Congressman Robert Andrews stood up in Congress and said that violations of the Peoples Constitutional right to free exercise of religion wasn't important. He said that the concerns by Religious Colleges and Universities about Religious Freedom were "not compelling questions". He's trying to tread water on the subject, but refuses to apologize for letting slip his belief that the Constitutional Guarantees of Rights and Liberties to religious believers are not "compelling". In other words, Andrews believes that an appointed board, in this case the National Labor Relations Board, can tell a person or an institution whether or not they are religious. It is intolerable to lovers of Liberty that some section of the Government--an unelected, appointed and very powerful section--can tell someone, or some educational institution, that they don't believe something that they profess. It is intolerable act from a Member of Congress.
The Regime has told a major publisher of Bibles and religious titles that it isn't religious. The reasoning is simple--they are a major publishing house, and even though their entire business and business model is based on the promotion of Scripture and devotional reading because of their religious beliefs, the Regime maintains that they are in business, so they do not have a right to practice their religion in the conduct of their business. I could swear that the Constitution gives us the right to free exercise of religion. Our rights are ours, they are not granted to us by the government, by Congress, by the President and most certainly not by a board of political appointees. Our rights are things we, the people, have carved out from governmental interference from the Founding of our current Republic and form of government, and they may not be transgressed with impunity. It is intolerable that the government of the United States would seek to place limits on free exercise of religion on the basis of it's practitioners engaging in commerce in the public square. This is an intolerable act by part of the bureaucracy that increasingly rules our lives.
Last Friday, Carol Jackson , a US District judge threw out a lawsuit by a small business owner against the HHS mandate, saying his business wouldn't be substantially burdened. This is so egregiously oppressive that it boggles the mind. First, we're not talking about a burden on business per se, but a violation of an individuals constitutional rights. Such violations are by their very nature substantial burdens on the life of the individual and of our collective life as a Republic. Second off, the idea of the plaintiff is that he is going to be required to do something that violates the dictates of his religion to such a degree that he can logically be expected to have anxiety over the state of his soul: paying for abortions is material cooperation with murder, a mortal sin that can land him in hell, according to his religious beliefs. That's a very heavy, substantial, burden to carry through life. Third, one sees in this yet another attempt by the Government, in this case by the Judiciary, to limit our right to freely exercise our religion in such a way that our ethics cannot be brought to bear on our business practices. (It's not odd when one thinks about it. The current economic mess was brought about by poor ethics and politicized lending practices. The Regime has numerous people from the very companies and institutions that brought it about, and favors expanding the practices that led to the debacle. They want no ethics to interfere, and business must be politicized.) Once again an intolerable act of oppression is being perpetrated against the people of this once great Republic, by our own Regime.
The American Spectator has an interesting article on the increase of both Governmental and Social restrictions on and hostility toward religion, and the rates have almost doubled under the current Regime. This too, is intolerable, for as the article points out, well financed and organized groups are trying to turn the First Amendment upside down, by disregarding the free exercise clause. Who are these people? I don't know, the identities of those who would remove us from public life are obscured by all the confidentiality policies and fund swapping endemic to political action groups. But the numbers are themselves what is important--these acts are intolerable. Culture Digest has some interesting information on this study, and the Spectator has links to the text, so you can see for yourself how the number of intolerable acts piles up.
Mitch Landrieu , the Mayor of New Orleans, attempted to make religious speech on Bourbon Street a criminal offense. Think about it. Both a religious activity and free speech criminalized because this guy wants to make sure that drunkards and prostitutes on Bourbon Street don't here anything that might make them spend less money or perhaps re-think sex work. Tourism and money are more important, in this man's view, than Constitutional Rights. This particular intolerable act of oppression was, thankfully, blocked by a courrt order. However, it was attempted, and that's intolerable.
Social oppression grows apace as well. Filmmakers are trying very hard to make Christians either into objects of derision, possibly insane object of derision, as in the movie A Perfect Family (which depicts among other things the deliberate profanation of the Holy Eucharist by a Catholic Housewife who is trying to make everyone believe she has the perfect family) or hateful, violent killers as in the Kevin Smith movie Red State . Now Hollywood's hostility to religion isn't universal-they seem to have very good feelings about the sensibility of Muslims, even attempting to hire a Muslim clergyman to vet the script for a movie on the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. These actions are insidious and are intolerable acts of hostility, meant to marginalize Christians in the public square. Filmmakers went from providing entertainment to attempting to dictate our culture, while having almost nothing in common with Mainstream America.
