Pints With Aquinas - INSANE! ... No? Anyone? Bueller?

Episode Date: December 29, 2021

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Hey, Matt Fradd here, welcome to Pints with Aquinas. If this show has been a blessing to you, please consider supporting us directly at pintswithaquinas.com slash give or at patreon.com slash Matt Fradd. When any dollar amount would be a blessing to us. Thank you so much for considering. Hi, I'm doing this a little different today than usual behind my webcam instead of my fancy cameras and lights. Well if you've got kids around you know build a bunker and put them in it. Don't let them watch this video. Okay so a couple of things before we begin. I have started a locals account and a rumble account.

I've got links in the description below if you're interested. So for example, there's a ton, yeah, there's already a ton of videos on my rumble account. I'm going to be posting there continually. I also have a locals account where I am writing regularly and posting regularly and frankly I'm doing that because I'm tired of feeling like I have to abide by big techs speech guidelines. And I'm really nervous about it. I'm nervous that if we keep making these sort of small adjustments in how we speak so that YouTube won't ban us, we're going to start telling lies or giving the impression that we're telling lies and that'll change how we think.

People will be duped into unreality, essentially. So this article, Dear God in Heaven, came out the New York Magazine. My penis myself, I didn't need a penis to be a man, but I needed one to be me., but I needed to be, I needed one to be me. So here I am on YouTube, right? Going, okay, like this is a poor woman who clearly has some sort of serious mental, emotional issues. And I'm so terribly sorry for her. I really am. like I feel really bad for her.

I'd love to sit down with her and hold her and let her tell me what the bloody hell's happened in her life that's led her up to this point where she's allowed someone to mutilate her body to make her look like a man, but she doesn't. in, but she does she doesn't. And she's but you say that on YouTube and you you will you will get banned. Like if you do not fall in step with secular dogma, you will be excommunicated. This happened to my mates at LifeSite News. It's happened to my mate Patrick Coffin whose YouTube channel got taken away from him.

And I'm afraid that if we just keep adjusting our language, no one's going to be pointing out that this is insane and that this person has made herself into something of a monster. In at least as far as how she looks. monster. In at least as far as how she looks. I mean, even even I was just going on YouTube and looking at some conservative commentators, right, and even just the language of transgender man is in it, as opposed to like really poor woman. And I can't help but think that these were strategic decisions so, you know, so as not to be banned from YouTube. And I don't want to do that. It's exhausting doing that. Not that I want to speak about these things all the time, you see. I don't think it's my place, certainly not my expertise to address these things. But the idea that I

can't bothers me. And then quite frankly the idea, like I'll have some people who follow me here on this channel and they'll say, just stick to like what you're good at man, like just stick to like the beauty of the Catholic Church, just just do that, you know, like the teachings, just don't wait into these issues. But I think the problem with that is people don't convert or continue to be Catholic in a vacuum, right? They could either convert or not or continue to be Catholic or not in this world that is blessing insanity and promoting it. Like what ought to be... I want to say this carefully because I'm not saying that we should ridicule people who are mentally ill, okay, and I'm not saying we should ridicule this author, but what I'm saying is

what ought to be ridiculed and despised is held up for our esteem, admiration and praises. And what ought to be praised is held up for our mockery. Again, I'm not talking about her as a person, but I'm talking about lying to people, telling them that they can be a man or a woman if they're not, telling them that they can mutilate their body to approximate in some capacity what a man or a woman's body looks like. This ought to be held in derision, but it's held up for our praise. Same thing with abortion. This ought to be praised. It's held up. I mean, this is the city of God and the city of man at odds, at war, right? Because what ought to be praised, our blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, was held up on the cross for our derision. So in a sense, it's nothing new. Chastity is held up for derision. A man being the head of his household and loving his children, sacrificing them for them is. Now we have to sacrifice

them, not sacrifice for them. So that's why I'm now over on Locals and Rumble. And I would love you to follow me there. can follow me on locals without supporting me You can just follow this kind of community that we're developing over there. We'd love to have you Also, if you are on rumble, feel free to go subscribe over there. I've got both the links in the description below As I say, I'm not getting off YouTube. I'm not getting off patreon. I'm happy to be here until they tell me I'm no longer welcome. But I just yeah, I'm bothered by how certain conservative or Christian commentators either don't even address this at all because they know it'll get them banned or they'll lie and refer to this woman as a man because they don't want to get banned. But when we

lie and when we start to kind of curb and edit our speech so that YouTube won't come after us, we give wrong impressions to people. There is a line from the second Vatican council which I have to find here. Sorry, I'm not very good at thinking and writing at the same time. Yeah, so here it is. This is from the second Vatican council and I think it's excellent. When God is forgotten, the creature itself grows unintelligible. Is that not prophetic? When God is forgotten, the creature itself grows unintelligible. This isn't just in reference to men who think they're women or women who think that they're men. This is in reference to you and I.

If I deny the Creator, I therefore deny my creaturehood. What I find around me, the laws of nature, the way things work, the laws of nature, the way things work. If they are at odds with my subjective experience, it's bloody well reality that ought to change, not me. And this is insane. We ought to seek to submit ourselves to objective reality, not demand that objective reality submit to our subjective illusions. Just imagine how bad things will get when the metaverse is off and running.

