"For Greater Glory" Thoughts [Ann Barnhardt Movie Review]

I saw the movie "For Greater Glory" yesterday. I recommend seeing it. It was quite good, although it didn't go far enough in driving home the brutality of the Cristero War. It was more than people being hung and shot. It was rape and unspeakable torture - and please never forget that rape is a near-universal phenomenon in war, particularly amongst non-Christians and anti-Christians. The rape is probably the thing I dread the most about the upcoming war here in the U.S. This is going to be different. It isn't going to be armies of conscripted men in organized campaigns. This is going to be hell unleashed - the demonic against absolutely everything, in a war of attrition.

The hip-hop culture is one of the most satanic, brutal, disgusting collections of human foulness ever seen on earth. When I look back at history and see that men in relatively benign and stable cultures gleefully turned to rape as soon as the Rule of Law disappeared and they knew that they could get away with it, the pangs of dread in the pit of my stomach begin. The hip-hop culture is like a foreign exchange program from hell itself. Those people are so demonically influenced and their humanity so reduced that they are like ravenous animals just waiting behind a grate to be loosed on the populace - and this culture has all been cultivated and brought to its satanic fullness before the hot war even breaks out. When you look at rap music, with its satanic, pornographic lyrics and culture of near-constant animalistic, inhuman sex, and you combine that with the fact that many hip-hop culture men who have spent time in prison are already very comfortable with homosexual sex acts and homosexual rape, you realize that everyone will be a rape target - women, children (including infants) and men. If the Mexican Federales, who were mostly men raised in a far more stable culture than today's inner-cities, raped nuns without hesitation, then you all need to face and prepare for the reality of the far-worse hell that is coming soon to a subdivision near you.

If you want a good run-down of the Cristero War, here is a link to an excellent sermon from a Tridentine Mass priest on the subject. It is about 30 minutes long. When you're done listening to this, please remember that this was a run-of-the-mill Sunday sermon. This is what Sunday sermons are supposed to be. Now compare this to the intellectually insipid and/or clownish pablum of most Novus Ordo homilies and sermons, and certainly the unquantifiable stupidity of Superfun Rockband church "messages", and hopefully, again, you will begin to understand what it is that you are missing - what has been robbed from you.

That sermon was preached on October 9, AD 2011, and already it is stunningly prophetic.

But before we go into the direct correlations, I looked up Roger Ebert's review of "For Greater Glory" yesterday, just out of curiosity. Ebert is a Chicago uber-leftist who, after reading his review of the movie, I now know is literally brainwashed and no longer able to think or reason clearly - and that's always scary to see. This is a consistent problem with uber-leftists in the end-stages of their "revolutions", as Marxism and totalitarianism DEMAND that its sycophants deny reality and suspend all logical thought. To wit, Ebert. He actually gave the movie a good review, but then made the jaw-droppingly idiotic criticism that the only religion portrayed was Catholicism. It was all Catholic, Catholic, Catholic. There was no mention of any of the world's other religions, and thus the movie had no "credibility." How dare anyone release a movie in which Catholicism and Catholics are the subject? Ebert criticised "For Greater Glory" because it did not present the Cristero War from the perspective of the Buddhists, Hindus and Baha'i in Mexico in 1926. You know, because a declared war against the CATHOLIC CHURCH and CATHOLICS in a nation that was more than 95% Catholic should, in proper self-loathing political correctness, IGNORE and REMOVE all references to CATHOLICISM.

Do you see how far gone these people are? It is no longer sufficient to merely HATE Jesus Christ and His Church. No, we are now to the point where the Marxists demand that everyone deny the very existence of Christ and His Church. Jesus Christ is now "he who must not be named." I wonder if Ebert said the same thing about "Kundun"? Shouldn't the 1997 biopic of the 14th Dalai Lama have been told from the perspective of the Maori animists, or Mormons living in Tibet, you know, in order to be ... credible? It was all Buddhists, Buddhists, Buddhists. Right, Ebert? Oh, but wait. That's different, because only Christianity is to be reviled and purged from history in a self-loathing nutty-fit.