Yes, we live in an era of Intolerable Acts, and if you find them as threatening to your freedom as I do, here's a song for you. If you don't, consider this--when the Regime can trample any part of the Constitution, it can trample all of it. Without the Constitutional limits on Government Power, without the limits of law being required and enforced, we have no protection from our government, and no redress for anything it might do. So, listen to the song, and realize that there must a line in the sand, where we will stand and say "Enough with your Intolerable Acts of Oppression!"
After all, in a few more weeks, we get to vote--make it count.
It'll be this, or the camps
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
Another Attack by Scummy H8ters
FX has decided to continue it's attack on the Church through by way of it's series American Horror Story. This year it's set in an Asylum ran by and Eeeeevvviiiilllll nun. The inmates are tortured, exploited etc, the nun wants to jump the Monsignor's bones and wears sexy lingerie under her habit.
Face it, it's just Nun Porn on Cable. Nun Porn seems popular--I saw the box--NOT THE MOVIE--for a DVD at the rental place called Nude Nun's with Big Guns, so I guess softcore Nun Porn is going mainstream. Of course, Sodomites are infamous for picking up on Femme archetypes and one of the producers of this is Ryan Murphy, a sodomite who left the Church when he realized we valued his soul over sexual gratification.
Just let me quote Matt Archbold: When the Vatican attempts to correct wayward nuns and sisters, it's eeeeeeeevil. But a television show depicts nuns as murderous evil religious wackos and that's just hunky dory. Oh wait, it's art. And that's like way more important than the state of someone's soul. Like it's not even close. Duh.
Face it, there's a lot of hate speech masquerading as art. Or perhaps, it would be better to say there is a lot of "Hate Art" masquerading as speech.
Face it, it's just Nun Porn on Cable. Nun Porn seems popular--I saw the box--NOT THE MOVIE--for a DVD at the rental place called Nude Nun's with Big Guns, so I guess softcore Nun Porn is going mainstream. Of course, Sodomites are infamous for picking up on Femme archetypes and one of the producers of this is Ryan Murphy, a sodomite who left the Church when he realized we valued his soul over sexual gratification.
Just let me quote Matt Archbold: When the Vatican attempts to correct wayward nuns and sisters, it's eeeeeeeevil. But a television show depicts nuns as murderous evil religious wackos and that's just hunky dory. Oh wait, it's art. And that's like way more important than the state of someone's soul. Like it's not even close. Duh.
Face it, there's a lot of hate speech masquerading as art. Or perhaps, it would be better to say there is a lot of "Hate Art" masquerading as speech.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Mixed Signals From the Front
Just watching the patterns in the news, I think things might be starting to improve for Christians in the United States. People are standing up and saying enough in many places, but that doesn't mean things are all good and sunny here in The-Land-of-the-Used-To-Be Free.
Among other things, the ACLU is cuttin' up ugly in Missouri . They are seeking to block a law that would make it illegal to deliberately disrupt religious services. The "Anti-Christian Lawyers Union" hold that that would interfere with freedom of expression. I guess they're not objective enough to see that disrupting a religious service on purpose interferes with a congregation's freedom of expression, and their right to free exercise of religion both. Somehow, the parasitic lawyers have decided that religion is fair game for hate groups.
In South Carolina the ACLU has sent letter--with no basis in law--to schools in an attempt to intimidate them. These letters state that the schools may not teach anything about religion. I guess these lawyers don't understand a couple of simple things: western and world history are not intelligible without some understanding of religion and religious issues. Modern (since 1550) Western European History is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Reformation, and the Reformation itself is incomprehensible without an understanding of the issues and doctrines that the Protestant Founders were concerned with removing, and the Catholic Counter-Reformers were concerned with defending. It set up divisions and fault lines that are still operative today, around the globe. In the same way, world history, and especially the history of the interactions of the Islamic World and the Western world make no sense without an understanding of the Great Schism. For that matter, one cannot make sense of the history of south Asia without understanding the tensions between Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism. Likewise, East Asian history needs an explication of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shinto. Not to mention the history of colonialism and various world issues through WWII, or even near contemporary history like the Balkan Wars of the 90s! The ACLU in it's letter also deliberately misstated that schools may not have religious clubs, or student groups that study scripture etc--this is in direct contradiction to Federal Court rulings. The Federal Courts have ruled that religous student groups have the same rights as to access as secular ones.
