By Judie Brown
The word gaslighting is most interesting. It means “to psychologically manipulate (a person) usually over an extended period of time so that the victim questions the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and experiences confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, and doubts concerning their own emotional or mental stability.”
This phenomenon happens constantly to people, at times without them noticing what is happening, as their opinions and judgments change based on false ideologies marketed as mainstream thinking. There are so many examples of this that one hardly knows where to begin.
We will start with the most nefarious example: actors George Clooney and Pierce Brosnan collaborating on a film to promote assisted suicide. This form of propagandizing is based on the false notion that glamorizing the idea of taking one’s life or the life of a loved one is a good idea. Dr. Ramona Coelho, a Canadian physician who has seen the ravages of Canada’s MAiD euthanasia program, said the movie risks “romanticizing death.”
This movie represents the epitome of a gaslighting tactic to suggest by way of the deadly views of Hollywood actors that killing one’s self is a good idea. This is why we stand in the wake of such garbage, pointing the way to truth by using valuable resources such as the Imposed Death document to teach. The truth separates the gaslighters from the lovers of life.
We can also see evidence of gaslighting from those who suggest that God made a mistake when He created males and females. Cardinal Robert Sarah has explained: “Gender ideology is a Luciferian refusal to receive a sexual nature from God. Thus some rebel against God and pointlessly mutilate themselves in order to change their sex.” He said that advocacy of such self-mutilation is nothing short of a “revolt of Satan against the gift of grace.”
But at the same time that these truths are being shared, the media is more interested in focusing on the opinion of Georgetown University’s new president Eduardo Peñalver, who said, “I reject the Church’s teachings on homosexuality.” Of interest is that Peñalver was raised in a Catholic family but does not describe himself as a practicing Catholic. Yet he is president of a university that claims to be Catholic, though we see it’s in name only.
What sort of message does the appointment of Peñalver send to the students at Georgetown, not to mention the Catholic community as a whole, if not a denunciation of truth in deference to propaganda? Again, we see the gaslighting of the ignorant by those who one might suggest are self-appointed experts on the wages of sin.
And though they may not use that turn of phrase, the conscientious person can see it from a mile away.
America has deemed it fit to idealize evil by providing no rebuke to the ministers of sexual disorder, self-annihilation, and all manner of philosophical manure. Why else would a Minnesota Supreme Court judge rule that “blocking men from women’s sports is discriminatory”?
Moral sanity is becoming a rarity indeed, and for that we can choose to either weep in silence or rage at the devil with our prayers, our efforts, and our human nature.
According to a National Catholic Register writer who interviewed Rev. Walter Hoye,
Black America will be facing “irreversibility.” There will be too few children in the succeeding generations to keep society moving forward— too few workers, too few consumers, too few caretakers. “There is such a thing as ‘Too Late,’” Rev. Hoye said. “History has written ‘Too Late’ on the tombstone of many.”
These very words could be said of our nation as a whole—all races, all abilities, and all stages. This nation is suffering the throes of a menacing revolution. The hour is indeed late.
But we know that the Lord has a plan. We believe, as Winston Churchill once said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
And as faithful children of God, we will continue, knowing the importance of our ultimate destination.