I am often asked why I seem so angry, why I am so militantly counter-revolutionary, why I am so radical and extreme, and why my zeal often seems to border on a kind of hatred.>In this essay, I will attempt not only to answer that question, but hopefully to show why it is the only reasonable Catholic reaction. At the outset, I also want to state for the record that this reaction does not exclude praying for your enemies, seeking their conversion, and following the other instructions we have been given by Christ, but rather complements them. Sometimes, the same people who want to shout “pray for your enemies” seem to forget that God also said friendship with the world makes you His enemy; that Christ drove the money changers out of the temple with a whip; that David said the Lord prepares his hands for war; and that God instructed the Israelites, rightly, to commit genocide.>But in order to explain my present position and disposition, I will once again have to revisit my past.

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