In Loveland Colorado a school has confiscated a students rosary. The school claims it is a "gang symbol". Well I guess if San Fransisco can get away with labeling the Church a "Hate Group" a school can call Catholics a street gang here in Seculo-Fascist America. But I do recall that the constitution protects free exercise of religion, freedom of speech--and by extension freedom of expression--and states that people cannot be deprived of their property without recompense. By taking his limiting his freedom of expression, freedom of speech, ability to exercise his religion and taking his property with such stipulations that make it impossible for him to recover it, some unelected public employees have trampled his rights. I guess here I should say that European Catholics and many American Catholics say one should not wear the rosary like jewelry--but this kid is Hispanic, and they don't have that stricture--and it's not a rule for the Universal Church that they no be worn in such a manner. Hmmmm...if he's Hispanic, this looks even worse, because not only is it directed against a harmless symbol of his Catholic Faith, the assumption is that a Hispanic kid displaying a rosary must be a gang-banger: it's Anticatholic bigotry and racism in one, a twofer of discrimination.
“It is difficult to understand how it is illegal to have a prayer meeting on Friday night with a half dozen people but it is alright if I invited the same group on Monday evening to watch Monday night Football,” Roessiger said. The Roessiger's are a family in Florida that are under attack for hosting a Bible Study in their home and placing a sign in their yard listing a phone number you can call to have people pray for you. The Pacific Justice Institute is providing legal counsel and assistance in the families battle with the Venice Florida City Code Enforcement Board. Right now it looks like the family has won the battle for their Civil Rights. But, there is a warning here for the accommodationists--The Seculo-Fascists keep trying to say that Freedom of Religion applies to what occurs (with limits on anything that can be construed as political, and one of their buzz phrases is that "The personal is political") inside of a church or in a home, but given the slightest pretext they will try to stop what happens in the home.
The Fransiscan University of Stuebenville is under fire, and receiving attacks from every quarter, to include CNN and NPR, for teaching a course on deviant behavior. They are being attacked by Sodomites and others who object to being called deviants. I have new for them--in Sociology, a devient is some onw on the extreme ends of the bell curve for behaviors, and since the best figures put Sodomites and Sapphists at 1.5 to 3 percent of the population, by scientific definition they are deviants. So much for Academic Freedom, as well as Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Thought. Let alone the idea that Academia is about the free exchange of ideas.
Holy Family Catholic Church in Citrus Heights California is under fire for having a pro-life sign on their lawn. The sign reads "Don't support abortion with your vote--Vote Pro-Life". It doesn't endorse a specific party or candidate, but a moral stance based on the faith of the Catholic Church. They are being told that this sign pushes the envelope of permissible speech by a church, by pro-abortion persons. My own parish has had people call us, or walk into the office to berate us for our pro-life signs, which didn't even mention voting. Speech rooted in religious belief isn't well tolerated by Seculo-Fascists.
The religious and free speech rights, as well as the right to freedom of association of the family that owns and runs Chick-Fil-A have been so battered that they have been driven from the public forum by what amounts to an economic lynch mob of sodomites and their sympathizers. The actions of this company were within the law, within their rights and in accordance with their faith. Yet the hate mongers who despise Christians who actually live and act according to their belief have effectively silenced them. Yet another example of the civil rights of Christians under attack.
I want to conclude by a blatantly partisan statement about some of the US Catholic Bishops. I think they are ignorant and foolish. The movie Natural Born Killers brought the American Indian fable of the rattlesnake brought into the house to mainstream American attention, yet these men are allying with the ACLU--remember the first paragraphs?--on a cause that is not an absolute in Catholic teaching, never thinking that this same group will cheerfully destroy the Church int he United States for their Seculo-Fascist goals.
We have only ourselves to blame.
Among other things, the ACLU is cuttin' up ugly in Missouri . They are seeking to block a law that would make it illegal to deliberately disrupt religious services. The "Anti-Christian Lawyers Union" hold that that would interfere with freedom of expression. I guess they're not objective enough to see that disrupting a religious service on purpose interferes with a congregation's freedom of expression, and their right to free exercise of religion both. Somehow, the parasitic lawyers have decided that religion is fair game for hate groups.
