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Bare, ruined choirs, Canadian division. One

Posted on March 25, 2008
Bare, ruined choirs, Canadian division. One congregation in Canada's United Church has taken Christian liberalism to its logical conclusion - they have completely eliminated Christ from their Christianity: That triumphal barnburner of an Easter hymn, Jesus Christ Has Risen Today ? Hallelujah, this morning will rock the walls of Toronto's West Hill United Church as it will in most Christian

In the merry land of whatever-you-say-three-times-is-true,

Posted on March 24, 2008
In the merry land of whatever-you-say-three-times-is-true, you can fall from the top of a skyscraper and land on your feet and pretty unicorns eat rainbows and poop butterflies.... ...you can sensibly have a news article report that a "man" became a "woman" "but kept his vagina...

There are hate crimes and then

Posted on March 24, 2008
There are hate crimes and then there are ironic bits of street theatre carried out by tolerant secularists against people who the Washington Post reports have "man miles to go" before becoming acceptable to East Coast Secular liberals. Leftist anti-war protesters attack Catholic Easter Mass...

Converting in the face of death

Posted on March 24, 2008
Converting in the face of death threats. The converstion story of Magdi Christiano Allam. I had to ask myself about the attitude of those who publicly declared fatwas, Islamic juridical verdicts, against me -- I who was a Muslim -- as an ?enemy of Islam,? ?hypocrite because he is a Coptic Christian who pretends to be a Muslim to do damage to Islam,? ?liar and vilifier of Islam,? legitimating my

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The Washington Post tribute to

Posted on March 24, 2008
The Washington Post tribute to Easter. After 2,000 years, Christians have managed to make the Resurrection of the Son of God almost acceptable to East Coast liberals. The Easter story speaks to everyone about the universal fear of death. It is about resurrection and new life, the consciousness that we, or something of us, will endure...

How do you know when a Clinton

Posted on March 24, 2008
How do you know when a Clinton is lying? Well, you know the answer. Check this video to bring back memories of the '90s. The Clinton years....good times, good times.

Happy Easter. He is risen!

Posted on March 23, 2008
Happy Easter. He is risen!

Indoctrination 101 The Diversity

Posted on March 23, 2008
Indoctrination 101 The Diversity of Culture curriculum at Thurgood Marshall College at the University of California, San Diego is hated by the undergraduates who are forced to take it for being a waste of time that teaches white students that they are bad...

Brace for riots. Italy's most

Posted on March 22, 2008
Brace for riots. Italy's most prominent Muslim commentator is converting to Catholicism by being baptized by the pope at an Easter vigil. Apostasy from the religion of peace is punishable by death.

Worth Watching. This is an hour

Posted on March 22, 2008
Worth Watching. This is an hour and half talk by Tim Keller that in a conversation, non-didactic, nonpolemical way tanks the most common objections of the New Atheists to religious belief. Keller is the author of The Reason for God, which describes his thoughts on the objections to religion offered by the upscale New York liberals to whom he ministers...

Too Good to Miss. Keith Olberman

Posted on March 22, 2008
Too Good to Miss. Keith Olberman is the picture next to the definition of "hypocrisy."

Good Friday To excite our love

Posted on March 21, 2008
Good Friday To excite our love towards God, there was no more powerful way than that the Word of God, through whom all things were made, should assume our human nature in order to restore it, so that he would be both God and man. First of all, because the strongest way God could show how much he loves man was his willing to become man for his salvation; and nothing can provoke love more than to

Paradise by the Radio Light. National

Posted on March 21, 2008
Paradise by the Radio Light. National Public Radio is David Mamet's Bo Tree as he reconsiders his life-long commitment to "brain dead liberalism." But in my life, a brief review revealed, everything was not always wrong, and neither was nor is always wrong in the community in which I live, or in my country...

Newt Gingrich: "I am deeply worred.

Posted on March 20, 2008
Newt Gingrich: "I am deeply worred. It is interesting that Gingrich talks about people who hate America and preach sermons against America. Clearly, he was referring to Wahabi clerics, but apparently he could have been referring to certain American Christian clerics just as easily.

Cognitive Dissonance. I'm gratified

Posted on March 19, 2008
Cognitive Dissonance. I'm gratified to see that even a lib like Slate's Mickey Kause can see that the Obama's "Pastor Problem" speech deserved a "flag on the play" for blatant violations of the principle of non-contradiction: The most disastrous sentence in the speech...

