Lamb Of God

I am almost done with training.

2010-05-23T11:14:00.002-04:00

It is hard to believe but I am almost done with my Army initial entry training. It has been a long haul since September 8th 2008. I have changed in some ways but my essence has not changed. I am still the political and theological junkie that I have always been. I have to be cautious of some of my postings as my new boss and Is also my president, thus my political comments have to be written with that in mind, thus I will make posts that reflect my political philosophy while trying not to mention the current leaders in office. If I can do that effectively there might be openings for me in the state departments diplomatic corps, but we will see. But I digress.

Right now my focus is finishing my training, I only have a few more days left, and returning to my family and some semblance of normal life. I have a greater appreciation for our military men and women who have gone through the same or similar training that I have. Interestingly enough as an older soldier I found the mental games more challenging than the physical games. Yet being an older man I was probably better equipped than the younger people to handle them. Now my military career begins in earnest as well as my future civilian careers as I am a member of the Florida National Guard. Yes I am a weekend warrior with the same training as any other soldier. I will keep readers posted of my experiences with the guard, without giving away any secrets of course. I will try to post when I home and done with this the final stage of my training.

God Bless all.

Thougths on Army Basic and AIT

2009-11-26T15:40:00.003-05:00

I am done with the army Initial Entry Training . I thought I would put down some of my thoughts. I found basic to be in many ways not as difficult as I expected. The most difficult part was perhaps reception processing, where we are in-processed into the army. This is where we get out shoots,our uniforms and all ofthe other administrative necessities the Armny demands before basic can begin. Normally basic is about a week, but for some reason mine took two. Reception is truly quite boring. We get up in the morning and normally we do some portion of the initial in-processing such as the issue of uniforms and boots and immunization. In many cases recruits that got through this process will do more than one of these things in one day, my group had the dubious benefit of doing of of these steps in daily thus prolonging our reception to two weeks rather than the normal one week. At least the food was good.

Once reception was done, we marched over to our basic training company. Our training began almost immediately. The first thing we did when we walked into our room and found our beds was to get our first "smoking" or P.T. basic training style. We began by holding our duffel bags, full of reception issue items, over our heads for what seemed like an eternity. I was sore for a week after that weekend. For the next nine weeks we went through the basic training process. From an older man, who is out of shape coming into basic was hard but rewarding. There is a sense of pride that comes from graduating basic along with kids young enought to be my children.

The AIT process is similar in some ways but vastly different in others. AIT is where we are trained in what will be our jobs in the big army. Going through AIT entails standing in endless formations but also going to classes that are very interesting and informative. The challenge is often staying awake as one has to go on what is often less than recuperative sleep. But again now at the end of the process I feel a little like I did in basic, I made it through the entire IET process along with people half my age. Now I look forward to spending time with my wifes and kids. I also look forward to going back to national guard unit and being productive with them. I also look forward to putting what I have learned to use in the civilian word, one of the perks of being a weekend warrior. I hope this nine month ride has been worth it.

Tomorrow I ship to Army Basic

2009-09-07T12:23:00.002-04:00

Tomorrow marks a bittersweet day in my life. Though as time goes on it may seem more bitter than sweet. I am reporting to the MEPS hotel for shipping to Army Basic on Wednesday. I really look forward to going I have always found the military interesting, but I have come to realize why they say the the military is a young mans game. I am 37 with a wife and kids. This makes this shipping a very difficult as I love my family dearly and while basic is only 9 weeks the AIT (Advanced Individual Training) is one of the longer trainings the army has to offer, meaning I will not be home for good until sometime next year. I ask that those that pray offer up prayers, more for my family than for me, they need it more.

It this had been a prayer to stop abortion

2009-08-31T08:31:00.002-04:00

That church's tax excempt status would have been removed yesterday

What is it with leftist and the funerals of their own. Remember the Paul Wellstone memorial

A person with Homosexual tendensies that gets it

2009-08-18T21:31:00.000-04:00

his Name is John Heard

Rest In Peace Rober Novak

2009-08-18T17:17:00.001-04:00

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What is he hiding?

2009-08-16T12:42:00.000-04:00

The logic of a mother

2009-08-16T11:10:00.000-04:00

Mom knows best

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Miracles do Happen

2009-08-16T10:58:00.001-04:00

I have been engaged with atheist lately in lively debate, they point to the lack of documented miracles as proof that God does not exist;

Well see article

Here is the propaganda opposite of what I posted yesterday.

2009-08-16T10:37:00.002-04:00

Note the similarity of these dreary monotone reading to the more dynamic teleprompter driven speeches of today;

This is a 50 year old CArtoon about Socialism

2009-08-15T21:57:00.002-04:00

Our Education system has robbed us of of the beauty of the free market system.

Funny, Kudos to the Jester

2009-08-08T08:03:00.000-04:00

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Remember when B.O. Called for a domestic security force

2009-08-08T07:45:00.002-04:00

This domestic force would be as well equipped and funded as our military right;

Our elections could like like the Cuban and the Old Iraq elections;

Think about it.....

When all else fails, play with the stats

2009-08-08T06:37:00.002-04:00

Yesterday B.O. came out touting a one tenth of a percent drop in the unenployment numbers but as was the case with the last Democrat President who did similar things with the budget deficit numbers, they cooked the books

Cudos to that right wing news source for bringing this out, no one else will

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This is rich, Condoms proven increase depresion in women.

2009-08-06T20:08:00.002-04:00

But let's not let the evindence deter a promicuous lifestile with condoms

""Regardless of the findings, this study does not advocate that people abstain from using condoms," said Professor Gallup. "Protecting oneself from an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease is far more important."

Here is the study

Again proving that messing with Gods designs is not a good thing.

Note the study goes back to 2002, I wonder why this does not make the headlines

You what would happen if this were a Catholic high school doing this right?

2009-07-29T06:48:00.001-04:00

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Sign the Media does not like you

2009-07-28T19:30:00.000-04:00

They are looking for your replacement

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Listen as the media ignores a real Duke Rape Case

2009-07-28T19:27:00.001-04:00

Remember the Duke Lacrosse rape case. Remember how the athletes were tried by the court of the Media simply because they were "privileged whites" and the victim was a under privileged black woman. Now listen to the deafening silence as they ignore what might be a real Duke rape case

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What do the Turks know about anything

2009-07-28T19:14:00.002-04:00

The clear connection between breast and other cancers is greeted with a loud silence evertyime a new study shows it.

Here is another such study for the media to ignore

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I say we take him at his word and let's not ruch this through

2009-07-28T18:59:00.002-04:00

Notice the ruch to get the health care take over now, before anyone has a chance to read the bill and before congress has to go back home and face angry voters that may talk them out of voting for this facist take over of our health.

well lets listen to B.O.'s own words and apply his lessons from 2004 to today

REmember Terry Schiavo

2009-07-27T13:26:00.000-04:00

End of Life Planning B.O.'s plan.

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Hurry read the articcle beofer CNN oulls it.

2009-07-27T12:16:00.001-04:00

Here are five freedoms you will loose under B.O.'s healthcare plan that he has not read;

Read article

The modern sexual revolution built on a Lie.

2009-07-24T18:28:00.002-04:00

Those of us who follow Jesus and his teachings have long known instictively, by reason and by science that the so called sexual revolution, as will all sinful lifestile was built on a lie. Any lifestile that seeks to take the human sex act outside of it's proper context of matrimony is by it's very nature a lie and as with all lies it leads to eventual downfall, both to individuals and to societies, even entire civilizations.

The Modern sexual revolution is based in part on the Works of Alfred Kinsey. It is now known that his work was. to put it mildly, fraudulent. Yet the media, academia and even the courts continue to use his lies as a basis for their work.

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The Pope is right says left leaning Harvard Prophesor when it comes to Condoms in Africa and AIDS.

2009-07-24T18:18:00.002-04:00

Here is the Article. Why do I have the feeling this will not make the headlines.

Would you believe me if I told you that the aids in Africa is spread by Homosexual activity.

