Speaker 0 21:02 There's no possible amount of technology, research money. There is no way to get to heaven from here of our own means. It's completely, totally and absolutely beyond our ability as men to get to heaven. It requires powers that are beyond our natural powers. Super natural powers. That's what God gave us. We're baptized and if we die with the supernatural, life will go to heaven. We might have a little summer school in purgatory for law, but we're going to get to heaven if we die without it, we can't go to heaven, which means we have to go to hell. There's no other chances. Okay? Naturally speaking, there's no way to go to heaven. All right. Now what does that have to do with the moral law? Christ established the Catholic Church in order to give us the supernatural life he wants to make sure we die. Having that supernatural life will be judged on the question.
Speaker 0 21:57 Do we have that supernatural life? It's called sanctifying grades. It means to in the state of grace, if the answer is yes, we die off, it will be saved. If the answer's no, we die without. It will be damned. What does this have to do with the moral law? Everything. In order to understand it, let's consider our natural life. Suppose you go over to somebody's house and they got the wood stove all fired up and it's red hot. You stand there talking and you back into it. How long are you going to sit there leaning against the wood stove? Only as long as it takes for you to jump away from it, and if you haven't done that, you know you can imagine that, but everybody that's done that, you know, I mean you're going to move and you can move fast, but God gave us pain receptors.
Speaker 0 22:33 The purpose of pain receptors is to tell us, wait a minute, you're getting in trouble. You're about to injure yourself. It's to protect our natural life. If we didn't have pain receptors, we might glean up against that. Woodstove in wondering, what's that burning smell of flesh? You know, until you notice your clothes on fire and your why. We wouldn't know. He's given that to us so that we can protect ourselves or we know when we're injured and we need help. Here's the thing with supernatural life, it's completely beyond our nature. You can't smell it. You can't see it. You can't taste it. He can't touch it. He can't hear. There is no way of being able to sensibly tell whether you have this life, what condition it's in, what hurts it and what doesn't hurt it. God had to let us know. He wants us to get to heaven.
Speaker 0 23:20 We have to have this. It's beyond our parts, so he gives us a conscience, so we already know the natural law. You can't get things in a natural law law wrong for very long. Some things can get wrong, but not most of them. All of these politically correct perversions. They know that's where they make these different laws, Khan phobia, this and phobia that because they don't want us to remind them because their conscience is are in a bad way. You can whistle past the graveyard all you want, but if you're really scared of, and somebody says, Ooh, it's gonna hurt. And that's what they're worried about with all these phobia laws. Anyway, so we have a conscience, but we also have to know what are the things that will harm our supernatural life. So God has given us these moral teachings. If you stay inside these boundaries, your life will grow.
Speaker 0 24:02 If you got side them, they'll either be injured, that's a venial sin or it's, it's supernatural suicide. That's a mortal sin. Now, God is so merciful that we could do all kinds of knuckleheaded objectively wrong things. But if we don't know, he never holds it against us as long as we don't know. And it's a legitimate, I don't know, but I'm not a, well, I don't want to find out, and I think it's probably wrong and I'll do it anyway, but a legitimate, I don't know, invincible ignorance. He doesn't hold that against as he won't take supernatural life away, but when we commit a mortal sin, remember that? Seriously wrong. We knew it's wrong. We do it anyway. That is supernatural suicide. It destroys that life in us. So the moral law is a gift from God that he delivers to us for the same reason he gave us a supernatural life.
Speaker 0 24:46 I love you so much. I'm going to give you this chance to go to heaven and I'm going to tell you where the trail is. Don't go crawl through these fences and you're get to heaven. It's a gift. It's a gift. He's not hassling us. He's not trying to take where fun. He's trying to make sure that we're happy in this life and the next, that we don't have a guilty conscience in this life and we see him free and we're happy with him forever in the next that we stare at travel in this life and we don't burn in the next stats with the moral lawyers. Okay? So if we reject it, we're rejecting the only roadmap to heaven in choosing destruction. The path to hell. That's if we took projected deliberately again, God's mercy himself. So if we don't know any better, we don't Spec, we may be wrong, no harm.
Speaker 0 25:32 So to go back to it, well, what do we mean by the Jimminy Cricket School of Moral Theology? Then we need people who just simply consciously decide to pick and choose right and wrong. Instead of conforming themselves to the teaching the church, and they say things like, well, I'm an adult. I can form my own conscience after all, it's my choice. I mean, I'm sure you've encountered it. Priests do all the time. When you go to a bus depot, when you, when you go to an airport or something, you can be guaranteed that they're going to come up and somebody's going to have an issue and they'll start talking about things and what, you know, they just don't. And then what? You tell them the truth. I mean, you try to do this gently as possible. And I'm from Montana, don't have a lot of class and some of this, you know, but you try to tell them gently, well, you know, look, if you do that, you'll go to hell.
Speaker 0 26:13 I mean, you don't necessarily say that, but they, they're happy if you tell them what they want to hear, but they're not happy if you tell them the truth. It's a disaster. This, the Jimminy cricket school of moral clarity. So many of these are squished, this crooked and it's the oldest slime a book, open it up. The devil starts talking to eve and he's asked what God told her. As soon as she says that, if you know about diamond and he says, you will not die the death, you shall be as gods knowing. Good and evil. In other words, no, you're not going to lose your state of grace. You're not gonna lose that supernatural life God gave you. You won't die supernaturally speaking. Even if you commit this mortal soon, you will be like, God. You get to decide what's right and wrong. The locus of a moral authority is in your conscience.
Speaker 0 27:05 You decide. It's your choice. That literally the oldest lie in the book, literally, literally, it's in the third chapter of Genesis. It's the first word that says, the first lie out of the Devil's lips, that we have a record of right there and it's only a few hours in the end of the creation of man. Okay? We have some notices here though, for people that haven't noticed God reserved to himself the right to decide what's right and wrong. This idea as expressed by the people that did the research and an analyzed at the Gallup poll, did it from within the analyze this idea that they notice the Catholics are increasingly seeing authority in individual con conferences. Well, the acceptance of church leaders is a locus have more authority. Declines is literally a lie from Hell. I'm not being rhetorical. That's literally what it is. Literally, the individual is not the center of the moral universe. God is God is second point. If there's one thing these statistics demonstrate, and I don't say this behind delight at all, we have lost the younger generation. The juries in the faith has not been passed on here. Plain and simple, and the greater church, we've lost the younger generation.
Speaker 1 28:29 We've lost him.
