Folks,
Whenever you go into battle, whether spiritual or physical, ensure that you have the right priorities.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Humor - Keep You Battle Priorities Straight
Folks,
Whenever you go into battle, whether spiritual or physical, ensure that you have the right priorities.
Today's Advent Meditation
http://wau.org/meditations/current
Meditation: Matthew 4:18-22
They left their nets and followed him. (Matthew 4:20)
Have you ever been so excited about someone that you wanted to tell everyone you knew about him or her? That’s the way Andrew was about Jesus. John tells us that the first thing Andrew did after meeting Jesus was to introduce his brother Peter to him. “We have found the Messiah,” Andrew announced excitedly (John 1:41).
Whenever we hear about Andrew, we see his faith in action. He is either talking intimately with Jesus or taking someone to meet him. When Jesus fed a large crowd with five loaves and two fishes, it was Andrew who brought the young boy who had the food to Jesus (John 6:8-9). Later, when a group of Greeks asked to see Jesus, it was Andrew who took the message—and the people—to him.
It seems that Andrew was always eager to see what God would do in people’s hearts, always looking out to see how they would respond and be transformed by their time with Jesus. And that’s something worth considering as we begin the Advent season. Advent is, after all, a time of anticipation. Children wait excitedly for Christmas, and we adults wait to see how the holidays will unfold. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could be just as excited about the coming of the Lord—both his coming at the end of time and his coming into the hearts of those who don’t yet know him all that well? Maybe this year we can try to follow Andrew’s example and find ways to tell people about Jesus. Maybe we can even find the courage to offer to pray with them and invite them to welcome Jesus into their hearts!
This doesn’t have to be a difficult task, either. All we have to do is find our own way of saying: “I have met someone so amazing that I simply have to tell you about him.” This Advent, think of someone—perhaps a family member, a friend, or a neighbor—and ask the Spirit to show you how you can invite them to see what it’s like to know Jesus. Follow Andrew’s example, and watch what happens!
“Lord Jesus, give me the excitement and courage of Andrew so that I can witness to you. Let my enthusiasm be like a magnet to draw others to you.”
Romans 10:9-18; Psalm 19:8-11
St. Andrew
The name "Andrew" (Gr., andreia, manhood, or valour), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the second or third century B.C.
St. Andrew, the Apostle, son of Jonah, or John (Matthew 16:17; John 1:42), was born in Bethsaida of Galilee (John 1:44). He was brother of Simon (Peter) (Matthew 10:2; John 1:40). Both were fishermen (Matthew 4:18; Mark 1:16), and at the beginning of Our Lord's public life occupied the same house at Capharnaum (Mark 1:21, 29).
From the fourth Gospel we learn that Andrew was a disciple of the Baptist, whose testimony first led him and John the Evangelist to follow Jesus (John 1:35-40). Andrew at once recognized Jesus as the Messias, and hastened to introduce Him to his brother, Peter, (John 1:41). Thenceforth the two brothers were disciples of Christ. On a subsequent occasion, prior to the final call to the apostolate, they were called to a closer companionship, and then they left all things to follow Jesus (Luke 5:11; Matthew 4:19-20; Mark 1:17-18).
Finally Andrew was chosen to be one of the Twelve; and in the various lists of Apostles given in the New Testament (Matthew 10:2-4); Mark 3:16-19; Luke 6:14-16; Acts 1:13) he is always numbered among the first four. The only other explicit reference to him in the Synoptists occurs in Mark 13:3, where we are told he joined with Peter, James and John in putting the question that led to Our Lord's great eschatological discourse. In addition to this scanty information, we learn from the fourth Gospel that on the occasion of the miraculous feeding of the five thousand, it was Andrew who said: "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes: but what are these among so many?" (John 6:8-9); and when, a few days before Our Lord's death, certain Greeks asked Philip that they might see Jesus, Philip referred the matter to Andrew as to one of greater authority, and then both told Christ (John 12:20-22). Like the majority of the Twelve, Andrew is not named in the Acts except in the list of the Apostles, where the order of the first four is Peter, John, James, Andrew; nor have the Epistles or the Apocalypse any mention of him.
From what we know of the Apostles generally, we can, of course, supplement somewhat these few details. As one of the Twelve, Andrew was admitted to the closest familiarity with Our Lord during His public life; he was present at the Last Supper; beheld the risen Lord; witnessed the Ascension; shared in the graces and gifts of the first Pentecost, and helped, amid threats and persecution, to establish the Faith in Palestine.
When the Apostles went forth to preach to the Nations, Andrew seems to have taken an important part, but unfortunately we have no certainty as to the extent or place of his labours. Eusebius (Church History III.1), relying, apparently, upon Origen, assigns Scythia as his mission field: Andras de [eilechen] ten Skythian; while St. Gregory of Nazianzus (Oration 33) mentions Epirus; St. Jerome (Ep. ad Marcell.) Achaia; and Theodoret (on Ps. cxvi) Hellas. Probably these various accounts are correct, for Nicephorus (H.E. II:39), relying upon early writers, states that Andrew preached in Cappadocia, Galatia, and Bithynia, then in the land of the anthropophagi and the Scythian deserts, afterwards in Byzantium itself, where he appointed St. Stachys as its first bishop, and finally in Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly, and Achaia. It is generally agreed that he was crucified by order of the Roman Governor, Aegeas or Aegeates, at Patrae in Achaia, and that he was bound, not nailed, to the cross, in order to prolong his sufferings. The cross on which he suffered is commonly held to have been the decussate cross, now known as St. Andrew's, though the evidence for this view seems to be no older than the fourteenth century. His martyrdom took place during the reign of Nero, on 30 November, A.D. 60); and both the Latin and Greek Churches keep 30 November as his feast.
St. Andrew's relics were translated from Patrae to Constantinople, and deposited in the church of the Apostles there, about A.D. 357. When Constantinople was taken by the French, in the beginning of the thirteenth century, Cardinal Peter of Capua brought the relics to Italy and placed them in the cathedral of Amalfi, where most of them still remain. St. Andrew is honoured as their chief patron by Russia and Scotland.
Climate Change Scientists Admit Dumping Data
Folks,
Climate Change Scientists Admit Dumping Data. Please left click your mouse cursor on the aforementioned web link to read further about this. It looks like the religion of anthropogenic global warming has suffered a stabbing wound. I hope it's fatal.
It is regrettable that these are the kinds of people which the American public voted into political ascendency during the last Presidential election.
Father Philip Neri Powell at the Domine, Da Mihi Hanc Aquam blogsite has two good entries on this issue that are well worth reviewing:
The truth of the matter is that every time a so-called "scientific expert" liberal Democrat opens his mouth (especially about climate change), he is invariably fabricating the data, the results, or both. NEVER trust a liberal. NEVER.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Consequences of Abortion
This is what the prophet Amos says about what happens to a country which engages in abortion. Let he who has ears hear and he who has eyes see.
This is what the LORD says:
"For three sins of Ammon,
even for four, I will not turn back {my wrath}.
Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead
in order to extend his borders,
I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah
that will consume her fortresses
amid war cries on the day of battle,
amid violent winds on a stormy day.
Her king will go into exile,
he and his officials together,"
says the LORD.
Amos 1:13-15 (NIV)
Today's Advent Meditation
http://wau.org/meditations/current/
Meditation: Luke 21:25-28,34-36
They will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud. (Luke 21:27)
Don’t you find it strange that today’s Gospel reading would focus on the end times and not Christmas? But as confusing as this may seem at first, it really is quite appropriate. In many ways, there are a lot of similarities between Christmas and the Second Coming.
First, there is the obvious similarity that both events are marked by the coming of Jesus. It’s true that he came as a baby at Christmas, and at the Second Coming, he will come as a conquering king. But in both instances, it’s still Jesus, the all-holy Son of God, who is breaking into our finite, limited world.
Second, in both instances Jesus comes to bring the kingdom of God. At Christmas, he came to inaugurate that kingdom through his preaching, his miracles, his death, and his resurrection. At the Second Coming, he will bring to fulfillment what he began at Christmas. All sin and suffering will be wiped away, and we will enter into eternal life with all the angels and saints.
Finally, both Christmas and the Second Coming are times of excitement mixed with awe. At Christmas, we hear angels singing, see a magnificent star, and watch Herod tremble with fear. At the Second Coming, the heavens will open to reveal Jesus, shining like the sun, and all who are opposed to him will face his judgment. Both are times of great hope that call us to examine our own lives.
