Folks,
If murdering millions of Jews were sanctioned and supported by the national platform of the Democratic Party, then would any right thinking person vote for a Democrat? Yet Germans voted for Hitler even though the platform of the Nazi Party (i.e., Mein Kampf) was explicit with regard to exterminating the Jews.
If murdering millions of Ukranians were sanctioned and supported by the national platform of the Democratic Party, then would any right thinking person vote for a Democrat? Yet that is exactly what Stalin's communism did.
If murdering millions of Chinese were sanctioned and supported by the national platform of the Democratic Party, then would any right thinking person vote for a Democrat? Yet that is exactly what Mao Tse Tung's communism did.
So why does anybody vote for any Democrat knowing that the official platform of that party supports the murder of over one million pre-born babies every single year?
What is the difference between a pre-born baby and an already born Jew, Ukranian or Chinese? Is any one of those four categories of human beings entitled any less to the individual right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Do you or I, having engaged in sexual intercourse, have any right to murder what you or I have willingly created - another human life - merely so that you or I can avoid the consequences of your or my action?
Now the liberal troll who frequents this blog will point out the horrors of the priestly sex abuse scandal. I couldn't agree more. Priests who abuse little children, committing homsexual deviant acts on them, have forsaken their sacred vows and will answer before God Almighty for their crimes. Jesus said that it would be better for a millstone to be tied around their necks than for them to harm one of these little ones. But that accusation which liberals raise to divert attention away from their own murderous ways ignores the far greater incidence of sexual deviancy and child abuse among Protestants and among secular public figures, including school teachers, social workers, etc. In fact, in God's eyes, it does not matter who commits the crime: people who abuse children (sexually or otherwise) are NO different than the Democrats (or Republicans) who murder them in their mothers' wombs.
Then someone will ask if I support the death penalty. The answer is no, but in Romans 13:1-7 God gave the State the right to execute justice, and the slightly over 1000 executions in the US since 1976 pales in comparison with the one million murdered babies every year. Why is it that Democrats want to save the life of a convicted rapist or serial murderer, but a baby's life is subject to the whims of choice?
Next someone will ask if I support war. The answer is still no, and the war we are waging against the unborn is a case in point. Some 5000 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the start of Gulf War II, and that is a tragedy. Equally if not more tragic is the loss of innocent civilian life. Worse still are the one million murders committed on American soil every single year since Roe v Wade was decided on by SCOTUS in 1972.
We need to have some perspective here. Yes, there is sin in the Church because fallible human beings make up the Church, and priestly sexual abiuse of minors must never be trivialized or minimized. That however is NO excuse for the insanity of abortion, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, adultery, fornication, idolatry, pornography, contraception and all the other evils afflicting American society under the guise of individual freedom (and it's NOT freedom; it's license and such license enslaves one to sin exactly as St. Paul describes in his Epistle to the Romans). No one - not bishop, not priest, not deacon, not lay person, not President, not senator, not congressman, not judge, not jurist, not ordinary citizen - may commit sin without consequence. The wages of sin are always and everywhere death. BUT the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Saint Paul wrote that two millennia ago. And King David in the Psalms declares that God does NOT want the sinenr to die in his sin, but to repent and be saved.
Now I have been vicious in my attacks against liberalism and the Democratic Party (and I don't apologize for that). Yet that is NO excuse for Republicans to give mere lip service to the pro-life cause, and sadly that has happened because we who are Christians - whether Constitutionalists or Conservatives - have abandoned our principles first and foremost of Jesus Christ front and center, and secondly of the founding ideas of the Fathers of this once Christian Constitutional Republic. The American Catholic blogsite has a great entry tonight entitled, "Democratic Party Has No Space For Pro-Lifer (Florida Today letter)." It discusses this lukewarm support Republicans give to the pro-life cause just as it rightly exposes the culture of death that has siezed control in the Democratic Party.
2nd Chronicles 7:14 again comes to mind:
"...and if my people, upon whom my name has been pronounced, humble themselves and pray, and seek my presence and turn from their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven and pardon their sins and revive their land."
If we don't repent, then things will only get worse.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Why Tea Parties? The Trillion Dollar Question
Folks,
Remember this Tuesday that it is time to restore our Constitution and Bill of Rights by disempowering the elitist liberals who taken over Washington, DC. Some may (and will) argue that Republicans are no better. Many are no better, but we have to try. The alternative - civil war - is too horrific to think about. I for one will never bend my knee, nor give respect or acquiesence to any liberal politician no matter how high his office may be, and no matter how endearing his platitudes may seem. Many, many others feel the same way. This five minute and 41 second video explains that the Tea Party movement is our best hope yet:
Why Tea Parties? The Trillion Dollar Question
Remember this Tuesday that it is time to restore our Constitution and Bill of Rights by disempowering the elitist liberals who taken over Washington, DC. Some may (and will) argue that Republicans are no better. Many are no better, but we have to try. The alternative - civil war - is too horrific to think about. I for one will never bend my knee, nor give respect or acquiesence to any liberal politician no matter how high his office may be, and no matter how endearing his platitudes may seem. Many, many others feel the same way. This five minute and 41 second video explains that the Tea Party movement is our best hope yet:
Why Tea Parties? The Trillion Dollar Question
Saturday, October 30, 2010
All the Liberal People
Folks,
I just can't help myself this evening. This video over at You Tube is priceless.
All the Liberal People
Tuesday cometh.
I just can't help myself this evening. This video over at You Tube is priceless.
All the Liberal People
Tuesday cometh.
A Divisive Obama Undercuts the Presidency
Folks,
The Washington Post has a great article: A Divisive Obama Undercuts the Presidency. The article states in part:
The Washington Post has a great article: A Divisive Obama Undercuts the Presidency. The article states in part:
In a Univision interview on Monday, the president, who campaigned in 2008 by referring not to a "Red America" or a "Blue America" but a United States of America, urged Hispanic listeners to vote in this spirit: "We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us."Has any President ever before urged one group of Americans to view another group of Americans as their enemies? It is without a doubt that we are dealing with the most wicked and malevolent man yet to occupy the Oval Office, and one can only hope and pray for a massive Republican victory and subsequent proceedings for impeachment on the ground of incompetency if not outright treason.
Recently, Obama suggested that if Republicans gain control of the House and/or Senate as forecast, he expects not reconciliation and unity but "hand-to-hand combat" on Capitol Hill.
Democrats run scared; Iron Law at work
Folks,
Over at Dr. Pournelle's Choas Manor web site is another excellent entry, this one entitled, "Democrats run scared; Iron Law at work." It is very tedious to reproduce all of the paragraph indentations and font changes, so it is NOT reproduced below. Therefore, please do left click your mouse cursor on the aforementioned link to read the article.
Dr. Pournelle shows first how illogical are the arguments that liberals out forth against the Tea Party. Then he quotes one of his readers explaining how in no case were freedoms ever returned to the people without severe threat of rebellion or outright collapse of existing the government. He also explains how the Democrats became the party of nuts under Clinton, and the Republicans the party of creeps. The later is clearly shown in Catawissa Gazetteer's entry, "Republicans play the Race Card." But Dr. Pournelle then explains how with the Tea Party this can be changed. As Wendell Phillips said in the 1800s, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
We have to keep both politicians and clerics alike honest. Internet blogging is a good way to do that. No longer can someone be shut up or ridiculed in isolation by a liberal news outlet ignoring the failure of liberalism. No longer can a liberal cleric at a Parish simply oust someone for his orthodoxy and conservativism without expecting his actions to be publicly reported. Liberalism (i.e., evil) flourishes when there is no sense of accountability or responsibility (i.e., when good men and women say nothing). And yes, the creeps and RINOs in the Republican Party are as liberal as their opponents in the Democratic Party. Eight years of big government spending under the previous Administration, and the country club attitude shown towards small government principles clearly show that.
P.S., For those who don't know what the phrase "Iron Law" refers to in the title of this post, it is Dr. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy which states, "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely." Washington, DC is replete with examples thereof.
Over at Dr. Pournelle's Choas Manor web site is another excellent entry, this one entitled, "Democrats run scared; Iron Law at work." It is very tedious to reproduce all of the paragraph indentations and font changes, so it is NOT reproduced below. Therefore, please do left click your mouse cursor on the aforementioned link to read the article.
Dr. Pournelle shows first how illogical are the arguments that liberals out forth against the Tea Party. Then he quotes one of his readers explaining how in no case were freedoms ever returned to the people without severe threat of rebellion or outright collapse of existing the government. He also explains how the Democrats became the party of nuts under Clinton, and the Republicans the party of creeps. The later is clearly shown in Catawissa Gazetteer's entry, "Republicans play the Race Card." But Dr. Pournelle then explains how with the Tea Party this can be changed. As Wendell Phillips said in the 1800s, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
We have to keep both politicians and clerics alike honest. Internet blogging is a good way to do that. No longer can someone be shut up or ridiculed in isolation by a liberal news outlet ignoring the failure of liberalism. No longer can a liberal cleric at a Parish simply oust someone for his orthodoxy and conservativism without expecting his actions to be publicly reported. Liberalism (i.e., evil) flourishes when there is no sense of accountability or responsibility (i.e., when good men and women say nothing). And yes, the creeps and RINOs in the Republican Party are as liberal as their opponents in the Democratic Party. Eight years of big government spending under the previous Administration, and the country club attitude shown towards small government principles clearly show that.
P.S., For those who don't know what the phrase "Iron Law" refers to in the title of this post, it is Dr. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy which states, "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely." Washington, DC is replete with examples thereof.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, November 2nd
Folks,
I got this picture from National Review Online. Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010, is coming.
Obama recently said that Republicans will have to sit in the back of the car:
Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push
This photo representing what the polls currently indicate says that Obama is not even in the back of the bus - he's lost in the surf and he put himself there. I for one couldn't be happier. With 31 abortions per 1000 black women every year compared with 12 abortions per 1000 white women every year, it's obvious that Obama's pro-abortion stance is racially suicidal. See Abortions, by Race at Abortion Facts - the statistics are for 1995 and the web page was updated on 11/3/2006; the numbers will have only gotten worse by now as the following graph for the year 2000 from Abortion and Race confirms:
I got this picture from National Review Online. Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010, is coming.
Obama recently said that Republicans will have to sit in the back of the car:
Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push
This photo representing what the polls currently indicate says that Obama is not even in the back of the bus - he's lost in the surf and he put himself there. I for one couldn't be happier. With 31 abortions per 1000 black women every year compared with 12 abortions per 1000 white women every year, it's obvious that Obama's pro-abortion stance is racially suicidal. See Abortions, by Race at Abortion Facts - the statistics are for 1995 and the web page was updated on 11/3/2006; the numbers will have only gotten worse by now as the following graph for the year 2000 from Abortion and Race confirms:
Posting Comments
Folks,
I apologize for the delay in posting comments. While I am at work, I am not permitted to post comments or make entries at blogsites, Yahoo groups, Facebook or other such forums for obvious reasons. I am employed to do a job, and I have an obligation to my employer to provide eight hours work for eight hours pay (well, sometimes it's 10 hours work for eight hours pay, but the job is a darn good one for which I am grateful). Running commentary on the state of the nation at an internet forum is not a part of that job. Then after work I go to the gym or to Church (depending on whether or not there is evening daily Mass or Eucharistic Adoration on that day). So there can be up to 12 hours delay in posting a comment. For that I apologize, and for the patience of those who bother to read and digest the posts, and then compose and make serious comments, I thank you.
