Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
Show me a man who honestly believes in a balanced budget and opposes giving away the common weal in exchange for campaign contributions, and I would happily both call him a conservative and vote for him.Disraeli would be a neocon.
In the UK, the Conservative party has essentially become a kind of right-wing liberal party.
It’s meaningful that every time populist Ukrainian politicians have made noises about renationalising industrial properties stolen by oligarchs, the screaming from the West has been such to make you think a return to Stalinist terror had been proposed.It’s like profiting from buying the rights to an old, heavily marketed brand (as happened with Cabbage Patch dolls for example): there’s that back catalogue of anti-Russian propaganda going back even before the red scare
And it’s telling to watch [pro-Russian — most of the Ukraine speaks Russian] Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the Orange revolution’s villain restored now to power, smiling a thousand-watt smile as he consorts with sheepish Western leaders. He knows where his bread gets buttered. Ukraine has achieved that sine qua non of the second-tier country whose elite wants to prosper in the global order — it’s managed to unlink politics from the economy.And yes, it is ‘the Ukraine’ just like ‘the US’ and ‘the UK’.
...heavily "massaged by politics. Returnees have essentially become a currency of progress."The current official Iraqisation scheme:
Those relatively modest returnee numbers turn out to include anyone who crossed the Syrian border heading east, including suspected insurgents and Iraqi employees of the New York Times on their way back from visits to relatives in exile in Syria.
Colonel Bannister refers repeatedly to "the five-year plan," assuming his audience understands that there is indeed a master plan for his unit – and for the American occupation – mandating a slow, many-year buildup of neighborhood-protection forces into full-fledged police units. This, in turn, is all part of an even larger plan for the conduct of the occupation.Michael Schwartz says the real reason for the continued occupation is oil.
As for opposition to Iran, 60% of Iraqi citizens are Shiites, who have strong historic, religious, and economic ties to Iran, and who favor friendly relations with their neighbor. Even Prime Minister Maliki – the Bush administration's staunchest ally – has repeatedly strengthened political, economic, and even military ties with Iran, causing numerous confrontations with American diplomats and military officials.
I’ve long thought that a left-right fusion movement based around opposition to global interventionism, a defense of civil liberties, and a genuine populist critique of government and corporate elites could provide a healthy counterpoint to our current bipartisan consensus. And who better to lead it than these two gadflies?— Lee at Thinking Reed
"Dr. Paul and Rep. Kucinich are friends and there is a lot of mutual respect," Paul communications director Jesse Benton said in an e-mail when asked whether a running-mate spot on the Kucinich ticket would be attractive to Paul. "They have worked, and will continue to work, together on the ending the war and protecting civil liberties.Elizabeth Kucinich says her husband ‘absolutely’ would consider running on a ticket with him.
"However, Ron wants to substantially cut the size and scope of the federal government. There are too many differences on issues such as taxes and spending to think a joint ticket would be possible."
Can you imagine how much better this country would be if Ron Paul was a typical Republican and Dennis Kucinich was a typical Democrat?
What really interests me is that she says she’s studied Ron Paul’s position on monetary policy, and come over to his viewpoint!Completely irrelevant (like voting for the sexy candidate) but a First Lady who’s attractive and English (there’s no reason why a British subject or dual citizen couldn’t be; it’s not an elected office!) with an impressive CV (humanitarian and in ways Christian, probably not right on all points but not a beauty contestant’s puff platform either) would be nice.
Both ... are committed to the war. Both refuse to rule out expanding the war to Iran and beyond. Both are totally in the pocket of the Israel Lobby. Both defend the police-state measures that “protect us from terrorism.” And neither gives a hoot for the US Constitution and the civil liberties it guarantees. ...creatures of ambition, not of principle.Iran’s secret weapon: the Pope
Iranian officials are quietly laying the groundwork necessary to turn to Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican diplomats for mediation if the showdown with the United States should escalate toward a military intervention.A hierarchy, saints, relics...
Catholicism and Shi’a Islam have a surprisingly similar structure and approach to their different faiths.
In the face of Empire, the Way of Love.The faith and this blog are not pacifist but Joshua Snyder honours this holy woman, who died 27 years ago today, as is meet. She saw that the hippies had a point. Theologically and liturgically, from her mantilla to her Little Office (more), she was not a Modernist.
