tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post4594410195560856782..comments2024-03-12T04:14:16.271-05:00Comments on The Rad Trad: Old Time ReligionThe Rad Tradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-29749302400368413982014-08-27T13:07:12.708-05:002014-08-27T13:07:12.708-05:00I always invite the Mormons and the JW's into ...I always invite the Mormons and the JW's into my house to chat. Because I know so many bible verses by heart, they quickly find a reason to leave; but, at least the attempt to convert was madeMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-47671620815717772742014-08-27T06:55:30.613-05:002014-08-27T06:55:30.613-05:00Interesting about Mormon stagnation. I hadn't ...Interesting about Mormon stagnation. I hadn't heard that. My take, gotten online (I've only known one Mormon, and he was from a not pious family and had left), is Joseph Smith was smart enough to write a King James Bible ripoff to invent a polygamous sex cult, the group's conservative '50s American image is a mask for its real radicalism (it's agnostic on abortion), it likes to misrepresent itself as just another conservative Protestant church (which as a kid I assumed it was), they know the missions don't work - that's just busywork to keep Mormons enmeshed in the cult and too tired to question it, and nobody converts to Mormonism intellectually, for the theology - it's all about the culture, people craving wholesomeness.<br /><br />The first Tridentine Mass I literally heard was Fr. Gommar De Pauw's recorded low votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary that a New York radio station would play every Sunday night. Bass voice with Flemish accent. Interesting and heroic fellow if of course fallible and a little misguided: a canonist, not a pastor, and a well-meaning Cold Warrior who seemingly never met an American war he didn't like. (Reaction against the Sixties: seeing the U.S. military as Christian knights.) That and his chapel ultimately became a cult dedicated to him. I understand they have found another priest.Ecgberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-24906907023691167562014-08-26T23:40:15.233-05:002014-08-26T23:40:15.233-05:00I heard recently that Mormonism's rapid expans...I heard recently that Mormonism's rapid expansion in recent decades has come to a grinding halt. Apparently the exposure of their insane beliefs on the internet for all the world to see is leading the young generation to abandon ship.<br /><br />Excellent blog, by the way. I came across it just yesterday and stayed up most of last night reading through your back posts. I'm looking forward to your continuing story on the pre-SSPX traditionalists. As a Long Islander, I'm especially interested in what you might have to say about Fr. Gomar De Pauw. I heard my first ever Latin Mass at his chapel in Westbury.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635743377768116998noreply@blogger.com