2009-07-24T06:31:00.004-04:00

You would say I am crazy. After all homosexual activist point to Africa as proof that Aids is not mainly a homosexual or sexualy promiscuous diesease right...

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As Usual God is right sin is wrong

Funny the things one hears on talk radio that the Media ignores..

2009-07-23T17:26:00.002-04:00

Though on this one they might get a pass given the date it broke. I heard this almost in passing on Glen Beck. It caught my attention given my Catholic sensitivities to artificial contraception and it's direct link to today's culture of death

Yet this technology is highly dangerous given the anti life agenda of the B.O.(As I will henceforth refer to our president as) Administration.

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Revision on the F-22 post

2009-07-23T06:49:00.003-04:00

It would seem that the Air force does have 183 F-22 fighters on order so the program is not totally dead. This of course is less than what the Air force requested which is not what is being reported, the media is dutifully reporting that the Pentagon is agreeing with the cancellation of further aircraft orders. Of course the pentagon is agreeing, Robert Gates is a civilian government appointee who appears to have no political philosophy other than the one his boss happens to have. But the professional military types are saying something else behind closed doors.

Here is the article

As usual then one Constitutionaly mandated function of the presindent and he pushes to cut spending on it.

2009-07-21T06:38:00.003-04:00

The only legitimate area where we must cut president acording to the commander in chief is the military. The single protection we have against an ever more dangerous world.

The F-22 is the premier air superiority fighter. No other country has anything like it. A few squadrons would be sufficient for the U.S. to maintain air superiority in any theather of war. The F-15 the current air superiority fighter is still a great aircraft and in the hands of our great pilots is still invincible, but this jet has been in service since the early 70's. Many nations have comparable aircrafts to the F-15, such as the Russian SU-27 which has many variations including a potentially carrier capable one in the SU-37. The Chinese have their own copies of the Russian aircraft as wel as several indigenous versions that they can export to smaller nations.

The point is that without the F-22 the U.S. runs a real chance of having it's air dominace challenged in the coming years.

Please call your congress person and ask them to keep the F-22 program as well as the new f-35 engine upgrade going to endure our Soldiers, Airmen and Marines can keep kicking @#$#@ and keepoing us safe.

Ok My Friends the fight is on FOCA is now part of the healthcare bill.

2009-07-21T06:27:00.002-04:00

It must be stoped here is one way to stop it. We may not have the funding but we have truth on our side, we merely need to proclaim it.

Why do I have a feling that our government will find a way to not support this..

2009-07-20T22:10:00.002-04:00

The Mexicans are showing us how to fight a war on drugs...

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The reason that Drug related violence is up in Mexico is because this is the fist Mexican President that is not owned by the cartels and is actually fighting them.

Follow up on my brothers thoughts on Obamas birth Certificate

2009-07-20T10:49:00.003-04:00

Here is my Brothers Post

First Drink the Kool-Aid

Then Look like a Deer in the headlights when asked about the Birth Certificate

Initial thoughts on the new encyclical

2009-07-20T08:58:00.003-04:00

I have begun reading the Popes new encyclical "Charity in Truth"

My initial thoughts is that as ususal the media and even some Catholic comentators are misreading the pope. I have not yet arrived at what appears the controversial quote that seems to call for a world wide authority but I will venture a guess that it is not calling for a one world government but something that calls for all governments to work toghether to apply what is in essence Catholic social teaching. I wonder what the chances of that is given that five out of six humans are not Catholic.

What I do know it that the church calls for the application of her social teachings at the local level not at a centralized governmental level as those of whose mindset leans to the left socialist world view. The church also warns of the exeses of the capitalist decentralized world view. The truth is that the extremists on both world views see the human person as a means to an end. One sees humas as uneducated masses in need of elite control and the other sees human as means of material profits. Catholic social teaching calls for a pradigm shift in the thinking of all governments to make the Human Person the focus of policies that are centered on Charity and truth. Charity and Truth that recognize the inherent dignity of the human person and allows humans to live to their maximun potential hopefully to worship God as he has revealed himself to Man.

As mentioned I have not yet read the document fully and as with many church documents it will require mutliple readings to grasp the full import of what it says, but I have a grap of the bady of teaching of the church and knwing that church doctrine does not can cannot change I will wager that the initial, any reporting of the secular medial will exagerate portions to justify their notions and ignore those that oppose them.

Here is the encyclcal for all to read

I know who I want for President...

2009-07-20T08:15:00.001-04:00

Bobby Jindal.

Do you feel the recovery

2009-07-20T08:02:00.002-04:00

See our Grand Childrens tax money at work.

RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR '2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR 'REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA CHEESE'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $5,708,260 FOR 'PROCESS CHEESE'...

Credit Drudgereport

Since No one else will report it.

Astronomers did not see this one coming

2009-07-20T07:56:00.003-04:00

It appears that a comet or asteroid has struck jupiter. The interesting thing about this report is that it was an amateur astronomer that noticed it after the fact. The scary thing is that it was an amateur astronomer after the fact. If astronomers as a whole can miss an asteroid hitting Jupiter how many are out there with aim for earth they are not seing...?

Credit Jimmy Akins Blob for this report.

This is imposible, Al Gore says so..

2009-07-19T07:07:00.003-04:00

So the models Al gore is using to push his anti-American civilization agenda is flawed. I wont say I told you so. Ok I will! I told you so..

See article

See my previous post linking to a great site from a climatologist questioning the science

How can the government plan compete with ilegal private insurance?

2009-07-16T10:03:00.002-04:00

The presidentd said that we could choose among insurance plans amongst which the government plan will compete right. How the $@@$# can the government plan compete when the government declare private insurance illegal?

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The government can do this, AIG cannot

2009-07-16T06:38:00.001-04:00

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Where do you think most of the money will go for healthcare....

2009-07-15T17:43:00.002-04:00

To support the beurocracy of cource

Makes you wonder exactly what is behind the man we voted for

2009-07-15T10:14:00.000-04:00

Article,

What can I add to this?

TOTUS Cannot take the lies anymore and Attempts suicide

2009-07-13T22:25:00.004-04:00

See Here, Warning this may be to graphic for other eletronic devices.

We did however manage to track down TOTUS. We were able to get his statement here

Happy 4th of July everyone

2009-07-04T11:48:00.005-04:00

To add to what my bother said in his blog-post here, let's not forget out fighting men and women who still under difficult situation brought on by the enemy abroad and politicians at home continue to fight for our freedom.

Let's imagine where we would be both as a nation and a planet were it not for those who fertilize the tree of freedom with their blood and sacrifice.

Without them we would probably be speaking English with a British accent and suffering under their socialized medical system much sooner, My 10 year old may not have made if through her difficult birth because some heartless bureaucrat would have decided she was not worth the effort.

Without them we would have ended the peculiar institution of slavery much latter thus prolonging the say when the Supreme court and our president would be of African Decent.

Without them My native land of Puerto Rico would still be under Spanish control rather than a Commonwealth of the United States.

Without them we and Europe would be speaking German and the Third Reich would be a major world Power, Jews would be all but extinct as a people as well as Christianity.

Without them Millions of Muslims, from Kosovo, to Iraq and Afghanistan would still be oppressed rather than being a self determining people and the light of freedom would have been to dim for the People in Iran to even consider rising against their oppression in spite of our current leadership.

Without them Communism and it's close cousin Fascism would be the dominant political systems in the world rather than systems in decline.

Without them we would have undoubtedly been attacked perhaps even worse than 9-11.

It may be them that save the American Experiment despite our best efforts to end it.

The Men and Women who make up our armed forces are not uneducated brutes, but educated men and women who often give up lucrative careers in the civilian world to serve, such as Pat Tillman and the sons and daughters of many politicians including John McCain and Vice President Biden.

So today as you celebrate our freedom (sometimes without realising) please remember to give thanks to that veteran in your midst. Chances are there will be one in your celebration whether from current wars or previous ones.

Thoughts on the Passing of Michael Jackson

2009-06-26T21:37:00.002-04:00

First Let me start by saying that the death of Michael Jackson is tragic on many levels. I pray for his soul and his loved ones.

