VIDEO: Vicious Evil..."'woman murdered her three children doesn't mean she was a bad mother'...[because of Rousseauian] lie of the blank slate is that women are naturally good...[if] temporarily insane, you should put them away in an even tighter cell"

R. J. Shaw: Watch "Vicious Evil" on YouTube

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Google AI overview:

Fr. Ernest Fortin’s critique did not say that humans are naturally good and corrupted by society; rather, he argued that this exact idea was Rousseau's greatest and most dangerous error. [1]
Rousseau famously claimed that human beings are naturally good and that social structures introduce evil into the world. In his extensive writings on political philosophy, including Human Rights, Virtue, and the Common Good, Fr. Fortin systematically attacked this premise from a classical and Christian standpoint. [1, 2]
The Core of Fortin's Critique
Fortin’s objection to Rousseau's "natural goodness" thesis centers on three fatal philosophical consequences:
The Eradication of Personal Moral Responsibility: By arguing that society alone corrupts the individual, Rousseau shifted the blame for human wickedness away from the human heart and onto external institutions (like governments and private property). Fortin noted that this directly rejects the Christian understanding of Original Sin and the internal struggle for virtue. [1, 2]
The Rise of Dangerous Social Engineering: Fortin warned that if society is the sole cause of evil, the logical conclusion is that the state must radically reconstruct society to make people "good" again. This shift moves the burden of moral excellence from the individual soul to the state, laying the theoretical foundation for modern totalitarianism.
The Reduction of Human Nature: Classical philosophy (like Aristotle) and Christian theology (like Thomas Aquinas) define human nature by its capacity for reason, virtue, and communion with God. Fortin critiqued Rousseau for stripping away this higher purpose, reducing "natural man" to a pre-rational, solitary animal driven purely by self-preservation. [1, 2, 3]
Ultimately, Fortin’s critique warns that by replacing genuine virtue with a belief in innate "natural goodness," Rousseau lowered the bar for human nature and created a secular political framework that leaves society vulnerable to ideological tyranny.

Transsciption:

Hey, how you doing? This is R.J. So today I'm going to talk about surprise surprise heroic virtue, but more in the

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terms of just plain and simple virtue that builds up to heroic virtue. And I'm going to do it with a backdrop of the

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insanity of our culture today. And you can probably surmise from my thumbnail what kind of insanity I'm talking about.

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So let's start here. My channel has always been from the very beginning about heroic virtue and about the traditional hero. Now, when I started

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off, I talked a lot more about entertainment than I do today. I barely talk about entertainment at all anymore.

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And I focused on some very specific kinds of entertainment, which was the comic book industry and Marvel comics

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more specifically. Now, the reason why I did that was because I could see insanity there on clear display. The

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thing being that our culture was still trying to come to grips with how our entertainment had been completely taken

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over by your quote unquote progressive liberal agenda and people were trying to figure out how this actually occurred.

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So enter me who used to listen to a lot of Marvel podcasts and the great thing about these Marvel podcasts was these people like to talk. They thought that

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no one else besides people on their side were listening to them. And they let loose with every crazy thing they could

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think of. And as I used to say, they would do that because comics is the runt little brother of the entertainment industry. They would look at their older

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brothers of television, movies, novels, and say, "Can I play too?" and they tried to prove their worth by being

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completely open and honest about what they were doing to just prove to their older brothers how quote unquote

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progressive they were. But even though I was continually bringing these primary sources to people to show them that this is what is going on and it's a microcosm

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to explain to you the rest of the entertainment industry, people still didn't understand one crucial thing.

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They would say, "Yes, but I don't really believe that to be true, even though they say it, because how can they

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operate in such a way when they know they're going to lose massive amounts of money?" Well, the answer is twofold.

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Number one, the major comic companies are owned by giant corporations like Disney. And number two, which is more important than what I'm going to talk

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about a little more today, is the fact that as I had claimed long and ever ago on my channel, these people operated in

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a mindset that was post money. And what did I and do I mean by that? I mean the currency that they were operating within

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was not the actual dollar. It was influence. It was awards. And those awards could take various forms. They

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could be pieces written about their comics in the New York Times or the Washington Post. It could be the fact that they were cited by these quote

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unquote progressive organizations of one kind or another. It could be actual awards. It could be trips to the White

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House to rub elbows with the then progressive quote unquote president. Now, why am I talking about all this?

