H. W. Crocker III, an author whose naughty sense of humor I naughtily approve, has given us another gift, this one apparently well in time for Halloween, even though this reporting is somewhat after the fact. In "
How to Scare a Liberal to Death" (NRO, October 26, 2011), he offers several juicy suggestions about possible costumes to don for trick-or-treating in neighborhoods infested with blithely smug political liberals:
Nothing offends liberals more than colonialism. It is, in their eyes, racism, sexism, and chauvinism all in one; it is the forcible imposition of Christianity and capitalism; it is the epitome of Western triumphalism. It is everything that leftists profess to hate.
So, what better costumes to don for Halloween than those of great British imperialists throughout the centuries? ...
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Vatican II was an embrace of the modern world by our impossibly callow Church leaders. Within a decade or two, our Church leaders were beginning to awaken to the fact that the modern world was not the latent earthly paradise they had imagined, but was in reality a cesspool of atheistic secularism. At that point, secularism became the enemy, and the strategy was to fashion an alliance of theists of all stripes against secularist non-believers. That is the reason for these maypole dances with pagans. The fact that many of these pagans are torturing and killing Christians in their home countries does not seem to register with the Catholic leaders who run these Assisian happenings.
In 1969 our leaders protestantized the Mass to attract protestants into a kind of pan-Church of Jesus; in the eighties they concocted Assisi good vibration gatherings to attract pagans into a kind of pan-Church of God. As political strategists, our Church leaders are worthy of comparison to Captain Crunch.
All Catholics should pray that God will favor His Church with leaders who are content to be Catholic.
This summation is disconcertingly on target. Read all but he most progressive of writers from V2 times, and you will sense they intuitively hold to some sort of exclusivism involving Jesus. It was the accepted party line. Try reading 1950s copies of America, if you want a real sense of culture shock. Today, when Dominus Ieus is released, the party line is such that the caterwauls are everywhere. No wonder it is so hard to argue that Church doctrine does not change. "Just where do you draw the line," you get asked. Pope Benedict has helped, and as Evangelicals gradually slip, I pray he so continues. But it is awkward at best.
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