Speaking of the divide in social justice. St Louis media trying to gen up a controversy or Bishop Carlson’s donation of money to Archdiocese of Portland (Maine) for protection of marriage and the recent layoffs in Catholic Charities.
Now my first reaction to “freethinker” is “well, you get what you pay for,”
Now that is a funny line. One of my favorite SF writers goes on to demolish a essay written by atheist. The writer tries to deny that Christianity gave birth the scientific method an area that Michael Flynn knows a great deal about.
Dawn Eden writes a column on those women who suffer from hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) and a new book that helps those with this condition.
The ever awesome Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP now has his prayer book for sale. The proceeds go to his province to support the formation efforts for novices and seminarians.
Previously John C. Wright authored a post on the topic of the the channel formerly known as SciFi in their caving into pressure to include more homosexual characters in their shows. His post was soon troll-bait by the homosexually lobby which descended upon him in droves. Some 800 comments before he turned off the comments. You can imagine exactly how predictable the comments were and that they knew little or nothing about Mr. Wright’s view on how he first saw homosexuality as wrong while he was still an atheist.
Though John C. Wright did use some words not fitting with the dignity of the human person who suffers from same-sex attraction. He has since apologized more than once for the usage of those words and followed up with what the Church teaches on homosexuality and the statements made in regards to treatment of those with some level of same-sex attraction.
He has now written a six part post on this and his genesis in first coming to believe that homosexual acts were not moral. He is doing anything but preaching to the choir since for the most part his audience is not exactly open to the truth on human sexuality. On one previous post he had referenced that the homosexuality lobby is made up of a lot of heterosexuals. This is certainly true since they see common cause in preventing the restriction on sex in almost any way. The culture will cater to homosexual acts with a wink in a nod to normalize sex outside of marriage. The culture is also catering to fornication, adultery, multiple marriages. John C. Wright certainly makes the case for how our culture has been nothing but a boon to predatory males while being destructive towards women..
Preaching obvious truths about what the culture has enabled is quite difficult since it is not obvious to most. Most people think there are being charitable and compassionate when they talk about people “living together”, “significant other”, and every other example of condoning sex outside of marriage. The idea of sexual sin is pretty much laughed at and can even be met with giggles. Or at the least met with the idea that you can only believe that because your a Christian. That it is a spiritual work of mercy to rebuke the sinner (always with charity) is not possible in their view. The reality for them that to even mention sin is ironically sinful – “you’re judgmental”
John C. Wright has a rare apostolate in that fans of his SF and Fantasy books read his blog. As an atheist for most of my life and a lifetime fan of SF I can certainly say that the genre is filled with atheist and agnostics. He has a tough audience to write for on his blog, I just hope that some pause to actually read what he writes.
Sandra Miesel has done an excellent article on Catholics in the field of science fiction. Very thorough from the old school to the new generation of Catholic authors. Including the old old school such as St. Thomas More with Utopia. It is very cool that some of my very favorite authors are also Catholics such as Gene Wolfe, Michael Flynn, Jerry Pournelle, Fred Saberhagen, Tim Powers, and of course recent convert John C. Wright.
In my previous post I was wondering about how Catholic organizations could be promoting Obomacare. This post by Diogenes does not put my mind at rest. In fact it frankly pisses me off. Well maybe they are letting their right hand not know what their left hand is doing.
Nice little interview with Dean Koontz who talks about the false opposition of faith and science. I do so love his Odd Thomas novels.
Commentary from the always excellent Catholic Key blog:
On Forbes magazine’s popular quotations page there was once a quote attributed, in jest I’m sure, to an anonymous French management consultant: “That may work perfectly well in practice,” it said, “but it will never work in theory.” (paraphrasing) U.S. health care works certainly not perfectly, but much better than it would under the revolutionary proposal being rammed through by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D – CA).
Throughout the 20th Century, the success of revolutionary proposals has been hampered by the existence of inconvenient classes of persons. In the Russian Communist Revolution, Ukrainian “kulaks” stood in the way of a glorious modern Moscow. “Fetuses” stood in the way of a Sexual Revolution attempting to dissociate sex from commitment and fecundity.
In the 21st Century, the elderly stand in the way of a revolution in health care. They’re just to darn expensive to make health care affordable for “everyone”.
In the 20th Century, ideological revolutions mitigated the brake-effects of undesirable classes by giving them euphemistic titles and then killing them. The elderly in the U.S. don’t yet have a name I can stick in quotes, but they have a plan for eliminating their brake-effect on the health care revolution – HR 3200, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009”.
OK, that was a little over the top you think? Maybe, but there are enough credible questions about this bill’s “end of life” and rationing provisions for the elderly and all Americans to demand Nancy Pelosi give it a fair, open and exhaustive hearing.
And then goes on with some examples.