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Well, I'm talking about this because I still have people ask me, I had one ask me actually within my live stream last

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Wednesday if I think that our culture, our society can be turned around. And my answer to that question is yes, as long

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as we focus on virtue and in particular heroic virtue, it certainly can be turned around. And that view is not

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based just on hope. It's based on hope that is founded in reality, in truth,

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and in good old-fashioned work. But the thing is, in order to share that hope with other people who don't yet have it

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in their lives, you need to try to explain to them where exactly their culture is and how it's gotten here. And

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how our culture has gotten here is very similar to the process I just explained.

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the progressive quote unquote people within our society operate in a postmoney mentality. Now again, what do I mean by

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that? How does that work within our culture? So here's the how and the why of it as far as I'm concerned. There is a quote from I think it's Alexander

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Tyler from about 1951. You've probably heard some kind of paraphrase of it,

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which is democracy works until the politicians learn they can bribe the citizens with their own money. Now, I

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know that I'm speaking most particularly of America and America is a constitutional democracy that uses

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democratic means. It's not a democracy, but not just in America. In most of European culture, they used democracy in

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various means. It still is effective to say this about whatever system that you

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live under in a European-based country that utilizes democracy. But again, why am I bringing this up? I'm bringing it

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up because a lot of people think, well, this is what is going on today. That's not actually the case. This is what was

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understood and was going on prior to 1950. Okay, that's the first thing that needs to be acknowledged. And since that

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time within the 1950s, politicians have exhausted their means to give more and more money to the citizenry to keep

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bribing them. Because here's the thing about bribing your citizenry. They're going to become fat, lazy wretches who just want more and more. You know, like

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baby birds in a nest, always squawking with their mouths open and will steal food from their brother if they have the

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chance. And the problem is politicians have exhausted that means. They've given as much as they possibly can. They've

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extended the tax base as much as they possibly can to extract it from the citizens so they can bribe them with it.

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And the citizens keep wanting more and more. and they got to a point where they simply could not give them anymore or at

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the very least could not give them anymore so that it would be impactful enough for them to still support that

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form of corrupted government. So they had to figure out a new thing to give the citizens in order to bribe them.

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This is where your culture, my culture, European culture of various forms started to become postmoney societies.

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And what do you give people if you don't have any more money to give them? Well, that's an easy one because you can go as

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far back as we have history and see this exact thing occurring. If you have a king, what does he do? He appoints nobles, which is to say, he gives people

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privileges over and above the normal citizenry. He gives them influence beyond what they would normally have as

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individual citizens or even citizens as part of a group. And again just like those entertainment systems are now and

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have been for quite some time postmoney systems who operate according to influence. So the citizenry or at the

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very least many different factions of the citizenry are post money in so far as the government no longer can bribe

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them with that money but it bribes them with that money as the base and then has to add on various forms of influence and

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privilege. And I'll say the same thing that many other people have said in many different ways. The complaints of these

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people on the left, especially your quote unquote progressive people, whenever you hear them complain, their complaint is their confession. Whenever

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they say we have to have compassion and empathy, it's because they have none.

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Whenever they say we have to stop racism, it's because they're racist. And whenever they say we must get rid of

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people's privilege, it's because they have massive amounts of privilege. And what do I mean by massive amounts of

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privilege? Well, to the extent, again, just like nobles of ages past, if they do something wrong, if they break the

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law, if they do something immoral, they get away scot-free. their color, their gender, their sexual orientation is a

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get out of jail free card. Now, I'll have to note that this only works by giving it to a certain section of the population. You can't give it to

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everyone. It wouldn't be a privilege if everyone had it. And of course, the people without that privilege are the people who actually do the work to

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actually maintain and sustain your society. And guess who that is? Usually within Europeanbased cultures. that

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you're white Christian men. So again, how far has this privilege reached?

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Well, it's reached to the point of the thumbnail of this video wherein one of these sections of the population that is

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given privilege is women. And you have this woman, Lindsay Clancy, who has admitted to murdering her own three

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little children and yet was just a hair's breath away from getting away with the entire thing. And not only

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that, but has a mass swell of support from people, mainly women, to say she did nothing wrong. Which is to say what?

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Which is to say they're trying to push this privilege even further. to say that one section of these privileged people

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that the quote unquote progressive left depends on which is women need to be given again more and more privilege.

