THE secular liberal state has often been justified by the claim that religion causes war, the so-called religious wars of Europe being cited in defense of this idea.

Is it true that Christendom was more violent than the age of modern democracy? In his book Liberty, the God that Failed (Angelico Press, 2012), Christopher A. Ferrara addressed this point:

What of the “religious wars” that preceded the age of democratic revolution? As William T. Cavanaugh has shown in his magisterial refutation of the “myth of religious violence,” the so-called wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries were really conflicts waged “by state-building elites for the purpose of consolidating their power over the church and other rivals.” Hence “these wars were the birth pangs of the state, in which the overlapping jurisdictions, allegiances and customs of the medieval order were flattened and circumscribed into the new creation of the sovereign state (not always yet nation-state), a centralizing power with a monopoly on violence within a defined territory.” Indeed, “the very distinction of politics and religion made possible by the rise of the modern state … was itself the root of these wars.” The result was a “transfer of the sacred from Christianity to the nation-state” and “the substitution of the religion of the state for the religion of the church.” Citizens would no be expected to lay down their lives in vast numbers not for Christ or the defense of the Faith, but for the Union or the Republic or the Confederacy. (more…)

“[E]ACH SEX needs to deeply consider and be grateful for the gifts and talents of the opposite sex. In our time, what men give to the world is absolutely taken for granted. Men are disrespected by our culture and in law, are degraded in popular entertainment and by our institutions. While the world turns itself upside down to ensure the success of females and provide them help, male success and well-being are completely ignored even as men are blamed for the existence of all evils. Women need to stop and truly think about what the world would be like without men. Roads, buildings, running water, electric gadgets, centralized heat, air-conditioning, airplanes, antibiotics — as Camille Paglia put it, without men, we’d be living in grass huts. And women need to show some appreciation and respect for that fact. At the same time, we need to guard against overreaction to the brutal ways in which men’s lives have been taken for granted, and teach our children to have an ordinate respect for women, without whom men wouldn’t be inspired to build what they do, and would have no families to build for. (more…)

Part One of this essay is here.

ALAN writes:

Today, signs and brochures proclaim that the James S. McDonnell Planetarium and its neighboring Science Center in St. Louis aspire to be “inclusive”.  In other words, buildings ostensibly devoted to science are now surrendered to political sloganeering.

Observe the idiocy: Science is going to be made “inclusive”.  Legitimate scientists and philosophers would have enjoyed a rollicking good laugh at that idea in 1963, when they still had sense enough to recognize flim-flammery.

“Inclusive” science museums make as much sense as an “inclusive” Catholic Church or the “Council for Inclusive Capitalism” or your home being made into an “inclusive home” for any bums, parasites, or “refugees”-of-the-month club who choose to walk in.  “Inclusion” is part of the flim-flam industry, whose goal is to make people dumb enough not to be able to recognize intellectual-philosophical swindles.  You can be confident that any word or phrase preceded by “inclusive” is a hoax and a fraud.

“Inclusion” is Communist agitprop. Its purpose is to erase liberty and rights and expand government power, all in the name of doing good, of course.

Nothing important in life can be “inclusive”.  Life is not “inclusive”. Your body is not “inclusive”; it must exclude deadly poisons and other menaces. Private property is not “inclusive”; it excludes trespassers and parasites. Knowledge and wisdom are not “inclusive’; they exclude stupidity, ignorance, fallacies, and lies. Science must exclude fakery, pseudoscience and the countless carnival barkers who promote those things. (It should also exclude at least half of the things that are now called “scientific” but are pretentious nonsense, like the fake science called psychiatry, “climate change”, and the medico-pharmacological racket called “behavioral science” — each of which is a colossal fraud.  They have nothing to do with science and everything to do with the lust for power.)

There is nothing innocent about “inclusion” or those who promote it. “Inclusive” public policies are not life-improving; they are life-destroying. “Inclusion” means a gun held by government and pointed at your head and mine.

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FROM Gary D. Barnett:

Expect many false flag events going forward, each with the goal of solidifying more and more control mechanisms aimed at restraining populations. False flag operations can only live in the aura of perception, as they are all, whether they actually physically happen or not, meant only to cause fear, submission, and compliance. The AI monster has risen, and has become nearly impossible to recognize by the doltish masses. Since most willingly accept what they perceive, and most perceive what they are conditioned to ‘believe,’ the plotted psychological operation being used to subdue the citizenry is now the primary weapon of war against the masses. (more…)

“[T]he Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible, hidden in catacombs”.

IN The Present Crisis of the Holy See, (1861) Henry Cardinal Manning, D.D, the famous convert from Anglicanism, described what the ancient Fathers of the Church had foretold: a time when the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass would be taken away from Catholic altars. We are, from all appearances, living in those times.

He wrote:

Now, first of all what is this “taking away of the continual sacrifice”?

 It was taken away in type at the destruction of Jerusalem. The sacrifice of the Temple, that is, of the lamb, morning and evening, in the Temple of God, was entirely abolished with the destruction of the Temple itself. Now the Prophet Malachias says: “From the rising of the sun even to the going down, My Name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to My Name a clean oblation.” (more…)

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ALAN writes:

Several months ago I had occasion to visit the planetarium in St. Louis. The James S. McDonnell Planetarium is in the same building I visited numerous times from 1963 through 1974. It stands within a cultural and metaphysical setting radically different from where it stood then: Trendy, cutesy, cutting-edge, and drenched in hip-and-cool. It is now part planetarium, part fun house, and part platform for political sloganeering.

