The Renaissance Enlightenment

The Progressive Endarkenment

Recently this Wolf was perusing the SSPX website and chanced upon an article about Blaise Pascal (One does hope he is not currently Blaze Pascal).  Buried within was this pregnant paragraph: "Pascal accepted many of the scientific discoveries of his day, even those that upset segments of the Catholic Church, though he remained open—as all good men of science should—to the possibility that the accepted views of today could be replaced by fresh insights tomorrow. No amount of protestation or wishful thinking, for instance, could restore the earth to the center of the universe or resurrect nature’s abhorrence of vacuums (an axiom of classical science that Pascal himself disproved). At the same time, any attempt to drive God out of the universe based on science remained anathema. Man’s desire for a “godless” world was rooted in his concupiscence or self-love, not a perfected understanding of a supposed infinite universe."
Now, this Wolf has roamed the halls of science, and can positively say that Nature indeed abhors a vacuum.  Just ask anybody familiar with the equipment needed to produce high vacuums- the gauges of thickness, the seals, the motors, the maintainence... and they will positively assure you that nature despises emptiness.  
Moreover, this Wolf is unaware of any "scientific discovery" that knocked the earth out of its center in the universe.  Galileo was wrong, as the Michelson-Morley Experiment proved.  Meanwhile, if there be any such thing as "Outer Space", Neil Armstrong of a certainty never went anywhere near it, but was rather working in the Nevada desert.
If one wants to demonstrate that the Halls of Science- with the British Royal Academy leading the way- have been spewing forth nothing but lies for centuries the place to start is the "Theory of Evolution".  Despite the fact that not a shred of evidence from either field observations or laboratory experiments has been mustered to support Darwin or Lyell, and that Mr Ernst Haeckel's theory of recapitulation, often expressed using the phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is bullshit spelled with $50 words, and that "Piltdown Man" is a demonstrable hoax, Evolution Textbooks still proliferate schools like Mushrooms on an Arkansas Chicken Farm after a thunderstorm, and evolutionary nomenclature pervades every branch of biology and taxonomy like Bermuda grass across a Texas lawn in August.

Of course, it goes much deeper- but the average student is not allowed to know that.  Even in SSPX schools, Fr Paul Robinson endorses the laughable- and blasphemous- "Big Bang Theory", as though a good God would create a world full of death and misery and have it persist for billions of years before He called Man from the clods of the earth.  But hey, Pius XII told us that the Book of Genesis was conjured by the "Ancient Sacred Writers" from a hodgepodge of Pagan sources.  The mingling of scientific progress and Catholic theology have attained whole new levels.

But seriously, when one decides that one is going to ignore the truth because, say, one does not want to be denigrated as a "Conspiracy Theorist" and subsequently booted from the club of respectable Sheepledom...   There is a price to pay.  And that price is a progressive spiritual blindness.  As murky as the fever swamps of the conspiracy is, wholesale rejection of ANY truth leads to a far darker and dismal place.

Let's face it:  The World is Run by Criminals, the most sordid corruption reigns in the halls of academia, the halls of justice, the halls of the capitols, and the sanctuaries of our churches.  The sooner we embrace that fact, the more serene will our existence be.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.  You are our only hope!