Today while I was at work Catawissa Gazetteer, Jim McCrea and Cinnamon each submitted thoughtful comments to the entry, Scientific American Supports Baby Murdering, that was posted this morning before I went to work. Those comments are now posted and the reader is encouraged to review them accordingly, making any pertinent submissions deamed relevant. However, comments derogatory to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church will not be posted. Period. There is one troll of the liberal persuasion who insists on trying, but there is plenty of voice for that sort of thing from General Electric's MSNBC, National Public Radio, and the rest of the liberal intelligentsia.
I apologize for the delay in posting comments. While I am at work, I am not permitted to post comments or make entries at blogsites, Yahoo groups, Facebook or other such forums for obvious reasons. I am employed to do a job, and I have an obligation to my employer to provide eight hours work for eight hours pay (well, sometimes it's 10 hours work for eight hours pay, but the job is a darn good one for which I am grateful). Running commentary on the state of the nation at an internet forum is not a part of that job. Then after work I go to the gym or to Church (depending on whether or not there is evening daily Mass or Eucharistic Adoration on that day). So there can be up to 12 hours delay in posting a comment. For that I apologize, and for the patience of those who bother to read and digest the posts, and then compose and make serious comments, I thank you.
Today while I was at work Catawissa Gazetteer, Jim McCrea and Cinnamon each submitted thoughtful comments to the entry, Scientific American Supports Baby Murdering, that was posted this morning before I went to work. Those comments are now posted and the reader is encouraged to review them accordingly, making any pertinent submissions deamed relevant. However, comments derogatory to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church will not be posted. Period. There is one troll of the liberal persuasion who insists on trying, but there is plenty of voice for that sort of thing from General Electric's MSNBC, National Public Radio, and the rest of the liberal intelligentsia.
Scientific American Supports Baby Murdering
Folks,
The Chaos Manor web site points out that Scientific American supports embryonic stem cell research to the exclusion of adult stem cell research. As Dignitas Personae points out, this is experimentation on pre-born human beings and leads directly to their death. However, nothing is more important to the liberal than to preserve and enhance his own miserable life even if that means an unborn baby has to die.
Scientific American, Alas
While I was contemplating the subject of today's essay I found this in my mail, and on reflection I offer you this:
The more I see and read about the infiltration of liberalism throughout politics and science today, the more convinced I am that this is the disease that must be excised from the body politic altogether and this mid-term election season is the best time to begin that excising. The best liberal is the defeated, muzzled and emasculated liberal.
The Chaos Manor web site points out that Scientific American supports embryonic stem cell research to the exclusion of adult stem cell research. As Dignitas Personae points out, this is experimentation on pre-born human beings and leads directly to their death. However, nothing is more important to the liberal than to preserve and enhance his own miserable life even if that means an unborn baby has to die.
Scientific American, Alas
While I was contemplating the subject of today's essay I found this in my mail, and on reflection I offer you this:
Scientific American
Dear Mr. Pournelle,
Reading your recent comments on Sci Am, I had wondered if it was just me, but I guess not. I’ve long thought that the magazine I eagerly waited for each month and read cover to cover a few decades ago had gradually become the USA Today of science – pretty pictures, no content. Its political bias in favor of whatever positions looked to generate the most grant dollars also gradually became almost unbearable.
The current issue, for example, has an insane article
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=undifferentiatied-ethics
Wherein some bioethicist is warning people that the development of pluripotent stem cells from adult cells is not an answer to the ethical questions surrounding stem cell research - because those adult-derived stem cells can also be used to create clones which can then be killed for their stem cells. Um, yea – that’s why the moral argument has never been about the stem cells themselves, but about what you have to do to get them – nobody sane I’ve read has a problem with research using stem cells from adults, from umbilical cord, from animals – they ONLY have issues with creating and killing human embryos for their cells. So, yes, the adult derived stem cells DO present a clear ethical choice, one an individual will make based on his understanding of the status of the human life of an embryo.
But that’s the wrong answer, as it would tend to redirect funding away from embryonic stem cell research toward adult-derived stem cell research, which is certainly not the program Sci Am signed up for. And, as you have pointed out, there’s no data on the comparative value of adult versus embryonic stem cell research – it’s just assumed that embryonic stem cell research is an inexhaustible gold mine, while adult stem cell research is an afterthought, if not a dead end.
Anyway, my main reason for writing was not to discuss stem cell ethics, but just to chime in and say how sad it makes me to see Sci Am, an important part of my childhood and young adult education, devolve into this weird sort of anti-science organ, where experiment does not rule, and a political agenda is relentlessly pursued.
So, do I cancel my subscription after 30 years? I haven’t yet, even though I hardly skim through each new copy these days.
Regards,
[deleted]
I could not agree more. As to subscriptions, I have about a five year subscription to Scientific American, a residual of the days when I too eagerly awaited it and read it cover to cover. I probably won't bother to renew when my subscription runs out. There just isn't enough meaningful content, and I weary of its policy opinions since they seem impervious not only to refutation but to the notion that they could possibly be refuted. I do that with a serious sense of loss. I loved that magazine back in the days of Martin Gardiner and Phil Morrison. I didn't agree with Phil, but I respected his abilities as one of the great lecturers -- and his ability to keep his views and his physical science presentations if not separate then identifiable for what they were. I really miss the old SciAm before it succumbed to "consensus".
The more I see and read about the infiltration of liberalism throughout politics and science today, the more convinced I am that this is the disease that must be excised from the body politic altogether and this mid-term election season is the best time to begin that excising. The best liberal is the defeated, muzzled and emasculated liberal.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wisdom - The Image of God
Folks,
Once again the discussion here at Commentarius de Prognosticis has attracted a liberal troll who apparently thinks Catholics believe in some sort of sky god who created the world 6000 years ago and who tolerates homosexual pedophilia among its priests. This person ostensibly holds up science as his god (well, actually scientific materialism which really is a misnomer since a philosophy of solus materialismus by definition cannot be scientific). Of course I deleted the person's comments. This blog isn't a democracy (there's plenty of liberal blogs out there for liberals to vomit forth their filth and idiocy), and we don't have dialogue with the diabolical minions of Satan here. However, this person's inane comments came to mind as I read the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of Hours this evening. (I actually read the wrong ones, but maybe that was God's plan.)
Wisdom 7:15-30 was the Scripture passage followed by an excerpt from a discourse given by Saint Athanasius, Bishop, entitled Four Discourses Against the Arians. Today's materialists, however, have forsaken Wisdom to pursue materialism. By doing so, they have forsaken God's invisible nature which St. Paul says in Romans 1:18-32 has been clear to all in the things that have been made from the creation of the world. Thus do they become darkened in their own minds, giving themselves up to the very perverted passions of the flesh that they accuse priests of, but never find themselves guilty of. So, without further delay, the Scripture reading and a short excerpt from Athanasius' work is reproduced below.
Once again the discussion here at Commentarius de Prognosticis has attracted a liberal troll who apparently thinks Catholics believe in some sort of sky god who created the world 6000 years ago and who tolerates homosexual pedophilia among its priests. This person ostensibly holds up science as his god (well, actually scientific materialism which really is a misnomer since a philosophy of solus materialismus by definition cannot be scientific). Of course I deleted the person's comments. This blog isn't a democracy (there's plenty of liberal blogs out there for liberals to vomit forth their filth and idiocy), and we don't have dialogue with the diabolical minions of Satan here. However, this person's inane comments came to mind as I read the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of Hours this evening. (I actually read the wrong ones, but maybe that was God's plan.)
Wisdom 7:15-30 was the Scripture passage followed by an excerpt from a discourse given by Saint Athanasius, Bishop, entitled Four Discourses Against the Arians. Today's materialists, however, have forsaken Wisdom to pursue materialism. By doing so, they have forsaken God's invisible nature which St. Paul says in Romans 1:18-32 has been clear to all in the things that have been made from the creation of the world. Thus do they become darkened in their own minds, giving themselves up to the very perverted passions of the flesh that they accuse priests of, but never find themselves guilty of. So, without further delay, the Scripture reading and a short excerpt from Athanasius' work is reproduced below.
15 Now God grant I speak suitably and value these endowments at their worth: For he is the guide of Wisdom and the director of the wise.Paragraph 28 beneath chapter 8 in Discourse I Against the Arians by St. Athanasius goes on to dispel the entire sky god concept that our liberal troll disseminates, for what is a sky god but some superhuman dwelling in the sky?
16 For both we and our words are in his hand, as well as all prudence and knowledge of crafts.
17 For he gave me sound knowledge of existing things, that I might know the organization of the universe and the force of its elements,
18 The beginning and the end and the midpoint of times, the changes in the sun's course and the variations of the seasons.
19 Cycles of years, positions of the stars,
20 natures of animals, tempers of beasts, Powers of the winds and thoughts of men, uses of plants and virtues of roots-
21 Such things as are hidden I learned and such as are plain;
22 for Wisdom, the artificer of all, taught me. For in her is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, Manifold, subtle, agile, clear, unstained, certain, Not baneful, loving the good, keen, unhampered, beneficent,
23 kindly, Firm, secure, tranquil, all-powerful, all-seeing, And pervading all spirits, though they be intelligent, pure and very subtle.
24 For Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion, and she penetrates and pervades all things by reason of her purity.
25 For she is an aura of the might of God and a pure effusion of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nought that is sullied enters into her.
26 For she is the refulgence of eternal light, the spotless mirror of the power of God, the image of his goodness.
27 And she, who is one, can do all things, and renews everything while herself perduring; And passing into holy souls from age to age, she produces friends of God and prophets.
28 For there is nought God loves, be it not one who dwells with Wisdom.
29 For she is fairer than the sun and surpasses every constellation of the stars. Compared to light, she takes precedence;
30 for that, indeed, night supplants, but wickedness prevails not over Wisdom.
As we said above, so now we repeat, that the divine generation must not be compared to the nature of men, nor the Son considered to be part of God, nor the generation to imply any passion whatever; God is not as man; for men beget passibly, having a transitive nature, which waits for periods by reason of its weakness. But with God this cannot be; for He is not composed of parts, but being impassible and simple, He is impassibly and indivisibly Father of the Son. This again is strongly evidenced and proved by divine Scripture. For the Word of God is His Son, and the Son is the Father's Word and Wisdom; and Word and Wisdom is neither creature nor part of Him whose Word He is, nor an offspring passibly begotten. Uniting then the two titles, Scripture speaks of 'Son,' in order to herald the natural and true offspring of His essence; and, on the other hand, that none may think of the Offspring humanly, while signifying His essence, it also calls Him Word, Wisdom, and Radiance; to teach us that the generation was impassible, and eternal, and worthy of God. What affection then, or what part of the Father is the Word and the Wisdom and the Radiance? So much may be impressed even on these men of folly; for as they asked women concerning God's Son, so let them inquire of men concerning the Word, and they will find that the word which they put forth is neither an affection of them nor a part of their mind. But if such be the word of men, who are passible and partitive, why speculate they about passions and parts in the instance of the immaterial and indivisible God, that under pretence of reverence they may deny the true and natural generation of the Son? Enough was said above to show that the offspring from God is not an affection; and now it has been shown in particular that the Word is not begotten according to affection. The same may be said of Wisdom; God is not as man; nor must they here think humanly of Him. For, whereas men are capable of wisdom, God partakes in nothing, but is Himself the Father of His own Wisdom, of which whoso partake are given the name of wise. And this Wisdom too is not a passion, nor a part, but an Offspring proper to the Father. Wherefore He is ever Father, nor is the character of Father adventitious to God, lest He seem alterable; for if it is good that He be Father, but has not ever been Father, then good has not ever been in Him.