So as Advent begins, ask yourself who Jesus is for you. Is he just a little baby in a manger? Or is he also the Suffering Servant who gave up his life to set you free from sin and death? Is he the Lord of all creation, who is coming back to bring his faithful people to heaven? May God open our eyes this season so that we can see Jesus in a new way and be transformed by what we see!
“Jesus, I want to dedicate this season to seeing you more fully. Come, Lord, and make me ready to greet you when you come again!”
Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:4-5,8-10,14; 1 Thessalonians 3:12–4:2
Friday, November 27, 2009
Hubble Ultra Deep Field Images
Folks,
Please watch the video below or go to "Hubble Ultra Deep Field 3D".
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" Psalm 8:3-4
White House Science Czar Involved in Climategate
Folks,
It looks like White House Science Czar Is Involved in Climategate. Dr. John P. Holdren whom Barack Hussein Obama appointed as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap. Note that "Dr. Holdren has a history of alarmingly extremist views. He co-authored a 1977 book, 'Ecoscience: Population Resources, Environment,' advocating compulsory abortion for purposes of population control, mass sterilization, government-dictated family size like China’s one-child policy, and a 'planetary regime' to be policed by the United Nations." This is the kind of person whom liberal Democrats support - an advocator of murder and a glorifier of goddess Gaia.
I can only hope and pray that this global warming scandal unravels the Obama Presidency even further and exposes him for the little anti-Christ that he is.
Reaping the Whirlwind
Folks,
It looks like Dubai is in deep water as ripples from debt crisis spread. Dubai is part of a federation of seven Emirates in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the coast of the Arabian penisula in the Persian Gulf. Apparently it can no longer pay interest payments on the 80 billion dollars in loans it took out to build its famous artificial islands.
This crisis is now sparking renewed fears of bank collapses throughout the world. It also cannot bode well for the UAE's future plans to build GE-Hitachi Economically Simplified Boiling Water Reactors (ESBWR) or Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR), or Areva's European Pressurized Water Reactors (EPR).I will add that with the trillions of dollars in debt that Obamolech has added to the US budget deficit, our chances of financing multi-billion dollar new nuclear power plants decreases immeasurably. I will remind all the so-called pro-nuclear power folk who are liberal (what an oxyomoronic phrase that is - like a pro-abortion Catholic!) that this is in large measure their fault. Apparently billions of dollars in cash for clunkers and a million murdered babies every year was more important to them so that they could get THE ONE elected.
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians 6:7.
We have sown the whirlwind. We shall now reap the whirlwind. The Dubai crisis is but part of a much larger crisis that has just begun. Be prepared to choke on coal fumes and then be denied government health care because your life not worth saving. God is NOT mocked!
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Recent News
Folks,
Mencius Moldbug has an excellent discussion on Climategate and Other Correspondence at his Unqualified Reservations blogsite. I feel obligated, however, to warn the reader that while Mencius' essays are well worth reading, he can be even more long-winded than I; so reader be forewarned.
The Catholic Culture web site has a brief article discussing how American nuns mount an almost universal resistance to the Vatican's inquiry. More information about this visitation can be found at the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States. It does not surprise me in the least that the liberal democrat Leadership Conference of Women Religious refuses to obey. Indeed, the LCWR Statement on Health Care Reform doesn't even once mention the opposition of the USCCB to abortion in the national health care bill in Congress. However, the LCWR statement does go on to talk about "pursuing the common good and preserving pluralism", "the complexity of the issues", and "the need for genuine civil discourse." Here's my civil discourse to them and all liberal so-called Catholics: "Repent and obey Holy Mother Church, or get out and join the Episcopalian gay and women priests and bishops."
The Curt Jester web site reports Discontinuing of CCHD collection by five bishops. It looks like the "liberal democrat, social justice, peace at any price" wing of the Church is suffering a well deserved beating, as are the eco-wacko opportunists with their global warming scam. CCHD is simply but sadly just another Marxist front group like the global warming Al Gore advocates.
Climate Gate
Folks,
It looks like the Climategate Affair is "heating up"; the post below is from Dr. Pournelle's Chaos Manor web site. Perhaps NEI Nuclear Notes and Atomic Insights would like to question their support of the liberal left at this point. Being composed of engineers and scientists, they should respect real science. However, I doubt it; their hubris in supporting Obamolech and atheist humanism is too great. Sad - there's enough uranium and thorium to provide low cost, pollution-free energy to Earth's for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years. Ingratiation with the godless is more important than the truth.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
The ClimateGate Affair heats up. See the Wall Street Journal editorial, "Global Warming with the Lid Off".
It's getting pretty clear what happened. These academics, who were influential in framing the UN climate report on which most of the political decisions on what to do about man-made global warming depend, became alarmed when the data over the past few years didn't support the predictions of their models. At this point they had a choice: to accept the new data and see what that did to the theory, or simply to cover it up because they were convinced the basic theory was correct and the issue was too important to allow the theory to come under serious doubt.
Among those involved was Mann whose "hockey stick" conclusions were the most dramatic argument for immediate action, and who apparently so strongly believed in all this that he thought himself justified in ignoring or blackguarding critics, and who has said he doesn't have to show either his data or his methods. Eventually the more rational elements in the "consensus" theory abandoned the hockey stick as an artifact of data selection and manipulation, and I think that's now the "consensus" on Mann's hockey stick. Now, it appears, the passionate belief in the "consensus" theory spread far beyond Mann.
Now much of this comes out in the form of public exposure of emails published by a whistle blower who hacked into some of the servers used by part of the academic community that generates and supports the "consensus" theory. These emails make it clear that at least part of the "consensus" theory is promulgated and defended by credentialed scientists who don't act as scientists at all. They are advocates.
It also seems Mr. Mann and his friends weren't averse to blacklisting scientists who disputed some of their contentions, or journals that published their work. "I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal," goes one email, apparently written by Mr. Mann to several recipients in March 2003. "Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal."
Mr. Mann's main beef was that the journal had published several articles challenging aspects of the anthropogenic theory of global warming.
And like many advocates think that poisoning the well is a proper tactic to win the case.
This is not science; and the world ought not spend trillions of dollars on the recommendation of these "consensus scientists." Science must look at all the data, not find ways to suppress that which doesn't fit.
Justin Cardinal Rigali: Catholic Politicians CANNOT Support Health Care with Abortion
Folks,
Justin Cardinal Rigali of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia emphatically stated that no Catholic can vote for a health care bill that carries abortion. See link Cardinal Rigali: No Health Care with Abortion or video below. I do hope that Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Kennedy, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Patrick Leahy and every other apostate Catholic politician sits up and takes notice. To support abortion and then to partake of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is to eat and drink damnation to one's immortal soul.
George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation
Folks,
Here is our first President's Thanksgiving Proclamation. How opposite and ungodly is the current holder of his seat in the Oval Office!
Thanksgiving Proclamation
[New York, 3 October 1789]
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions-- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us--and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go: Washington
How Did Thanksgiving Begin?
Folks,
Here is Abraham Lincoln's Declaration of Thanksgiving as National Holiday. Contrary to what the atheist humanist holds, thanks is given NOT to Country but to God. The United States of America was founded as a Christian Constitutional Republic, NOT as a secular atheist national demokracy. We owe our thanks to God. It is hubris of the worst sort to assume that the freedoms and prosperity that we currently enjoy are due to the mere work of mortal hands. Let us therefore give thanks to the King of kings and Lord of lords!
Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the settlers at Plymouth in the Massachusetts colony in 1621 under the leadership of Governor William Bradford. Washington and Madison each issued a Thanksgiving proclamation once during their Presidencies. It was not until 1863, however, when Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation that the holiday was established as a national annual event, occurring on the last Thursday of November. The first observance of the national holiday came one week after the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg. The language of the proclamation is beautiful and marked by a rare felicity of expression.
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the everwatchful providence of almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and provoke their aggressions, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Stated States to be affixed.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION, OCTOBER 3, 1863.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Does God Love the Atheist?
Folks,
Our atheist detractor of inexhaustion is at it again. I have to assume by this point that perhaps the Holy Spirit is tugging at his heart. Let's be perfectly clear: Yes! God DOES love the atheist.
BUT when the atheist is told the truth - that his wilful rejection of God damns him to hell - he automatically claims that the messenger hates him. Well, neither the messenger nor the subject of the message (i.e., God Himself) hate him. Rather, in rejecting God, the atheist rejects Truth and Love, and thus betrays his own self-hatred, hence his own self-condemnation to hell.
