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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Rare Genius
At the Catholic Information Center in Washington, DC last night a stone's throw from the White House, a piece of Irish Genius unassumedly came to talk about art. But he wasn't just touting the brilliantly inspired bronze Saint Joseph statue that is just behind him that he created for the Center, he wanted to talk about how art inspires evangelism. Catholic heritage is rich in art and culture because it uses art to inspire and teach and elevate spiritually. In the early days of the church when large populations were illiterate obvioulsy the visual arts expressed biblical stories on walls of churches for educational purposes. But even in the internet age, art has a powerful place in Evangelism. He particularly wanted to talk about how the study of the body enlightens and provides insight into what has been called
"The Theology of the Body"- Art as an Evangelism tool is something perhaps under-appreciated. Originally from Dublin, He started an art school in Florence, Italy . His vision is for there to be a Vatican Academy of Art where talent from every Archdiocese in the world can send gifted people to train and study both theology and art as a reflection of it. White washed tombs full of dead men's bones and Ezekiel's Valley of Dry Bones are given sinews, muscles and the Spirit moves them into personalities in much the same way that the life of the church can be re-invigorated, re-vivified by art's expression in sculpture and painting. He created the statute of Joseph holding the baby Jesus behind him here as a response to the fact that society with its out of control sexual devolution has become in large parts fatherless. Children suffer where there are absent or unavailable fathers. When one goes into the Catholic Information Center chapel, right on 15th street and looks at that statue one is impressed with how important it is to pray for men so they have the strength, ability and vision to become good fathers. That is how one piece of art can mobilize people- Art is powerful. He once saw kids in Rome defacing with spray paint a beautiful statue in Rome and decided to enroll them in his school so they would appreciate their own cultural heritage. He mentors italian kids and teaches them sculpture so they don't become spray painting street ruffians. His vision is that every Archdiocese in the World should send artistically talented kids to Rome to fine tune their craft. Imagine if the spray painting gang kids in LA could get scholarships to study art in Rome. What would that do to elevate culture everywhere? To learn more contact and get to know the folks at the Catholic Information Center. They host the most amazing talks and presentations. You may not agree with everything, but something will inspire you. I don't agree with a rant against Feminism, because Feminism is a pro-life movement when it enables women whose men have failed or left them to live productive lives. But I am deeply inspired by this guys vision to make art study something appreciated far more than it is currently. In an age of MTV Miley Cyrus passing for artistic entertainment isn't it about time we got a grip? I hope that Pope Francis realizes that one way to dignify people in poverty and struggle is to provide art education and that the best and most promising should be sent to a Vatican Academy of Art to develop their craft in the service of the new Evangelism.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Reflections of a Wandering Lawyer
Last night I walked into a church basement in DC- the kind of grim decor-bare cinderblock basement sectioned off into rooms with used scratched wooden furnishings. There were metal bookshelves full of wall to wall paperbacks with a primative indexing and alphabetized system for finding categories and genres and titles. In a makeshift filing cabinet of stacked drawers were supplies like reams and reams of tape, rubber bands and scissors. I met the head of the operation; a middle aged woman in a wheel chair who thrust a small box that looked like a radio under my mouth when i introduced myself. 'Hi, I'm Cynthia" I said. "Can you please repeat that, and excuse my microphone, I am deaf and this magnifies what you say because I'm not that good at reading lips' "Hi, I'm Cynthia." She went on to explain the drill. We get letters from prisoners across the country requesting books. We read them, answer them with our stationary, telling them we either found their book or could suggest another of a similar genre and enclose as many as the prison allows. Some have a 2 book maximum. You have to check the specifications book for what prisons allow. Some require a receipt on our letterhead, i'll explain that later." She went on to detail how the books are wrapped. 'We cut the corner of the prisoner return address off and tape it to the box" I observed a guy fastidiously cutting brown paper Trader Joes grocery bags from a stack in the corner into wrapping squares flipped inside out. "We have to tape all the corners" explaining that the post office just tosses things in trucks and it is necessary therefore to plaster the box of books in tape. She stamps them 'Media Mail." She asks if any of my lawyer friends might like to donate postage. Its their only expense- everything else is donate she explains. In one night a few hundred packages went out across the country. One volunteer explained "I did two and a half years in Texas and I didn't ever get anything. My family was in Korea so i didn't get anything-that's why I do this." Just a little Angel Dust one evening in Washington, DC in a place you might not expect it. It's called Books to Prisons (google it)- anyone incarcerated can request a book and a staff of people half in yoga pants and work out gear will try to find it for them.To send them stamps or books (paperbacks only) please find address HERE http://dcbookstoprisoners.org
Friday, August 09, 2013
Assume This
Cells transmigrate from a Fetus to a Mother
during Pregnancy.
It fortifies immunities of the mother. It exists in the mother for decades and potentially life. Cells then HERE http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633676/
multiply. Read about it
Now imagine the child has some DNA from a father who is God and immortal.
Now imagine the cells of the God-child migrating to the mother. And now imagine them multiplying throughout the life of the mother.
Assume that, and you can believe an Assumption. THE Assumption of the Blessed Mother into heaven who is nowhere buried on earth because she was Assumed into Heaven fully with all her cells.
August 15. THE ASSUMPTION OF HISTORY
during Pregnancy.
It fortifies immunities of the mother. It exists in the mother for decades and potentially life. Cells then HERE http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633676/
Now imagine the child has some DNA from a father who is God and immortal.
Now imagine the cells of the God-child migrating to the mother. And now imagine them multiplying throughout the life of the mother.
Assume that, and you can believe an Assumption. THE Assumption of the Blessed Mother into heaven who is nowhere buried on earth because she was Assumed into Heaven fully with all her cells.
August 15. THE ASSUMPTION OF HISTORY
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
What's Better than a Cuppa?
A cuppa with mint and chocolate. By the MYSTIC MONKS
Those cute monks who make coffee in the mountains of Wyoming now have added a specialty to their collection- MINT CHOCOLATE COFFEE. Real fresh mint, with real chocolate added to their beans.
You can order it HERE-------http://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/store/chocolate-mint-ground-regular-p2231.php
How can I turn that into ice cream:-)
(their ad is off to the right of this blog)
Those cute monks who make coffee in the mountains of Wyoming now have added a specialty to their collection- MINT CHOCOLATE COFFEE. Real fresh mint, with real chocolate added to their beans.
You can order it HERE-------http://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/store/chocolate-mint-ground-regular-p2231.php
How can I turn that into ice cream:-)
(their ad is off to the right of this blog)
Peace
Please
Today John Kerry and Melissa Rogers (Chair of Obama's White House Faith Based Initiative Office) boldly and brilliantly announced a new US State Department initiative in which the Department will consciously engage faith communities of all kinds throughout the world headed by Casey- (hope to learn more about him later).
Drawing upon the rich resources that already exist at State which they hope to magnify the office will consolidate and intensify efforts to meaningfully engage peacemaking communities and those wishing to partnership in global efforts to advance the common good by drawing on the better nature of our angels. Kerry noted that extremists who lack depth in their religious tradition have hijacked the tenets of their faith to promote an impure version of their religion in promoting violence. This office seeks to work with the peace-builders, those who understand the global mission of redeeming not destroying God's creation by engaging civil societies, religious institutions, and leaders globally. Absolutely brilliant.
They also noted that this will all be done quite constitutionally- it doesn't run afoul of any church-state
separation issues. It is an acknowledgment of sorts that elements of religious and/or ideological extremists hijacking religions pose real security threats that must be intelligently dealt if we are responsible in advancing the common good and protecting those that do good.
This is a huge new light of hope as it recognizes that religion is only the problem when it is bastardized and hijacked , not when it is marshalled for the immense good it seeks to do by the incredibly dedicated good people seeking to do good.
