At the Victory of Trump, Some Non-Christians Show Very Open Enmity for Christianity

Φιλολoγικά/Philologica: The Netherlands, a Few Years Later, Were Among the Reforming Episcopates at Vatican II · To Be Clear, I Am NOT Recommending Protestantism · New blog on the kid: At the Victory of Trump, Some Non-Christians Show Very Open Enmity for Christianity

On Spanish* Quora, someone was asking if isolating a group of religious people from all religious concepts for a year (however you'd go about doing that) could cure them of their delusion.

Equally on the Spanish Quora, the top best answer to "have scientists come to a conclusion on the Shroud of Turin?" was an answer that didn't deal with scientists studying the shroud at all, and after reperusing it, I mean at all. Sections of the Spanish section of Quora are very clearly safe spaces for Atheists, where they can indulge in fantasies of bullying Christians, and where Christians who are invited are NOT allowed to answer.** Given that demographic, I'm not suprised that this was the answer that got the most likes. I wrote another, in which I cited the top line of the "former amateur philosopher's" answer.***

I was getting to youtube, and into my feed came a short alleging that most Medieval nuns were pregnant, and sometimes got rid of their children by throwing them down into wells. A specific claim about the situation according to the rule portrayed their normal and ideal life as much more boring than it was. Not allowed to make conversations during meals? If you have ever been to a dining space in a big school or in the military, and I suppose a lot of other work places where you sit down around long tables, many at each, you may imagine why this is wise for those who chose a contemplative life. But the point that's missing is: it's not as if the refectory was a place of dour silence, no, one of the nuns, or in male monasteries, one of the monks, had already eaten. The lector was on a turning schedual (that obviously didn't involve the abbess or abbot, who needed to give sign when reading was ending), and first read a passage of instruction (the Rule of St. Benedict, or perhaps sth from the Bible) and after that allotted passage was finished, went on to sth a bit more fun, like reading from a saints' life, or perhaps a chronicle. Being silent while listening is like being silent at cinema, you are silent so you don't miss anything. A family requiring silence, while dining before the TV is basically doing the same thing.° Anyway, the allegation about pregnancies and abortions and child killing post partum is recycled in many Anti-Catholic media, from the Reformation to the Communists, and now today.

Speaking of nuns, like at the Reformation, like in Communism, it seems monasteries are being dissolved and monetary gain is involved, but this time, from the Vatican. When it comes to dissolving a Carmel with 6 old nuns, it could be done in a decent way, in placing them in monasteries, ideally Carmels, with younger nuns and more vocations. And those monasteries would get the receits from selling the property. However, very usually it's the diocese that splits with the Vatican, when the Vatican dissolves a monastery, and not always for lack of vocations. That's at least what I gather from Anthony Stine, who told us about the nuns of Belorado.°°

It is a very unpleasant feeling when what should be the Catholic Church seems nevertheless to do the works of the enemies of the Catholic faith. I have had that kind of impression more than once in my own life, in previous years. And in affairs which are not finished. Anthony Stine is now reporting on the Arlington Nuns.°°° And here a certain slant of psychiatric abuse may come into play.

If we go to the communiqué of the (Vatican II) Ordinary of Fort Worth, he states:

The actions of the former nuns have perpetrated a deep wound in the Body of Christ. I ask all of you to join me in praying for healing, reconciliation, and for the conversion of these women who have departed from the vowed religious life and notoriously defected from communion with the Catholic Church by their actions. With prayers for the former nuns and for all harmed by these events, I remain [signature]

Here it is not clear that he prays for the nuns to be "healed" it is in context at first probable he's praying for "healing" in the "Body of Christ" which apparently received a "deep wound" from this. However, "Bishop" Olsen somewhat fudges this by asking for prayers for the "former" nuns. In the reporting in The Pillar, however, we see a different story:

“They are neither nuns nor Carmelites despite their continued and public self-identification to the contrary,” Bishop Michael Olson wrote Dec. 2, in a communique asking that Catholics pray for healing, and for the women’s conversion.