That having been said I believe that as tragic as his death is, the real tragedy is his life. There is doubt that Michael Jackson was supremely talented, it is sad that his talent on stage was so marred by a lifestyle that can only be compared to the Titanic. Like the Titanic which began it's voyage full of promise, Michael's career was full of promise. Like the Titanic who wanting to run faster than all other ships in the sea ignored warnings of danger, so too Michael's personal life showed early signs of danger. Both Michael and the Titanic ended with cries for help and tragic loss of life because while the outside was glamorous the inside of both Michael and the Titanic were weak and in dire need of re-engineering.

The other thing that came to mind was the coverage. The death of Michael has been covered thus far completely ignoring the less desirable aspect of his life, in contrast recall the coverage of another Icon, in John Paul II. Even before he died no report was complete without mentioning some controversial aspect of church history of teaching such as the child abuse scandal or celibacy and women Priest. Given the coverage one would think it was Michael who lived a life of heroic virtue and dignity and JPII who had the tragic life.

These are my random thoughts on the death of Michael Jackson

Today may mark the day when the American Experiment Fails

2009-06-26T21:33:00.002-04:00

Article If this legislation is passed by the Senate American Capitalism as we know it will come to an end.

I will wager that the baby killers and the media will ignore this

2009-06-05T18:42:00.002-04:00

The baby killers for whom abortion is the sacrament will ignore science (as they accuse those of us that have morals) and continue to push for the advancement of their religion which requires the sacrifice of innocents at the altar of sin without consequences.

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Remember the Out-Cry when a right wing Cadidate Visits the Supposedly Anti-Catholic Bob Jones University.

2009-06-05T06:46:00.002-04:00

I post this as yet one more proof of the lefts hipocracy. The left pretends to be sensitive to Catholic sensitivities when a right wing politician makes a Speech at Bob Jones University, Article. Yet as a practiving Catholic I am more offended when a leftist, militant pro-Abortion politician makes a speech at what once was a respected CAtholic Institution. Bob Jones is a protestant University and I expect their theology to reflect and anti-catholic biase. At least they stand by their principles. The University at South Bend was once Catholic and invited a politician whose views are anathema the our faith, and Gave him an honorary degree to add insult to injury.

Again OUr President shows more respect for Muslims in Cairo than for Catholics in South Bend

2009-06-04T09:20:00.002-04:00

Text of Cairo Speech, Text Of the South Bend Speech.

This is what happens when passion overcomes vocation

2009-05-30T18:16:00.003-04:00

I have posted on Father Alberto Cutie's sad situation in which what had been a good priest with much to offer via his media access.

Today I sadly report that the apostasy and self-excomunication is now complete.

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Father Albero should know better. He took a vow of chaste celibacy when he was ordained a priest. Yet the church knows that often the passions of a Man is often stronger that his vows, so it has a mechanism by which a priest who desires to Mary can. All he had to do was petition his Bishop to be laicised at which point he can marry and live tha life of a lay person. With his media contacts he would have lived a very comfortable life and continued to serve God and the church in that capacity as a married man. He shoose instead to create scandal and lead many astray by his very public breack with a vow and by taking the path of least resistance, he choose to become an episcopal priest, thus he can have his cake and eat it too. In the process he, by this act, endoresed the practices of homosexual, and female priests as well as church supported abortion. All of which goes against the teachings of the church Father Cuties sayd to have loved.

Pity.

Know your leaders

2009-05-23T08:32:00.002-04:00

If the Notre Dame scandal is a portent of a great apostasy within the church or even The Great apostasy as prophesied in scripture then the time may come when we must know who to turn to for eartly leadership in our easthly struggle against the apostate leader, this article may help. As I mentioned before I am not a left behind person who sees the book of revelation coming true in every headline type of Christian. Yet I do believe as scripture teaches that Jesus is coming and that there will be signs, amonst which will be a great apostasy within his church. I do know that as a Christian I am commanded to be ever vigilant for scripture says there will be signs but at the same time the second coming will come as a thief in the night when we least expect it. So I will not despair of the coming but will join the the strugle against the enemies of his Catholic Church both from outside in the form of secular and religious opposition and from some of those same forces that have infiltrated the church. Already one agent in the form of Father Jenkins has been brought to the light. I could name others but they are Bishops and Cardinals and Mother Angelica was admonished for taking one of them to task (some readers may know who I am talking about)

Are our actions recruiting more terrorists

2009-05-22T16:01:00.000-04:00

A favorite accusation of the anti-War and anti-American left is that we create more terrorists by housing them in Guantanamo or by such actions as enhanced interrogations. They like to point to pictures as those of so called abused (as opposed to decapitated) detainees as being recruiting tools for terrorists. As is most often the case with the accusations of the left the truth is the exact opposite of what they say.

It was our running with out tails tucked between our legs from Somalia after they killed and dragged one our soldiers through their streets that prompted Bin-Laden to label the U.S. a paper tiger. It was the myriad of attacks during the 90’s including the first WTC attack without response that served to cement that notion in the minds of our enemies that was the real recruiting tool for terrorists. It was the application of a strong arm by General Petraeus in Iraq that virtually eliminated terrorist attacks and rather than recruit enemies served to befriend the locals and turn them into allies against a common foe. It is therefore the left and their tactics that are the best recruiting tools for the terrorists not Guantanamo and our pretense in Iraq

I think I know why our president thinks he can dialogue with the Iranian president

2009-05-20T06:44:00.001-04:00

They are both former community organizers and run simmilar presidential campaigns.

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Be careful what you wich for....

2009-05-09T18:31:00.002-04:00

The Irony in this article is delicious. I truly do not know if to laugh, that these chplains were so succesfull at preaching relativism or cry at the fact that they were so sucessfull at preaching relativism they are now irelevent in the eyes of the school body

Only in the Mind of a secular leftist is this not Ironic.

2009-05-07T20:07:00.002-04:00

Am I the only one that sees the Irony in the fact that the History Channel is having a special on the Movie "Angels and Demons" purportedly to separate fact from fiction with the Movie itself being the sponsor for the program. It this were a right with religious show sponsored by a similarly friendly entity the content would be ridiculed on that basis alone, regardless of how accurate the content of the show was.

Here is the link

Stop the Scare Mongering

2009-05-07T12:25:00.002-04:00

The Swine flu or the H1N1 virus as it is now called is being used by both our government and their willing allies in the media to spread a sense of panic and, I believe, as a means to promote nationalized health care. As flue viruses go this is not only mild but so far laughable. According the the World Health Organization there are about 2100 cases of the virus with 44 deaths world wide, See here. The U.S has 896 cases with 2 of those 44 deaths, see here. While all of these deaths and the potential deaths to come from this virus are tragic, they pale in comparison to the common seasonal flu with yearly affects one in five Americans or 226,000 people and kills 36,000 people in the U.S. alone, see here. If anything may possibly make the case for national health care the common seasonal flu make a better case than the swine virus.

On the other hand if one is really intent on killing the swine virus I would suggest slow roasting the pig over a pit until well cooked thus killing the virus and making a dent on world hunger at the same time.

Catholics should enjoy Angels and Demonds says Ron Howard

2009-05-05T12:10:00.004-04:00

In a recent article, Movie Director Ron Howard is quoted as saying "Let me be clear: neither I nor Angels & Demons are anti-Catholic. And let me be a little controversial: I believe Catholics, including most in the hierarchy of the Church, will enjoy the movie for what it is - an exciting mystery, set in the awe-inspiring beauty of Rome."

I wonder if he would say that Blacks would a enjoy a movie as beeing a good story set in the majesty of the south if the story were Insulting of the Harriet Tubman story or a rewritting of the sotry of the KKK. Or if the story were a revision of the Holocaust, wouldhe say Jews would enjoy it because because it is an exiting story set in the splendor of the Bavarian country side.

