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Before I start, a h/t to Vox Cantoris is in order for putting up the above video.
And now to the subject at hand.
In yesterday’s post we reverted back to the NORMALIZATION PROCESS™ that is slowly transpiring in the area of human activity commonly referred to as POLITICS. Today we transition back, but through this sub-set of human activity, i.e. POLITICS over to the area of human activity commonly referred to as MORAL THEOLOGY.
Quick note to my new readers, since there are a few of you out there. The reason that we can easily transition between these different sub-sets of human activity such as POLITICS, MORAL THEOLOGY, ECONOMICS, PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, etc. is due to our understanding of the LEX ARMATICUS. And just as a refresher, the LEX ARMATICUS postulates:
1st Principle:
Those individuals and institutions that comply to the et Invisibilium, will remain a part of the Visibisium Omnium. Those that do not, will be consigned to the trash heap of history.
2nd Principle:
Even Neo-modernists need to eat.
3rd Principle: (The Schmidberger Principle)
Every abnormal situation inherently tends toward normalization. This is due to the nature of the matter.
As we can surmise from the above defined LEX ARMATICUS, the sub-set of human activities that is commonly referred to as MORAL THEOLOGY is in fact a part of the natural order.
A quick digression…
Just as with our discussion and observation with respect to STATE OF NECESSITY (see here), MORAL THEOLOGY can also be placed into the category of a stand-alone “object”, with an immaterial form that exists in nature. The reason that I am using this “inelegant” terminology is to get you, dear reader to tie in different “principles” or “doctrines” with how they appear in the natural order. And since it is easier to think of “things” that exist, hence the terminology.
Let’s move on.
Now to the business at hand. Today we will speak about revolutionaries. Actually one revolutionary. The revolutionary that we will bring into today’s discussion is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in Leningrad. Therefore, one can assume that Putin belonged to the material atheist religious community, since he managed to not only get accepted into the Soviet intelligence service during the Brezhnev era, but was likewise able to excel in the KGB organization.
In other words, a true believer!
Fast forward to the video posted above, the year Anno Domini 2016, and Mr. Putin is seen making the following statements in response to a reporter’s question: (emphasis added)
Reporter: Vladimir Vladimirovich, I used to work in Russia in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Coming back now, I noticed a tremendous rise in the role of religion and the emphasis put on moral values. I don’t recall this being so evident before. I would like to ask why did this become so important to you, and why is it important for you to criticize Western Values? Thank you.
Below are the pertinent fragments of Vladimir Vladimirovich‘s response:
VV: Let’s start from the second point – it isn’t important for me to criticize Western values. It is important for me to protect our people from what I see as quasi-values.
(…)
Our people struggle to accept these as norms.
When it comes to our traditional values… I think we need to approach this from a much simpler perspective. As you know, the USSR was governed by an ideology. No matter your opinion of that ideology – it had within it what are essentially quasi-religious values. If you’ve read the “moral Code for the Builder of Communism” [1961] you would see that it’s just a mimicking of the bible. “Don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t lust for another man’s wife”. This is all in the Moral Code for Builder of Communism, but in primitive language and in horrendously shortened. But this Moral Code is no longer in use on our society. New generations of the citizens of Russia, our young people, they have never even heard of it. The only thing that can naturally come to replace it are our traditional values, as you mentioned.
With the absence of values – society begins to decay.
What can be observed in the above text is that “morals” or as we would say in the Catholic world, MORAL THEOLOGY is very important. Actually, it would appear that Vladimir Vladimirovich suggests that SOCIETY itself is dependent on “values” and “morals”.
To understand just why Vladimir Vladimirovich would draw this conclusion is quite simple. The NORMALIZATION PROCESS™ timeline in the Soviet Union/Russia can be characterized as follows: Russian Revolution introduces a new creature known as the HOMO-SOVIETICUS. The Russian population is forced to accept the revolutionary “VALUES” of the newly created HOMO-SOVIETICUS. The original “VALUES” of the HOMO-SOVIETICUS did not produce either the forecasted nor the desired effects. The “VALUES” of the HOMO-SOVIETICUS had to be modified. The latest and most recent iterations of the moral code of the HOMO-SOVIETICUS and his prescibed “VALUES” were contained in the Moral Code for Builder of Communism, a “moral code” that Vladimir Vladimirovich describes as “just a mimicking of the bible” but written in “primitive language and in horrendously shortened”. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, no more Moral Code for Builder of Communism. And if you are a president of a country that has a problem with a “decaying society”, and you find your “moral code” unsatisfactory for meeting your desired ends, you trade in your old “moral code” for a better one.
A purely rational decision, yes?
And what do you trade up for?
A “moral code” that works.
Specifically, a “moral code” designed along the lines of a Christian one of course.
And why would a president of a super power, and a nuclear one at that, feel the pressing need to trade up to a Christian “moral code”?
Well, you have regional conflicts that you are engaged in and those take manpower. The siege of Mariupol is not doing that well and the newly annexed Crimean peninsula is still seperated from Mother Russia. Therefore, this might take a while. But I digress…
Anyways, back to the subject at hand.
