THE lawyer Daniel B. Evans argues that those who claim income taxes are unconstitutional and refuse to pay them increasingly resemble a religious cult:

Tax protesting certainly seems to have many of the characteristics of a religious cult.

For example, a religious cult usually has at least some of the following characteristics:

*Cults claim a monopoly on truth (or salvation). So, for example, members of a cult will believe that only their members are saved, or will go to heaven, and that everyone on earth is damned. Similarly, tax protesters believe that only they know the truth about the federal income tax, and often believe that everyone who disagrees with them is not only ignorant, but a “slave,” “communist,” “statist” (meaing someone who worships government like a religion), or “sheeple” (meaning a sheep-like person). (more…)

THE movie Vaxxed has been dismissed as conspiracy theory by the mainstream media. The actor Robert DeNiro recently defended the film after initially rejecting it.

From a recent article in The Daily Mail:

Dr Peter Fletcher, who was Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, said if it is proven that the jab causes autism, “the refusal by governments to evaluate the risks properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in medical history”.

He added that after agreeing to be an expert witness on drug-safety trials for parents’ lawyers, he had received and studied thousands of documents relating to the case which he believed the public had a right to see.

He said he has seen a “steady accumulation of evidence” from scientists worldwide that the measles, mumps and rubella jab is causing brain damage in certain children. (more…)

JAMES LARSON discusses an explicit heresy contained in Amoris Laetitia, the recent “papal” exhortation on marriage:

It is not just a “linguistic event” or “stealth reform” or revolution, which is able to fly under the radar of a specific charge of heresy. There is a very explicit heresy, it is the foundation of all the other legitimate condemnations of Amoris Laetitia, and it clearly reveals the agenda which germinates and nourishes all the rest of its errors. It is found in paragraphs 296 and 297:

“The way of the Church is not to condemn anyone for ever; it is to pour out the balm of God’s mercy on all those who ask for it with a sincere heart… For true charity is always un-merited, unconditional and gratuitous.” (296).

“It is a matter of reaching out to everyone, of needing to help each person find his or her proper way of participating in the ecclesial com-munity and thus to experience being touched by an ‘unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous’ mercy” (297). (more…)

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DR. THOMAS DROLESKEY explains how “Pope” Francis’s anti-apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (or the Joy of Love) distorts the mercy Jesus Christ showed toward the adulterous Samaritan woman at the well in the Gospel of John in order to justify the relativistic approach to divorce and remarriage that has existed in the Vatican II Church for many years. According to Joyful Jorge, Christ “addressed her desire for true love.” This is sheer blasphemy.

From Amoris:

322 That is how Jesus treated the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn 4:1-26): he addressed her desire for true love, in order to free her from the darkness in her life and to bring her to the full joy of the Gospel. 295. Along these lines, Saint John Paul II proposed the so-called “law of gradualness” in the knowledge that the human being “knows, loves 320 Cf. ibid. 321 Relatio Synodi 2014, 42. 322 Ibid., 43. 225 and accomplishes moral good by different stages of growth”.323 This is not a “gradualness of law” but rather a gradualness in the prudential exercise of free acts on the part of subjects who are not in a position to understand, appreciate, or fully carry out the objective demands of the law. For the law is itself a gift of God which points out the way, a gift for everyone without exception; it can be followed with the help of grace, even though each human being “advances gradually with the progressive integration of the gifts of God and the demands of God’s definitive and absolute love in his or her entire personal and social life”.

What garbage. Dr. Droleskey writes:

This is pure Judeo-Masonic naturalism. It is theological malpractice. It is blasphemy against all that God has revealed to us through His true Church. It is the conciliar “canonization” of moral relativism in the name of “love.” It is the formal expression, one that will be inserted into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, of all that Pope Pius XII warned about when he address the Thirtieth General Convention of the Society of Jesus in 1957 (see Appendix A below for a reminder).

No one can truly love another while persisting in sin with him. Human love must reflect God’s love for us, which is an act of His Divine Will. God’s will for each human being is that we sanctify and to save our immortal souls as members of the Catholic Church.

To love another one must will his good, the ultimate expression of which is the salvation of his immortal soul.

The conciliar revolutionaries do not believe that it is either desire or possible for those who “love” each other to be told to stop sinning, thereby leading themselves and those they counsel directly into the abyss.

[…]

Jorge’s words are sufficiently confusing to be open to multiple interpretations: (more…)

KATHLENE M. writes:

Does the National Geography Bee competition fulfill its original purpose — to motivate American students to learn geography — when 44% of its state winners are “Indian-American,” thereby changing the competition to the “Desi Hunger Games 2”?   Another competition, the National Spelling Bee, has been so dominated by “Indian-Americans” that it’s now called the Desi Hunger Games.

Within the last four years, “Indian-Americans” have been slowly taking over the National Geography competitions.  This year may be a new record, as 24 of the 54 winners were from India.

Since 2012, Indians have been bragging about their record numbers in the Geo Bee, so word is spreading throughout their insular community that this is the new game in town to dominate.  But when each year passes, as increasing numbers of Indians win these events, it seems that it is “a statistical impossibility…there is more than randomness going on.”

To prepare, the participants go to special ethnic camps or seminars in other states so that they can out-compete each other.   As we also have learned, cheating is rampant overall in the Asian community (which includes Indians) due to the pressure to succeed at all costs.   The National Geo Bee does not allow “written notes” and other forms of recording, but the parents of these high-achieving Indian kids are there, taking notes.  We know because we attended the 2016 California State Geo Bee in Fresno.  That event was dominated by the ubiquitous presence of Indian contestants and their parents and families.

The joy of learning geography has now been reduced to another blood sport with status and money motivators even though the amounts, except for the top prize, are not much.  I wonder if Americans or schools will even care to participate in the Geo Bee and learn about geography once they realize another competition has been turned into a high-stakes event that requires year-long preparation, and that seems statistically skewed against them.

Furthermore since it has become so ultra-competitive and the questions can no longer be recycled regularly, new esoteric questions about “weird-but-true” geography facts must be written.  Are such esoteric facts even relevant when the original purpose of the Bee was to give Americans a broad understanding of geography? As it becomes a Desi Hunger Games 2, the National Geo Bee will have less participation from average Americans and schools, thus defeating its original goal to have Americans learn geography. (more…)

NOT resentful as you file your taxes? You might want to read this. The National Science Foundation is funding a study that "videotape[s] male engineering students while they work in labs to see if they are causing women to experience 'micro aggressions.'” The study is being conducted at the University of Michigan.

ALAN writes:

Late one afternoon or early evening many years ago, I was walking along a street in downtown St. Louis when I happened to walk past a bar.  It was not my destination at that moment and I did not go in.  But the door was open and as I walked past it, I heard the unmistakable sound of the song “Careless” floating out of the bar.  At that instant I felt a kinship with the bartender and the people in that bar.  They were likely of an age to remember songs like “Careless” from when they were introduced years ago and to have grown up with a scale of values that enabled them to understand and appreciate such ballads.  People who enjoyed a classic, sentimental old song like “Careless” were my kind of people.

I never went into that bar, then or afterward, but it was one of those moments that remain imprinted forever in one’s memory.

“Careless” was recorded by bandleader Eddy Howard years before I was born.  I dare say no readers of The Thinking Housewife would recognize his name.   But his orchestra and recordings were very popular in the 1940s-‘50s, especially in the Midwest.  Big Band historian George T. Simon wrote of Eddy Howard:  He “had the cheery, pink-cheeked vanilla appearance one might expect of a clerk in a country store—but he sang with tremendous warmth and expression.”   [George T. Simon, The Big Bands, Macmillan, 1971, p. 281 ]

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LAURA E. writes:

Most Christians would describe the fall as follows: “God makes Adam and then Eve. God tells them not to eat from the tree of knowledge.  Eve does it anyway. Mankind is banished from Eden and original sin is born.” I would have said the same until a few years ago.

My husband and I went through a rather unusual “Pre Cana” [marriage preparation] program. Over a third of the program was dedicated to studying Adam and Eve and what their story means for man and woman, husband and wife.  Adam’s passive stance during the fall was a major theme explored in these classes.  Our class emphasized that, contrary to popular belief, Adam was at Eve’s side throughout the serpent’s tempting spiel (Genesis 3:6).  Then God calls on Adam, not Eve, to account for what has happened (Genesis 3:9). Adam is accountable for both of them before God, as the husband is the spiritual head of his family. But Adam does not take responsibility.  He does not own up to what he has done. Instead he blames Eve. He even blames God a little: “the woman whom you put here with me…” (Genesis 3:12)

During the class, I wondered if the instructor was emphasizing Adam’s culpability to make some kind of dreary feminist point: “See, original sin is not all woman’s fault after all!”

Gradually I realized that the intent was more subtle and noble than that. The fall is an inversion of the right order between husband and wife. Eve got too big for her britches and Adam let her get away with it. Since he is head of them both he is just as much, if not more so to blame. (more…)

HENRY MAKOW writes at his site: Satanic possession means we are mental prisoners of the Masonic Jewish central bankers. Cabalist (Masonic) Judaism is Satanism.  The hit comedy Broad City is another example of how these Jews have used the mass media to induct society into their dysfunction and perversity. This show is so offensive I can barely watch it. Basically, it chronicles the lives of two loudmouthed Jewish broads who have been cut loose from marriage and family by feminism. Socially and biologically redundant, they are going crazy but making the most of it. They have no careers. No boyfriends. No charm. No beauty. The show is non-stop vulgarity, promiscuity, lesbianism and excretory references. Yet it is heralded as a brilliant "comedy" by virtually everyone. "Disgusting" is the new "funny." Cabalist Judaism is  about destroying the world in order to conquer it. The show normalizes mental illness, body odor, foul language and sexual obsession. It is pure evil and people are celebrating and embracing it.  Western society doesn't know it is a Jewish solipsism. The goyim emulate the Jewish experience which is presented as a positive model. Gay Jewish behavior is presented as straight. (See also "TV's Luciferian message.") Satanic Jews and their Freemason allies indeed are God. They create a repugnant reality, homage to themselves and Satan.

