gladius_veritatis said:Trying to amalgamate all people is, in a way, like unto the commie insanity of trying to pretend society can ever be completely level in every sense. It is contrary to reason and nature and, therefore, doomed to failure (and pursuing the chimera involves a heavy price).
I agree. The attitude to mixed-race marriages on Catholic Answers is less tolerant than openly celebratory, to the point where people who wanted to marry
inside their race might be made to feel "racist." That is how extreme this has gotten. It's almost like there is cachet involved in mixed-race marriages. The farther outside your race you go, the more open-minded you are and the more everyone has the warm fuzzies and holds hands and sings Kumbaya, all under the aegis of Joseph Ratzinger.
Maybe I am drawing a connection that isn't there, but a religious, spiritual and cultural dumbing-down strikes me as one possible -- and in our time, actual -- result of this glorification of the melting pot. On Catholic Answers some of the vocal champions of mixed marriages also were extremely religiously tolerant, to the point of heretical. One woman said she likes to go to service at ѕуηαgσgυєs and no one said anything. "Racist" attitudes extending even to mild disapproval of certain interracial marriages were treated as archaic, and those who were not completely airy-fairy zippity-doo-dah about interracial marriages were compared to people who "still" believe there is a "Jєωιѕн problem." The effect is extremely redolent of a complete brainwashing. While the Church has never forbidden interracial marriages, many Catholics were against them. The Spanish did foresee the dangers of Europeans intermingling carelessly with Native Americans although this was basically inevitable.
Is there a kind of Montezuma's revenge going on here, are the natives getting a leg up on the Catholic colonizers by slowly turning them back around to paganism? When you look at America today, one word comes to mind -- TRIBAL. The tattoos and earrings and racial intermixing and melange of various world-musics has the stench of paganism. Christ talks about the Second Coming as occurring at a time when the Earth is tribal -- "The tribes of the Earth shall mourn." I don't think I'm going out on much of a limb here by saying that I see what He is talking about shaping up. Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto, though purportedly about the Mayan civilization, is undoubtedly really about the U.S., where people are frozen by human sacrifice as spectacle ( 9/11 ) and living like Indians ( too bad I can't recommend it due to nudity ).
That brings up another question -- Is there a connection between racial dilution and religious dilution? Is this part of the reason why the world went along so easily with Vatican II? Look how the South American Catholics, many of whom are mixed, instantly embraced liberation theology, mingling Che Guevara with Christ. I also would hazard that a white person married to a Mexican will be less inclined to resist some kind of quasi-voodoo, quasi-pagan and/or party Mass, like one sees in certain Mexican-centered chapels involved with Vatican II.
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Sorry, but there are more problems here than the politically correct view would have it. The world is degenerating horribly. Look around you.
Yes, there are mixed-race couples in the trad world. I'm talking generally, not specifically. Is this really a good thing
in general to be carelessly diluting the races? If the whole world became "yellow" would it be spiritually and intellectually improved or the opposite? There is nothing in theory that says interracial Catholic marriages are doomed to failure. But which way will the kids go growing up in this environment? Do you really think they're going to become more traditional, or more "modern"? Is it really the best thing for the Catholic Church to add more fuel to what looks to be a great conflagration in the making? If this keeps up, the faith will be even more unrecognizable in a couple of generations, to the point where Anti-Christ may be ready to take his bow.
On the one hand, obviously there has been race-mixing in Italy because the Italians are dark-skinned now. They don't look like the ancient Romans. It didn't stop them from being Catholic. On the other hand, why did God break up the Tower of Babel if he wanted everyone to socially and sɛҳuąƖly combine in a nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr? Maybe my problem is not primarily interracial marriages in themselves but interracial marriages in the context of Americanism/Vatican II and how it supports the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr. Was it really part of God's design to mix Asians from the Far East, Africans from the heart of the dark continent, whites from Europe, the most far-flung kinds of peoples, all together under the supervision of the Freemasons and Jєωs? I doubt it, though He permitted it to happen.
I think a certain reactionary attitude is downright necessary in the face of all this, even if interracial marriages are intrinsically neutral in themselves, neither good nor bad. There is a sociopolitical element here that is rife with danger. In certain interracial marriages with someone of a pagan background, these days you have to wonder, is the pagan being Catholicized or the Catholic being paganized?