It really is a test to Faith, that so many Catholics could be so petty and cruel to each other, especially among those groups that claim to be serious about their beliefs.
This site has, among its membership, a number of agents provocateur. Their aim is to pose as Traditional Catholics and then discredit the movement by making ridiculous, bigoted and outlandish statements that fly in the face of Catholic teaching. That Matthew tolerates this, week after week, is a real shame. Whose side is he on?
From reading the posts on this forum for some months now, I have come to realize that there are some extremely bright people here who know exactly what is going on in the Catholic Church and have a fair idea how to solve the crisis, yet if I imagine myself to be a regular Catholic trying to learn about Tradition, I would say this website is like a mad-house with the likes of Tele, and that fish-face mason with his masonic avatar (how ignorant you all must be!), and several others who love to throw spanner after spanner in the works.
How many threads have been ruined by a deliberate twisting and spinning of the narrative to focus on the chip on Telesphorus' shoulder, or some kind of man vs. woman debate, or some brain-numbing exaggeration of the Jєωιѕн problem? How many nauseating comments about the totally irrelevant faults of Hispanics or Blacks? These are valid topics but obviously in the current climate (as Bishop Williamson has discovered) it is nearly impossible for English speakers to discuss calmly because most people are all so brainwashed, so far gone that they require formal deprogramming before they are even able to read to the end of a sentence about such a topic before interjecting.
This is so true. What else can one do. I mean, it's a double edged sword Matthew's style is very hands off- and we can love the site for it, and sometimes hate it.
The benefits are that people are able to post things they can't say elsewhere; ie the Krahgate, discussing the issues Felay may be dealing with, SSG and their issues, everything. You have non-sede's and sede's interacting here; I never would have been exposed to Hobbledehoy, a sede, without this forum; the library is filled with amazing uploads of spiritual works. Jitspring is an FSSP goer who can, and has, given much advice on books that are good on this, or that subject; LordPhan is an SSPXer, who doesn't just play the party line and backs his opinion with uploads of cannon law (which I find useful). Where else would all these resources be able to come together in one place?
However, the drawback with being laissez faire is you get personalities like Telesphorous, who are very intelligent but prideful fellows; a mirror of the devil, Luther- anyone with a brain and no Charity. You get admitted postsmoking sirites like roscoe who admit to loving Beetles music and live in Texas (talk about an oxymoron). People like the recently banned JohnChrysostom fellow who are pride filled a-holes who were only banned because they 'crossed that line' which is very fine. You can find that they are seemingly void of the spiritual life, and everything they say is calculated; nothing is said without pushing an idea (agenda) they have that is ongoing.
They are unbalanced, and some of them, and these are the ones I try to confront, push, or try to push, their unbalanced views on others.
Topic: Lack of charity among Catholics (Read 2633 times)