22 Beautiful Altars Worthy of the Sacrifice of the Mass
http://www.churchpop.com/2015/04/13/beautiful-altars/
http://www.churchpop.com/2015/04/13/beautiful-altars/
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Abortion and Religion or AS Religion?
Patheos hosts some great bloggers. But
it hosts a very wide range of perspectives. So, in following links, I
cam across this page:
Recent Perspectives on Roe v. Wade
The blog posts selected were about evenly split. I suppose in 1934, if Patheos' page editor had been around, he would have posted 6 articles on why Jews shouldn't be sent to internment camps and 6 articles on why they should.
Body Parts, Schmarty Parts. What’s
All the Fuss About?
July 20, 2015 by Bethany Blankley
Very dark, snarky satire. Almost passes
as what it critiques.
If You Want to Defund Planned
Parenthood, Think Through the Consequences First
July 19, 2015 by Hemant Mehta
Mehta is the friendly atheist. In this
brief post, he tries to pull a Twitchy by posting a Twitter
conversation between a Christian and a troll. Unfortunately, the
troll steamrolls the poor guy with a non sequitur. If PP closes she
will have no recourse but to go bankrupt paying for her gyn services
and finally die a painful death due to a lack of free birth control,
STD treatments, and abortions on demand. She says there are no other
alternatives on her block in the Iowa countryside that take her
crappy insurance plan that offer her lifesaving STD treatments.
Apparently, she refuses to consider a better policy (couldn’t be
she has limited choice among expensive policies with lousy benefits
because of ObamaCare? Nah. Its because of ignorant Christians who
hate her. And it couldn’t be that $500M in free money from the
federal government + tax exempt status gives PP a competitive
advantage to other providers – thereby limiting her choices. IOW,
could it be that she is defending policies that hav resulted in
reducing her choice and increasing her costs? Sure, she should act
all superior towards her interlocutor to hide how stupid she really
looks.
Why I’m a Christian Who (Still)
Supports Planned Parenthood
July 20, 2015 by Dan Wilkinson
Dan is the Unfundamentalist Christian.
Considering his argument in defense of PP harvesting body parts from
pre-born children who they have killed, perhaps he should rename is
blog the Utilitarian Christian. I'm surprised to say that I hadn’t
seen the “they’d just throw it away anyway” argument prior to
Dan’s essay: “Why shouldn’t cells from aborted fetuses be used
for medical research with potentially life-saving applications? Would
those opposed to abortion prefer that these resources be simply
squandered? Since the abortion is going to happen anyway, what
possible reason is there for not utilizing the aborted tissue?”
That segment probably approaches some
sort of record for euphemisms per square inch.
Why I wrote the same thing I always do
when the Liars for Jesus attacked Planned Parenthood yet again
July 18, 2015 by Fred Clark
Fred is some sort of progressive
Christian. His take, nothing to see here, you’ve seen it all
before.
BTW, how can you tell when a Pro-Life …
sorry, Anti-Choice person is lying? A: His lips are moving. If an Anti-Abortion liar tells a lie
and nobody listens, is he still lying? Yes! Because Fred will combine
it with some urban legend about Pepsi
using aborted babies as a flavor enhancer and ta-da! Whatever he’s saying is a lie. You
can tell it’s a lie because he is anti-abortion and he’s talking
about PP. Therefore he is lying. Don’t even bother to see for
yourself what those two PP executives were recorded saying. Just you
go back and call them names.
It must be nice to be a Progressive /
Pro-Abort / Democrat / liar – but I repeat myself.
It gives you the ability to hold two
contradictory statements in your head and not see the contradiction.
The videos discuss human organs. The lackeys lying in their defense
can only find “tissue” or “cells”.
Planned Parenthood Isn’t Selling Baby
Parts: Unpacking the Lies in a New Undercover Video
July 14, 2015 by Hemant Mehta
Our friendly atheist also adds that we
are so dumb we think that killing a child in utero and extracting her
liver, lungs, heart and brain and then exchanging them for money
isn’t selling body parts. Man, we must be way dumber than he is.
#PlannedParenthoodSellsBabyParts….so
what?
July 14, 2015 by Rebecca Frech
“Over her salad, she explains how the
unborn children are carefully turned to a breech position before the
doctor, guided by what he/she sees on an ultrasound, uses forceps to
carefully rip off body parts until the fetus has been removed
completely from the uterus without destroying the commercially
valuable organs such as the heart and liver. She even details what
they do about that pesky head that’s often too large to fit easily
through a cervix which isn’t dilated enough to extract it easily.”
“This latest video is nothing new. It
is the same brutal disregard for human life which is necessary for
abortion to be possible.
“There is nothing new in Planned
Parenthood, or any other abortion provider, making money off of the
destruction of human life. Making money off of killing babies is what
they do.
“We shouldn’t be shocked and
outraged that they are selling off the organs of these poor massacred
children. We should be shocked and outraged that it is legal for them
to be killed in the first place.”
More Most Beautiful Churches
"More most"; does that even make sense? whatever. These churches are beautiful - And Jesus is there!
21 Mesmerizing Photos of the World’s Most Beautiful Churches
Monday, July 20, 2015
Links On Marriage and anti-marriage
A good survey of the philosophical
objection to Obergfell.
