Fr Robert McTeigue, SJ
A Brief past of Our Destruction
I don't like where we're going. We're moving out of goods that we could throw distant or destroy. We're almost at a point where there's no turning back.
When was the last time anyone gave you an embarrassing compliment? How did you react? And how would you respond to specified – “Homilies of the father truly stand out – have a beginning, improvement and ending!”?
What do you think my caller meant? possibly he referred to any kind of public speaking (which I would not call the “voice of the Word”) which illustrates the method “start, continue, stop”. The speech begins and yet ends, but it leads nowhere. It is not a full and is not a tool for a better knowing of anything.
I can imagine that many times erstwhile we witnessed another specified message from the pulpit, we thought, “Well, it was pointless—but at least it didn’t last besides long!”
Can we usage the “start, continue, stop” method and apply it to human history? It can be said that the past of humanity has begun, continues, and will yet end. So can we summarize it as he did Ernest Nagelwho described the past of humanity as ‘episode between 2 forgotten’?
These are crucial and deep questions that I have dealt with elsewhere, especially in my books and lectures. Here I want to focus on a peculiar time and trend in human history, i.e. on a progressive direction towards destruction.
Below I will draw the way followed by the past of humanity. I don't like where we're going. We're moving out of goods that we could throw distant or destroy. We're almost at a point where there's no turning back. I am reasoning of ominous signs pointing to the upcoming toll road section – "Last exit before goal". We request to turn on the direction indicator and get to the exit while there's inactive time. We can't afford to make a mistake.
Consider events on the following timeline:
– 1517: Marcin Luther rejects the Church.
– 1789: The French Revolution rejects Christ.
– 19th Century: Darwin and Marks reject the Creator.
– The 1960s: Sexual revolution – separation of sex from fertility, sex ceases to be an attribute primarily of marriage, there is simply a regulation or exclusion of fertility in marriage. The sexual revolution denies human nature in its physical, spiritual and social dimension.
This timeline represents a progressive departure from divinity and humanity, which I describe as a process of gradual destruction. This dynamics, already far-reaching, is beginning to expand. The past and the future must be eradicated.
So we see:
– 1970s: expanding the cult of abortion as a consequence of the cult of contraception. Where the future cannot be cancelled (by contraception), it must be killed (abortion).
– the first decade of the 21st century: the past as an enemy – cultural amnesia is caused by various methods, including revisionist narratives, a "re-image" of historical events, and late the removal of monuments, names, symbols, and even corpses.
– the second decade of the 21st century: redo and erase the unit. A unit (holy in Christianity; but a part of the indistinguishable mass in Marxism) cut off from the past, the future, and the fellows, is left with nothing but discontent and discontent with themselves. The isolated unit rejects itself as being in "inappropriate body" (transgenicism) or ‘inappropriate species’ (Different in the word transspecies, individual who identifies himself as a species ‘other related’ or simply as a ‘furry’, i.e. a typical of a species another than man). An unsatisfied and dissatisfied individual may besides reject the limitations of the body and mind, and consequently, advocate transhumanism, with a unit "strongened" of different technologies in the human device hybrid.
– 20th century: narcissistic cannibalism – a dissatisfied and dissatisfied individual obsessed with himself begins to deficiency something that she could reject, change or destroy. Trapped in a grip of angry and insatiable disappointment, her empty ego demands further demolition of existing realities – absolute and irrevocable. So now we see a narcissistic individual entering something like cannibalism. What is associated with a failed human task must be absorbed by an empty and uncontested ego of the individual.
The narcissistic cannibal, locked in an unbearable present, directs his voracious rage toward the past and the future. We see this rejection of the past. in support of human body possession. The human body and all that it represents can be broken up into components, and then absorbed by the hungry living. At the same time, we are urged to cannibalize our future By bringing our children to the level of sexual consumer goods in ideas to normalize pedophilia.
Human Rejection of God and Man, demolition and even simply annihilation of the past and the future – all of this leads to the nihilistic dynamics of events, indicated above, this method "start, continue, stop". From this point of view, there cannot be a appropriate beginning, a mediate and an end to human history. For it leads nowhere and means nothing. It just stops erstwhile there's nothing left to eliminate.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth mocks human life as “a tale of an idiot, told with screaming and fury and meaningless”. Is this not a poetic summary of human life as a "episode between 2 forgetfulnesss"—a communicative that leads nowhere? This 500-year communicative of narcissistic nihilism, ended in yet universal cannibalism, is a perverse reversal of the church's "Fiat" (Lk 1,38) and its "Nunc dimittis" (Lk 2,29)—that is simply a complete rejection of God's gift and promise. People can tell this story, but it is written by the spirit, Satan.
Fr Robert McTeigue, SJ
crowd. Adam Laughter
Original — ‘Crisis Magazine’ – https://www.crissmagazine.com/opinion/a-brief-history-of-our-annihilation
The photograph comes from the website “Crisis Magazine”
Fr Robert McTeigue, SJ is simply a associate of the state of the east Society of Jesus in the United States. A prof. of doctrine and theology, he taught worldwide, known for conducting classes in both rhetoric and medical ethics. He is simply a associate of the National Ethics Commission of the Catholic Medical Society. He wrote among others. I Have individual to Tell You: A Jesuit Heralds the Gospel, Real doctrine for Real People: Tools for Truthful Living and Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era. He is the host and maker of the “The Catholic Current” program implemented on The Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network.