Vietnam should remind all conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government, for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.— Karl Hess, Barry Goldwater’s speechwriter
Dorothy’s sensitivity for the sacred helps explain her love, rare at the time, of the Orthodox Church (and the Russian Orthodox Church in particular), famous — or infamous — for its reluctance to modernize, rationalize, speed up or simplify its liturgical life. She longed for the reunion of the Church.
Our nation must now focus more on the ethics of exit than on the ethics of intervention.The people making homemade bombs are trying to tell you something: Yankee, go home! Get out now.
Others seem to fail to recognize sufficiently the potential human consequences of very rapid withdrawal.
I submit to you that candidate Mitt Romney, even though he is LDS, is very much unacceptable. Please, compare his voting record, his speeches and positions to those of Congressman Ron Paul’s and remember this:Written in the heart of every man
“We live in an age of deceit. ... Even within the Church we have been warned that ‘the ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep’s clothing, because they wear the habiliments of the priesthood.’ (J. Reuben Clark, Jr., CR, April, 1949, p. 163.)”
If you think Bp. Trautman is off his nut, or that Richard McBrien is arrogant, you should familiarize yourself with some of Fr Robert Taft’s unguarded opinions. Even the white papers Taft has written for various Roman dicasteries betray his Jedi Master level of nincompoopery.As I was saying:
At the other extreme from the hateful fanati-dox there’s ‘mainstream modern(ist) RC with Byzantine trappings’ as much of Byzantine Catholicism is.Dr Taft:
In one of his last articles, Fred McManus wrote lyrically of this liturgical renewal’s “fresh breadth and flexibility” flowing “from a genuine return to evangelical and patristic sources”... a return to the “venerable traditions of the early post-biblical centuries.”[2] This echoes the mandate of the Vatican II Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, that the rites “be restored to the vigor they had in the tradition of the Fathers” (§50). Has this promise been fulfilled? Was the liturgical reform mandated by Vatican II a success? From where I stand as an historian of Christian worship down through the centuries, it has been an overwhelming, resounding success!As friend Paul Goings would say, are you on crack?
What’s rather scary to me is that Father Taft has some disciples in the Orthodox Church.It’s better to hang out with some 19th-century-school Russians.
A reliable eye-witness reported to me that during the 2006-2007 academic year, the graduate students of liturgy from the Pontifical Liturgical Institute Sant’ Anselmo in Rome, during their customary annual courtesy visit to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, were informed by a high official there that the purpose of the Mass was the devotion of the priest! That would be simply funny, were it not also rank heresy.It’s like the old Anglo-Catholic joke (taking the mickey out of Protestants) that Jesus’s reason for starting the Eucharist was so we could have Benediction.
... if the Church — whether in the person of the Pope or in its councils as with the Eastern churches — is infallible, then all efforts to change its doctrine and/or discipline outside these channels are not only misguided but morally and theologically wrong.John 10:1-9.
...the way we answer this issue has a great deal to do with current theological dispute and how — or if — they can be settled. If the Church is infallible, current attempts to reinterpret, say, traditional teachings on human sexuality are wrong, full stop. If it is not infallible, then not only are such attempts not wrong but are even helpful. If people holding opposing positions talk they will be able to come to an understanding but not an agreement.By George you’ve got it.
I’ll add one further thought on the matter which is to say that I think the question of fallibility/infallibility is properly framed at the level of the Church/churches, not at the level of the Scriptures. To proclaim the Scriptures infallible seems to me an easy out because what is being proclaimed infallible is not really the Scriptures but a certain interpretation thereof.Correct.
A general and consistent apprehension of a divine reality by a body of Catholics is perhaps even more important than the precise theological formulations relevant to it. That is, I think, what is often meant by the sensus fidelium.
...there are forces operating in the world more powerful than the whims of the political class. Every effort at centralized planning, and every attempt to legislate political dreams, bumps up against economic law. Economics is the great brick wall, a thousand feet thick, that limits the maniacal dreams, benevolent or malevolent, of the political imagination. We ignore these economic forces at our peril.So government best get out of the way.
Ideology is substitute religion, a belief system based on ideas that are often contradicted by history and common sense. Yet men will adhere to ideologies with a zealotry that borders on fanaticism.— Pat Buchanan in Chronicles
Marxism, fascism and socialism were are ideologies, gods that failed. So, too, is democratism, the Gospel of George W. Bush.
The Church of England. The name is an ecclesiology in itself.The part of the Catholic Church that happened to be in England (Anglican Church simply means English Church) and as such ‘the church in this realm’ (the old High Church position before High Church meant ceremonial).