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Just like those baby birds squawking and asking for more continually with their mouths open, they need more privilege.

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How much privilege? The privilege to be able to have no accountability whatsoever for their actions. Now, I'm

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going to make a distinction between what her defense was trying to argue and what the people out there supporting her are

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trying to argue. But there are two different versions of the same thing.

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What her defense is trying to argue is that she should not be held accountable for her actions of murdering her own

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three children because she was temporarily insane. She fully admits and her defense fully admits that she

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committed these murders. They're just saying she should not be held responsible. Now, obviously, this is not the first time that defense has been

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used, but as far as I know, it's the first time there's been such a ground swell of support for someone using that

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defense. So, very briefly, let's go over that defense, what it actually intended to do. But we can see what the defense

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was by the fact that the prosecution almost completely lost their case because what were they doing? They were

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focusing on the facts. But what the defense was doing was making the following argument. They were saying to

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the jury and by extension to all women, you are a good person as a woman. This

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is something our society tries to teach women that they are inherently good. So they're playing off of that. They're saying as women, you are good people.

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Therefore, we're going to show you as much of this woman's life as we possibly

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can so that you identify with her so that you can see that she does the same

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things that you do. And since you identify with her and you're a good person, therefore she is a good person.

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And the argument made off of that is since she's a good person and good people don't do evil things, she did not

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commit this evil act which their end running around it saying even though she did, she was temporarily insane.

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Therefore, she's not responsible for it because it wasn't actually her. Now, that's the argument being made in court.

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But the argument when it reaches outside of court and starts to touch the other women who are identifying with her

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because of this argument are starting to say facts be damned. All the evidence be damned. All the investigations be

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damned. Even the sworn statements from Lindseay Clancy herself that she committed these murders be damned. None

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of that is real because she's a good person because we identify with her.

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Therefore, she could not have committed these murders at all. Even though the facts, the evidence, her own testimony

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contradict our belief. That's how powerful this argument actually is. But I want to focus on that one little bit.

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The fact of identifying that woman, Lindseay Clancy, with the other women on the jury and potential jurors, which are

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other members of the citizenry, so that they see her as a good person. It can be summed up in a statement which

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unfortunately I have even heard personally. It is the statement that her supporters are making saying just

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because she murdered her three children doesn't mean she's a bad mother. Doesn't mean that she was a bad mother. And I

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have heard this from people who are very conservative. People who think she should go to jail for the rest of her life or be in a looney bin for the rest

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of her life. They still can't get over that hurdle. They still think to themselves, I have heard them say, just because she murdered her three children

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doesn't mean she was a bad mother. Now, this is the insanity of our culture that I'm talking about. And this is the focal

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point of what I'm going to discuss as virtue and as this privilege that women are granted and other sections of the

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population are granted so that they can be vicious people. That is to say, full of vice. So, here's the thing. As

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European cultures, we are built upon Christian roots. And one of the fundamental axioms of Christianity is

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expressed within the sermon on the mount when Jesus says the following. He says, "Even so, every good tree bears good

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fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree

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that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. So, one of the ways within which our culture, European cultures have

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understood this part of the sermon on the mount is to compare what is being said through the lens of that last line.

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By their fruits, you will know them.

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which is to say by your actions people can determine your moral character. If your actions are evil, you have a

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vicious moral character. If your actions are good, you have a good moral character. And what is being talked

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about here is virtue and vice. If you meet a vicious person, a person full of

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vice, expect the fruits of their actions to be vicious. And contrary wise, if you

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meet a virtuous person, then you can expect the fruits of their actions to be virtuous and good. But again, what is

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virtue? Virtue is habit. You see, we as human beings are pattern recognizers.

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That's how we are able to build up our reason and think and create. We recognize patterns. And we not only

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recognize patterns, but we instill patterns in our own lives in order to get things done. And a good pattern of

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conduct is a virtuous pattern of conduct, which is to say, habits that build virtue. And again, contrary wise,

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a vicious pattern within your life, vicious habits within your life produce a vicious person and vicious outcomes.

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So with that in mind, think once again about that statement. That statement people are making that just because this

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woman murdered her three children doesn't mean she was a bad mother. Uh yeah, it does. Yeah, it does. Why?

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Because by their fruits, you will know them. This is a heinous evil act and it does not just pop up out of nowhere.

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First of all, the whole not guilty by reason of insanity is an insane thing.