Murky Voting Message from Cardinal Sean O'Malley in Taxachusetts
Folks,
One again Cardinal Sean O'Malley and his fellow Bishops in Taxachusetts issue the usual murkey voting advice from liberal pseudo-Catholicism:
BISHOPS’ STATEMENT ON ELECTING OUR CIVIC LEADERS: HOPE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
Michael Voris' commentary from Real Catholic TV is right on target:
Murkey Message
Now please be advised, dear reader, that this is the SAME Cardinal who gave Senator Ted Kennedy a funeral fit for a prince of the Church. Considering that Kennedy in his pro-abortionism effectively belonged to the church of Satan, and considering where his pro-abortion stance would send him if he failed to repent before death, perhaps a huge send-off was appropriate. But I digress. It is for clerics like Cardinal Sean O'Malley that Ezekiel 34:1-10 and Jeremiah 23:1-2 were written. Unless they repent, they may well find themselves where Ted Kennedy possibly is right now (though none of us should ever hope that that is the case - God desires repentance, not punishment).
One again Cardinal Sean O'Malley and his fellow Bishops in Taxachusetts issue the usual murkey voting advice from liberal pseudo-Catholicism:
BISHOPS’ STATEMENT ON ELECTING OUR CIVIC LEADERS: HOPE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
Michael Voris' commentary from Real Catholic TV is right on target:
Murkey Message
Now please be advised, dear reader, that this is the SAME Cardinal who gave Senator Ted Kennedy a funeral fit for a prince of the Church. Considering that Kennedy in his pro-abortionism effectively belonged to the church of Satan, and considering where his pro-abortion stance would send him if he failed to repent before death, perhaps a huge send-off was appropriate. But I digress. It is for clerics like Cardinal Sean O'Malley that Ezekiel 34:1-10 and Jeremiah 23:1-2 were written. Unless they repent, they may well find themselves where Ted Kennedy possibly is right now (though none of us should ever hope that that is the case - God desires repentance, not punishment).
Pope Benedict XVI on Science
Folks,
The following is Pope Benedict XVI's speech to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences given today, October 28, 2010. This speech is important enough to be reproduced in its entirety below. Without overtly saying so, it stands as a definitive refutation of scientific materialism and godless atheism, but one which our liberal secular detractors will neither understand nor (if understanding) accept.
The following is Pope Benedict XVI's speech to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences given today, October 28, 2010. This speech is important enough to be reproduced in its entirety below. Without overtly saying so, it stands as a definitive refutation of scientific materialism and godless atheism, but one which our liberal secular detractors will neither understand nor (if understanding) accept.
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE PLENARY SESSION OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Clementine Hall
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Your Excellencies,
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am pleased to greet all of you here present as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences gathers for its Plenary Session to reflect on ‘The Scientific Legacy of the Twentieth Century’. I greet in particular Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Academy. I also take this opportunity to recall with affection and gratitude Professor Nicola Cabibbo, your late president. With all of you, I prayerfully commend his noble soul to God the Father of mercies.
The history of science in the twentieth century is one of undoubted achievement and major advances. Unfortunately, the popular image of twentieth-century science is sometimes characterized otherwise, in two extreme ways. On the one hand, science is posited by some as a panacea, proven by its notable achievements in the last century. Its innumerable advances were in fact so encompassing and so rapid that they seemed to confirm the point of view that science might answer all the questions of man’s existence, and even of his highest aspirations. On the other hand, there are those who fear science and who distance themselves from it, because of sobering developments such as the construction and terrifying use of nuclear weapons.
Science, of course, is not defined by either of these extremes. Its task was and remains a patient yet passionate search for the truth about the cosmos, about nature and about the constitution of the human being. In this search, there have been many successes and failures, triumphs and setbacks. The developments of science have been both uplifting, as when the complexity of nature and its phenomena were discovered, exceeding our expectations, and humbling, as when some of the theories we thought might have explained those phenomena once and for all proved only partial. Nonetheless, even provisional results constitute a real contribution to unveiling the correspondence between the intellect and natural realities, on which later generations may build further.
The progress made in scientific knowledge in the twentieth century, in all its various disciplines, has led to a greatly improved awareness of the place that man and this planet occupy in the universe. In all sciences, the common denominator continues to be the notion of experimentation as an organized method for observing nature. In the last century, man certainly made more progress – if not always in his knowledge of himself and of God, then certainly in his knowledge of the macro- and microcosms – than in the entire previous history of humanity. Our meeting here today, dear friends, is a proof of the Church’s esteem for ongoing scientific research and of her gratitude for scientific endeavour, which she both encourages and benefits from. In our own day, scientists themselves appreciate more and more the need to be open to philosophy if they are to discover the logical and epistemological foundation for their methodology and their conclusions. For her part, the Church is convinced that scientific activity ultimately benefits from the recognition of man’s spiritual dimension and his quest for ultimate answers that allow for the acknowledgement of a world existing independently from us, which we do not fully understand and which we can only comprehend in so far as we grasp its inherent logic. Scientists do not create the world; they learn about it and attempt to imitate it, following the laws and intelligibility that nature manifests to us. The scientist’s experience as a human being is therefore that of perceiving a constant, a law, a logos that he has not created but that he has instead observed: in fact, it leads us to admit the existence of an all-powerful Reason, which is other than that of man, and which sustains the world. This is the meeting point between the natural sciences and religion. As a result, science becomes a place of dialogue, a meeting between man and nature and, potentially, even between man and his Creator.
As we look to the twenty-first century, I would like to propose two thoughts for further reflection. First, as increasing accomplishments of the sciences deepen our wonder of the complexity of nature, the need for an interdisciplinary approach tied with philosophical reflection leading to a synthesis is more and more perceived. Secondly, scientific achievement in this new century should always be informed by the imperatives of fraternity and peace, helping to solve the great problems of humanity, and directing everyone’s efforts towards the true good of man and the integral development of the peoples of the world. The positive outcome of twenty-first century science will surely depend in large measure on the scientist’s ability to search for truth and apply discoveries in a way that goes hand in hand with the search for what is just and good.
With these sentiments, I invite you to direct your gaze toward Christ, the uncreated Wisdom, and to recognize in His face, the Logos of the Creator of all things. Renewing my good wishes for your work, I willingly impart my Apostolic Blessing.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Hating on Catholics
Folks,
Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV reports on how much the liberal establishment hates conservative Catholic bloggers:
Hating on Catholics
I can only hope that I count as one among the august members of the orthodox Catholic blogosphere hated and reviled by liberal intelligentsia and liberal cleric alike. "Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (falsely) because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you." (Matthew 5:11-12)
Associated Press even reports the rise of the orthodox Catholic blogosphere:
Catholic Bloggers Aim to Purge Dissenters
Liberals are no longer going to get away unchallenged in their idolatry and wickedness.
Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV reports on how much the liberal establishment hates conservative Catholic bloggers:
Hating on Catholics
I can only hope that I count as one among the august members of the orthodox Catholic blogosphere hated and reviled by liberal intelligentsia and liberal cleric alike. "Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (falsely) because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you." (Matthew 5:11-12)
Associated Press even reports the rise of the orthodox Catholic blogosphere:
Catholic Bloggers Aim to Purge Dissenters
Liberals are no longer going to get away unchallenged in their idolatry and wickedness.
Today's Gospel Reading
Folks,
Today's Gospel Reading from Luke 13:22-30 (reproduced below) is most appropos given the disease of liberalism that is infesting and infecting the Church in America. Pseudo-Catholics enamored with the false gospel of social justice, myopically concerned with the 1099 executions in the US from 1976 to 2008 while minimizing and trivializing the 1.1 million unborn babies murdered every year would do well to consider Jesus' words. The problem is NOT the death penalty. The problem is NOT the war in Afghanistan. The problem is the murder of unborn babies, the sexual perversion called gay marriage, adultery, fornication, and idolatry, and all these are aided and abetted by liberal Catholic clerics (at least two of whom are assigned to two different parishes in the New Hanover area) who think that their office of ordination entitles them to respect and obedience. May they read Ezekiel 34:1-10 and let them beware lest they in self-importance with all the trappings of liberal academia are cast out while those whom they have belittled and humiliated are welcomed in. Yes, the Church is Universal - hence her name Catholic - but the gate is narrow. Unrepentent baby-murderers, practicing homosexual perverts, adulterers, fornicators and idolaters don't get in. I didn't invent that rule and I wasn't the first one to voice it. St. Paul did so first 2000 years ago in 1st Corinthians 6:9-10. Now for what the Master Himself said:
Jesus passed through towns and villages,
teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem.
Someone asked him,
“Lord, will only a few people be saved?”
He answered them,
“Strive to enter through the narrow gate,
for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter
but will not be strong enough.
After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door,
then will you stand outside knocking and saying,
‘Lord, open the door for us.’
He will say to you in reply,
‘I do not know where you are from.’
And you will say,
‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’
Then he will say to you,
‘I do not know where you are from.
Depart from me, all you evildoers!’
And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth
when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God
and you yourselves cast out.
And people will come from the east and the west
and from the north and the south
and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God.
For behold, some are last who will be first,
and some are first who will be last.”
Today's Gospel Reading from Luke 13:22-30 (reproduced below) is most appropos given the disease of liberalism that is infesting and infecting the Church in America. Pseudo-Catholics enamored with the false gospel of social justice, myopically concerned with the 1099 executions in the US from 1976 to 2008 while minimizing and trivializing the 1.1 million unborn babies murdered every year would do well to consider Jesus' words. The problem is NOT the death penalty. The problem is NOT the war in Afghanistan. The problem is the murder of unborn babies, the sexual perversion called gay marriage, adultery, fornication, and idolatry, and all these are aided and abetted by liberal Catholic clerics (at least two of whom are assigned to two different parishes in the New Hanover area) who think that their office of ordination entitles them to respect and obedience. May they read Ezekiel 34:1-10 and let them beware lest they in self-importance with all the trappings of liberal academia are cast out while those whom they have belittled and humiliated are welcomed in. Yes, the Church is Universal - hence her name Catholic - but the gate is narrow. Unrepentent baby-murderers, practicing homosexual perverts, adulterers, fornicators and idolaters don't get in. I didn't invent that rule and I wasn't the first one to voice it. St. Paul did so first 2000 years ago in 1st Corinthians 6:9-10. Now for what the Master Himself said:
Jesus passed through towns and villages,
teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem.
Someone asked him,
“Lord, will only a few people be saved?”
He answered them,
“Strive to enter through the narrow gate,
for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter
but will not be strong enough.
After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door,
then will you stand outside knocking and saying,
‘Lord, open the door for us.’
He will say to you in reply,
‘I do not know where you are from.’
And you will say,
‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’
Then he will say to you,
‘I do not know where you are from.
Depart from me, all you evildoers!’
And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth
when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God
and you yourselves cast out.
And people will come from the east and the west
and from the north and the south
and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God.
For behold, some are last who will be first,
and some are first who will be last.”
NRC ACRS Report on the GEH ESBWR
The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards within the US NRC has issued the following:
Report on the Safety Aspects of the General Electric-Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) Application for Certification of the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) Design
For an audio-visual animation of the safety aspects of the design of the "Economically Simplified Boiling Water Reactor," please go to the following link and follow the on-screen directions (in selecting next at the top menu bar on the pop-up screen) to progress through the various animations. Doing this will help the reader to understand the content of the ACRS report.
ESBWR Passive Safety Systems Animation
The ACRS report states in part:
Dear Chairman Jaczko:The report goes on explain the following:
During the 576th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, October 7-9, 2010, we completed the safety review of the GEH application for certification of its ESBWR passive nuclear power plant design. This letter report is intended to fulfill the requirements of 10 CFR 52.53. During our review, we had the benefit of discussions with representatives of the NRC staff and GEH and its consultants. We also had the benefit of the documents referenced.
CONCLUSION
The ESBWR design is robust and there is reasonable assurance that it can be built and operated without undue risk to the health and safety of the public.
ESBWR Design DescriptionThis is a most gratifying development.
