Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 1386

When will the media rescind its backward policies...

of male-only, celibate reporters, which obviously causes this?

God love Joe Carter

The man is a voice of reason in a Manichaean wilderness of polarized discourse:

If you can't fathom the appeal of liberalism then you probably don't understand it well enough to effectively rebut it — Contrary to the bluster you hear on talk radio, the vast majority of American liberals are not evil, out to destroy our nation, etc. Mostly they want the same things you do (love, clean drinking water, an explanation for the final episode of Lost, etc.).

The increasing tendency of Americans to speak as though those of even slightly different political opinions are not merely different, mistaken, or partially in error, but enemies, traitors, subhuman, and of an entirely different species is poison. I actually saw somebody in a combox recently denouncing Pat Buchanan as a "Liberal" because he questions the legitimacy of our Empire-building exercises in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat Buchanan! Liberal!

Somebody else recently informed me that G.K. Chesterton--Chesterton!--is the person modernists quote so as to pass themselves off as Catholic.

Part of the problem is that, as the Greeks knew, you become like that which you direct your focus upon. People have been rightly appalled that some on the Left would sink so low as to, for instance, try to pin the actions of a lunatic on their political enemies in the Giffords shooting. The problem is, the Reaction against this has been to try tit for tat:



That's from Rush Limbaugh, who admittedly has reason to be angry given that he was actually named as a sort of unindicted co-conspirator by the Ragemongers of the Left. Being a Ragemonger himself, he has responded with a perfectly predictable and deeply worldly eye for eye response. Duly noted. Justice (or vengeance) exacted for the Lefty smear.  The man's only human and has feelings too.

But seriously, does anybody really think it helpful to the health of the Body Politic to suggest that Al Gore, rather than Sarah Palin is the *real* culprit here? It is not possible to keep up the pretense that (to quote Palin) the actions of a criminal begin and end with the criminal while simultaneously trying to claim that Michael Moore is the real root cause of the criminal's action. This nasty tendency of the Right to imitate the worst sort of doublespeak of the Left (and vice versa) demonstrates, not that one ideology is superior to the other, but that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

I feel more and more like a kid who just wants to get out of the house and move in with his friends because he's sick of listening to his on-the-edge-of-divorce parents scream at each other.  It's hard to care about who's right because they are both so consumed with hatred of each other and both so certain of their own rectitude.  Thanks be to God for Righies like Joe Carter (and, though I recognize I will tar myself as a damned liberal like Patrick Buchanan or Chesterton by saying it) Lefties like Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert.  No I don't agree with them.  But I don't think them devils in human form either.

The Creed: One Lord

In which we continue our discussion of the Creed, with a little help from Woody Allen.

Speaking of both Pro-Choicers and the Whole "Climate of Violence" School of Moral Accountability

I can't say that I have ever felt like Star Wars or an occasional political demographic from either Republicans:



or Democrats:

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have ever filled my breast, nor the breast of anyone I ever heard of (including Jared Loughner) with the impulse to slaughter. Loughner seems to have paid little attention to such matters and was more of a free lancer than a company man when it came to his itch to kill.

That said, I think that a case can be made that somebody who is marinated in an ideology which tells them "Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done" and which celebrates the brutal dismemberment of millions of children probably *is* acting directly on the bloodthirsty rhetoric with which pro-choice Lefties program themselves in their ideological pep talks when it is found that he charged with butchering seven children with scissor and a snuffing a mother (as well as earning other charges down to corruption of a minor for hiring a fourteen year old and making her work 50+ hours a week at the clinic, I think we really *can* connect the dots between the rhetoric and ideology of the pro-choice Left and its bloody fruits in a way that is rather more persuasive than the lame attempts to pin Loughner on Palin (for whom I have no particular enthusiasm, by the way, but I know a smear when I see one).

The Grand Jury Report is absolutely sickening. But there will be no hysterics from the people who were so eager to fret about the connection between ideas and consequences in Arizona.  That's because abortion corrupts everything it touches, including the temporarily moralistic crusaders against the "climate of violence" who suddenly go silent when the violence kills their politically expendable victims called "babies".

I wonder how these people sleep at night.

Thanks be to God, some of them can't and repent.

Catholic Teaching is Pro-Choice

as Mary Kochan observes.

Indeed, human free will is a dogmatic article of faith. It's just that the Church takes choice seriously, as pro-choicers do not. It says that our choices matter and that they have consequences, including eternal ones. So-called pro-choice people want to pretend that any choice you make is as equally good as any other choice you make. In short, they insist on the dogma that choice doesn't really matter. The Church, dwelling in reality and not in fantasy, dissent from that childish view.

When will George Lucas take responsibility...

for the actions of Jared Loughner? Not only have his laser blast filled movies created a climate of violence, but his theories about the end of the world in 2012 map directly to Loughner's.

WHAT DID GEORGE LUCAS KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

Sherry Weddell bait

Leon Suprenant writes:

I'm contributing to a new blog on religious vocations hosted by the Institute on Religious Life (IRL), called "An Undivided Heart." Please check it out from time to time—and also recommend it to others, especially those who are interested in the subject of discernment, spiritualities, vocations, etc. The initial post included a listing of the top ten vocations sites as identified by the U.S. bishops (and IRL's site was one of them!), while today's short post is focused on pro-life issues.

If you aren't Sherry, you are still encouraged to check it out.

If you say the Vatican is secretly running the US Military

...people (generally) recognize that's kind of loony.

If you say, "Vatican Warned Bishops Not To Report Child Abuse" and then follow that inflammatory claim up with documents showing that the Vatican said, "make sure to follow due process in canon law" everybody believes the headline and nobody thinks about the actual evidence of wrongdoing, which is mighty thin on the ground. The notion of the sinister curtain-gliding Jesuit is deeply entrenched in the English-speaking mind.

Jimmy Akin takes a look at the latest hysterical calumnies from the New York Times.

Hey West Coast Prolife Folk!

Come to San Francisco's Walk for Life this Saturday!

Be there! Aloha!

Carl Olson rips the festering scab off...

THE VATICAN'S SECRET CONTROL OF THE US MILITARY!!!!!!

This totally makes sense. Send the US to war in the Mideast while simultaneously denouncing the war! Of course! Why didn't I see it all before?

Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta: the two most powerful forces for evil in the world today! How could I have been so blind? Dan Brown: forgive me!