It is remarkable to the modern observer how long that view persisted. Though it could not logically survive the Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, it nevertheless continued into the twentieth century by way of the Oxford Movement. When High Churchmen referred to the CofE as 'the Catholic Church of this land' they were speaking as much of historical and institutional continuity as of theological positioning or colour.Actually if you spin it right and don’t use the commonly understood meaning of Protestant the old American name Protestant Episcopal translates as an accurate description of Eastern Orthodoxy: ‘does not accept the later papal claims but run by bishops, the divinely instituted form of church government’.
For reunion to take place one of the two communions will have to cease to be who she is now.And as Fr Christopher suggests it’s a fight among three not between two views: either Rome as she says she is, the conciliarists (counting not only Easterners but non-Protestants like Deacon Jim in the Polish National Catholic Church: he believes seven councils are infallible... and of course most Anglo-Catholics outside of England; many English ones are devout papalists) or the Protestants’ ‘there is no infallible church’.
Why not then be really tired of our division with Lutherans, or with Mormons? The reason, I suspect, that a few Orthodox so tire with the "division" with Rome is that Rome is so big, so strong, and so mighty (to quote an old Sunday School song). They have a box church on every other corner, they can access huge amounts of money (especially conservative [Roman] Catholics), they have cool things like EWTN, they are present in movies and popular culture (as of yet, no one has made a Russian mob version of The Godfather), conservative [Roman] Catholics have a huge and influential intellectual apparatus (there is no Orthodox First Things, no Orthodox sitting on an endowed chair of jurisprudence at Princeton, no Orthodox Ave Maria pizza-financed university, no Orthodox press which yet has the size and influence of Ignatius Press, and so on...), one can count on one's fingers the number of Orthodox institutions of higher learning in North America, you get the picture. All of us, I imagine, know [Roman] Catholics who are great neighbors and great friends. But there is more...True.
...he also commended the Muslim practice of praying five times a day, saying that it allowed the remembrance of God to be "built deeply in their daily rhythm".
...the national Libertarian Party is holding the equivalent of an eBay auction to decide who their candidate will be. And hey, no offense to eBay.From Rational Review.
I have two kids in university now — and the hottest little “happening” is the “flash mob.” It is this generation’s equivalent of streaking (running nude through campus). A flash mob is organized via email, Facebook, or text messaging. A large group of people gather, and then, given a subtle clue, behave in interesting and bizarre ways in public. YouTube it. What fun!
I hope the Ron Paul campaign is not a flash mob, though. I hope this really is the start of the Next American Revolution.
‘I am the eye in the sky, looking at yooooou...’HPD leaders said they would address privacy and unlawful search questions later.Like ‘Law & Order’: never mind the law; let’s have fun pushing people around.
Merely entertaining Giuliani as a candidate demonstrates that, for many conservatives, political power counts more than Christian values.From That’s Life in the City.
RACE shining forth from thy mouth hath illumined the universe. It hath shown to the world the riches of poverty; it hath revealed to us the heights of humility. Teaching us by thy words, O Father John Chrysostom, intercede before the Word, Christ our God, to save our souls
He poured scorn on the “chosen nation myth of America, meaning that what happens in America is very much at the heart of God’s purpose for humanity”.Seven times a day do I praise thee : because of thy righteous judgements.
"A lot of the pressure around the war in Iraq was, 'We've got to do something! Then we'll feel better.' That's very dangerous."
He describes violence as "a quick discharge of frustration", saying "It serves you. It does not serve the situation....
"There is something about Western modernity which really does eat away at the soul."
He condemned the Israeli security wall that cuts Bethlehem in two...
...he also commended the Muslim practice of praying five times a day, saying that it allowed the remembrance of God to be "built deeply in their daily rhythm".
Labor leader Kevin Rudd has vowed to pull troops out of Iraq.Pope: stop the war
...it’s great to have the monster John Howard tossed out. Another warmonger down, a number of others to go.
The Chaldeans are Iraq’s biggest Christian group and the Chaldean rite is one of the most ancient of the Catholic Church.Bigger than their Assyrian (Nestorian) parent church (whose patriarch lives in Chicago), a rare reversal among Eastern Catholics under Rome.
Right: an Assyrian bishop in his choir dress, 1779This was surely well intended, and there can be no doubt that the Chaldean Church in Iraq — indeed, all Christians in Iraq — need all the help they can get. But it remains the case that making a Patriarch into a Cardinal is not, objectively, an honor, let alone an elevation; it rather betokens a failure to understand what a Patriarch is.Mainstream society is not very kind
One small indication of this is the persistent reference to “Cardinal-Patriarchs” by their surnames, which is downright insulting and offensive.