The truth that it is only because it is anti-Catholic (let's not kid ourselves something that depicts lies about the Catholic church is by definition anti-Catholic) that Ron Howard can get away with making such a statement without the Media coming down on him. It is only when a Republican Presidential Candidate makes a speech at Bob-Jones University that the left sudendly becomes defensive of Catholic sensitivities.

Could this be the time of the apostasy?

2009-05-04T18:27:00.003-04:00

In light of the Notre Dame debacle it seems that so called Catholic colleges and Universities are falling like dominoes down the path of apostassy. It would seem that the election of Benedict IV, whose othodoxy I love, did not after all result in a closed cafeteria for catholics but in the opening of a whole new and growing franshise

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Confession

2009-04-28T11:13:00.000-04:00

I must confess life is taking hold of me, or better I have allowed life to take hold of me, so my postings have been space lately. but I want to continue with the series of posts I started last year on the the sacraments.

I began with a short primer on what a sacrament was and what they were here, then I expounded deeper on the sacrament of Baptism here.

Today I will talk about what is perhaps the most beautiful of Sacraments and that is Reconciliation or confession. Confession is a difficult Sacrament for even the most devout Catholic let alone the non-Catholic. The notion of going to another man, himself a sinner and perhaps even a worse sinner than me, and telling them my sins is to many like walking into the confessional and stripping naked. In truth a proper confession is a stripping naked of the soul, which is why it is uncomfortable to so many. It is also true that some of the same people that would never dream of taking their sins to a priest, will gladly spend hundreds of dollars to bear their souls to a psychotherapist only to be given advice that is morally dubious at best and being left the underlying sinful issue unaddressed and no sense of healing or reconciliation. The fact is that Jesus knew what he was doing in John 20:23 When he gave sinful men to power to forgive sins. The one who created men knew mans nature and understood that human worship involved both body and soul and that hearing the words "go in peace you sins are forgiven" would have more healing power than any psychotherapy or the latest feel good self-empowering don't sweat the small stuff fad ever could.

Sin destroys our relationship with God and in turn with is body the church, So it is God alone who can in the end forgive sins, it is however through the Church and through his duly appointed minister, the priest, the Shepperd of his body the Church , that he has chosen to grant us his forgiveness

The theology of confession like that of the other Sacraments and every other Church doctrine is far deeper than I could give it justice here, but it is my earnest hope and prayer that this will help those of you who may be struggling with this most beautiful of church treasures.

Thoughts on epiphany

2009-01-04T10:25:00.004-05:00

I know I have been lax in postings the last few months. This is due partly to writers block and partly to daily life taking over. I have a few minutes here so I though I would posts some thoughts on epiphany, which is celebrated January 6th.

The word epiphany means a sudden insight and or revelation. An epiphany is what happens when pagan wise men, probably Zoroastrians and astrologers, from Persia are drawn to the small town of Bethlehem (or perhaps Nazareth, the scripture passages do not say that the wise men arrived exactly at time of our Lords birth, Herod's edict to kill all children under two seems to indicate that some time had passed from the time of the Lords birth). This visit by the wise men shows that Jesus came to save all man kind, not just the Jews. The wise men represent all non-Jews or gentiles. It is interesting to note that among the Jews those called to visit Jesus were poor uneducated shepherds and from among the gentiles it was the educated and wealthy. This may indicate the contempt that God had for the cultural decay among Jews and the hope he has for the rest of the world. This is the insight we gain from these events. God reveals to us that salvation is for all mankind and that while his life is intended to fulfill the Jewish prophesies and it is from the Jews that salvation comes, the whole world now has access to the grace of God via his son Jesus.

The wise men bring interesting and symbolic gifts. Gold, Incense and Myrrh. Gold represent worldly riches and royalty indicating a recognition of these gentiles of Jesus royal lineage. Incense is used in worship in virtually all major world religions, this indicates the recognition of the wise men of the divine nature of Jesus. Myrrh indicate that the wise men were aware of the mission of Jesus to die as fitting sacrifice for all of mans sins. A mission even the most learned amongst the Jews would not recognise.

I pray that this is but one epiphany we enjoy in our walk of faith in Jesus.

Perhaps another silver lining

2008-11-15T05:34:00.002-05:00

Obamas Election is finally forcing the Catholic church in the U.S. to address the giving of Communion to those that support abortion, either in elected office or in the ballot box.

Article,

In what may be a little to little to late, but better late than never the Bishops are beginning to do something they have not done so in a while,

Teach Catholic doctrine forcefully and clearly, with consequences to Catholics that fail to live up to Catholic doctrine.

Article

It is a shame it took a political disaster to get this reaction, but then Christianity is often more clearly taught in the face of persecution.

Was Obama Right?

2008-11-14T09:59:00.003-05:00

As Mentioned in my previous post. Obama was fond of saying that McCain would have brought about a second Bush Administration. He may have been right. It is true that McCain and Bush were in legislative agreement about 90% of the time. McCain could point to the 10% of differences to point to his maverick tendencies. The fact is that Bush and McCain are not Ideological conservatives. Both were opposed to earmarks, though Bush never vetoed a spending bill. both have a pro-life view and both are foreign policy Hawks, though McCain may be a little more hawkish.

A moderate McCain administration though preferable to a Socialist Obama may have a positive side. Having McCain as the leader of the party and as president may have resulted in delaying the much needed shake up in the Republican party that is now taking place. The next republican candidate may well have been carrying the same political baggage that was carried by the party on this election cycle.

Obama seems intent on implementing a socialist economic agenda. This will only deepen the economic problems we are now facing. Obama will want to blame Bush economic policies as being so bad that his policies are taking on Bush economic policies to work. We must point that the Bush economy of the last two years is a socialist economy and that Obama is simply taking us further left. The Obama economy in essence began in 2006 with the democratic congress, Bush simply rubber stamped it. McCain may not have taken us further left but was likely to keep us where we are now with minor adjustments.

Bush was a Second FDR term.

2008-11-14T06:22:00.003-05:00

The eight years of Bush are very similar to the FDR years. Both faced economic problems and a global War. Both presided of what at the time was the largest expansion in government in history. Both were aggressive in pursuing Americas enemies abroad and expanding social services as home. It is entirely possible FDR may have felt more at home in today's Republican party as seen the democratic party as to radical for his taste.

The problem that historically once a social program is implemented it stays. Even the great Reagan could not roll back most government programs, at best he was able to slow their growth and grow the economy to better fund them though higher revenues.

This is the danger of an Obama administration, he stands ready to grow government even more and create more dependency, which a conservative administration will have a hard time removing. It is worth noting that both parties have moved left with the Republican party looking like the democrats of old and the democrats in many instances voting to the left of the socialists in congress.

We must push for a radical reform of the republican party to field candidates that will promise a mayor roll back of government and hold them to it.

Barrac, Another four years of Bush?

2008-11-14T06:14:00.002-05:00

During the election Obama Obama was fond of linking McCain to Bush. He wanted to imply that to elect McCain would be to continue the Bush economic plans. The fact is that there is every indication that not only will Obama continue the Bush economic plans, at least the one he seemed to follow that on his last term, but that he will continue to take us further left.

The fact is that fiscally, aside from the tax cuts, Bush was no conservative. Not once did Bush veto a single spending plan. Obama promises the same. The only deviation from Bush that Obama promises is that everyone who pays taxes will get a tax increase. Yes everyone, not just those making over $250.000. When the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010 all will get a tax increase. The poor will also get a tax increase in the form of higher prices for goods and services.

Where do we go from here

2008-11-08T09:26:00.003-05:00

Conservative underground, Conservative in the wilderness, the loyal resistance. These and many other terms have been used to describe the position of the conservative movement after the Barak Obama's victory in these recent election. It was not only Barak Obama's victory it is also an increase in the majority in both houses of congress including an almost filibuster proof majority in the Senate. This majority may yet prove to be filibuster proof if the partisan democrats decide to change the rules. Add to this a second legislative branch with a growing activist judiciary, which will potentially grow with more activist judges being nominated by the president and approved by the congress.

So given this seemingly insurmountable situation where to we go from here;

First: lets not loose perspective, we have seen this before in 1976 and 1992. Conservatism has returned as strong as ever. Reagan was able to advance conservatism with a democratic congress.