It comes very close to asking to pray for the women's "healing and conversion" ... as if they first had to get well from something, before they could convert. As long as "Bishop" Olsen is not asking The Pillar to clarify~ one can assume he is colluding with this interpretation. Oh, obviously, they have some "plausible denial" which is not very plausible. They could claim, they were asking for prayers for healing in general, but as to prayers for the "former" nuns, simply prayers for conversion. But I think there is sufficient online evidence of not reading things correctly, even if you have the text in front of you. It is highly probable that people in that diocese and elsewhere, thinking they should obey "Bishop" Olsen, will pray for "the healing of these women" ...

Why is that bad? Well, for one, if someones are praying for someone's healing, and that someone isn't sufficiently protected against their prayers, it would seem such prayers can result in multiple corporeal ailings, I currently have a lice infestation to heal from, there has been a fractured bone, there has been shingles, there have been dental abcesses. I have healed every time, except so far from the lice, and excepting the fracture and the shingles, without medical intervention. But innocent souls who think they have done me a favour by praying for my healing, have caused (via my own sins, no doubt) that I got bodily ailments to actually heal from, so their prayers could be heard. They are more innocent than I, they have more grace, but they are also more misguided, even they could admit, if they cared to talk to me about it, misguided about my actual situation, they could be praying for the entirely wrong things even apart from the theological differences.

Since the Mother Superior of the Arlington nuns was under anaesthesia at an operation, and that's when she "confessed" to certain sins, according to Anthony Stine, I presume this could have happened to them too.

With the case of Henk Heithuis in the 1950's Netherlands, some might say how horrible it was that religious who taught at his boarding school abused him. Well, that's not the worst. The worst is, he was sent to a mental hospital. That's where he was, illegally, castrated. The worst was not the coverup of sexual abuse, the worst was the medical abuse, enabled by an open alliance between the diocese and a mental hospital that regarded homosexuality as a mental disease, which obviously reverses the burden of proof. If Henk had in court been accused of seducing the religious, one would have needed to prove it. He was not tried in court but examined by a mental hospital, so, he could be presumed to be homosexual based entirely on the subjective evaluation of the hospital personnel. This is a reason why individually medicalising the question of actions that are as to their general nature culpable, is a way of stamping someone as actually guilty, without due process. And obviously, a certain ideology would say "no, we are not blaming him, he was a victim of his homosexuality" and what not, and that doesn't make any difference as to the fact that the guilt of sodomy was transferred from the religious who had groomed him to him. This, not the grooming, not the abuse, but this, leading to the final medical abuse, the castration that ruined his life, happened because the diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch was in alliance with psychiatry.~~

With some Evangelical groups, praying for someone's healing is a coded way of calling him mentally ill, without any even medical "examination" ... it's very problematic if the diocese of Fort Worth takes up this practise against the Nuns. And of course, if anyone, Evangelical or "Catholic" does so with me. Why coded? Well, some of them do have some respect, nominally, for this part of the Gospel:

You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment 22 But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou Fool, shall be in danger of hell fire
[Matthew 5:21-22]

Now, some will say, this is a prooftext for "total corruption" in the eyes of a God with very exacting standards. It's a prooftext for us needing a purely imputed righteousness, because experience shows accepting the sacrifice of Christ will not actually turn people this kind of righteous. They will say, "look, even a small thing like calling someone a fool" ... no, in that society, to those people, calling someone a fool would have been part of a procedure to officially stamp him as fool. And calling someone "raca" would have been part of a procedure to rank him as one of the less pious (their synagogues back then had a social credit ranking). If one doesn't respond, such people can pretend to assume this as an agreement. If one responds "no", they can go on and repeat until it's provocative, or until open anger is the only "correct" response from someone not in that position. If one responds by anger, that is however not automatically a sign that one isn't a fool or a "raca", the anger can be written off as a lack of self control.

In the Second World War, lots of Catholics and lots of Catholic clergy, helped to hide Jews from the Nazis. Lots and lots of people made friendships. I'm worried some of these friendships led to Catholics adopting Jewish practises, and that would perhaps foremost include in psychiatry.