...the Progressive William Jennings Bryan, who argued in the Scopes Monkey Trial that evolution meant elevating "supposedly superior intellects," "eliminating the weak," "paralyzing the hope of reform," jeopardizing "the doctrine of brotherhood," and undermining "the sympathetic activities of a civilized society."Take modern liberalism (including neoconservatism) to its conclusion and ‘Nazi supermen are our friends’.
...engineered by Soviet authorities to force peasants across the former USSR to give up their privately held plots of land and join collective farms.ŠŠ¾Š»Š¾Š“Š° = hunger.
Š”Š¾ ŃŠ²ŃŃŃŠ¼Šø ŃŠæŠ¾ŠŗŠ¾Š¹, ŠŠ¾ŃŠæŠ¾Š“Šø, Š“ŃŃŠø ŃŃŠ¾ŠæŃŠøŃ ŃŠ°Š± ŃŠ²Š¾ŠøŃ Š² Š¼ŠµŃŃŠµ ŃŠ²ŠµŃŠ»ŠµŠ¼, Š² Š¼ŠµŃŃŠµ Š·Š»Š°ŃŠ½ŠµŠ¼, Š² Š¼ŠµŃŃŠµ ŠæŠ¾ŠŗŠ¾Š¹Š½ŠµŠ¼, ŠøŠ“ŠµŠ¶Šµ Š½ŠµŃŃŃ Š±Š¾Š»ŠµŠ·Š½Ń, Š½Šø ŠæŠµŃŠ°Š»Ń, Š½Šø Š²Š¾Š·Š“ŃŃ Š°Š½ŠøŠµ, Š½Š¾ Š¶ŠøŠ·Š½Ń Š±ŠµŠ·ŠŗŠ¾Š½ŠµŃŠ½Š°Ń.John Gray
ŠŠ¾ Š±Š»Š°Š¶ŠµŠ½Š½Š¾Š¼ ŃŃŠæŠµŠ½ŠøŠø Š²ŠµŃŠ½ŃŠ¹ ŠæŠ¾ŠŗŠ¾Š¹ ŠæŠ¾Š“Š°Š¶Š“Ń, ŠŠ¾ŃŠæŠ¾Š“Šø, ŃŠ°Š± ŃŠ²Š¾ŠøŃ Šø ŃŠ¾ŃŠ²Š¾ŃŠø ŠøŠ¼ Š²ŠµŃŠ½ŃŃ ŠæŠ°Š¼ŃŃŃ.
Lord, give rest to the souls of thy servants fallen asleep with the saints in a place of light, joy and rest where there is no pain, sorrow or sighing but life everlasting.
In blessed repose grant, O Lord, eternal rest to thy servants and may their memory be eternal.
The irreducible plurality of human “needs and illusions,” Gray argues, means it is utopian to imagine that any single kind of political or social order could ever be good for everyone. “If there is such a thing as spontaneous social evolution,” he writes in “Black Mass,” “it produces institutions of many kinds.”From Joshua Snyder.
Alas, conservatives have completely lost track of this crucial point, at least by Gray’s lights, which is why “traditional conservatism ceased to exist” at some point over the last few decades.
The reviewer tells us that the book illustrates that "the doctrines of Soviet Communism, Nazi racism, Al Qaeda’s technophile fundamentalism and the Bushian 'war on terror' are various forms (however incompatible) of an essentially utopian impulse derived from an Enlightenment notion of progress."
The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman. The power which the strong have over the weak, the employer over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever over the silly -- the forbearing or inoffensive use of all this power or authority, or a total abstinence from it when the case admits it, will show the gentleman in a plain light. The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honour feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.— Robert E. Lee From Tea at Trianon.
...not my words but the words of God through His Church.A Catholic statement. With these:
The commenter says these aren’t his words, but God’s. I’ve been looking in the Bible...Catholics don’t believe in sola scriptura.
Ordination as a whole is a human invention.Fr Mark doesn’t believe in that sola either but I think what’s implied is ‘nor is there an infallible church’. More on these conversions. Still more. (On ‘welcome home’ as ‘spiking the ball’.)