The ESBWR design includes a boiling-water reactor (BWR) nuclear steam supply system (NSSS). It could be constructed at any location that meets the parameters identified in Chapter 2 of the DCD, Tier 2, Revision 7. The ESBWR design utilizes a low-leakage containment vessel, which is comprised of the drywell and wetwell. The containment vessel is a cylindrical steel-lined reinforced concrete structure integrated with the reactor building. The DCD describes a nuclear plant with a NSSS thermal power rating of up to 4,500 megawatts thermal (MWt). Based on this reference design, the plant has a rated gross electrical power output of 1,594 megawatts electric (MWe) and a net electrical power output of approximately 1,535 MWe. The COL applicant will establish the rated electrical power output based on the turbine island design selected and site-specific conditions and may base the COL application on a lower rated thermal power output to satisfy site-specific environmental parameters. While the COL license period is for 40 years, GEH stated that the plant has a design life objective of 60 years without a replacement of the reactor vessel.
Safety Enhancement Features
The ESBWR is a direct-cycle, natural circulation BWR and has passive safety features to cope with a range of design basis accidents (DBAs). Within the containment structure are the isolation condensers (IC), the elevated gravity-driven cooling system (GDCS) water pools, a passive containment cooling system (PCCS), and an elevated suppression pool. These systems can remove decay heat under all conditions. The ESBWR standard design includes a reactor building that surrounds the containment, as well as buildings dedicated exclusively or primarily to housing related systems and equipment.
The limiting ESBWR DBA is a Main Steam Line Break (MSLB). In this DBA, water and steam are initially discharged from the break into the drywell. As the drywell pressure increases, the horizontal vents between the drywell and wetwell clear. Subsequently, a steam-water mixture from the break flows through the vents into the wetwell suppression pool, where the steam is condensed, and the water is cooled to the pool temperature. As the primary system pressure falls to the drywell pressure, water makeup to the reactor vessel is provided by actuation of the GDCS; i.e., the GDCS squib valves open and water flows by gravity head into the vessel from the GDCS pools. This occurs approximately ten minutes after the initiation of the accident. The reactor core is never uncovered during the limiting DBA. Steam condensation in the suppression pool and pressure equilibration between the drywell and wetwell through the vacuum breakers reduce the drywell pressure causing the horizontal vents to close. The remaining noncondensible gases and steam in the drywell then flow up through the PCCS heat exchanger. The steam is condensed as it passes through the PCCS tubes. Water condensate is collected and returned to the GDCS pools, and the noncondensible gases flow into the wetwell gas space. This establishes a passive long-term recirculation cooling mode for over 72 hours. Non-safety-related recirculating fans are credited after 72 hours and result in a further reduction in the containment pressure. However, calculations show that even in a purely passive mode, the containment pressure remains below the design pressure for over 30 days.
Voting Right
Folks,
What follows is another good video from Real Catholic TV.
Voting Right!
The bottom line is this: while the Republican Party certainly isn't the party of God, the Democrat Party IS the party of Satan. Why? Because of its open support of gay marriage, abortion, contraception, moral relativism, scientific materialism, idolatry and atheist, humanist secularism. I won't get into nuances about how some Democrats are really good guys and some Republicans are really bad guys. We all know that that is the case. But as a political party, the Democrats' descent into evil is far worse and far more pronounced, and its official party platform openly supports baby murdering as some sort of right to choose whereas the Republican Party's platform is just the opposite. Does this make me a single issue voter? No more so than the fighters against Hitler's genocide of the Jews were single issue fighters. Fifty million murdered babies, often by torture and dismemberment, under liberal Democrat policies and programs testify to their spiritual heritage from the Nazi Party. Therefore, one cannot be an authentic Christian and a Democrat. Why? Well, answer the question: what would Jesus do? First, if He didn't want to father a baby, then He wouldn't (and didn't) have sex: no sex outside of marriage and no contraception within marriage. God didn't provide sex to be a mechanism by which we can get high. Second, He wouldn't countenance capital punishment of the offspring so that the parents can avoid the consequences of their sin. But Democrats don't think like that. They take advantage of God's mercy and think they can do whatever they want without consequence. Let's show them this election season that their actions have consequences. Even if it means you have to hold your nose at the voting booth, do so and vote AGAINST the baby-murdering Democrats.
What follows is another good video from Real Catholic TV.
Voting Right!
The bottom line is this: while the Republican Party certainly isn't the party of God, the Democrat Party IS the party of Satan. Why? Because of its open support of gay marriage, abortion, contraception, moral relativism, scientific materialism, idolatry and atheist, humanist secularism. I won't get into nuances about how some Democrats are really good guys and some Republicans are really bad guys. We all know that that is the case. But as a political party, the Democrats' descent into evil is far worse and far more pronounced, and its official party platform openly supports baby murdering as some sort of right to choose whereas the Republican Party's platform is just the opposite. Does this make me a single issue voter? No more so than the fighters against Hitler's genocide of the Jews were single issue fighters. Fifty million murdered babies, often by torture and dismemberment, under liberal Democrat policies and programs testify to their spiritual heritage from the Nazi Party. Therefore, one cannot be an authentic Christian and a Democrat. Why? Well, answer the question: what would Jesus do? First, if He didn't want to father a baby, then He wouldn't (and didn't) have sex: no sex outside of marriage and no contraception within marriage. God didn't provide sex to be a mechanism by which we can get high. Second, He wouldn't countenance capital punishment of the offspring so that the parents can avoid the consequences of their sin. But Democrats don't think like that. They take advantage of God's mercy and think they can do whatever they want without consequence. Let's show them this election season that their actions have consequences. Even if it means you have to hold your nose at the voting booth, do so and vote AGAINST the baby-murdering Democrats.
Pope's Message for the 97th World Day of Migrants and Refugees
Folks,
The NY Times reports Pope Says States Have Right to Defend Borders. The speech that Pope Benedict XVI gacve on September 27, 2010 from Castel Gandolfo may be found here:
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI FOR THE 97th WORLD DAY OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES (2011)
The section being referred to states:
At the same time, States have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers, always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of each and every human person. Immigrants, moreover, have the duty to integrate into the host Country, respecting its laws and its national identity.
Catawissa Gazetteer's commentary on this subject may be found here:
Pope Agrees that States Have Rigth to Defend Borders
The continuing saga of drug-related violence and the murder of innocent people caused by unrestricted flow of illegal immigrants demans no less than what Romans 13:1-7 points out. But sadly, with an unlawful and wicked man in the Oval Office, the servant of God who bears the sword now uses it against those whom he is sworn to protect insteda of against those whom he is supposed to chastise.
The NY Times reports Pope Says States Have Right to Defend Borders. The speech that Pope Benedict XVI gacve on September 27, 2010 from Castel Gandolfo may be found here:
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI FOR THE 97th WORLD DAY OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES (2011)
The section being referred to states:
At the same time, States have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers, always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of each and every human person. Immigrants, moreover, have the duty to integrate into the host Country, respecting its laws and its national identity.
Catawissa Gazetteer's commentary on this subject may be found here:
Pope Agrees that States Have Rigth to Defend Borders
The continuing saga of drug-related violence and the murder of innocent people caused by unrestricted flow of illegal immigrants demans no less than what Romans 13:1-7 points out. But sadly, with an unlawful and wicked man in the Oval Office, the servant of God who bears the sword now uses it against those whom he is sworn to protect insteda of against those whom he is supposed to chastise.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Voting The Commandments
Folks,
Real Catholic TV's Michael Voris has suggested using the Ten Commandments as the template by which to vote. This is most appropos:
Voting The Commandments
However, let us remember, as Jesus explained to Pontius Pilate, that God's kingdom is NOT of this world (John 18:36), and all those who think that by some sort of political policy or program (whether right or left) we can create the Kingdom of God on Earth are not merely mistaken, but operating from the highest degree of hubris. Only God can cleanup this mess, and that can only happen by subservience to Jesus Christ either now in this life or in the next life to come when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord (Philippians 2:10-11). Therefore, I encourage the reader to also give Catawissa Gazetteer's latest entry, Those Voices Don't Speak for Us, all due consideration. What he writes is NOT an excuse to vote Democrat simply because the Republican Party isn't the Party of God. Rather, let us have our eyes open, realizing as we vote against the Democrats that our faith remains in Jesus Christ, not some obsequious politician ingratiating himself for political office.
And for those who have forgotten what the Ten Commandments state, here is the list from Deuteronomy 5:6-21:
Real Catholic TV's Michael Voris has suggested using the Ten Commandments as the template by which to vote. This is most appropos:
Voting The Commandments
However, let us remember, as Jesus explained to Pontius Pilate, that God's kingdom is NOT of this world (John 18:36), and all those who think that by some sort of political policy or program (whether right or left) we can create the Kingdom of God on Earth are not merely mistaken, but operating from the highest degree of hubris. Only God can cleanup this mess, and that can only happen by subservience to Jesus Christ either now in this life or in the next life to come when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord (Philippians 2:10-11). Therefore, I encourage the reader to also give Catawissa Gazetteer's latest entry, Those Voices Don't Speak for Us, all due consideration. What he writes is NOT an excuse to vote Democrat simply because the Republican Party isn't the Party of God. Rather, let us have our eyes open, realizing as we vote against the Democrats that our faith remains in Jesus Christ, not some obsequious politician ingratiating himself for political office.
And for those who have forgotten what the Ten Commandments state, here is the list from Deuteronomy 5:6-21:
- I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.
- You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
- Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
- Honor your father and your mother.
- You shall not kill.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
- You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
Monday, October 25, 2010
The Catholic Laboratory
Folks,
A reader of this blog from Facebook (entries are automatically copied over daily to my Facebook web page) pointed out another marvellous Catholic science web site:
The Catholic Laboratory
I encourage one and all to go over and explore.
There are two myths being perpetuated by modern secular society. One is that orthodox Catholicism and science are inherently opposed to each other. The one thousand years of Catholic science proves these myth-makers wrong.
The second myth is that people of faith - particularly Christians and especially devout orthodox Catholics - should have no voice in the public square. That these United States were founded as a Christian Constitutional Republic and NOT as a secular atheist democracy again proves these myth-makers wrong.
Wherever one turns, one finds liberals, progressives, humanists and atheists (whatever name these people chose to call themselves) to be liars, perverts, murderers and idolaters. They lie about history and about science. They call for freedom of every kind of sexual perversion there is, from adultery to fornication to homosexuality. They murder the unborn with complete abandon, and would stop at nothing to put the aged and infirm to death as some sort of mercy killing. And they place their own persons on the edifice of divinity, denying all authority to God so that they may abdicate all moral responsibility and evade all ethical accountability. Thus we know that these myth makers are neither moral nor scientific, denying both reason and faith for the sake of the instant gratification of the lustful passions of the flesh. But I digress.....
Know this, dear reader. Were it NOT for the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, most if not all the advances of modern science and technology that we take for granted would never have been developed in the first place. Liberalism never sought to make life better, from athiest Voltaire and his murderous prodigy Robespierre to Barack Hussein Obama, the presidential baby-murderer. But the Catholic Church did and does seek to make life better (after all, to Her did Jesus entrust the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, the very plan of salvation for men's souls), which is why liberalism hates orthodox Catholicism so much.
A reader of this blog from Facebook (entries are automatically copied over daily to my Facebook web page) pointed out another marvellous Catholic science web site:
The Catholic Laboratory
I encourage one and all to go over and explore.
There are two myths being perpetuated by modern secular society. One is that orthodox Catholicism and science are inherently opposed to each other. The one thousand years of Catholic science proves these myth-makers wrong.
