An excerpt from the First Reading of the Mass for Friday after Ash Wednesday:

Isaiah 58:1

Thus says the Lord GOD:

Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,

lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;

Tell my people their wickedness,

and the house of Jacob their sins.

OK! So I will! 

We are a culture that prides itself on paganism and creeping Satanism. We contracept and when that doesn’t work, abort our young. This is nothing more than a demonic opposition to the will of God regarding life. God is the Author of Life. Satan cannot create so he thwarts God’s will in this and too many people are only too willing to cooperate, using euphemisms like ‘population control,’ ‘economic necessity,’ ‘women’s  rights,’ and the Orwellian phrase ‘reproductive rights.’ 

And literal Satanism. Satan-worship is going mainstream. 

We objectify people. People are cogs in the economic realities. Capitalism or socialism, it doesn’t matter; both are two sides of the same coin: the concentration of economic power into the hands of a few. And the workers are screwed. “The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” 

Institutions dehumanize. Technology dehumanizes. The world is increasingly devoid of humanity. I’m not talking about the species, but rather the humane treatment of others. It goes back to contraception and abortion: if we can decide who lives and dies, if we can kill babies in the womb, then there’s nothing stopping from that inhumane perspective from seeping into how we consider those living around us. We are desensitized to the humanity of the people we see every day. The are objects, not persons.

And don’t talk to me about the increasingly messianistic worship of politicians, from Obama, to Trump, with this phenomenon existing in other countries. It’s isn’t new, either. 

I’ve given you enough to go on; I’m sure you can come up with stuff I missed. 

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