And in "prayers for healing" ... because, yes, the correct interpretation is, Christ does not accept ruining someone's life by psychiatry (or what one would have called it back then), and some Evangelicals understand that. They understand that it is wrong to say, before a congregation which includes or excludes the person "he's mentally ill" or "you are mentally ill" ... but they think that if they reword it like "I'll be praying for his healing" or "I'll be praying for your healing" this doesn't count as the offense in question before God, because it is not the exact same wording as "thou fool" ...

So, while psychiatry~~ has for the last two decades been somewhat retreating, thank God, and God bless anyone who contributed to that, some dislike this, some would desire more social control, for instance against myself or against the Arlington Nuns. That's why I take "prayers for healing" as a possibly very serious attack against someone's or some peoples' freedoms and about their mental status. Not just when they come from the obvious Vatican II Sect. Remember what I said about the psychiatric ambitions of some Atheists? Here:

This is basically a kind of appeal for an Anti-Theistic Inquisition. It would, if it ever happened, certainly be in the hands of medical~~ professionals. It can be added, all the responses by Atheists are negative. The one qualified response seems to be by a JW, who says "depends on why they are religious" and proceeds to list criteria obviously from the Watchtower Sect, starting with "what is the name of God?".

Right now, this persecution against Christians is not targetting all believers of any sect in the free world. And when it targets individuals, it is usually in alliance with people who also claim to be Christians. The kind of people who would ask "what is the name of God?" or who would ask other people to pray for the healing of such and such. I'm not saying Atheists and other Anti-Christians are absent. I am however saying, they want, right now, support from pretended Christians. It still looks bad, in the free world, to openly persecute a Christian for being a Christian, doing so still needs a big dose of hypocrisy.

Michael Olsen, pretended bishop of Fort Worth, do not provide such an excuse for the doctors!

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Barbara, Virgin and Martyr
4.XII.2024

PS Reports on Arlington partly based on Anthony Stine:

Francis CRUSHES Traditional Nuns In Totally Pointless Attack On Tradition
Return To Tradition | 4.XII.2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyq285MI2Q

* Quora comes in many languages, one account can be active in more than one, but you need to switch, for instance from English to Spanish or from Spanish to French. Just to clarify that Quora as such is not a purely Spanish site.
** "no al proselitismo" = proselitismo al no
*** ¿Y el Síndono?
° I've silently eaten dillkött while absorbed in a decent film or half decent sitcom, at Christmas it would typically be A Christmas Carol, though then Christmas foods would oust the dillkött, several hours per week during my childhood, except the time in Vienna, no TV, and I could actually talk to ma at every meal. I have also sat at the guest table of Sainte Madeleine du Barroux, in two retreats, 1991 and 1992, and in some one night visits between 2006 and 2009. The police doesn't allow the monks to receive homeless people in retreats.
°° Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Nuns of Belorado~Orduña, Poor Clares! · New blog on the kid: Yet Another Reason to Prefer Pope Michael II, the former linking to Anthony Stine's video.
°°° He's also misrepresenting the nuns of Belorado by speaking of them "leapfrogging all options between" diocesan obedience (to someone agressing their monastery) and Sedevacantism, despite SSPX having a decent presence in Europe. Sorry, crossing a frontier in Europe (either in travelling to a new place of resience or in registering property with someone residing in another country) is no small business. In Spain, the SSPX has a "grand total" of 13 chapels. Oh, sorry, that's Spain and Portugal together! It seems the closest of the chapels is 89~99 km away. Vitoria is in Álava, and Belorado is in Burgos, different "counties" (if not "states").
~ I may miss such a clarification, don't leave a grudge against him on this account if you know he already has clarified to the contrary, and kindly report to me if that happens, so I can update my own reporting.
~~ In connection with a wider system of medical dictatorship, I calculated the gematria of Apollo (the divinity of the Hippocratic Oath):

Φιλολoγικά/Philologica: Gematria of Apollyon / Apollon
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 | Posted by Hans Georg Lundahl at 2:48 AM
https://filolohika.blogspot.com/2020/05/gematria-of-apollyon-apollon.html