Well, I guess when everything you believe in is a lie from the blackest pit of hell, the Truth of Heaven is the enemy, and must be quashed. Right, Ebert? Hey, if anyone wants to make a cool billion dollars, all you need to do is make a movie about the Cristero War with no Catholics. Ebert will give you four stars. If you make the heroic victors muslim, I'll bet you'll win the Oscar for Best Picture!
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"For Greater Glory" Thoughts Part 2

Finally, just a bit on the parallels. Rush Limbaugh remarked on this on Thursday or Friday, and he is right. There is nothing new under the sun. What the satanic Obama regime is doing is exactly what every other Communist and proto-Communist tyranny has tried to do: destroy the Catholic Church. The French tried it during the French Revolution and before they were done, 450,000 people were dead. The Bolshevik Mexican government patterned their tactical progression against the Church off of the French genocide of the Vendee. The Obama regime is patterning itself off of the French, Soviet, German, Chinese and Mexican wars against the Church.

All of these satanic tyrannies required priests and bishops to swear an oath of loyalty to the regime or the revolution or be killed. What this accomplished was setting up a faux-Church that was nothing more than a temporary client and propaganda arm of the government in order to mollify the people and consolidate power before completely exterminating all appearances of religion. Remember, satan does not share power. Communists demand TOTAL fealty.

The interesting thing in the Communist-Obamaist overthrow of the U.S. is the fact that oaths are meaningless in this culture, already massively degraded and degenrated by Communist infiltration over the last 50 years. So, the Obama regime is probably never going to summon the Catholic bishops to the oval office and make them swear a loyalty oath to Obama, his revolutionary government, or anything else.

But don't be fooled. There is still a juring (oath-taking) process, it is just being presented in a more subtle form. Can you guess what it is?

That's right. It is the HHS mandates. The bishops won't have to SAY that they swear loyalty to the Communist-Obamaist regime. No, the bishops will be expected to assent to the "revolution" by the act of assenting to the regime mandating that all citizens pay for contraception and abortion. Maybe the bishops will get their little "exceptions", but if the faithful have to subsidize child killing and the bishops go along claiming that their little "exception" for themselves is sufficient, it will be a de facto juring. It will be an underhanded demonstration of loyalty to the Communist-Obamaist revolution. If you think about it, you realize that it is exactly the same thing as what the Mexican government demanded the Cristeros say in order to show their loyalty: "Muerte a Cristo Rey", that is, "Death to Christ the King."

Any assent or capitualtion to the HHS mandate is exactly the same thing as shouting "DEATH TO CHRIST THE KING" at high noon in the town square. Excatly the same. Since most of the bishops today are sleazy little men, educated and steeped in Marxism and homosexualism, and ambitious for political power and career advancement, they may just be stupid enough to think that they can get away with politicking their way through this, claiming that a narrow exemption for parish and chancery staff while throwing the laity to the wolves will be able to be spun as a victory.

If that's what they think, they would be dead wrong. You don't treat or parley with satan. You don't "listen" so that "compromise" can be struck with hell itself. The only satisfactory outcome is total and complete victory, and the only reply to the Obama regime is

(Look good and hard at this picture, bishops and priests. This is how a MAN OF GOD dies. Emphasis on the MAN.)

one thing that struck me was that so few people in the US even know that Mexico went through a Communist revolution

And I am sure that even fewer know that the US Government supplied the Mexican Government with weapons, ammo, pilots, and air support against the Cristeros.

BTT

Just came from seeing it. Excellent movie. Thought Andy Garcia's acting to be a little lacking. I hope many see this film and talk about it. Barnhart is right The hhs mandate is out Cristeros War.

I just saw this film yesterday with my two youngest sons (18 and 13) for Father’s Day. It is an extraordinary film (though paced a bit slowly at times) but my 18 year old told me that the reviews were not very good. I told him I didn’t really care about the reviews. After the movie his response was, “I hate it when you are right.” (Kinda warms ol’ dad’s heart, that one.)

Barnhardt is right about the nature of the HHS conscience grab. As we walked out I told my sons that now they can understand why the Bishops answer to Obama’s mandates is not just “No.” but “Hell, no!.” They got it. And we are not even Catholic. Viva Cristo Rey!

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