In retrospect, one of the best things about Catholic Fundamentalism is its ongoing focus on God’s power. When we see Him as The Unprogrammed Programmer, and understand that He is able to program energies and particles, compile them into systems and beings, and download each one of us within His huge Creation Program, we may feel the same lightness of being familiar to an over-loaded pack horse that’s been relieved of its burden.
The more we live in the world, the more lies and contradictions we are forced to carry. They weigh us down, depressing our minds and spirits. Once we understand that God can program in many dimensions, we see that things are far simpler than some would have us believe. Everything boils down to the paramount consideration: Each person has one, overriding mission, and that is to join our soul with He Who programmed us.
St. Ignatius tells us that our thoughts come from one of three places: They may come from our own minds, they may come from good spirits whose goal is to help us save our souls, or they may come from evil spirits whose mission is to have us send our souls to live forever among them.
As we pray, our soul grows closer to God. As we do, His spirits have an easier time getting through the lessening clouds of confusion to help us. But, just as we each have a Guardian Angel who can call upon any number of the Heavenly Host to help us, the other side has assigned an evil being whose job it is to lead us astray. It is made to work harder, and may be given more power from its master, as we move toward He Who made us. Since evil spirits usually pretend to be helping us, we need to pray for guidance so that we may distinguish between the two.
As a general rule, the spirits that want to lead us astray will encourage us to believe lies. When we look at lies, we see that some are so widespread as to be accepted as truth. Evolution is the perfect example of a global lie.
First of all, it’s amazingly widespread. “Educated” and “enlightened” people on every continent embrace evolution to a degree that keeps them from even considering that God is powerful enough to have programmed Creation. Because they do not see that He programmed The Creation Program with enough “evidence” to let lost souls choose not to believe in Him, it’s not hard to see why evolution is a very important part of the other sides’ catechism. When we suggest that the theory of evolution is a vast fraud designed to keep human beings from seriously considering God’s power, the looks of astonishment, even outrage, are almost automatic. As a rule, they increase proportionately with how “well-educated” the hearer believes himself to be.
When Catholic Fundamentalism suggests that God, The Unprogrammed Programmer, wrote and downloaded the entire Creation Program out of particles He has the ability to program and compile, simply to give us free will, the intellectual foundations of Babylon are undermined by an alternative theory that gives us a cosmology that’s in accord with Holy Scripture. There are not many such ideas around.
We know, of course, that believing in evolution does not keep a soul from Heaven. But, believing in the God-distancing theory of evolution does keep us from the amazingly deep joy of understanding that grows within us as we consider all the details that God programmed just to give us beloved human beings free will, the proper exercise of which is the sole purpose of The Program.