Speaker 0 28:32 It's not just true here. I've got a lot of friends in the fraternity over in Australia. There are virtually the people that practice that are young are either from Motha or they're Maltese. They're ethnic thing or they're from Lebanon. That's about it. The last year, the native Australian young people, they have checked out, they've been baptized, confirmed, and they go to the bar or the beach or whatever it is. They've got no time
Speaker 1 28:59 for the church.
Speaker 0 29:02 Dave left, he's still have some ethnics people that have a very strong ethnic identity. Thanks be to God,
Speaker 1 29:09 and there you go on, and that's it. This is even a traditionalist over there. It's unbelievable. All right.
Speaker 0 29:18 Let's turn to signs. The Times in our society sign divorce rate cornea surveys done 2004 by the Barna Group. This is a evangelical Protestant research organization. 46% of all married baby boomers have already divorced. The 3% of the married couples have the previous two generations divorced. Catholics are substantially less likely to do voice and Protestants with 25% of married Catholics divorcing as compared to 39% of Protestants among married, born again Protestants, 35% of divorced, which is exactly the same percentage is fondant married adults who are not born again, 23% of born again, Protestants get divorced two or more times, a long process, most likely to get divorced or Pentecostals or 44% divorce rate and it's greater in the Bible belt than up north. That's interesting too. Anyway, binus said that there's no end in sight regarding this problem. Quote, you can understand why atheist city gnostics might have a high rate of divorce since they are less likely to believe in concepts such as sin, absolute moral truth and judgment you have to share.
Speaker 0 30:23 We found that the percentage of atheists and agnostics who have been married, divorced is 37% very similar to the numbers for the born again population. Given the current growth in the numbers of atheists and agnostics and the younger two generations are predisposed to divorce, we do not anticipate reversal of the present pattern within the next decade. Close quote sign and the u s cohabitation is up 1000% since 1960 40% of our children now spend some other childhood living with a cohabitating couple. Their proportion of children now living with their married preamps dropped from 85% in 1975 to less than 70% today, Sean and the early 1960 8% of all United States children were born out of wedlock. As if 2000 to 33.8% of all children were born out of wedlock sign the birth rate, the birth rate here in the u s has dropped to the lowest level since national data have been available.
Speaker 0 31:24 It's down a full 17% since 1990 sign according to the CDC that's US Center for Disease Control. In 1965 16% of married women of childbearing age in the U s we're surgically sterilized in 1995 percentage was 41% the 16% 41% now it was 12 years ago. Shine according to CDC. Listen to this one and I just was, I was on a website this morning. According to the CDC, 98% of women who have ever had relations have used at least one method of contraception, but 82% of women have used the pill at some time in their lives. Sean, here's what I'll just thrown out there. What percentage of physicians refused to prescribe birth control?
Speaker 1 32:14 How many physicians here in Kansas City refused to prescribe birth control? How many Catholic institutions in Kansas City, what percentage of physicians in a Catholic hospitals here in Kansas City refused to prescribe birth control?
Speaker 2 32:40 Okay,
Speaker 0 32:40 sign. 95% of all abortions are chosen as in method of birth control. 95% it's emergency contraception, 95% the remaining 5% result of other things nearly. Oh No. I'll read you something. This is from Alan Guttmacher institute. I'm reading from planned parenthood, their research arm. It's this is from the enemy. Nearly all of the, this is in 1995 nearly all the 1.3 million abortions here are done because a woman did not want to be pregnant at that particular time. The majority of women undergoing an abortion if one or more of the following reasons. Number one, number one reason a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities. That's 75% of the abortions. Number two, you can't afford to have a child. 66% number three, they don't want to be a single parent. You have problems in their relationship. Only 1% of women of boarding say they've been advised that there's a defect and 1% say to become pregnant by some time.
Speaker 0 33:45 It's not in their interest to report this stuff. Sign pornography. As of four years ago, US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC. The three major networks make about 6.2 billion porn revenues larger than all the combined revenues of professional football, baseball, basketball, all the franchises, the porn industry coordinate conservative estimates four years ago brought in $57 billion worldwide in which the US was responsible for 12 billion. So the United States $12 billion four years ago in porn there were 800 million Randalls of porn, DVDs and videos, 800 million Randalls 800 million, 70% I'm quoting from Bishop Finn's letter here. 70% of 18 to 24 year old men visit porn sites. In a typical month, 66% of men in their twenties and thirties report being regular users of porn. 90% 90% of eight to 16 year olds using the Internet. Have you had porn online? Most well doing their homework? Parents,
Speaker 0 35:13 you'll answer for that if it's happening in your home. 11 year old is the average age of the first internet exposure to pornography as of 2004 1111 what is that doing to these young people? 11 years old shine in the u s by the age 19 70% of boys in 46% of girls have lost their virginity sign the new forms of marriage, the dri, criminalization normalization of various versions that are unnameable sign pro pervert legislation and brainwashing. I'll read you excerpts from the article and World Net daily October 13th of this past year, cover 30 2007 mom and dad. The terms as well as husband and wife, the terms have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Governor Auto Schwartzenegger who probably was going to communion that weekend. You know, he's Catholic on a bill signed by Governor Schwartzenegger who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use growth restrooms and locker rooms and vice versa if they chose.
Speaker 2 36:24 Okay.
Speaker 0 36:25 The bill sign includes Senate bill seven seven seven which should be six six six advanced. Anything in public schools, it could be interpreted as negative towards perversions, perversions, and other lifestyle choices of an alternate type. There are no similar protections for students with traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs. However, although sign was assembly bill three nine four which targets parents and teachers for such an indoctrination through anti harassment training. From now on on a banned list will be any text reference or teaching aid that portrays marriage as only between a man and a woman. Materials could sit at people who are born male or female. I mean, I know you know you don't want to laugh, but where do they dream this up? Not In between.
Speaker 2 37:09 Okay.
Speaker 0 37:10 Sources that failed to include a variety of perverted, perverted and perverted historical figures and other perverted things. I just have to skip that further. More. Homecoming kings and homecoming queens fill in the blank. Assembly bill three nine four promotes the same issues to state funded publication postings, curricula, and handouts to students, parents and teachers. It also creates a circumstances where parents is, marriage is only for a man and a woman in the presence of a teacher with a certain orientation could be convicted of harassment and a student who believes people are born, either male or female, could be reported as a harasser by teacher suffering from another one of these perversions. Schwartzenegger also signed assembly bill 14. It doesn't and, Huh? It prevents prohibit state, funny, funny program that does not support a range of alternative sexual practices including state funded social services run by churches affected would be daycares, preschool or afterschool programs, food and housing programs.
