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Margaret_Ann
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Excuse my ignorance, but what does “red pilled” mean?
Usually it’s attributed to The Matrix. When Morpheus offers Neo the choice between choosing the Red pill or the Blue pill.Excuse my ignorance, but what does “red pilled” mean?
I feel maybe just a litttle bit the same. I used to be in his New St. Thomas Institute and followed his podcasts quite a bit, even in the beginning with the youtube videos I would listen to him but for me I don’t like the live videos. It seems like focus on the topic gets lost, information isn’t clear and needless comments are said that don’t do him any good or who or what they are talking about.He may be right. He may be wrong. Who decides?
Because Dr. Taylor Marshall will have it so!?
So, I stay away, though I used to like him quite a bit.
Don’t need divine authority to red pill. If so, parents need divine authority when they tell maturing kids truth about Santa Claus.It seems to me that Marshall is setting himself up as one who has divine authority. I may be wrong about that. He may be properly appealing to divine authority. They why the need to “red pill” people, which is an appeal to sentiment.
Red pill them about what regarding Pope Francis?He specifically said he intended to red pill 1 million Catholics about Pope Francis.
Yes — perhaps this is unpopular but Marshall IS Protestant in his approach. This is what worries me about someone who has only been Catholic for 13 years becoming some sort of de facto spokesman for the Church. We need far more who teach the faith than we need commentators who sprinkle teaching with their own personal attitudes and beliefs.Yes. I think that the good found in anything Marshall says can be found elsewhere without all the bravado.
IMO, he is too Protestant in his approach. That may just be me.
As far as the Church being in crisis, she has been since the time of the Apostles - yet she is still here.
Does pouring gasoline on a fire help put the fire out, or does it make the fire worse? It seems to me that Marshall and Coffin, et al are better at pouring gasoline on fires than in helping to put them out.
Others are free to disagree. Just my opinion - and Marshall’s opinions are just his, nothing more.
#PrayTheRosary
This is what gets me. He’s been Catholic for 13 years and now he knows what’s best for the Catholic Church. I’ve been Catholic my whole life. I did the schooling, confirmation, etc. But he’s more Catholic than myself all because I don’t go to the Tridentine Mass. I believe he fails to realize that many in his audience (perhaps not so much now) have been raised on the Novus Ordo. Many of his brothers and sisters have absolutely no access to Tridentine Mass due to locale and he’s making them feel pretty rotten about their completely valid Novus Ordo Mass.This is what worries me about someone who has only been Catholic for 13 years becoming some sort of de facto spokesman for the Church.