From Mark Shea

• Chinese philosophy, for western dilettantes, is to actual thinking as Kong’s Skull Island is to actual geography.
• This notion that the Church is one of the sects is the great fallacy of the whole affair. It is the genius of post-Reformation polemic that a word meaning “universal” has taken on the connotation of something as narrow as a sect.
• Common-knowledge-busting: Galileo. Turns out he did other stuff besides inadvertently be the poster boy for proponents of scientism centuries after his death. Do I recall rightly that nobody harassed Copernicus?
• All religion in the Star Trek Universe is firmly rooted in a pantheistic materialism. Sorry, dude. But Roddenberry was a self-described secular humanist whose contempt for religion only grew as he got older and more pretentious about his status as a philosopher.
• You know it’s sad when even the Feds realize you’re not truly Catholic.
• O tempora I: What if new tests for Down syndrome could one day mean no more affected babies are born?
• O tempora II: Remember: this is now what passes for a light puff piece about community do-gooding at the high-school level – like holding bake sales or raising funds for the basketball team. With this sort of enlightenment, no wonder we are certain that it is our birthright to rule the world with a military presence in over 100 countries. Let’s keep up the trillions in spending on both the Empire and on these valuable approaches to creating the Great Society at home. And don’t forget cutting taxes while we increase spending. And mocking God. Let’s be sure to do that too. “I will never get my comeuppance! You hear me! No comeuppance!”
• You know it’s sad when even the Feds realize you’re not truly Catholic.