Speaker 0 38:08 Senior circuit says anti-gang efforts, job programs and others. It also forces every hospital in California, even private religious hospitals to adopt policies and supportive perversions for versions and perversions and opens up nonprofit organizations. Philosophy. It's if they exclude members that engage in perverted, perverted, or perverted conduct, sign this hole over the top. Earth, worship, extreme environmentalist, the deep, uh, movement. It's coupled so often with a hatred for mankind. And I could talk to this for great length. I haven't encountered as much of it here with certainly a problem at home because where I'm from, but there's a hatred of mankind. It seems. The focus seems to be towards darker types of Hamp, mankind, especially those that live in poverty or don't travel in the right social classes. Okay. To cite one example out of dozens, and I picked this because she writes for newspaper over there a, the national Catholic reporter, her name is Rosemary Radford Reuter, an eco feminist.
Speaker 0 39:07 Uh, they call her a theologian. I'm sorry. That's absolutely wrong. She said in May, 1998 and ecological conference quote, we need to seek the most compassionate way of weeding out people in place of the prolife movement in place of the prolife movement. We need to develop the spirituality of recycling. Uh, spirituality includes ourselves in the renewal of earth itself. We need to compost ourselves. Why don't these people ever take their own advice? Why is it always got to be people like us that are expected to compost ourselves? Several months later, she told the national conference of call to action, a distant Catholic organization or distant organization. How much people must go on to the compost pile. We must return to the population level of 1930. That's about 2 billion people. What is discreetly on and asked is what to do with the 14 billion surplus people are the 4 billion surplus people.
Speaker 0 40:02 Excuse me. So 2 billion. I want the other two thirds. I want you off my planet by sundown. Sign the new age movement leaf pan. He's a convert from Marxism to Byzantine Catholicism. He's an outstanding work and tracking, recording the religious viewpoints of followers of the new age movement. These are beliefs they're subscribed to by many influential men and women. Upper echelons of power in politics, United Nations environmental movement, academia, the media and big business. The Penn summarizes these new age foods. Quote, many Christians view the new age movement is merely self indulgent silliness. Unfortunately, there's far more substance, new age beliefs than astrology crystals, weird workshops in psychobabble, which spiritual leaders have affirming trenched, anti Christian worldview and harbor special hatred for the Catholic Church. They believe that the fall was really humanities ascent into knowledge. Assisted by Lucifer who may hail is the bringer of light wisdom.
Speaker 0 41:01 They expect an imminent apocalyptic transformation that will lead humanity into the new age by acts of men or by an act of spirit. Earth will be cleansed to those who refuse to evolve in the new age. There'll be world government, the economy. We made remade to promote sharing traditional morality in traditional families with disappear Orthodox religions, especially Christianity, Judaism, or separative and obsolete in the new age, they too will vanish. Close quote sign federal appeals court. Dettmer versus Landon in 1986 found that witchcraft is a constitutionally recognized religion with the same rights and protections that other religions enjoy. 1986 the last sign, this pertains to Italy. It's the only country for which I could find these statistics. Since these are Italian statistics, at least a Catholic country in the United States is certainly not, never has been. These statistics can't translate directly into our experience in the u s but they're indicative they can give us some idea of our own situation here in the states. Okay, and the year 2000 there were 167 exercises working in Italy. In that year, those hundred and 67 actresses had 500,000 requests for assistance from travel
Speaker 1 42:24 people. Okay.
Speaker 0 42:27 Many of those probably had other troubles.
Speaker 1 42:31 We don't know the exact percent, but many of them indeed did have problems with the demon. Okay.
Speaker 0 42:43 Let's stop and back up and remind yourself of what we're doing here. We started by talking about Moondogs and sundogs. You're signed to the sky by which at least back home we can predict the weather. We noted that our Lord explicitly spoke of predicting the weather by reading the signs and not only that you actually cascade the Jews for not for being able to read the signs of the heavens, but not being able to read the signs of the Times. We've just spent the past few minutes considering a few of the signs of the times, some of the signs in the church and some of the signs in our society. Now let's spend a few minutes considering what those signs out of me to each one of us. Okay. Let's start by considering the general trends inside the church. We've seen rejection or the moral authority church even by those who consider themselves Catholic. We've seen in a showing of the spirit of personal autonomy with authority, supposedly vested in individual conferences and there's a corresponding rejection of the teaching authority of the church. Of course, finding rejection of the teaching foe authority. Of Our Holy Father, the pope, which means a corresponding rejection of the teaching authority of Christ our Lord. We've seen that, at least in the wider circles of Catholic Church, we've lost the younger generation. They're gone.
Speaker 1 44:02 They're gone
Speaker 0 44:04 outside the church. What have we seen? The collapse of the stable two parent family skyrocketing divorce rates, shacking up becoming a norm, numbers of children born out of red locks, skyrocketing, all accompanied by declining birth rates, a collapse of sexual morality and unbelievable number of women's sterilize and virtually universal use of contraception. At least at some time. In our relationship, we've seen 95% of the abortions performed in our country every year I really act of emergency contraception, so called virginity among teenagers. It becoming rare and rare porn is through the roof as our perversions, and now this is significant with the California legislation, we're beginning to see the state use force to promote perverse behaviors in the public school system. We're not seeing the state positively promote one of the four sins. They cry out to heaven for vengeance. For those who that might not realize this. In 2005 the ninth circuit court found the right of parents to train, educate, and place more or less training upon their children. Quote does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door
Speaker 3 45:26 close. Cool.
Speaker 0 45:28 That I'd have put this latest on in California that we talked about from the pulpit and a little finer focus too. We've noticed upsurge, environmentalism. It's an essentially religious point of view. The assumption that there are this overpopulated, that's a denial of the providence of God, right on the face of it, but the people from that point of view want two thirds of humanity to get lost. We've seen that new agers have a firm anti-christ outlook, special hatred for Catholicism, and if they treat Lucifer, they treat Lucifer as a bear of light and wisdom. They're expecting an apocalyptic transformation to cleanse the earth of people. That won't evolve. That means people like us, by the way, when they say people that want evolve, we won't get the new ideas. That's our problems. We're stuck. We have to pass people. I got, we've seen it for over 20 years.