Bravo bravissimo all the folks at State who are doing this so nobly, courageously and creatively.
John Kerry, quoting the book of Mark noted that the greatest of all are the servants of all, and he here proves himself quite 'great.'
Today John Kerry and Melissa Rogers (Chair of Obama's White House Faith Based Initiative Office) boldly and brilliantly announced a new US State Department initiative in which the Department will consciously engage faith communities of all kinds throughout the world headed by Casey- (hope to learn more about him later).
Drawing upon the rich resources that already exist at State which they hope to magnify the office will consolidate and intensify efforts to meaningfully engage peacemaking communities and those wishing to partnership in global efforts to advance the common good by drawing on the better nature of our angels. Kerry noted that extremists who lack depth in their religious tradition have hijacked the tenets of their faith to promote an impure version of their religion in promoting violence. This office seeks to work with the peace-builders, those who understand the global mission of redeeming not destroying God's creation by engaging civil societies, religious institutions, and leaders globally. Absolutely brilliant.
They also noted that this will all be done quite constitutionally- it doesn't run afoul of any church-state
separation issues. It is an acknowledgment of sorts that elements of religious and/or ideological extremists hijacking religions pose real security threats that must be intelligently dealt if we are responsible in advancing the common good and protecting those that do good.
This is a huge new light of hope as it recognizes that religion is only the problem when it is bastardized and hijacked , not when it is marshalled for the immense good it seeks to do by the incredibly dedicated good people seeking to do good.
Bravo bravissimo all the folks at State who are doing this so nobly, courageously and creatively.
John Kerry, quoting the book of Mark noted that the greatest of all are the servants of all, and he here proves himself quite 'great.'
Cure
For the Common Corruption.
I keep getting articles by people seeking to change my mind on the mandatory celibacy doctrine of the catholic church. Sorry, mind not changed.
First, lots of these articles, even by priests totally misrepresent and misunderstand church history.
There were predominantly married priests even in the Roman church for the first 1,000 years of the church. This followed the express biblical admonition that a Bishop must be husband of one wife not many polygamously and not none. One wife with his household in order. Direct quote-find it.
Then in the First Lateran Council marriage of priests was officially banned. Prior there were attempts to restrict conjugal relations for those with certain altar duties at certain times but there never was a marriage ban prior. Men rotated so one priest would do these duties once every two weeks because the communities had many more priests proportionate to the numbers in the communities than there are now because the priests came from normal families, had normal families with wives and children. Those doing certain altar duties during times refraining from conjugal relations was no different than the Jewish prohibition on having sex for a week after a woman had her period and only after the cleansing of the Mikveh baths. Jews regulated sexual activity (not just for priests- for everyone). They never outlawed married life or conjugality all together. Regulating it had benefits of making more fruitful when it happened. The baths of Lourdes, one surmises has to do with the blessed mother wishing to give catholics the Mikveh experience for purifying healing cleansing.
The Byzantine, Orthodox, Maronite, Anglican, Episcopalian and early church for the first 1,000 years had and have married priests as a rule not the exception. Some have monks, who do not marry but live in same sex communities, but all had or have married priests. The first three are much closer to the original church in practices and geography.
Many early Popes naturally were married including Saint Peter.
It took about 450 years before the Protestant 'revolution' split the entire Christian world in half and one of the first things they did was abolish the mandatory celibacy rules. Now more than one half of the Christian world has optional married priesthood and the romans the only ones who do not.
There are even in the Roman rite certain head scratching inconsistencies such as the fact that anglican or episcopalian priests with families who wish to be catholics can do so without divorcing their wives. So in fact for converts there is a roman married priesthood.
So you know it has nothing to do with the holiness factor or those men would not be permitted to be roman priests.
When Martin Luther, an Augustinian Monk, very austere, walked bareful from Germany to Rome on pilgrimmage to find Rome a clerical cesspool of pedofila orgyfestivals where little naked boys were jumping out of large cakes he started questioning the mandatory celibacy and the farcical holiness ruse under which clerics were hiding.
Today the church has paid over 2 billion US dollars (and still counting) on deviant sexual scandals victimizing people they were charged to protect and care for.
The mandatory celibacy invites more deviancies because no one has room to sexually or emotionally mature. It has emotionally stunted the priesthood.
Women are half the body of Christ. Women's emotional lives are barely understood by the higher ossified octogenerian priesthood who generally fears and loathes them unless they write large checks. Some of this comes from basic gay mysogeny against women. Some comes from plain ignorance. Some comes from bad imaginary theological interpretations of Mary the Hollogram. Women's emotional well being is completely ignored and even mocked by this mandatory forced celibacy rule where no women genuinely in love with a priest (and visa versa) will ever have any of her needs met that a normal married life provides. She won't have children, she won't have help in any living expenses, she won't be valued in many societies or incorporated in many societies but will be marginalized as crazy, whoreish or both. This is more than insulting, it is evil. It is actually the stated practice to do this to women in order to protect the priesthood and everyone is encouraged to do it. Truly evil.
The motivation for the mandatory celibacy arose from the fact that primogeniture laws and inheritance laws in the western world gave property by law to the oldest male so this rule tandomed an effort to consolidate property rights in the name of the Holy Roman Empire (the Vatican City state did not exist until the 20th century) and subvert nation state's property rights laws. It had its benefits. It is doubtful some of the great gothic cathedrals of western europe could ever have been built if the property rights were not thusly settled.
The mandatory celibacy laws of the Roman church should be changed to allow for married priests. The church would be healthier, financially and emotionally. It wouldn't have to pay off prostitutes, altar boys or confidential settlement in the BILLIONS. Every catholic should be disgusted and outraged at the intellectual dishonesty surrounding this issue. It is time for a real change.
I keep getting articles by people seeking to change my mind on the mandatory celibacy doctrine of the catholic church. Sorry, mind not changed.
First, lots of these articles, even by priests totally misrepresent and misunderstand church history.
There were predominantly married priests even in the Roman church for the first 1,000 years of the church. This followed the express biblical admonition that a Bishop must be husband of one wife not many polygamously and not none. One wife with his household in order. Direct quote-find it.
Then in the First Lateran Council marriage of priests was officially banned. Prior there were attempts to restrict conjugal relations for those with certain altar duties at certain times but there never was a marriage ban prior. Men rotated so one priest would do these duties once every two weeks because the communities had many more priests proportionate to the numbers in the communities than there are now because the priests came from normal families, had normal families with wives and children. Those doing certain altar duties during times refraining from conjugal relations was no different than the Jewish prohibition on having sex for a week after a woman had her period and only after the cleansing of the Mikveh baths. Jews regulated sexual activity (not just for priests- for everyone). They never outlawed married life or conjugality all together. Regulating it had benefits of making more fruitful when it happened. The baths of Lourdes, one surmises has to do with the blessed mother wishing to give catholics the Mikveh experience for purifying healing cleansing.
The Byzantine, Orthodox, Maronite, Anglican, Episcopalian and early church for the first 1,000 years had and have married priests as a rule not the exception. Some have monks, who do not marry but live in same sex communities, but all had or have married priests. The first three are much closer to the original church in practices and geography.
Many early Popes naturally were married including Saint Peter.
It took about 450 years before the Protestant 'revolution' split the entire Christian world in half and one of the first things they did was abolish the mandatory celibacy rules. Now more than one half of the Christian world has optional married priesthood and the romans the only ones who do not.
There are even in the Roman rite certain head scratching inconsistencies such as the fact that anglican or episcopalian priests with families who wish to be catholics can do so without divorcing their wives. So in fact for converts there is a roman married priesthood.
So you know it has nothing to do with the holiness factor or those men would not be permitted to be roman priests.