St. John addresses this so well in verses 14 through 21 of the third chapter of his epistle:
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
Again, it isn't the person truly devout to our Lord and savior who are arrogant, but the atheist who places more faith in his own fallible reasoning than he does in the self-evidence of God. As Romans 1:20-22 states:
Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools...
God loves each one of us. But if any of us reject Him, then we damn ourselves to hell. God won't send us there; we send ourselves.
Our atheist detractor of inexhaustion is at it again. I have to assume by this point that perhaps the Holy Spirit is tugging at his heart. Let's be perfectly clear: Yes! God DOES love the atheist.
BUT when the atheist is told the truth - that his wilful rejection of God damns him to hell - he automatically claims that the messenger hates him. Well, neither the messenger nor the subject of the message (i.e., God Himself) hate him. Rather, in rejecting God, the atheist rejects Truth and Love, and thus betrays his own self-hatred, hence his own self-condemnation to hell.
St. John addresses this so well in verses 14 through 21 of the third chapter of his epistle:
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.
Again, it isn't the person truly devout to our Lord and savior who are arrogant, but the atheist who places more faith in his own fallible reasoning than he does in the self-evidence of God. As Romans 1:20-22 states:
Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools...
God loves each one of us. But if any of us reject Him, then we damn ourselves to hell. God won't send us there; we send ourselves.
Whom Do Atheists and Agnostics Thank on Thanksgiving?
Folks,
I am curious about one thing which perhaps our ever intrepid detractor might answer:
Whom do atheists and agnostics, followers of pure reason and logic, thank on Thanksgiving Day?
Themselves? How arrogant!
Other mere mortal men as themselves? How foolish!
If all there is is pure reason, then don't take the Holiday off from work. Get yourself back to work and do something useful, for to you there is no God, only your own vaunted ability to reason. Again, how arrogant.
Psalm 14:1, "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good."
P.S., To all those followers of pure reason and logic, you are quite insistent on sexual promiscuity without responsibility or accountability. Quite emotional of you, and quite illogical. "Mr. Spock" would find your reasoning faulty, to say the least.
I am curious about one thing which perhaps our ever intrepid detractor might answer:
Whom do atheists and agnostics, followers of pure reason and logic, thank on Thanksgiving Day?
Themselves? How arrogant!
Other mere mortal men as themselves? How foolish!
If all there is is pure reason, then don't take the Holiday off from work. Get yourself back to work and do something useful, for to you there is no God, only your own vaunted ability to reason. Again, how arrogant.
Psalm 14:1, "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good."
P.S., To all those followers of pure reason and logic, you are quite insistent on sexual promiscuity without responsibility or accountability. Quite emotional of you, and quite illogical. "Mr. Spock" would find your reasoning faulty, to say the least.
The Global Warming Scam
Folks,
Apparently the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia, England has been engaging in a program of deliberate disinformation on global warming. E-Mails from global warming researchers that document their intent to mislead the public the world over may be found at the following index:
Alleged CRU E-mails - Searchable
Now I expect this sort of thing from true blue liberal atheist humanists. I did NOT expect this effort at promoting the scare of global warming to also be promoted by the nuclear energy professionals at NEI Nuclear Notes or Adams Atomic Insights. We need nuclear energy so that we can supply low cost, pollution-free energy to everyone on Earth, but using the lie of global warming caused by man is disingenuous at best. Furthermore, as long as the liberals are in power in Washington, DC, we will have neither new nuclear power plants nor a cessation of "global warming", but we will have a whole lot of government subsidies for useless wind mills that provide zero electricity on hot, windless summer days, and shiny solar panels that provide zero electricity on cloudy, snow-covered winter days.
Apparently the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia, England has been engaging in a program of deliberate disinformation on global warming. E-Mails from global warming researchers that document their intent to mislead the public the world over may be found at the following index:
Alleged CRU E-mails - Searchable
Now I expect this sort of thing from true blue liberal atheist humanists. I did NOT expect this effort at promoting the scare of global warming to also be promoted by the nuclear energy professionals at NEI Nuclear Notes or Adams Atomic Insights. We need nuclear energy so that we can supply low cost, pollution-free energy to everyone on Earth, but using the lie of global warming caused by man is disingenuous at best. Furthermore, as long as the liberals are in power in Washington, DC, we will have neither new nuclear power plants nor a cessation of "global warming", but we will have a whole lot of government subsidies for useless wind mills that provide zero electricity on hot, windless summer days, and shiny solar panels that provide zero electricity on cloudy, snow-covered winter days.
Abp. Bates Signs Manhattan Declaration
Folks,
Archbishop Bates of the International Communion of Charismatic Episcopal Churches has signed the Manhattan Declaration! See article "Abp. Bates Signs Manhattan Declaration."
Please, sign the Declaration - just left click your mouse cursor at the aforementioned link. Here is a summary of the Declaration.
Archbishop Bates of the International Communion of Charismatic Episcopal Churches has signed the Manhattan Declaration! See article "Abp. Bates Signs Manhattan Declaration."
Please, sign the Declaration - just left click your mouse cursor at the aforementioned link. Here is a summary of the Declaration.
Logic or Faith - Genesis Chapter 3
Folks,
I was challenged in a comment about the superiority of logic or reason to faith. The answer comes from Chapter 4 of the "Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous" entitled, "To the Agnostic":
Logic is great stuff. We like it. We still like it. It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our sense, and to draw conclusions. That is one of man's magnificent attributes. We agnostically inclined would not feel satisfied with a proposal which does not lend itself to reasonable approach and interpretation. Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."Imagine life without faith! Were nothing left but pure reason, it wouldn't be life. But we believed in life of course we did. We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was. Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny of nothingness? Or course we couldn't. The electrons themselves seemed more intelligent than that. At least, so the chemist said.Hence, we saw that reason isn't everything.
Now this same person who extolled his faith in logic above anyone's faith in God (notice both have faith) then went on to argue about why people should be permitted sexually promiscuity, for man is a sexual being and to lock up his animalistic passions is to create within him frustration that releases itself as violence. Thus, if one wants peace, then hendonism is the logical course of action. This is the same type of reasoning evident in a statement from the atheist Aldous Huxley: “I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning, consequently I assumed that it had none, and was able without difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.” Hence now we to what Dostoevsky said, “If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.”
Think about the selfishness of such people: "I need to release myself, so I can use whatever man or women I need to use to release myself and you have to let me lest I become violent."
Indeed, Stanley Fish comments on his opposition of objective, non-relative standards, and his support of such insanity in the following manner: “The norms and standards to which our behavior conforms are us, they aren’t a set of rules we consult....Does might make right? In a sense the answer I must give is yes, since in the absence of a perspective independent of interpretation, some interpretative perspective will always rule by virtue of having won out over its competitors.”
So there you have it, folks: those who say they extoll reason above faith do so only because what they really believe in is Darwinian survival of the fittest: that might makes right and as a result, they can with impunity engage in all manner of lawless immorality no matter whom it hurts, even unto the salvation of their own souls.
Think about it: what can be more arrogant than a person who says, "My abilities at reasoning are superior to God's revelation?" Yet these people of logic accuse us religious folk of being arrogant because we humbly submit to Divine Revelation. Their arrogance is the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. That story in Genesis chapter 3 isn't so far off-base, now is it? Satan's old defiance is still the same:
"Non serviam" or "I will not serve" as the Latin is translated.
I was challenged in a comment about the superiority of logic or reason to faith. The answer comes from Chapter 4 of the "Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous" entitled, "To the Agnostic":
Logic is great stuff. We like it. We still like it. It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our sense, and to draw conclusions. That is one of man's magnificent attributes. We agnostically inclined would not feel satisfied with a proposal which does not lend itself to reasonable approach and interpretation. Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."Imagine life without faith! Were nothing left but pure reason, it wouldn't be life. But we believed in life of course we did. We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was. Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny of nothingness? Or course we couldn't. The electrons themselves seemed more intelligent than that. At least, so the chemist said.Hence, we saw that reason isn't everything.
Now this same person who extolled his faith in logic above anyone's faith in God (notice both have faith) then went on to argue about why people should be permitted sexually promiscuity, for man is a sexual being and to lock up his animalistic passions is to create within him frustration that releases itself as violence. Thus, if one wants peace, then hendonism is the logical course of action. This is the same type of reasoning evident in a statement from the atheist Aldous Huxley: “I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning, consequently I assumed that it had none, and was able without difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.” Hence now we to what Dostoevsky said, “If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.”