The second myth is that people of faith - particularly Christians and especially devout orthodox Catholics - should have no voice in the public square. That these United States were founded as a Christian Constitutional Republic and NOT as a secular atheist democracy again proves these myth-makers wrong.
Wherever one turns, one finds liberals, progressives, humanists and atheists (whatever name these people chose to call themselves) to be liars, perverts, murderers and idolaters. They lie about history and about science. They call for freedom of every kind of sexual perversion there is, from adultery to fornication to homosexuality. They murder the unborn with complete abandon, and would stop at nothing to put the aged and infirm to death as some sort of mercy killing. And they place their own persons on the edifice of divinity, denying all authority to God so that they may abdicate all moral responsibility and evade all ethical accountability. Thus we know that these myth makers are neither moral nor scientific, denying both reason and faith for the sake of the instant gratification of the lustful passions of the flesh. But I digress.....
Know this, dear reader. Were it NOT for the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, most if not all the advances of modern science and technology that we take for granted would never have been developed in the first place. Liberalism never sought to make life better, from athiest Voltaire and his murderous prodigy Robespierre to Barack Hussein Obama, the presidential baby-murderer. But the Catholic Church did and does seek to make life better (after all, to Her did Jesus entrust the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, the very plan of salvation for men's souls), which is why liberalism hates orthodox Catholicism so much.
Separation of Church and State
Folks,
Lawrence Auster at View from the Right has a great little entry explaining what the First Amendment to the US Constitution does NOT mean:
Oh-so-superior left-liberals make utter fools of themselves
Let us see what the First Amendment to the US Constitution does state:
Lawrence Auster at View from the Right has a great little entry explaining what the First Amendment to the US Constitution does NOT mean:
Oh-so-superior left-liberals make utter fools of themselves
Let us see what the First Amendment to the US Constitution does state:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Here is Mr. Auster's quite correct explanation:
...separation of church and state is not in the Constitution, but comes from a letter by Thomas Jefferson, in which he spoke of a "wall of separation," and which liberal judges over the last hundred years have dishonestly attempted to inject into the Constitution.This controversy continues with Chris Matthews of General Electric's MSNBC criticism of Christine O'Donnell pointing out the obvious about the First Amendment in her candidacy for Joe Biden's old seat as the Senator from Delaware before he became the false prophet for the anti-christ currently sitting in the Oval Office. One would hope that General Electric would do better to get journalists who are actually able to read and comprehend (which obviously Mr. Matthews can do neither in the case of the US Constitution). In the meantime, MSNBC's ratings are in the toilet, unlike Fox News.
The liberals...think that since non-establishment of religion is in the Constitution, therefore separation of church and state is in the Constitution. But of course non-establishment of religion and separation of church and state are not the same thing. Non-establishment of religion means that no religious denomination shall be favored in law over others; it means that no denomination shall receive public revenues, and that membership in any denomination shall not be required for voting or holding political office; indeed, since it was Congress, not the states, that was barred from establishing a religion, several states had religious establishments until well into the nineteenth century when they voluntarily ended them. Separation of church and state means that the state shall have absolutely nothing to do with religion. The first proof that the two are not the same, and have never been understood by the Congress to be the same, is that the first Congress in 1789 passed the First Amendment which barred the Congress from establishing a religion, even as the same Congress did all kinds of things to advance religion, including holding daily prayers in the Congress and distributing Bibles to the Northwest territories, and no one ever suggested that in doing these things the Congress was in violation of the First Amendment.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Interesting Articles at Chaos Manor
Folks,
There are two interesting articles at the Chaos manor web site. One is entitled "The Juan Williams Affair" and the other "Ditzy MSNBC."
In the case of the first, we all know that National Public Radio is THE voice piece for left wing liberalism and Juan Williams was the closest thing they had to a centrist. Now after voicing his legitimate fears about Muslims boarding airplanes, his firing by NPR enables him to go to Fox news where he will have a far bigger audience than he ever had an NPR. That sounds like a win-win to me: Mr. Williams wins a better job, Fox News wins balance with a liberal news analyst, and NPR is exposed for the intolerant left wing idiocy that it is.
In the case of the second, MSNBC is General Electric's contribution to godless liberalism. Once again, MSNBC steps all over its feet in the anthroprogenic global warming (AGW) debate and General Electric, the parent company, will do nothing to reign it that renegade pseudo-news network. It is no wonder that GE can't get its program for new nuclear power plants off the ground. Its MSNBC supports a godless anti-nuclear president while moaning and complaining about AGW, the only viable solution to which IS nuclear energy replacing fossil fuels.
In the meantime, the liberal blogmaster at Atomic Insights is telling us not to trust the polls that indicate a Tea Party revolution about to take place this November 2nd:
Beware of Poll Predictions Based on Poorly Representative Samples
Every other time the polls told us that liberalism was in ascendency, that man was all over those polls like stink on manure, bragging about how the country was liberal. But now that things aren't looking his way, he doesn't want us to believe what the times portend: Tea Party victory. How a person can be such a smart scientist and engineer, and such a supporter of godless liberalism is beyond explanation (never mind that his hero, Obama, is anti-nuclear power).
There are two interesting articles at the Chaos manor web site. One is entitled "The Juan Williams Affair" and the other "Ditzy MSNBC."
In the case of the first, we all know that National Public Radio is THE voice piece for left wing liberalism and Juan Williams was the closest thing they had to a centrist. Now after voicing his legitimate fears about Muslims boarding airplanes, his firing by NPR enables him to go to Fox news where he will have a far bigger audience than he ever had an NPR. That sounds like a win-win to me: Mr. Williams wins a better job, Fox News wins balance with a liberal news analyst, and NPR is exposed for the intolerant left wing idiocy that it is.
In the case of the second, MSNBC is General Electric's contribution to godless liberalism. Once again, MSNBC steps all over its feet in the anthroprogenic global warming (AGW) debate and General Electric, the parent company, will do nothing to reign it that renegade pseudo-news network. It is no wonder that GE can't get its program for new nuclear power plants off the ground. Its MSNBC supports a godless anti-nuclear president while moaning and complaining about AGW, the only viable solution to which IS nuclear energy replacing fossil fuels.
In the meantime, the liberal blogmaster at Atomic Insights is telling us not to trust the polls that indicate a Tea Party revolution about to take place this November 2nd:
Beware of Poll Predictions Based on Poorly Representative Samples
Every other time the polls told us that liberalism was in ascendency, that man was all over those polls like stink on manure, bragging about how the country was liberal. But now that things aren't looking his way, he doesn't want us to believe what the times portend: Tea Party victory. How a person can be such a smart scientist and engineer, and such a supporter of godless liberalism is beyond explanation (never mind that his hero, Obama, is anti-nuclear power).
Catholic Scientists
Folks,
One of the myths proposed and perpetuated by the materialist who claims to be scientific is that for one to truly be scientific, then one must be irreligious and indeed opposed to religion. yet in Stephen M. Barr's book, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, we have quite a list of devout Catholics - many members of the clergy - who were in every sense of the word scientists of the highest sort.
Robert Grosseteste (1168-1253) was Bishop of Lincoln and founder of the Oxford School to which has been traced the beginning of the tradition of experimental physical science.
Thomas Bradwardine (1290-1349) became Archbishop of Catebury and was one of the first people to ever write down an equation for physical processes.
Nicholas of Oresme (1323-1382) was Bishop of Lisieux and made major contributions to mathematics and physics, having discovered how to combine exponents, and having developed graphs to represent functions and prove theorems. He showed that the apparent daily motion of the Sun about Earth could be explained by rotation of Earth on its axis, and he attempted to give a quantitative description of accelerated motion, playing a major role in the development of the physical concept of inertia, thereby paving the way for Galileo and Newton.
Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464), a cardinal of the Church, speculated not merely that Earth was in motion as Copernicus later suggested, but that all bodies, including Earth and Sun, were in motion in an infinite universe having no center.
Copernicus (1473-1543) of reknown astronomical fame was an ecclesiastic, being a canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
Father Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) was a mathematician who worked with prime numbers. A certain type of prime number is named after him. He also invented the afocal form of the two-mirror telescope, which is fundamental to the modern theory of reflecting telescopes.
Father Christoph Scheiner (1573-1650) made important discoveries about sunspots and the Sun's rotation on its axis.
Father Francesco Grimaldi (1613-1653) was a pioneer in lunar cartography. He gave many of the features of the lunar landscape the names by which they are called today. His published discoveries on the refraction of light preceded Newton's, and he also discovered both the diffraction and destruction interference phenomenon of light.
Father Giovanni Riccioli (1598-1671) discovered the first binary or double star.
Father Pietro Secchi (1818-1878) was the founder of modern astrophysics, having developed the first spectral classification of stars, the basis of which is still used today. He invented the meteorograph and was the first to understand that nebulae were interstellar clouds of gas.
Father Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826) was director of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory and was the first to discover the asteroid Ceres between Mars and Jupiter in 1801.
Father Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) was one of the leading biologists of his time, intepreting the process of digestion, showing it to a process of solution taking place by the action of gastric juices. He performed experiments that disproved the hypothesis of spontaneous generation, and researched fertilization in animals, respiration, regeneration, and the senses of bats. Unrelatedly, he also helped to lay the foundations of modern vulcanology and meteorology.
An Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) is esteemed as the father of genetics for his discovery of the basic laws of heredity.
Abbe Henri Breuil (1877-1962) was one of the leading paleontologists in the world and for decades the foremost expert on prehistoric cave paintings.
Abbe George Lemaitre (1894-1966) was one of the originators of the Big Bang Theory. His work inspired Pope Pius XII to write the Encyclical, Humani Generis.
Father Julius A. Nieuwland (1878-1936) was a chemistry professor at Notre Dame and a co-developer of neoprene, the first synthetic rubber-like compound.
Father Francesco Cavalieri (1598-1647) helped to develop the foundation of modern calculus.
Father Girolamo Saccheri (1667-1733) did work that led to the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry.
Father Bernhard Bolzano (1781-1848) helped to develop the branch of mathematics called analysis and clarified mathematical thinking about infinite quantities.
Protestant minister Joseph Priestly (1733-1804) discovered the element oxygen.
Anglical clergyman John Polkinghorne (1930 - ) is a distiguished particle physicist of our own time.
Yes, the Galileo affair was an aberration where the Church wrongly stifled Galileo. The reader can read more about this at the following link:
The Galileo Controversy
But Galileo remained devout and obedient to the Church, and many of the great founders of modern science were deeply religious: Copernicus, Kepler, Netwon, Ampere, Maxwell and Kelvin.
Now what has atheist humanism given us?
The French Revolution inspired by atheist Volatire and led by atheist Robespierre killed 16000 to 40000. Like all atheists before and after him, Robespierre made it his mission to go after the Church, beheading bishop, priest, deacon and devout laity without exception. So great was his mindless hatred of Christianity that he changed the days of the week from 7 to 10 and the months of the year from 12 to 10 to prevent the tracking of the Sabbath day and the Church's many holy days. Voltaire some 70 to 80 years previously had bragged that within 100 years of his life the Church would be dead, and Robespierre tried to bring that to fruition; yet the Church not only survived, but today boasts over one billion faithful.
Josef Stalin, atheist leader of the USSR from the death of Lenin to after World War II, murdered 23 million of his own people.
Adolf Hitler, though ostensibly a baptized Catholic, was the founder and leader of Nazism, an atheist philosophy of elevating Aryans to godhead if every there was one. He murdered 12 million people, not just Jews and many his own people.
Mao Tse Tung, founder of the Chinese Communist Party, murdered between 49 and 78 million of his own people.
Kim Il Sung, the atheist leader of North Korea, has murdered 1.6 million of his own people.
And in our very own United States of America, atheism in the cloak of liberalism and progressivism has dismembered, tortured and murdered over 50 million unborn babies since Roe v Wade in 1972.
