Matthew 16:2-3 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
2 But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.3 And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times?
Speaking of mirrors it seems that the following ideas are interesting and mostly for Catholics:
Signs abound and we need to get red-pilled to get ourselves ready for what is coming.
. . . and then there is this one about the feminization of Churches today:
All Along the Watchtower 
I read an interesting piece at Triablogue last night about how the majority of divorces in the USA are initiated by women – not because women are worse than men, but because the legal situation incentivises this behaviour on their part. If the law favoured men instead, they would initiate divorce more. Other factors were also considered. If you’re interested, here’s the link:
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2019/07/most-divorces-are-initiated-bywomen.html
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I believe it. Thanks for the link. I’ll take a look.
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Good article. I guess we’re seeing what happens when the man is no longer the head of the family and the man is to love his wife. Seems that God knows what is the proper balance for a family and we allowed feminism to pervert this most basic institution.
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This combined with other economic and cultural factors is making all of society very disordered and unhappy. I see no way out unless real repentance and legal reform takes place. It would almost be easier to start all over again than reform this mess.
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I’m a loss myself. What a difference from when I married (41 years ago) compared to today. The feminist movement and the other following movements have left men in a position where marriage seems to be a type of torture rather than a covenant where the two become one.
My wife stayed home to raise the kids. She has a softer heart than I do and I often will yield to her show of nurturing, love, mercy etc. But she also follows the established rule that I am the head of the family and my law, when I choose to enforce it, has the final say. I am lucky in that regard.
But today with the metro-sexual males and the feminazis (as Rush Limbaugh liked to call them) are both undesirable to one another. It makes a large number of men and women unattractive to one another . . . and if they do get married they are quick to jump ship when they don’t see eye to eye. It used to be that a woman tamed the wild beast in the man and the man injected a pragmatic realism or rational thought into the woman. There was a balance there that is now missing.
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Truly, it is very sad, and creates problems for wider society. No marriage – even a childless one – fails in isolation.
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A grand societal brainwashing has been taking place, non-stop since about 1970. And as you say this was not done in isolation . . . it is pervasive and everywhere you look; from movies, music, society, politics and school houses.
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It feels like a great net, as if we need the Lord to extend some great pair of scissors from heaven to cut the threads.
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For a start I would be happy to re-enact the scene from the movie, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and simply respond to the political class that implies the same question as the KKK runner for Governor, “Is you is or is you ain’t my constituency?”, with a resounding no followed by a running of the man out of the town house on a rail. It would be a good start don’t you think?
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Absolutely. I do like that film – which was billed to me as a reimagining of Homer’s “Odyssey”. The fact is, these elites do not represent the people by and large. There’s too much infiltration of welfare state and socialist ideology on the one hand and serving corporate interests on the other. I’m all for boosting share sales and lowering/eliminating corporation tax; but I’m not for doing them favours. The state has become self-interested, which is a betrayal of the people. They are there to do the minimum necessary to protect trade and private property, not to keep legions of bureaucrats and hangers-on employed.
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Not to mention that they all line their pockets. Those that enter who are poor leave office with millions, better medical for life, pensions for life and of their coveted elite status. We are overrun with narcissists. And narcissists don’t give a damn about the people as they are incapable of true love; and they are widely greeted with indifference by the majority of people.
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One of the problems is the socialist distortion of the Christian principle of charity, poisoned, as you yourself have pointed out, by envy and other conceits. They labour under the delusion (or else by turns lie to us) that what they are doing serves the nation’s interest. But it does not follow that serving the interests of a subset of the nation is beneficial for the nation as a whole. That cannot be a general formulation, only a particular one for a given topic, to be demonstrated properly to us by arguments and evidence, in order that we might give true assent to a policy.
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Besides which who pays for it? Or are we simply going to print money and become another Venezuela? This zeal for socialism has created rights that no man before these new political ideologies evolved ever had before?; a minimum wage, a right to healthcare, a right to welfare, a right to vote even if you do not contribute to the state via taxes. I could go on but none of these are God given rights and one might say that it is only bribes for votes that motivate them.
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It is a disturbing thought – for all our moves away from certain kinds of cruelty and barbarism, we seem not have learned the lessons of the 20th century. If these socialists have their way, the USA will become like Soviet Russia.
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As my latest post speaks, in many ways we have already become totalitarian states masquerading as democracies. No right to privacy, free speech and subjected to foreigners who are being recruited to take our jobs, vote and enter into politics themselves. I guess it is to make up for the loss of their constituencies due to the low birth rates: I read today you are at an all time low in the UK; 11 births per every 1000 women. Pretty sad . . . the Western European isn’t even going to be able to replace themselves in the near future. Better start learning Mandarin or Arabic.
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And we cannot even say these things for fear of being branded as racists…the Anglo heritage is being destroyed from within and without.
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Indeed so. And it is no secret that when you give people things and expect nothing in return they treat these things as rights and are angry because they have no dignity or pride in what they have. Look at how free Urban Housing has been abused. You build a whole complex with tax dollars with new appliances and within a year there is graffiti all over the sides of halls, elevators and exteriors, people urinating in the halls, and within 10 years they have to them down and build new ones. Now there push is to get single family homes and they will treat with the same disdain that they treated the other freebies. I dare say that the newest ideas of giving everyone a living wage whether they work or not will turn us into a drunken, drug habituated society without any self respect.
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These are the points we have to take into account when considering socio-economic matters. In order to function well, society needs more than money and services. It needs the good will to refrain from graffiti, public urination, etc. It needs the formation of communities that help each other. And it needs the quiet acceptance of life’s injustices, the endurance of Job. In short, it needs a well-formed soul. The state cannot provide this: only God can. The state can choose to co-operate with God or not. When it does not co-operate, it frequently assumes God’s place. Of course, the Church can thrive in adversity, blessed by Grace and miracles. However, if we are talking about the overall bettering of society, it would be better for as many people to be Christian as possible.
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True enough. People who work with dignity, whether they hunt, fish and grow a garden and who build their own cabin in the woods are not filled with anxiety, in need of psychiatrists and such. They join together in community with others that near them, worship together and generally are happy. It doesn’t have much to do with money but everything to do with the dignity of making one’s way through life.
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In some respects, I understand why people decry capitalism in its current form: much of it exemplifies the biblical warnings about riches, envy, and the cares of this world (see, for example, the Parable of the Sower). Society is trapped by envy, which presents a large obstacle for Christians.
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Yes that is how it is viewed today. My grandfather worked for about 16 years to put himself through medical college and become a doctor. He had no school loans and he did it by working until he had enough money saved to attend the next semester. Somebody needs to make the sacrifice in order for their progeny to benefit from their hard work. So if you are born poor as my grandad was you have to do the lifting . . . and the reward is dignity and pride. Life is hard sometimes. Get used to it. I am all for helping people who will help themselves but I want to look them in the eyes before I do.
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That last sentence is interesting because we have a distance society these days. Indeed, the two of us have never met in the flesh. I think this prevalance of central government over subsidiary, local government and local communities is a dangerous part of modern life. As you say, although connected, we do not have direct relationships (look you in the eyes) with the people whom we pay or who pay for us.
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Amen. It used to be, no man is an island and today we are all islands in a vast ocean filled with sharks.
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