To do religion in general and Christianity in particular correctly you can’t do it 1) alone or 2) based on your whims. There are both teachings and communities that must be negotiated. Or, to borrow other language, the Dharma and the Sangha... (What? You mean it’s not just those Christians?!)— Derek Olsen
Right boldly then, he said his say
Before a furious king;
And therefore on S. Clement’s Day
We go a-Clementing.
...our culture of fear has eroded common sense and civility. The danger of a zero tolerance mentality is that we lose the intellectual flexibility to exercise sound human judgment. When we blindly follow rules, when we waste time and energy defending ourselves from imaginary enemies, we actually create the potential for real threats to overtake us.— Canadian Paula Simons on travelling to and from the US
I do not speak of those who indulge in rank insult against individuals when they inveigh against immorality or error. These merely vent their spleens, which is just another form of self-indulgence. I speak, rather, of those who merely speak uncomfortable truths – who call, for instance, homosexual desire disordered affection, or indiscriminate warfare murder, or abortion maternal betrayal, or paying unjust wages theft.The Catholic seamless garment of Christ, our mantle. There is much good about niceness (when it means kindness as Mr Zehnder explains), from English tolerant conservatism to the Protestant America (today giving thanks to God as is very meet, right and our bounden duty; Eucharist means thanksgiving) Joe Sobran praises. When it goes bad you get political correctness.
God speaks through His servants and, finally, through His Church.Protestants, left and right, at heart don’t believe the latter (in an infallible church); ‘he speaks through ME and the church is a nice (ha) add-on’.
It will be highly amusing to watch both parties twist and squirm to try to square the circle on this. The Left, of course, will just say that they care about "values" (whatever the hell that means) but that the Church should not be imposing its values on people--as though Catholics should be allowed no voice at all in the public square.And thanks to Clinton’s real positions on war the establishment right would secretly cheer for her and vote for her over Paul.
Meanwhile, on the Right, the standard "Abortion! Ooga Booga! [hey, that’s my line] Shut up and vote for who we give you to vote for or Hillary wins and it's the end of the world as we know it!" tactic [the misogyny card... on the other hand the left are engaging in much projection ‘because she’s a woman’ and don’t seem to actually hear her; she voted for the Iraq war, remember?] will only fly so far, especially if the GOP winds up trying to sell us Rudy.
...it would be a poetic and indeed prophetic act of justice for the GOP if it wound up prostituting itself for that man.
I think England will look like the Bronx in the seventies in fifty years.Populism can be a good thing indeed; it’s part of the appeal of the Ron Paul revolution. Like anything it has its dark side — recently read someone pointing out that Nazism is a form of autocratic populism much like the conservatism people associate with McCarthy. (And was opposed by aristocrats like Count von Stauffenberg.) The ugliness in mainstream RC culture can be seen as a manifestation: reverse snobbery.
The people who oppose our heritage oppose our Western identity. British culture should not be dismantled.
Britain has already been abolished in that Brown continues down the slippery slope into Europe, eventually losing sovereignty and what little that now means. Brown is continuing what Bliar started and habeas corpus etc., the foundations of British culture, will soon be completely gone. In fact Peter Hitchens wrote a book called ‘The Abolition of Britain’ and never has a title been so apt at describing current affairs. People are dying in hospitals through mismanagement and neglect. Decent middle-class law-abiding people are being arrested and/or cautioned for what they say (eg. ‘homophobic’ remarks - one was a joke by a 10 yr old boy to his school friend that he looked gay in that top) yet police are unable to investigate a burglary if it’s in the wrong post code (=zip code in US). People's children are removed by the State for no good reason than suspicion and those children in genuine need are ignored. It feels more like the Soviet Russia of yesterday that I heard about and was pleased not to be a part of. But here it is, 1984, coming to a street corner near you in Britain.
Anyone who hates whites for being white will get a kick in the groin from my lady, of Chinese and Japanese ancestry. SHE believes that our country, Australia, SHOULD keep the British Union Jack in the corner of our flag!
I saw this segment on a new book on Joe McCarthy... the State Department was a WASP redoubt, and the fact that an Irish lower-class type could browbeat people whose ancestors came on the Mayflower, and on national TV, was an insult that the WASPs never forgot, and it is thus that he is seen as an unrelieved villain.
The white race forgot God and aborted itself out of existence. There is no turning back.The First Nations people (Indians) in Canada feel the same way. A big reason why those countries are not republics is the people are freer with a foreign head of state living far away and bound by rule of English law (such as parliaments) than under an American-style president.
