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Social Darwinism Didn’t Die, It Just Evolved

Nazism has been characterized, rightly, as a form of Social Darwinism, and Social Darwinism can be described as the political application of the Darwinian concept of “survival of the fittest.” Darwin himself denied (publicly at least) that this meant, or should mean, the elimination of the “unfit” in human society. Nonetheless, in the Darwinian system, Natural Selection was indubitably the driving force behind evolution and the development, ultimately, of intelligent human beings – and it achieved this by eliminating the unfit. Some years after the publication of the Origin of Species Darwin was to write:

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Call Sign: 2023

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has reeled in new investors to pay off old investors by skimming from new accounts to pay old accounts. Provided Bankman-Fried is convicted, he will be sentenced to serve as chief of the Social Security Administration.

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2022 Rearview Awards

Are you kidding: The New York Times, the house organ for the left, named John Fetterman one of the “Most Stylish” people of 2022.

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IT’S THE MASS THAT MATTERS: A Study in Faithful Resistance

I don’t know if this has happened anywhere else, but I’ve never heard of it if it has. The priests simply refused, went on strike, as the newspapers said. They said they would never celebrate the New Mass of Paul VI, and have been openly and forcefully preaching against the New Paradigm of VaticanTwoism ever since, with no one stopping them. Their leverage? Do they know where the bodies are buried? Have they got some incriminating photos? No. They just refused to budge and equally refused to quit. Faced with this calm, placid but unyielding resolution, no one in the diocese – Novusordoist New Churchmen all – knew what to do with them other than to just let them keep doing it.

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Saul Alinsky’s Ethics and Power Rules for Radicals

By definition, Socialism is a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done. (Essentially Verbatim: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, Definition sense number 3, page 1183)

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Do Catholics Really Worship the Virgin Mary?

Editor’s Note: It is my pleasure to reintroduce my great-grandfather Hugo Klapproth and his “new” book, Letters to a Protestant Friend ( Available Here ). Full disclosure: The book is new only to English-speaking readers living 130 years after it was published in the original German here in St. Paul, Minnesota. Apart from being a thoughtful historical sketch, this little book also makes a considerable contribution to Catholic apologetics. As a convert from Lutheranism and a professional newspaper editor, Hugo Klapproth’s apologetical arguments to his Lutheran friend are some of the most effective I have ever read. Mary “worship,” Faith alone, sola scriptura, the papacy, the “non-biblical” roots of purgatory, and the Sacrament of Confession —all the go-to Protestant arguments are refuted with expert biblical exegesis, considerable historical acumen, and the patient reproach of one old friend to another. Here, then, is an excerpt from Chapter 3 on Mary and Papal Infallibility. MJM

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Joy to the World? Christmas, 2022

“ And Santa Claus has got a toy for every good girl and good little boy; He’s a great big bundle of joy, He’ll be coming down the chimney, down ”. (Count Basie Orchestra, 2015)

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Jorge You Should Know!

The Last Word loves Christmas music, first and foremost that which is sacred and traditional. We also enjoy certain secular songs, such as White Christmas and I’ll Be Home for Christmas by Bing Crosby. But there is a Protestant Christmas song that we absolutely detest: Mary Did You Know? We hate this song even more than we hate Disney’s It’s a Small World. Here are the lyrics, with our comments in bold.

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The War Is Over, and Christmas Won

The world into which Christ was born, for example, was more far more dystopian than it was utopian. It too was governed by madmen who were obsessed with the idea of building a cockamamie new world order.

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Alleged Rupnik Victim Pens Open Letter to Jesuits, Vatican

VATICAN CITY — The Remnant has obtained a copy of a letter sent six months ago by an alleged victim of Jesuit artist Father Marko Ivan Rupnik to top Church leaders, asking why no action had been taken as the Slovenian priest continued to be held up as a reliable teacher in the Church.

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