[Greek] παραλογίζομαι (paralogizomai), [Latin] decipere, [Latin] fallere, [German] ertappen

[Greek] παραλογίζομαι (paralogizomai), [Latin] decipere, [Latin] fallere, [German] ertappen: to miscalculate, to delude, to deceive, to reason falsely, to lead astray, to reckon wrong; Col.2:4, Jas.1:22

The Modernists and Synodalists actually believe that the Church has been enriched by Vatican II and Synodality. Shocker! Let that sink in! Because Synodality must prevail!

Background information:

Greek Hellenism: This term means to defraud, to cheat, to reason falsely, and to mislead.

Isocrates’ Ad Filios Jasonis 6.12: “For they do not examine from all sides the real nature of the equation, but in many ways deceive themselves.”

Demosthenes’ Against Aphobus 1 41.30: “I have yet set forth to you all my charges, while my opponent evaded coming before those acquainted with the facts.”

Demosthenes’ Against Aphobus 1 27.29: “Is this is a trifling sum drawn, which might have easily been miscalculated?”

Socrates: “To believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.”

Aeschines’ Against Timarchus 1.117: “I fear that the man who professed to teach the young the tricks of speaking may mislead you by some artifice.

Old Testament: This term means to change, to come against, to transgress, to cover, to delude, to be betray, to carry, and to throw.

New Testament: This term means to delude and to deceive. James states that one must both be a hearer and doer of the gospel message. Listening but not practicing the gospel message does not allow one to conform oneself to the gospel. This conformity of life to the gospel brings true freedom and happiness.

Scripture:

Col.2:4: “I say this so that no one may deceive you by specious arguments.”

1. Paul is concerned that the Colossians are being influenced by false teachers.
2. The Colossians are admonished to adhere to the gospel as it was first preached to them.
3. They must not be captivated by empty, seductive philosophies according to human traditions, according to the world and not according to Christ.
4. These false teachers stress angels, principalities and powers, astral powers, and cultic practices.

Jas.1:22: “Be doers of the Word and not hearers, only deluding yourselves.” (One must both hear and follow (do) the Word in order to be conformed to the gospel message. Intellectual faith is not enough. Actions are also needed.)

Hearers of the Word:

1. This is a person who deludes himself.
2. This is like a person who looks at his own face in a mirror and promptly forget what he looks like.
3. The perfect law is the gospel (of Jesus) which brings freedom.

Doers of the Word:

1. This person is one who peers in the perfect law of freedom and perseveres.
2. This person is one who acts.
3. This person shall be blessed in what he does.

Perfect freedom: Man attains self-control by letting himself be controlled by God. Sounds like following God’s will! God provides a true liberation (freedom) from a deficient existence. Talk about a profound contradiction! Being controlled by God gives you freedom!!! [#MindBlown, #GodIsInControl] ☺☺☺

Pope Gregory XVI’s encyclical Mirari Vos (1832): refuting the need for a human “restoration” of the Church:

“All truth was daily taught it by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. It is obviously absurd and injurious to propose a certain restoration or regeneration for her [the Church] as though necessary for her safety and health, as is she could be considered subject to defect or other misfortune. These authors of novelties consider that a foundation may be laid of a human institution. That what was a divine thing may become a human Church.”

1. This encyclical repudiates and invalidates the need, purpose, and validity for bringing HUMAN traditions, worldliness, and “smoke of Satan” (spirit of undermining) into the Church.
2. Prior to Vatican II, the Church was SEPARATE FROM THE WORLD. This was actually a very good thing for the Church and for society.
3. Prior to Vatican II, the Church IS the Catholic Church. (“Outside the Church there is NO salvation.”) CCC 846
4. Vatican II: The Church of Christ SUBSISTS in the Catholic Church. Any concept of the Catholic Church as being necessary for salvation has been minimized or eroded in order to be ecumenical with other faiths.
5. Jesus’ Church is a divine institution under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. There was/is no need to change Jesus’ Church. But the Modernists had other ideas!
6. St. Augustine also states that there is no salvation outside the Church.
7. We are all called to be temporary earthly sojourners and citizens of heaven. (1Pet.2:11, Php.3:20, Ep.2:19) Vatican II and Synodality has lost the plot in the Church being separate from the world.