When Martin Luther, an Augustinian Monk, very austere, walked bareful from Germany to Rome on pilgrimmage to find Rome a clerical cesspool of pedofila orgyfestivals where little naked boys were jumping out of large cakes he started questioning the mandatory celibacy and the farcical holiness ruse under which clerics were hiding.
Today the church has paid over 2 billion US dollars (and still counting) on deviant sexual scandals victimizing people they were charged to protect and care for.
The mandatory celibacy invites more deviancies because no one has room to sexually or emotionally mature. It has emotionally stunted the priesthood.
Women are half the body of Christ. Women's emotional lives are barely understood by the higher ossified octogenerian priesthood who generally fears and loathes them unless they write large checks. Some of this comes from basic gay mysogeny against women. Some comes from plain ignorance. Some comes from bad imaginary theological interpretations of Mary the Hollogram. Women's emotional well being is completely ignored and even mocked by this mandatory forced celibacy rule where no women genuinely in love with a priest (and visa versa) will ever have any of her needs met that a normal married life provides. She won't have children, she won't have help in any living expenses, she won't be valued in many societies or incorporated in many societies but will be marginalized as crazy, whoreish or both. This is more than insulting, it is evil. It is actually the stated practice to do this to women in order to protect the priesthood and everyone is encouraged to do it. Truly evil.
The motivation for the mandatory celibacy arose from the fact that primogeniture laws and inheritance laws in the western world gave property by law to the oldest male so this rule tandomed an effort to consolidate property rights in the name of the Holy Roman Empire (the Vatican City state did not exist until the 20th century) and subvert nation state's property rights laws. It had its benefits. It is doubtful some of the great gothic cathedrals of western europe could ever have been built if the property rights were not thusly settled.
The mandatory celibacy laws of the Roman church should be changed to allow for married priests. The church would be healthier, financially and emotionally. It wouldn't have to pay off prostitutes, altar boys or confidential settlement in the BILLIONS. Every catholic should be disgusted and outraged at the intellectual dishonesty surrounding this issue. It is time for a real change.
Monday, August 05, 2013
La Tierra Del Olvido | Playing For Change
Can we win the War on Drugs with Music? All over Colombia- the sound of music.
Who Am I To Judge
Who Are You To Judge
If you missed it the huge news was that the Pope has said, look, you are not the judge. If the Pope isn't the Judge, implicitly you aren't either.
It was a bit of a gut punch to those self righteous anti-gay marriage people who condemn loudly and viciously people they disagreed with as heretics.
It was also a complete foil to any alleged 'gay lobby' within the vatican because the pope just slipped the rug from out under any alleged gay lobby. If he doesn't think its so aweful being gay then no one can bribe him to be quiet about it. He isn't going to kick you out. Come out, come out wherever you are- God still loves you.
You can't extort someone over a secret if its not a secret any more. "They are our brothers" he said. Sure, we have gays in the clergy. As if anyone didn't know. Who else is more likely to be attracted to a lifestyle in which you are required to live in community with all men?
It was also a bit of a relief to those of us who knew from a legal perspective the arguments forwarded by those fighting gay marriage in various lobbying and court battles was a huge waste of money, not because there wasn't an argument but because the way it was being lodged was moronic, hateful and full of the same old spit and vinegar that the religious right is famous for, directed by the most spitting vinegarish anti-lovely bunch you never want to meet. Everyone should ask for their money back.
It was a huge sigh of relief for those who have gay friends- who were treated with the same level of ignorance by those who called people championing civil rights in ages past as 'N-lovers.' Mere association with gay friends got you slurred and slandered like you 'must be' gay too. Get thee to confession immediately.
DO NOT JUDGE LEST YOU BE JUDGED.
And shall we start on all your sins? Peddling slander and gossip lately? That is one that gets explicit mention of what locks you out of the kingdom of God. It causes a murder of sorts on a soul because it seeks to destroy a reputation and a livelihood. Slander and its twin sister Gossip is the devil in prada- it comes disguised as well meaning nice church ladies who have no other avenue for power than posturing in petty vindictiveness in church circles seeking to advance politically by maligning others and relishing in every attempt to put down someone. Gossip, much? You are a murderer then- out to kill a reputation and a livelihood. There will be gay people in heaven before you ever get there.
DO NOT JUDGE LEST YOU BE JUDGED.
The measure you mete out will be the measure you get. You act haughtily and imperiously and condemingly what do you think Jesus is going to do to you? You want power? You want to be the bmoc-big man on campus? you want to show the world you can control people with acts of cruelty and 'discipline'- guess what Jesus is going to do to you. You want to condemn people by trashing their reputations, trashing their livelihoods, trashing their ability to engage the world meaningfully because of the slander and gossip you peddle as truth- guess what Jesus is going to do to you.
Time to take an accounting of your methods. Now go wash your heart out with soap and water.
DO NOT JUDGE. Man looks on the outward appearance and God looks on the heart.
If you missed it the huge news was that the Pope has said, look, you are not the judge. If the Pope isn't the Judge, implicitly you aren't either.
It was a bit of a gut punch to those self righteous anti-gay marriage people who condemn loudly and viciously people they disagreed with as heretics.
It was also a complete foil to any alleged 'gay lobby' within the vatican because the pope just slipped the rug from out under any alleged gay lobby. If he doesn't think its so aweful being gay then no one can bribe him to be quiet about it. He isn't going to kick you out. Come out, come out wherever you are- God still loves you.
You can't extort someone over a secret if its not a secret any more. "They are our brothers" he said. Sure, we have gays in the clergy. As if anyone didn't know. Who else is more likely to be attracted to a lifestyle in which you are required to live in community with all men?
It was also a bit of a relief to those of us who knew from a legal perspective the arguments forwarded by those fighting gay marriage in various lobbying and court battles was a huge waste of money, not because there wasn't an argument but because the way it was being lodged was moronic, hateful and full of the same old spit and vinegar that the religious right is famous for, directed by the most spitting vinegarish anti-lovely bunch you never want to meet. Everyone should ask for their money back.
It was a huge sigh of relief for those who have gay friends- who were treated with the same level of ignorance by those who called people championing civil rights in ages past as 'N-lovers.' Mere association with gay friends got you slurred and slandered like you 'must be' gay too. Get thee to confession immediately.
DO NOT JUDGE LEST YOU BE JUDGED.
And shall we start on all your sins? Peddling slander and gossip lately? That is one that gets explicit mention of what locks you out of the kingdom of God. It causes a murder of sorts on a soul because it seeks to destroy a reputation and a livelihood. Slander and its twin sister Gossip is the devil in prada- it comes disguised as well meaning nice church ladies who have no other avenue for power than posturing in petty vindictiveness in church circles seeking to advance politically by maligning others and relishing in every attempt to put down someone. Gossip, much? You are a murderer then- out to kill a reputation and a livelihood. There will be gay people in heaven before you ever get there.
DO NOT JUDGE LEST YOU BE JUDGED.
The measure you mete out will be the measure you get. You act haughtily and imperiously and condemingly what do you think Jesus is going to do to you? You want power? You want to be the bmoc-big man on campus? you want to show the world you can control people with acts of cruelty and 'discipline'- guess what Jesus is going to do to you. You want to condemn people by trashing their reputations, trashing their livelihoods, trashing their ability to engage the world meaningfully because of the slander and gossip you peddle as truth- guess what Jesus is going to do to you.
Time to take an accounting of your methods. Now go wash your heart out with soap and water.
DO NOT JUDGE. Man looks on the outward appearance and God looks on the heart.
Friday, August 02, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Weiner's Whining
And Still Does Not Get It.
Weiner's sad press conference was more telling about his disrespect for women than the actual sexting.
He apologized to any women (plural) whom he may have 'embarassed' by sexting them.