Second: Support the new president. He did win and like it or not he is the president of our nation. We can support him when he is right and when his policies advance our beliefs and oppose him when it does not. We have more access to media than conservatives did in 1980 and even 1992 when the only conservative voice was Rush Limbaugh. Today we have and entire medium with right wing radio. We also have a more unbiased news outlet in Fox news, as we have the Internet with such sites as Drudge and the blogosphere. The fact is we do not know what type of president Obama will be. He has proven to be capable of dumping his radical associations when politically expedient.

Third; Begin supporting and encouraging the conservative bright Spots. Sarah Palin drew as many Large crowds as did Obama. We must as a movement encourage her to not go back to Alaska and stay there. There are others such as Bobby Jindal, Michelle Bachman etc. Newt Gingrich is a different issue. I love him and would support him if he ran but I think he best serves the movement as an Ideas and policy adviser. I would love to see him in charge of the RNC.

Fourth; Run for office. Our movement cannot take over government unless we have candidates willing and able to run for political office. Sara Palin began running for PTA and as a mayor of a small town.

Fifth; Educate the next generation. Many of our children go to public schools. We must understand that the schools are run by left wing activists. It is our jobs as parents to counter that. If we are able we should either home school our children, send them to private schools, and if not possible we must be aware what is being taught our children in public schools and be prepared to counter it. This means we must educate ourselves and prepare arguments and evidence to counter the potential brain washing of our kids. It is possible that public school kids with this background of left wing education and right wing counter arguments from home will in the future become the next Newt Gingrich's or Even Reagan's, capable of debating the left on their turf.

sixth; Pray. Our movement is righteous and even divinely driven, it cannot hope to advance unless we keep God in the mix.

So lets regroup and begin fighting back.

Coservatism did not loose, Republicans did.

2008-11-07T06:14:00.003-05:00

First let me begin by congratulating Obama for running a great campaign, deceitful but great. Our side on the other hand ran a terrible campaign. John McCain is a war hero and for that is deserving admiration but he is not a right wing conservative. He knew that, he also knew that he was loosing the campaign so he choose Sarah Palin as is running mate to shore up the conservative base.

Unfortunately McCain had terrible odds. For one he was the standard bearer of the party whose president was wildly unpopular (due in no small part to terribly biased and irresponsible media reporting) President. The economy is bad shape and his party is getting the blame (due in no small part to terribly biased and irresponsible media reporting) even though the housing crisis the fault of the party that won and that is not even debatable.

The fact is that conservatism was not on the ticket in this election, not was leftist socialism for that matter since Obama did a great job of hidding his real views with the help a biased and irresponsible media who added to his 600 million dollars in capaigning by providing free campaign adds in the form of decetful and irresponsible reporting. even then Obama only received about 7 percent of the electorate.

It is my hope that on the enxt eelction there is a clear articulate conservative on the ticket who will both articulate right wing positions as well as not be afraid of calling his opponent a liar when it is warranted.

I haven't posted in a long time, but this warrants a post

2008-10-27T10:29:00.003-04:00

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFhYzIzMGQ1Y2FlMTA4N2M1N2VmZWUzM2Y4ZmNmYmI=

Just read this article and watch this;

I think I need not say anything else

Is There enough room in washington for two Messiahs?

2008-07-30T06:26:00.002-04:00

This Article, quotes speaker Pelosi as trying to save the planet, thus ascribing to her a Mesianic Mission. But correct me if I am wrong. Isn't Obama the true Messiah? Is there room in Wahsington for Two? We already know that there is no rom for two bee queens, which is partly what cost Hillary her Nomination.

Humana Vitae

2008-07-27T10:41:00.003-04:00

I have a little remiss in not blogging on this most important of modern encyclicals. The reality is that Paul VI proved that prophets did not disappear after St. John the Baptist. Virtually everything he predicted in this encyclical has come to pass in regards to the value of human life. The use of artificial birth has given rise to abortion, euthanasia and other methods of killing humans for convenience sake. By introducing a mindset into the procreative act that I refuse to allow this act to be open to life the natural progression is to terminate any pregnancies that result from a malfunctioning artificial method. It is also a natural progression that if human life can be either prevented or terminated for the sake of convenience then it can be terminated for a pair of shoes or because one belongs to the wrong gang. All of these crimes have gone on the rise since artificial birth control methods have gone into wide spread use.

It should be noted that the church is not opposed to all means of avoiding pregnancies, only to those that are artificial and thus interfere with natural methods and therefore natural law. The church has always allowed for responsible spacing of children using natural means. A couple is free to engage in intimate acts anytime they so desire, they are not obliged to engage in marital relations only when it is known that the woman is fertile. A couple is free to not engage in this relation when the woman is fertile thus avoiding pregnancy in this manner. By using nature one is open to Gods will since it is Gods will that women not be fertile at all times.

Some have accused Catholic teaching in regards to artificial contraception and marital relations as being responsible for the spread of Aids and for fostering poverty in third world nations. As usual the fact prove the opposite. The fact is that the one nation in Africa that is teaching sexual abstinence outside of Marriage is the one nation that has had a drop in the Incidences of AIDS see article here. It is also true that of all the methods of spacing children natural family planning or NFP as the churches teaching is often referred to is the one that is free of change and thus most accessible to the poor. NFP does not promote promiscuity and thus protects the integrity of marriage and the dignity of the human person both male and female. None of this will be reported in the left wing secular media of course, nor will international organisations such as the UN who actively promotes both artifician contraception and abortion.

In short Paul VI has been proven right and the media is not only hidding this but ridiculing Humanae Vitae as beeing absurd, behind the times and even opposed to human nature (since according to them it is human nature to be, sex animals, unless you are member of NARAL or NOW in which case men beeing sex animals equals rape in all cases) when in reality church teaching promotes Natural Law and thus true human nature and dignity.

One can read the Encyclical here, and see how truly loving and dignifying it is.

Who to believe?

2008-07-26T06:10:00.003-04:00

The Obama Campaign says this

The Pentagon says This.

Considering that people such as the president and Mcain are known to have visited the wounded troops without the need for photographers and media following to document their love for the the troops for a campaign photo op. I think this simply shows that Obama only cares for the troops and anything else for that matter only if it helps his political ends. I wonder if this thinking carries over to the Leave it to Beaver family he present to the world.

And the prophesies come true

2008-07-26T06:08:00.001-04:00

I think I may join the movement, see article.

What to do in the face of Evil

2008-07-24T05:55:00.004-04:00

Following on the same thinking of my brothers post here, I found this column. The fact is that not enough good men have stood up to evil, especially not during the last century when we saw the two holocausts of the Jews in Europe and of abortion world wide. It seems that we are content to leave it alone as long as we are not affected. The problem is that even if it does not affect us directly, no one live in a vacuum and the repercussions of evil will affect us like the proverbial rock in a pond, that even after the ripples from throwing it are gone is still in the pond ever so slightly affecting everything from the water level of the pond to its very chemistry.

As the proverb goes "When they came after the Jews I did nothing because I am not Jew, when they came after the blacks I did nothing for I am not black, when they came after the Catholics I did nothing, I am not Catholic, When they came after me there was no one left to defend me". Will you be the one left alone when evil has done it's work on those around you?

It's a good thing the media is not biased!!!!!

2008-07-24T05:41:00.001-04:00

I wonder, where are the leftist environmentalists on this one?

2008-07-22T05:52:00.004-04:00

The environmentlist left are all over man made global warming in a never ending effort to turn us into North Korea. But leave it to them to conveniently ignore a genuine man made ecological disaster in the name of sex without consequences, see article here. Again the hypocracy of the left never ceases to astound me.

If you don't agree he will kick your b--!

2008-07-22T05:46:00.001-04:00

I think Chuck Norris has a point here

Interesting Info in Global Warming

2008-07-17T11:39:00.001-04:00

GlobalWarming.org

Roy Spencer Phd.

I wonder what the headlines would say if Atlanta has sued Islam?