“The traditional norms of marriage
were established to protect innocent people, especially children.
They are evidence of advanced civilization.”
Then these times are evidence of an
effete, decrepit and dissolute civilization.
“There is something diabolically
novel in the successful burrowing into such a fundamental, creative,
and organic institution for such sterile, egoistic, and perverse
purposes.”
Nobody Owns MLK
“By telling conservatives that their
fight is as difficult and just and noble as those against slavery,
segregation, and Nazism, the GOPers are not only endorsing
conservatives’ fight, they are also casting themselves as the next
Lincoln, the next FDR, or the next MLK that history will require to
overcome tyranny.”
Um, dear. MLK, the Abolitionists, the
reconstructionists and integrationists were THEMSELVES GOPers. The
slavers, segregationists and jailers of MLK were the Democrats.
Nazism – coin toss, but lets talk about Communism.
Oh, and the hypocrisy of appropriating
MLK: http://thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=477
It isn’t so much the right ‘hijacking
Rev. King as rescuing him from the SSM hijackers.
My Freedom to Beat You Over the Head Ends - At Your Head
Never have so many people enjoyed so many freedoms. Can you imagine what’s next?
By MICHAEL SHERMERI’m afraid I can, all too well. Are you going to warn me of even worse than I can imagine? I imagine so.
“This trend is what Dr. King meant by describing the rights revolution he helped to lead a “moral arc” that bends toward justice, and why I chose to title my latest book The Moral Arc, because history really has progressed since the invention of rights during the Enlightenment in the late 18th century.”
Packed a lot of wrongness in one long sentence. 1. Misappropriating MLK’s term ‘moral arc’ 2. “invention of rights” Mr Shermer must be unfamiliar with the sentiments expressed by the Founders in the Declaration that rights are ‘endowed by our Creator” 3. I don’t have time right now to google for the development of rights throughout history, including those damned priests I’m sure Shermer thinks are ignorant superstitious clods – Aquinas, etc, you know.
Wait, his understanding of the source and meaning of ‘rights’ gets better.
“Same-sex marriage and gay rights in general are themselves the legacy of the rights revolutions that took off in the late 1700s when the idea of rights was invented and then demanded, first in the American Revolution (starting with the Declaration of Independence) and then in the French Revolution (with the Rights of Man).”
Several thousand people had their rights violated at the collarbone by the French Revolution. If he wants to associate himself with that, God help him.
“Never in history have so many people enjoyed so many freedoms.”
Freedom to express an opinion different from Mr Shermer’s in public on SSM or homosexual acts or adoption by single people or homosexual couples?
Uh, no.
Freedom to equip oneself with protection against violent assault?
Uh, no.
Freedom from government mandate that one pay for health care procedures that violate one’s moral standards
Uh, no.
Freedom for small businessmen to participate in rites that seek to solemnize acts that are recognized as highly immoral and an affront to their religious faith?
Uh, no.
Freedom from having ones children told by the state government that the beliefs and moral standards their parents taught them were bigoted, wrong, superstitious and ought not to be believed?
Uh, no.
Freedom from representatives of the state providing prophylactics, pharmaceuticals and perhaps even abetting in surgical procedures without parental knowledge or consent?
Uh, no.
“Can you imagine what’s next?”
I shudder to even think.
“Illinois took a first bold step in decriminalizing sodomy in 1961, but at the time homosexuality was considered to be a perversion—even a mental illness—and if police caught a man engaged in “lewd” behavior his name, age and even home address could be published in the local newspaper (like pedophiles today).”
From which we may infer that pedophiles of the not too distant future will be treated like homosexuals of today? Wait; when conservatives have warned of that, they are pilloried and the idea laughed at. Now we are supposed to look forward to it as the next big leap in the expansion of rights along the arch of history?
“Mark my words: Now that the highest court in the country has made same-sex marriage the law of the land, I predict that within a few years Christians will come around to treating gay men and lesbians no differently from how they now treat other groups whom they previously persecuted—women, Jews and blacks.”
Setting aside the question begging about Christians persecuting this and that identity group (as we are now supposed to call them), please do hold your breath, Mr Shermer.
“The gay rights revolution will continue to fine-tune laws related to inheritance, taxes, job discrimination, family rights (that of surrogate parents vs. same-sex parents) and—now—divorce and custody issues.
Most of which had been already addressed in civil union laws in the states. So, that really isn’t it, is it? Oh, except for “job discrimination.” Following his anti-Christian screed, can you doubt that Shermer is salivating for the next court case challenging a church or school’s right to hire employees who do not openly condemn its faith?
“And then there’s atheists, agnostics and secular humanists—who have been following the strategy of the LGBT community in “coming out” campaigns to show that we are just as moral, just as worthy and just as good citizens as believers.”
He isn’t hiding his anti-Christian hopes and prayers – wait…
In whom does he hope? The USSC, apparently.
After a meandering consideration of animal rights, the death penalty and human trafficking around the world, Oh, and climate change, of course, Shermer ends: “And, of course, there is the defense of the rights our ancestors left us, if (pace Benjamin Franklin) we can keep them. As Franklin’s friend and colleague Thomas Jefferson cautioned, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
Which is why freedom loving people have to keep a sharp eye on people like Shermer.
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