Speaker 0 46:18 Federal courts have recognized witchcraft as a constitutionally protected religion, at least in Italy. Absolutely incredible numbers of people are suffering from demonic oppression, obsession and possession. Okay, so there's some of the signs of times, so what are we talking? These are all signs of an emerging worldview. We're seeing a cultural convergence here or seeing all kinds of different strains coming together and culture. They see the signs of emerging worldview and by a worldview what we mean to certain way of approach reality, a certain common way of understanding the world around us. These signs all flow into this worldview. Okay. For the rest of this conference, we're going to try to get a clear hand on this emerging world view. In order to do that, we'll start by posing a question in biblical terms. First, we'll read a passage from the inspired inerrant word of God. Then we'll take a moment to make sure we understand clearly the passage, what it's saying, and then we'll pose the question. Okay, we'll read a passage, explain it, pose a question. The passage is taken from the fifth chapter of St Paul's letter to the Galatians. Please listen carefully. Saint Paul quote,
Speaker 1 47:30 now the works in the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodest, luxury, idolatry, witchcraft and Mattoon contentions, jealousy, anger. Cora dissensions sect envies, murderers, drunkenness, carousing and such like of which I foretell you as I have for told you that they who do such things shall not obtain the Kingdom of God,
Speaker 0 48:19 but the fruit of the spirit is charity,
Speaker 1 48:23 joy, peace, patience, been ADT, goodness, long suffering, mildness, faith, modesty, continents, chastity again such there is no law and neither of Christ have crucified their flesh. With the vices I can Coupa essences
Speaker 0 48:52 close quote. Let's take a moment to make sure we understand the passage. St Paul lists to series of behaviors. He describes the work of the flesh and the fruits of the spirit, the holy spirit by the fruits of the spirit. He means actions done by men who are guided by the Holy Spirit. Here's that list again. The fruits of the spirit, charity, joy,
Speaker 1 49:15 peace, patience, benignity, goodness, long suffering, mildness, faith, modesty, continence chassis.
Speaker 0 49:26 That's the fruits of the spirit by works the flesh. He means actions that are done by men that are not guided by the Holy Spirit. That only leaves two possibilities. They're either guided by the fallen human spirit. That's one possibility. Or they're guided by evil spirits. That's the other possibility. And in any event, someone that's being guided by a fond ho human spirit ends up being guided by the evil spirits in the final results are the same. Here's that list again. Fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcraft, Emity, contentions, jealousy, anger, corals, dissensions, sex envies, murders, drunkenness, carousing. Yeah,
Speaker 1 50:11 such like, okay. Now that we can all see the meaning of the passage, let's pose the question. We've looked at the signs of the Times.
Speaker 0 50:20 So which spirit is leading our society?
Speaker 0 50:30 So society characterized by charity, joy, peace, patience, <inaudible>, goodness, long suffering, mildness, faith, modesty, continence and chassis. Where's our society characterized by fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcraft and Mutti. Contentions, jealousies, anger, quarrels, dissensions, sex, envies, murders, drunkenness, crawls, and sexual life. Which spirit is leading our society? Is it the Holy Spirit? It's the Holy Spirit. Where's the spirits behind the works of flesh, the fallen human spirit, and ultimately behind the fallen human spirit, the demonic spirits? Well, no one can seriously claim that her side, he's guided by the Holy Spirit. In fact, that would be the height of blasphemy to make a claim like that. If we want to read the signs of the times and we'll get to the forecast in a few minutes if we want to read the signs of the times, the shines. Tell us one thing. As a culture, we not our only not fighting our disorder desires. We're not fighting the weaknesses to which our fallen human nature's pawn, but we're positively embracing these disorder desires. And that means one thing. It means that the spirits that lead our society ultimately are evil spirits. The spirits guiding our society, our evil spirits.
Speaker 0 52:11 It's essential. Understand as a culture, we've rejected the light of Christ and where its light doesn't shine, there's only darkness and it's real darkness. When people refuse the light of Christ when they refuse to help of grace. For example, when people refuse to follow the natural law which is written in every man's heart, he understands it at a fundamental level. You go home and read the first chapter of Romans verses 18 to the end. It's 18 lines. Romans one 18 to the end, okay. When people refuse to follow the light of the natural law that's written into our very nature by our loving creator, when they are fused to follow the natural law, for example, by embracing perverted lifestyle, embracing abortion, embrace infanticide. When people refuse to follow the natural law, then they placed themselves under the guidance of evil spirit. Whether they know it or not.
Speaker 0 53:09 Obviously most people are involved in sinful and Hayne. This behavior acting out of weakness and out mouth. Nevertheless, as long as they don't struggle, they're embracing the darkness. That's when they reject the natural. If they know, may reject the divine law, that's even more grave cause they understanding, no one can run away from natural and many people don't know, don't know the divine law. There's a difference. Once we understand that it's easy to understand something. We can see this cultural convergence. We're seeing this cultural convergence that's happening right before our eyes is simply a result of eval intelligences who've impatiently preparing, guiding and channeling different cultural streams and movements slowly coordinating this emerging world view over time.
Speaker 3 53:59 They never sleep, they never sleep,
Speaker 0 54:05 and when an evil spirit gain control over society religiously speaking, what does that become? It's an easy question to answer. Why don't you with scripture and history history, historically speaking, sept of any of us here have Hebrew blood before the conversion of our ancestors to Catholicism into what religious category would we place all our ancestors,
Speaker 3 54:35 they're all pagans.
Speaker 0 54:38 We're all descended from pagans and we have Hebrew blood. Is that the same as saying that our ancestors were guided by evil spirits? Yes, it is. Here's the proof techs. Psalm 95 five says all the gods, the gentiles are demons, period, inerrant word of God. God clearly teaches that all gods, the gentiles, that's our ancestors. The Pagan nations were demons. When evil spirits can control the culture, it always becomes pagan. When evil spirits gain control of a culture, it always becomes pagan. So what are we seeing when we see the signs of the times we're seeing signs of the increased paganism nation of a culture inside the general circles, the Catholic Laity, religious priests, and outside the Church and the general society. We're seeing the paganism <inaudible> the church and society. We have front row seats to watch the society become pagan right before eyes and it's happening fast.
Speaker 0 55:44 A culture of death is essentially a pagan culture. It may not be explicit, but it's essential. When the Holy Father or previous holy father talked about a culture, death as a kind and gentle and pastoral way to talk about pagan culture, invade in conquering Christian culture. Now, before we make predictions of upcoming events, let's spend a few minutes taking a closer look at the beliefs of people in our culture right here in our society who have already explicitly rejected Christ and embraced paganism. So we're not talking about somebody that comes from the mountains in Nepal and has been pagan all the way back since they got off the Ark. That's not what we're talking about right here. We're talking about people that may very well been baptized and have turned away from that and embraced paganism. Okay. There's one problem. The problem with describing modern paganism, it sorta describe it.