So we see that the Catholic religion has inspired men of God to work in science for the betterment and advancement of mankind, just as atheism has consistently and incessantly worked for the destruction of all that is good, noble and true in mankind as it murders both born and unborn alike while exalting the filth of sexual perversion and degradation. But just as Holy Mother Church triumphed over the French Revolution and Soviet atheism, so today will She triumph over liberalism, progressivism and this pseudo-scientific materialism so prevalent in our government and our schools. The gates of hell shall NOT prevail. Voltaire and Robespierre were on the losing side and now lie in the dust bin of history. But Faith and Reason continue to march on side-by-side.
One of the myths proposed and perpetuated by the materialist who claims to be scientific is that for one to truly be scientific, then one must be irreligious and indeed opposed to religion. yet in Stephen M. Barr's book, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, we have quite a list of devout Catholics - many members of the clergy - who were in every sense of the word scientists of the highest sort.
Robert Grosseteste (1168-1253) was Bishop of Lincoln and founder of the Oxford School to which has been traced the beginning of the tradition of experimental physical science.
Thomas Bradwardine (1290-1349) became Archbishop of Catebury and was one of the first people to ever write down an equation for physical processes.
Nicholas of Oresme (1323-1382) was Bishop of Lisieux and made major contributions to mathematics and physics, having discovered how to combine exponents, and having developed graphs to represent functions and prove theorems. He showed that the apparent daily motion of the Sun about Earth could be explained by rotation of Earth on its axis, and he attempted to give a quantitative description of accelerated motion, playing a major role in the development of the physical concept of inertia, thereby paving the way for Galileo and Newton.
Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464), a cardinal of the Church, speculated not merely that Earth was in motion as Copernicus later suggested, but that all bodies, including Earth and Sun, were in motion in an infinite universe having no center.
Copernicus (1473-1543) of reknown astronomical fame was an ecclesiastic, being a canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
Father Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) was a mathematician who worked with prime numbers. A certain type of prime number is named after him. He also invented the afocal form of the two-mirror telescope, which is fundamental to the modern theory of reflecting telescopes.
Father Christoph Scheiner (1573-1650) made important discoveries about sunspots and the Sun's rotation on its axis.
Father Francesco Grimaldi (1613-1653) was a pioneer in lunar cartography. He gave many of the features of the lunar landscape the names by which they are called today. His published discoveries on the refraction of light preceded Newton's, and he also discovered both the diffraction and destruction interference phenomenon of light.
Father Giovanni Riccioli (1598-1671) discovered the first binary or double star.
Father Pietro Secchi (1818-1878) was the founder of modern astrophysics, having developed the first spectral classification of stars, the basis of which is still used today. He invented the meteorograph and was the first to understand that nebulae were interstellar clouds of gas.
Father Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826) was director of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory and was the first to discover the asteroid Ceres between Mars and Jupiter in 1801.
Father Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) was one of the leading biologists of his time, intepreting the process of digestion, showing it to a process of solution taking place by the action of gastric juices. He performed experiments that disproved the hypothesis of spontaneous generation, and researched fertilization in animals, respiration, regeneration, and the senses of bats. Unrelatedly, he also helped to lay the foundations of modern vulcanology and meteorology.
An Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) is esteemed as the father of genetics for his discovery of the basic laws of heredity.
Abbe Henri Breuil (1877-1962) was one of the leading paleontologists in the world and for decades the foremost expert on prehistoric cave paintings.
Abbe George Lemaitre (1894-1966) was one of the originators of the Big Bang Theory. His work inspired Pope Pius XII to write the Encyclical, Humani Generis.
Father Julius A. Nieuwland (1878-1936) was a chemistry professor at Notre Dame and a co-developer of neoprene, the first synthetic rubber-like compound.
Father Francesco Cavalieri (1598-1647) helped to develop the foundation of modern calculus.
Father Girolamo Saccheri (1667-1733) did work that led to the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry.
Father Bernhard Bolzano (1781-1848) helped to develop the branch of mathematics called analysis and clarified mathematical thinking about infinite quantities.
Protestant minister Joseph Priestly (1733-1804) discovered the element oxygen.
Anglical clergyman John Polkinghorne (1930 - ) is a distiguished particle physicist of our own time.
Yes, the Galileo affair was an aberration where the Church wrongly stifled Galileo. The reader can read more about this at the following link:
The Galileo Controversy
But Galileo remained devout and obedient to the Church, and many of the great founders of modern science were deeply religious: Copernicus, Kepler, Netwon, Ampere, Maxwell and Kelvin.
Now what has atheist humanism given us?
The French Revolution inspired by atheist Volatire and led by atheist Robespierre killed 16000 to 40000. Like all atheists before and after him, Robespierre made it his mission to go after the Church, beheading bishop, priest, deacon and devout laity without exception. So great was his mindless hatred of Christianity that he changed the days of the week from 7 to 10 and the months of the year from 12 to 10 to prevent the tracking of the Sabbath day and the Church's many holy days. Voltaire some 70 to 80 years previously had bragged that within 100 years of his life the Church would be dead, and Robespierre tried to bring that to fruition; yet the Church not only survived, but today boasts over one billion faithful.
Josef Stalin, atheist leader of the USSR from the death of Lenin to after World War II, murdered 23 million of his own people.
Adolf Hitler, though ostensibly a baptized Catholic, was the founder and leader of Nazism, an atheist philosophy of elevating Aryans to godhead if every there was one. He murdered 12 million people, not just Jews and many his own people.
Mao Tse Tung, founder of the Chinese Communist Party, murdered between 49 and 78 million of his own people.
Kim Il Sung, the atheist leader of North Korea, has murdered 1.6 million of his own people.
And in our very own United States of America, atheism in the cloak of liberalism and progressivism has dismembered, tortured and murdered over 50 million unborn babies since Roe v Wade in 1972.
So we see that the Catholic religion has inspired men of God to work in science for the betterment and advancement of mankind, just as atheism has consistently and incessantly worked for the destruction of all that is good, noble and true in mankind as it murders both born and unborn alike while exalting the filth of sexual perversion and degradation. But just as Holy Mother Church triumphed over the French Revolution and Soviet atheism, so today will She triumph over liberalism, progressivism and this pseudo-scientific materialism so prevalent in our government and our schools. The gates of hell shall NOT prevail. Voltaire and Robespierre were on the losing side and now lie in the dust bin of history. But Faith and Reason continue to march on side-by-side.
Scientific "Materialism" - NOT Science
I have just begun to read a book entitled, "Modern Physics and Ancient Faith," by Stephen M. Barr, a professor of physics at the Bartol Research Institute of Delaware. Here we have a bona fide physics and an orthodox Catholic who explains in easy-to-understand language of the congruence and consistency between the faith once delivered unto the saints and real science, not the dogma of the current fideism in materialism that pretends at being science. The chapter in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous entitled, "To the Agnostic," well addresses this insane belief in nothing by materialism. As Dr. Barr states:
The materialist...is in straight jacket of his own devising. Nothing is allowed by him to be beyond explanation in terms of matter and the mathematical laws that it obeys. If therefore he comes across some phenomenon that is hard to account for in materialist terms, he often ends up by denying its very existence....there are many thinkers who, in order to escape certain anti-materialist arguments that are based on human rational powers, are willing to abandon, in effect. a belief in human rationality - including of course their own. Almost all materialists deny that free will exists; they deem it an "illusion." And so it goes. Anything that stands in the way of materialism is ignored or denied. The materialist lives in a very small world, intellectually speaking. It is a universe of huge physical dimensions, but very narrow, for all that. There is no purpose in this universe. Even human acts are entirely determined by physical processes. Just as the astrologer believes that his life is controlled by the orbits of the planets, the materialist believes that his own actions and thoughts are controlled by the orbits of the electrons in his brain. Our moral or aesthetic judgments are, in the final analysis, just emotional reactions, just chemistry. Even our very "selves" are just convenient fictions: there is no real unitary self that stands behind the welter of images, impulses, drives and thoughts flickering through our neural circuity.The fact that the materialist can invent that amazing nonsense called materialism demonstrates the inherent fallacy of materialism, for if everything is determined by the material and the mathematical laws that describe the material, then self-awareness of such as thing (which itself is non-material) could never have arisen. It is amazing that in his worship of the scientific method, the materialist will not apply that same method to determine the veracity or falsity of non-materialism, that is to say, the spiritual. What we therefore see is not a philosophy of materialism born of the scientific method. Rather, it is a religion in and of its own right - a religion that places man as its god, and since in its view there is no supernatural, no divine Overseer, then nothing we do means anything, so anything we do is permissible. Thus do we have all manner of sexual perversion, wickedness and idolatry. Thus do we have abortion on demand, contraception at every turn and a general denial of any superior overriding moral principle. Materialism is not a philosophy born of the scientific method. It is a perverted way of life born of the sinful need to pursue sexual perversion, wickedness and idolatry without fear of retribution. So we have not religious dogmatists, but materalist dogmatists.
As Psalm 53:1 states, "The fool saith in his heart, 'There is no God.'"
Friday, October 22, 2010
Subsidiarity and Tea Parties
Folks,
Please read Catawissa Gazetteer's recent entry, "Subsidarity and the Tea Parties", and the Catholic Knight's blog entry, "Catholics Are Needed at Tea Parties." Here is how we can defeat liberalism and progressivism, and by so doing protect our country against the ascendency of Islam:
Please read Catawissa Gazetteer's recent entry, "Subsidarity and the Tea Parties", and the Catholic Knight's blog entry, "Catholics Are Needed at Tea Parties." Here is how we can defeat liberalism and progressivism, and by so doing protect our country against the ascendency of Islam:
Two Bishops Question Effectiveness of Dialogue with Islam - And Other Thoughts
Folks,
Unsurpisingly, the Catholic News Service reports that two bishops at the Middle East Episcopal Synod question the effectiveness of dialogue with Muslims. This report states in part the following:
But maybe on the other hand God will use the Islamists to punish us for our wickedness just as He used the Assyrians to punish Israel and the Babylonians to punish Judah. Maybe bloody death by the Islamic sword is the only way to purify this country of the sinful sickness of liberalism and progressivism. No one - surely not I, and surely no reader - want that. But God did it before and He can do it again if such suits His purpose.
Hmmmmm....the turn this blog entry has taken is quite remarkable given Michael Voris' talk yesterday from Real Catholic TV about martyrdom and purification of the Church. Buckle up, folks, and read 2nd Maccabees chapters 6 and 7 to learn what could be in store if we don't repent. We're about to see God's eternal justice in a very big way, and that's because He loves those whom He reproves.
Remember: God's Church WILL be purified. Except they repent, the liberal progressive clerics and laity will be purged as so much vomit. And this nation - the United States of America - will either be purified of the liberalism and progressivism that infests and infects it like a disease, or God will smash its government into oblivion just as He did ancient Rome. He will NOT tolerate one million babies being murdered each and every year, and gay perverts parading their filth around as some sort of human right. He will NOT tolerate a wicked, idolatrous and perverse President and Speaker of the House leading the people of this nation to ruin. As 2nd Maccabees 6:12-16 states:
Unsurpisingly, the Catholic News Service reports that two bishops at the Middle East Episcopal Synod question the effectiveness of dialogue with Muslims. This report states in part the following:
In his written submission, Archbishop Raboula Beylouni, who works in the Syrian Catholic curia in Lebanon, wrote that formal Catholic-Muslim dialogues are "difficult and often ineffective," partially because the Quran tells Muslims they belong to "the only true and complete religion."The entire history of Islam has been one of murder and mayhem ever since Mohammed first set across the sands of Arabia. I therefore encourage one and all to read Lawrence Auster's essay, "A Real Islam Policy for America." Some might say that Mr. Auster is a right wing fascist for what he proposes. But the reality is far deeper and darker. Indeed, if we do NOT do exactly what Mr. Auster proposes, then we had better begin to accept dhimmitude - subjugation by and subservience to Islamic masters. The threat is that serious and liberalism has weakened us that much to make this country vulnerable to take over from within by Islamic immigrants erecting Sharia Law.
