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Introduction to the introduction:
Catholic Fundamentalism does not attract many professional Catholics because it praises the principles of Fundamentalism. Worse, from their point of view, it doesn't leave a lot of room for the "creative interpretations" so beloved by many.
Most Fundamentalists don't like Catholic Fundamentalism because it celebrates the validity of The Roman Catholic Church.
Catholic Fundamentalism is as a tiny orphan, shunned by most professionals of both the Catholic and Protestant variety:
Catholic Fundamentalists understand that The Church is kept from relevance to many moderns because Her vocabulary is mostly from the Iron Age.
We no longer live in the Iron Age. We live in the Age of Electron Flow. When we consider Aquinas's definition of God as the "Unmoved Mover" we realize the words, themselves, are so old-fashioned they lack meaning to many in the Age of Electron Flow. So, Catholic Fundamentalists think of the same God as "The Unprogrammed Programmer".
We expand on that definition: The Unprogrammed Programmer is He Who has the power to program both spirits and particles. He has compiled them into systems and beings. He forces human beings, His most complicated programs, to choose how they will relate to Him and with each other as they move through time.
Catholic Fundamentalists realize that The Unprogrammed Programmer has programmed and downloaded an entire universe that looks, sounds, smells, and feels just the way it does. Some wonder, "How long did it take? "
Some happy souls have concluded that He and His sub-Programmers (angels are, or may act as, sub-Programmers) used His programming power to program all of creation in six days, out of what we refer to as 3-D fractals.
Why did He go to all the trouble of programming Carbon-14, layers of fossils, far-off quasars, and seams of coal? He thought that was the best way to give us, His most complicated programs, free will. Making all the complexities that He made gives every person in every generation the freedom to believe and obey or disbelieve and disobey.
The Bible is His inspired Programming Log. There's an Old Programming Log and a New Programming Log. The Programming Logs, in language we can understand, tell us what He has programmed.
Catholic Fundamentalism helps cut away the barriers that those who focus on the things of the world have erected between us and the God Who loves us. As we see The Unprogrammed Programmer's immense power, we try to draw ourselves closer to Him.
As we do so, we get rid of pseudo-intellectual clutter, like God-removing theories and the perennial false alarmism so beloved by those who would have us put other gods before Him. Then, we more clearly see that our soul is the most important thing that any of us have.
To be worth considering, a revolutionary, new way of looking at the world must give better answers to old questions. In the "Books and excerpts" section of this site, there's a volume, "New Road to Rome". Download it at no cost. On page 115, you'll see the answer to "Who actually wrote Shakespeare's plays?"
After you've discovered the author of Shakespeare's plays, browse. Page 4 explains what "words" are. It's amazing that most of us have used words all our lives without really understanding their basic nature.
Elsewhere on the header, you'll find, and enjoy, The Lie Committee. Learn about "tomorrow's lies, today". Each Lie Committee makes up the latest smokescreens to further the other side's cash flows and goals. The Lie Committee is an ongoing soap opera. Even leftists go there for the latest lies.
Almost every day, "Columns" relate Catholic Fundamentalism to the world around us. "Add to favorites" helps us keep up with the latest developments in Catholic Fundamentalism. When all is said and done, Catholic Fundamentalism is the newest approach to The Church since Pascal invented probability theory and applied it to choosing a religion.
Two key points and a question:
First point: Your guardian angel can help you remember: "God programmed spirits and particles and compiled them into structures, systems, and beings in such a way as to give some of them free will." If you have doubts, it helps to remember that basic thought.
Second point: If you are one of those happy souls who takes to Catholic Fundamentalism like a duck to water, don't be in a rush to tell everyone about it until you've passingly familiarized yourself with it. Tired souls do need to find out about God as the "Unprogrammed Programmer". You may want to find a better way to help.
The question: If we conclude that God could not have programmed all Creation the way Genesis describes, are we putting human conceits and vanities before Him?
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