Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
Many Catholics in “good standing” are flat-out heretics. I call them “liberals” and “progressives” because it just seems a lot nicer than calling them “heretics”, and I try to be a nice guy. I call orthodox Catholics “conservatives” and “traditionalists” because “orthodox” sounds too much like a boast. Would the well-intentioned folks who eschew labels prefer we return to calling heretics heretics? Somehow I don’t think that’s what they’re after.– Jeff Culbreath
Mormons are basing it on doctrine that can be renewed all the time, whatever the current prophet – the president of the Church – says. Yes, he receives prophecies from God, I don’t know, maybe on a daily basis. LDS General Conference comes twice a year, and whatever he says is the new doctrine.Just like Christian denominations of other ethnic WASPs. Doctrine is fungible by decree or, today, convention vote.
I’ve never met a Mormon man who has any real respect for women. First of all, if you’re a Mormon man, then you believe you’re going to have multiple wives in the afterlife. So, even though he’s not acting on the will of God at this point in time here, on earth, to have many wives, a Mormon will tell you that this will be a commandment again definitely in the afterlife. To Mormons, life on earth is just a twinkling of an instant in the rest of your life. If you’re a good Mormon, you can go on to become a god and have your own planet and worshippers. So, there’s no basis to really and truly love and respect your wife because there’s going to be another, or many more, in the afterlife.Sounds like the part of fallen human nature Roissy maps out and lefties like this lady most likely deny; in other words, minus the religion and the natural procreation, not much different from how many people in their prime now date. Feminism and government handouts -> women think they don’t individually need beta provider men = they’re happy to share an alpha. (Roissy: why, feminist claptrap notwithstanding, smart SWPL girls are more likely to go for players. Also, many women are getting money from the beta providers and everybody else, through taxes etc. – the handouts – which is of course unsustainable in the long run.) Just like the fundamentalist Mormon sects: social Darwinism, or the top dogs help themselves to the girls, including taking weaker men’s wives as punishment, and kick out the excess boys.
I side with Ron Paul on most issues in the 2012 Presidential Election.Goode is the Constitution Party candidate.
Ron Paul on foreign policy, economic, social, domestic policy, healthcare, environmental, and science issues: 97%
Gary Johnson on foreign policy, domestic policy, economic, healthcare, environmental, immigration, and science issues: 93%
Virgil Goode on social, foreign policy, economic and domestic policy issues: 82%...
Anyone reading his statement knows what Akin meant. He was saying that in an actual rape–from what doctors have told him–the likelihood of pregnancy is rare. But if a pregnancy did occur, the punishment should be imposed on the rapist not the unborn child.From TAC.
What does this hysteria ... reveal?
A deep-seated fear, a gnawing anxiety among Republicans that the positions they have held and hold on social and moral issues, and even on economics and foreign policy, no longer command the support of a majority of their countrymen.
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement he quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!
Moral:
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.
It wasn’t until many years later that the magnitude of what this country pulled off then finally hit me. The United States had successfully put two men on the moon and had successfully brought them safely back home.– Christopher Johnson
Using the technology of 1969.
Tom Wolfe’s conclusion at the end of The Right Stuff seems accurate:, the Space Race was, among much else, a single combat (e.g., David v. Goliath) version of the Cold War. Rather than blow up the world, each side picked their best and bravest to attempt the most awe-inspiring feat in human history to show the rest of the world whose system deserved to win.– Steve Sailer
We won the Space Race, and 20 years later we had won the Cold War.
But is India becoming more like postmodern America or is postmodern America becoming more like India? Maybe India is already at where postmodernism leads? That the future for the postmodernist U.S. is Indian-style inequality and ineffectuality?Steve Sailer on that and the SWPL imagination as a great leap backward.
The only choice Nov. 6The critical problem we face today is the same one all mankind has faced: the State, those monopolists who claim the right to break the laws that they make and enforce. How to restrain them is the critical problem of all sound political thinking. Making matters worse, this gang now has a monopoly on the money and the ability to print it, and they are abusing that power at our expense.– Lew Rockwell
How does voting change the situation? Neither of the candidates for president wants to do anything about the problem. On the contrary, they want to make it worse. This is for a reason. The State owns the “democratic process” as surely as it owns the Departments of Labor and Defense and uses it in ways that benefit the State and no one else.
On the other hand, we do have the freedom not to vote. No one has yet drafted us into the voting booth. I suggest that we exercise this right not to participate. It is one of the few rights we have left. Nonparticipation sends a message that we no longer believe in the racket they have cooked up for us, and we want no part of it.
You might say that this is ineffective. But what effect does voting have? It gives them what they need most: a mandate. Nonparticipation helps deny that to them. It makes them, just on the margin, a bit more fearful that they are ruling us without our consent. This is all to the good. The government should fear the people. Not voting is a good beginning toward instilling that fear.
This year especially there is no lesser of two evils. There is socialism or fascism. The true American spirit should guide every voter to have no part of either.
From here it seems to be a trend among the Nats: priests from Poland who switched to get married. Nice picture: of course I love Polish and Polish-American cultural conservatism keeping churches good-looking.The Nats are a Polish-American immigrant schism of about 100 years’ standing, parallelling the other Slavic-American experience of Greek Catholics switching to the Orthodox, not about theology (the stuff against the Pope’s obviously an ex post facto rationalization) but ill treatment by the local Roman Rite clergy (who caused a schism for no good reason). In both cases good grassroots traditionalism thanks to Slavic cultural conservatism, but small and getting smaller (slowly dying out) and, just like most other whites, far fewer kids so no more native vocations. A big difference with the Nats is their founder, a priest kicked out of seminary in Poland and given a second chance here, was a unitarian universalist. Polish conservatism has masked that/held it in check. What’s left of them is mostly third etc.-generation members with the odd new parish of ex-Catholics left behind in a parish closing, again often now served by a few Polish-born priests who fell in love so they found a out with this. The Mass is a Novus Ordo clone.