Muslims, he said, come "to dialogue with a sense of superiority and with the certitude of being victorious."
In addition, the archbishop said, "The Quran allows the Muslim to hide the truth from the Christian and to speak and act contrary to how he thinks and believes."
Islam does not recognize the equality of men and women and does not recognize the right of religious freedom, he also wrote....
...Bishop Flavien Melki, also a member of the Syrian curia in Lebanon, said that at a time when "fundamentalism is becoming more entrenched in the region," the idea that dialogue could lead to Muslims accepting secular democracy "seems to be in the domain of utopia."
But maybe on the other hand God will use the Islamists to punish us for our wickedness just as He used the Assyrians to punish Israel and the Babylonians to punish Judah. Maybe bloody death by the Islamic sword is the only way to purify this country of the sinful sickness of liberalism and progressivism. No one - surely not I, and surely no reader - want that. But God did it before and He can do it again if such suits His purpose.
Hmmmmm....the turn this blog entry has taken is quite remarkable given Michael Voris' talk yesterday from Real Catholic TV about martyrdom and purification of the Church. Buckle up, folks, and read 2nd Maccabees chapters 6 and 7 to learn what could be in store if we don't repent. We're about to see God's eternal justice in a very big way, and that's because He loves those whom He reproves.
Remember: God's Church WILL be purified. Except they repent, the liberal progressive clerics and laity will be purged as so much vomit. And this nation - the United States of America - will either be purified of the liberalism and progressivism that infests and infects it like a disease, or God will smash its government into oblivion just as He did ancient Rome. He will NOT tolerate one million babies being murdered each and every year, and gay perverts parading their filth around as some sort of human right. He will NOT tolerate a wicked, idolatrous and perverse President and Speaker of the House leading the people of this nation to ruin. As 2nd Maccabees 6:12-16 states:
Now I beg those who read this book not to be disheartened by these misfortunes, but to consider that these chastisements were meant not for the ruin but for the correction of our nation. It is, in fact, a sign of great kindness to punish sinners promptly instead of letting them go for long. Thus, in dealing with other nations, the Lord patiently waits until they reach the full measure of their sins before he punishes them; but with us he has decided to deal differently, in order that he may not have to punish us more severely later, when our sins have reached their fullness. He never withdraws his mercy from us. Although he disciplines us with misfortunes, he does not abandon his own people.
Dr. Pournelle: The Goal
Folks,
Dr. Pournelle's commenatry last night correctly describes the current situation with the RINO's, the communists (er, I mean Democrats) and the Tea Party, and how we got here:
The Goal
Dr. Pournelle's commenatry last night correctly describes the current situation with the RINO's, the communists (er, I mean Democrats) and the Tea Party, and how we got here:
The Goal
When I was active in Republican Party politics -- I was a county chairman at one point -- I was not part of the Country Club leadership. I got into the game as an activist for Goldwater and had some influence over the Washington State delegation to the Republican National Convention. In those days conventions actually selected candidates; they weren't just a coronation ceremony for the winner of various primary elections. Many convention delegates were selected by state conventions, not primaries, and Washington was one of them. It cast its votes for Barry Goldwater, in defiance of the Republican national leadership and the Rockefeller Republicans. Rockefeller was Governor of New York state, and was the leader of the Country Club wing of the party. Same wing that in 1996 ran Bob Dole, the only man in the Party that Clinton could beat, and thus threw away much of what Reagan had built.
True to type, many Country Club Republicans cut the ticket in 1964. They preferred moderation -- which is to say cooperation with the Democrats in ramming through Johnson's Great Society -- to the populist principles of Goldwater and the "country wing" (as opposed to the Country Club wing; pardon the confusion) of the Citizens for Goldwater. In 1964 the Republicans carried California for the Senate, electing Reagan's friend George Murphy. The presidential election was a disaster, but it did lead eventually to Reagan as Governor of California and then President. It didn't lead to much change in the Country Club leadership of the Party. Newt Gingrich did that, but after his resignation the Country Club came back with a vengeance.
So in Alaska this year the Tea Party played by the rules. They ran a conservative candidate against an incumbent Country Club Republican Senator, and they won. Whereupon Senator Murkowski decided to run a write-in campaign in the general election. This is absolute repudiation of any vestige of party unity. Had a losing Tea Party candidate done that the establishment would have been horrified. The Republican leadership had a different notion. They allowed her to resign from a purely Party committee, but she remains the ranking Republican on the Energy Committee. She has not only cut the ticket, she is actively campaigning against the Republican nominee in a crucial Senate election -- and the Country Club has left her in place as their ranking member on a key committee. In other words, as usual, the Country Club is not playing by the rules; they expect conservatives to support them, or at least not actively try to destroy their candidacies, but when it's their turn the rules don't apply.
So what is the Tea Party to do?
Best advice: work harder and win. This is a crucial year. Don't waste energy on anger and thoughts of revenge. Don't daydream about third parties. Just get back to work.
The eventual goal is restoration of the Old Republic. That won't fully happen, but it is a vector; it's the right direction, and much of that is attainable. The goal is reviving the principles: limited government, leaving more to the states, stop the bleeding, stop the spending, get past the notion of government as the dispenser of entitlements, promote more responsibility. To get there will require some cooperation with the Country Club. Cooperation is not submission. In a family quarrel, least said, soonest mended.
Reagan understood that. Reagan's problem was that when he took office, the United States had a mortal enemy, the USSR, with 26,000 deliverable warheads aimed at the United States. The Seventy Years War was real, containment was in danger, and there was an existential threat not just to the Old Republic but to the United States as a nation. While most of the ruling class of the USSR was sane in the sense that they looked out for their own interests, the peculiar structure of the USSR required them all to pretend to be good communists, and to defer to the bizarre notion that if a series of nuclear wars ended with half the world population dead but the other half safely communist, this would server the ends of history. It would be worth it. This gave us a military strategy: threaten the ruling class itself. Make certain that the Nomenklatura understood that whatever happened they would personally not survive if it came to the ultimate conquest. Meanwhile, so long as the US could contain communist expansion so that war did not feed war and conquest did not feed conquest, the economic absurdities of the USSR structure worked at undermining Soviet capability. Mistletoe killing an oak, rats gnawing cables in two, Moths eating holes in a cloak, --- It wasn't a a dramatic strategy, but it did work. It just took time, and keeping on that target was politically costly. Reagan wasn't able to rebuild the Party. His energy was used up by the Cold War. He could stay on the vector, which is summarized in "government is the problem." while continuing to keep a government strong enough.
Strong enough: on no morning can the true believer communists on the PolitBuro ask "Comrade Marshal, if the war starts next week, can we win?" and get an unambiguous "Yes" answer; while every attempt at expanding the empire by anything less than total war costs more than it gains. And slowly, slowly, the answer got closer to "The capitalists can defend against our attacks, and we would be destroyed. They would not be. They would survive and we would not. All our policies are in vain. We have failed." Reagan lived to see that victory. It was costly, and left the Country Club in control of the Republican Party, because the Cold War had taken nearly all of Reagan's energy. He was elderly when he began, but full of energy; but after the assassination attempt, he was not the same man he had been. Those who knew him saw the effects. He couldn't save the West and rebuild the Republican Party at the same time. In 1984 he chose Bush I as Vice President because Bush was firm on the Cold War, and could be trusted in that. Rebuilding the Party had to be left for someone else.
I didn't set out to write a theory of history. Over time the liberal principles came back into vogue. The idea that there are "social problems" which can be "solved" by government took over in both parties. We had the creepy "big government conservatism" that continued to add "government solutions" without regard to principle. In 2007 the nation had enough of the Country Club. The Creeps were thrown out, but the result wasn't reform. Pelosi and Reid came in. More of the liberal policies were tried. The result has been more disaster. And the Tea Party.
This election may be the key to rebuilding the Republican Party. This time the only existential threat to the United States is our own government, which has been on the road to a fundamental transformation to a nation of subjects with entitlements, not free citizens with responsibilities. We need to get off that road and on another headed in the right direction. That is the goal. Taking revenge on those who put us where we are is not.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Thoughts on Today's Readings
Folks,
Today's Gospel Reading is from Luke 12:49-53 and how appropriate that section of Sacred Scripture is after having just listened to Archbishop Burke's speech.
Let us read Jeremiah 7:31. The people of Judah burned their own children alive just as we dismember them in their mothers' wombs to the tune of one million per year just in these United States. What exactly then do we think Jesus meant when He declared, "I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing?" Verses 32 through 34 in Jeremiah chapter 7 tell us:
Today's Gospel Reading is from Luke 12:49-53 and how appropriate that section of Sacred Scripture is after having just listened to Archbishop Burke's speech.
Jesus said to his disciples:All this scandal about rnegade liberal clerics and pseudo-Catholic politicians alike defying the Magisterium and partaking in the murder of the unborn and the filth of homosexual relations reminds me of how utterly wicked and depraved the people of Judah were in the days of Jeremiah the prophet. One can read chapter 7 is his book of prophecy and easily see America, Canada, Australia and Western Europe. Luke 12:49 states, "I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!" Jeremiah 7:20 goes further, "See now, says the Lord GOD, my anger and my wrath will pour out upon this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruits of the earth; it will burn without being quenched."
“I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son
and a son against his father,
a mother against her daughter
and a daughter against her mother,
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
Let us read Jeremiah 7:31. The people of Judah burned their own children alive just as we dismember them in their mothers' wombs to the tune of one million per year just in these United States. What exactly then do we think Jesus meant when He declared, "I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing?" Verses 32 through 34 in Jeremiah chapter 7 tell us:
Therefore, beware! days will come, says the LORD, when Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom will no longer be called such, but rather the Valley of Slaughter. For lack of space, Topheth will be a burial place. The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the field, which no one will drive away. In the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem I will silence the cry of joy, the cry of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will be turned to rubble.
Audio - Visual Recording of Archbishop Burke's Speech
Folks,
An audio-visual recording of Archbishop Raymond Burke's recent one-hour speech at the Vatican in Rome, Italy 9th October 2010 may be found here:
Audio-Visual Recording of Archbishop Burke's Full Speech
Archbishop Burke's Written Speech
--- UPDATE ---
I just finished watching and listening to Archbishop Burke while reading along in his speech as he was talking. I highly recommend this. There are so many good things said and explained that it is simply hard to know where to start. Please find a quiet hour to listen to this great man's words being delivered as the Holy Spirit inspires him. There will be no confusion once you listen to his explanation, and liberal cleric and pseudo-Catholic politician alike stand both charged and convicted as guilty.
Continuing commentary by Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV may be found here:
Coming Persecution
An audio-visual recording of Archbishop Raymond Burke's recent one-hour speech at the Vatican in Rome, Italy 9th October 2010 may be found here:
Audio-Visual Recording of Archbishop Burke's Full Speech
Archbishop Burke's Written Speech
--- UPDATE ---
I just finished watching and listening to Archbishop Burke while reading along in his speech as he was talking. I highly recommend this. There are so many good things said and explained that it is simply hard to know where to start. Please find a quiet hour to listen to this great man's words being delivered as the Holy Spirit inspires him. There will be no confusion once you listen to his explanation, and liberal cleric and pseudo-Catholic politician alike stand both charged and convicted as guilty.