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It's part of the problem. Some of the states, thank heavens, have started to change it to guilty by reason of

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insanity. That's at the very least the start. But yeah, this whole defense is insane because it demolishes this

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fundamental building block of not just our society built upon this notion of by their fruits you will know them, but

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also the very nature of human beings as pattern recognizers. If you are one of those people who are claiming that, oh,

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she murdered her three children, but that doesn't mean she was a bad mother.

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What you're saying is that even though a person can have the habits of virtue and be a good person throughout their life,

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something can happen to them to make them do the most heinous of acts out of the blue not connected to anything that

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has happened prior in their life. And in effect, you are saying that from a good tree, you can get evil fruit. and thus she should not be held responsible for

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that evil fruit because she's a good tree. This is the extension of the privilege that I was talking about at

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the first of this video. They want to well they have in certain sections of the population already, but they want to

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for this section of the population now divorce actions and consequences. And that's why this case is so much bigger

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in its cultural impact than the cases based upon the idea of temporary insanity that have come before it. There

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is now this ground swell of the normal citizenry taking the defense's argument and running even further with it to say,

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"No, no, no. Actions and consequences have nothing to do with each other.

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Patterns of behavior have nothing to do with each other. habits of virtue and vice and their outcomes have nothing to

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do with each other. And this is of course by logical extension, if you look at it, the death of any kind of morality within your culture. Because if you can

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practice virtue throughout your entire life and then commit the most heinous of evils, then what's the point? Why bother

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putting in that effort? Or if you can be a vicious person throughout your entire life and still be considered good, then

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what's the point? Why bother putting the effort in to have a good moral character? Or to put it in other terms,

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terms that they would use on the left, if reality is defined by how I think and

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more importantly by what I feel, then you cannot hold me responsible for anything I do. And honestly, this is the

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argument being made by these people on the internet who think that Lindsay Clancy did not actually commit the murders, even though all the evidence

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points exactly to that conclusion. Even though she herself, as the committer of that act, has confessed to doing so.

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None of that matters to them. Why? Because they don't feel that she did it.

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And their feelings define reality. It's not even the fact that they're ignoring all the evidence and the statements made by her and other people. It's not even the fact that they're ignoring science.

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It's the fact that these things don't even enter into the equation of this is how I feel, therefore what I feel defines reality. This is what is real.

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All right. So, I'm getting a little bit overcome by my passions at the moment.

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So, let me take a step back and look at it analytically before I go. Here's the point. We live in a civilization that is

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built upon reason. If you want to have a civilization, so-called that's built upon feeling, go off and have it

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yourself. Go off and try to build it yourself. That is your liberal castle in the clouds. But my point is that if we

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wish to preserve our civilization, we must look at this reasonably, something which the majority of the jurors on that

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trial simply could not do. And we have an opportunity to look at it reasonably because of this trial. And it strikes at

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the heart of one of the fundamental liberal lies, which is the blank slate lie. To say that people are born as a

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blank slate. I'm sorry. No, our civilization is built upon the idea that people are born broken. So the big lie

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built upon that big lie of the blank slate is that women are naturally good and they can be naturally good because

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they're born blank slates and as blank slates they act in a more moral way because they're women. We can point to

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this trial and say now no that's not the case. Women are not born moral creatures. They're not born a blank

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slate and automatically become moral creatures. That is simply a lie. And I'm not saying just point at Lindsay Clancy

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and say, "There's your evidence." No, no, no. Point at all of these people, especially the women who support her and

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have given her millions of dollars and who say things like, "Just because she murdered her three children doesn't mean

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she was a bad mother." From that in the armor, we can press the fact that from an evil tree comes evil fruit,

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which is a way to destroy the idea of temporary insanity. Or at the very least

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to destroy the idea that you can be innocent because of temporary insanity.

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Because the point is these women cannot connect in their minds the two contrary

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points of existence that a she's a woman which in their minds she's then an automatically good person and b she did

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these horrible horrific things. They of course want to hold on to the lie that all women are good which then justifies

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the fact that they themselves in their minds are good automatically naturally.

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But to destroy that myth is fairly simple at the very least in the minds of reasonable people. And that's who we need to appeal to, reasonable people.

