Moving to the Best Country

I've heard rumors of rumors of US citizens looking to expat, or trying to find the best place to live, etc.

Well, I've fond it. The wealthiest, smartest, longest living country, where people are kind, generous, and don't commit any crime. They'll even stop by regularly and help you move furniture, fix your toilet, and see if you need help with anything. Unlike almost every other first world nation on earth, it's also in no danger of extinction - they get married young and have big loving families.

Better yet, you don't have to renounce your citizenship. You don't even have to move. They'll even send a welcoming committee to your door.

So what's the catch?

You're expected to attend a local meeting every Sunday, help out in your new country, give up your bad habits, and tithe 10% (one of the lowest "tax rates" in the world). If you can commit, you can get baptized.

Mormon Life Expectancy

It is interesting how there is a lot of correlation between intelligence, income, crime rate, etc. and these all skew towards the ideal end among Mormons. Another indicator is life expectancy.

According to Wikipedia, Utah is ranked #10 in the nation with a life expectancy rate of 82.2

So what's the Mormon life expectancy?

The national average is 78.74, so Utah has an "extra" 3.46 years, but assuming that skew is primarily due to the high rate of Mormons in the state - of whom we estimate as 63% of the population - we extrapolate the average increase as actually 5.49 years per Mormon.

That gives Mormons an average life expectancy of 84.23 years!

Thinking of "Mormons" as a nation, that would make the the 5th longest living nation in the world. So not only do we have the wealthiest by median income, the smartest, and the lowest crime nation in the world, we also have one of the longest living.

Conservatives Have Been Cuckolded

Traditional conservatives have a strong sense of respect for authority. That is for institutions, religions, and nations. Conservatives also tended to be the founders, funders, and respecters of educational institutes.

Conservatives tend to argue from said authority (this Pope said, or the constitution, etc.), but of course, the institution is composed of individuals and thus living.

So tradition and conservative ideals are only respected if the present body of the institution respects those things, and liberals figured out if they take over an institution, conservatives will in good-faith continue supporting those institutions for a very long time - at least the present generation, or until respect for that institution or authority utterly dissipates.

For example, the post-Vatican II changes in the Catholic church were widely lamented by conservatives, but few actually took the step to admit their hierarchy had largely been cuckolded by modernism (which was explicitly stated as a heresy a mere 50 years earlier). So rather than remaining in obedience to tradition, they obeyed the present authority.

The same sort of thing applies to the Republican party in the US, the Boyscouts of America, and even the US government in many aspects - it certainly no longer functions primarily as a republic, but the goal was long ago changes to democracy. One could, of course, go on...

So what's the solution? Above all, obedience to God. That is, God is a living God, He did not die with tradition nor did He die with the present authority figures chose to rewrite His law and disobey Him. Therefore, ones allegiance and obedience is to be, primarily and always, obedience to God and His eternal laws.

Respect for authority is only contingent insofar as the authority in turn obeys God. No human or group of humans is immune from sin, they are always victim to it expect by God's grace.

Modern anti-Education

Traditional education, including Catholic, was primarily focused on teaching people how to think - how to reason, understand philosophy, judge if things are true or false.

Modern "public education", or better said anti-educaiton, trains the youth to be indoctrinated in established politically correct propaganda and punishes those who step out of line (i.e. those who think).

Two Kinds of Eucenism

The word "ecumenism" has been bad-mouthed by conservatives and adored by liberals, but this is again due to an abuse-of-meaning by liberals.

For the left, to be ecumenical means to undermine one's own faith, to eliminate those doctrines that don't get along with everyone else's (i.e. those doctrines that aren't liberal, progressive, modern).

A conservative should respect ecumenism by embracing allies who also love God and truly desire to do His will - and very specifically not Satan's.

When Words Mean Their Opposite

A favorite game of our modern age is to keep words intact, but actually mean the opposite by them.

