Algorithms Prove The Point - Christmas Confirms It!

...just as one wrong character can corrupt an entire program, so one false teaching; even one, corrupts the integrity of the Faith, for the Creed stands or falls as one seamless garment of truth, woven by the Word made flesh.

Prologue

There is something particularly beautiful and consoling about Truth and true principles: they do not admit of contradictions; whether applied in the field of science or in the realm of religion. Truth is one, coherent, and internally harmonious. And the awareness of this universality breeds serenity and calmness in the one who knows, and not merely thinks or feels, that he stands on the side of Truth and true principles in any disagreement.

This serenity is eminently Christmas-like.

For Christmas is not the feast of religious sentimentality, but of the Incarnation of Objective Truth. Not a feeling clothed in poetry, not a flexible message open to private interpretation, but the Eternal Logos, the Divine Reason, entering history in time, space, and flesh. At Bethlehem, Truth did not scatter itself into many opinions; it took a body, a name, a doctrine, and a Kingdom.

For the purposes of this article, I have found the objectivity of computer algorithms a handy reference. An algorithm is not an opinion; it is logic embodied. It either works, or it fails. It tolerates no contradiction. And this mirrors the very structure of Christian revelation, which is not a loose collection of pious ideas, but a precise and divinely revealed system of truth.

Recently, after I published a brief pastoral instruction intended for the edification of any self-acclaimed apostle whom Divine Providence might lead to encounter it, I received a lengthy response that concluded with what can only be called a classic modern counsel, one I was urged to ponder. It reads thus:

Leave the modernized Catholics with their believes and practices, they are not disturbing anyone or condemning any Church or groups, no one should disturb or condemned them, leave the Pentecostal, face the pagans and focus on your own denomination and preach the gospel to get souls save that's the most important thing and the basis of our callings.

....Jesus is coming, let him not meet you disputing over Church founding and who is called and not called, when you should be preaching his gospel to get men saved.

This is not a new counsel as such. These past few years of my Priestly apostolate I have received this same counsel under different disguises but with the same poison at its core. And precisely because Christ has already come; because He was born at Christmas as Truth Incarnate,  such counsels must be judged, not by tone or intention, but by objective fidelity to what that Child revealed and founded.

Step by step, therefore, let us use the objectivity of a computer algorithm as an analogy to uncover the deep errors concealed within such “counsels,” errors that directly contradict the mystery we celebrate at Christmas.

1. The Counsel x-rayed

Thinking, I have thought on the counsel. And, examined by the perennial and integral teaching of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, the Mystical Body of the Word made Flesh, it stands exposed for the following underlying errors:

1. Religious Indifferentism – it treats all denominations as equally valid, denying the uniqueness of the Catholic Church as the only True Church. 

2. Doctrinal Relativism – implies that belief and practice are personal matters, not subject to objective truth or correction.

3. False Notion of Peace – prefers outward peace and tolerance over fidelity to revealed truth, ignoring Christ’s command to “teach all nations.”

4. Rejection of the Church’s Mission to Convert – suggests leaving others in error rather than bringing them to the true Faith.

5. Neglect of Spiritual Works of Mercy – denies the duty to instruct the ignorant and correct the erring, which are acts of true charity.

6. False Distinction of species of unbelief: “Face the pagans” - as though Modernists and protestant heretics were not themselves spiritually pagan by their denial of divine authority, and thus embody species of unbelief.

7. False Separation Between Evangelization and Doctrine – opposes preaching the gospel to defending the true Faith, as though they were different missions.

8. Subjectivism – assumes every “denomination” can have its own version of truth and calling, making religion a matter of personal experience.

9. Misuse of the Second Coming – uses “Jesus is coming” to discourage doctrinal vigilance, though Scripture commands us to watch against false teachers.

10. Denial of Ecclesial Authority – rejects the Church’s divine right and duty to judge, correct, and condemn error.

11. False Understanding of Salvation – reduces “getting souls saved” to emotional belief, ignoring the necessity of belonging to the one true Church and receiving the sacraments.

12. Contradiction - He says, “Do not condemn anyone,” yet he condemns those who defend the Catholic Faith. He tells the watchman to be silent and calls it tolerance, but his own command proves intolerant. His logic destroys itself.

Imagine that that short counsel is a "legion" of errors: indifferentism, false charity, relativism, denial of the Church’s mission, and the rejection of Christ’s kingship — all marching under a banner that sounds humble but is, in truth, rebellion wrapped in piety. That is what to expect when protestantism, and Modernism, has happened to someone... 

2. The Algorithm Analogy

Any computer literate person knows that an algorithm is not a vague suggestion, but a strict chain of logic: objective, precise, and unchangeable. The machine does not care about your feelings, your good intentions, or your zeal. Its verdict is simple:

• Correct algorithm gives correct output.
• Flawed algorithm gives  wrong output, regardless of sincerity.