2008-07-17T09:03:00.003-04:00

Article, as of the time of this posting even Drudge has not posted a link to this. Of course the resolution was passed two years ago and the headline then was not the resolution but the Catholic group suing the City of San Francisco being sued.

It will take 5-10 years for oil pricess to be affected by drilling, right?

2008-07-17T05:55:00.004-04:00

Obama Likes to say that even if we start driling now it won't make a difference for another 5-10 years, here is an example of his brilliance. This of course demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the futures market and of capitalism in general, (you capitalism that economic system that makes us the economic power that we are and the socialist left wants to destroy). All it took was for bush to lift the executive moratorium on offshore drilling and this happens . This is how the futures market works. It normally takes a few months for the effect of the futures market to affect prices at the pump, but that is a far cry from the 5-10 years the opposers of drilling claim. Imagine if Congress were to follow suit.

The opposers of drilling site environmental concerns, but Katrina shows us that even a hurricane plowing though the thousands of Oil rigs in the Gulg do not cause environmental disaster so that arguments does not work.

Drill here, Drill now Pay Less and let the free market use the energy we have now to develop the energy of the future as is already happening, see here. This is a private individual using his own money to develop alternatives isn't the free marker great...

You Can't Drill There...There's Oil There!

2008-07-16T05:59:00.000-04:00

I think the article speaks for itself. Click on post title to acess article

Interesting site

2008-07-16T05:55:00.000-04:00

http://www.catholicunderground.com/podcast/. I am adding it to my links

Flip flopping like a fish out of water

2008-07-14T22:10:00.002-04:00

Baptism

2008-07-13T11:18:00.006-04:00

A couple of weeks back I posted a blog on the sacraments with the intention of expounding on each individual sacrament on a latter day. Given the deep theological nature of these type of posts I prefer to do them on the few weekends when my schedule is relatively light and can give them their due justice, both mentally as in regards to supporting documentation.

The initial blog on Sacraments can be found here.

Today I will begin with the sacrament of baptism. This is the logical beginning, since without this sacrament a Christian cannot participate in any other sacrament and is indeed concidered outside of the fold of the Christian faith.

Baptism is the first of the three sacraments of initiation. It is the sacrament that makes one a Christian, it cleanses us of original sin. Indeed without baptism one is outside of the spiritual jurisdiction of the church and without it one cannot even be married in a sacramental fashion.

Jesus stated Clearly the need for baptism when he made this very declarative statement to Nicodemus in John 3:4-5 after which he proceeds to Baptize with his disciples in verse 22.

The need for baptism stems from what is known as original sin. Which is the Sin of Adam that is inherited by humans from the moment of conception. (Whether this is just that all men should be subject to the sin of another man is the subject for another post, suffice it to say that people suffer the consequences of others sins constantly as evidenced by the numerous mass graves world wide created at the hands of evil men such as Saddam Hussein and others) The main purpose of baptism is to cleanse us of this original sin and infuse us with the life of Grace that can come only though the Holy Spirit of God. See Acts 2:38-39. God uses the natural element of Water which signifies cleansing to actually cleanse us of original Sin. In the scene of Acts 2 cited 3000+ people accepted Jesus and were baptized. Catholicism knows of no other means of making salvation accessible other than though baptism. This does not mean that non-baptized people cannot be saved. It simply means that those non-baptized that are saved are being saved though means other than the ordinary means instituted by Jesus. Like any King, God is at liberty to circumvent his edicts, the Church as his loyal subject is not.

All Christian faiths practice baptism, though not all have the same view of it. Some have the Catholic notion of it's necessity and salvific effect others see it as merely a symbol and a response of obedience and nothing more with no salvific effect.

One aspect of baptism that is often maligned by non-Catholics is the practice of infant baptism. The common non-Catholic refrain is that Children are not capable of making a decision for Christ thus making the baptism invalid. They will often re-baptize adult Catholics that convert to their churches on the notion that only adults can make that commitment. Traditional Christianity has always practiced infant baptism. The truth is that since no other provision was revealed for Salvation it was seen as imperative that even children be baptized so as to ensure their entrance into glory. Note in the above passage from acts that Peter says "...for the promise is for you and your Children" and it states that all present were baptized, no exceptions were made for adults. Consider the historical context of of early Christianity. Christianity is born of Judaism and carried many Jewish notions and beliefs. Indeed Jesus was a Jew and he founded his Church as a perfection of that old covenant revelation. In Judaism the means of becoming a Jew was though Circumcision and the law dictated that infants should be circumcised on the eighth day of they birth. Note, Jews did not wait until the child reached an age of accountability to be circumcised. to be sure converts to Judaism were circumcised as adults as are adults converts to Catholicism. Paul makes the connection of circumcision to baptism here. In Scripture we see entire Household being baptized (Acts 16:27-33, and 1Cor 1:16).

As can be seen Baptism is the most important of Sacraments, because without no other sacrament is accessible even the most precious Eucharist. Baptism cleanses us of Original sin and start us in the life of Grace. It is is also vital in that no other means of attaining salvation was revealed and thus no other means is known.

Further reading on baptism can be found in the Catechism, and New Advent

Farewell Tony Snow

2008-07-12T17:16:00.005-04:00

This Blog post is not easy for me. I feel the death of Tony Snow almost like that of a Friend. Though I never knew him personally, his personality was such that even from a distant medium such as the Radio he made you feel as though you were having an intelligent conversation with a great man.

I recall him as being my favorite substitute host for Rush Limbaugh, before he went to work for Fox. While I dislike the term compassionate conservatism as the oxymoron that it is, if anyone embodied such a description it was Tony. His duty to country had him leaving a well paying job at Fox to serve the thankless job of White House press secretary. This job for Tony was something like Daniel being thrust in the Lions Den and like Daniel Tony was able to temporarily tame the contentious press and somehow got the message of the presidents policies across to a nation hungry for information about a war not properly reported on by the press. I never heard him being rude with a caller and found his demeanor refreshing and one that I will sorely miss.

Everything he did he did with a smile and with a sense of optimism that was contagious and genuine. He was just a good man and it showed even to those of us that never met him.

I also think he would have a great president. Perhaps his intercession from above will prove as useful as his contribution to the political discourse on this side of eternity.

Rest in peace and know you will be sorely missed.

It's a good thing Iraq had not WMD programs...

2008-07-10T06:20:00.003-04:00

If they did we might have reason for concern at the discovery of yellow cake uranium. We all know that an oil rich country that could produce it's own energy (but didn't given that the country spent most of it's time in the dark while Hussein was in power) had plenty of uses for such uranium other than weapons.

Of course with no WMD programs the 500+ artillery shells found in the dessert were just accidentally left behind by beduin caravans. One of these shells just heppened to be by the roadside at the same time our sodiers were patrolling, see here. The 3000 protective suits found in a hospital were for a costume party I am sure. The parties were to held here

I mean they were fully cooperative with the WMD inspectors and in compliance with all UN Resolutions, weren't they?

Yeb Bush lied. All of the other world intelligence services that came to the same conclusion, did not...

Are Catholics afraid of truth

2008-07-05T23:45:00.003-04:00

Christians in general and Catholics in particular are often accused of being afraid of truth. We are told that we reject science and hold to superstitions. That our beliefs when held to the light of truth fall apart like a snow man in the dessert. The fact is, that nothing could be further from the truth. It is true that in the past men of faith, or claimed the faith seemed opposed to progress and sound science, out of fear that their beliefs would be proven wrong perhaps, or out a sincere desire to save souls. But the folly of this is self evident and not in keeping with historical Christian thinkers. Indeed we owe much to Christianity when it comes to progress in education. The university system was a Catholic invention. Modern genetics was developed by Gregor Mendel a Catholic priest. Nicolas Copernicus developed the modern science that proves the sun is as the center of our solar system, again a Catholic Priest. Galileo did not get in trouble for proposing this but for delving in theology as well as science. So history shows that Christianity has from the beginning embarked in "A relentless, unstoppable pursuit of the truth" to borrow from Rush. Jesus said that "You will know the truth and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32). So to a Christian the truth, all truth, is liberating. It is also true that to a Christian the opposite holds in that to hold to a lie is to be enslaved. This is where the Church and some people in science clash. Not all research is interested in truth. Take stem cell research. Science has shown much progress in stem cell research not derived from an unborn embryo. Yet some insist on pursuing embryonic stem cell research. It is therefore evident that the research is not to seek out truth but to promote the lie and the evils of abortion. This the Church and the rest of Christianity will oppose with every moral weapon we can muster.