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It's simply that from an evil tree comes evil fruit. This woman admits to doing this evil thing. And an evil thing of

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that magnitude does not just appear within someone's life. It is the product of an evil tree. That is to say, it is

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the product of vicious habit. It is vicious evil. There's a reason why I left my thumbnail as a background for

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this entire video. I want you to look at that face and equate it with vicious evil. What is vicious evil mean? Well,

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I'm looking at it logically, which is to say, this evil that she committed was a product of a vicious life, the product

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of being captured by vice. This is one of the things that used to explain human

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beings for our civilization. If you have a large act either of good or of evil, it's because you practice that act in

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small ways and then medium ways throughout your life and it led to this big way that is the habit of either

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virtue or vice. And in this case it is a habit of vice. She was a vicious person.

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She was riddled with vice. Her habits were to be a vicious person in small ways and then in medium ways. And thus

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it led to this large way because again there's a reason why that passage talks about evil as fruit coming from a tree.

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It is an organic thing that grows. It grows from a small seed. The roots go in the direction that we as human beings

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wish to spread them out. If you spread them out towards viciousness, towards evil, then you put down vicious roots

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and you grow an evil sapling and you grow evil branches and you grow evil fruit. This is the pattern of vice. Now that's where the reasonable mind goes.

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Problem is we're not surrounded by many reasonable minds. And most people, especially women, will not accept that line of thinking because they still wish

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to think of themselves as good people, as naturally good people again because they don't want to take responsibility for their actions. So let's take the

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second tack of the entire thing looking at it reasonably. Let's even admit, we'll give them the ground that okay,

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she did this because she was temporarily insane. She was not herself. That does not make things any better. It may even

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make things worse and she should not be allowed to go free in any way. Even if that means going to a hospital and eventually getting out. No, no, no. This

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should make things worse. Why? Because reasonably, if you look at it, you'll see that again according to the paradigm

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of virtue and vice, what is happening when someone is temporarily insane?

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Well, the old virtue system reasonably has a way of describing this and talking about it. A person in that situation has

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what is known as bound attention. It's when a passion like anger or fear is so intense that it completely absorbs the

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attention of the individual. They even talk about it in terms of it binds the soul's attention and what it does is it creates an intellectual paralysis.

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Whereas the mind is so focused on the emotional stimulus that it lacks the capacity to process facts or any kind of

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moral truth. But the point is this is talked about in terms of being bound.

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It's bound attention or fettered attention which is to say they are captured by it. And again the point is that from an evil tree comes evil fruit.

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How in the world can a person get to the point where they are so thoroughly captured by this bound attention? Well,

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it's because they have not spent their time building up their life in any kind of moral fashion. They have not spent

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their time binding their fear, binding their callousness, binding their brokenness so that when things like this

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happen, they themselves are not bound by it. Because again, the point is you're born broken. You have an inclination

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towards vice. You must fight against that so that you don't grow in a vicious direction. A person who is captured or

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fettered in this way has obviously not participated in the virtue necessary to keep their minds free when such

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emotional states come upon them. And if that is the case and is proven to be the case that they are thus temporarily

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insane, you should put them away in an even tighter cell, even if it's just a petted room. Because if it happened

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once, it can happen again because this person has not spent their life developing the conditions within

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themselves to stop it from happening again. So use reason to point this out.

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Whereas the other side is trying to push this trial and its outcome and its impact on our society to say no, no, no.

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This section of our population, women, need to be held even less accountable for their actions, which again is an extension of their privilege. No, we

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need to point out the obvious fact that I'm sorry. No, even if this is the case and she is temporarily insane, that

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means they must have more responsibility for their actions because evil fruit

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does not come from a good tree. And you can go one way or the other to try and argue it, but both arguments need to be

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made to destroy this idea that women are naturally good. Women are born naturally good or born as a blank slate and are

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inherently geared towards good and don't have to do anything to be good people besides just being. That is nonsense.

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And that notion must be destroyed. And it must be destroyed in simple ways.

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Simple ways like speaking to the people who are arguing with you about this in your normal life. The people who say, "Well, just because she murdered her

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children doesn't mean she was a bad mother." And say, "Hm, okay, perhaps she was temporarily insane. That means she

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had bound attention. That means she was swept away by her emotions so thoroughly that she's not responsible for her

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actions. But a if that's the case, then she should definitely go on a pat itself for the rest of her life minimum because

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it can happen again cuz she has no control over the situation. And if you're excusing it, then you yourself must be on the path to bound attention.

