Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 150

Mohamed Bezek takes in dying foster children

…because nobody should have to die alone. A beautiful story of a man devoted to the care of the least of these. My assumption is that he would identify as a Muslim. But it is obvious that he is, at some level, empowered by the Holy Spirit. People like this are the reason that attempts [Read More...]

Israel is not happy with the Traitor-in-Chief

“Boiling mad”. But the super duperest, most discerningest, prudentest, smarter-than-the-popest Greatest Christians of All Time say “Stay the course.  All is well!” Because since when have the geniuses who acclaimed Corapi a living saint and fought to defend torture ever made a bad call? Update:  Israel was likely the source Trump betrayed. How very very [Read More...]

Here’s a novel defense of our Traitor-in-Chief

Let this sink in, his defenders are saying he is too much of an ignorant, incurious moron to be able to betray much information: In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling — and honest — defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader [Read More...]

Up till now the only rhetorical tools of the Party of Trump…

…have been the Genetic Fallacy (“What?  You believe that extremely well-documented fact?  But its reported by somebody the Dear Leader declares to be ritually impure!”) and the “Tu Quoque” (“But Hillary/Obama/some other Culture War enemy did it too, or something that is kind of like it if you stand on one foot, tilt your head [Read More...]

Traitor shares highly classified intel with Russia

When the story broke yesterday, all the Usual Suspects fanned out to shout “fake news” at a Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper while defending the integrity of a pathological liar with a paper trail the size of the rings of Saturn.  It never happened, etc. This morning, on cue, the stupid braggart confirmed that he did it [Read More...]

Visual Effects Artist Makes Ad to Sell his Used Car

…and winds up with 2 million offers due to this:

Dead Men Bleeding and Medjugorje

There’s the old story of the guy in the lunatic asylum who insisted he was dead. A doctor was convinced he could reason the guy out of his delusion, so he asked him, “Do dead men bleed?” The man replied that they did not. So, quick as thought, he prick the man’s finger with a [Read More...]

A reader is troubled with me

He writes: I’m a casual reader of yours and a fan of much of what you have said on many topics. With all due respect, however, I think you’re finding it increasingly difficult to see the difference between a differing opinion from your own on public policy and heresy. Even when I agree with you [Read More...]

The Dunning-Krueger Effect

Mercy for Murderers in Scripture

Part 4 of my series on the death penalty in the Catholic Weekly. Some varieties of Christianity see in the Crucifixion a kind of weird divine child abuse. In that telling, God the Father wanted to slaughter the human race, but then God the Son distracted him by offering himself as the target for the [Read More...]