Deacon: I would say from his and others’ amazing story it is something quite different. This is not an easy choice, to dedicate yourself to truth and being above board. It requires great sacrifice. The scandal of many priests who lead bifurcated lives in Poland and elsewhere is terrible and dishonest. These men chose to follow God’s call to the non-exclusionary vocations of marriage and the priesthood. Doing so in an honest way is to their credit and the Church’s. As I have said before, demanding the grace of celibacy from the Holy Spirit is a non-starter. He certainly grants that grace to some – and may they be blessed for being honest to their vocation as well.
The Slavic-American Orthodox aren’t getting native vocations anymore: the Carpatho-Russians are getting their next bishop from the priests in their Greek parent church. How are the native vocations among the Nats at Savonarola?
Deacon: Like most Churches, slow, but several prospects right now. Our Prime Bishop, Bishops, and clergy are working diligently to build vocations. The work on the PNCC in Norway, Italy, Sweden, and Germany is very promising and hopeful as well. In my parish we dedicate prayers during our monthly solemn exposition and benediction for the gift of many vocations. Other parishes do similar things. No doubt it is a struggle, but the Lord sends workers into His field.
Frankly I am disturbed by this. If he needed to be heavily medicated just so he could understand what was happening in court, how could he possibly be responsible for killing six people?
From RRAs I’ve learned and blogged before, the Irish were an integral part of the British Empire, like their Scottish cousins serving in the army exporting and enforcing it around the world (the British Army still has its Irish Guards), proudly building that empire; before 1916 many Irish in spite of everything were loyal British subjects (like I said, still, many Irish don’t hate the Brits; many settle in Britain; many served in the British forces in WWII and some still do; I once met one who had been in the RAF in the ’50s, after complete Irish independence); the early Irish nationalist leaders often were Protestants (Wolfe Tone, Yeats); the church has long held the Irish cause at arm’s length (you’ll never hear that on American St Patrick’s Day; that said, early Irish leader Eamon de Valera was a sincere Catholic who explicitly identified the country with the church; the Irish constitution reflects that); and the IRA were really Communists, not Catholics except by birth.
Bill Tighe taught me here one of history’s ironies: the ethnic English living around Dublin (in the Pale – of English rule? – whence we get the expression ‘beyond the pale’) were the first to put up a fight in Ireland against Protestantism when the king imposed it. So much for hating the Brits. They, not the Irish themselves, started the centuries-long identification of ‘Irish’ with ‘Catholic’. I dare you to say that in a crowded bar on American St Patrick’s Day. I understand religion in Ireland is cyclical. Around 1800 sure, most Irish were Catholic but indifferent, then emancipation jump-started the church, building a great institution from scratch, so you had the pious Irish of popular culture, the last generation of whom are barely still around on both sides of the Atlantic. Now religion’s waning again. Today’s virulent secularism’s a threat but still. Wait; just ride it out?
The actual Independence leaders 1916-1922 were a confused hodgepodge of different ideological stripes, which is exactly why the Irish Civil War claimed arguably more lives than the actual War of Independence itself (lesson to revolutionaries – don’t start a revolt until everyone on your side is in agreement on what you want, what you are willing to settle for, and what you plan to do if you win). There were sincere Catholics like De Valera, hardboiled church-avoiding socialists like James Connolly, moderately anti-clerical practicing Catholics like Michael Collins, and even a few certified religious zealots like Joseph Mary Plunkett and Patrick Pearse. Later, in the ’60s, when the IRA became a fully Marxist organization long on pompous rhetoric and short on action, the Provos split off into a similar hodgepodge outfit, with anti-clerical socialist leadership and a mix of practicing and nonpracticing Catholics at the rank-and-file level. The Church was probably right to keep the whole business at arm’s length from the beginning, but the hierarchy burned a lot of credibility by sanctioning or at least refusing to criticize WWI.
Pre-1916, most Irish Catholics were in favor of restoring Home Rule under the crown through constitutional and peaceful means, not full separation from Britain by violence. As it did elsewhere, WWI radicalized Irish politics and made violence more attractive. Even so, most of the IRB outside of Dublin didn’t want to launch the Easter Rising in 1916, thinking it premature and likely to fail. The ’16 rebels were at first widely hated by most people (especially in bullet-ridden Dublin). Public opinion only changed later with the execution of the rebel leaders (judged to be excessively harsh, for various reasons), and the eventual extension of conscription to Ireland.
Getting most Irish-Americans to follow this complex and nuanced story, though, is about as difficult as getting Americans to realize that the Tories during the Revolution were more than just traitorous boot-lickers. Neither of these things is a great tragedy, I suppose – people need heroes, and unless we restrict ourselves to choosing only canonized saints as heroes, few of them can stand being put on their pedestals without a little polishing first.
Harold B. Estes
This hatred against Paterno has a political side which we in Pennsylvania have recognized for years. The left profoundly hated Paterno.The left of course gets a free pass (Chappaquiddick).
It is more profitable to attack a dead, old-fashioned ethnic Catholic who went too far in shielding a family friend.