It started pretty early on with the sodomy movement, by use the term "gay" to mean sodomite, despite higher incidences of disease, suicide, sever depression, mental problems, and histories of physical and emotional child abuse. Doesn't sound very happy to me.

Now "marriage" means a contract to engage in any conceivable sexual act between any consenting adults - yet the contract is meaningless anyway. It's just a phantom triumph to attack people who understand the family is society, without which all crumbles. That is, it once meant a very specific necessary for society, but it now means absolutely nothing.

Post-marriage triumph we now see the words "man" and "woman" have also apparently become meaningless, because it might be offensive (maybe even a hate crime soon) to use them as actual representatives of truth.

One of the justices who used his position of power to enforce sexual sin on a nation is called a Catholic. So again we see the meaning of a word completely undermined, or redefined. A Catholic should be someone who consents to the moral teachings of the church, even in its modern and more liberal form. To agree to a common worldview, to believe in the God of the Bible, etc.

Now though, it seems many people who call themselves Catholic mean it in the same way as crossdressing men call themselves a woman - a mask to throw on or off as one wills. So the definition of Catholic for some is in reality the opposite of what it used apparently means - not a love of God and His will, but a focus on self and what "I" will.

Because this is so widespread in our society, it seems one should not trust any words or labels to be what they claim. Just as some Catholic priests openly engage in sexual relations, it might be wise to doubt a Bishop, Cardinal, or other authority actually represents anything similar to the title in any organization tolerating deceit. We are left to knowing individuals as individuals, to get at their actual beliefs, practices, and behavior - it may be they are speaking a foreign language and we have to interpret the truth based on observations of reality.

We should expect to deal with lies and deceit on a daily basis. I think the only exceptions might be small homogenous communities where a common belief overrides the mainstream culture (maybe your family, a particular monastery or smaller religious society, very active and temple-going Mormons, etc.).

Judging Organizations by "Fruits"

I think one way to aptly judge how far an organization has succumbed to evil is to understand that evil does not create - but corrupts, mocks, and deforms.

That is, evil is parastic. It is dependent on the contributions of the good or ignorant to maintain its existence. Like a cancer, the organization only survives so long as the evil does not actually take over wholly the source of its support.

This is supported biblically:

The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

What brought to mind this thought is looking at the decline of vocations in Catholicism since the Vatican II "reforms" whose "new spirit" was intent on oriented itself in accord with modernism.

See: Priestly Crisis

Therefore, we may, unfortunately, conclude that the church hierarchy has largely, more or less, fallen.

That is not, of course, to say there are not wholy just and faithful people in the Catholic hierarchy (as evidenced, I think, by Pope Benedict). Also, this is not to judge the Catholic people either.

We merely see the "fruits" of a church undermining itself to adapt to the world, are - suprise, suprise - harmful to the church!

We must also consider the stated intent of the reforms. They were stated to increase church-going, membership, zeal, etc. They have, as now long evidenced, done the opposite! This is typical of evil policy, with numerous examples in mainstream liberal programs, that hurt the exact groups it claims to be assisting - along with others.

What is to be done?

Well, evil being primarily destructive, good people must always focus on building, on sub-creating in the spirit of love of God. As part of this, they must withdrawal support of organizations that have soccumbed to evil. This means not supporting the church, as a whole, but being very careful and discerning in supporting very specific good people, efforts, or individual churches.

One must also be careful that your effort isn't simply undermined, stolen, or turned to evil, so support of a specific church or priest must be done in such a way that a leftist superior or Bishop wont instantly undo it.

Those with discernment have always been called to support good and not participate in evil wherever they find it, and all men expect Christ are sinners. So a charitable Catholic or Christian of any group should not assume their group is automatically immune! The Catholic church has a long history of saints who worked hard to correct sin and folly where they found it in their beloved church.

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(Because of this, the only Catholic organization I am able to support with a good conscience is the Society of Saint Pius X, which is overtly and specifically anti-leftist.

Per Charlton's Second law, any organization that isn't specific anti-leftist eventually falls to leftism.)