Reality vs Performance: A Glimpse

Jesus said people would hate us, that the servant would always have to endure what the Master first endured. That means we were never meant to fit in. To follow truth is to stand apart–not in pride, but in clarity.

We live in an age where Christianity has become a performance. Politicians invoke Jesus as a campaign slogan, they (un)intentionally pervert the Old Testament to support unsupportable political positions, pastors trade conviction for applause, and believers are told to foster unity and peace–a false one–instead of prepare for battle–the kind fought in the soul, the kind that goes through Christ as King to bring true and lasting peace beyond the circus of rigged elections and a liberty that is under growing surveillance from a State that simply hates us.

Christianity isn’t a mood or a memetic sweep running through our algorithms and electronic screens. It’s not the feels we forget about two weeks later.

The sacramental life refuses any such reduction. It insists that grace is not abstract, that reality is not negotiable, and that truth is not whatever feels safe to say in public. It risks being called a conspiracy theorist among people who have point blank experienced the government and media’s lies through things like Covid and yet still, with every new psyop, swear that there’s no way they could be lying this time. The sacraments remind us that matter, well, matters–that God still breaks into the world through water, wine, bread, oil, and word. In that encounter–that tangible “thing” that is a theological descendant of God’s will to become tangible in the Incarnation himself, that tangible “thing” he created humans to grasp–the illusion collapses. The mask of the age–the false peace, the curated compassion, the hoaxes and pixelated heroes, the digital virtue–all fade before what is real.

Jesus Christ. True God. True Man. Who promised to send the Holy Ghost down to us until the end of time.

False Christianity mimics the language of light while feeding on the energy of deception, because that’s what Lucifer was created as–the angel of light. It promises belonging without repentance, joy without sacrifice, resurrection without the cross, a golden age without Good Friday. That is not faith. It is marketing, pandering, deception.

Whether they are “trying hard” to serve us politically or not. Whether everything they did to a certain point was productive in advancing us and waking us up to deeper truths or not, even though we must stop trusting them now.

All of it–all of it–it is in direct contradiction to the Gospel, to the Acts of the Apostles, to the letters of St Paul.

God works through all things for the good of those who love him, remember. He’ll even take you on a little ride on a politician’s or media man’s coat tail for a time just to bring you back to him.

So let’s ask ourselves: does our life echo the rhythm of grace, or the algorithm of the crowd? The difference isn’t small. It’s the line between symbol and substance, between fantasy and the tangible food from heaven.

The sacramental life doesn’t just speak of truth–it makes truth visible. And that’s precisely why the world hates it. That’s precisely why the enemy wants to take your eyes off of it and put it squarely on those screens. The human race will look at–and to–something–it just depends on what we choose that something to be.

This minute-long video uses the word “Catholic,” because as you know, I am a Traditional Catholic. Please, if you are not Catholic, try to see beyond the divide and apply the words I’ve just shared with you….