Think about the selfishness of such people: "I need to release myself, so I can use whatever man or women I need to use to release myself and you have to let me lest I become violent."
Indeed, Stanley Fish comments on his opposition of objective, non-relative standards, and his support of such insanity in the following manner: “The norms and standards to which our behavior conforms are us, they aren’t a set of rules we consult....Does might make right? In a sense the answer I must give is yes, since in the absence of a perspective independent of interpretation, some interpretative perspective will always rule by virtue of having won out over its competitors.”
So there you have it, folks: those who say they extoll reason above faith do so only because what they really believe in is Darwinian survival of the fittest: that might makes right and as a result, they can with impunity engage in all manner of lawless immorality no matter whom it hurts, even unto the salvation of their own souls.
Think about it: what can be more arrogant than a person who says, "My abilities at reasoning are superior to God's revelation?" Yet these people of logic accuse us religious folk of being arrogant because we humbly submit to Divine Revelation. Their arrogance is the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. That story in Genesis chapter 3 isn't so far off-base, now is it? Satan's old defiance is still the same:
"Non serviam" or "I will not serve" as the Latin is translated.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
From Thanksgiving to Christmas
Folks,
This e-mail from Father John Corapi just arrived:
From Thanksgiving to Christmas
As we approach the United States’ traditional holiday of Thanksgiving, moving toward the Christian, and very American, celebration of Christmas, I am seeing more uncertainty, sadness, and fear than I can recall previously in my own lifetime. I have to admit I experience these things myself. Many good people might think that I should be above and beyond such emotions. Perhaps, but we are all human, and for better or for worse we all experience emotions of different types and degrees.
With unemployment somewhere between 10-15% in the United States at the present time, depending upon which region of the country you reside in, one can understand the uncertainty, the sadness, and the fear. My Grandmother used to say, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” She had lived through the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Viet Nam war. She could tell you stories about days that were not so prosperous, not so happy, not so totally filled with hope. Yet, the sun always eventually came out again.
Jesus often said things like “Fear is useless. What is needed is trust;” and “Let your hearts not be troubled..;” etc. We would do well to remember this at a time when it is often not easy to be certain, happy, and without anxiety and fear. I have recently lost my closest ally and co-worker in the history of my ministry. My Goddaughter, Tamra, traveled well over a million miles with me, worked very hard, and enabled more than 300 events, often the only person working in my office and assisting me. Her husband, Matt, is mostly responsible for all of the videography and technological growth we have enjoyed. They are moving on to other things, and although my heart is broken at the loss, I can only wish them every blessing for the future. Their hard work and talent blessed millions of souls through the years. Sometimes it is brutally hard to go on, for all of us. Yet, time will go on, with us or without us.
Change can be traumatic. Often the older you are, the harder it is to endure change. I am not good at it, I must admit. Look at what has happened to the United States in our lifetime. If you think the trend is positive, we’re on a far different page. Seemingly caught in a fog of indecision, poor leadership, and rapidly evaporating wealth, America is dying. The cause is moral, not economic. If we end up with the curse of socialism, know very well that it was because we refused to “repent and believe the Good News, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Like so many other small businesses, our sales are at an all-time low, and although we are not a charity, many charities are about to wither up and die because support for them has likewise withered up and nearly died. Yet, what can good people do? They have to feed, clothe, and house their children and themselves before they can do anything else. Resources are shrinking. Needs are relentlessly constant.
We are going to try to do our part from Thanksgiving through the end of the year, reducing prices on our media materials as much as we can. How long we can do this, I don’t know. Volume determines how cheaply you can produce products, which determines the sales price. Lower volume means higher prices for raw materials, which ultimately means higher prices for retail goods. Nonetheless, we are going to try to hope for higher sales volume through lower prices.
Hope is the key word in this little note to you. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph #1817:
“Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.” “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23).
God bless you always,
Fr. John Corapi
This e-mail from Father John Corapi just arrived:
From Thanksgiving to Christmas
As we approach the United States’ traditional holiday of Thanksgiving, moving toward the Christian, and very American, celebration of Christmas, I am seeing more uncertainty, sadness, and fear than I can recall previously in my own lifetime. I have to admit I experience these things myself. Many good people might think that I should be above and beyond such emotions. Perhaps, but we are all human, and for better or for worse we all experience emotions of different types and degrees.
With unemployment somewhere between 10-15% in the United States at the present time, depending upon which region of the country you reside in, one can understand the uncertainty, the sadness, and the fear. My Grandmother used to say, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” She had lived through the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Viet Nam war. She could tell you stories about days that were not so prosperous, not so happy, not so totally filled with hope. Yet, the sun always eventually came out again.
Jesus often said things like “Fear is useless. What is needed is trust;” and “Let your hearts not be troubled..;” etc. We would do well to remember this at a time when it is often not easy to be certain, happy, and without anxiety and fear. I have recently lost my closest ally and co-worker in the history of my ministry. My Goddaughter, Tamra, traveled well over a million miles with me, worked very hard, and enabled more than 300 events, often the only person working in my office and assisting me. Her husband, Matt, is mostly responsible for all of the videography and technological growth we have enjoyed. They are moving on to other things, and although my heart is broken at the loss, I can only wish them every blessing for the future. Their hard work and talent blessed millions of souls through the years. Sometimes it is brutally hard to go on, for all of us. Yet, time will go on, with us or without us.
Change can be traumatic. Often the older you are, the harder it is to endure change. I am not good at it, I must admit. Look at what has happened to the United States in our lifetime. If you think the trend is positive, we’re on a far different page. Seemingly caught in a fog of indecision, poor leadership, and rapidly evaporating wealth, America is dying. The cause is moral, not economic. If we end up with the curse of socialism, know very well that it was because we refused to “repent and believe the Good News, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Like so many other small businesses, our sales are at an all-time low, and although we are not a charity, many charities are about to wither up and die because support for them has likewise withered up and nearly died. Yet, what can good people do? They have to feed, clothe, and house their children and themselves before they can do anything else. Resources are shrinking. Needs are relentlessly constant.
We are going to try to do our part from Thanksgiving through the end of the year, reducing prices on our media materials as much as we can. How long we can do this, I don’t know. Volume determines how cheaply you can produce products, which determines the sales price. Lower volume means higher prices for raw materials, which ultimately means higher prices for retail goods. Nonetheless, we are going to try to hope for higher sales volume through lower prices.
Hope is the key word in this little note to you. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph #1817:
“Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.” “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23).
God bless you always,
Fr. John Corapi
From an LDS Friend: Day of Fasting and Prayer for America
Folks,
I received the following from an LDS friend. This admonition is well worth heeding, whether you're Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant or LDS.
DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER FOR AMERICA
We, my wife and I, are firmly convinced that our elected politicians are incapable of representing the will of the American people – and incapable of adhering to the Constitution of the United States of America which they took a solemn oath to uphold and defend.
We are among the millions of U.S. Citizens who are at our wits end sending e-mails, faxes, telephoning, meeting with elected officials, demonstrating, rallying – and hoping – that those representatives will do the will of the people. They have failed. Have we, as well?
The United States of America is a choice land, a nation that was founded by our forefathers who were divinely inspired by God the Father Almighty.
This choice nation has been the defender of freedom throughout its relatively short history. We have led in the fight for freedom against many tyrants and dictators who have plundered and pilfered their citizens and have subjected them to great sufferings through blood and horror.
The people of those nations who suffered these great injustices knew that they could always depend upon the goodness, power and righteousness of the United States of America to extract them from their plights, and it was done – many times over. It was not done without expense – the expense of the blood and sacrifice of the members of our armed forces – and the suffering of their families.
As the year 2009 soon comes to a close, we the citizens of the United States of America find ourselves facing many of the challenges – which those nations suffered at the hands of their political leaders. We are being attacked from within!
Whom do we turn to? To which great nation can we turn to help us keep and maintain our freedom? We do not have the same hope of those nations to whom we were benefactors.
We MUST turn to our Savior. If we are a righteous people, we will be deserving of, and receive of His blessings as He has promised. He suffered and died for us – He atoned for our sins; each one of us - individually.
We know that - as a nation – we can once again be the choicest of lands. However, we cannot achieve that blessing without our willingness to please our Lord and Savior.
