The Pseudo-Patriotic Fantasies of Taylor Marshall

https://taylormarshall.com/2025/09/1249-12-strategies-to-restore-christian-civilization-dr-taylor-marshall.html

Marshall's podcast used to be a bit more substantive and I would listen to learn things about the Right-wing Catholic take on certain controversies. But lately the show has turned more often than not into a kind of dog and pony show, an ongoing advertisement for his books. Often he's spending most of his time attempting to pseudo-referee live social media interactions - which are clearly rigged. Most of the time I don't bother to listen and more than a few times I've just turned him off. He's currently pushing his new book on patriotism and so I thought I would give it another try and listen to an episode.

Lamenting the Decline of Sacral Marriage

https://issuesetc.org/2024/01/03/0032-the-demise-of-the-augustinian-view-of-marriage-dr-allan-carlson-1-3-24/

Listening to this latest installment of Allan Carlson being interviewed on Issues Etc., I kept thinking about the elephant in the room – the one that was never addressed.

Beck the Ecumenical Puppet Master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUxZeEaa7BI

I had not realized to just what extent Glenn Beck was reaching out and engaged in a kind of functional if informal ecumenism. I knew he had made tremendous inroads into the Evangelical sphere deceiving many people into thinking him a Christian. And now apparently he's even gaining traction among Roman Catholics.

Catholic-Evangelical Alliances and the Divisions They Produce

https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/italian-jesuit-magazine-criticizes-political-attitudes-some-us-catholics

Fundamentalism's voice of protest continues to weaken. Evangelicals and Catholics are allies now. The seeds planted by Francis Schaeffer and watered by Chuck Colson – and the architects of Vatican II have come to fruition. For good or ill we've come a long way from Chick tracts and Hislop's The Two Babylons. The last bastions of anti-Catholicism are today found in connection with Ulster and the (equally dubious) heritage of Ian Paisley.