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May 11, 2017

May 10, 2017

Why do we pay people?

JPII writes: …[Christ] who, while being God, became like us in all things devoted most of the years of his life on earth to manual work at the carpenter’s bench. This circumstance constitutes in itself the most eloquent “Gospel of work”, showing that the basis for determining the value of human work is not primarily [Read More...]
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Published on May 10, 2017 08:39

If you want to cut benefits to a disabled child…

…stop–just stop–calling yourself “prolife”. It turns the stomach. Being prolife means defending the sanctity and dignity of human life from conception to natural death, not from conception to birth. Still less does it mean using the unborn as human shields while you support inhuman cruelty directed at the least of these once they have been [Read More...]
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Published on May 10, 2017 00:03

May 9, 2017

Donald Milhous Trump just fired Comey

#TuesdayNightMassacre Impeach this lying crook now. This indefensible act will, of course, be what “prolife” Christian Trump supporters waste the rest of the month defending instead of the unborn or the gospel.
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Published on May 09, 2017 15:22

The god who wants an eye for an eye doesn’t exist

The God who conceded to our weakness and *permitted* an eye for an eye (as he also permitted divorce in the Old Testament) does. Part III of my discussion of the Death Penalty is here. Bottom line, the death penalty is, even in the Old Testament, a concession, not an ideal.
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Published on May 09, 2017 07:52

Jimmy Kimmel offers “apology” for cruelly defending sick children against poor defenseless GOP

It is one of the strange poetries of our time that, as we are ruled by clowns, so clowns are the prophets who speak the truth.
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Published on May 09, 2017 06:53

Vatican scientist to believing scientists….

“Come out, come out, wherever you are!”
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Published on May 09, 2017 00:55

Lafayette, nous sommes ici!

PS. Belated congratulations to French for rejecting the Nazi despite all the pressure from John Zmirak and other extremely smart super duper better-than-the-Pope Catholics.  You’ve earned the right to be snobbish and superior to Americans.
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Published on May 09, 2017 00:50

John OIiver is trying to save our internet access again

He’s completely right and these guys are trying to royally screw you (NSFW):
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Published on May 09, 2017 00:47

Grand Jury Subpoenas issued…

in Trump investigation. Firing Comey was too little too late. #tightenthenoose
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Published on May 09, 2017 00:41

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