33 - Believe despite scandal

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April 25 2025

You have heard it said "Thou shall not put the Lord thy God to the test" Obviously it's disrespectful, as a creature, to try to test your maker. In doing so, you attempt to control the almighty, to lord over the Lord of Lords. This is where proofs of God's existence fall short. If you want "scientific proof" i.e. repeatable, experimental, dare I say controllable proof of God, you will never find it. God is not your subordinate. "take dominion over the earth", but you will never take dominion over Him. He loses nothing in Himself if you want to be damned. It is you who have more to lose, you who are a worm and no man, doomed to die and be judged. When you hear in the gospel that "He could not do any miracles..." for lack of faith, it's not because the true skeptics would have figured out his tricks or because he had not the power, it's because such an obstinate people were unworthy of such favours.

This is not to say, however, that there is no proof of God. If there were not proof, we would be fools to believe. "If I had not done things no one else had done they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin." Where is the proof? If you weren't so prideful, testing God at every corner, in love with your vices, the proof would be in front of you. So painfully obvious. Look at the world around you, did it make itself? Look at your own creation, can your mother make your soul? Is the natural law that is written on your heart so worn away by sin that you do not know that there even is a good, that there is a right and a wrong. Does natural selection explain everything, my friend? No, not even close. Suicide is so contrary to natural selection but so common in man. But if the soul is dead in the body while living, there is no point in life except as time to repent. I'm sure you can convince yourself that somehow suicide stems from an overactive aversion to pain or some bullshit, but that trait should have long ago died out. But you will believe what you want. Even though you too have no proof.

But why not the hindu god or the muslim god or the aztec god or ironically the god of the jews? And this is only answered by revelation of God to man. "The people who have dwelt in darkness, have seen a great light" But God has revealed himself to us in the person of Christ Jesus. His words are true, and this truth is evident in the Church which would not have been able to stand so long unchanged in doctrine on the lies of man which is the only other option. It cannot be like Thomas Jefferson said, that Christ was a good man but just a man. Because if he were just a man then he deceived many with lies.

"If he would not believe Moses and the prophets, neither will he believe if someone were to rise from the dead". Moses gave the law to the israelites. He had the teaching authority. The same could be said today, "if he would not believe the popes and the saints" neither will...." Read the catechism, it will awaken the law written on your heart. Read St. John Chrysostom, St. Augustine, St. John Vianney, St. Anthony Claret... the list goes on and on. Do not be unbelieving but believe. Notice Christ didn't say, if he would not believe the pharisees, the surest sect of Judaism. I think because the pharisees gave much scandal.

Scandal is a huge problem in the Catholic church. It's been a problem since the beginning. One of the twelve betrayed Christ. Today, there are priests and even bishops who are the same. Ananias and Sapphira lied about money going to the church to saint Peter. They died on the spot. Today there is still collection fraud, and God lets these people live. Because God does not kill these people outright, you do not believe? The act of simony is named after a person in Acts of the Apostles, and if it were to happen today, that bishops sell positions for money, or in some way abuse their power politically, you will be scandalized.

We mustn't whitewash it. Catholics have committed atrocities throughout history. Guy Fawkes not included. Killing Dirk Willems was excessive. Archbishop Cranmer, Fr Filipovic and the rest of the Ustasa, the innummerable number of homosexual priests, and... I shouldn't go on. You see, it's not within our authority to judge our superiors, but it is okay for us to tell them that they do not meet our needs because we are scandalized. Scandalized by the covid stuff, shutting down churches, approving vaccines tested through abortion, depriving the faithful of the sacraments for fear of a disease. Turning from God is the cause of the disease. But they have locked churches for a long time because someone might pray. But it is their authority. It hurts us but we cannot do anything about it. Installing women to every role possible, not for lack of men but to appeal to the feminists: servers, lectors, cantors, and other words that end in er/or. Spending the money we work hard and give them on luxuries, ignoring the poor and ignoring the glorification of the church's buildings. Playing the most gay sounding songs in mass. I heard a priest two weeks ago say he councilled a woman to have a divorce. This is not the faith I believe in.

But it is the Church i believe in. There may be heretics at every level. But there is only one, apostolic church. The Orthodox have schismed, partly because they were scandalized by Rome. The protestants gave up the sacraments so they could have it their way. Because their faith is not stronger than the scandal. It has become a hard sell because of this, but you are not a Christian because you like Christians. You are a Christian because you love Christ. And in spite of these outrages, Christ is in His Church. "I will be with you always even until the end of the age". The eucharist is truly Him. The absolution in confession is binding in heaven. And if you give up these things for whatever reason... you are a fool.

Even an imperfect priest stands in the person of Christ. What was said of John Vianney can be rightly said of all priests, "I saw God in a man".

Lastly the words of Christ "Blessed is he who is not scandalized in me". The Jews expected a glorious king. They got "a man acquainted with infirmity". Who demands you to eat his flesh, "a hard teaching". Who demands you die on the symbolic cross of your life in total resignation to God's will. Who promises you not riches here on earth, but poverty and persecution and hunger and thirst, and nakedness. "Blessed is he who is not scandalized in me"

"Come and follow me"