We are asking that all who read this message that have faith in Christ designate Sunday December 6, 2009 as a day of fasting and prayer for America .
You do not have to march on the nation’s Capitol nor go to a tea bag rally. From the comfort of your home, you can get on bended knee and with a broken heart and contrite spirit, petition the Lord to bless this nation generously according to His will. Then, keep the fast for that day. Make that Christ-like commitment to our Heavenly Father. He will listen, He will answer. That has been promised.
“And whatsoever he shall ask the Father in my name, which is right, believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall be given unto you.” (3 Nephi 18:20) “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
I received the following from an LDS friend. This admonition is well worth heeding, whether you're Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant or LDS.
DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER FOR AMERICA
We, my wife and I, are firmly convinced that our elected politicians are incapable of representing the will of the American people – and incapable of adhering to the Constitution of the United States of America which they took a solemn oath to uphold and defend.
We are among the millions of U.S. Citizens who are at our wits end sending e-mails, faxes, telephoning, meeting with elected officials, demonstrating, rallying – and hoping – that those representatives will do the will of the people. They have failed. Have we, as well?
The United States of America is a choice land, a nation that was founded by our forefathers who were divinely inspired by God the Father Almighty.
This choice nation has been the defender of freedom throughout its relatively short history. We have led in the fight for freedom against many tyrants and dictators who have plundered and pilfered their citizens and have subjected them to great sufferings through blood and horror.
The people of those nations who suffered these great injustices knew that they could always depend upon the goodness, power and righteousness of the United States of America to extract them from their plights, and it was done – many times over. It was not done without expense – the expense of the blood and sacrifice of the members of our armed forces – and the suffering of their families.
As the year 2009 soon comes to a close, we the citizens of the United States of America find ourselves facing many of the challenges – which those nations suffered at the hands of their political leaders. We are being attacked from within!
Whom do we turn to? To which great nation can we turn to help us keep and maintain our freedom? We do not have the same hope of those nations to whom we were benefactors.
We MUST turn to our Savior. If we are a righteous people, we will be deserving of, and receive of His blessings as He has promised. He suffered and died for us – He atoned for our sins; each one of us - individually.
We know that - as a nation – we can once again be the choicest of lands. However, we cannot achieve that blessing without our willingness to please our Lord and Savior.
We are asking that all who read this message that have faith in Christ designate Sunday December 6, 2009 as a day of fasting and prayer for America .
You do not have to march on the nation’s Capitol nor go to a tea bag rally. From the comfort of your home, you can get on bended knee and with a broken heart and contrite spirit, petition the Lord to bless this nation generously according to His will. Then, keep the fast for that day. Make that Christ-like commitment to our Heavenly Father. He will listen, He will answer. That has been promised.
“And whatsoever he shall ask the Father in my name, which is right, believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall be given unto you.” (3 Nephi 18:20) “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
When Does Human Life Begin?
Folks,
A commenter asked:
I still don't understand. A mass of cells in the uterus isn't a person, right? I mean, they aren't alive, unless the baby's actually formed, but like.... A zygote isn't a person. If you kill a zygote, a sperm cell and an egg, that's not the same as killing a living, breathing person.
Donum Vitae from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith answers this in part:
The human being must be respected - as a person - from the very first instant of his existence. The implementation of procedures of artificial fertilization has made possible various interventions upon embryos and human foetuses. The aims pursued are of various kinds: diagnostic and therapeutic, scientific and commercial. From all of this, serious problems arise. Can one speak of a right to experimentation upon human embryos for the purpose of scientific research? What norms or laws should be worked out with regard to this matter? The response to these problems presupposes a detailed reflection on the nature and specific identity - the word "status" is used - of the human embryo itself .
At the Second Vatican Council, the Church for her part presented once again to modern man her constant and certain doctrine according to which: "Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes". More recently, the Charter of the Rights of the Family, published by the Holy See, confirmed that "Human life must be absolutely respected and protected from the moment of conception".
This Congregation is aware of the current debates concerning the beginning of human life, concerning the individuality of the human being and concerning the identity of the human person. The Congregation recalls the teachings found in the Declaration on Procured Abortion: "From the time that the ovum is fertilized, a new life is begun which is neither that of the father nor of the mother; it is rather the life of a new human being with his own growth. It would never be made human if it were not human already. To this perpetual evidence ... modern genetic science brings valuable confirmation. It has demonstrated that, from the first instant, the programme is fixed as to what this living being will be: a man, this individual-man with his characteristic aspects already well determined. Right from fertilization is begun the adventure of a human life, and each of its great capacities requires time ... to find its place and to be in a position to act". This teaching remains valid and is further confirmed, if confirmation were needed, by recent findings of human biological science which recognize that in the zygote* resulting from fertilization the biological identity of a new human individual is already constituted. Certainly no experimental datum can be in itself sufficient to bring us to the recognition of a spiritual soul; nevertheless, the conclusions of science regarding the human embryo provide a valuable indication for discerning by the use of reason a personal presence at the moment of this first appearance of a human life: how could a human individual not be a human person? The Magisterium has not expressly committed itself to an affirmation of a philosophical nature, but it constantly reaffirms the moral condemnation of any kind of procured abortion. This teaching has not been changed and is unchangeable.
Thus the fruit of human generation, from the first moment of its existence, that is to say from the moment the zygote has formed, demands the unconditional respect that is morally due to the human being in his bodily and spiritual totality. The human being is to be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception; and therefore from that same moment his rights as a person must be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life. This doctrinal reminder provides the fundamental criterion for the solution of the various problems posed by the development of the biomedical sciences in this field: since the embryo must be treated as a person, it must also be defended in its integrity, tended and cared for, to the extent possible, in the same way as any other human being as far as medical assistance is concerned.
Dignitas Personae, another instruction from the Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith, goes further and explains the following:
In recent decades, medical science has made significant strides in understanding human life in its initial stages. Human biological structures and the process of human generation are better known. These developments are certainly positive and worthy of support when they serve to overcome or correct pathologies and succeed in re-establishing the normal functioning of human procreation. On the other hand, they are negative and cannot be utilized when they involve the destruction of human beings or when they employ means which contradict the dignity of the person or when they are used for purposes contrary to the integral good of man.
The body of a human being, from the very first stages of its existence, can never be reduced merely to a group of cells. The embryonic human body develops progressively according to a well-defined program with its proper finality, as is apparent in the birth of every baby.
It is appropriate to recall the fundamental ethical criterion expressed in the Instruction Donum vitae in order to evaluate all moral questions which relate to procedures involving the human embryo: “Thus the fruit of human generation, from the first moment of its existence, that is to say, from the moment the zygote has formed, demands the unconditional respect that is morally due to the human being in his bodily and spiritual totality. The human being is to be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception; and therefore from that same moment his rights as a person must be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life”.
I encourage every reader to read and study what Holy Mother Church actually teaches regarding abortion, contraception, artificial conception, embryonic stem cell research, etc., at:
Humanae Vitae
Donum Vitae
Dignitas Personae
There is NO excuse for ANY Catholic NOT understanding that life begins at natural conception, and is to be protected and cherished. The right to choose ends when the choice has been made for sexual intercourse. If you don't want a baby, then do NOT engage in sexual intercourse. You are a sentient being with the brains that God gave to every human. Use them instead of succumbing to the animalistic passions of the moment. Don't act like a wild beast.
A commenter asked:
I still don't understand. A mass of cells in the uterus isn't a person, right? I mean, they aren't alive, unless the baby's actually formed, but like.... A zygote isn't a person. If you kill a zygote, a sperm cell and an egg, that's not the same as killing a living, breathing person.
Donum Vitae from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith answers this in part:
The human being must be respected - as a person - from the very first instant of his existence. The implementation of procedures of artificial fertilization has made possible various interventions upon embryos and human foetuses. The aims pursued are of various kinds: diagnostic and therapeutic, scientific and commercial. From all of this, serious problems arise. Can one speak of a right to experimentation upon human embryos for the purpose of scientific research? What norms or laws should be worked out with regard to this matter? The response to these problems presupposes a detailed reflection on the nature and specific identity - the word "status" is used - of the human embryo itself .
At the Second Vatican Council, the Church for her part presented once again to modern man her constant and certain doctrine according to which: "Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes". More recently, the Charter of the Rights of the Family, published by the Holy See, confirmed that "Human life must be absolutely respected and protected from the moment of conception".