Happy Birthday USA

2008-07-04T10:35:00.002-04:00

Today we Celebrate the birth of Our Nation. In all of our celebrations, family gatherings, and fireworks we must not loose sigt of what we are celebrating. We Celebrate the birth of nation founded on a premises never before conceived. The notion that All Men are Created Equal and are endowed by their Creator with the rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.. The founders of our nation set out to protect these God Given rights. They did this first by sacrificing their own lives, the lives of their families and their Fortunes fighting a revolution that they were not supposed to win against what was a the time the mightiest empire in the world. Having done the impossible and won their independence they then set out to create a governing document unique in history. That Document was our constitution. This constitution was unique in that it limited the power of the federal government first by enumerating the first powers it did have then by further dividing that authority into three branches of government thus no one individual could have absolute power.

Today as we see a judiciary encroaching on the legislature and the executive powers, and when we see an ever growing federal government who seems intent on appropriating powers that the founding fathers
never intended it to have. It is incumbent on us the voters to read and remember the words of our founding documents and begin the process of taking our government back. We have elections coming up, and while we are all focusing on the presidential candidates (none of which are rally that inspiring) let us remember that there are also local, state and federal positions on the ballot. Everyone of these races could begin the process of returning out government to it's founding roots.

Here are our founding documents lest we forget;

Constitutions

Declaration of Independnce

Read them, learn them, love them and fight for
them they are worth every bit of our blood and sweat and they are the founding
documents of the the one nation that is in the words of Bill Benet "The last
Best Hope of Man Kind"

This is what the left wants for us.

2008-07-02T20:21:00.003-04:00

Note how north Korea the thuggish dictatorship the left wants us to emulate is dark and South Korea, the prosperous capitalist nation.

See here

Why is it....

2008-07-02T20:14:00.003-04:00

That when privately held oil companies reports a profit (which goes for the most part to running the company and to the share holders, I.E. me as a 401K holder) it is seen as evil and the outcry is heard across the whole left wing spectrum, but the same people are silent when a muderous dictator turns an even bigger profit by scamming the oil for Food program.

Perhaps if the oil companies changed their names to oil for food or had a crecent as their symbol the left would be more sympathetic.

The Faith of an Atheist.

2008-07-02T05:54:00.003-04:00

I have always believed that it takes more faith to hold to Atheism than it does to hold a belief in God. Atheist have to look at the majesty of Creation all around them and believe that is came by a process other than intelligent design. Atheist accuse believers of a faith that cannot be empirically proved, yet there is less proof for the atheist position than there is for the believers position.

Of course while atheist hold as an article of faith that there is not God, they have an ecclesiastic structure. The Have churches in the form of the University system (A catholic invention), the professors being their clergy. Their journals being their Magisterium, their sacraments (in most cases not all atheist are leftists) abortion, Tehir popes are leftists Judges who ignore the constitution and develop Dogma from the Bench, which no leftist Atheists dares contradict. They have no problem excommunicating those that defy their dogmas, ask Joe Lieberman and Zell Miler. Make no mistake the atheist will cling to his faith regardless of any evidence to the contrary, Not much different than the Pharisees of Old who opposed Jesus even when witnessing the miracles he performed in their mist.

Why Obama is more Dangerous to our Security than Carter

2008-06-30T18:12:00.001-04:00

Many political pundits have stated that an Obama Presidency would be a second Carter Term. There are indeed some comparisons in that both seem to think that negotiation is the only way to address global issues. During Carters presidency the Military technological advantage the United States Had over the Soviet Union was almost lost. Carter canceled several defense projects such as the B-1 Lancer bomber program. Instead of defeating the Soviets, Carter sought to appease and negotiate with them. Obama has made it clear that he will take the same approach with our current enemies. The problem is that we live in a much more dangerous world today than in the 1970's. The Soviets were many things, but they were not suicidal. They sought to destroy America but were not willing to be destroyed in the process. So while Carter was pushing for negotiations the United states still had a Nuclear arsenal that could destroy the Soviets and the Soviets knew that. Our current crop of enemies on the other hand are not only willing to die, but see death as desirable when fighting the infidels. So while Obama negotiates with our enemies they are developing Nuclear weapons in the belief that their version of Armageddon will bring forth the twelfth Imam. So while Carter was Naive in dealing with the Soviets, the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction served as a deterrence against overt Soviet Aggression. There is no such deterrent against the current crop of Islamic Terrorist. To elect Obama is to re-elect Carter to negotiate against an enemy that is not interested in negotiating. While the prospect of a McCain presidency is not my Idea of an Ideal presidency, the prospect of an Obama presidency literally frightens me. Even a Hillary Clinton did not frighten me that much, with her at least I could be assured she could to to our enemies what she did to her husband when she found out about the Lewinsky Affair. I understand it was not pretty.

Why I cannot Vote for Obama

2008-06-30T10:04:00.003-04:00

Article, No to put to fine a point on it, and at the risk of beeing called politically incorect (as if I cared) but this is simply evil, right there with Stalin and Hitler.

It's easy to be tolerant when there are no absolutes

2008-06-30T06:40:00.004-04:00

This Column points to a survey dealing with religious tolerance. The fact is that the survey points not to religious tolerance but to religious relativism. Tolerance is recognising and thus protecting the God given rights of individuals. Tolerance does not mean giving another belief systems the same truth status as yours. While all beliefs systems have truth in them, they cannot all be equally true in all aspects. Christians believe Jesus is God and the Messiah promised in the old Testament, Jews reject that and Muslims believe Jesus was merely a prophet and hold Mohammad as higher in the order of prophets. Now only of these can be true. The relativist says that all three are true since what is true for one may not be true to another. The thing is that truth is truth and it remains true regardless of individual belief.

What are the Sacraments

2008-06-29T11:10:00.007-04:00

One of the most misunderstood aspects of Catholic Doctrine , both by non-Catholics as well as by Catholics themselves is the Sacraments. The Sacraments are Central to Catholic theology. Failure to understand them is failure to understand Catholicism. Many of those who reject Catholic teaching on the sacraments often ague against a false understanding of them and are thus working against a straw man, in many cases in good faith wishing to correct what they perceive to be Catholic errors and in some cases by people who should know better. Examples; Here, here, here, and here. This post will (in the feeble words of the author) attempt to explain what the sacraments are and what they are not.

A Sacrament is in a essence a visible, outward sign of a spiritual reality. In essence what the we see taking place with our senses is actualytaking place in the spiritual realm. In baptism for example, Water which represents cleansing, actually cleans the soul of the individual of original sin. The following web sites give similar definitions of the word Sacrament; Here and here.

Humans are unique creatures in all of creation. Creation is comprised (As far as what has been revealed to us) by three distinct living being, the spiritual in the form of Angels, who have spiritual but not corporal natures, and corporal as in the from of animals and plant who have corporal but not spiritual natures, Humans are unique in that they are created with both spiritual and corporal natures. Of these beings the Angelic and the Humans are made to worship God. The Angels worship God within their nature and worship with their whole being which is spiritual. Humans are made worship God with their whole being as well. So how can a human creature who is both flesh and spirit worship God using their whole nature? This is where the Sacraments come in. In the old testament there was no sacramental system, so the Jews worshiped God using symbols such as the Temple, Sacrifice, Images (yes the Jews used Images in their worship, this is for another post) etc. Jesus Came to show us a more perfect form of Worship, first by becoming flesh himself and showing us God though our senses. Jesus usually used matter to perform his miracles. He would for example make mud by spitting on dirt and healing the blind. He would show a visible act of Worship to the Father and raise the dead. The lady with the blood disease showed her faith by touching the garment Jesus wore. Jesus made it a point of going down to the Jordan and being baptized by John. Jesus turned bread into his body and blood and commanded his apostles to forgive and retain sins. So by becoming flesh and leaving a visible church with visible means of showing us God's grace Jesus instituted a Sacramental Church. Indeed as Jesus is seen as a sacrament of the Father by making God visible, the Church is seen as a sacrament of Jesus as it is her mission to make Jesus visible in the form of his body, both in the sacrament and in her body of believers. It must be noted
that all of the Sacraments have supporting passages in scripture. I will deal with each sacrament individually in other posts.

There are seven Sacraments;

Anointing of the Sick

Each sacrament corresponds with a certain aspect or stage in human life. The fact that there are seven is also significant. In scripture the number seven corresponded with the fullness of what is being spoken off. Thus there are seven days in a week and on the fullness of Creation God Rested.

In essence the Sacraments are gift from God that shows us his grace. They are not means of earning salvation (as some non-Catholics say) since they have no use to us unless we have faith, they are simply there for us, to aide us in worshipping with our whole being, to see and feel Gods grace flowing into our lives, keeping us feed in our journey in this life while at the same time showing us glimpses of the next.

This T Shirt about Sums it up..

2008-06-26T21:35:00.002-04:00

Taken From this site. I know it is a little vulgar, but hey it about sums things up.

What Not Global Warming

2008-06-26T21:06:00.004-04:00

So let me see place an exploding volcanoe under the polar ice cap and what do you get. The Ice sheets melt. They still have to throw in the increasing water temperature... Read Article

On the existence of Ghosts.

2008-06-26T20:31:00.004-04:00

I thought I would post on something less political and less apologetic in nature and post on something that I find interesting in a somewhat related field.

Recently I have become fascinated by the Sci-Fi Original Series Called Ghost Hunters. I have always had an interested in Ghosts, but have always found the field troublesome as it is filled with people whose views are decidedly non-Christians. I am interested in the field from the Christian point of view. The reason I find the program interesting, even though the main characters do not bring a Christian world view to the field, it the skeptics approach they bring to their investigations. Unlike the British guys on travel channel these guys (plumbers by trade) enter a situation with a desire to disprove anything paranormal and in many cases do show alternative explanations. When all natural explanations are exhausted then they are willing to acknowledge paranormal activity. Of course when paranormal activity is documented they do not usually offer a Christian explanation or solution. Sometimes they do offer solutions, but not a Christian one, such a bringing in clergy. One of the things that the show serves to establish is that there is something in this world besides the physical world. Which can come as a revelation to those from an atheistic point of view.

My interest in these subject as mentioned is belief that whatever entity is active in these hauntings can only come from one of two sources. Either it is of God (which is in most cases not likely as angels invariably come with a divine mission, there is also the potential of the souls in Purgatory seeking prayer some mistics have written on this) or it is of demonic origin (the more likely explanation in most cases) This is where I think the Ghost Hunters guys may be failing their "clients". Not all demonic activity results in possessions and are as overt as that depicted in the exorcism of Emilly Rose. Many are quite benign in appearance, the purpose of which is to cause confusion and crisis of faith amongst their intended victims. The victims then turn to spiritism and other pagan practice as a source of explanation and are thus drawn further from Jesus. I think these are more dangerous than the actual possessions as those are clear and the solution is also clear. It takes duly appointed Catholic Priest to liberate those poor souls.

The website for the Ghost Hunters group is Here.

There is a more Catholic oriented site that deals with the demonolgy aspect of this.

Voter Guides

2008-06-26T20:23:00.003-04:00

Voter Guide For Serious Christians.

Note that nowhere in this guide is there mandate that seeks to create a government dependent class. Nor is the death penalty a non-negotiable, as the church while frowning on the death penalty still recognaices the right of the State in such matters. It is not the same to kill an innocent child and to kill a convicted Murderer.

There is at least one candidate that I know that will violate several of these non-negotiables.

One More Justice is all we need....

2008-06-26T20:01:00.002-04:00

To keep making good decisions like this, on a consistent basis.

Of the Two candidates one promises to nominate, Justices like Ginsburg, and Stevens the other promises to nominate justices like Thomas and Elito.

Of course the one that promises to nominate such originalist Justices has a maverick streak and we cannot truly know what he will do, but if the other guy wins we do know what he will do. One might give us the majority we need to overturn state sponsored infanticide, with the other there will be no such chance perhaps for a very long time.

Priest Sex Abuse Scandal

2008-06-25T14:43:00.005-04:00

It was terrible and it did highlight problems in church administration. It gave the Media an excuse to go for endless weeks attacking the church and showing how this proves the folly of Priestly celibacy. No mention of Protestant Clergy accused of similar crimes, this of course by married clergy, but to report on this would not advance the notion that sex abuse is the fault of celibacy. Also ignored are the acquittals of Catholic Priests being.

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I found these in ten minutes using Google. I do not have the world wide resources of the media or a Lexus Nexus account.

Please note, I am as angered by the scandal as the next devout Catholic, but I think there should be perspective and this should point to the medias Anti-Catholic Bias.The Fact is that the incidents of Sex Abuse were wildly exaggerated in order to cast aspersions upon the Catholic Church and to discredit her teachings which stand in opposition to the secular Medias
libertine lifestyles and beliefs.

Charity is not a Government Program

2008-06-25T10:50:00.004-04:00

It’s an election year. This means that predictably the secular left candidate will discover Scripture and Jesus and translate the teachings of scripture and Jesus on the treatments of others with charity into a government program. They will say Point to passages such as the Good Samaritan, the Be Attitudes, Do unto others etc. and speak of treating others with charity an immediately point to a government program as the only expression and or application of these teachings to the exclusion of legitimate charities such as Catholic, Charities, Lutheran Social service, The Salvation Army and other charities to do great service, often on shoe string budgets and lots of volunteers and real individual acts of charity. Interesting that when a secular left winger quotes scripture or refers to Jesus the ACLU’s and George Soros of the world do not scream as they do when a right winger does the same, perhaps because they know that the left wing candidate does not mean it.

Catholic Social teaching does allow and even encourage government assistance for the poor, but it also recognizes the obligation of a free people to do service for each other without the need or want of a government program. Catholic social teaching does not really care where the assistance comes from, it does not however promotes one method or the other. Catholic social teaching opposes the extremes of both Socialism as well as Capitalism and believes that society can have an economic systems that incorporates the best aspects of both economic systems. Only politicians seeking to buy votes and to create dependence of government will promote government as the only legitimate form of charity.

Real charity is something one does without coercion. No can be forced to be charitable for, if one is forced it is no longer charity. Charity by definition is voluntary. Politicians who promote charity through government programs are seldom charitable with their own Money as evidenced by their own tax returns. They love to be charitable with other peoples money, which the take in the form of confiscatory taxes. The fact is that it is people of faith that are the most charitable and they give without coercion, often above and beyond what is already taxed. It is also people of faith who often volunteer their time to charitable organizations (this never makes it on a ledger sheet). In time of disasters it is private individuals who often out-gives even our own very giving government

My Brother posted an excellent treatise on the true meaning of Charity on his Blog Assenting Catholic. Read Post here.

So in short do not let politicians fool you. Whenever they bring up Jesus and the bible and speak of charity, grab a hold of your wallet, it’s not as though they are going to open theirs.

Obama Supported by Foreign Leaders,

2008-06-24T05:56:00.004-04:00

Such as Castro, HAMAS, Hugo Chavez, and Mahmoud I'm-a-dirty-Yak, And Now Kim Jung Ill. Still Waiting on Osama Bin Ladens, grainy video tape is probably in route as we speak.

It's nice to know who Americas Friends and well wishers want as our president.

This is what I was talking about on a previous post.

2008-06-22T19:48:00.004-04:00

Based on this Logic (article), Bill Richardson should have been my Candidate.

See my previous post on this subject, here.