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Cardinal Newman Catechist
Consultants — 2nd May, 2017 — HANDOUTS n. 145
“Clear, brief and easily assimilated by all”
Change Agents, Duped Mutants, Warm Fuzzies
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some false ideologies from The DEVIL, the Deceiver, and
Father of Lies
Christ’s
Hard-headed clarity &
Warm-hearted charity call all to repent & believe
THE WARM FUZZY
Warm Fuzzy means warm feelings &
fuzzy thinking:
·
The
warm feelings are gushy emotionalism and the
ego-philosophy of self-esteem and self-fulfilment.
·
The
fuzzy thinking is muddled minds spreading doctrinal
confusion, doubt, error and dissidence.
In
the 1970s, the Warm Fuzzies bred like rabbits:-
·
They
wrecked catechetics: Christian ‘praxis’, no doctrine but
only life-situational catechesis and discovery method.
·
They
wrecked the liturgy: abandoned the Sense of the Sacred,
also rubrics and imposed their own ‘relevance’.
·
They
wrecked morality: situation ethics with dilemma
situations and ignoring Judaeo-Christian commandments.
·
They
wrecked spirituality with a self-centred ego-philosophy
of self-fulfilment laid on with pop-psychology.
Meanwhile,
under cover of the warm fuzzies, there were much more sinister
developments...
THE DUPED MUTANT
Duped
mutants manipulate a victim’s values without victim or themselves
being aware of it. As will be seen, both are victims of
the Change Agents.
·
Mutants by genetic engineering.
·
Duped, programmed to be carriers of lethal diseases.
·
Usually
already warm fuzzies, with similar outlooks.
Semi-Trendies
Semi-Trendies
are a chameleon facet of the Duped Mutants. They run with the hare and
hunt with the hounds. They claim to be orthodox in faith & morals,
but always uphold the right of the Trendies to hold dissident
views contrary to the Magisterium. Thus they pave the way and assist the
Trendies to operate.
They
strongly resent, and become angry at any challenge to the orthodoxy of
the Trendies — polarizing they called it in the 1970s, divisive
in the 1980s. By the 1990s, they held an Anglican-style comprehensiveness—“it’s
a big Church” — or perchance they no longer bothered with verbal
ju-jitsu because they had become senior ecclesiastics misusing their
authority to defend their friends, the Trendies.
They
are like subliminal advertising for salacious goods. School teachers and
even priests and bishops are targeted by Change Agents to programme them
as Semi-Trendies.
Their
philosophy and psychology are dubious and tending towards secular
humanism. They have been reprogrammed to use classroom techniques and
texts directed to that end.
THE CHANGE AGENT
Change agents manipulate a victim’s values with victims
unaware of it BUT fully aware themselves.
Government
and Catholic schools suffer from both Duped Mutants and Change Agents.
They use the Evolution Hypothesis, Personal Development, Sex
(mis)Education, and now the so-called Safe Schools
Coalition with its Role Play and humiliation
to make the pupils into secular humanists without God or
morality. The evidence is everywhere.
A Secular Humanist is usually an atheist or at least an agnostic. Some
follow the psychiatry of Jung and hold that religious beliefs are not
objectively true but may be useful illusions for a neurotic or a crutch
for cripples.
Their
agenda is furthered by teaching methods which do not directly impart
ideas but insinuate falsehoods. They re-program the minds of
then students with ideas, ideals and attitudes which have not been
weighed by conscience in its interaction of intellect with his will, but
persuade his feelings.
Trendies
The
Trendies are simply religious Change Agents. They surfaced in Australia
in the early 1970s as the descendants of the Modernists Their message and
methods were analyzed and condemned by St. Pius X in 1907 in Pascendi.
He accurately described today’s Trendies: they often appear uncertain,
even contradict themselves and speak ambiguously. These are tactics for
insinuating a new doctrine or raising the doubt on an old one. If
challenged, the Trendies can usually step sideways and quote something
else they said or wrote: “What I really meant was...” — or like a
cricketer getting his bat inside the crease when in danger of being run
out.
The
term Modernist emphasizes their psychological motivation, their
craving to be accepted by other ‘scholars’. But the term also denotes the
content, or rather, lack of content, in their message, for it is largely
a rejection of what Catholics have always been bound to believe. There
are few affirmations in the Trendy/Modernist creed: it mainly lists their
disbeliefs. They are relativists and nihilistic.
Philosophically,
their loyalty is not to the truth but rather to a political correctness
of the cognoscenti, their fellow “enlightened” thinkers. They
make popularity a Christian virtue, but not popularity with the despised
common people, only with their fellow Trendies.
Some
Dogmatic Theologians began to cast doubt upon, or openly deny miracles.
The Resurrection of Christ was redefined: “His physical remains which
were placed in the tomb were not involved in His Resurrection —
his bones may still be lying around Palestine.” This links with a similar
denial of the virginity of His Mother in conceiving Him.
Some
Moral Theologians are relativists, too in their worldly disregard for
objective morality, the Ten Commandments from God, and the Theology of
the Body. They reject Humanae Vitae, ignore the Catechism of
the Catholic Church and Veritatis Splendor on Church
authority to teach morals.
Trendies have the itching ears
syndrome:- For the time will come when people
will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will
accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will
turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
STRATEGY of the Trendies and
Semi-Trendies
Their
strategy is a reductionist religion to please modernity, vainly hoping to
win converts. Resistance to them is now strong and
better organized, as the New Evangelization takes hold, the real Good
News. TACTICS used by Trendies and Semi-Trendies
- A general tactic is the misuse
of group dynamics. In itself, Group Dynamics is
simply a fact of human interaction. Yet it can be used as a
manipulative technique, to engender error and promote sin.