This Congregation is aware of the current debates concerning the beginning of human life, concerning the individuality of the human being and concerning the identity of the human person. The Congregation recalls the teachings found in the Declaration on Procured Abortion: "From the time that the ovum is fertilized, a new life is begun which is neither that of the father nor of the mother; it is rather the life of a new human being with his own growth. It would never be made human if it were not human already. To this perpetual evidence ... modern genetic science brings valuable confirmation. It has demonstrated that, from the first instant, the programme is fixed as to what this living being will be: a man, this individual-man with his characteristic aspects already well determined. Right from fertilization is begun the adventure of a human life, and each of its great capacities requires time ... to find its place and to be in a position to act". This teaching remains valid and is further confirmed, if confirmation were needed, by recent findings of human biological science which recognize that in the zygote* resulting from fertilization the biological identity of a new human individual is already constituted. Certainly no experimental datum can be in itself sufficient to bring us to the recognition of a spiritual soul; nevertheless, the conclusions of science regarding the human embryo provide a valuable indication for discerning by the use of reason a personal presence at the moment of this first appearance of a human life: how could a human individual not be a human person? The Magisterium has not expressly committed itself to an affirmation of a philosophical nature, but it constantly reaffirms the moral condemnation of any kind of procured abortion. This teaching has not been changed and is unchangeable.
Thus the fruit of human generation, from the first moment of its existence, that is to say from the moment the zygote has formed, demands the unconditional respect that is morally due to the human being in his bodily and spiritual totality. The human being is to be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception; and therefore from that same moment his rights as a person must be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life. This doctrinal reminder provides the fundamental criterion for the solution of the various problems posed by the development of the biomedical sciences in this field: since the embryo must be treated as a person, it must also be defended in its integrity, tended and cared for, to the extent possible, in the same way as any other human being as far as medical assistance is concerned.
Dignitas Personae, another instruction from the Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith, goes further and explains the following:
In recent decades, medical science has made significant strides in understanding human life in its initial stages. Human biological structures and the process of human generation are better known. These developments are certainly positive and worthy of support when they serve to overcome or correct pathologies and succeed in re-establishing the normal functioning of human procreation. On the other hand, they are negative and cannot be utilized when they involve the destruction of human beings or when they employ means which contradict the dignity of the person or when they are used for purposes contrary to the integral good of man.
The body of a human being, from the very first stages of its existence, can never be reduced merely to a group of cells. The embryonic human body develops progressively according to a well-defined program with its proper finality, as is apparent in the birth of every baby.
It is appropriate to recall the fundamental ethical criterion expressed in the Instruction Donum vitae in order to evaluate all moral questions which relate to procedures involving the human embryo: “Thus the fruit of human generation, from the first moment of its existence, that is to say, from the moment the zygote has formed, demands the unconditional respect that is morally due to the human being in his bodily and spiritual totality. The human being is to be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception; and therefore from that same moment his rights as a person must be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life”.
I encourage every reader to read and study what Holy Mother Church actually teaches regarding abortion, contraception, artificial conception, embryonic stem cell research, etc., at:
Humanae Vitae
Donum Vitae
Dignitas Personae
There is NO excuse for ANY Catholic NOT understanding that life begins at natural conception, and is to be protected and cherished. The right to choose ends when the choice has been made for sexual intercourse. If you don't want a baby, then do NOT engage in sexual intercourse. You are a sentient being with the brains that God gave to every human. Use them instead of succumbing to the animalistic passions of the moment. Don't act like a wild beast.
The Global Warming Scam
Folks,
The Washington Times has an article entitled, EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling. Dr. Pournelle reports the following on the global warming scam at his Chaos Manor web site:
It is a sign of my preoccupation with other work that I didn't remember about the Climate Depot web site I mentioned above. It's maintained by Mark Moreno, who was a Republican congressional staffer whose newsletters on climate research activities were reliable and useful. He still does newsletters. I've found him fairly reliable in that he points to sources. He's quite political, of course.
In any event, http://www.climatedepot.com/a/3943/Read-All-About-it-Climate-Depot-Exclusive--Continuously-Updated-ClimateGate-News-Round-Up shows the latest in the ClimateGate imbroglio generated when a climate change operation's email site was hacked and many emails made public. It does appear very likely that some, perhaps a lot, of the "consensus" was in fact engineered by a conspiracy. You can prove anything if you make up your data, and some people with science credentials apparently were either making up or suppressing data with the intent of building a consensus on the proposition that climate change denial is dangerous and contemptible. (See Mail)
Of course the important question is not was this a conspiracy, but is the man-made climate change hypothesis true? If it really is true, one might understand the impetus to get people to believe and understand "by any means necessary." It would also be a pretty good illustration of why "any means necessary" is a dangerous way to defend a scientific theory.
I have always operated on the principle that truth will out, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free," and such like: that is, that the best way to persuade people -- at least the people who pay attention to me -- is through rational argument. Possony was fond of saying that either you believe in rational thought or you don't. I've never forgotten that, and it may be the most important principle I learned from him.
The liberal eco-wackoes have been lying to us since the beginning. This should be NO surprise to any right-thinking person.
Now as most readers here know, I work in the nuclear energy field and I am an ardent supporter of nuclear energy. God has endowed planet Earth with enough uranium and thorium to fuel a planet of six, billion, nine billion, even twelve billion people at a level fo energy consumption equal to the average American for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years into the future. With access to low cost, pollution free energy, all needs for food and clean water and protection from the weather can be met almost indefinitely. There is no need to burn fossil fuels and thereby pollute the atmosphere we breathe. There is no need for reliance on the vagaries of wind and solar power.
BUT if supporting nuclear energy means I have to ally myself with the liberals, then I won't do it. There are principles far more important. Sadly, however, the Nuclear Energy Institute and its blogsite, as well as Adams Atomic Engines and its blogsite, and others have taken to ingratiating themselves with the liberal left. What they have gotten for their efforts is an anti-nuclear activitist as NRC Chairman (Gregory Jaczko) and a greenie wacko as FERC Chairman (Jon Wellinghoff).
Suffice it to say that the hype about global warming is a scam, and both NEI and Adams Atomic Engines have been lending credence to that scam. I support nuclear energy, but I don't support scams.
The Washington Times has an article entitled, EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling. Dr. Pournelle reports the following on the global warming scam at his Chaos Manor web site:
It is a sign of my preoccupation with other work that I didn't remember about the Climate Depot web site I mentioned above. It's maintained by Mark Moreno, who was a Republican congressional staffer whose newsletters on climate research activities were reliable and useful. He still does newsletters. I've found him fairly reliable in that he points to sources. He's quite political, of course.
In any event, http://www.climatedepot.com/a/3943/Read-All-About-it-Climate-Depot-Exclusive--Continuously-Updated-ClimateGate-News-Round-Up shows the latest in the ClimateGate imbroglio generated when a climate change operation's email site was hacked and many emails made public. It does appear very likely that some, perhaps a lot, of the "consensus" was in fact engineered by a conspiracy. You can prove anything if you make up your data, and some people with science credentials apparently were either making up or suppressing data with the intent of building a consensus on the proposition that climate change denial is dangerous and contemptible. (See Mail)
Of course the important question is not was this a conspiracy, but is the man-made climate change hypothesis true? If it really is true, one might understand the impetus to get people to believe and understand "by any means necessary." It would also be a pretty good illustration of why "any means necessary" is a dangerous way to defend a scientific theory.
I have always operated on the principle that truth will out, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free," and such like: that is, that the best way to persuade people -- at least the people who pay attention to me -- is through rational argument. Possony was fond of saying that either you believe in rational thought or you don't. I've never forgotten that, and it may be the most important principle I learned from him.
The liberal eco-wackoes have been lying to us since the beginning. This should be NO surprise to any right-thinking person.
Now as most readers here know, I work in the nuclear energy field and I am an ardent supporter of nuclear energy. God has endowed planet Earth with enough uranium and thorium to fuel a planet of six, billion, nine billion, even twelve billion people at a level fo energy consumption equal to the average American for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years into the future. With access to low cost, pollution free energy, all needs for food and clean water and protection from the weather can be met almost indefinitely. There is no need to burn fossil fuels and thereby pollute the atmosphere we breathe. There is no need for reliance on the vagaries of wind and solar power.
