If ignorance is bliss...

then I no longer wish to smile.  Today while at work I had a taste of modern stupidity in all its glory.  While preparing my truck to go out on deliveries, I caught the tail end of some anti-Catholic bigotry; I caught wind of the popular nihilism of our day; I caught wind of the stench of modernity in all its cess pool glory.

A Protestant worker made some anti-Catholic claim, which unfortunately I missed.  All I heard was, "Just kidding, a lot of the best people I know were Catholics."  Then, a scrawny "rock 'n' roll" looking person, who wears Satanic rock shirts on the job, said, "Some of the worst people I know were Catholics."  Ha!  Stupidity in its pomp!  Nothing could be more ignorant, more vain, more self-aggrandizing, more idiotic, more trendy; nothing is more fashionable.  John Paul II and Mother Theresa were such horrible people!

As I pondered the conversation, the thought crossed my mind that these poor ignoramus'; these poor slaves; these poor unthinking dogmatists are only haters because they've never open their mind's to a contemplative outlook.  They worry themselves with sex slavery, food slavery, desire slavery, hunger slavery; God hands them over to punishment in their own members.  The thought crossed my mind that the modern hater, so conditioned by the torrents of custom, has not the strength for Christianity.

Obeying our lower desires because some self-made god, uneducated rock star, claims that anti-Christianity; anti-Catholicity, is a means to strength and power.  What pretenders!  What phonies!  How long must cowardice parade as strength?  How long must slavery parade as freedom?

Fools!  The rebirth of virtue; the rebirth of reason; the rebirth of a contemplative outlook is strength.  It is freedom!  Listen, then, to the uneducated elite who have never taken the time to think; listen and follow them into the pit.  When the blind lead the blind, the end is always the same.

We prefer to be dust chasing dust than to be the eternal beings we are.  Ignorance is sadness!  Ignorance is death!  Our lack of contemplation is our nihilism; our lack of God is our lack of humanity. 

Wake up to the new dawn!  The dawn of reason and the dawn of the resurrection.  Look to the horizon for the daybreak of life and forget the nihilist haters who prefer the slavery of ignorance to Christ; who prefer ignorance to Truth;  who prefer to march ignorantly to their own death.