When God is forgotten, the creature itself grows unintelligible. When God is forgotten, the creature itself grows unintelligible. So I pray for this woman, and I'm really sorry for her. And if you're here today, and look, what a terrible thing to experience. Imagine being a bloke, and you've had this sense in which like you're a woman, and that you're trapped. That sounds terrifyingly awful. I'm not denying that. But I think the response, I'm positive, I'm convinced the response ought to

be compassion and love, walking alongside of not let's cut a big chunk out of your leg and fashion it into something that probably resembles a penis in some capacity and then lie to you. Like this is not the way there. This is not how we get there. This is not how we wake up. This is not how we grow in wholeness and holiness. And if you and I continue to affirm this insanity, we too will become as insane as those who are mutilating themselves. And it's such a slippery slope. You start by saying, well, I can't say, you know,

can't dead name them as it is, or can't say that this person's a woman or a man or if they think, and then it's like we're just all lying to each other. Same thing happened with sodomy, right? Like the whole world came against us, and now there'll be people in the comments below who'll say, maybe the church is wrong on that. And this is precisely my point. Either we listen to God or we listen to man. And for my part,

I will listen to God by His grace. I mean, I'm in abyss of weakness and just as likely as you are to abandon the entire faith because of my cowardice but by his grace I'll continue to listen to him. I want to read something that I think speaks to this really powerfully but before I do I want to encourage you I have two links in the description below once to locals which is a free speech platform in which if YouTube comes after me, at least I can go over there, start just acknowledging reality. Also, I'm on Rumble. So if you want to follow me on Rumble, if you want to become a supporter on Locals, or if you just want to follow our community, click that link and please join us. And again, I want to make it clear, I'm not getting off YouTube. I'm not telling you just,

you know, I mean, if you want to unsubscribe, go for it. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not getting off of it, nor am I getting off of Patreon, I'm going to continue to post there. But I'm also going to be posting over there on locals because yeah, it's just, it's nice to not have to curb my speech so that the tech deities are satisfied with me, you know? All right, here's what I want to read, and this comes from Romans 1. Now, it's incredible to me that Amazon and others haven't ceased selling the scriptures, given the reality which they testify to. I suspect it's coming or edited versions of the scriptures are coming but here it is for the wrath of God is revealed

from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. I don't want to be part of the suppressing of truth, either because I cease to say things that could get me in trouble or because I have to curb my language appropriately just so. For what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse, for although they knew God,

they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened. Listen to this line because this sums up the woke elites claiming to be wise. They became fools and God forbid that you and I should claim to be wise. Let us remain humble sons and daughters of the King Jesus Christ. Let him be the wisdom that we seek. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal men and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves. Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie, far be it, brothers and sisters, that we ever do it. about God for a lie. Far be it, brothers and sisters, that we ever do it. Instead, let's exchange the lie that this corrupt and perverse society is pushing upon us. Let's exchange

that lie for the truth of God. We don't want it. Thank you. We want the eternal word. It says they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen. And this is what must happen. We are creatures who ought to worship. It's in our DNA if you want to put it that way. And if we've denied the creature, we have to have something to worship. So we'll worship the creature You're God. You get to control reality. Objective reality doesn't pertain to you. But God is blessed forever. Amen. In verse 26 it says, for this reason God gave them up. Listen to that language of giving them up. Like what do

we read in John 10 10, I have come that you may have life and have it to the full. Right? 1 Timothy 2 4 I think it is. God desires all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. But if we take ourselves away from life, if we reject life, blaspheme life, you know, sometimes as Christians are like the Israelites who long for the flesh pots of Egypt, long for our former slavery, right? So we think, well, if only I could engage the passions, you know, like, but I can't because I'm Christian, far be it that we would ever say something like that. This is the punishment they're receiving, these dishonorable passions. God gave them up to dishonorable passions for their women exchange natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for

one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, coveredness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,

maliciousness, they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, maliciousness, they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them and here we've come full circle to what we mentioned in the beginning what ought to be despised is exalted for our praise and admiration and what ought to be

praised and admired is held up for our mockery and contempt this is the the the seeming contradiction of the cross. Right? Glory to Jesus Christ. Glory forever. And may God bless this woman, Gabrielle Mack, I think she goes by. May God bless her and bring her and me and all of you viewers into a deep and personal and loving relationship with him but may we never fall into the error of thinking that we can either be loving or kind sorry sorry loving or honest is what I meant to say if I'm to be honest I ought to be loving and if I'm If I'm to be honest, I ought to be loving, and if I'm loving, I ought to be honest. And if I am being told that I have to substitute honesty for love, then that's not love, right? Love without honesty isn't

love. We've been commanded to love. So let's lovingly pray for this lady. And God bless you. And we'll see if my channel is still around tomorrow. But I don't it's okay. Like it's I would rather be a secular heretic with no YouTube followers, then speak about that which is safe, lie to people, give people the wrong impression, refuse to acknowledge the insanity that's taking place in order to embolden others, and have 180 whatever thousand followers I have.

So, for the final time, click the links below. I'm on Locals and I'm on Rumble. I would love for you to follow me over on Locals. I plan on doing a ton more there daily. It's a really cool platform, actually. And again, I had a big chat with the folks there at Locals the other day. And they're all about free speech.

Like, just, as long as it's not illegal, you you're good kind of thing. So I think it'll be nice to have a community of people who can say what's apparent to them but with love and charity no doubt. Glory to Jesus Christ. Glory forever.