Here are two excerpts from a document titled Still recovering, written by Pavel A. Parfentiev that appeared on the Mercatornet.com website. In this article we can read the following: (emphasis added) (see here)
Society’s development and its stability and prosperity depend, among other things, on the continuous growth or, at the very least, stability of population size. (…) In other words, securing society’s prosperity requires not only reversing the current depopulation trend, but also ensuring that most children are being born and raised in intact, two-parent (mother-father) families.
So this is the background.
The situation on the ground is as follows:
This is especially important in Russia, where the birthrate continuously lags behind replacement levels. According to official Rosstat figures, natural population loss in 2010 amounted to 239,600 people. The aggregate birthrate in 2009 was 1.54, compared to the replacement level of 2.1, a figure even the most optimistic Rosstat forecasts say Russia will not be able to reach before 2030. Meanwhile, Russia leads the world in abortions, with abortion rates in 2010 reaching 1,186,100 per year. The institution of the family in Russia is, too, undergoing a crisis—in 2011, 51 marriages out of 100 ended in divorce.
And the cause of the above is provided below:
The family’s plight was also linked to an ideological crisis, however. The breakup of the USSR and the rejection of Communist ideology had destabilized public morals. By persecuting religious organizations and promoting atheism, the USSR had succeeded in undermining the influence of religious and traditional cultural and moral values on society and replacing them with its own “Soviet” ideology. The dissolution of the USSR meant this ideology was dead, leaving a moral and cultural vacuum. It took the rest of the century for the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church and other religious communities to begin to fill this vacuum.
Summa summarum
What we see in the above text is the LEX ARMATICUS at work.
Fallen humans can use their God given abilities for good or bad. Humans can create “new” IDEOLOGIES and create original “moral codes”, since they have the God given ability to reason. Yet those “moral codes” and IDEOLOGIES are still subject to what we call the Visibilium Omnium, et Invisibilium. In other words, if those “new” IDEOLOGIES and “moral codes” do not conform to the natural order, they will cease being a part of the “everything visible” and thereby be consigned to the trash-heap of history.
Yet there is a more important point to be made here. And it is this: notice the NORMALIZATION PROCESS™ at work. The initial cause (ROOT CAUSE) of the problem that Vladimir Vladimirovich is grappling with, is the creation of “a fabrication, a banal product of the moment.”, namely the “moral code” for the new man, i.e. the HOMO SOVIETICUS. This “new moral code” was reorgnized by generations of Soviet central planners as being faulty, and revised. The revisions took this “new moral code” in the direction of the moral code that has been consistently successful for 2000 years, a bible based “moral code”, a “moral code” provided to man by Revelation.
We can also observe that the NORMALIZATION PROCESS™ is consistent with what can be described as a scientific methodology. In other words, a POSITIVISTIC methodology. And as my loyal readers are all to familiar with by now,
Normative claims are usually contrasted with positive (i.e. descriptive, explanatory, or constative) claims when describing types of theories, beliefs, or propositions. Positive statements are (purportedly-) factual statements that attempt to describe reality. (see here)
And where is our POSITIVISTIC methodology leading Vladimir Vladimirovich?
It is leading Vladimir Vladimirovich through a process that we have also explained on this website, namely:
Organic Growth: reconciliation of reason with revelation, of science with faith and of philosophy with theology, SUBJECT TO: that source of our Faith that comes from divine Revelation. (see here)
And what is waiting for Vladimir Vladimirovich if he travels the POSITIVISTIC route to its logical and natural conclusion?
Why it leads to the ONE TRUE FAITH and Eternal Rome.
Post Scriptum
How can we, as faithful Catholics help Vladimir Vladimirovich reach ROME?
Naturally, we need to pray and do penance so that Russia will be consecrated to the IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY, for starters.
Yes, FATIMA!
Notice, how so many road that must eventually lead to Rome are naturally leading through FATIMA?
It might just be the Schmidberger principle of the LEX ARMATICUS at work:
Every abnormal situation inherently tends toward normalization. This is due to the nature of the matter.
And as we know, Eternal Rome is the ultimate NORMALITY.
Rubyroad (@rubyroad1) said:
Putin’s birthdate caught my eye.
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S. Armaticus said:
That is why I put it up there.
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Andrew said:
Sarmaticus – What to make of the propagandizing of the Revolution in the West (formerly known as Christendom) through Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School? Putin will occasionally make admirably realistic comments about the situation in the West, but, being the former KGB agent he is, he should know that what he sees in the West is merely an indication of the success of Communism’s efforts to bring down the West culturally rather than politically or militarily (“If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world…”). They injected the virus of cultural revolution into the body of a civilization already gravely weakened by the Protestant Revolt in which all authority devolved to the individual. I guess my point is, does what Putin says about the culturally rotten West really matter? The ending of the schism and the acknowledgement of the rightful authority of Peter is what matters (the person of PF greatly complicates this of course). This is, I believe, the implication of the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart….or am I incorrect?