Guiding principles of Modernists’ thinking:

1. Agnosticism: human reason is confined entirely within the field of phenomena (what is only perceptible to human senses and reason).
2. Vital Immanence: man uses sentiments, perceptions, and LIVED EXPERIENCES) to find an explanation for God, religious, faith, and doctrine. External objective supernatural reality is excluded or diminished.
3. Modernism is a synthesis of all heresies: cumulative human subjective errors ==> heresies ==> name your heresy ==> atheism (paying lip service to God)
4. Synodality (lived experiences) take precedence over Church teachings. Synodality becomes an IDOL!

Vatican II:

1. Pope John XXII invoked Vatican II based on the naive idea that “fresh air” must be brought into the Church “so that the Church can get with the times”.
2. Pope Paul VI later acknowledged that the “smoke of Satan” (spirit of undermining) has entered into the Church.
3. Vatican II has resulted in a spiritual and pastoral disaster: decreased vocations, increased sacrilege, decrease Catholic membership, closing churches, poor catechesis, watered down teachings, questionable ecumenism, permissive and liberal clergy, human traditions
4. Pope Francis and Pope Leo seek to continue Vatican II’s efforts (through Synodality) to “reform” and “renew” the Church. The Synodalists are doubling down on what Vatican II has started. Pope Paul VI and a commission of Protestant theologians developed The Novus Order Mass. This new Mass, becoming more accommodating to non-Catholics, focused more on a community meal rather than the Sacrifice.

Modernists’ and Synodalists’ animosity and opposition against Tradition:

1. Pope Francis: “It is a mistake for the Church to try to hold onto old traditions or to have clear answers for everything.” (God forbid that the Church would have clear answers for the people!)
2. Pope Francis: “Tradition is the dead faith of the living.” (Pope Frances denounces the faithful as backward looking.)
3. The Tradition Latin Mass (TLM) is now “divisive” with the Novus Order Mass and new Church ecclesiology (Synodality). This is necessary to secure Vatican II’s legacy.
4. Cardinal Cupich: “The Traditional Latin Mass “impoverishes” the Church.” (Cardinal Cupich makes this statement when TLM attendance thrives while the NOM continues to have sparse attendance. Sounds like Synodality must prevail at any costs.)
5. Pope Leo: “The people want the Church doctrine to change, want attitudes to change. I think we have to change attitudes before we change doctrine.” (This is dangerous in that Pope Leo already is OPEN TO CHANGING IMMUTABLE DOCTRINE. You know that this will happen with homosexuality and women’s ordination.)

Paralogism: A piece of illogical or fallacious reasoning, especially one which appears superficially logical or which the reasoner believes to be logical. This is related to the Greek paralogos, meaning unreasonable.

Modernist and Synodal delusional and circular thinking:

1. Synodal “reform” and “renewal” ===> creates new problems ===> need more “reform” and “renewal” ===> creates still more problems ===> more “reform” and “renewal” ===> rinse and repeat. Because Modernism (Synodality) is all that matters!
2. The German Synodal Church is continually “reforming” and “renewing” itself into decline and heresy.
3. Tradition and traditional Church teachings provide TRUE REFORM AND TRUE RENEWAL.
4. Inside the Church, an organic Holy-Spirit counter-movement AGAINST Synodality is already drawing the younger generations (clergy and laity) toward Tradition and doctrinal clarity. The TLM (where allowed) is thriving. Yet the Church leadership is still seeking to restrict the TLM. Shocker!

Pope Leo’s finally speaks about the SSPX: “Don’t do this.”

