Is it ok to listen to Dr Taylor Marshall?

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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.

The red pill is what wakes him up to the truth about his false reality and what the Matrix really is. The blue pill will put him back to sleep and allow him to believe whatever he wants to believe.
 
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Exactly. So when people say they’ve been red pilled, it just means that they were awakened to the truth of whatever situation they are facing.
 
Mostly correct, but i would say that what wakes he up is THE CHOICE to take the pill. He could have taken the blue pill instead
 
Right. He was searching for the truth and he wanted to know what the Matrix was even after he was told there would be no going back.

Then of course the other character, Cypher makes the half joking statement that he wished he would’ve taken the blue pill. Because in reality their world was bleak and terrible and he believed that staying asleep and living within the Matrix would’ve been better instead of awakening to the truth. For him ignorance was bliss.

Which I think is why so many people use this analogy when describing their view of what has been happening inside the Church.
 
I find this emotive process of rejecting truth very common in every topic. Among catholics that don’t want to accept some bishops and cardinals are corrupted and far from Christ.
Among general population about many lies they are told, like feminism, AGW, and other propaganda, because accepting there is a system meant to keep them slaves by using every form of media, in such a sophisticated manner, would be horrifying.
At the end it doesn’t matter how bad things are and how corrupted and evil is the word, Jesus warned us that the devil is the ruler of this world, and we are only here for a brief period, after wich an eternity of joy, light and justice is awaiting us
 
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Red pilling is not a Christian thing. It is feelings based. People are “red pilled” about all kinds of things that are not necessarily true.

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.

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.

What do I do about the Church’s crisis?

What I have in my hands to do.

#PrayTheRosary for one thing.
 
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.
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.

So I don’t always make it through a full live video.

We probably need to add him to our prayer lists. The Church is in a crisis and I do think it is important we know what is happening, so we can also pray for the Church.
 
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I listen to them all. I also listen to EWTN, Catholic Answers and pray with Sensus Fidelium as much as I can.
 
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.
Don’t need divine authority to red pill. If so, parents need divine authority when they tell maturing kids truth about Santa Claus.

But to blue pill you do need to offer a non-truth (Marshall has offered himself as divine authority) and if anyone takes that blue pill they can take a permanent nap from Marshall in fantasy land based on the non truth (he’s nuts! he holds himself as divine authority!)
 
The more I hear of this guy, the less inclined I am to seek him out. We have more than plenty good, faithful, obedient, prayerful Catholic leaders right now.
 
There is a lot of good in what Marshall says.

I think you are right about the live videos.

Thank you for the thoughtful response.

#PrayTheRosary
 
He specifically said he intended to red pill 1 million Catholics about Pope Francis.

How does he know he is right? How do I know he is right? What if I don’t have the red pilled experience he wants Catholics to have?

What does that make me?

I don’t think he’s nuts. I think he was being silly when he used the Matrix analogy. .

Especially since many who claim to be red pilled about other things tend to be very anti-Catholic.
 
Ironically he always encourages Catholics to pray the rosary daily.

I wasn’t always a fan of every video with Tim Gordon, only because I think Tim rambles a lot and his commentary usually makes up 80% of the show. His videos where it’s just Dr. Marshall and other guests seem to flow smoother and focus more on the topic at hand.
 
He specifically said he intended to red pill 1 million Catholics about Pope Francis.
Red pill them about what regarding Pope Francis?

Factual statements he made? What’s the issue there? He either said them or didn’t.

In that video, Marshall said he would ardently defend Pope Francis in public even though he said certain things Marshall disagreed with (Catholics shouldn’t “breed like rabbits” and “we’re talking about abortion too much”) but then said a point was reached when he started to stay silent and no longer ardently defend him in public (I believe the “I will not say one word” re Vigano). Marshall then says he still prays for Holy Father every night and says decade of rosary so if this is all definition of “red pill”, I don’t know what the issue is? He merely is explaining how his level of ardent defense of Pope Francis changed but clearly he still regards Pope Francis as Holy Father of Church
 
He causes more division than anything else.

Early church father Origen of Alexandria commented “ubi division ibi peccatum” ( where there is division, there is sin)
 
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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
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.
 
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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.
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.
 
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