Victorian thinkers may not have been AS wrong, but wrong is wrong, we need to think with the Church, not cherry-pick among atheist or Protestant thinkers. Even if Catholic priests are wrong about certain things, as many American priests were, it should be kept in mind.
What disturbs me about both Victorians, and about even certain priests of the last two centuries, is a blindness about where the Industrial Revolution was heading, a sort of "steampunk" optimism about technology and so-called progress, when they should have been counselling people, in my opinion, to not try to keep up with the Joneses, to have a more extreme reaction against the modern world, as trads do now with home-schooling.... This should have been taught LONG ago.
I have a book from the 40's or so where one priest says "To live like a human being these days, you have to borrow money." Nice apologia for Jєωιѕн usury there! Why not say "Catholics shouldn't worry about being as rich as the immoral and godless hordes who they will have to work with, they should learn to content themselves with much less and not be as materialistic, in order to preserve their souls." All this is very disturbing, because after the French Revolution it was clear that a Satanic kingdom was being built. Masonic influence clearly got into the priesthood. I'm not talking about Masonic infiltrators, I mean the ideology, in some ways, affected even good priests, in that they were seduced, so to speak, by modernity, when they should have been more reactionary.
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