Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from group and his policy goals align with its teachings

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    Oops Dei is hardcore cult within the Catholic Church. And before anyone replies with “the Catholic Church is already a cult”, know that Opus Dei makes conventional Catholicism look like a casual bake sale.

    Opus Dei frequently recruits Catholic teens through ‘youth clubs’ to be ‘numeraries’. They specifically target smart kids who are emotionally vulnerable and/or neuro-divergent, and groom them to join their movement. The goal is to get them fully subservient and brainwashed by the time they are in their late teens. At that point they sequester them in sanctioned housing where every aspect of their lives can be controlled, and they push them hard through college. This is also when they are inducted into the movement as numeraries and pushed into a life of celibacy in complete service of the movement. (There is another type of Opus Dei members called ‘super-numeraries’ who are Catholics recruited as adults after they are married. They are also exploited by the movement, but not to the same degree.)

    After college numeraries remain trapped in this housing and lifestyle. Opus Dei then sends them out to work in conventional jobs (usually higher-paying ones to maximize their income theft). And all of the income the bring in is taken by the movement for their nefarious plans. The relationships of numeraries are totally controlled, to the point where any friends or family members who express concern about their well-being are cut out of their lives. Any emotional trauma or mental illness they have is left untreated, and is exploited by the movement to keep them subservient.

    A numerary’s life is controlled utterly by the movement. As mentioned before, all their income is given to the movement. Their daily schedules are completely controlled. Self-flagilation (not in a fun sexy way) is encouraged to keep them fully-ridden and obedient. And when possible, they are pushed into working with Catholic teens to perpetuate the recruitment and grooming process.

    Opus Dei is a fucking cancer on society. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they are involved in Project 2025.

      • @njm1314
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        123 months ago

        Am I crazy or was that actually Opus Dei in that movie/book?

      • @FanciestPants
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        Anyone’s 2024 politics Bingo card have “IDK, some DaVinci Code shit” on it?

    • @[email protected]
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      I actually have one of those “youth clubs” close to where I live (also close to a university). It’s this huge, modern building full of what looks like hotel rooms from the outside. Only ever saw female teenagers and older ladies there, but yeah it’s hard to get a feeling from the outside of what it is about. For a long time I imagined it was like a correction house or something like that.

      Thank’s for the context!

  • @BetaBlake
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    Oh so he’s a fascist and a fucking idiot

    • @ceenote
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      Funny how often those go together.

    • Rusty Shackleford
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      Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

      - Francis M. Frank Wilhoit

      • @seth
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        It was Frank Wilhoit from Ohio who said it. Francis M. Wilhoit was a political scientist and professor, and an early supporter of the civil rights movement, but he didn’t say that quote. “It’s a great enough quote that it stands on its own and doesn’t need to be misattributed.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

          • @seth
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            Cheers, I only found out bc it made me search for who Francis M. Wilhoit was.

  • finley
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    143 months ago

    What?? The architecture project 2025 is a massive racist? No shit!

  • @kelargo
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    133 months ago

    Does this mean Kevin Roberts is a DEI hire? 🤣😂🤣😂

  • @WhyDoYouPersist
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    I do get like RE4 vibes from him, he’s def one of the guys in cloaks who pulls levers. The levers that launch rolling boulders at Leon and friends.

  • @zerodown
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    Wait, I’ve seen this movie! We need Robert* Langdon to find clues in art to solve this!

  • @DarkDecay
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    83 months ago

    Is this convicted felon, rapist and former twice indicted president donald tRumps project 2025? Color me surprised

  • @gedaliyahM
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    Wow I used to know this conspiracy lady who was into aliens and past lives who used to go ON about Opus Dei being the secret organization stealing kids and controlling the levers of power in the Church and world government. Maybe she was right all along. I just thought she had an active imagination!

  • @RizzRustbolt
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    33 months ago

    Do they have any proof of this?

    Oh wait… yeah it’s right there in the picture on his lapel.

  • The Assman
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    Radical Catholics? I’m picturing Ned Flanders on a skateboard.