The Church Doesn't Know When It Is

 ... not where it is, when it is.

Here are a few data points.

Power Structures Explain Everything

This is the Marxist construct. Everything is about power imbalances. According to the Marxists, society has been organized by the powerful, built to maintain their power. Everything is a social construct, designed to keep straight, white, Christian men at the top of the power pyramid. This trans activist summarizes it well.

The idea of “men” and “women” is rooted in white supremacy and capitalism pic.twitter.com/U0XYw5KfRU

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 24, 2023

The Big Corporations Agree

Here is one of Maybelline's latest ad campaigns. It features Dylan Mulvaney with his prissy little girl act.

Introducing the new face of MAC Makeup… pic.twitter.com/M6j8jVKfxa

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 24, 2023

Professional Analysts Agree

I don't have the Ad Age article on the Bud Light fiasco at my fingertips, so here's something similar from Axios. The article analyzes Bud's face plant with Dylan Mulvaney, but like the Ad Age article, it accepts the premise of power structures.

What this (controversy) captures:

1. The inflamed politics around transgender rights.
2. The lack of perspective or grace from vocal transgender opponents...

Between the lines: Remember the power imbalance. Trans issues are talked about a lot now. But trans people remain a small, largely marginalized group.

The big picture: For trans people, political issues are a matter of life and death. Across the country, bills are being debated and passed that take away their rights to access health care.

The "power imbalance" is assumed. Marxist thought is the foundation of corporate culture. "Political issues are a matter of life and death" is more of the same. Everything is about power and political activism is the only way to fight these alleged power structures.

Trans people are celebrated by the Democratic Party, all of academia, all large corporations, almost all of the news media and almost all of the entertainment industry, but they are still considered "marginalized." In the Marxist fantasy that dominates America, straight, white, Christian men still control everything and their social constructs are still the norm. The only solution, the only way to protect the trans kids is to tear down the colonialist, white supremacist social constructs. That is, we must destroy civilization. Yay.

As for "life and death," that implies little girls will die if we don't cut off their breasts and inject them with testosterone. It's a natural outgrowth of Marxist thought where power structures are everything.

The Church's Universities Agree

Villanova is an Augustinian university. You'd expect insanity if it was Jesuit, but this is the staid, orthodox, sober Augustinians. This drop-down list is from a housing application for incoming freshmen at Villanova.

Radical Inclusion

The Church and Marxism are fundamentally incompatible. Salvation is personal, not political. Power structures exist, but they are not the central feature, much less the sole important feature of life. You can choose Marxism or Catholicism, but not both. The Church is peopled by folks who have been sucked into the modern secular culture without even knowing it.

We don't know when we are. Even if everything else was just fine, even if there had never been a sexual abuse scandal, we'd still be dying.