In South Carolina the ACLU has sent letter--with no basis in law--to schools in an attempt to intimidate them. These letters state that the schools may not teach anything about religion. I guess these lawyers don't understand a couple of simple things: western and world history are not intelligible without some understanding of religion and religious issues. Modern (since 1550) Western European History is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Reformation, and the Reformation itself is incomprehensible without an understanding of the issues and doctrines that the Protestant Founders were concerned with removing, and the Catholic Counter-Reformers were concerned with defending. It set up divisions and fault lines that are still operative today, around the globe. In the same way, world history, and especially the history of the interactions of the Islamic World and the Western world make no sense without an understanding of the Great Schism. For that matter, one cannot make sense of the history of south Asia without understanding the tensions between Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism. Likewise, East Asian history needs an explication of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shinto. Not to mention the history of colonialism and various world issues through WWII, or even near contemporary history like the Balkan Wars of the 90s! The ACLU in it's letter also deliberately misstated that schools may not have religious clubs, or student groups that study scripture etc--this is in direct contradiction to Federal Court rulings. The Federal Courts have ruled that religous student groups have the same rights as to access as secular ones.
In Loveland Colorado a school has confiscated a students rosary. The school claims it is a "gang symbol". Well I guess if San Fransisco can get away with labeling the Church a "Hate Group" a school can call Catholics a street gang here in Seculo-Fascist America. But I do recall that the constitution protects free exercise of religion, freedom of speech--and by extension freedom of expression--and states that people cannot be deprived of their property without recompense. By taking his limiting his freedom of expression, freedom of speech, ability to exercise his religion and taking his property with such stipulations that make it impossible for him to recover it, some unelected public employees have trampled his rights. I guess here I should say that European Catholics and many American Catholics say one should not wear the rosary like jewelry--but this kid is Hispanic, and they don't have that stricture--and it's not a rule for the Universal Church that they no be worn in such a manner. Hmmmm...if he's Hispanic, this looks even worse, because not only is it directed against a harmless symbol of his Catholic Faith, the assumption is that a Hispanic kid displaying a rosary must be a gang-banger: it's Anticatholic bigotry and racism in one, a twofer of discrimination.
“It is difficult to understand how it is illegal to have a prayer meeting on Friday night with a half dozen people but it is alright if I invited the same group on Monday evening to watch Monday night Football,” Roessiger said. The Roessiger's are a family in Florida that are under attack for hosting a Bible Study in their home and placing a sign in their yard listing a phone number you can call to have people pray for you. The Pacific Justice Institute is providing legal counsel and assistance in the families battle with the Venice Florida City Code Enforcement Board. Right now it looks like the family has won the battle for their Civil Rights. But, there is a warning here for the accommodationists--The Seculo-Fascists keep trying to say that Freedom of Religion applies to what occurs (with limits on anything that can be construed as political, and one of their buzz phrases is that "The personal is political") inside of a church or in a home, but given the slightest pretext they will try to stop what happens in the home.
The Fransiscan University of Stuebenville is under fire, and receiving attacks from every quarter, to include CNN and NPR, for teaching a course on deviant behavior. They are being attacked by Sodomites and others who object to being called deviants. I have new for them--in Sociology, a devient is some onw on the extreme ends of the bell curve for behaviors, and since the best figures put Sodomites and Sapphists at 1.5 to 3 percent of the population, by scientific definition they are deviants. So much for Academic Freedom, as well as Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Thought. Let alone the idea that Academia is about the free exchange of ideas.
Holy Family Catholic Church in Citrus Heights California is under fire for having a pro-life sign on their lawn. The sign reads "Don't support abortion with your vote--Vote Pro-Life". It doesn't endorse a specific party or candidate, but a moral stance based on the faith of the Catholic Church. They are being told that this sign pushes the envelope of permissible speech by a church, by pro-abortion persons. My own parish has had people call us, or walk into the office to berate us for our pro-life signs, which didn't even mention voting. Speech rooted in religious belief isn't well tolerated by Seculo-Fascists.
The religious and free speech rights, as well as the right to freedom of association of the family that owns and runs Chick-Fil-A have been so battered that they have been driven from the public forum by what amounts to an economic lynch mob of sodomites and their sympathizers. The actions of this company were within the law, within their rights and in accordance with their faith. Yet the hate mongers who despise Christians who actually live and act according to their belief have effectively silenced them. Yet another example of the civil rights of Christians under attack.