1. Pope Leo implies that there will be a break within the Catholic Church (schism).
2. Bishop Schneider: “Why must there be unconditional acceptance from Vatican II but NOT from the preceding twenty Ecumenical Councils?” (Why is Vatican II given more importance?)
3.  Pope Leo seems more likely to meet with and seek “ecumenical dialog” with scandalous and heretical officials rather than with the SSPX. (Is it because there is an antagonism against tradition?)
4. Steve Skojec: The SSPX cannot be accepted because they support Catholicism BEFORE Vatican II. Pope Leo has just admitted there is a different form of Catholicism AFTER Vatican II. These are different Catholic religions (Catholicism BEFORE Vatican II and Catholicism AFTER Vatican II.)
5. LB236: “Something fundamental about Catholic teaching changed in 1965. If you won’t move forward, you’re no longer Catholic.” (This has now become a Synodal religion.)
6. Kennedy Hall: “Pope Leo is implying that Vatican II started a new religion.” (This is a different Synodal Church than the Catholic Church before Vatican II.)
7. Pope Leo unfortunately is not interested in following Catholicism before Vatican II. (Pope Leo instead is following Synodality (becoming a new religion/Church).

Etymology:

1. The Greek verb paralogizomai essentially means to reason (-logizomai) alongsude (para-).
2. The Latin verb decipere is derived from the Latin verb capere, meaning to capture.
3. When one is faced with deception (obstruction, subterfuge, treachery, or deceit), one does not know he is dealing with.
4. The erroneous information presented becomes falsum (deceit). One must “fall” or “be brought to a fall” for what is presented to him.
5. Therefore, he falls down or fell for it.
6. The German verb ertrappen in itself is very telling.

Conclusion:

Deceive, deception, deceptive, fall, paralogism, trap

Greek Hellenism: Demosthenes points out that those who do not face the facts themselves mistakenly think they can persuade others. Isocrates points that some can easily deceive themselves, being close-minded and being unable to see the problem from other sides. Plato states in practical terms what it means to act foolishly and recklessly.

Old Testament: This term conveys the sense of going against, covering, and throwing. Perhaps this develops the notion of casting doubt and covering up.

New Testament: Paul warns that the false teachers in Colossae are creating false narratives about Jesus’ true nature. James states one must be hearers and doers of the gospel. To do otherwise, you are deluding yourself.

Update: The Catholic Church (after Vatican II) is acting more like a synodal Church (made in the image of man) rather than a divine Church made in Jesus’ image. 

More questionable Synodal ecumenism: Archbishop Weisenburger “feels the sense of the divine presence” at a mosque. Just disregard the notion of outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation. Typical for the Synodal Church.

Synodality (lived experiences, tolerance, inclusion, and false compassion) often TAKE PRECEDENCE. This is how Synodality can become an IDOL! 

Synodal study groups: these meetings become slippery slopes to changing Church teachings, doctrines, and Church practices. (Homosexuality is no longer sinful.)

As a result, many clergy are NOT acting like priests. They are silent, cowardly, and indifferent. They are failing to be DOERS of the Word: paying lip service to Church teachings, and failing to state Church teachings (against homosexuality). As a result, many mortal souls could be in peril.

Modernist delusion and ugliness: This church was awarded the 2022 Pontifical Academy Silver Award for Sacred Architecture. They think this inspires the faithful! You can’t make this up!

Church desecration part 1: A church in Madrid (and perhaps other churches) are using the nave to show soccer matches on TV screens. Tell me how this is NOT desecrating the churches. How is this a good idea?

Church desecration part 2: a cathedral in Innsbruck is being used as a dining hall.

The diocese of St. Gallen in Switzerland posted this slogan, “Together pave the way to the election of the first female pope?” The Synodalists are showing their true colors: commingling vocations with rights. Women should have the right be bishops, deacons, priests, and deacons.

FSSP pilgrims are pushed out of Catholic shrines and into a hotel basement.

One can only wonder if the Modernists and Synodalists are either hard-hearted, unintentionally deluded, or intentionally evil (gaslighting) in their efforts to claim that the Church is growing and thriving. They say this while the NOM has sparse attendance (20%) and the TLM continues to thrive.

Specious arguments: human traditions, innovations, democratization of Church structure and Church doctrine*, and increased laity decision-making.**

“We must strip four our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic liturgy everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren [Protestants]. Archbishop Bugnini (1965).  (At Vatican II, this bishop sought to adapt the Mass to accommodate Protestants’ concerns. “Let’s make the Catholic Mass look more Protestant.”)

“People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love more than the truth. They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them.” St. Augustine.

“Truth suffers, but never dies” St. Teresa of Avila

“Moral principles do not depend on a moral vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.”* ** Archbishop Sheen