The Sisters of Perpetual Hate

 

The current controversy over the LA Dodgers officially honouring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at their Pride Night illustrates the folly of the “turn the other cheek” approach for Christians, in most circumstances. This is probably the favorite Biblical passage among non-Christians: for to them, it means “Christians, shut up.”

It properly refers to a situation in which one is powerless; where resistance would be futile, or not worth the risk. Elsewhere, Jesus tells his disciples to buy knives. In such a situation, when one faces overwhelming force, the best strategy is to try to shame the aggressor. It worked for Gandhi, or O’Connell, or MLK.

It does not apply to transgender hate groups.

Keeping silent about transgenderism does no good. For the Catholic Church always has, and it makes no difference. The Catholic Catechism has no position on crossdressing. Crossdressing is firmly established in Filipino culture, and the Philippines is perhaps the most Catholic country on Earth. No, a man is not a woman. But that is not a moral issue: it is an issue of basic sanity.

Nevertheless, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, as their name implies, categorically hate the Catholic Church as their prime enemy, and want to attack it in any way possible. They mock Christ on the cross; they show up to protest any important Christian events. They claim it is because the Catholic Church shames or attacks them; yet it does not.

For that matter, the Catholic Church has never had a special problem with homosexuality. Yes, it is a sin. But so on the same grounds i heterosexual sex outside of marriage, masturbation, and use of artificial birth control. Since these apply to both homosexuals and heterosexuals, one cannot plausibly accuse the Church of being “homophobic.” A significant proportion of Catholic clergy are said to be homosexual in their sexual inclinations, and prominent homosexuals have often found their spiritual home in the Church: Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Evelyn Waugh, Andy Warhol, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.H. Auden, Milo Yiannopolis. One must simply abstain from sex, just as the heteros, most often, must.

So refusing to condemn apparently does not staunch anti-Catholic hatred. And it obviously does nothing to reduce the incidence of homosexuality or cross-dressing, if that were the goal. It also transparently does nothing to make either homosexuals or cross-dressers feel better about themselves. Instead, the silence of the Catholic Church and of Catholics seems to encourage this anti-Catholicism—like not standing up to a bully. Compare the attitude of Islam, and note how many groups have formed to mock and protest Islam the way the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence mock and protest Catholicism.

The Sisters and their ilk hate Catholicism because they claim Catholicism makes them feel guilty. If they could simply stamp out Catholicism, they could be happy. But it will never work, because it is demonstrably not the Catholic Church, but their own conscience, that is causing these guilt feelings. So long as they refuse to accept the real source of these feelings, the feelings of guilt will get stronger and stronger. And so they will become more and more hostile to their scapegoat, Christians and Catholics, and perhaps more and more violent. If they could only, like the Tennessee school shooter, kill all the Christians…

The only way for the Church to counter this is to stand up and defend itself. It must not turn the other cheek in a case like this.

Effeminate Thugs

 

In and of itself, there is nothing wrong with cross-dressing. But if the intent is to deceive, to present a man as a woman, or a woman as a man, that is a lie.

So much for the “transgender” movement. As opposed to the fairly harmless quirk of cross-dressing known in several cultures.

Conservative commentators suggest that cross-dressing is a “sexual fetish.” It may be that; or it may be that the issue is not sex, so much as self-love, expressed in sexual terms. To pretend to be the opposite sex sounds auto-erotic. It is like ouroborus, the cosmic serpent devouring its own tail.

Which is an image of the perfectly narcissistic self.

The desire to parade before children, which the transgender seem to have declared a non-negotiable right, sounds too like narcissism. Narcissists, seeing themselves as godlike, assume the power to determine reality, and then to impose it on others. This is why the narcissist loves to lie, to “gaslight”: it is mind control. For this, children are the easiest, most vulnerable victims. They must be forced to accept whatever “reality” the narcissist decides to impose on them, and in particular they must accept the authority of the narcissist against their own perceptions or any rival norms. This assures the narcissist of a godlike control. They need this for self-validation, since they identify themselves as gods; otherwise they are being “erased.” Just as the ancient Olympians required regular worship.

But of course, children are not enough. Sooner or later, everyone else must also be put under narcissistic control. One demands, for example, the right to declare one’s own pronouns. Everyone must then use them. If you say you are a woman, everyone else must be forced to verbally assent.

But this can never be the end of one’s demands.

And one becomes violent. Violence is another weapon of control, an expression of dominance. One shouts down. That feels good. One threatens, one holds captive. One grabs a gun and shoots up schools or churches. All must obey.

And then, if we are not alert, brave, and lucky, these stormtroopers take over, and the business of killing achieves industrial scale.

The picture above, by the way, is often interpreted as a depiction of Uranus; but it does not fit the myth in several ways. Although alluding to the Greek myths, what I think it is instead is a depiction all in one panel of the various expressions of the greater spirit of narcissism to which the various Greek myths of Uranus, Cronus, and Aphrodite refer. Devouring one’s children, centre; betraying one’s parents, right. Self-adulation and auto-eroticism, left. And behind the devouring parent, behind all, the spirit that animates, the ouroboros. The instinctive reptile mind that believes it contains all things, and eternally devours.