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Friday, 11 July 2025
Secularists Don't Like That
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Secularists don't like that I'm Catholic.
One Swede followed me around on the Goth site Helgon, and regularly called me a narcissist.
Among other things for believing God exists and will look after me.*
Another Swede, a woman this time, posed a question which I took to be personal. This was on Quora, and the site is made the way, if I get kicked out of or deconnect from Swedish Quora, I also do so from English, French, Spanish and so on. I reacted by saying, I am not amused by questions of psychology. She started giving reasons why I should fins psychology great, I dismissed this in really low, but to my mind not disproportionately so, terms.
Just after that, yesterday I get a question if any religion has traumatised me, and today, from that person, that woman, a question what I thought about the fact that some will be called out as narcissists when they are in fact traumatised.
I actually am somewhat traumatised. By Sweden. And by its dominant religions, psychology, evolution, science.
The two of them are pretty obviously trying to pathologise expressions of my Catholic faith.
I said abortion is murder? "Oh, he's a callous narcissist, who doesn't care about the feelings of women" — "No, he's traumatised by a strong indoctrination in Catholicism."
I count on getting a publisher? "He's a narcissist who thinks the world owes him a living?" — "No, he's traumatised by whoever is using him."
I show a certain confidence in my own alternatives to mainstream science (yes, apart from accepting most of Creation science, I have done contributions of my own)? "He's a narcissist who thinks he knows better than all scientists combined, when he has no science degree!" — "No, he's traumatised and doesn't dare to look at the evidence for fear of Hell."
I don't spend hours worrying about what would happen if I were to run on the German autobahn in the direction opposite the direction, on a day when cars are running fast. I simply don't feel any urge of doing such a thing and therefore no acute fear about what would happen if I did. The one half hour in my life when I was really tempted against the faith, was a temptation to Calvinism, which I obviously rejected.
I also see no reason to fear looking at evidence. Standing by the side of a German autobahn trying to hitchhike may be illegal, but it's mostly and inherently not the risk I just took as an example, and similarily, looking at evidence doesn't the least inspire me to doubt Catholicism or Young Earth Creationism or Geocentrism.
It's neither narcissism nor trauma to believe I know the age of the earth better than earth scientists. I don't believe I'm God. I believe I stand by God's written word. I believe every peace of evidence I don't have a Young Earth Creationist explanation for, actually has one, even if it was not for me to see it. I believe team St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo beats team Lyell and Darwin. I don't believe I'm very great in the team of Catholic Young Earth Creationists, just that I had a few solutions at a timely moment when nobody else had them and still have so.
But one thing has a somewhat traumatising effect on me. Sweden. Its insistance that, whether as a narcissist or a traumatised victim of sectarian abuse, of an abusive cult, whatever I say cannot be what I actually and honestly am convinced of for at least moderately rational reasons. Its insistance that, I don't say anything worth listening to until I tell a Swedish shrink what's wrong with me or "the symptoms" so the shrink can determine what's wrong. The cult abuse I have survived, and not caved in to on the doctrinal front, is Swedish secularism. I don't think North German would be better.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Pope St. Pius I
martyred under Marcus Aurelius
11.VII.2025
Romae sancti Pii Primi, Papae et Martyris; qui martyrio coronatus est in persecutione Marci Aurelii Antonini.
PS, the Pope we celebrate today has on some views died before Marcus Aurelius became emperor, but of the uncertain dates one span ends in AD 161, which is when Marcus Aurelius became emperor. This should inform you how I feel about Stoicism. I hold with the martyrology reading, he was martyred by a Stoic./HGL
* Also for believing I am bright enough to figure some things out. You know, the kind of views that in Swedish politics about militaries and immigrants could count as a conspiracy theory.
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