BUT if supporting nuclear energy means I have to ally myself with the liberals, then I won't do it. There are principles far more important. Sadly, however, the Nuclear Energy Institute and its blogsite, as well as Adams Atomic Engines and its blogsite, and others have taken to ingratiating themselves with the liberal left. What they have gotten for their efforts is an anti-nuclear activitist as NRC Chairman (Gregory Jaczko) and a greenie wacko as FERC Chairman (Jon Wellinghoff).
Suffice it to say that the hype about global warming is a scam, and both NEI and Adams Atomic Engines have been lending credence to that scam. I support nuclear energy, but I don't support scams.
Why is Liberalism Evil?
Folks,
My detractor came back to ask why is liberalism evil when it merely fell away from the truth whereas Nazism is intrinsically evil. The answer is simple: Nazism murdered six million Jews and 20 million Eastern Europeans. Liberalism has exceeded those figures of death and destruction in having murdered 50 million unborn babies since SCOTUS legitimatized the right to choose as protection of privacy under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution in its Roe v Wade decision of 1972. Therefore, in terms of numerical figures for death and destruction, liberalism exceeds the heinous crimes perpetrated against humanity by Nazism.
In 1886 Dr. Don Felix Sarda y Salvany, a priest of Barcelona, Spain, wrote a work entitled Liberalism is a Sin. The Eternal Word Television Network maintains a copy of this work in its electronic archives. I encourage the reader to left click his mouse cursor on the aforementioned and link, and read and study this article. I will here only quote what EWTN quotes at the very beginning:
Liberalism is the root of heresy, the tree of evil in whose branches all the harpies of infidelity find ample shelter; it is today the evil of all evils. (Ch. 4).
"The theater, literature, public and private morals are all saturated with obscenity and impurity. The result is inevitable; a corrupt generation necessarily begets a revolutionary generation. Liberalism is the program of naturalism. Free-thought begets free morals, or immorality. Restraint is thrown off and a free rein given to the passions. Whoever thinks what he pleases will do what he pleases. Liberalism in the intellectual order is license in the moral order. Disorder in the intellect begets disorder in the heart, and vice-versa. Thus does Liberalism propagate immorality, and immorality Liberalism." (Ch. 26).
Liberalism "is, therefore, the radical and universal denial of all divine truth and Christian dogma, the primal type of all heresy, and the supreme rebellion against the authority of God and His Church. As with Lucifer, its maxim is, 'I will not serve.'" (Ch. 3).
"Liberalism, whether in the doctrinal or practical order, is a sin. In the doctrinal order, it is heresy, and consequently a mortal sin against faith. In the practical order, it is a sin against the commandments of God and of the Church, for it virtually transgresses all commandments. To be more precise: in the doctrinal order, Liberalism strikes at the very foundations of faith; it is heresy radical and universal, because within it are comprehended all heresies. In the practical order it is a radical and universal infraction of the divine law, since it sanctions and authorizes all infractions of that law." (Ch. 3).
Now today liberalism masks its true intentions by promoting redistribution of wealth from those who earn to those who do not. It makes this promotion so that it can claim that it (better than Christianity) can feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, care for the sick, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, etc. But the fact of the matter is that wealth redistribution serves only to impoverish those who earn wealth (the entrepeneurs) while enriching those with power (the politicians), leaving the masses of humanity in poverty (hence the former Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, etc.). Indeed, wealth redistribution gives Caesar control over the plebians so that they will always do what he wants in order to receive their bread and circuses. Liberalism in elevating man above God makes man subservient to his basest and most ignoble urges. It relegates the innocent to chains while it elevates the guilty to the halls of political power in the Oval Office and 10 Downing Street.
So....when a liberal politician tells you he's liberal because he cares about the poor, he is lying: he's liberal because he can attain and retain power by doling out to the poor what they receive. It's an old trick that Caligula Caesar learned early on, and one that Obamolech repeats to this day.
Liberalism is utterly, totally and completely evil - as evil as Nazism - period.
My detractor came back to ask why is liberalism evil when it merely fell away from the truth whereas Nazism is intrinsically evil. The answer is simple: Nazism murdered six million Jews and 20 million Eastern Europeans. Liberalism has exceeded those figures of death and destruction in having murdered 50 million unborn babies since SCOTUS legitimatized the right to choose as protection of privacy under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution in its Roe v Wade decision of 1972. Therefore, in terms of numerical figures for death and destruction, liberalism exceeds the heinous crimes perpetrated against humanity by Nazism.
In 1886 Dr. Don Felix Sarda y Salvany, a priest of Barcelona, Spain, wrote a work entitled Liberalism is a Sin. The Eternal Word Television Network maintains a copy of this work in its electronic archives. I encourage the reader to left click his mouse cursor on the aforementioned and link, and read and study this article. I will here only quote what EWTN quotes at the very beginning:
Liberalism is the root of heresy, the tree of evil in whose branches all the harpies of infidelity find ample shelter; it is today the evil of all evils. (Ch. 4).
"The theater, literature, public and private morals are all saturated with obscenity and impurity. The result is inevitable; a corrupt generation necessarily begets a revolutionary generation. Liberalism is the program of naturalism. Free-thought begets free morals, or immorality. Restraint is thrown off and a free rein given to the passions. Whoever thinks what he pleases will do what he pleases. Liberalism in the intellectual order is license in the moral order. Disorder in the intellect begets disorder in the heart, and vice-versa. Thus does Liberalism propagate immorality, and immorality Liberalism." (Ch. 26).
Liberalism "is, therefore, the radical and universal denial of all divine truth and Christian dogma, the primal type of all heresy, and the supreme rebellion against the authority of God and His Church. As with Lucifer, its maxim is, 'I will not serve.'" (Ch. 3).
"Liberalism, whether in the doctrinal or practical order, is a sin. In the doctrinal order, it is heresy, and consequently a mortal sin against faith. In the practical order, it is a sin against the commandments of God and of the Church, for it virtually transgresses all commandments. To be more precise: in the doctrinal order, Liberalism strikes at the very foundations of faith; it is heresy radical and universal, because within it are comprehended all heresies. In the practical order it is a radical and universal infraction of the divine law, since it sanctions and authorizes all infractions of that law." (Ch. 3).
Now today liberalism masks its true intentions by promoting redistribution of wealth from those who earn to those who do not. It makes this promotion so that it can claim that it (better than Christianity) can feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, care for the sick, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, etc. But the fact of the matter is that wealth redistribution serves only to impoverish those who earn wealth (the entrepeneurs) while enriching those with power (the politicians), leaving the masses of humanity in poverty (hence the former Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, etc.). Indeed, wealth redistribution gives Caesar control over the plebians so that they will always do what he wants in order to receive their bread and circuses. Liberalism in elevating man above God makes man subservient to his basest and most ignoble urges. It relegates the innocent to chains while it elevates the guilty to the halls of political power in the Oval Office and 10 Downing Street.
So....when a liberal politician tells you he's liberal because he cares about the poor, he is lying: he's liberal because he can attain and retain power by doling out to the poor what they receive. It's an old trick that Caligula Caesar learned early on, and one that Obamolech repeats to this day.
Liberalism is utterly, totally and completely evil - as evil as Nazism - period.
Please Sign the Manhattan Declaration
Folks,
As explained in a previous entry entitled, Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience, a group of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christians have banded together against Obamolech's culture of death and sign a declaration for the individual right to life. I encourage any and all readers to please read the Manhattan Declaration and sign it at its signature page. Evil wins when good men say and do nothing.
As explained in a previous entry entitled, Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience, a group of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christians have banded together against Obamolech's culture of death and sign a declaration for the individual right to life. I encourage any and all readers to please read the Manhattan Declaration and sign it at its signature page. Evil wins when good men say and do nothing.
Monday, November 23, 2009
The Nicolaitans
Folks,
At tonight's Bible Study we were reviewing the 2nd chapter of Revelation. As the reader may recall, the second and third chapters of this book deal with the seven churches of Asia Minor (I got this from my researches off the internet and it seems pretty accurate):
The cities of Ephesus and Pergamon were both infected by the Nicolaitans, who may have been followers of an Antinomian heresy that maintained those saved by faith were free of moral laws. Interestingly enough, their name - Nicolaitan - comes from two Greek words:
Nikos which means victory
Laos which means people
Their name thus means "victory of the people" or "victory of the laity" (for the English word "laity" comes from the Greek word "laos"). This is quite reminiscent of today's liberal Roman Catholic laity who demand that the Church be more democratic (in spite of the fact that Jesus said He came to establish a Kingdom, NOT a democracy). Indeed, the apostasy of today's neo-modernity is no different than the Nicolaitan apostasy of St. John's day and age. Liberals today want a vote in what the Church teaches with regards to doctrine and morality, just as Nicolaitans believed in the victory of the people and hence freedom from moral law.