Speaker 0 56:39 It's you're like trying to pin down tomato seeds on a plate. Every time you start pushing down on it, they got to take, you got to blasting pen down. It squirts out from under your finger. Okay, so we'll have to be general here. We'll follow the works of Brooks Alexander right here. Books Alexander's a very astute observer. He's a convert evangelical Protestantism from the counterculture himself. He actually had the work in where you referring to here vetted by witches and other neo pagans to make sure he was treating their beliefs and attitudes, uh, accurately. Okay. They didn't agree with this assessment obviously cause we're coming from opposing teams, but to make sure that that it's not, not, in other words, I'm not pulling some Wacko, a preacher man type thing out of who knows where. Okay. It's, this isn't a comic book. So we'll start by making some basic distinctions.
Speaker 0 57:24 Just so we have a terminology, right? Think of three concentric circles, a small circle surrounded by a medium circle surrounded by a larger circle. Okay? The small circle is WCA. Now, WCA, strictly speaking, isn't a religion invented in the late forties and early fifties by an Englishman named Gerald Gardner. Okay? That's Wicca. The meeting circle is witchcraft, which capture includes wiccans. Those are people that follow Gerald Gardner strictly speaking and people call themselves, which is but do not follow Gardner's teachings. The largest circle is neo paganism. That includes wiccans and witches, but it also includes other groups and individuals that follow other strange occult things. Druids, Norse gods, Roman gods, Greek gods, pagan things. The broadest term is neo paganism. Uh, the, the narrows term is Wiccan, which is medium, okay? All wicked's in witches are neo pagans, but not all Neal pagans are witches. Okay. Now that we have some terminology, let's try to pin down their belief again, because these are basically an article religions based for the most part on feelings rather than truth.
Speaker 0 58:29 It's sort of like trying to pin down a tomato seed. That being said, we'll try to summarize five basic attitudes and neo pagans again will fall. Brooks, Doug's Anders work closely. Number one, modern pagans. Neo Pagans find their identity in a difference from an opposition to both Christianity and the culture that flows from it. They have this fundamental attitude of an explicit rejection of Christ coupled with an attitude of cultural insurrection. So the first attitude, they have an oppositional identity. It's based on explicit rejection of Christ in Christian culture, mores and a corresponding attitude of cultural insurrection. Second, modern pagans, neo pagans subscribe to animism, polytheism and pantheism. You're probably already going to, what do you mean those contradictory? I'll explain it and again, this is funny. What does that mean? Animism, politics and pantheism are basic religious attitudes and you know, pagans and part. Let's see, animism. By that they see a spiritual life force in all things.
Speaker 0 59:35 In other words, not only we and the animals and the plants alive, but the rocks and minerals alive. The stars are alive. You know, all these things are alive. Okay? She's like the guy, a hypothesis. If you're talking about deep green ecology, the whole earth is alive. Okay. This sort of thing, so you know you can hurt raw, you know, rocks and so forth. Pathy as an as a word indicates, indicates a belief in more than one God. Belief in many gods and goddesses, strict opposition to monotheism. However, in spite of this belief in many gods and goddesses, they still believe in this basic divinity. I'll put that in quotes that underlies all things. It pervades nature matrix, like a substrate of nature. It's the force Luke, so it's underneath everything. Okay? This is where the pantheism comes in. The Universe is alive with this energy of consciousness and that that's the divine and everything is made of this divinity at the fundamental level.
Speaker 0 00:28 Okay? That also implies that since everything in nature is filled with this divine energy, the nature itself as Holy, which leads the whole environmentalist, earth-based nature, religion aspect, the importance of the seasons and all, all that sort of thing in, in, in, in, within, you know, paganism. Also, since the divine is hidden in nature, it can be uncovered. Since the divine is hidden in nature, it can be uncovered. Someone can tap into that power, they can recognize their divinity, they can become enlightened, they can become empowered. They can manipulate that energy by means of rituals. That's what we mean by magic and sorcery. That's the principle. Underline their understanding. Magic and sorcery. One of my converted friends, I have friends that have converted from this and it was certain point in his, in his witchcraft, he's a Wiccan. There would be a demon show up, you know, he's got the altar in the middle, this kind of ground. There'd be a demon shop. He sits kind of chalk. He see through what is chalky looking thing, sitting there and scary looking and he says, I know it sounds funny now, but now, but I didn't think it was a demon from hell. I didn't believe in hell. I was tapping into nature and this is something from another plane so you don't mess with it. You'd back away.
Speaker 0 01:56 Okay. Anyway, the magic, they're tapping into this power and they don't even know where the power has come from. They're doing these kind of rituals, Huh? It's really important. A young person told me recently that's been quite involved in this stuff. Well, Christians pray, but they do rituals hold that thought. Well to return to that later, Christians pay but they do rituals. Okay. Anyway, second basic attitude is this belief, animals and scheme, the spiritual life force and all things ply theism of worship of many gods or goddesses and pantheism. That belief that under our everything in the universe, it's alive with this energy of consciousness. That's the divine and it's the substrate of of all being. Okay. This belief leads in a nature worship the quest for empowerment, the quest to manipulate this power by means of matches. Rituals. Third, modern pagans, neo pagans embrace feminism.
Speaker 0 02:46 Neo Paganism is strongly female centered and goddess oriented. There's reasons for this historically certain with WCA cause gardener had this for different reasons. I don't want to develop all that. We don't have time to pursue it. It's very interesting. This is one of the reasons there's so much so fear worship in witchcraft and female religious orders in the United States. The congregations are really infect. I'm totally serious. I wish I was making this up, but I'm not. I was talking to priest about three weeks ago. They was talking about San mass for the weekends. What are you talking about? He's talking about this conflict. You're like, you know, anyway, you can fill in the rest. The third basic religious attitude is an embrace of feminism. For modern pagans or neo pagans deny the reality of sin in their universe. There is no such thing as sin. This is essential for us to understand, quote, the specific Christian beliefs most often targeted for denial and repudiation by new pagans are the concept of sin and the uniqueness of Christ.
Speaker 0 03:49 There's almost visual rejection seems to be one of the few genuine universes of the modern witchcraft movement and it appears to hold true across neo pagan spectrum. Close quote. The fourth basic religious attitude is there's no such thing as sin, but anyone that explicitly rejects sin must also logically reject the need for a savior. If there's no such thing as sin, we don't need to be safe from anything. Now I'll use one of their monuments so to speak. A quote you some verses from a Pagan Song, a popular Pagan Song. If we can use that terminology. I mean, most of them are basically on the radios, popular pagan songs, but this one is really pagan. Just a couple verses I once was found, but now I'm gone away from the faithful fold of those that preach, who that holiness is to do. As you are told, the launch scripture preached and pear have all instructed me, my skin, my bones, my heretic card, or my authority.
