[YouTube] ON LOVES, CITIES, & SEEDS—The Historical Battlefield for the Catholic Mind
This perspective on history isn’t for everyone, but it certainly is for the Catholic wondering how and why.
What if history isn’t just something you study—but a battlefield you’re already standing on?
In this opening lecture for this US HISTORY & CATHOLICISM course, we ask the question most history classes never dare to:
Who really decides what “history” means?
Drawing from St Augustine’s “Two Cities” and Genesis 3:15, we expose how narrative warfare has become the weapon of choice in shaping what we remember, what we forget, and what we’re allowed to believe. This episode explores the following and more:
– Why history isn’t a timeline, but a moral battlefield
– How Israel, Iran, Trump, and Americans on both “sides” of the ideological line are caught in a war to capture our memory
– What Augustine’s “two loves” reveal about modern politics, war, and propaganda
– Why Catholics must stop just “finding out the truth” and start exposing the lie beneath
If you control the story, you control the soul, of both a nation and a man and woman.
And while we have always studied in high school pieces of the non-Catholic’s plight in the New World, I don’t know that we’ve done the same for Catholics in America. As a high school teacher I know I never saw it in the state-sponsored textbooks used.
00:00 Opening Quotes
00:14 Introduction and Three Keys to Making History Accessible
1:04 First: History Is Concerned with Particular Facts
2:20 The Catholic Founding of Maryland
8:52 End Maryland Section/Commentary
9:33 Second: History Is Largely Taken on Human Faith
11:58 Narrative Warfare, Overton Window, Fauci, Hunter Biden, French Revolution/Control of the Story
13:31 Recent example: Israel and Iran
15:00 Is God Writing the Script?
15:59 Third: History and Its Causes Are Largely Uncertain
16:26 Mystery and St Augustine’s ‘City of God’: Two Loves, Two Cities
20:19 Genesis 3:15 and the Two Seeds—the Eternal Enmity
22:53 Final Questions and Challenge