“Facilitators”
in 2017 continue to be manipulators, in universities and
seminaries; in State, Catholic and private schools; in special courses
and lectures; and particularly when breaking up into small discussion
groups with leaders well-trained as Duped Mutants.
A
group facilitator, or the lecturer, exploits the fear of being
thought different, to tempt the orthodox to abandon their
beliefs: “Of course, no one believes that anymore,” and looks
around scornfully to intimidate any protest. He dismisses as childish,
and suited only “to immature pre-scientific minds of the Middle Ages”,
such revealed realities as angels, original and actual sin, Hell,
transubstantiation, etc. All are subtly or openly dismissed: human
respect is a potent weapon.
Even
when the orthodox are in the majority, they can be fooled into thinking
the rest of the audience are not, that all are modem unbelieving
‘Catholics’.
2.
Ridicule
is poured on those supposedly crippled by bigotry and old-fashioned
beliefs: “You’re insecure about change, aren’t you?” Counter it by
contrary rhetoric: “You’re insecure with revealed religion,
aren’t you?” Challenge a question with your own question!
- Or proceedings open with a declaration that no one may
contradict anything said by anyone else. This clears the way for the
Change Agents and Duped Mutants to attack, ridicule or weaken “what
we used to believe”, in favour of the enlightened majority riding a
newchurch wave — and heading for a dumper.
- A false dichotomy is alleged between pre-Vatican II and
post-Vatican II, by slipping in caricatures: “We used to think
Baptism took away original sin but now we know it’s a celebration of
local community...”
NEWMAN ON THE TRENDIES
In 1879 Leo XIII made Blessed John
Henry Newman a cardinal, and in his official speech, Newman said:
“...to
one great mischief I have from the first opposed myself. For thirty,
forty, fifty years [i.e. back in his Anglican days] I have resisted to
the best of my powers the spirit of Liberalism in religion. Never did
Holy Church need champions against it more sorely than now, when alas, it
is an error overspreading, as a snare, the whole earth...” Hence:-
“Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth
in religion but that one creed is as good as another... It is
inconsistent with any recognition of any religion as true. It teaches
that all are to be tolerated, for all are matters of opinion. Revealed
religion is not a truth but a sentiment and a taste and it is the right
of each individual to make it say just what strikes his fancy...”
The 9-point ORTHODOXY RATING SCALE
1.
Orthodox
and will fight for it.
2.
Orthodox
and no more that passively supportive.
3.
Orthodox
but silent.
4.
Mixed
up, but more or less orthodox.
5.
Orthodoxy
is irrelevant.: only praxis (conduct) matters.
6.
Orthodoxy
status uncertain or unknown.
7.
Warm
Fuzzies.
8.
Duped
Mutants, also called Semi-trendies.
9.
Change
Agents, also called Trendies.
Those
in varied categories on particular issues don’t rank higher than item 4.
After all, even those with ratings 7, 8 and 9 are usually orthodox on
selected items of faith and morals.
YOUR ENNEAGRAM in full technicolour
AN ENNEAGRAM is the set of nine
personality types in Jungian psychology tennea is nine in
Greek). Human faces are also homely indicators: it’s amazing how many
colours the human face can turn. This study of the technicolour enneagram
may need adaptation for those whose basic skin pigmentation is olive,
red, yellow, black or brown, etc.
FLESH-coloured is normal. People who
stay this colour are stable, though not necessarily virtuous.
GREY, especially ashen grey, is the
colour of shock, and is always a physical condition, even if brought on
by emotion.
WHITE indicates loss of blood from
the face, and is due to sickness or emotions such as anger.
RED indicates excess blood due to
fever, alcohol, anger.
PINK, especially a change to pink
from something paler, indicates embarrassment or shame.
BLACK means wrath or evil intent.
GREEN accompanies sea-sickness and
other nausea, and is also attributed to the emotional nausea of envy.
BLUE indicates intense cold and
shallow breathing (oxygen deprivation) and is always a physical
condition.
YELLOW indicates jaundice and liver
complaints, and would seem always to be physical.
Students
of colour enneagrams suggest that the hypothesis of nine colours breaks
down because, they say, there is a tenth possibility, for a face to turn
purple with apoplexy.
Our
Lord and Vatican II spoke of discerning “the signs of the times”, so this
discernment of colour in faces of friends and foes is highly recommended.
How much stress and what sort of stress is needed to go through all nine
colours?
All
this was prompted by a friend reporting on an interview with his superior
who went through three colours, in tune with their disagreements. My
friend won, on points. Maybe I have gilded the lily a bit, but no good
tale loses in the telling.
WHAT’S TO BE DONE?
We
are joining our Lord in His combat and triumph over Satan, sin and error:
we must love the sinner, hate the sin, detest the error, and act for and
with Him.
1.
Be firmly committed to clarity and to charity, to
head and to heart, to Christ’s hard-headed clarity and warm-hearted
charity.
2.
Never
despise intellect: never neglect charity.
- Live a full Catholic spiritual life: ask a priest.
- Be kind, patient, forgiving like Our Lord.
- Read for knowledge and to meditate wisdom.
- Cultivate company that is mutually improving.
- Pray by name for friends, opponents and enemies.
Father
James Tierney
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