{"id":42570,"date":"2013-03-12T00:46:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T07:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=42570"},"modified":"2014-12-30T00:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T07:31:24","slug":"jimmy-akin-takes-up-the-thankless-task-of-warning-foolish-ingrates-about-a-shady-crank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/03\/jimmy-akin-takes-up-the-thankless-task-of-warning-foolish-ingrates-about-a-shady-crank.html","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Akin Takes Up the Thankless Task of Warning Foolish Ingrates about a Shady Crank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This time, the shady crank is one Maria Divine Mercy, who issues anonymous, unapproved \u201cprophetic\u201d BS from Ireland about end times rubbish\u2013and so is naturally battened on by the astoundingly discernment-free cadre of private revelation enthusiasts who seem to form a significant subset of those who regard themselves as Truly True Catholics. Jimmy gives plenty of reasons <\/a>why anybody in their five wits should steer a wide berth around this quackery and points sane people back toward common sense and the actual teaching of the Church. So naturally, the uber-Catholics turn up to announce their superior truly true Catholic cred and denounce him as a one of those half-breed Protestant converts:<\/p>\n

Mr Akin, you are the messenger of Satan. I call upon all God\u2019s children to pray for you.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Mr Akin still writes with the arrogance of a former protestant with no proof that MDM is false.
\nPray with the humility of Our Blessed Mother for true discernment.
\nIt\u2019s articles like this that will stop all subscriptions to nc register.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Plus lots of crap about the False Prophet and The Warning and fearmongering about the papal election. What garbage like the \u201cprophecies\u201d of \u201cMaria Divine Mercy\u201d do is prey on the fears of a laity whose faith is already weak. She provides a fertile breeding ground for schism, because if the election doesn\u2019t go the way the paranoid reactionary crank likes, then he can simply declare that this is the End Times, the False Prophet is now on the throne of Peter and the true Pope, or some spiritual Pope in the heavenlies somewhere, or some other projection of the crank\u2019s imagination is now the \u201cauthority\u201d to whom are \u201ctrue Catholics\u201d must submit. What this means in practice is what is known as \u201cProtestantism\u201d or the supremacy of private judgment over the Church\u2019s actual teaching.<\/p>\n

This is the judgement for hubris. I seriously cannot believe that anybody, much less roughly 40%-50% of the commenters on Jimmy\u2019s thread could take this incredibly obvious quack seriously. But a good chunk of Jimmy\u2019s readers range between \u201cLet\u2019s not be hasty. She has some important things to say\u201d to \u201cIf you question her you are a minion of HELL!!\u201d The deathless tendency of so many Faithful Conservative Catholics[TM] to give themselves over to Folk Heroes begins to appear to me to be part and parcel of its tendency toward holding itself up as the gold standard for truly true Catholicism while slyly saying, \u201cI thank you, O God, that I am not like other men, or even like that damn librul Protestant Jimmy Akin\u201d. I don\u2019t envy Jimmy his thankless task of trying to warn this group of proud ingrates that they are, once again and of their own free will, making themselves complete suckers for a charlatan in their pride. When will they learn?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time, the shady crank is one Maria Divine Mercy, who issues anonymous, unapproved \u201cprophetic\u201d BS from Ireland about end times rubbish\u2013and so is naturally battened on by the astoundingly discernment-free cadre of private revelation enthusiasts who seem to form a significant subset of those who regard themselves as Truly True Catholics. 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