He apparently has no conscious awareness of how doing that demeans and insults them- who in the world would invite sexually graphically texts, emails or photos from someone unless they thought they were in a real relationship with them. Whores are the only people who do that. So Weiner basically thinks the women he texted whores, because he has no apparent desire to be separated from his wife and engage these people in anything like an honorable relationship of any kind. Here, look at my junk- don't you just love it- he astoundingly narcisistically farts to the indiscriminate world. Like any young woman wants to see his junk flashed on their phones.
It is about a pathetic lack of respect for women- it is about people who think that they can just get off on insulting people and its not an insult because the package is so desirable (in wierd weiner world).
Weiner is a symbol of more than a guy with a neurotic compulsion to act like a whore- it demonstrates fundamental disrespect for young women who are not interested in adultery and have it foisted upon them by dick waiving morons.
Weiner is not fit to run for Dog-Ass-Wiper. And his Limbaugh trash mouth communication director- don't get me started.
Weiner's sad press conference was more telling about his disrespect for women than the actual sexting.
He apologized to any women (plural) whom he may have 'embarassed' by sexting them.
He apparently has no conscious awareness of how doing that demeans and insults them- who in the world would invite sexually graphically texts, emails or photos from someone unless they thought they were in a real relationship with them. Whores are the only people who do that. So Weiner basically thinks the women he texted whores, because he has no apparent desire to be separated from his wife and engage these people in anything like an honorable relationship of any kind. Here, look at my junk- don't you just love it- he astoundingly narcisistically farts to the indiscriminate world. Like any young woman wants to see his junk flashed on their phones.
It is about a pathetic lack of respect for women- it is about people who think that they can just get off on insulting people and its not an insult because the package is so desirable (in wierd weiner world).
Weiner is a symbol of more than a guy with a neurotic compulsion to act like a whore- it demonstrates fundamental disrespect for young women who are not interested in adultery and have it foisted upon them by dick waiving morons.
Weiner is not fit to run for Dog-Ass-Wiper. And his Limbaugh trash mouth communication director- don't get me started.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
One of the Really Good Guys
Really Really Good Guys
The Jesuits are the heart and soul of pretty much everything. If you don't believe me, pick up the Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything by Father James Martin, SJ.
After the rant below on the historic situation, the new Jesuit pope gives us all hope. I should have exempted them expressly from the rant but it goes without saying. I have yet to meet a crazy, unbalanced or maso Jesuit anywhere in the world.
Another really really really good guy, a Jesuit of course, who served the Holy Trinity community in DC for a few years is Father Greg. He's a --needs no last name-- kinda guy (and its difficult to remember, Schenden) so just call him Father Greg- and quick because he is on his way this week to the Philippines. Answering the Pope's missionary zeal he will be serving the Philippines and Holy Trinity will miss him.
I am excited because he is going to be writing a blog of his journey which will be I am sure very inspirational and I will link it here eventually. http://aschooloftheheart.blogspot.com (he is using blogspot like me- very user friendly :-)
click:
Fr. Greg's Blog.
I will miss his extreme and undeserved kindness and enthusiasm very much. Lets all pray for him, and he promises to pray for us. (also, we promise to keep Flannery the golden shepherd-er, Retreiver, freudian slip) well fed and happy for as long as we are in this hood :-)
He will be taking final vows after a lifetime of Jesuit training and wants his mother from Detroit to come visit Manilla for the event, so contributions toward that can be sent in care of Holy Trinity, DC.
The Jesuits are the heart and soul of pretty much everything. If you don't believe me, pick up the Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything by Father James Martin, SJ.
After the rant below on the historic situation, the new Jesuit pope gives us all hope. I should have exempted them expressly from the rant but it goes without saying. I have yet to meet a crazy, unbalanced or maso Jesuit anywhere in the world.
Another really really really good guy, a Jesuit of course, who served the Holy Trinity community in DC for a few years is Father Greg. He's a --needs no last name-- kinda guy (and its difficult to remember, Schenden) so just call him Father Greg- and quick because he is on his way this week to the Philippines. Answering the Pope's missionary zeal he will be serving the Philippines and Holy Trinity will miss him.
I am excited because he is going to be writing a blog of his journey which will be I am sure very inspirational and I will link it here eventually. http://aschooloftheheart.blogspot.com (he is using blogspot like me- very user friendly :-)
click:
Fr. Greg's Blog.
I will miss his extreme and undeserved kindness and enthusiasm very much. Lets all pray for him, and he promises to pray for us. (also, we promise to keep Flannery the golden shepherd-er, Retreiver, freudian slip) well fed and happy for as long as we are in this hood :-)
He will be taking final vows after a lifetime of Jesuit training and wants his mother from Detroit to come visit Manilla for the event, so contributions toward that can be sent in care of Holy Trinity, DC.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Pope Francis on Women
Without women, noted Pope Francis
“the Church risks becoming sterile”
(in a celibate priesthood what was his first clue?)
Friday, July 26, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Best Campaign Slogan
WANKER - WEINER FOR MAYOR of PLAYBOY MANSION JACUZZI
er, uh, I mean of New York City (KIDDING ME!!!!) Again with that wanker?
Nancy Pelosi's reaction to the mess:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/nancy-pelosi-condemns-weiner-as-reprehensible-disrespectful-and-maybe-clueless/
er, uh, I mean of New York City (KIDDING ME!!!!) Again with that wanker?
Nancy Pelosi's reaction to the mess:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/nancy-pelosi-condemns-weiner-as-reprehensible-disrespectful-and-maybe-clueless/
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Big Congratulations to the Royal Baby Boy
And if it were a girl she would still be 3rd in line for the Crown of all the Kingdom.
But not so if we were talking about the House of Lords and the general landowning gentry Peerage.
Its still Downtown Abbeyville for those folks- and Christianne Amanpour takes a hard look at the intrinsically sexist system everyone has been avoiding forever. Girls do not inherit the Castle and Farm- only boys can in England. Girls, explains a proper actual Lady are 'lesser' by law. AND THAT MUST CHANGE. It is more than anachronistic- it is abominable.
But not so if we were talking about the House of Lords and the general landowning gentry Peerage.
Its still Downtown Abbeyville for those folks- and Christianne Amanpour takes a hard look at the intrinsically sexist system everyone has been avoiding forever. Girls do not inherit the Castle and Farm- only boys can in England. Girls, explains a proper actual Lady are 'lesser' by law. AND THAT MUST CHANGE. It is more than anachronistic- it is abominable.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Saturday, July 13, 2013
God Bless
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Daily Show: Moment of Zen - Prince Charles Marries Camilla Parker Bowles
Daily Show: Moment of Zen - Prince Charles Marries Camilla Parker Bowles: Footage of Prince Charles' wedding.
Daily Show: Bride of Chucky
Daily Show: Bride of Chucky: Prince Charles marries long time mistress Camilla Parker Bowles.
Saturday, July 06, 2013
On Creative Destruction
"We should not be afraid to let the flimsy church structures that imprison us to fall down"
POPE FRANCIS on Holy Spirit Renewal.
Thursday, July 04, 2013
We Have No King
BUT GOD ALONE
"APPEALING TO THE SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD FOR THE RECTITUDE OF OUR INTENTIONS"
"APPEALING TO THE SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD FOR THE RECTITUDE OF OUR INTENTIONS"
Why we are Here Today
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
God Bless America
There is one more
big reason today why I am proud to be American and that we fought and beat the British off our soul- Camilla Parker Bowles. No one here will ever ever have to bow to someone who slept with an engaged man, then a man who married someone else, continued to sleep with him to destroy his marriage and his first wife. No one will have to obey a person holding any title here for life except someone Supremely educated sitting on the Supreme Court or Federal Bench. No one will have to kiss their arse or ring, or pretend the emperor has no clothes because we don't have emperors -just elected officials who serve terms and are out. No one has to pay taxes or rents to such a woman because a man ultimately married his whore. No one has to watch it if they don't wish to. Certainly no one has to respect it in the slightest. This is America.