Do not be deceived; you cannot remain in communion with Bergoglio & retain the Catholic faith. By accepting him, you belong to his religion. -- Fr. Desposito  

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HAPPY EQUAL PAY DAY! Ashe Schow writes in The Washington Examiner:

When it’s pointed out that the gap [in pay of men and women] is due to women choosing different occupations, majors and number of hours worked, activists leap to a new argument, bizarrely claiming that women’s choices aren’t really their own. They try to explain that the reason nine of the top 10 highest paying fields are dominated by men and nine of the top 10 lowest paying fields are dominated by women is due to societal pressure — that women somehow aren’t responsible for their own decisions. (more…)

ELLEN BROWN looks at the push to go cashless. As much else in a monetary system under centralized control by private banks, it is not to the benefit of the general public.  

REMEMBER King David? I know it was long ago, in different “cultural categories,” but remember how he spied the beautiful Bathsheba at her bath, as told in 2 Samuel, and how he was overcome by lust? He called the beautiful bather to his quarters. He made love to a married woman. She became pregnant and David wished to conceal his transgression.

David then conspired to send Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, to the front lines, where he was killed in battle with the Ammonites. He took Bathsheba as his wife. So he was not only guilty of adultery, he was guilty of murder.

However, David was given the chance to repent.

There is the immortal scene in which the prophet Nathan visits the king and, by way of a parable, tells him what he has done and reproves him for his grave offense against divine law:

And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen. But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter. And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared to take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who was come to him, but took the poor man’ s ewe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. [2 Samuel 1-5] (more…)

I PUT off the unpleasant task of delving into the dirty details of Jorge the Joyful's manifesto on the family, Amoris Laetitia. (It is not, by the way, an "apostolic exhortation." It is an anti-apostolic exhortation.) Let me begin. Jorge has made one of the most blatant endorsements of feminism offered by any of the Vatican II antipopes -- and that's saying a lot given John Paul II's enthusiasm for UN-style, One World feminism: [54] There are those who believe that many of today’s problems have arisen because of feminine emancipation. This argument, however, is not valid, “it is false, untrue, a form of male chauvinism”. The equal dignity of men and women makes us rejoice to see old forms of discrimination disappear, and within families there is a growing reciprocity. If certain forms of feminism have arisen which we must consider inadequate, we must nonetheless see in the women’s movement the working of the Spirit for a clearer recognition of the dignity and rights of women. [Amoris Laetitia] There is not much waffling here, though Jorge the Joyful does leave an escape hatch when he speaks of "certain forms of feminism" that are "inadequate" (not bad but inadequate). Feminism -- with its tidal wave of female-initiated divorce, abortion, child abandonment and other forms of social breakdown --  is cause for, you got it, joy. It "makes us rejoice." [You might need a few anti-nausea tablets in reading this document.] True popes rejected the anti-Christian cult that is feminism and…

TOMORROW is “Equal Pay Day,” the annual event celebrating feminist lies about wage differences between men and women.

Equal Pay Day is an embarrassment to women everywhere.

Equal Pay Day is an offense to the intelligence. Only those with limited practical experience or the inability to reason would come to the conclusion that the reason why women in general earn less money than men is prejudice against them.

Equal Pay Day should be rejected and mocked by women everywhere.

Leaving aside the fact that women’s employment tends to be interrupted more often and that women are (and should be) less ambitious, one obvious reason why women in general are paid less is that they work in less dangerous occupations.

It is not fair — not fair at all — that more men are killed on the job. Is this disparity the subject of national campaigns? No, it is not. Highlighting the greater deaths of men does not further the war against human freedom and social order, so it is not a banner waved by feminists.

Mark Perry from the American Enterprise Institute writes:

Every year the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) publicizes its “Equal Pay Day” to bring public attention to the gender pay gap. According to the NCPE, “Equal Pay Day” will fall this year on April 12, and allegedly represents how far into 2016 women will have to continue working to earn the same income that the men earned last year, supposedly for doing the same job. Inspired by Equal Pay Day, I introduced “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” in 2010 to bring public attention to the huge gender disparity in work-related deaths every year in the United States. “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” tells us how many years into the future women will be able to continue to work before they will experience the same number of occupational fatalities that occurred for men in the previous year. (more…)

  THE globalist feminist mafia met at the Women in the World Summit in New York this week to promote Female Self-Intoxication Syndrome, as if that artificially-induced disorder which warps feminine instincts and enables corporate, financial and political criminals to rule the world without much backlash is in need of promotion. Remarkably some people still believe feminism is anti-establishment. It's a pretty transparent sales pitch. By constantly telling women everything they do is right and worthy of praise, celebrity feminists give ordinary women the confidence to ape masculine aggression, betray their loyalties and wage war against the men who are their natural allies. Women in the World is sponsored by Toyota, Coca Cola, Walmart and other major corporations.  Capitalism, like Communism, thrives on autonomy and female disempowerment. Meanwhile, The Thinking Housewife has no corporate sponsors at all.