Well, folks, each of us gets one and only one vote: either we submit to God's love voluntarily in this life, or we submit to His justice involuntarily in the next. And that's the only vote we get.
At tonight's Bible Study we were reviewing the 2nd chapter of Revelation. As the reader may recall, the second and third chapters of this book deal with the seven churches of Asia Minor (I got this from my researches off the internet and it seems pretty accurate):
- Ephesus – The desirable church that left its first love (Revelation 2:1-7). Ephesus was the influential capital city of Asia Minor on the Aegean Sea. Ephesus is now known for its huge metropolis of ancient streets, arches and ruins.
- Smyrna – The persecuted church that suffered poverty and martyrdom (Revelation 2:8-11). Smyrna was located north of Ephesus in a powerful trading position on the Aegean Sea known for its harbors, commerce, and marketplaces. The primary ruins of Smyrna are located in the modern Turkish city of Izmir.
- Pergamum – The worldly church that mixed doctrines and needed to repent (Revelation 2:12-17). Pergamum is located on the plains and foothills along the Caicus River in Western Turkey. It was considered a major city in Asia Minor since the 3rd century BC, and became a Greek and Roman hub for temple worship.
- Thyatira – The false church that followed a seductive prophetess (Revelation 2:18-29). Thyatira is located in western Asia Minor about 42 miles inland from the Aegean Sea. The ancient city was known for its textiles and dyeing trade, and is now known as the Turkish city of Akhisar.
- Sardis – The "dead" church that fell asleep (Revelation 3:1-6). Sardis is located on the banks of the Pactolus River in western Asia Minor, 60 miles inland from Ephesus and Smyrna. Popular ruins include the decadent temples and bath house complexes.
- Philadelphia – The church of brotherly love that endures patiently (Revelation 3:7-13). Philadelphia is located on the Cogamis River in western Asia Minor, about 80 miles east of Smyrna. Philadelphia was known for its variety of temples and worship centers.
- Laodicea – The "lukewarm" church with a faith that’s neither hot nor cold (Revelation 3:14-22). Laodicea is located in the Lycus River Valley of western Asia Minor, a primary trade route between the cultures of the West and East. Laodicea was known as a primary hub for the Roman aqueduct system.
The cities of Ephesus and Pergamon were both infected by the Nicolaitans, who may have been followers of an Antinomian heresy that maintained those saved by faith were free of moral laws. Interestingly enough, their name - Nicolaitan - comes from two Greek words:
Nikos which means victory
Laos which means people
Their name thus means "victory of the people" or "victory of the laity" (for the English word "laity" comes from the Greek word "laos"). This is quite reminiscent of today's liberal Roman Catholic laity who demand that the Church be more democratic (in spite of the fact that Jesus said He came to establish a Kingdom, NOT a democracy). Indeed, the apostasy of today's neo-modernity is no different than the Nicolaitan apostasy of St. John's day and age. Liberals today want a vote in what the Church teaches with regards to doctrine and morality, just as Nicolaitans believed in the victory of the people and hence freedom from moral law.
Well, folks, each of us gets one and only one vote: either we submit to God's love voluntarily in this life, or we submit to His justice involuntarily in the next. And that's the only vote we get.
A Note to Liberal Democrat Atheist Humanists
Dear Liberal Democrat Atheist Humanist,
One (or perhaps several) of your comrades attempted to post anti-Christian comments here at this blogsite, Commentarius de Prognosticis. Comments included ridicule of the Bible, defamation of Catholics, Protestants and Mormons equally (all three were specifically mentioned by name and summarily castigated), an utter contempt for Christian moral values, and a denigration of an unborn baby as a mere collection of cells to be disregarded in the trash at whim. This speech is not permitted at this blogsite and the comments were rejected.
Anyone may post here serious, thoughtful questions about the Faith once delivered unto the Saints (Jude 3). But there will be no dialogue with the force of evil. Saint Jude points out the following in verse nine of his one-chapter Epistle:
Yet the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil in a dispute over the body of Moses, did not venture to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
If you are liberal, or Democrat, or atheist, or humanist, then since America is still a free Republic (Obamolech hasn't had enough time to destroy that yet), you are welcome to create your own blogsite, Yahoo Group, Facebook account, or whatever internet forum you think appropriate, and ridicule Christendom there. But this blogsite is NOT a democracy and there is NO freedom of speech here. Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords. You are enjoined in all serious charity to accept His love and repent; but you are equally free to reject His love and send your own self to the eternal damnation of hell, something that we don't talk about very much nowadays. No true Christian wants to see you make that choice (certainly not I!). There is NO pleasure to be had in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11). BUT the truth must be told. As Father Corapi always says, each of us will spend all of eternity in one of two places: heaven or hell. You decide.
So, if you want to understand the Faith, then ask intelligent questions. But if you want to spread liberal Democrat atheist humanist propaganda about, then do it on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR, and PBS (America's Al Jazeer) where you already have control over what is being disseminated.
One (or perhaps several) of your comrades attempted to post anti-Christian comments here at this blogsite, Commentarius de Prognosticis. Comments included ridicule of the Bible, defamation of Catholics, Protestants and Mormons equally (all three were specifically mentioned by name and summarily castigated), an utter contempt for Christian moral values, and a denigration of an unborn baby as a mere collection of cells to be disregarded in the trash at whim. This speech is not permitted at this blogsite and the comments were rejected.
Anyone may post here serious, thoughtful questions about the Faith once delivered unto the Saints (Jude 3). But there will be no dialogue with the force of evil. Saint Jude points out the following in verse nine of his one-chapter Epistle:
Yet the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil in a dispute over the body of Moses, did not venture to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
If you are liberal, or Democrat, or atheist, or humanist, then since America is still a free Republic (Obamolech hasn't had enough time to destroy that yet), you are welcome to create your own blogsite, Yahoo Group, Facebook account, or whatever internet forum you think appropriate, and ridicule Christendom there. But this blogsite is NOT a democracy and there is NO freedom of speech here. Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords. You are enjoined in all serious charity to accept His love and repent; but you are equally free to reject His love and send your own self to the eternal damnation of hell, something that we don't talk about very much nowadays. No true Christian wants to see you make that choice (certainly not I!). There is NO pleasure to be had in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11). BUT the truth must be told. As Father Corapi always says, each of us will spend all of eternity in one of two places: heaven or hell. You decide.
So, if you want to understand the Faith, then ask intelligent questions. But if you want to spread liberal Democrat atheist humanist propaganda about, then do it on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR, and PBS (America's Al Jazeer) where you already have control over what is being disseminated.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
The Tide Will Turn - Jesus Wins in the End
Folks,
The American Catholic blogsite has a good entry entitled, "The Tide is Turning Toward Catholicism Because The Pope of Christian Unity (Pope Benedict XVI) Is Gathering the Scattered Flocks Left Behind by Those Who Thought They Knew Better Than The Church".
As I always say: Christians who actually believe in orthodoxy, holiness, and righteousness are always welcome in the Catholic Church.
But liberal Catholics enamored with the false gospel of social justice and peace at any price, even that of an unborn baby's life, can go and join Bishopress Schori's collection of fruit cakes, nuts and gay priests in the ECUSA. Weak-kneed, yellow-bellied, cowardly liberal fools - the lot of them. They only have courage to murder a helpless, innocent unborn baby, and then justify it in law with ruling from the Supreme Court.
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few." (Matthew 7:13-14)
The American Catholic blogsite has a good entry entitled, "The Tide is Turning Toward Catholicism Because The Pope of Christian Unity (Pope Benedict XVI) Is Gathering the Scattered Flocks Left Behind by Those Who Thought They Knew Better Than The Church".
As I always say: Christians who actually believe in orthodoxy, holiness, and righteousness are always welcome in the Catholic Church.
But liberal Catholics enamored with the false gospel of social justice and peace at any price, even that of an unborn baby's life, can go and join Bishopress Schori's collection of fruit cakes, nuts and gay priests in the ECUSA. Weak-kneed, yellow-bellied, cowardly liberal fools - the lot of them. They only have courage to murder a helpless, innocent unborn baby, and then justify it in law with ruling from the Supreme Court.
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few." (Matthew 7:13-14)
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