That which proceeds from God begins with a salutary fear and finishes with peace of mind. That which comes from Satan begins with calmness and ends in storm, indifference and apathy.
THIS entry from December, 2012 about purportedly objective studies of children in same-sex "marriages" is worth re-reading. See the relevant quotes from G.K. Chesterton and this comment from Lawrence Auster: The Muslim says, “If Allah wills it.” The Christian says, “In Jesus’ name.” The liberal says, “Studies have shown.” These are the sacred words that establish the authoritative truth of whatever ruinous mischief the liberal is about to propose. “Studies” are one of the principal means by which the liberal regime maintains and extends its power. Years ago I attended a conference of Swiss academic types in New York City. Their subject was Swiss immigration and multiculturalism policies. They maintained that multiculturalism and diversity was the way for Switzerland to go, because “studies” showed that it worked. Though I was just the guest of a guest at this event, I interposed: “So Switzerland has existed as a successful society for seven hundred years, and you want to change it radically—on the basis of “studies“? They didn’t get my point. Humorlessly they maintained that their studies were the best authority.
JEANETTE V. writes:
Even Woman’s Day magazine, the simple little homemaking magazine I grew up with, is pushing the normalization of sexual confusion. One woman uses “Christianity” to justify a daughter’s delusion that she is really a boy:
As he grew older, Kyle made it clear that he badly needed to transition to living as a male, including hormone therapy and possibly surgery. “In order for me to survive, I need to be true to who I am,” he told us when he was almost 18. We spoke to a therapist, and she explained that Kyle, like many transgender people, needed to align his body with his spirit. I’d wanted Kyle to wait, but I came to see that living a false life would be hell on earth: More than 40% of transgender people attempt suicide. Strong family relationships dramatically reduce that danger. (more…)
UNDER Jorge Bergoglio, a.k.a. the Argentine Bomber and the Man Who Would Be Pope, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is becoming more and more like a Las Vegas wedding chapel. Today the faux pontiff married 20 couples, including some who had violated Church teaching on marriage. Bergoglio does not fulfill the criteria to be an altar boy in the Catholic Church, let alone a pope. Altar boys are required to be Catholic. So are popes.
AN interesting report from last year about a proposal to sell a French church in Vierzon (the church is the ugliest and most recently built one in the town) to a Muslim group. The pastor of the parish argues for its sale, but a local group resists.
THE victims include an elderly couple who was beaten to death and three others who were shot.
SAGE McLAUGHLIN writes: The phenomenon you describe in your "Madness in Michigan" post is so common it deserves a name. I suggest "Separation of Church and Church."
HENRY McCULLOCH writes:
Marian High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has let go a teacher for breach of contract. The teacher, Barbara Webb, had consented to Marian’s morality clause when she joined the school. Marian’s morality code forbids teachers from publicly engaging in or endorsing “actions or beliefs directly contrary to the teachings and standards of the Roman Catholic faith and morality.” Plainly, homosexual acts — as distinct, perhaps, from orientation not acted-upon — violate that clause.
Marian learned that Miss Webb had contracted a so-called “marriage” with another woman in Ontario, where provincial law pretends such legal fictions are real and recognises them as a form of matrimony. (more…)
THE number of mosques in America has grown dramatically since 9-11. According to USA Today, it rose by 74 percent between 2000 and 2010, with a total that year of 2,106. Wikipedia has a partial list.
TIBERGE writes at Galliawatch: From the thousands of videos available I came upon these four while browsing for something relevant to post on September 11, 2014. They may not be the best, and they may already be familiar to you, but the messages are worth repeating: jihad is resurgent, Iraq is devastated, France and England are in extreme danger. Nobody is doing anything. You can view the videos at her site.
BUCK writes:
The U.S. Air Force is denying re-enlistment to an atheist airman who refuses to swear “so help me God” as required in the standard military oath of enlistment. The USAF used to allow airmen to omit “swear…so help me God” on request. They could substitute “affirm” for “swear” and drop the reference to God. This was standard policy across the services, despite the fact that the U.S. Code Title 10, paragraph 502, still requires all enlisted service members to “swear…so help me God.” The USAF, suddenly in October 2013, discovered Title 10. They await a ruling from the Pentagon. Oddly, the U. S. Air Force Academy just recently dropped the requirement to “swear…so help me God.”
Is the USAF provoking a religious test because they want God removed? What other reason could there be?
A NEW PERFUME named after the Man Who Would Be Pope has citrusy notes of apostasy and betrayal.
ACCORDING TO The New York Times: Between 2000 and 2010, the number of legal black African immigrants in the United States about doubled, to around one million. During that single decade, according to the most reliable estimates, more black Africans arrived in this country on their own than were imported directly to North America during the more than three centuries of the slave trade.
READ about the latest school statistics in North Carolina here. By the way, according to Education News, the average annual expenditure for homeschooling a child is $500 to $600.That does not, of course, include the labor of the parent who is teaching. Homeschoolers also pay public school taxes.
FRED OWENS writes at his blog, Frog Hospital:
I have worked at community gardens quite often. They depend on volunteer labor. Planners consistently overestimate the supply of volunteer labor. They begin projects with a burst of enthusiasm and discover a weed-choked mess several months later.
The garden where I volunteer has wisely learned from those experiences. We use volunteer labor on a sustainable basis. We have lots of wonderful ideas and things we like to do, but we talk ourselves out of it. I serve on the board of this garden, and I have been known to say, “I’m not willing to do any work on this. I might do a little bit of work, but not much.”
My fellow board members often agree with that assessment. You might say we are lazy. We have designed an orchard of fruit trees, choosing projects that require the least labor — that gives us time to sit in the shade and enjoy the view. (more…)
"MEN have been put on earth to receive a little of that light of eternity as it descends on them. They become in some way eternal, they too, immortal, according to the extent to which they attach themselves to the truth of God. To the extent by which they attach themselves to the things that change, to moving things, they move away from God. And here it is that we feel a need. All men feel this need. They have in them an immortal soul which is already now in eternity, a soul which will be happy or unhappy, but it is a soul that exists. It will not die. Every man who is born, who has a soul, has entered into eternity which is God. We cannot do without it. It is part of our lives. It is what is most essential to us. That is why men seek the truth, seek the eternal, because they have an essential need of eternity." ….. "When we possess the past we possess the present and we possess the future. Because it is impossible, I say metaphysically impossible, to separate the past from the present and the future. Impossible! Then God would no longer be God! God would no longer be eternal! God would no longer be immutable. And then there would be nothing more to believe in. We would be completely in error." --- Archbishop Marcel LeFebvre, Sermon at Ecône; September…