Continuing commentary by Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV may be found here:
Coming Persecution
Sex and Obedience
Folks,
Yesterday Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV focuses on one of many aspects of Archbishop Burke's recent speech, namely that "where there are problems of chastity, there are problems of obedience."
Sex and Obedience
Here is the bottom line: no one has the right to engage in an kind of sexual activity outside of the bounds of sacred matrimony between one man and one woman, and no one has any authority to cut off the act of sexual intercourse from the possibility of new life, period. The purpose of sexual intercourse is NOT the satisfaction and gratification of one's lustful desires and cravings. Indeed, that is no different than what a cocaine or heroine addict does: get high. Sexual intercourse is and was always intended by Divine Authority to be a holy act within the context of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. As the teachings of the Catholic Church explain, it has both unitive and reproductive aspects, neither of which can be divorced one from the other, for to do so generates within society at large a divorce rate that is crumbling Western civilization. Yet it is that very principle against which liberal clerics and laity alike rebelled when Pope Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae, and now we have the murder of one million unborn babies every year, all sanctioned and approved by the Democrats (and their RINO cousins) with their current leader, President Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and his demonic legions of doom.
As I always ask the liberal progressive Democrats (and pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage RINOs for that matter), "What are you - a wild animal that you just have to give in to your lustful cravings the way a baboon would, and not take responsibility and accountability for your actions? Since when is it a human right to terminate a human life so that you can avoid your self-assumed duty to care for the offspring that you willingly created in that sex act which you just had to do? [Or for the gay person] since when is it a human right for you to stick your reproductive organ in the oral or anal orifice of another man? Does not common sense alone tell you what a dirty, filthy, disease-spreading practice that is?" Yet in their rejection of Humanae Vitae, that is exactly the kind of disobedience that liberal clerics in the Catholic Church have in effect suppported, hence Archbishop Burke's recent speech.
It shouldn't have to take an Archibishop to tell us what nature alone points out, but that is the sad state of affairs in current Western society where good has become bad and bad good.
Yesterday Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV focuses on one of many aspects of Archbishop Burke's recent speech, namely that "where there are problems of chastity, there are problems of obedience."
Sex and Obedience
Here is the bottom line: no one has the right to engage in an kind of sexual activity outside of the bounds of sacred matrimony between one man and one woman, and no one has any authority to cut off the act of sexual intercourse from the possibility of new life, period. The purpose of sexual intercourse is NOT the satisfaction and gratification of one's lustful desires and cravings. Indeed, that is no different than what a cocaine or heroine addict does: get high. Sexual intercourse is and was always intended by Divine Authority to be a holy act within the context of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. As the teachings of the Catholic Church explain, it has both unitive and reproductive aspects, neither of which can be divorced one from the other, for to do so generates within society at large a divorce rate that is crumbling Western civilization. Yet it is that very principle against which liberal clerics and laity alike rebelled when Pope Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae, and now we have the murder of one million unborn babies every year, all sanctioned and approved by the Democrats (and their RINO cousins) with their current leader, President Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and his demonic legions of doom.
As I always ask the liberal progressive Democrats (and pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage RINOs for that matter), "What are you - a wild animal that you just have to give in to your lustful cravings the way a baboon would, and not take responsibility and accountability for your actions? Since when is it a human right to terminate a human life so that you can avoid your self-assumed duty to care for the offspring that you willingly created in that sex act which you just had to do? [Or for the gay person] since when is it a human right for you to stick your reproductive organ in the oral or anal orifice of another man? Does not common sense alone tell you what a dirty, filthy, disease-spreading practice that is?" Yet in their rejection of Humanae Vitae, that is exactly the kind of disobedience that liberal clerics in the Catholic Church have in effect suppported, hence Archbishop Burke's recent speech.
It shouldn't have to take an Archibishop to tell us what nature alone points out, but that is the sad state of affairs in current Western society where good has become bad and bad good.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Is Atomic Insights Still a Fan of French Socialism?
Folks,
Some weeks ago the blog master of the Atomic Insights blog stated, "If French Nuclear Success Is Socialism - Call Me a Socialist." One wonders after the recent riots in France (due to the utter and complete failure of French socialism) whether or not that person (who is otherwise far more knowledgeable and astute than I when it comes to matters of science and engineering) still holds to that view. More can be read about the French riots at the following web link:
Violent protests have ‘weakened unions’ in retirement battle
You see, what socialism does is get people addicted to largess from the public treasury, and when the government that used to provide that largess by borrowing or taxing can't raise any more capital, then the inevitable happens and the people suffer. In France's case, the fat, lazy union workers are being asked to accept retirement at 62 years of age instead of 60 years of age. Now there are riots, and people are going hungry in the dark because union workers won't do their jobs. This is French socialism.
Let us remember again that excerpt from excerpt from Pope Pius XI's Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno of 1931:
In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat.
This is a very important point to remember in this mid-term election season and is one of the many reasons for which one (in order to remain authentically Christian of any major denomination) MUST vote AGAINST the Democrats who ARE socialist. There are now plenty of Tea Party candidates being fielded in many areas of the country. We don't have to settle for either the RINOs or the wickedly perverse members of Obama's party of death.
P.S., Most people working in nuclear energy already realize that Obama is anti-nuclear in action and deed (or should I say non-action) if not in word. There are sadly a few idiots who believe in a fantasy otherwise in spite of the fact that Obama appointed anti-nuclear activist Gregory Jackzo as head of the US NRC and has arranged it so that the loan guarrantee for a new nuclear power plant at Constellation's Calvert Cliffs facility would fall through due to untenable terms of agreement. And both NEI Nuclear Notes and Adams Atomic Insights now bewail and bemoan the downturn in the nuclear industry - all this in spite of the trillions of dollars which that wicked reprobate in the White House has borrowed from the communist Chinese without one new nuclear power plant to show for it. Not one - though we did have cash for clunkers. If their president (not mine - never mine!) that these people (who are otherwise very smart and capable nuclear engineering folk) voted for had done half of what he promised, then there would be no downturn in the nuclear industry because their president campaigned on shovel ready jobs and that's exactly what nuclear is. Nope - that's not going to happen as long as that man sits in the Oval Office. So, are we all still a fan of socialism? Riots in France and a virtual depression in the US that the Administration calls a recovery begun in July of 2009 - right! Tell that to the unemployed in the hometown where I am fortunate by God's grace to have a job.
Some weeks ago the blog master of the Atomic Insights blog stated, "If French Nuclear Success Is Socialism - Call Me a Socialist." One wonders after the recent riots in France (due to the utter and complete failure of French socialism) whether or not that person (who is otherwise far more knowledgeable and astute than I when it comes to matters of science and engineering) still holds to that view. More can be read about the French riots at the following web link:
Violent protests have ‘weakened unions’ in retirement battle
You see, what socialism does is get people addicted to largess from the public treasury, and when the government that used to provide that largess by borrowing or taxing can't raise any more capital, then the inevitable happens and the people suffer. In France's case, the fat, lazy union workers are being asked to accept retirement at 62 years of age instead of 60 years of age. Now there are riots, and people are going hungry in the dark because union workers won't do their jobs. This is French socialism.
Let us remember again that excerpt from excerpt from Pope Pius XI's Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno of 1931:
We make this pronouncement: Whether considered as a doctrine, or an historical fact, or a movement, Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism, even after it has yielded to truth and justice on the points which we have mentioned, cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church because its concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.That's exactly what socialists want: every material advantage without working for it. Thus did St. Paul declare in 2nd Thessalonians 3:10:
For, according to Christian teaching, man, endowed with a social nature, is placed on this earth so that by leading a life in society and under an authority ordained of God he may fully cultivate and develop all his faculties unto the praise and glory of his Creator; and that by faithfully fulfilling the duties of his craft or other calling he may obtain for himself temporal and at the same time eternal happiness. Socialism, on the other hand, wholly ignoring and indifferent to this sublime end of both man and society, affirms that human association has been instituted for the sake of material advantage alone.
In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat.
This is a very important point to remember in this mid-term election season and is one of the many reasons for which one (in order to remain authentically Christian of any major denomination) MUST vote AGAINST the Democrats who ARE socialist. There are now plenty of Tea Party candidates being fielded in many areas of the country. We don't have to settle for either the RINOs or the wickedly perverse members of Obama's party of death.
P.S., Most people working in nuclear energy already realize that Obama is anti-nuclear in action and deed (or should I say non-action) if not in word. There are sadly a few idiots who believe in a fantasy otherwise in spite of the fact that Obama appointed anti-nuclear activist Gregory Jackzo as head of the US NRC and has arranged it so that the loan guarrantee for a new nuclear power plant at Constellation's Calvert Cliffs facility would fall through due to untenable terms of agreement. And both NEI Nuclear Notes and Adams Atomic Insights now bewail and bemoan the downturn in the nuclear industry - all this in spite of the trillions of dollars which that wicked reprobate in the White House has borrowed from the communist Chinese without one new nuclear power plant to show for it. Not one - though we did have cash for clunkers. If their president (not mine - never mine!) that these people (who are otherwise very smart and capable nuclear engineering folk) voted for had done half of what he promised, then there would be no downturn in the nuclear industry because their president campaigned on shovel ready jobs and that's exactly what nuclear is. Nope - that's not going to happen as long as that man sits in the Oval Office. So, are we all still a fan of socialism? Riots in France and a virtual depression in the US that the Administration calls a recovery begun in July of 2009 - right! Tell that to the unemployed in the hometown where I am fortunate by God's grace to have a job.
Dr. Pournelle's Commentary on Separation of Church and State
Folks,
Dr. Pournelle offered the following commentary on separation of Church and State. The current wall of separation created by the liberal progressive atheist humanists does one and only one thing: convert a Christian natiion into an atheist nation where those who have and act in accordance with religious faith are treated as second class citizens.
Church and State
Dr. Pournelle offered the following commentary on separation of Church and State. The current wall of separation created by the liberal progressive atheist humanists does one and only one thing: convert a Christian natiion into an atheist nation where those who have and act in accordance with religious faith are treated as second class citizens.
Church and State
They're after [Christine] O'Donnell again. Apparently the Democrats are unsure of Delaware.
O'Donnell correctly points out that the First Amendment mandates the separation of Church and State. The religion clause is carefully drafted: it says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." At the time seven of the States had religions by law established with tax paid clergy, and the First Congress 'established' the post of chaplain and opened with prayers. This was not "separation of church and state," in the sense of building a wall between them. An establishment of religion involves tax supported specific institutions. Seven of the states had them at the time they adopted the Constitution. The peculiar wording of the Bill of Rights was as much intended to prevent Congress from disestablishing the State churches as to prevent it from establishing a national religion.
After the Civil War Amendments the Courts purported to find an emanation from a penumbra that applied the Bill Of Rights as a Federal Power over the states. The actual intent of those Amendments was to give Congress the power to enact laws that would integrate the freedmen into the Republic as citizens, and make sure that they had "the equal protection of the laws" in their states. It was a noble intent, largely motivated by religion, specifically St. Paul in his epistle:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:28
It is not likely that most of those who drafted and adopted the 13th and 14th Amendments were interested in any rigid wall between Church and State; most of them had sung the Battle Hymn of the Republic at public functions, and were opposed to slavery on religious grounds. The notion that liberating the slaves forbade a manger in the public square would have been ludicrous. No one would be stupid enough to believe they had meant that. Some would have argued that fairness would indicate allowing a menorah if requested by the local government that put up the manger, but the notion that the Constitution or the Civil War Amendments forbade local authorities to erect a manger in the public square would have been laughed down in ridicule. No one would be that stupid.
Over time the courts did find they meant that, just as they found that "equal protection of the laws" allows affirmative action, racial discrimination, and forbids employers to use IQ tests as part of employment qualification. Emanations and penumbras abound.
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