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.)