And - did you know? - most Australian Aborigines SUPPORT the British Monarchy! Because they figured out that Australia as a Monarchy will be better for the Aborigines than a Republic would be. Hmmmm.....
The Cultural Marxist “Left” is just as obsessed with “race” as the racialist nationalist “Right”.They both like keeping track of race and having hiring quotas, don’t they?
Culture is more important than race. Being a Catholic myself, I would rather my children marry black Catholics than white Protestants. I would rather attend a Catholic Mass with blacks than a Protestant service with whites. It is culture for which we should be fighting, not race.If Andrew Jackson had automatic rifles and Zyklon gas chambers he would have used them on the Cherokee.
The only difference between what the Nazis and previous empires did was to take advantage of new technology.
The creations of the 19th century are such things as “Germany” and “Italy”.
It’s tribe we should be fighting for. A tribe is just an extended form of family, and is the real basis on which the 19th-century intellectuals constructed the concept of culture. Race is immaterial, as it is easily ignored in actual tribes. John Ball’s wife is part of his tribe. My Korean sister-in-law is part of my tribe. Both race and culture were abstractions created in the expanding colonial period in a largely successful attempt to destroy tribal loyalties in favor of the nation state. Note that while a tribe could never really be co-extensive with the concept of empire, both race (as in the white man’s burden) and culture (as in our current Crusade for Democracy) can. So stop supporting your empire and start thinking globally, and acting tribally.
Cicero rightly recognized that a tribe would have a common (hereditary) tradition, the ‘mos maiorum’ (tradition of the ancestors). One just does not mix and match and create a tribe out of thin air. It is the result of hundreds or thousands of years of a people being together.
Seen anthropologically, the tribe comes about because the smaller blood groupings — family, clan, curia — are too small to be acceptable to the incest taboo. A tribe is a blood group large enough for intermarriage, but never more than a few thousand people. It was subordinated to the polis in early Mediterranean antiquity, and then became only vestigial. Indeed, the central Roman myth of Aeneas tell how total strangers joined, then ruled the Latin tribe. Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man is good about the evils of retribalization.
In reality, America is just as atheist (via Protestantism) as Europe.
Honorable Gentlemen and Great Minds may agree to disagree, and indeed ought to. When everyone agrees about a complex issue, probably something is wrong. And only through clash can the truth emerge. Gentlemen know this.
Russell Kirk once said that ideology is the “belief that this world of ours may be converted into the Terrestrial Paradise.”
The problem is that, apart from a few militarily challenged Muslims, the elites have no external enemies aginst whom to send the sons of the working class, so they turn on the working class itself. Vicarious thrills come easily to the morally bankrupt, no matter what the source. Towelheads, racists, what’s the difference. Nuke ’em. Can anyone doubt that Dick “Five Deferments” aka “Yosemite Sam” Cheney, George “The Decider” Bush and Rush “The Cysto Kid” Limbaugh think of themselves as heroes? I read somewhere that when men who never served in the army reach the age of forty, they start wondering what it would have been like. That’s fine and possibly/probably normal, as long as they scratch the itch by collecting military-surplus radios, used G.I. underwear, or whatever. And speaking of age forty-plus, that just about times it perfectly for those three buffoons Cheney, Bush and Limbaugh. Mission accomplished! Bring ’em on!
I have no “beef” with “race mixing”. As soon as a Catholic becomes an apostate, THAT is when I get upset.
Catholic teaching on equality does not make sense unless the distinction between the person and the individual is kept in mind. We are equal as persons, but certainly not as individuals—as a matter of justice, a certain hierarchy is necessary. (Contrast this with socialism which denies the person and calls for equality as individuals, ie, equality of “results”.)
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
That the people in charge of England hate Western, that is CHRISTIAN culture, is no surprise. They make the same mistake as the people that consider Christian culture as “white”. Christian (that is, Catholic) culture is not “white”, it simply is “Christian”, and far older than the Enlightenment. It is a fact that the concept of “the white race” is an invention of the Enlightenment, and has no place is Christian (that is, Catholic) culture. 600 years ago my Scottish ancestors were no more “white” than the Moors in Spain. However, my Scottish ancestors were Christians, whereas everyone knew the Moors were not. Once again, I have more in common with my African Catholic friend (his name is Gaston) than I do with the anti-Christian white guy whith whom I work. Why should I feel an affinity for someone with which I completely disagree? That a person’s blood ties are more binding than the ties to the Body and Blood of Christ is heresy, and I don’t accept it. My Catholic culture trumps my “white race”.
