From G. K. Chesterton’s the Everlasting Man :
“Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love
it. But the next best is to be far enough away not to hate it. It is the
contention of these pages that while the best judge of Christianity is a
Christian, the next best judge would be something more like a Confucian.
The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgments; the
ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic,
entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the
beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not
what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard. He does not
judge Christianity calmly as a Confucian would; he does not judge it as
he would judge Confucianism.”
Excerpt From
The Everlasting Man
G. K. Chesterton
Believe! is a short book you can read in a couple of hours, yet it has resulted in more people either coming back to, or converting to proper Catholicism than most sermons. (i.e. converted to actual Catholicism as it has been from 33AD to 9th October 1958, when the Freemasons, after about 250 years of work at it, finally infiltrated the Papacy as well as the Church and usurped it almost totally. The only valid Catholics still actually Catholic are those today known as 1958 Totalist Sedevacantists.)
The reason it had such an effect is because I wrote it from the perspective of the man I was BEFORE I myself became a Catholic.
All the objections I had before I actually took the time to check if what I THOUGHT I knew about Catholicism was even true, were answered. Because between 2013 and 2017 I spent 4 years researching the origins of Christianity obsessively. And it is only after that, that I came to become a Catholic.
And all the other wild but honest men that read it recognised themselves too in those pages. Because my book is not some dry tome about “believe in Jesus”. Rather it shows you the path a heathen that is honest saw and was shown, and took. And other heathens relate to the truth and reality of it.
And I think Chesterton was right in the quote that opens this post. I was, mostly a Zen-Agnostic with some Shintoist overtones for most of my life. I rejected Catholicism not based on Catholicism as it actually is and the real dogma it espouses, but rather the lies, propagated all around the world of what Catholicism supposedly is and how it works.
I was as surprised as a man who opens what he always thought was an inspection panel in a wall of his home, only to find that behind it lies an entire other structure, wider, deeper and taller than his own home by a vast margin.
Yet, there it was.
And my not really having any dog in the fight, was essentially due to never having considered, acted as or been influenced by Catholicism to begin with. It was also what allowed me to view it objectively when compared to all the schismatic and heretical versions of Churchianity. If anything, my bias was to point AWAY from Catholicism.
So I hope it may be of use to you too, though, as Chesterton says, if you were raised and marinated in some version of Churchianity, seeing the truth of things may be harder than if you were raised completely outside of it.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
