[the word] love it or loathe it, it will always be

Martin Kelly makes the following observation about the internet:

Without doubt, as a tool for the dissemination of ideas the Internet sits next only to the printing press in its potential; yet just as Chesterton, I think it was, wrote that the downside of the printing press was the explosion of the volume of dud philosophy that appeared in its wake, so too does the Internet have a downside.

It is to be found in the outcome of Operation Algebra.

It is, of course, people who do bad things, and not the tools they use to inflict harm; no home would ever get built without carpenters using hammers, yet in the wrong hands there are few more lethal weapons. Just as the Internet is potentially one of the greatest tools ever created by Man for the spreading of The Word, people of faith have to acknowledge that great evil operates in it as well. We cannot shy away from this, as much as we would sincerely like to.

The main thrust of Martin’s post is about Catholicism and schism. As a non-Catholic, as a died in the wool Protestant who can’t accept the intermediary role of the Bishop of Rome, I’m going to make this observation about the Catholic faith:

It’s a living faith.

When I was in Sicily, walking down the rocky terrain, daily, from my hilltop retreat to the main town, I’d see how the churches were open door, living community centres and people really did pay attention to the papal decrees, from lip service through to devotion, to the crosses on the walls of supermarkets. This community presence of the church is something the protestants had at one time before they began ignoring the Word and corruption set in – look at the anglican church in America, for example. Look at the moribund Church of England here.

This enables a modern-day Catholic, Martin, to say:

The real world is that of The Word. For the past 200 years, many of us have been trying to live without The Word. For the most part, our efforts have resulted in catastrophic failure, their fruits ideology, genocide, and the slavery of living from paycheck to paycheck. One day, we'll look back on this period in history and laugh.

The real world is that of The Word.

Hardly anyone in these faithless, sheeple days can see that. There is a simple devotion in that sentence, similar to the Americans’ devotion to the yoo ess of ay, towards their constitution and in these relativistic, PC times, that’s a breath of fresh air. To actually see someone abiding by a set of precepts is amazing in this day and age.

Look, you couldn’t mount any more stinging attack on the papacy and catholicism than I could - where would you like to start start - with the P2 Lodge and Calvi? With Cesare Borgia? Vatican II? The Jesuits? Then let me get going on the bloody Jewish Kabbalah and its Madonna accolytes.

Those things will always be present when dualistic satanism apes something monolithically but genuinely pro-good, such as the catholic church - pro-good in outlook, if not always in practice. Say what you like but without the U.S.A., freedom, libertarianism and democracy would, by now, be down the gurgler. Say what you like but without the catholic church, the Word would be a candle all but snuffed out.

It must be a source of constant irritation to the black nobility that the very country which is their citadel is also the engine room for the Christian message. I quite like that idea.

A beautiful allegory was the end of Matrix III, which many considered inferior to the mumbo-jumbo, new-ageist, first episode. Agent Smith and his clones, just as most people are also unwitting, mechanical agents of godless secularism and its inability to provide, leading inevitably to a sense of hopelessness and betrayal in its devotees who completely believed in the evolution and ultimate efficacy of machines as gods in their own right, along with god-free morality, only to be stymied at the last moment by the pesky and deeply annoying Real Power, Real Light, with its penchant for manifesting itself through weak and mortal man - just as Agent Smith and all the other misguided ones finally got theirs, so it is in the real world.

It’s David and Goliath, it’s Marvin the Paranoid Android and the huge battleship he opposed on the bridge between the two towers. It’s the real power, the metaphysical ‘soul’ if you like, present only as a hope in the heart, as a flickering candle in the Moriah wind. It’s the humble human spirit deep inside us. It will always win at the close of play, always … though it be seemingly down and out.

Good will triumph over evil for the simple reason that evil, though it make a huge racket in a tin can, wear fabulous costumes, sprout baseless, spiritually bereft, high sounding Nietzscheanism, issue countless missals, reports, think-tank recommendations and hold endless conferences and seminars for little result, appearing omnipotent, ubiquitous and invincible … is actually fundamentally flawed.

Look at the Soviet Union, look at the new UKSSR. For goodness sake – I go to the former Soviet Union twelve years, come back and find myself in the Soviet Union again. Look at non-President Obama’s brave new world he’s creating as the High Priest of the dark one – did you catch his first open attack on Christianity the other day?

Good and G-d are two very closely related words and admittedly, good isn’t exactly an exciting, rivetting concept - it just is.

I love the simple, primitive, superstitious faith of the pesky little people like myself because it annoys and sticks it up the temporal powers that be and exposes the twin gods of Science and Humanism [was there ever such a misnamed ‘ism’, having zero to do with the ultimate benefit of Mankind as a species] for the limited tools they are; it annoys the legions of rationalist disciples.

With their multi-trillion dollar technology, they still can’t snuff out an idea or get the world in order.

As Evie Nefertiti said, when the monster got his, courtesy of the spirit, at the end of The Mummy: ‘He’s mortal.’ Mortal means he can, theoretically at least, be defeated. We just need to find the way.

And as Jonesy said in Dad’s Army, concerning the mighty armies poised just across the English La Manche: ‘They don’t like it up ’em, they don’t, they don’t.’

As the hordes of socialists in the law, in the university professorships, at the top of the NHS, in the High Church, in Common Purpose, in key positions in education, await the inevitable coming together of the Grand Plan – lo, even in its implementation will be sewn the seeds of its defeat because it is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable.

Don’t get me wrong, one needs to also believe in the ability of technology to provide new solutions – just look at these ideas – there’s no point being a Luddite but to ignore the other, irrepressible, metaphysical side in implementing these excellent ideas is Tower of Babel all over again.

Why not combine the two and then you’re really cooking with gas?