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Pope Francis
"We find Jesus’ wounds in carrying out works of mercy, giving to our body – the body – the soul too, but – I stress - the body of your wounded brother, because he is hungry, because he is thirsty, because he is naked because it is humiliated, because he is a slave, because he's in jail because he is in the hospital. Those are the wounds of Jesus today. And Jesus asks us to take a leap of faith, towards Him, but through these His wounds. 'Oh, great! Let's set up a foundation to help everyone and do so many good things to help '. That's important, but if we remain on this level, we will only be philanthropic. We need to touch the wounds of Jesus, we must caress the wounds of Jesus, we need to bind the wounds of Jesus with tenderness, we have to kiss the wounds of Jesus, and this literally. Just think of what happened to St. Francis, when he embraced the leper? The same thing that happened to Thomas: his life changed. "
POPE FRANCIS
Text from page http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/07/03/pope_at_mass:_we_encounter_the_living_god_through_his_wounds/en1-707069
of the Vatican Radio website
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
All Joking Aside
Global Warming-Putting all the Pieces together.
Global Warming is now getting attention of the State Department with appointment of a new Special Envoy who is reaching out for your brilliant ideas.
If Carbon in the air is what is creating the atmospheric changes when we solve the problem by cutting back on carbon release into the atmosphere and we prevent the destruction of trees that store carbon to create oxygen. Apparently more carbon is emitted from the killed trees in the rainforest deforestation slashing/burning trees than in transport industries. Remember from your sixth grade science class that plants eat C02 to create oxygen. The C02 is causing then global warming climate change that the President had to address in his speech (see entry below). That in turn causes massive floodings (a la Lourdes), heatwaves, droughts, and other extreme freaky weather.
We have to both cut back on emission of Carbon into the Atmosphere as well as save the trees. This isn't earthy tree huggy nonsense from people with too much time on their hands and too little hardship to understand the economies needs. What environmentalists know is that the budget for addressing climate disasters is enormously taxing - the costs in ignoring it will bankrupt us. Think Sandy times ten in twenty years in five cities. Think more of Manhattan and New Jersey underwater for longer periods of time. Think droughts that drive food prices up. Its too expensive to ignore. Its not fluffy science any more. Its get real time folks.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
DOMA DOWN
the Defense of Marriage Act has been voided as an unconstitutional Fifth Amendment equal protection violation.
On July 1 the Catholic Info Center in DC just blocks from the White House has a panel that will break it down for you.
For the liberal wing to side with State's rights in a federalist inspired opinion is a different twist but not unsurprising for a group that wanted to reach a specific conclusion. It is an opinion that says essentially the federal government has to go with what the states say is a marriage and can't give a federal blanket rule for it- even when it comes to definition for purposes of federal rights like federal taxation. That is an odd statement.
The opinion was predictably 5-4. The Judges who spent most of their lives in states with large gay populations that are married with children formed the liberal majority and the guys who go to church the dissenters. One of the guys who goes to church is the father of a priest.
There is no moral statement about whether gay marriage is moral anywhere- there is no applauding the great gays who adopt. There is a straightforward statement that if the states make a decision historically reserved for the states to enact then the federal government for all its rulemaking purposes has to accept it. Its a reverse pre-emption argument.
So if Utah decided polygamy was legal, the entire country now has to accept Utah's decision and give
joint tax breaks to one guy and five different women if Utah says so?? This is actually the reverse of what allowed the civil rights movement to take hold- the Southern states were the bad actors and the feds could send in the Marshalls.
It is a question of federal power. And the feds just lost some.
Kennedy, originally from the great State of Californicate, where multiple marriages are more the rule and San Francisco hosts the largest gay population in the country, wrote the opinion keeping in mind the children of gay couples who want equal legitimacy to kids of opposite sex parents. Hopefully more kids will get adopted now- that could be one unintended fall out in a fallen world.
On July 1 the Catholic Info Center in DC just blocks from the White House has a panel that will break it down for you.
For the liberal wing to side with State's rights in a federalist inspired opinion is a different twist but not unsurprising for a group that wanted to reach a specific conclusion. It is an opinion that says essentially the federal government has to go with what the states say is a marriage and can't give a federal blanket rule for it- even when it comes to definition for purposes of federal rights like federal taxation. That is an odd statement.
The opinion was predictably 5-4. The Judges who spent most of their lives in states with large gay populations that are married with children formed the liberal majority and the guys who go to church the dissenters. One of the guys who goes to church is the father of a priest.
There is no moral statement about whether gay marriage is moral anywhere- there is no applauding the great gays who adopt. There is a straightforward statement that if the states make a decision historically reserved for the states to enact then the federal government for all its rulemaking purposes has to accept it. Its a reverse pre-emption argument.
So if Utah decided polygamy was legal, the entire country now has to accept Utah's decision and give
joint tax breaks to one guy and five different women if Utah says so?? This is actually the reverse of what allowed the civil rights movement to take hold- the Southern states were the bad actors and the feds could send in the Marshalls.
It is a question of federal power. And the feds just lost some.
Kennedy, originally from the great State of Californicate, where multiple marriages are more the rule and San Francisco hosts the largest gay population in the country, wrote the opinion keeping in mind the children of gay couples who want equal legitimacy to kids of opposite sex parents. Hopefully more kids will get adopted now- that could be one unintended fall out in a fallen world.
Historic
ONE thing we can all agree on: The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it. - And we are tasked with being responsible caretakers of it.
Obama's speech yesterday at Georgetown on the Climate Change initiative was hailed by Al Gore, unofficial Green Czar, as being one of THE best Presidential addresses in history.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/obama-climate-change-speech_b_3498596.html. You can find it on c-span.
Record heat-waves, fires, droughts and devastating record flooding -extreme weather of all kinds- are in large part a result of our carbon dumping in the sky. The biggest culprits are those coal smokestacks spewing tons of waste into the sky which do not magically disappear but affect the atmosphere in undeniable ways. Immediately after the speech the Heritage Institute sent out emails and facebook posts urging people not to threaten the $1,000 a month that coal families earn with stricter environmental regulations on coal plants. Special interests kick back. That missed the point of the speech as Obama urged that conversion technologies are even more economically potentially profitable. Jobs will and should be created in R&D, installation tech, growing, sourcing and applying green technological innovation, and marketing it. He is open to any and all great ideas from any and everybody. Put your thinking caps on.
Do you realize that only one generation ago we did not have personal computers or cell phones?
What if someone screamed then don't innovate into cellular technologies, the guys who make the curly phone wall cords and plastic surrounding it will lose money! We really put those abacus makers out of business didn't we. And what if we let the makers of clunky typewriters stop R&D on laptops??
We have to be careful about natural gas because fracking has its own hazards. No one wants to drink water on fire. But alternate fuels are just starting to get our full attention.
The speech was great and historic. Its the first time a President has put the pieces together in a public speech and challenged the next generation to step up to the plate on the climate change challenge.
Record heat-waves, fires, droughts and devastating record flooding -extreme weather of all kinds- are in large part a result of our carbon dumping in the sky. The biggest culprits are those coal smokestacks spewing tons of waste into the sky which do not magically disappear but affect the atmosphere in undeniable ways. Immediately after the speech the Heritage Institute sent out emails and facebook posts urging people not to threaten the $1,000 a month that coal families earn with stricter environmental regulations on coal plants. Special interests kick back. That missed the point of the speech as Obama urged that conversion technologies are even more economically potentially profitable. Jobs will and should be created in R&D, installation tech, growing, sourcing and applying green technological innovation, and marketing it. He is open to any and all great ideas from any and everybody. Put your thinking caps on.