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S. Armaticus said:
Andrew:
First, what we need to remember is to separate the normative (what we would like to happen) from the positive (what we see happening.)
What we see happening is Putin trying whatever he can to arrest the “societal rot” that is post-Soviet society. If you recall, he has tried to return to a sort of Soviet nationalism and that has not worked out to well. So now he is trying a neo-orthodox revival. Like he said, he needs to find something to replace the “moral Code for the Builder of Communism” with something that will work a little better.
Now this is a cynical view of the situation.
Yet, what I see is an underlying process at work. If Putin can get the Russians to at least stop mass murdering their unborn, he will be able to establish demographic stability and eventually sustainability. And if that takes believing in the tooth fairy, I think Putin would be all for that, too.
The problem for Putin is that the Orthodox schismatics base their “religion” on small “t”radition (sentiment), aesthetics and nationalism. That’s why there are all those national Orthodox Churches. What they lack is the Reason based part of theology. That is what only the Catholic Church can provide to them. But there is a vested interest, so Putin can only go so far.
As for Putin, what I see in him is a “rational thought process”. I think that if he is successful going down the Orthodox revival route, it will dawn on him that there is an even better way to do what he wants to do. I don’t think he is an orthodox nationalist, but rather a pragmatic. He can become a “c”atholic just from thinking through the next steps since Catholicism is a rational Faith.
If he gets that far, then what he will be faced with is a choice to go the full Catholic and give up some control to Rome (in “ecclesiastical” – read intelligence matters) or stop at that point with the limited orthodox paradigm.
Having said that, what I see also is that Putin is not cracking down on the Catholic Church like he is on all those lunatic evangelical sects. This is a good sign, and would suggest that he is looking for friends/allies.
So what we could be left with is a Catholic revival (provided the Catholic Church advances back to Tradition) in Russia. This revival will no doubt start with the Catholic minorities, but it could spread. I know that the Orthodox Church does have problems with the Catholics, yet Putin has not taken their side. And that says something since the Orthodox Church is heavily infiltrated with KGB.
As to the Russian consecration, I think this is independent of that which takes place in Russia. I also think that it is being thwarted not so much from the Russian side, but by the neo-modernists in Rome. If they do consecrated, somehow I don’t think Putin would object that much. Besides, if his plan starts working, and Russia is consecrated, Putin has another strong ally against the “critical theorized” West.
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Andrew said:
Overcoming the opposition of the prelates within the Russian Orthodox Church who would fight against reconciliation with Rome with all of their might would be a miracle, but as you note, the government has more than its fair share of sway over how that works, so it could be humanly possible.
But it’s funny now how the question might be, who in Rome would Russia reconcile with?? It’s like a Protestant after discovering that the Church of the book of Acts is the Catholic Church and then goes and finds a Bishop to declare his intention to be united to the Church, and is responded to with a patronizing pat on the head and told that its all about your “conscience” and conversion is of no real matter.
Has Pope Francis given any indication that he cares one bit about this? He met with the Patriarch in Havana of course but is that a piece of the puzzle you’re working out?
Pardon the questions and speculating. What really matters is repentance, reparation, and prayer of course.
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S. Armaticus said:
HI:
Good question, w/r/t what Francis cares about.
From what I see, the issue with Francis is that he is a loser. He knows that he is loser, and the Vatican knows that he is a loser. The Curia and the UNIVERSAL episcopate realize that they were coned by TeamBergoglio. So being a loser, he needs a success. And that success, in my mind, is to pander to any schismatic or heathen sect, or Catholics like the SSPX, that could possibly entertain something along the lines of coming together, and give Francis that success.
It is not coincidence that Arch. Pozzo is basically making public statements that Vatican II isn’t binding, or even relevant. Most people see this as bait to get the SSPX into the fold so that they and the rest of the Ecclesia Dei can be suppressed like the FFI. This is correct, but there is more. What Francis needs immediately is a success. If he can get the SSPX to sign anything, he will play this “unification” for all it is worth.
The Tony Palmer situation could have given Francis a victory, but the muppet went and got himself killed. We see the same thing with the Chinese. Francis is sacrificing the Chinese Church just to get something signed with the ChiComs. Francis and the Russian Patriarch is the same.
I see the end goal as a one world religion under the patronage of the UN. This I think is the carrot that Francis and his comrades are holding out for. They are willing to allow the Church to disintegrate, since they know they can’t get the Faithful back into the pews. But what they can do is cut a deal with the UN for a universal Kirchensteuer.
So what it looks like is a race to the UNKirchensteuer, subject to the money in the Church kitty lasting that long.
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Jeff C. said:
At this rate, maybe Russia will request that the Pope consecrate them as requested by the Blessed Virgin Mary!
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S. Armaticus said:
That will be the conclusion of the logical progression.
But in the mean time, the Kremlin controls the Patriarchy. The Patriarchy competes with Rome. The third Rome if memory serves me correctly. So I doubt if Putin will want to give up control and have a Francis dictating to him the Russian immigration policy. 😉
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