Will He Next Point Out The Errors in America the Beautiful?

Yes, it’s been going on for a few days. Mark Shea has dared to criticize Michael Voris for this video:

I could keep silent on this. I’ve noticed several people, however, offering their own responses, and, truth be told, though I agree that Mark Shea can go overboard, I also see Mark at least understands things are not as simple as Pharisees often want it to be. Mark can admit he goes overboard, and apologize. He can admit he does wrong. I agree with Mark sometimes, sometimes I don’t, but one thing I do see, Mark is more honest than Michael Voris. I see him struggling to understand and not just assume he is always correct. Voris just wants to be a demagogue, and he consistently misrepresents others if it will make him and the people he supports look better.Voris is willing to engage all kinds of fallacies, such as guilt by association, in order to decree someone as being evil.  Sure, Mark can sometimes do so — but Mark will dialogue with people, and admit he can be wrong. Michael? He will just find more excuses to criticize you, all the while complaining that people are not being too charitable.

Now, many of the people defending Michael Voris and the Vortex talk about how he is willing to “say it as it is” but they criticize anyone who “says it as it is” when Michael Voris get it wrong. They show, like Voris, they are willing to throw all kinds of excrement on people, all the while complaining that people point this out and are judging them! Michael Voris, as I have pointed out before, gets things wrong; he misrepresents the Vatican so as to try to create some sort of false schism between the US Bishops with the Vatican. He shows himself ignorant of theology and yet willing to judge others and condemn them for theological error — something which, of course, is not in his authority to do.

However, it is also clear. Behind his rants is an ideology. It’s a very Americanist one.  It looks at doctrine in light of American political expediency instead of looking at American political positions in light of the Church’s teaching. If he moved beyond his Americanist center, he would find many of his supporters abandoning ship. It’s one thing to criticize “Amazing Grace,” because it has Protestant origins (guilt by association). But woe to him if he were to criticize “America the Beautiful.”  What would his followers do? I don’t think Michael Voris is willing to risk that. After all, he almost lost many of them when he did his video questioning democracy.