The Planetarium in 1963:

The setting is one of traditional form and restraint. Well-attired, well-mannered grown-ups. Men wearing suits and serious hats, not blue jeans and ball caps. Women wearing dresses, not pants and t-shirts. No tattooed women. Parents in control of children. Grown-ups did not use profanity in public settings.  No screens.  Hour-long presentations.  Classical music. Nothing overly loud. Classrooms and library of astronomical books and periodicals.  No “play areas” for children.  No ideological sloganeering.  No mention of feminism, “diversity” or “inclusion”.  People did not carry amusements with them.

The Planetarium in 2025:

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THIS site has been offline for a couple of days while it was moved to a new server. Several recent posts were unintentionally deleted in the process and do not appear. I am restoring them.

The site in the future should function much better than it has in many months.

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Laura writes:

“Archbishop” of Glasgow William Nolan is seen here in a recent Facebook post making the inverted pyramid hand sign, which is associated with Freemasonry. That he would do it openly in Masonic Scotland is not so surprising. Could it have been accidental? Perhaps, but it just doesn’t appear that way.

Peggy Hall, by the way, recently did a post on the various Masonic hand signs used by celebrities and politicians. She includes many images.

Unfortunately, this gesture is not as bold as the writings and speeches of the Vatican II Church’s “popes,” from John XXIII to Leo XIV, which are filled with Masonic ideas — always mixed in with Catholic doctrine. They have openly pushed, for instance, the doctrine of universal salvation, which is part of the Masonic creed. They have warped the faith in the minds of millions, changing dogma, worship, discipline and morals — in short everything. But, and this is so crucial, they have mixed it with true Catholicism. Ambiguity and contradiction are their masterstrokes. (more…)

TRUMP is a fantastic liar. Always has been. Doubling down on big lies is the way to make people accept them. Just confidently assert a falsehood.

In an interview with Laura Ingraham yesterday, he insisted the economy was the best ever. “Eggs are now what they were .. we got it all down.”

Eggs are the only things that are less (less than they were under the fake bird flu). Also, he said, we will need to bring in lots more foreign workers. There just isn’t enough talent in America to fill the jobs he will supposedly be creating. Trump has closed the southern border to bring in more Asians, but then he never was against open borders.

Don’t trust Ingraham, by the way, she’s just a shill for the GOP, which like the Democratic Party, represents the will of the banksters. Democracy is another name for Communism with a veneer of capitalism and feel-good socialism. Both parties will continue to do the will of their masters and flood this country with foreigners, inflicting onerous inflation while increasing governmental control over every aspect of our lives.

Trump says things will be better with 50-year mortgages. Who do you think will benefit most?

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MY BOY JACK
by Rudyard Kipling

“Have you news of my boy Jack?”
Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

“Has any one else had word of him?”
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

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Prayer for Deceased Soldiers

Thou art all-powerful, O God, and livest forever in light and joy. Look with pity and love, we beseech Thee, upon those who have bravely fought and gallantly died for our country. (more…)

“IT is an odd weakness of mankind, that while death surrounds us in its myriad forms, it is never present to our minds. At funerals one only hears words of astonishment that a mortal man has died. Each brings to mind the last time he spoke with the deceased and what they had spoken about. Then, all of sudden, he was dead. And we say: How fleeting are a man’s days! (more…)

MICHAEL S. writes:

I will be skipping the 2026 New Year’s Concert from Vienna.

You can probably guess why … (WARNING: Obnoxious photograph.)

I’m not even sure this “guy” conducts the Vienna Philharmonic much at all. (more…)

NICK Fuentes is a repulsive blabbermouth in the highly compromised “alt-right” who could only rise to popularity in today’s media snake pit if he was being financially supported and protected by powerful people.

He praises Stalin and Communism. He says the most outrageous things about feminism, race, anti-semitism, etc., always favoring the extreme and tarnishing the image of genuine opposition. He calls himself a Catholic, they say, which even in this day of nominal Catholicism is impossible to believe.

I believe Nick Fuentes doesn’t believe in anything — he’s an agent provocateur enjoying an artificial and profitable rise to fame. (more…)

EYESOFTHEREPUBLIC.com presents evidence against various figures and outlets in American media, including Alex Jones, Mike Adams, Zerohedge and Ron McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute.

James Fulk provides a “Russian Information Warfare Ecosystem” chart here. He wrote in 2024: (more…)

“THE thought of death and what follows death can be not only salutary, but even sweet and attractive, by linking it with the thought of our deceased ones — parents, relations, neighbours, friends. When a person is advanced in years, he can count more friends beyond the grave than this side of it. It is sweet to live in memory with them, to pray for and to them. When our conversation is with them, as St. Paul might put it, we learn to see the things of this life in their proper perspective. The soul turns from things of earth, and unites itself with God, and longs for the day when they shall receive it into everlasting dwellings, where it will be united to its friends. The invisible and beneficient presence of our departed friends is about it. Whether they are in Heaven or in Purgatory, they pray for us. When the soul has tasted the sweetness of this company, it cannot be separated from it, because the world holds no charm for it and a heavenly nostalgia fills it to the overflow.

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FROM “The Heresy of Democracy: A Study in the History of Government,” by Lord Percy of Newcastle (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1954):

Religion always asserts the Equality of all men. In a sense, that is what religion is for. But obviously, no two human beings can be equated in their totality. To assert their equality is to make a judgment of value, to believe that certain characteristics common to both have a special importance to each. To make such a judgement is an essential function of religion. Primitive or debased religion asserts the equal liability of all men to the arbitrary action of the gods, or their equal dependence upon the processes of nature. From that, at ascending levels, religions have asserted the equal subjection of all men to a divine moral law, or their equal son-ship to the fatherhood of a single or a supreme God. At the Christian level, the assertion has been expressed in a more compelling language, which has been the origin of all that seems to most of us most lovely in the social life of the Western Continents, and most enduring in their law…. (more…)