Vic Biorseth, http://www.Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com

Religion, politics and culture. Emphasis on Judao-Christian religion, American Constitutional conservatism and American People-hood. Provides a focus-point for Orthodox Roman Catholicism, Judeo-Christian morality and Western Culture history. Promotes faith, family, tradition and property. Emphasis is on Truth, ethos, critical thinking and reason.

To begin:       Culture = Religion + Politics

The Thinking Catholic Strategic Center World Focus:
      Where Religion Meets The World, and forms Culture.

The Thinking Catholic Strategic Center American National Focus:
      Where OUR Religion meets OUR World and forms OUR Culture.

The morality of Western Civilization is born of the Judao-Christian religion. This site marches under the banner of that morality and holds it up as a standard by which to measure any and every other moral standard in existence.

Morality is born of religion and grows best in family and tradition. The family is the primal social unit. As the family goes, so goes society.

The Call to Holiness is a call to change culture, not surrender to it. Any theology that has to modify itself to suit cultural fashion is irrelevant, and any theology that does not directly engage current culture is dead. Catholicism, (like Judaism, and Protestantism, and Eastern-Greek Orthodoxy,) must, at some point, engage culture; and every bit of culture needs to be engaged, not just some parts of it. Secular culture does not hesitate to challenge our religion, and that engagement takes place on a two-way street. All believers are called to draw their rhetorical swords and step out onto the field of honor.

The Thinking Catholic Strategic Center provides a focus-point for

1. Orthodox Roman Catholicism;
2. American idealism;
3. Conservative values.

It promotes faith, family, tradition and property.

This site emphasizes critical thinking and reason. Within the realm of social/political/legal topics, for the Theist, doing good critical thinking requires pre-recognition of certain axioms, or givens, as external objective truths that guide our reasonable decision making to keep us within parameters of

1. revealed truth, for the sake of our souls,
2. social and societal moral norms, for the sake of common civility,
3. and common sense, for simple practicality.

As opposed to pure Materialist-Atheist external objective truths, such as

1. The Ends Justify The Means,
2. You Can't Make And Omelet Without Breaking Some Eggs,
and the ever popular, ever growing ability to say to someone,
3. Shut Up And Get On The Cattle Car.

Apologetics and defense of faith, culture, the Judao-Christian ethos, the American Ideal and Representative Government are important, and Thinking Catholic Strategic Center does that. However, we tend to be an attack site more than a defense site. We go after any faith, culture, ethos, economic system, political system or other entity that falsely claims superiority and/or steps out to challenge us.

We see a symbiotic relationship between orthodox Catholicism and the American Ideal, which is explored in the Catholic Thinker page.

Within Catholic culture, Thinking Catholic Strategic Center supports the Roman Magisterium, Catholic Orthodoxy and Tradition. Which means we attack the American counter-Magisterium, cafeteria Catholicism, heterodox teaching and general weak belief or disbelief publicly pretending at being Catholic belief.

Within the larger American culture, Thinking Catholic Strategic Center supports faith, family, tradition, private property rights, free markets, free enterprise, equal rights and remedies before the law for all men, the American Constitution, representative government and the high ideals of the Founders. Which means we attack the notions of loss of representation in government, growing government, and the migration of power from the people to the government.

This means in particular that we vigorously oppose the systematic, legal secularization - which is to say, the religious cleansing - of the American government, the American public square and the American people. Despite our overwhelming Christian population, and despite our First Amendment right to open religious exercise, we are increasingly forced by civil law to be, appear to be or pretend to be atheist, in public. Noting that history’s greatest publicly professed atheists were also history’s greatest publicly professed Marxists, and were also history’s cruelest conquerors and greatest mass-murderers – Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Mao Tse Tung – we submit that social secularism, which is an extremely proactive, biased and not neutral form of atheism, is not a good path for a person, a people or a nation to travel.

Since we remain an overwhelmingly Christian nation by population, to the degree that our government makes itself secularist or atheist, to that same degree does our government cease to be a representative government. It may represent itself, or some other entity, but certainly not us, the governed.

We submit that, for any individual, group or political body, putting one’s religion aside, for any reason at all, for even an instant, is, strictly speaking, against the religion of everyone who has a real religion. There is and can be no logical reason to do such a seemingly stupid thing other than to get a decision or opinion or action that would oppose the teaching of the religion. Or to gain specific minority votes. When done by any American government “representative”, it is a practice that betrays an absolute intolerance in that representative toward the overwhelming majority of the population of America.

The guiding ethos, the moral compass, the life-directing influence, the very purpose for being of the gigantic majority of the American people is wrapped up in what is universally known as the Judao-Christian ethos. And if the guiding ethos of the American government is not the Judao-Christian ethos, then it is no longer a representative government, and we might well ask what it’s true purpose for being might be.

