I never thought about that, Catholic Samurai, but you're absolutely right. "Don't tread on me" and a snake... WOW! That is literally a defiant boast in the face of the Virgin Mary, since there is enmity between the seed of the woman -- Christ -- and the seed of the serpent. The serpent was saying to the Virgin, "It's my time now," and the serpent was right. He has done and he has prospered to an extent that is unbelievable.
As people who read this site probably know, I have a deep loathing for this country, and even before becoming Catholic could feel the evil under the once-shiny surface, which is now coming apart at the seams. It took all of my intestinal fortitude to attend Mass at the patriotic CMRI because of stuff like this:
When I see that flag, it's like seeing a hammer and sickle. There is nothing positive about it for me.
The truth about this country, obviously, is hidden from the sedevacantist pulpits, when it should be screamed to the skies.
That in itself should make people wonder -- that, along with all the heresies...
I'm telling you, America is Mystery Babylon. Why "Mystery"? Well, think of the first Babylon. The Jєωs, the chosen people, were in exile, in mourning, yearning to go back home, Super Flumina Babylonis and all of that.
Now, look at how everything is reversed as if in a dark mirror. The Jєωs, once the chosen people, now the children of the devil, preside over a new Babylon, Mystery Babylon. The new chosen people, the Catholics, however, far from lamenting their exile under an even more viciously nasty, subtle and terrible overlord than Nebuchadnezzar ever was, WORSHIP this Satanic creation, wave the flag around, and act like it's the greatest country that has ever been.
In so doing they claim to serve God while actually serving the devil whose aims are carried out through America, the strongarm of the Jєωs, now about to be discarded since we've served our purpose. For proof, Americans worshipped Cardinal Gibbons who not only approved of separation of Church and state for our country, but wanted to make it a rule for the whole world, proposing very early what we now know as the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr or universal American system. It is no coincidence -- nothing is -- that this man also promoted the heretical Baltimore Catechism, taught by our pals at SSPX and CMRI!!! O GLORIOUS DAY!
What is the
Mystery of this new Babylon? The Mystery is that almost no one spoke about this Babylon as Babylon. It is a mystery in the sense that its true nature was hushed up, kept silent, held under wraps. Very few cared to peek behind the curtain and see who was really running the show. The Catholics that should have lived here mournfully, singing the psalm Super Flumina Americanis -- I don't know much Latin yet, sorry -- would often take the side of this Jєωιѕн abomination over a Catholic country like Spain. Of course, there were good Catholics here, who knew what was going on, or so I like to think. But they were not the majority nor in the ascendant.
The 20th century was the worst because of the Cold War, as openly communist Russia gave prideful Americans even more of an excuse to close their eyes to their own reality. Fatima seems to have played into this; that's one of the reasons why I suspect it. There are better reasons to suspect Fatima, though, besides the almost endless contradictions in the story. How about the "angel" who gave the children the Eucharist? Last night I was reading St. Thomas and he explicitly says this can never be done. Angels cannot serve as priests.
But Fatima is for another thread.