Outside The Asylum

  ‎ Leo Marinak ‎   to   Knights of Columbus Tempus Fugit Memento Mori! Do you remember receiving the first degree? I have a question. Who are you to judge me!? I have been reading and commenting on the recent posts here on the Knights of Columbus page over the past month or so, and I am so very disappointed in some of our Catholic brethren, who claim to call themselves, "Knights of Columbus." In fact, I think they are actually masons in the costume. How about that! First of all, to those of us, who cast judgments. There's a HUGE difference between judging and righteous judgment. We have to know the difference between them. Righteous judgment is when you see your brethren worshiping Moloch, and you don't do everything you can to stop them. Matthew 7:1-5 1 'Do not judge, and you will not be judged; 2 because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the standard you use will be the standard used for you. 3 Why do you observe the splinter ...

  Ok, let's look at the BLM protests closest to me in Portland, OR through  Leninist lens: - dismisses political reform and compromise: Yep, they're demanding a complete abolition of the police department and are rejecting any reform - advocates violently overthrowing capitalist regimes, in order to create an authoritarian state that controls the economy: I give you the firebombing of the Federal Building, Police Union, and Police Precincts after blocking the doors to prevent escape. -class racism is the only correct lens through which to understand society: Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility is the textbook of the movement, despite being rather racist in and of itself. -uncompromisingly materialist and, yes, atheistic: The attacks on Catholic Churches speak for their atheism and the demand of reparations is materialism. so, I give them a 4/4 for being Leninist Bolsheviks ready to kill their neighbor rather than compromise.

In America, we crossed 5 million cases yesterday, and will likely hit 10-15 million cases by the end of the year. That means one out of every 35 Americans, minimum, is going to get this. Shut down the churches, but unless you also shut down the protests, that means nothing. When you fail to treat the sick differently from the well- when you fail to segregate based on actually having the virus, nothing else you do matters. Masks don't matter, shutdowns don't matter. One in 35 Americans will get this, and it looks like after all the people over the age of 80 who get it are dead, the rest have less than a 1% chance of dying. Let's bump this up. Go worldwide. 20 million cases out of 7.5 billion people so far. Double that. Heck, let's multiply it by 5- say we hit 100 million people by the end of the year. Worldwide that means 98.6% will not even get sick. We're now closing in on 720,000 deaths. Worldwide, dying "with COVID" , because nobody dies FROM ...

Here are some racist assumptions that I've heard from the purveyors of White Supremacy/White Privilege/White Fragility that I believe are not only erroneous assumptions about minorities, but that actively create and build upon the illusion of systemic racism.  I will add to this post slowly over the next week, but here are a few that have sprung up lately: All minorities are held back by the "wind resistance" of historic racism.  Oddly enough, almost all the minority people claiming this have wealth far in advance of what I'll ever see, and if wealth is material privilege, then they are way more privileged than most white people I know. It's not possible for a minority or poor person to carry proper photo id.  And yet, every minority person I know over the age of 18 has a driver's license, a Costco card, and usually one to three forms of photobadge for work. Minorities are less able to succeed at paying off real estate mortgage.  This one is largely due to rac...