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May 12, 2017

Baby Christian and New Constantine American Christian Hero Trump

…just issued a blackmail threat to Comey: James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 This is actually happening and Rod Dreher gives the details. Next up: Super Duper Real[TM] Christians fan out across St. Blog’s [Read More...]
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Published on May 12, 2017 10:05

The Great Seduction

A reader writes: Rod Dreher has a pretty good takedown of the executive order that came out of the White House recently. Between this and the AHCA, as Ross Douthat tweeted it, “This has not been a particularly good day for the Catholic case for Trump.” So far it looks like the Trump administration will [Read More...]
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Published on May 12, 2017 00:46

Where we are in salvation history

Only about 25% of the human race was baptized in the 2000 years since Pentecost and only 36% of all human beings who have lived over the past 2,000 years had a chance to hear the Gospel and be baptized. Granting fully that God is God and the Second Coming could be at any moment, [Read More...]
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Published on May 12, 2017 00:37

Jeeper Creepers! Corporate Peepers!

A reader who is a lawyer writes: Remember the “cute” Burger King snafu with its commercials triggering personal electronic devices? It was a test, apparently, of a feature they deliberately put into your cell phones. And there’s no problem with remote-control technology being used to control your life at whim, with no requirement of justification [Read More...]
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Published on May 12, 2017 00:29

May 11, 2017

I hate being right all the time

Pope Francis just upped the ante on the “debate” (so-called) over the death penalty. I use scare quotes and say “so-called” because in reality the “debate” consists of three popes, all the bishops of the world, and the rest of the civilized world vs. Communist China, North Korea, a smattering of backward Islamic Bronze Age [Read More...]
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Published on May 11, 2017 21:21

Everything the Postmodern Right used to oppose it now embodies

Death panels, for instance. A White House death panel just declared that I do not deserve health insurance because I am a diabetic. And the best part is that I know for certain that Good Catholic and Evangelical court prophets will instantly step up to reassert the Bronze Age belief that illness is God’s punishment [Read More...]
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Published on May 11, 2017 20:36

On the bright side, we live in a Golden Age for comedy

Since Christian Trump supporters are too busy disgracing themselves with lying defenses of the indefensible, God has given the task of telling the truth to clowns:
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Published on May 11, 2017 19:52

Trump’s Chief Achievement for His Christian Base

…has been to turn them into liars more passionate and skilled in lying than he is. Case in point, I can’t tell you how many times, in the past day, I have heard Christian Trump supporters do exactly what David French, of the leftist socialist Communist National Review, describes: But — and this is vitally [Read More...]
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Published on May 11, 2017 19:07

Libertarianism is incompatible with the Faith

“Libertarianism” (we are told) “opposes plunder and violence.” No. Libertarianism opposes any exercise of state power. That’s what it’s about. It is, like all heretical impulses, the exaltation of a couple of Catholic ideas (the dignity of personal responsibility, the goodness of property, and the hostility to state exercises of lawless tyranny) swollen to madness [Read More...]
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Published on May 11, 2017 11:11

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