Weird Just weird.

Posted on March 19, 2008
Weird Just weird.

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Next

Posted on March 17, 2008
Happy St. Patrick's Day. Next Year in Dublin!: Some 3.5 million Irish citizens live outside the country, but the greater Diaspora is considerably bigger - 70 million strong. These are the people who keep the Irish flag flying in the remotest parts of the world, the people who suffered most under our colonial past, who sent money home to Ireland when we hadn't a bean and who took other destitute

Religion and Politics. As the

Posted on March 16, 2008
Religion and Politics. As the many apostasizing Catholics - who jettison a life-long Pro-life commitment once they enter a Democratic presidential primary - have proven, a devout Catholic is simply not a viable candidate for the Presidency in modern America...

Relativism and Literature. James

Posted on March 15, 2008
Relativism and Literature. James V. Schall's book on the Regensburg Address has been recommended by a friend as the most concise discussion on faith and reason that he's ever read. That recommendation makes Schall's book a "must get." It is interesting how Benedict's speech - particularly the part about the anti-philosophical effect of a "voluntaristic" view of God - has had such a profound

The Bible - It's amazing what's

Posted on March 14, 2008
The Bible - It's amazing what's in there when you read it! One of the the traditional arguments in favor of the doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary (PVM) is that Mary had taken an oath of perpetual virginity prior to her betrothal to Joseph. The Protoevangelium of James written in the early Second Century tells a story that Mary had been consecrated to the Temple, and had thereby taken

The Way We Weren't. American Heritage's

Posted on March 14, 2008
The Way We Weren't. American Heritage's blog has a good post on the Alternate History of S.M. Stirling.

The Fall of Spitzer and the Continuity

Posted on March 12, 2008
The Fall of Spitzer and the Continuity of History. With St. Patrick's Day coming up, this post on the Nineteenth Century Archbishop "Dagger" John Hughes is well-worth reading. I'm certain that my kids, who are taught about every other oppressed group in American history, will be surprised to found out about their ancestors...

Hack Reporting Alert. It turns

Posted on March 11, 2008
Hack Reporting Alert. It turns out that the media got it wrong on both the "Luther rehabilitation" and the "New 7 Deadly Sins" stories.

Contra Prostitution. Lisa Schiffren

Posted on March 11, 2008
Contra Prostitution. Lisa Schiffren blasts the "victimless crime" argument. At a time where the California Supreme Court is on the verge of rewriting marriage laws despite the sovereign people having repeatedly stating its will to the contrary, this last part can't be written off as far-fetched: A second point against legalizing it, is that it is very hard to maintain society-wide moral

NY Governor publicly confesses

Posted on March 10, 2008
NY Governor publicly confesses "error" in a "personal matter." Here is the video. The "personal matter" is paying $50,000 per weekend to a prostitution "ring." Politics is pretty lucrative.

Are moral obligations derived from

Posted on March 10, 2008
Are moral obligations derived from function or family? As Thomisticguy (aka Pastor Van Oosten) points out, we had a discussion on the issue of terminating life support for individual in a persistent vegetative state ("PVS") at the Thursday night Aquinas Circle...

Luther the Crypto-Protestant. I

Posted on March 06, 2008
Luther the Crypto-Protestant. I really liked Professor Philip Cary's lectures on Luther from the Teaching Company. Here is Cary's essay on "Why Luther was not quite Protestant", which ought to provide be a useful corrective to anachronistic readings of Luther...

Russell v. Coppleston. Worth

Posted on March 05, 2008
Russell v. Coppleston. Worth Reading.

Apologetics - Does it matter if

Posted on March 05, 2008
Apologetics - Does it matter if non-believers take communion? Thomisticguy's (aka Pastor Jan Van Oosten) blog is a rare place where than can be a respectful exchange of ideas. But what would you expect from a Thomist? The thread on "Truth" led to an exchange that led to my posting the following, which I want to save here...

Maybe so...but the Cal. Supreme

Posted on March 05, 2008
Maybe so...but the Cal. Supreme Court didn't take it up for review, did it? A blawg dealing with punitive damages - whose posts seem to be dedicated to the establishing that punitive damages are virtually never recoverable - offers this: SEIU v. Colcord?Punitive Damages Must Be Reconsidered After Compensatory Damages Are Reduced In this published opinion, the California Court of Appeal (First

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