Now imagine a man who says:

 “Don’t worry about which algorithm is correct. Just let everyone write his own code. Don’t dispute over syntax, don’t argue over structure, just keep typing and hope it runs. What matters is enthusiasm!”

Every programmer smiles at the folly. Computers are coldly impartial. One misplaced semicolon, one wrong command, and the entire program collapses. No amount of cheerleading, clapping, or sincerity can compel the machine to produce the right result.

So too with the Christian Faith. Christ is not the author of confusion but of order. He gave one Truth, one Church, one Baptism, one Eucharist. (Eph. 4:4–5). The Gospel is not a collection of religious codes where each man improvises his own style and still expects Heaven to compile it into salvation. It is a definite revelation, with precise doctrines, divinely instituted sacraments, and an unbroken authority guarded by the Church through the ages.

Sincerity, without truth, saves no one. 

• A man may write code with tears in his eyes and sweat on his brow, but if the logic is wrong, the output is still false. 
• In the same way, a soul may be fervent in error, zealous in a false creed, but zeal cannot sanctify heresy. A counterfeit baptism, a corrupted liturgy, a man-made gospel; these remain as useless as corrupted code.

This is why the Church, from the Apostles down to the Popes of every age, has never said:

 “Leave each religion alone, don’t dispute over who is right, just preach vaguely and hope God accepts all.”

 No! That is the counsel of indifferentism, not of Christ. Some say so today bearing the Catholic Name. They are modernist impostors, ecclesiastical intruders, false prophets, wolves in sheep's clothing, and their pitiful victims.

Christ commanded: 

“Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:20). 

He did not send us to scatter random code, but to hand down the exact program of salvation.

You see? Uncompromising Catholic Priest who disputes falsehood is not wasting time, but doing the necessary debugging of souls. He is the faithful programmer who insists that only the correct algorithm; the Catholic Faith in its fullness, will ever compile into eternal life.

3. Applying to the Catholic Faith

• Objective principle: Christ founded one Church (Matt. 16:18; Eph. 4:4–5). Not a vague collection of groups.
• Sacraments have matter and form. As algorithms require exact syntax, sacraments require exact words, signs, and ministerial intention. Without these, there is no valid effect.
• Doctrine cannot be mixed. As a single wrong symbol breaks a program, so one heresy corrupts the faith.

Thus, saying “just preach and ignore doctrine and Church foundation” is equivalent to saying “just keep typing random code, don’t care about correctness, the machine will eventually save the file by itself.” Impossible.  The machine is merciless with errors, and Heaven is unbending with falsehood.

Truth in logic, truth in sacrament, truth in doctrine: these stand like pillars of steel. As only the right algorithm yields the right output, so only the Catholic Faith, whole and uncorrupted, leads to eternal life.

In the light of the objective revealed truth, the counsel is a cesspool of the following dangers:

• False Peace. “Don’t dispute” wears the mask of peace, but it is only a gag over the mouth of truth. Peace without truth is like a calm sea that hides a whirlpool beneath: smooth on the surface, deadly in the depths.
• Indifferentism. By saying “leave everyone alone,” the counsel quietly places every creed on the same level, as if Christ’s one Ark were no safer than the sinking rafts of men. It is the lie of equality where God has decreed exclusivity: one Lord, one faith, one baptism (Eph. 4:5).
• Subjectivism. “What matters is just preaching, not doctrine.” That is like telling a builder, “Don’t worry about blueprints, just pile bricks enthusiastically.” The house collapses, no matter how sincere the laborer. In faith, as in architecture, foundations matter more than fervor.

The counsel is like a programmer saying:

 “Don’t test for bugs, don’t check your outputs, just keep coding; it will all run fine.”

But the untested code will certainly crash, and the unchecked faith will certainly damn.

A sure guarantee of failure.

The true disciple does not silence truth in the name of peace. He does not flatten all religions into one swamp of indifference. He does not exchange doctrine for vague enthusiasm. He does not contradict himself by punishing fidelity. He holds fast to the one correct code; the Catholic Faith, because only that compiles into eternal life.

4. What A Catholic Priest Must Do

Uncompromising a Catholic Priest must insist:

• Truth is objective, like logic in computation.
• The Gospel is not generic, but definite: “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Eph. 4:5).
• Disputing falsehood is not distraction; it is fidelity to Christ.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. (Gal. 1: 8,9)

Our Lord will not judge us by how peacefully we avoided disputes, but by how faithfully we kept and defended the truth He revealed.(cf. Gal. 1:8–9).

Silence in the face of error is not charity but betrayal.

It is not peace at any price that Christ commands, but fidelity at every cost.