I want to conclude by a blatantly partisan statement about some of the US Catholic Bishops. I think they are ignorant and foolish. The movie Natural Born Killers brought the American Indian fable of the rattlesnake brought into the house to mainstream American attention, yet these men are allying with the ACLU--remember the first paragraphs?--on a cause that is not an absolute in Catholic teaching, never thinking that this same group will cheerfully destroy the Church int he United States for their Seculo-Fascist goals.
We have only ourselves to blame.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
So There!
It's Here, and the Only Way to Deny It is Denial
Religious persecution is here, and it's global. And it's even being furthered by those we should expect to be putting a stop to it. It's not just Catholics, or Christians in general, although the UN said that 90% of victims of religious persecution in the world were Christians of one sort or another. Attacks on Christians have increased 309% between 2003 and 2010...and the pace is accelerating. But there are surprising attacks on Jews as well.
Leaving aside the calls for "Israel to wiped from the face of the map" that emanate from the Muslim world, in Germany a Mohol--a rabbi who specializes int he ritual circumcision of infants, a very basic part of Judaism--was arrested for performing the rite. In Germany, the one nation that should most be aware of the dangers of persecuting a religious minority, he was arrested! The law against this practice wasn't passed by legislation, but by a District Court judge in Cologne, who decided circumcising boys was unlawful bodily harm. So, shades of the Nuremberg Laws, a rabbi is arrested fro practicing his faith.
Religious persecution isn't getting talked about. When the Wall Street Journal runs a column wondering why the pulpits aren't abuzz with the stories that occur weekly, sometimes daily, of religious persecution, you know that there is a problem not being discussed in the press, or the churches.
We don't have to look to the Islamosphere, or even Europe to find it, either. Right here in the US, in California. Churches are banned in an area of Temuecula County known as "wine country". That's some 7,000 acres of privately owned land, and the County is holding hearings to expand it to 18, 990 acres, specifically zoned "no churches". The vineyard owners told those trying to expand their facilities, or build churches "We don't want your kind out here".
In Little Rock Arkansas, a pro-life demonstration (pro-lifers are widely identified--inaccurately--as exclusively Catholic) was disrupted by an attack July 17th, on one of the protestors. The attacker used force to prevent them from calling 911, and attacked an American Flag as well. The attacker approached the demonstrators saying "Praised be Mary", the laid in.
In Chicago a priest was surrounded and harassed bysodomites 'gay rights' activists for praying a rosary publicly in support of Chick-Fil-A's constitutional rights to free speech.
Also in June, the home of of Kieth and Jennifer Mason was vandalized after Newsweek magazne profiled them. The are the leaders of a group called Personhood USA. the web site "The Daily Beast" also ran the profile, and the comments section contained many threats and calls for violence. One reader tracked them down, and vandalized their home. Also in June, Everett Stadig was assaulted while petitioning for a personhood initiative in Colorado, and ended up with a broken hip. This is particularly distressing because in an elderly person, a broken hip is often the beginning of a final decline in health.
In Oregon a Judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming that priests were employees of the Vatican, and so the Vatican should pay for priestly misconduct. Leaving aside the evils of evil priests to concentrate on the case at hand the attorney suing the Vatican said 'It was documented and known by the Vatican, and handled under the 'secret protocols' of 'Vatican mandates'. (Quotes are mine to offset the parts that struck me) Secret protocols? Vatican mandates? This sounds like the fraudulent "Secret protocol of the Elders of Zion" that was written by Czarist secret police to justify and fuel Pogroms and taken up by the Nazis, and now the Jihadists. The suit was dismissed by the courts for lack of factual proofs of the plaintiffs claims. But it will be appealed, and was in fact entertained by the courts.
International Christian Concern is a group that documents and reports acts of persecution on a global basis, and just a quick count of the blurbs on their home page gives reverences of over a dozen acts of major persecution in the last month. So Where is the News Coverage? Are CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC Fox and the other major outlets even covering this? In any depth at all?
No, not really, and that's why it's here, and why it continues. In the face of documented assaults, vandalism, even the firebombing of a pro-life (and therefore, inaccurately though it be, considered Catholic and Christian event) event there is just silence. Silence from the press, silence from the pulpits and silence from our government an law enforcement. The last even goes so far as to point to Christians and Pro-lifers as potential terrorists while they are on the receiving end of hate crimes and terrorism attacks.
So what to do? This one is the easiest--do not be part of the conspiracy of silence. Link to this post, read the links in the is post and put them on your Facebook page. