Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 1389

Star Trek fan...

...buys Brooklyn Bridge.

It looked like a great deal through his rose-colored glasses.

Sorry, dude. But Roddenberry was a self-described secular humanist whose contempt for religion only grew as he got older and more pretentious about his status as a philosopher. In one script that never got produced, Jesus is a malevolent alien entity. In Who Watches the Watchers, we get this stirring peroration from Captain Picard which accurately reflects Roddenberry's take on "religion" (all of it, except his own religion of Onward and Upward American Progress):



D'ja get that? Belief in the supernatural = superstition, ignorance, and fear. Period. All religion in the Star Trek Universe is firmly rooted in a pantheistic materialism. There are energy beings, not gods or angels. Transcendance is strictly forbidden. All intelligence is emergent from matter, not created by the mind of transcendent God. We can and will evolve into God, but we are accountable to no God who made us. Star Trek is a massive myth of Pride and is intractably hostile to Christianity. The whole point of Bread and Circuses is that Christianity is part of the natural evolution of a civilization (because all planets must follow the natural evolution of the human species to Gene Roddenberry's lofty summit). It is not an instance of the supernatural breaking into history.

In a reminder that Judas Iscariot was the first Catholic teacher to receive a government grant...

...the Feds have now begun to show us what happens when Catholic educational institutions start sucking from the public teat: the Feds declare themselves to be theological authorities handing down edicts from Sinai on what is and is not "authentically" Catholic.

Moral: Catholic schools have to wean themselves from state monies or they will be wholly owned subsidiaries of Caesar, who is a jealous god.

Back when American culture was sane...

"balance" in the media meant "Giving different views an airing in order to achieve the common good." Now it means "Giving good and evil an airing in order to encourage people to call evil 'good'".

Case in point:

What if new tests for Down syndrome could one day mean no more affected babies are born? Is that cause to celebrate medical advances or reason to worry we are callously weeding out the less-than-perfect in our midst?

The fact that the question is even being asked is, itself, evidence of massive corruption. Of course we are callously weeding out the less-than-perfect in our midst! See this as *anything* other than that (let alone as a legitimate "alternative view" is simply conditioning people to accept eugenics. Period.

This is the way people *always* talk when they are laboring to justify evil.

This is the sort of story....

...that drives many Traditionalists insane. They declare it a dumbing down of the gospel and walk away in scorn.

I will take that critique seriously when the scorner tells me what he's doing to evangelize. It is hell, not the Church, that is a fortress. The Church is an invading army, breaking the gates of hell and bringing the light and presence of Christ into every nook and cranny of the dark realm. Catholics who roll up the drawbridge and try to keep people out lest they sully the purity of some aesthetic vision need to stop and re-evaluate.

Sherry Weddell...

...has a lovely and remarkable story of a convert to the Faith from a Hindu background she met in LA recently.

Reason to Homeschool #349873439832398573459853490309385039043249827432923948733

Passion Jones and her posse.

Remember: this is now what passes for a light puff piece about community do-gooding at the high school level--like holding bake sales or raising funds for the basketball team.

With this sort of enlightenment, no wonder we are certain that it is our birthright to rule the world with a military presence in over 100 countries. Let's keep up the trillions in spending on both the Empire and on these valuable approaches to creating the Great Society at home. And don't forget cutting taxes while we increase spending. And mocking God. Let's be sure to do that too.

"I will never get my comeuppance! You hear me! No comeuppance!" - Homer Simpson

Colin Mason of the Population Research Institute writes...

Not sure if this is the kind of thing you post, (and if it's not, that's cool) but I figured you might be interested. Basically, we're looking to put out some cool Overpopulation Is A Myth t-shirts, and figured we'd let people vote on the designs.

Oh, and there's a design contest, too.

Just to let you know.

Check thou it out!

Here's your chance to do a work of mercy

...and help the people of Haiti, still reeling from the quake.

532 Followers!

Today, my minions, I bid you to contemplate the fact that protest and individualism were not invented in the 16th Century, nor are they unique to Protestants.

That is all!

A reader writes...

Nat'l Catholic Singles Conf. 2/25-27, 2011, in San Antonio. For more information see here.

Now you know!