6. Christmas and the Scandal of Particular Truth

Christmas itself refutes the counsel.

If God wished religion to be vague, tolerant of contradiction, and accommodating to every creed, the Incarnation would have been unnecessary. God could have left mankind with natural religion, subjective sincerity, and well-meaning enthusiasm. Instead, He did the most intolerant thing imaginable to modern sensibilities:

• He entered history at a precise time,
• in a precise place,
• born of a particular Virgin,
• into a particular people,
• to found a particular Church,
• teaching particular doctrines,
• instituting particular sacraments,
• and commanding all nations to submit to His Kingship.

Christmas is the feast of divine specificity.

The Child in the manger is not an idea; He is the Truth made visible. He does not say, “I am one truth among many,” but “I am the Truth” (John 14:6). The shepherds were not told, “Follow whatever light suits you,” but were given a sign: “You shall find the Infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger” (Luke 2:12). The Magi were not encouraged to invent their own route; they were guided by a star and warned in a dream against false paths.

Thus, from its very first chapter, Christianity is anti-indifferentist.

To say at Christmas, “Leave all denominations alone; just preach vaguely,” is to insult the very logic of the Incarnation. The Word became flesh precisely because error kills and truth saves. The manger already casts a shadow of the Cross, and both proclaim the same lesson: salvation is not achieved by goodwill alone, but by adherence to revealed truth.

• Herod also wanted “peace.”
• The world always does.
• But the peace of Christmas is not the peace of silence before error; it is the peace that comes from truth embraced and defended, even when it provokes contradiction. Simeon foretold it plainly:

“Behold, this Child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted” (Luke 2:34).

• A Christ who is not contradicted is not the Christ of Christmas.

Therefore, when a Catholic priest refuses to “leave all groups alone,” when he insists on doctrine, Church foundation, sacramental validity, and objective truth, he is not betraying Christmas; he is defending it. He is guarding the Child in the manger from being dissolved into a symbol, reduced to sentiment, or reprogrammed into a generic religious mascot.

Just as one wrong character corrupts an entire program, so one tolerated heresy corrupts the integrity of the Faith. And Christmas itself proclaims that God does not save by approximations, but by the exact Word made flesh.

6. Summing Up

Algorithms prove the point: truth is not many, but one.

And Christmas confirms it.

• If one wrong character can destroy an entire program, then one false teaching can destroy a creed. 
• If one must test and correct algorithms, then one must test and correct doctrines. 
• The Incarnation itself proclaims this principle, for at Christmas God did not send a vague inspiration, a flexible sentiment, or a collection of religious possibilities. He sent His Word; the Word - made flesh.

Bethlehem is Heaven’s definitive refutation of indifferentism.

The Eternal Logos entered history not approximately, but precisely. He did not take on “humanity in general,” but flesh from the Virgin Mary. He did not preach a broad spirituality, but definite doctrines. He did not found many paths, but one Church, guarded by authority, sacraments, and creed. Thus, Christmas teaches what logic already knows: truth tolerates no contradiction.

Pope Leo XIII insisted:

“The Arians, the Montanists, the Novatians, the Quartodecimans, the Eutychians, and others of this kind certainly did not reject all Catholic doctrine: they abandoned only a certain portion of it. Nevertheless, who does not know that they were declared heretics and banished from the bosom of the Church? … The Arians denied only the consubstantiality of the Son; the others, in different ways, each corrupted some portion of the revealed doctrine; but all alike ceased to be Christians and lost every title to the name.”. (Satis Cognitum, 1896, §9)

This judgment is not harshness; it is fidelity to the logic of the Incarnation. For if the Child in the manger is truly God, then every doctrine touching Him matters absolutely. To corrupt even one article of the Faith is to tamper with the very code of salvation, just as surely as altering one character corrupts an entire program.

Therefore, to “leave all groups alone,” to silence doctrinal correction in the name of peace, is as reckless as refusing to debug broken code; and far more deadly. It is to betray the Child of Bethlehem by dissolving His truth into sentiment, His doctrine into opinion, and His Church into a crowd of competing errors.

• Christmas does not soften truth; it embodies it.
• Christmas does not excuse error; it exposes it.
• Christmas does not bless approximation; it demands exactitude.

Thus, just as one wrong character can corrupt an entire program, so one false teaching; even one, corrupts the integrity of the Faith, for the Creed stands or falls as one seamless garment of truth, woven by the Word made flesh.

Therefore, the counsel examined throughout this article is not harmless advice but destructive poison. A Catholic priest, uncompromising like the skilled programmer and faithful like the shepherds of Bethlehem, must insist on the right logic: the Faith handed down by Christ, guarded by His one true Church, because only that Faith; whole, unaltered, and defended, can infallibly produce the true end for which man was created: eternal life.