Do you realize that only one generation ago we did not have personal computers or cell phones?
What if someone screamed then don't innovate into cellular technologies, the guys who make the curly phone wall cords and plastic surrounding it will lose money! We really put those abacus makers out of business didn't we. And what if we let the makers of clunky typewriters stop R&D on laptops??
We have to be careful about natural gas because fracking has its own hazards. No one wants to drink water on fire. But alternate fuels are just starting to get our full attention.
The speech was great and historic. Its the first time a President has put the pieces together in a public speech and challenged the next generation to step up to the plate on the climate change challenge.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Help
The Pyranese needs your support-
Here is a link
to a video (showable in some countries)- and an article on some of the devastation in the Haute-Pyranese region by the flooding. Lourdes is a town larger than the Sanctuaries and it will take quite a lot of support to get the whole thing back on its feet.
http://www.leparisien.fr/environnement/video-intemperies-bareges-un-village-devaste-par-les-eaux-21-06-2013-2917433.php
http://www.leparisien.fr/environnement/video-intemperies-bareges-un-village-devaste-par-les-eaux-21-06-2013-2917433.php
Here is a link
to a video (showable in some countries)- and an article on some of the devastation in the Haute-Pyranese region by the flooding. Lourdes is a town larger than the Sanctuaries and it will take quite a lot of support to get the whole thing back on its feet.
http://www.leparisien.fr/environnement/video-intemperies-bareges-un-village-devaste-par-les-eaux-21-06-2013-2917433.php
http://www.leparisien.fr/environnement/video-intemperies-bareges-un-village-devaste-par-les-eaux-21-06-2013-2917433.php
Friday, June 21, 2013
Lourdes is Open for Business
This is the Bishop of Lourdes-Tarbes, Brouwet. It is the year of faith. He has lots of it!
Thursday, June 20, 2013
When Jesus Broke the Rules
And When He Didn't.
Jesus royally ticked a lot of people off- he broke the rules in a couple cases where it was thought sacrosanct territory. I can think of two without even researching far. The disciples were on a long trek with him going from village to village, and they got hungry-they started picking off the grains of wheat and eating them-why not, its just bread without the water, and yeast not cooked. The problem is that it was the Sabbath and it is against the rules to do any work on the Sabbath-they violated the rules- they collected and ate what they harvested. Jesus said, haven't you heard about the time when King David was on the run and so starving he ate what was in the Sanctuary for the priests? Sabbath was made for man not visa versa. The Sabbath is to regenerate by rest. If you can regenerate or revive immediately on the Sabbath of course you do that. Someone comes into an emergency room on the Sabbath you don't tell him to wait a day or two to take out the knife in his head.
Another time a man with a withered hand approached begging him to heal him. The Pharisees advised him that it was not permitted to heal on the Sabbath. In their faces he told the man to come near him and he instantaneously cured him. The Pharisees were furious. He did the same thing to the blind man whom he cured by rolling up some mud with his own spittle and putting it on his eyes and he was cured of blindness. Jesus said- look, if your ox or beast of burden fell in a ditch on the Sabbath are you allowed to pull him out? Of course everyone agrees you shouldn't let him just die there because it is the Sabbath, you should rescue him. And how much more important then is a human's life or health? So the rules were determined in some cases to defeat the purposes for which they were intended and in that case, they have to be broken.
So why isn't gay marriage and anal/oral sex till you die like that? Shouldn't we all just be really compassionate toward anyone's sexual practice, -its none of our business, we should just bless whatever they want to do with their bodies? No, that is not compassion. Because first, Jesus says if you love me follow MY commandments because they are not burdensome, they are light. Do not be deceived, says Paul in Corinthians 6:9 (...) men having sex with men, homosexuals ....will not enter the Kingdom of God.
The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Sexual purity is something serious. Nowhere does Jesus say - see that bunch of gay guys groping each other like a bunch of drunk Romans over there? That's OK too because the Sabbath was made for anal copulation. No-its an absurd result-
We are to hate evil, hate sin and love what is good. Every argument for gay marriage circularly reasons that it is good and should be recognized as such. But that is not what it says in Scripture. In Scripture the twin towns of Sodom and Gommorrah full of homosexual lust was leveled and thousands of people died under an ashpile of hailing sulpher (hence, the name Fire and Brimstone given to sermons that remind us of this historic episode). The wife of Lot, a nephew of Abraham was turned into a pillar of salt for even debasing herself by looking back on it when told not to. To this day nothing grows there-God cursed the land itself he was so disgusted.
Jesus has some pretty clear rules of things he does not think are OK. Corrupt money-changers at the Temple Courtyard, for example.
There is never one account of any disciple or apostle being given a blessing for a blessed union of body anywhere in the New Testament- and with 12 guys traveling around together you would think it would get a mention if such a thing were blessed. No, Jesus calls them his brothers. Whoever does my Will is my brother or sister- like those apostles. Not his married homosexual lover friends.
Even given the trajectory of Jesus' compassion, there is no spiritual or scriptural justification for putting any sort of legal blessing on a homosexual union. It is a sign of the later days we are told. It is sign of the general debasement of humanity encroaching on us and demanding respect like the demons following Jesus and the apostles yelling louder and louder for attention because really, they are trying to trip him up. There is no requirement to make equal things that are not. Good is not equal to evil, there is no Constitutional right to be bad. The assumptions required to find homosexual sex 'good' in any fashion, as a matter of psychology or science are not valid or real. It is a psychological fiction demanding to be treated as good.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Truth to Power
During the days of what some call the 'early church' (others call it the Jewish rebel sect called The Way getting out of hand), there arose a legal debate and discussion about whether gentiles who wished to be included with the Messianic Jews following Jesus of Nazareth had to learn and adopt all the 613 plus Jewish laws to be included in the tent of worship meeting as it were. Those gentiles who responded to and accepted Jesus' teachings wanted to join the Jewish Apostles and disciples, and those Jews had the right to set the rules- who are we going to let in. Are we going to let in just everyone or do they have to learn all our laws and keep all of them. There were a lot of rules. In scientific hindsight they all make sense practically from a health and survival perspective-kosher kept people from dying from shellfish allergies, etc.. but were they all mandatory to be included as a follower of Jesus? After a discussion between Paul and Peter (the first Pope) it was decided that gentiles did not have to follow all the levitical laws, or even be circumcized (likely a painful procedure for an adult.) Paul was a Pharisee- which is like a lawyer-theologian. He was well versed in all the laws. It was decided there were three non-negotiable laws that the new converts MUST follow -levitical laws ,that had to be kept. 1. the Jewish laws against eating meat sacrificed to idols. The pagans offered animal sacrifices to foreign gods and it was a form of idolotry to eat those sacrifices. 2. Do not eat blood. It is a levitical prohibition. and 3 Keep the Jewish marriage law---no 'unlawful marriage.' Anything not lawful marriage was sexual immorality- whether it was sex with cult pagan temple prostitutes of either gender, same gender homosexuality-rampant in greek culture particularly, or any form of sexual activity outside lawful Jewish marriage which was legally regulated. It entailed a ceremony and a legal binding contract of marriage which detailed obligation regarding child support and what would happen in event of divorce. Those are the three Non-Negotiables to be called a Christian. The culture of the time was one in which adultery was a stoneable offense-they stoned adulterers to death. That is what the woman running to Jesus from the men seeking to stone her was guilty of- (he who is without sin may cast the first stone)- Jesus did away with capital punishment for a repentant adulteress (go and sin no more- a second offense might have been less merciful.) But Jesus did not do away with the Jewish marriage laws.
