Is Twitter an Occasion of Sin??? The Voris vs SSPX Furball

JMJ

I took a look at Canon212 yesterday ... and this led me to look at the twitter furball the seems to continually surround Michael Voris, Christine Niles and CMTV.

It's basically MV/CN/CMTV vs anyone who doesn't meet their 'standards' of Catholicism.

On my side, I can make the statement that they don't meet my standards of civility let alone Catholicism.

Based on the venom, anger, frustration, confirmation bias and stupidity that I've seen from all sides I have concluded that twitter contributes to the shallow thought processes of people who react first and ... maybe ... think later.

This is a waste of energy and a death spiral.

I'm glad that I barely got involved in that platform.

I will review some of the tweets below and but my assessment is that Voris is either mistaken, a liar, deluded, ignorant or a person whose spiritual life is in the pits of despair.

Maybe someone else is writing his tweets. Whoever it is, that person has some mental health issues.

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Tradical: Wow, aside from the grammatical errors (he seems to be a little rabid), this doesn't seem to be a Catholic response. Irrespective of what his critics is doing, a Catholic doesn't response with this type of vitriol.

Tradical: This is funny, as Voris goes full-auto on anyone who says anything nice about the SSPX he got called out on it.

Tradical: Here he is spreading FUD and dis-information.

Tradical: "Click bait" ... I see a trend here.

Tradical: Wow, talk about a lie. Fortunately, someone responded with the truth.

Tradical: Even more FUD and lies. This FUD packed tweet accuses traditional Catholics of being schsimatic, xenophobic, Neo-Nazi, anti-semites, who think that the Novus Ordo Sacraments are invalid.

Comments

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