The always imperfect American Republic was designed, intended and founded to make us a nation of laws and not just of men. Our Republican form of government limits our Democracy in order to, One, provide for stability in government and a peaceful means of government succession, and Two, in all good justice, to protect minorities from the majority. In the Thinking Catholic Strategic Center view, respecting, tolerating, loving and protecting minorities does not equate to granting minorities, whether collectively or individually, any special status, advantage or privilege. Nor does it equate to forcing the majority to pretend that it has no special guiding ethos, or common sense of right and wrong and moral direction, which should always, in any representative government, drive representative legislation, and the creation, enforcement, adjudication and respect for all civil law. Civil law should always be representative law. As opposed to dictated law.

Simply stated, the Thinking Catholic Strategic Center supports majoritarianism and opposes minoritarianism and totalitarianism.

We oppose all Leftist-Marxist ideological notions involving the end of international borders, the end of all national sovereignty and thus the end of the USA in favor of the Utopian ideal of a Global Village, Borderless Society, Internationalism or one-world governance or authority to be done by any other Leviathan State entity by any other name, including old time International Communism, the UN, or any World Court. Or any other unrepresentative entity. That means we also oppose government planned and controlled economies, and support free markets and free enterprise.

We likewise oppose all international cross-border efforts by Islam, whose ultimate goal is Ummah, requiring the systematic forcible destruction of all other religions to achieve a one-world religion in blind submission to Islam, and, requiring the systematic forcible destruction of all other forms of civil government to achieve a one-world government by Islamic law, or Sharia. This is not describing any branch or subset of Islam, but the mainstream, orthodox teaching of Islam, openly preached in every mainstream Mosque on Earth. The ultimate goal of mainstream Islam is Ummah, by any means necessary. Ask a Moslem cleric about it.

We support the sanctity of national borders and the continued existence of the United States of America, her Constitution and Constitutional government, and the strengthening and restoration of what's left of Western Culture.

The Thinking Catholic Strategic Center is unabashedly Roman Catholic, and unabashedly pro-American. We welcome open discussion with Protestants, Greek and Eastern Orthodox and Jewish persuasions or denominations, as fellow travelers toward the same eternal reward. If our discussions get heated sometimes, that’s fine; at least we share a life-direction, and we’re all aiming at the same target. We likewise welcome open discussion with citizens of other nations, those with some form of representative government, and those who wish they had some form of it.

But the Thinking Catholic Strategic Center may be expected to return fire and advance on any positions opposed to Catholicism in particular, Christianity in general, Judaism, Western culture, representative government, our Constitution, our continued national existence and borders, or the original if weakly enduring American Ideal.

We submit that morality, as all the world recognizes it, has its origination and its living roots deep into Theism, i.e., theistic religions of various stripe. We submit that the highest form of morality existing in the world today may be found in Western Civilization’s Judao-Christian ethos. And that the worst examples of immorality in the world today come out of irreligion, i.e., atheism, and out of anti-religion, i.e., secularism.

Whatever political contest is going on at any moment in time, the most important contest is always between Godliness and un-Godliness - between Truth and falsehood. Recognize that. Do not tolerate lukewarm-ness in yourself. Life itself demands passion. The man who is indifferent to religion has already forfeited his soul. The man who is indifferent to political action has already forfeited his liberty. Do not stand idly by while your destiny, and my destiny, and our destiny, just happens.

Thinking Catholic Strategic Center explores and seeks to strengthen the linkages between faith, culture and ethos; the things that make of us a distinct people, and that make of distinct peoples distinct nations.

"The link between culture and faith is not only necessary for culture but also for faith. A faith that does not become culture is a faith not fully embraced, not fully appreciated and not faithfully lived." – John Paul the Great.

We are overwhelmingly Christian with Representative Government. That is a vitally important if tenuous fact.

We don’t give a damn about your race, color or other outside physical attributes. What we’re interested in is the standard by which you discern right from wrong, and what it is, exactly, that gives your life purpose, direction and order. The two most vitally important subjects to you and to yours are the very two subjects you are always most discouraged from talking about in public. Those two forbidden subjects are your religion, and your politics.
Think about it.

Exactly what kind of a person are you?

Exactly what kind of example are you to others?

Exactly what kind of a family is yours?

Exactly what kind of a people are we?

Exactly what kind of a nation is this?

These are vitally important topics for you to ponder, meditate on, pray over, and – ultimately, and most importantly – they are questions that demand a decision, and questions which you must decide.

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:15

We hope you enjoy the WebSite and might contribute your thoughts to it, either through your comments or by adding your own individual Webpages, and we pray that you may please God, and live forever.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” –John Adams.

“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation of ours was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians … not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.” –Patrick Henry.

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience … without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure … If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." –Ronald Reagan.

"I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
What I can do, I should do.
And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do."
–Edward Everett Hale.

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