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The Wondrous and Magical Precious Feet Pin

Time was when “faithful conservative” Catholics believed that the teaching of the Church was not something you could pick and choose from like a cafeteria. Time was when that demographic told those nasty liberal CINOs that you stood with the Pope and the Magisterium and upheld the Church’s whole teaching, not just the parts you […]

Magical thinking and Trump’s Abandonment of America to Pandemic

Magical thinking is the satanic parody of the Christian doctrine of creation by the power of the Word. It is the notion that we can, by the power of the human word known as the “lie” simply will into existence something we want to be as God wills into existence the universe. We can, of […]

CGI Reveals What Jesus Really Looked Like!!!!!!!

So this feast of clickbait silly is making the rounds again.  It announces we now know that Jesus really looked like this: and not like this: What it really means is “We are replacing an image of Jesus made to identify him with the Europeans who worshipped him and replacing it with an image made […]

The MAGA Cult Always Confesses When It Accuses

Cast in Point: National Review baselessly accuses the NY Times and its readers of “dancing on the graves” of MAGA folk who die of COVID. They are responding to this piece, which does nothing of the kind: Here are the top rated comments: “I am so sorry for this entire family; what an avoidable tragedy. […]

So this is amazing!

This musical was, I am astonished to learn, written by They Might be Giants, Aerosmith, Sara Barielles, David Bowie, Panic at the Disco, and Jonathan Coulton, among others:

“All Lives Matter”

Remember when All Lives Mattered? With the rise of cell cam technology, people kept filming cops beating the living daylights out of people with brown skin, often young people. You know, like this: and this: So black people, (not armed like these guys because that would be suicide) turned out with the modest request to, […]

Please help feed hungry people in Uganda

The pandemic is playing havoc with the supply chain in poor countries. My friend Fausta Nalubega writes from Uganda: Urgent need of help for Food � ��� We always get more than 20 people asking for food at @MercyForLife Africa gate , we give out food daily depending on the donations we gate and we wish to […]

Malachi, the Pandemic, and the Unexpected Judgments of God

“Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when […]

A Guide to the Perplexed

It is a commonplace among conservatives who can’t bear to look in the mirror as they support Trump to say, “Both Sides are the same. Dems are no different from Republicans!” So when Trump says something idiotic for the umpteenth time, the conservative advocate of Both Sides Moral Equivalence can always be counted on to […]

More on Gnosticism and the Myth of the Untutored Genius

As the whole world saw last Thursday, the World Leader of the Cult of the Untutored Genius favored us all with some recommendations from his gut regarding COVID treatments, while a real doctor had to just sit there and take it: Dr Birx is all of us right now pic.twitter.com/EGSUOGlY6l — Scott Dworkin (@funder) April […]