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You cannot overcome your emotions in order to see this clearly. You are bound by your emotions to say that she is

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innocent. Even though all of the evidence, all of the investigation, and even the statements of this woman herself point in the other direction,

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that means you as an individual, don't care if you're male or female, lose standing in my eye as a moral individual

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who will do the right thing either in small or large ways. And that means I have less trust for you. Your standing

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in our society at the very least in my eyes has fallen significantly. This must be hammered home. This must be pushed.

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This is the tactic to use to let people know that these liberal notions are

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nonsense. And far be it from trying to extend the female privilege to less accountability. Not only am I going to

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hold that woman who's on trial to a higher standard now, I'm going to hold you as a woman or a man to a higher

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standard now. And you now have to take more accountability for your actions. I will second guess every decision you

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make because I don't know whether or not you're an actual moral person. I don't know whether or not you're going to be

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bound by your emotions at any moment and make erratic, irrational, insane decisions. And I know that many of you

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have already encountered all of these points before and have seen it in our culture. But this again is a focal point

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where it will be, if allowed to flourish, enshrined in both law and medicine to an extent never seen before.

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This is the culture we live in today.

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This is the enemy that surrounds us. And the silver lining is this is the fatal

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flaw of this quote unquote progressive liberal mentality. It is not based on

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what is real. And your hope that we can turn around our civilization and get it back to sanity is grounded in the

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reality of our human reason, our human pattern recognition system that can

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implement virtue in your life so that you interact with reality as it is and

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can thus accomplish what you are trying to do. as opposed to the city in the clouds that these leftists are trying to

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continually build. Will it be easy to turn our culture around? No. Will it take sacrifice on the part of those who

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wish to turn it around? Yeah. Is it going to take a lot a lot of hard work?

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Absolutely. But that is why you need to take those virtues and extend them to their absolute maximum by being heroic.

Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and for the restoration of the Church.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

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Conclave Notes:

Has the Trad Media fallen into a COVID-like mass formation with Leo XVI? While it's humorous to see the former anti-Francis Trad pundits suddenly acting like teen age girls infatuated with Leo, it could lead to a Trojan Horse effect

It appears that a group of Bishops or Cardinals needs to give Leo XIV Dubia questions on if he still supports "Invalid and Sacrilegious" Confession

"Prevost’s reported support...allowing divorced & civilly 'remarried'...to receive Holy Communion": “Whoever…helps...promulgation of heresy…is suspected of heresy.” - The Catholic Monitor

-- Open letter urges Pope Leo XIV to correct ‘scandalous incoherence’ in Amoris Laetitia...[Wow! Even notorious Popesplainer Fr.] Harrison warns that Pope Francis taught a ‘dangerous self-contradiction’ on Communion for the divorced and ‘remarried,’ petitioning Pope Leo to correct the record. [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/08/open-letter-urges-pope-leo-xiv-to.html]

-- Dr. Seifert, regarded as one of the greatest living Catholic philosophers, founding Rector of the International Academy of Philosopher & friend of John Paul II, to Cardinals: INVESTIGATE FRANCIS' HERESIES, VALIDITY BEFORE THE CONCLAVE.."If Francis is found guilty of heresy or apostasy, then: - His cardinal appointments would be invalid" [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/dr-seifert-philosopher-personal-friend.html]

-- Are the Cardinals who will participate in the upcoming conclave authentically appointed & morally justified in voting, or will the shadow of Francis's possible illegitimacy cast itself over the next papacy? [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/are-cardinals-who-will-participate-in.html]

-- 5 Dubia Questions for 1P5's Steve Skojec & All faithful Catholics especially Francis is definitely Pope Cardinals, Bishops & pundits [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/06/5-dubia-questions-for-steve-skojec.html]

Francis Notes:

l– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html

– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes:

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the [J6] DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.

Pray an Our Father now for America.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020

10:01pm November 3, 2020, a hour which will live in infamy, the United States of America presidential electoral integrity was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the forces of the Democrat Machine and some corrupt collaborators within the Republican Party. It will be recorded that "under the pretense of COVID, executive branch officials across a number of key battleground states violated election procedures passed by the legislative branches of those states in a number of ways that opened up the process to fraud on a massive scale, never before seen in the history of this country" which makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks before. During the time before and after the attack the Democrat Machine and its corrupt collaborators in the Media have deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace. The attack on United States has caused severe damage to the Ameri...

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