There are three non-negotiables of the faith to be considered a christian according to what the first council of Peter and Paul determined that allowed the faith to spread into the gentile world: 1. do not eat meat sacrificed to idols, 2. do not eat blood, 3 no unlawful marriage. Keep the Jewish marriage laws.
All the laws and all the prophets are summed up in the supercommandment "Love your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself." And Jesus did not come to do away with the laws but to fulfill them. So all these three must be kept as non-negotiable to the precept to the fundamental one- You shall Love the Lord Your God with all your Heart, Mind, Soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The CREDIBILITY GAP
HOW GAY ARE YOU?
Recently revelations of suspicions of a blackmailing 'gay lobby' in the Vatican have been officially
confirmed and acknowledged by the Pope. There is an admitted 'gay lobby' in the Vatican. Who are they, inquiring minds want to know. Wouldn't you want to know if your Bishop was banging your husband?
Do they just bang the big bucks donors or just the sexiest ones? or just each other?
In any event, it should tell you that they have ZERO authority to tell women they cannot try to save their marriages by accommodating their married sex lives by taking contraception so as not to burden
their husband with expenses they cannot afford driving him instead to the world of Gay Clerics.
Perhaps the gay clerics prefer that form of getting off, but women might prefer to keep their families in tact.
Do you not see how it is beyond twisted to be suing HHS over contraception mandates while gay clerics are committing adultery banging husbands?
Seriously. Enough to turn you completely bulemic.
Recently revelations of suspicions of a blackmailing 'gay lobby' in the Vatican have been officially
confirmed and acknowledged by the Pope. There is an admitted 'gay lobby' in the Vatican. Who are they, inquiring minds want to know. Wouldn't you want to know if your Bishop was banging your husband?
Do they just bang the big bucks donors or just the sexiest ones? or just each other?
In any event, it should tell you that they have ZERO authority to tell women they cannot try to save their marriages by accommodating their married sex lives by taking contraception so as not to burden
their husband with expenses they cannot afford driving him instead to the world of Gay Clerics.
Perhaps the gay clerics prefer that form of getting off, but women might prefer to keep their families in tact.
Do you not see how it is beyond twisted to be suing HHS over contraception mandates while gay clerics are committing adultery banging husbands?
Seriously. Enough to turn you completely bulemic.
Best Quote
From Stephen Colbert:
"Dan Savage] says that monogamy is outdated. You know what never goes out of style? Hell."
"Dan Savage] says that monogamy is outdated. You know what never goes out of style? Hell."
Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Saturday, June 08, 2013
Friday, June 07, 2013
Green Dreams
In a townhouse in Dupont Circle a remarkable thing happens every first friday- it turns into a Galleria where the spanish-latin Neo-Impressionist painter Rafael Gallardo has his work hung. Its a brilliant bursting colorful energetic display with trees laced in real gold leaf that stand larger than the windows. This does not do it justice- but here are some of my favorites. He splits his time between Barcelona and Washington, DC. His gracious gallery host Barbara loves showing people his newer work excitedly.
For a private showing contact Barbara at 202-255-2893. www.qstreetfineart.com . www.gallardo.net
rafael@gallardo.net
For a private showing contact Barbara at 202-255-2893. www.qstreetfineart.com . www.gallardo.net
rafael@gallardo.net
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Monday, June 03, 2013
The Missing Link
The Love Gap
Speaking the Truth in Love.
Washington is a polarized place. It can be vicious, vindictive, it creates enemies and adversaries- because that's how people think the political game is won. Acrimony, Sanctimony, Aspersions of Moral Inferiority, name calling (Faux Catholics, Catholic lite, Cafeteria Catholics, Babykillers, etc.), bannings, exclusions, ostracizations, nasty emails, and slander pervade the political climate.
This is obviously the opposite of how Jesus persuaded people. He first did miracles, he healed, he fed, he was the life of the party turning water to wine, he hung out with the derelicts (john the baptist you thought a locust- eating freak and Jesus you call a glutton and sinner because he hangs out with prostitutes and tax collectors)--
Take the whole gay marriage issue. Arrogance doesn't win arguments. Calling people moral reprobates doesn't win arguments.
Jesus , John tells us is God and God is Love. Where there is Love there is God.
So what would Jesus do. He would first explain that he loves you- he created you and is proud of his creation. When God created everything he sat back, looked at it and said "Wow that's good!" Really proud. Mankind is especially awesome because we are all mini-self portraits of God. Like God sat in front of a mirror and made Mini-mis in all shades and colors. Wow, that's Good. I Love YOU he said.
He made them male and female, and that's all good. He made them with parts specifically for going together so that man and woman leave their parents and 'cleave' to each other in Love making ONE flesh together. When that happens God's creative power is most greatly manifest because that makes another human in the image of God, thanks to God. Wow, that's Good! Really Good!
The people who want Gay marriage are not crazy, and most of them are well intended kind people-
It does not advance the argument to remotely malign them. They are not scared of your fire and brimstone and we are turning into Sodom on the Potomac. They want to raise nice kids just like you do.
What might be missing is the communication of Love-because it is badly reflected in the condemnors. God is Love, so when he says don't do something it is because he Loves you. If you understand how much God really loves you it is easy to understand why he says don't do certain things to yourself. Why
might you not want to couple yourself with the same sex in sexual expressions with the same gender?
God made you, and wrote the operating manual and says don't do it. Why is it a good idea to follow the operating manual? Someone who reads them , like an engineer could tell you, and other people who just buy the car follow it because they trust the maker of the model. God knows that women's Vs have a protective mucas lining that mouths do not have, for example. So it is much easier to get oral cancer from oral sex than it is to get cervical cancer. google Michael Douglas, oral sex, cancer and you will see what I am talking about. Also, an anus does not have this special mucas lining and is not as elastic as a V- so repeated anal sex can cause tears and fissures that over time will leak fecal matter into your body cavity which can pose life threatening infections. There is an intrinsic health risk. Just ask anyone who has been in a gay relationship long enough experimenting with where they can put a penis and ask them how much medication they are on.
When God says- you have choices in Life he gives you free will. They are big choices. Life and Death ones. Because the wages, or income, or paycheck for doing something contrary to the operating manual is death. You go to a job you do a job (say a BJ) and God says, here is your pay-would you like it direct deposit? - you die. There is a medical reason and a spiritual one- and they are in the fine print in the owners manual.
Do you want to follow the owners operating manual? Choose therefore LIFE. For yourself and those you love. Do you want to make it illegal to follow the owners operating manual? If I poured orange juice down a car engine what do you think would happen to it over time?
If this policy making business were not about funding for lobbyists who will scream nasty things from arrogant positions of moral superiority, but were trying to Love people better, more constructive things would be accomplished. We are all sinner schmucks in God's eyes. No Republican is better than any Democrat in God's eyes- we all need him and Jesus' atoning sacrifice for our salvation- every last one of us, every last Cardinal and Bishop and Monsignor and Supreme Court Justice.
Can we all choose life together? Because we understand how much God loves all of us, from Obama to Pelosi, from Scalia to Roberts to Breyer to Kagan and everyone in between?
Speaking the Truth in Love.
Washington is a polarized place. It can be vicious, vindictive, it creates enemies and adversaries- because that's how people think the political game is won. Acrimony, Sanctimony, Aspersions of Moral Inferiority, name calling (Faux Catholics, Catholic lite, Cafeteria Catholics, Babykillers, etc.), bannings, exclusions, ostracizations, nasty emails, and slander pervade the political climate.
This is obviously the opposite of how Jesus persuaded people. He first did miracles, he healed, he fed, he was the life of the party turning water to wine, he hung out with the derelicts (john the baptist you thought a locust- eating freak and Jesus you call a glutton and sinner because he hangs out with prostitutes and tax collectors)--
Take the whole gay marriage issue. Arrogance doesn't win arguments. Calling people moral reprobates doesn't win arguments.