Speaker 0 04:52 Pause this. I'm not being sarcastic. This is a poem that expresses the same attitude that we saw with the Catholic religious teachers and attitudes in the pews. This personal autonomy comes from me. It's the same thing. Continuing. Now they tell me Jesus loves me, but I think that he loves in vain. He must go unrequited on me. He has claim I can hardly read that can make your hair stand. Oh my God. This is our lady moon who's tides run deep in me, my skin, my bones, my heritage car are my authority. And while I believe this glory, share and outlaw all remain, my body will not be subdued and I will not be saved. And if I cannot shut it loud, I'll sing it secretly. My skin, my bones, my hair to card are my authority. There you get this rejection again of Christ and how can I be saved in this cultural opposition?
Speaker 0 05:48 I'm going to be a <inaudible> forth. Basically this attitude, there's no such thing as sin. Five modern pagans are new. Pagans believe in something spiritual, represent reciprocity. They have all kinds of different ways of expressing them, but basically what this means is what goes around comes around. Okay? That's the idea that what goes around comes around. All right. At F, the energy put into the universe comes back to, yeah, okay. At a fundamental level, no peg and traject quote, the idea that we are accountable for our behavior to a higher moral authority and a revealed moral standard instead consistent with its pantheism and you know, pagans and believes that ethical behavior arises naturally out of the workings of spiritual reciprocity. The idea that the energy put in the world comes back. Close quote. The result is what I call a lame ethical system based on something called the the brick and read.
Speaker 0 06:44 This is a guideline they invented recently probably by Gerald Gardner, but it's not very old, but they put it into old English. So give it some pretense of antiquity and authority. Here it is, and at harm, none do as he will, which means as long as it doesn't hurt anybody, do anything you will. This is not a very vigorous moral law legal system. So the fifth basic religious attitude of new pegs and spiritual reciprocity, what goes around comes around. Okay, so the five summing up, the five religious attitudes, generally speaking, first and identity rooted in an opposition to Christianity, Christ our Lord, and the culture that flows from it. Basically rejecting Christ and an attitude of cultural insurrection. Second, belief in animism, polytheism and pantheism. Third, a embrace of feminism. Fourth, rejection, notion of sin. Fifth, this idea of spiritual reciprocity. What goes around comes around.
Speaker 0 07:37 Obviously each one of these attitudes really resent, resonates with many of the currents. In our modern secular society. There's a reason for that. The source of the same, the evil geniuses, they're hiding behind these currents and these views, this stuff has been vomited up right out of the bowels of hell. Brooks Alexander has a thoughtful analysis quote at every point and in every respect, neo paganism stands in contrast and outright can tag and Sim to the Christian Understanding of reality and your paganism. Aversion to Christianity is more than just a sociological device for carving out its religious identity. It also reflects a deep spiritual antipathy towards the moral basis of Christianity. Christianity is to them suffocating sense of Sin and judgment, the bad news that makes the good news good. Ultimately, Neal pagans reject the good news that God has given us a savior because they reject the bad news that we needed one to begin with and ironically, it is this part of the religious mood and attitude that puts new paganism increasingly in harmony with the mood and attitude of the secular society around us.
Speaker 0 08:56 Close quote for we go on. Let's take a moment to consider a very important factor that most of us are probably blissfully unaware of. And that is the role of the Internet and the growth and spread of neo paganism. The Internet plays approximately same role in subversion voters. Our society as the clubs and the lodge has played during the French revolution. Just as the clubs in lodges provide a venue for the revolutionaries to meet and discuss and forward their agenda. So also the Internet provides a venue for the neo pagan culture, revolutionaries to me and discuss and for their agenda. Brooks Alexander the Internet has been central to the development of the neopagan movement for two reasons. First, it strengthens the hand of culturally marginal types in general by allowing people to connect together who would otherwise remain isolated from one another. Just makes them, you know, I knew some real oddballs growing up in Montana, but they were individually individual balls, you know, I mean who they are, you know, whatever buddy, you know, they could get into this stuff, but who are they going to run into?
Speaker 0 09:58 They were just out there by themselves being an oddball. You know, I mean people have problems wherever you are, but it's no longer true because they can connect. Second, they do so well maintain individual's privacy and anonymity as one neopagan author notes. Now, here's the neopagan writing. Prior to the advent of the Internet, the worldwide web, which isn't pagans were isolated from one another. Several covenants could exist in the same city or even in the same neighborhood and never even know about one another. Most witches live their lives in a figurative bloom closet. We kept ourselves in our groups to ourselves. The net changed all that on the web. I set it individuals and groups found one another. The web allowed community be created when on had been then anonymity of online communications liberated which and folks to express their thoughts, feelings and experiences in relative safety.
Speaker 0 10:46 So in a sense the web became our church closed code. That's a Neopagan, author, Brooks Alexander. The web became our churches more than just a figure speech. Then it functions for new pigs in several ways that are parallel to the way the church functions for Christians just as Christianity is most visible and most accessible through its churches. Neo Paganism is undoubtedly most visible and accessible on the internet as we're gonna see in just a moment. It's where they find contact, interaction, edification, charisma, and teaching. Indeed for many witches in the copay against the Internet becomes a primary means or even the shawl means of fellowship with their co-religionists. Thanks to books, Alexander was set the aside. Now let's pause for a minute to get some idea of the role of Internet. We'll just consider one website. We've got the date on it. Two Neo Pagans inaugurated this website and February, 1997 when they started, they had 56 pages of content and a section of neopagan links and context.
Speaker 0 11:43 The set was an instant hit. By the end of its first year, the website had 385 pages. It had had 1,235,237 hits. Then had a list of several thousand which is wiccans and Pei Pagans and its state and country pages. It listed 385 circles and events and it had not links to 976 pagan websites. October, 2003 just over six years of operation, 96 million hits to contacts on it, 2,350 pages of text with for these 6,000 named context, they have people from all over the world and just the links. They had 5,000 neopagan websites on their links there. There were 7,000 links, 5,000 which neopagan. August, 2006 after only nine years of operation, the site had received over 805 million raw hits with over 13 million unique visitors to the website. As of three days ago, after only 11 years of operation, the site has over 140,000 registered active users and they drop out right away.
Speaker 0 13:02 That's the guy that runs it, says it has about a thousand pages of content, has 102,000 pagan personal listings. This almost 3000 pig and clergy has around 15,000 links and in terms of neopagan events and gatherings, these are the events and gatherings. It has 23,000 events and gatherings. We've got an explosion, a virtual explosion of neo pagan world, and their beliefs are the most clear, concise expression of this emerging world view. Back to Brooks Alexander and then we'll set him aside. Witchcraft is going mainstream. It's not a prediction, it's a description of current reality. It is a striking fact that the neopagan movement spearheaded by modern witchcraft has experienced an unbroken string of breakthroughs and successes over the last 35 years, legally, socially, and politically in the context of the ongoing cultural war. The sum of things at that neo, paganism has not been on the losing side of any major battle.
Speaker 0 14:16 It has fought. It is plain that modern witchcraft, anti Christianity is basic both to its origins and its own self image. If witchcraft is in fact good and not evil, then the system that calls it evil is evil. There's no way to escape the logic of that relationship. Modern witchcraft first found its identity in opposition to Christianity and there is still a strong current of hostility that everything Christian that runs through the movement, there's an attitude that is widely embraced and openly encouraged within the neo pagan community and add to that not only rejects the Christian message, but also blames Christian Church and demonizes Christian believers. What draws and binds to current cultural trends and social movements together is not their allegiance to common agenda, but rather the common participation and a mood or attitude. The common attitude is one of rejection refusal towards the main culture and I want to make a paramedic thought they think they're countercultural.
Speaker 0 15:23 I am speaking to the counter culture right now. We are the counterculture. The common attitude is one of rejection and refusal towards the main culture and especially towards it's Christian based concept of moral and spiritual limits that got level energy of cultural changes. One of the things that is fueling our cultural wars in the form of social and political conflicts over such things as abortion, perversions and cloning. All of those conflicts arise out of an indignant refusal to accept any limits. At all on the right of the self to do whatever it wants in pursuit of its own self interest. That is the mood and temper of our times. It is this spirit of the age <inaudible> today is approaching critical mass. The convergence of cultural trends, fads and fashions. The change we are seeing around us represents a revolt by the world system, by worldly values and by worldly people against the constraints of Christian culture. Close quotes. Okay. We've already reached the stage of essential paganism barring divine intervention, barring divine intervention, we will soon be living in an explicitly Pagan Society for a picture of our current cultural situation. Just think of an egg. Her culture is like an egg that shaking and waiting to hatch, Huh? Shell is holding back the seasoning mass of neo paganism. That's about to explicitly burst forth and discover its power. They don't know and they don't realize how powerful are yet in
Speaker 1 17:10 terms of the ideas that basically conquered the shell is this incredibly thin veneer and I mean Finn of what remains. I'm an extremely weak and superficial Protestant Christian social order. She had 500 years to fall apart. She said Polish didn't revolt and there's almost nothing left. Little blow. Charlotte's going to take maybe the next election. I don't know. As we saw in the signs of the times, there isn't much there. That call is for Christian social hour. They have the cultural momentum, they have the cultural momentum
Speaker 2 17:56 they've got. Come on man.
Speaker 1 17:59 Before we close, I want to submit a few quotes from modern neo pagan street consideration. We don't have time to develop these ideas. I'm going to do my best. This first one really gets to me so I might apologize in vet in advance if I start crying.
Speaker 2 18:16 Okay.
Speaker 1 18:19 Before I do that, I want to give you a reading assignment cause that'll compose me. Another one, read the second chapter of the book of Wisdom. Read the last line and the first chapter and read the whole second chapter. Read from the last line and the first chapter of the book of wisdom through the second chapter. You'll see why. Second Chapter to the book of wisdom and just one sentence before and then read that it's one chapter, not that long with the second half of, uh, the first chapter. Romans. Okay. Excerpts from an interview with a pagan priestess. This is an interview conducted by other pagans and I'm only using x shirts. Quote, when I was a little kid growing up in a Catholic working class family in Whittier, Orange County, California. I had seven older brothers and sisters. I sang in a folk group at Church for Senate Saturday night. Mass 16 was a pivotal age when everything changed in my life and a year 1981 I went from being a nice Catholic girl who made all the rules to being a more punk Cli, politically radical, which I had my first intense spiritual experience when I was seven. Around the time of my first communion,
Speaker 1 19:42 I was praying and suddenly I was surrounded by light.
Speaker 2 19:49 Sorry.
Speaker 1 19:50 I could feel it and see it. Toronto, me, I know it was God. I was in the divine presence.
Speaker 2 19:55 Okay.
Speaker 1 19:57 It's really affected me and from that moment on, I've been looking for that again.
Speaker 2 20:02 She had a signal, grace got to reached out to her,
Speaker 1 20:08 to her signal, grace and the demons were watch Dukkha nine years and I took her out. They saw it. This is someone called me a saint and a great site.
Speaker 2 20:27 Okay.
Speaker 1 20:29 Really affected me from that moment on. I've been looking for that again question, but you haven't found it. I've found bits and pieces of it. I think those big experiences don't happen very often. This was a formative experience for me, obviously caused me to want direct contact. That's one thing. Paganism gives me what a lie. I'm not saying that she's lying, she's and she believes that, but what a lie the devils have got her home and you can imagine when somebody has these kinds of gifts from God, they're going to really dogpile on her or give her special preternatural things that devils with this special things to really distract her from that because they realize this is so called to a great level of holiness. So we have to do something, give her an illusion. So that she doesn't notice what we're up to and we've got to get her snared in as many things as we can.
Speaker 1 21:26 I found bits and pieces of it. I think those big experiences don't happen very often. This was a formative experience for me. Obviously it caused me to want trek contact and that's one thing, paganism, paganism can give me direct contact with goddess, whatever we want to call it. Sometimes this is sometimes called a mystical experience. Most top down hierarchical religions don't provide this close quote, so here we have a Catholic curl, completely lost and misled by that event. I'm certainly been praying for, I've, I first read this interview a number of years ago, about four years ago, and I read it. Sometimes I read it every day. Sometimes it'll go for a couple of months because there's just something here too. My coach, she consider one prominent neopagan author. She's The New York bureau chief for National Public Radio, so I'm confirming all your worst suspicions about NPR. She writes, quote, religion had no official place. My childhood. I was brought up in a family of agnostics and atheists still feeling that there was some dimension lacking in their lives. I embarked on a quasi religious church. As a teenager. I felt ecstatic power and a Catholic match as long as it was in that close quote.
Speaker 1 22:50 Last quote, Jerry Garcia fills you. They don't know it was the league guitars for the grateful dead band was originally called warlocks. I grew up Catholic. Here's Jerry Garcia speaking childhood quote. So one block, scarcely a hundred yards from the door of our house was God's house. In those days. They still had the wonderful Latin mass with this resonance, sonorities and mysterious ritual movements. The incense, the music choir, organ bells, candles needed light to stain glass, windows, close quote Jerry Garcia of the grateful dead. When the Latin mass disappeared, there was this gigantic vacuum created gigantic vacuum, the loss, the Latin mass, lots of are going to chat. Mysterious rituals, incense, candles, devotions, and that vacuum was filled with mysterious rituals and incense and candles, devotions, investments. Unfortunately all from hell, I told you to hold that top for them. Person, Christians pray. We do rituals, the collapse of Catholic devotional life, the Latin mass.
Speaker 1 24:18 See we have what they're looking for. We have the answer. My friends, they're converted witches in neo pagans love the old mass, the traditional resin. Literally it resonates with them. Hop back in the day it turned the pagans and the Catholics gladden ass turn the Pagans and the Catholics and it can do it again. It hasn't lost any of its power. Its still to use the words of Cherry Garcia, the wonderful at and mass with its resonance. Sonorities and mysterious ritual movements, incense, music, choir, organ bells, Canales and Midlife to stained glass windows. That's what it still is.
Speaker 3 25:08 Okay.
Speaker 1 25:10 Before we close, remember the story of that little boy who was scared of the water, but he had so much love and confidence and that dad that loved him as long as dad was close by, right there watching son, nothing really bad was going to happen. Nothing was serious. You're going to hurt him. That love and confidence gave that little boy the power, the ability to deal with a situation that was terrifying for him. I remember that's what the sacred heart wants us to have for him. At least profound love and trust in him and absolute confidence in him. The realization that he's close to us, these right here watching over us, that if he sends us across or asks us to do something that's scary. It's because he loves us and he wants to give each one of us what we need to become saints, even if we can't see it right now.
Speaker 1 26:03 No Boys, dad wanted him to learn how to swim, so we had him do some kind of scary things and to get over his fear of water. The sacred heart wants us to become sane, so no matter how terrifying something might be, we want to have that profound love and confidence in him. Finally, there's one more factor to consider that we considered like let's start by considering the fact that back home when she signed off for Moondogs, we can predict upcoming events in the weather. We consider the shines at times of seeing or society's going pagan. There's Society's under the guidance of evil spirits. We haven't considered what that means for us. What does it mean for us?
Speaker 1 26:51 We're striving to live according to the guy and to the Holy Spirit. We're striving to bring forth those fruits, the spirit, charity, joy, patience, goodness, long suffering, mildness, faith, modest continence, chastity and his. We're struggling to do those things. We find ourselves living in a society that's increasingly dominated by men who have embraced the work's the flesh. They've embraced fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcraft and Mathias contentions, jealousies, angers, corals, descension, sex, envies, murders, drunkenness, crowding and such like. So we're striving to love God more and more and we're embedded in a society that is controlled by the moments of fond human nature and especially the guidance and promptings of evil spirits. And under those guidance prompted of the evil spirit. We're embedded in the society hates God more and more a pagan society. So we're striving to love God more and more and we're better than a society that's becoming more and more profoundly peg. And what does that mean for us? Barring divine intervention, what does it mean being just same thing. It always means he was a saint. It always means every time it's a side, it becomes dominated by these kinds of men. It always means the same thing for people like, gosh,
Speaker 2 28:32 always
Speaker 1 28:34 pains. Persecution shouldn't be a surprise to anyone here, but it means persecution. Shout a prophecy. That is not a prophecy. Given the current cultural trends and barring divine intervention, it's not a prophecy. It's a certainty. It is a certainty, oh, this reads something. I'd have put the bolt and sometimes prophetic foreshadowing. Archbishop Brandenburg of St Louis, there's going to be a persecution that's clear. We live as our holy father says, the society of a culture of death where people want to convince us that everything should be convenient and comfortable. They don't like to hear voice which says this isn't right.
Speaker 1 29:28 Bishops will be persecuted. He said, and also praise and lay people. So what? It means to be a sign of contradiction. We just have to accept that we have to remain tranquil and proclaiming the truth with charity, but insisting on the truth. We look to the example of her Lord. We have to take up the cross for the defense of life. God loves us. He saw this day. He loves us. Turn the persecutor day shifts in two 50 80 Saint Cyprian bishop of Carthage wrote some beautiful lines. He's writing about persecution during a persecution. I'll just read you some of the titles from chapters of his work. Saint Cyprian, quote afflictions and persecutions have brought about for this purpose that we may be tested.
Speaker 1 30:31 We must not fear the injuries and penalties of persecution because of protection of the Lord is greater than the assaults of the devil. Unless anyone should be frightened in trouble. That the afflictions of persecution, which we suffer in this world, that was before four told that the world would hold us in hatred, that it would arouse persecution against us. That from this very fact that these things come to pass as manifest the truth of the divine promise. It recompense and rewards which shall afterwards follow. That is no new thing which happens to Christians since from the beginning of the world. The good have suffered and had been oppressed and slain by the unrighteous. Close quote, Saint Cyprian, Bishop and father, the church. Let's close, ladies and gentleman, let's not have any illusions. We need to be serious. There are storm clouds gathering on the horizon. When you see sun dogs or Moondogs in Montana, you know it's a few days to the weather.
Speaker 1 31:30 I can't tell you how many years. If we have hears, I don't know what the crystallizing event will be, but we're going to see it. It's not going to be something years and years and years down the path. These kinds of aggressive movements towards school age children, the way they treat pro-lifers, these are just shines right now. Are Gearing up right now? Do these tortures to people? I guess it's okay as long as they speak Arabic must be what the average American thinks. I have no idea what they think, but the same government that will torture foreigners will not make a distinction for torturing us. I don't say that's going to happen. We have an interesting principle at stake now. The storm clouds are gathering. We better be serious about our holy faith. Deadly serious, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Whining from planning things are for ourselves isn't going to change anything.
Speaker 1 32:38 God knew what he was doing. He knew when he was going to put us in his tree and what our circumstances were going to be and expects us to become saints in those circumstances and who the book of Romans it says, or Cinnabon's grades does a bond even more. We've got rivers of sin out there that have to be oceans of grace available for us to become saints, okay? Holiness can change everything we need to become holy before it's too late. The rest of the mission will be concerned with just that one thing we need to become holy. We need to become Ali, please Neil, and we'll close with a prayer.
Speaker 1 33:20 Dear Lord, we beg you look down with mercy upon us. Poor, weak sinners give us all the grades we need to be faithful, hopeful, and even cheerful as we go about doing our duty and this present darkness. Give us an absolute confidence in your love and closeness to us and absolute trust in your son. Safe at heart. Okay. I told him that love you with all our heart. We perfectly resigned to all the trials of this life. To me, bravely resist the temptations of the enemy and grant us the grace of persevering onto the end. We asked this and she is his holy name. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with Thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. I'm a father and son. Holy Ghost. Amen. God bless you.
