If you like Michael Voris on “The Vortex”, you will probably
enjoy ChurchMilitant.TV’s new blogtalk radio show. The show airs live on
Wednesday evenings, and then a video version is posted on Thursday. And actually, if you don't like Voris's "style" on the Vortex, you might like him better on the radio show, as he has a more conversational style.
I watched/listened to parts of the discussion on the October
4/5 episode. You can see it here.
Voris discussed the enigmatic continued support of the
Democratic Party by the Black population; it is really difficult to find
reasons to help understand why Black
voters remain loyal to the Dems. Voris pointed out that especially for Black
Christians, it is impossible to ignore what the Dems stand for (by their
official party platform, no less), which is one assault against Christ after
the other. Black pastors are beginning to exhort Black voters to reconsider;
case in point, this video
– an excellent summation of the problem by a pastor named E.W. Jackson (see the transcript of this video here).
Voris points out that the Democratic Party hasn’t helped
Blacks out at all. He presents some statistics, including these:
In 2008, 25% of Blacks were living in poverty; in 2011, 28%.
In 2008, the unemployment rate (actively looking for work) was
5% overall; it was 9% for Blacks. In 2011, it was 8.2 overall and 13.6 for
blacks.
In 2008, the unemployment rate for young Americans (age 16-24)
overall was 16%; for young Blacks it was 25%. In 2011, overall it was 17%; for
Blacks – 29%.
It seems clear that social justice and anti-poverty programs
are not helping anyone, really, and are helping Blacks less than Whites.
There’s been a 10% increase in the number of blacks on
welfare in the last 20 years.
Voris also talked about Mormonism, since Romney was taken to
task by Harry Reid; he gave a description of some of the beliefs of Mormonism
and pointed out that it is not a Christian religion. Voris also noted that there
is no doctrinal statement in Mormonism regarding pro-life issues and many of
the other issues which the Catholic Church defines and takes a stand on, so it’s
pointless to say that Romney will/should/could follow a “Mormon” approach to
the issues of the day.
I was particularly captivated by Voris’s closing comments,
which were sparked by a caller who asked whether Obama was consciously trying
to undermine the Catholic Church.
Voris said that he doesn’t think
Obama’s trying to create a fissure, but that he knows there is one. Think about
the Catholics Obama has surrounded himself with:Biden, Pelosi, Sebelius. Then
there are the honors he’s been given, for instance by Notre Dame. And remember
that Obama got his start in the 1980’s under the “Bernardin machine” which was
run by the Catholic social justice/social action crowd.
Voris thinks Obama has been
aware of the split. “Maybe he doesn’t see it as a split, maybe he sees
traditional Catholics as just some marginal thing…which, frankly, we are,”
Voris chuckled. “He recognizes that, sees an opening, and he doesn’t care about
Catholic moral teaching. He grew up under the ‘cape’ of social justice Catholics.
So he’s fine with ‘Catholics’ like Carolyn Kennedy standing up at the Democratic
convention” and saying things that go against Church teaching.
The rest of what I’ve written
is a combination of transcription and paraphrase of Voris’s comments:
Probably
he’s not the mastermind of his scheme. He has a world view. The Catholics he’s
come into contact with have been nurtured and fed on this world view of social
justice, and theology doesn’t matter, and man is the center of things, and let’s
build a utopia here on earth. Those are the Catholics he’s been around; he
doesn’t know any other Catholics, and if he did he would have dismissed them…as
would the Catholics he already knew.
I don’t
want to ascribe motives to Obama like he’s the antichrist and he’s conscious of
it, but he does antichrist things. I believe he is in full possession of the
diabolical mind and gives himself over to that and is simply a tool of hell. I
don’t think it’s even in his mind to create a schism or division in the church.
He’s plugged into a division that’s already been there. He was born in 1961…as
you look at his history (his biography, speeches, his involvement in various
movements), he’s grown up expecting that the Catholic Church is what so many
Catholics have accepted that it is. It’s just a thing that has the trappings of
a powerful institution; if you push a liberal agenda, a social justice/social
action agenda, then you’re in. Anything else would seem strange [to him].
Because the American Catholic Church has become so Protestantized, Obama doesn’t
see what the Catholic Church is. He sees what’s been presented to him of the
Catholic Church.
Obama
is simply a tool of the diabolical, and the diabolical is interested in
creating schism and division and confusion and doubt in the Church – no doubt. So
in that sense Obama has seized on the split in the Church and has caused it to
widen.
In one
sense we can be grateful, because for faithful Catholics and the younger
bishops in America, it’s now very visible, it’s out on the table. There’s no
wondering. You can see Obama’s disparaging comments and attitude toward
Christianity in general and toward Catholicism in particular.
He has
a view of Catholicism that is similar to a view that many Catholics have. He
grew up alongside the Church (young adulthood in Chicago) – what’s he being
presented with? The church of Bernardin which ruled the roost, and his
surrogates are still in power or at least the long shadow of those people is still
in chancery offices.
Obama’s
not really trying to cause division;
he just sees the Church for what it’s become – on an earthly level, not on a
Bride-of-Christ level. And he says this is what it is, so let’s just use it.