Jesus , John tells us is God and God is Love. Where there is Love there is God.
So what would Jesus do. He would first explain that he loves you- he created you and is proud of his creation. When God created everything he sat back, looked at it and said "Wow that's good!" Really proud. Mankind is especially awesome because we are all mini-self portraits of God. Like God sat in front of a mirror and made Mini-mis in all shades and colors. Wow, that's Good. I Love YOU he said.
He made them male and female, and that's all good. He made them with parts specifically for going together so that man and woman leave their parents and 'cleave' to each other in Love making ONE flesh together. When that happens God's creative power is most greatly manifest because that makes another human in the image of God, thanks to God. Wow, that's Good! Really Good!
The people who want Gay marriage are not crazy, and most of them are well intended kind people-
It does not advance the argument to remotely malign them. They are not scared of your fire and brimstone and we are turning into Sodom on the Potomac. They want to raise nice kids just like you do.
What might be missing is the communication of Love-because it is badly reflected in the condemnors. God is Love, so when he says don't do something it is because he Loves you. If you understand how much God really loves you it is easy to understand why he says don't do certain things to yourself. Why
might you not want to couple yourself with the same sex in sexual expressions with the same gender?
God made you, and wrote the operating manual and says don't do it. Why is it a good idea to follow the operating manual? Someone who reads them , like an engineer could tell you, and other people who just buy the car follow it because they trust the maker of the model. God knows that women's Vs have a protective mucas lining that mouths do not have, for example. So it is much easier to get oral cancer from oral sex than it is to get cervical cancer. google Michael Douglas, oral sex, cancer and you will see what I am talking about. Also, an anus does not have this special mucas lining and is not as elastic as a V- so repeated anal sex can cause tears and fissures that over time will leak fecal matter into your body cavity which can pose life threatening infections. There is an intrinsic health risk. Just ask anyone who has been in a gay relationship long enough experimenting with where they can put a penis and ask them how much medication they are on.
When God says- you have choices in Life he gives you free will. They are big choices. Life and Death ones. Because the wages, or income, or paycheck for doing something contrary to the operating manual is death. You go to a job you do a job (say a BJ) and God says, here is your pay-would you like it direct deposit? - you die. There is a medical reason and a spiritual one- and they are in the fine print in the owners manual.
Do you want to follow the owners operating manual? Choose therefore LIFE. For yourself and those you love. Do you want to make it illegal to follow the owners operating manual? If I poured orange juice down a car engine what do you think would happen to it over time?
If this policy making business were not about funding for lobbyists who will scream nasty things from arrogant positions of moral superiority, but were trying to Love people better, more constructive things would be accomplished. We are all sinner schmucks in God's eyes. No Republican is better than any Democrat in God's eyes- we all need him and Jesus' atoning sacrifice for our salvation- every last one of us, every last Cardinal and Bishop and Monsignor and Supreme Court Justice.
Can we all choose life together? Because we understand how much God loves all of us, from Obama to Pelosi, from Scalia to Roberts to Breyer to Kagan and everyone in between?
On the other side of town
The Glove.
Padre Pio they say could tell you what was on your chest before you spoke it. He could 'read hearts.'
He is a highly venerated Saint who, like the founder of his order bore the Stigmata- the wounds of Christ.
Here is his glove-with dried crusty blood, on display at a small shrine in the church of Saint John the Baptist in NYC.
Padre Pio they say could tell you what was on your chest before you spoke it. He could 'read hearts.'
He is a highly venerated Saint who, like the founder of his order bore the Stigmata- the wounds of Christ.
Here is his glove-with dried crusty blood, on display at a small shrine in the church of Saint John the Baptist in NYC.
Yes, Just a pretty face
How not to be duped by an overpaid actress posing as a medical spokesperson
http://www.nature.com/news/huge-cancer-study-uncovers-74-genetic-risk-factors-1.12675
The media is getting reckless and irresponsible again. This time with the glorification of a total moron freak show of someone who bought into the myth that there is a cancer proclivity gene so before there is any trace of sickness or disease much less cancer you should lob off both your breasts and cut out your uterus.
Then go on hormone treatments for the rest of your life and get cancer from that.
Now it is being reported that Angelina is so brave because she did actually have cancer and is a cancer survivor- all hail angelina. This too is crappola- she never had any disease, no trace of cancer, no pre-cancerous cells, nothing. Just insane fear that because she had a few relatives die from breast cancer she should cut out her breasts to now parade around ridiculously large synthetic ones to enhance her profile and no doubt jittilate a few dumb guys .
Never mind all the environmental facts like the fact that part of LA where the relatives lived were toxic dumpsite and polluted groundwater zones- lets ignore the environmental impacts of cancer.
It appears that the jolie-pitts have some of the same paid PR people that the royal family does, or at least Prince Harry because someone pretending to be his official fan club just sent me a picture of Angelina smiling in her new breasts. Why? Their agent appears, by his mis-spelled grammatically awkward sentence construction to be an asian speaker by birth with a strange fixation on digging up royal family old photos and putting tiny hearts next to them. He calls himself the 'official' fan page.
The unofficial ones might or might not actually be British subjects, and for the Camilla shots I am guessing NOT.
This fixation with celebrity may be harmless but for the fact that when they purport to be real medical spokespeople there is a great danger. After Angelina's announcement came out a rash of men fearing prostate cancer in their family apparently wanted prostate surgery.
The paper urged everyone to get this genetic testing just so we don't think we have breast cancer, feeding off a fear frenzy with the implication that if only you lob off your breasts you could look stacked like Angelina. And who owns this one genetic testing company doing this medical quackery? You can bet its covered by your governmental Obamacare.
http://www.nature.com/news/huge-cancer-study-uncovers-74-genetic-risk-factors-1.12675
The media is getting reckless and irresponsible again. This time with the glorification of a total moron freak show of someone who bought into the myth that there is a cancer proclivity gene so before there is any trace of sickness or disease much less cancer you should lob off both your breasts and cut out your uterus.
Then go on hormone treatments for the rest of your life and get cancer from that.
Now it is being reported that Angelina is so brave because she did actually have cancer and is a cancer survivor- all hail angelina. This too is crappola- she never had any disease, no trace of cancer, no pre-cancerous cells, nothing. Just insane fear that because she had a few relatives die from breast cancer she should cut out her breasts to now parade around ridiculously large synthetic ones to enhance her profile and no doubt jittilate a few dumb guys .
Never mind all the environmental facts like the fact that part of LA where the relatives lived were toxic dumpsite and polluted groundwater zones- lets ignore the environmental impacts of cancer.
It appears that the jolie-pitts have some of the same paid PR people that the royal family does, or at least Prince Harry because someone pretending to be his official fan club just sent me a picture of Angelina smiling in her new breasts. Why? Their agent appears, by his mis-spelled grammatically awkward sentence construction to be an asian speaker by birth with a strange fixation on digging up royal family old photos and putting tiny hearts next to them. He calls himself the 'official' fan page.
The unofficial ones might or might not actually be British subjects, and for the Camilla shots I am guessing NOT.
This fixation with celebrity may be harmless but for the fact that when they purport to be real medical spokespeople there is a great danger. After Angelina's announcement came out a rash of men fearing prostate cancer in their family apparently wanted prostate surgery.
The paper urged everyone to get this genetic testing just so we don't think we have breast cancer, feeding off a fear frenzy with the implication that if only you lob off your breasts you could look stacked like Angelina. And who owns this one genetic testing company doing this medical quackery? You can bet its covered by your governmental Obamacare.
Sunday, June 02, 2013
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