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No silver bullet.
I'm Michael Voris — and yes, we are still moving things around and so forth, prepping for the new year and increased work, not only in actual amount, but also intensity.
We here at Church Militant routinely think in terms of the big picture. And big-picture thinking is actually extremely Catholic. What's the big picture? The big, big picture, after all? Well, salvation or damnation. That's it. All the rest is detail.
But it is precisely in the details where salvation or damnation are locked in for each individual soul. So the details matter — not on their own, but in relation to the big picture. In fact, the big picture is precisely the big picture because it is the sum of all the details.
So what are the details the faithful need to be concerned with? The nexus between the heresy of modernism (which has destroyed the unity and mission of the Catholic Church, among her leaders) and Marxism (which, as Our Lady foretold at Fatima, would spread throughout the earth).
It has taken a little more than a hundred years for the world to reach its current condition.
While Karl Marx and his colleague (Friedrich Engels) committed their poison to paper in the pages of the Communist Manifesto in 1848, Marx was already well on his way to excoriating religion. He understood that, in the world he sought to overthrow, religion served a purpose of soothing the oppressed. That thought is what lay behind his often-quoted line, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
While he expressed why religion was needed to provide some measure of comfort in the current state of affairs, he also railed against it as being a block, a diversion, an illusion, a preventative from sweeping away the old order and establishing a new communist world. As long as people thought about the things of eternity, they would be at least somewhat content and not pour everything of themselves into bringing about what he saw as the much-needed revolution.
In short, belief in Heaven diverts attention from the temporal world. Said differently, since "there is only this life" (and Heaven is an illusion), a person's existence must be focused entirely on this life.
Well, that's certainly how the power-hungry tyrants of the modern day see things — and they act accordingly.
So that's Marxism. For the moment, let's put all that over there on the politics shelf.
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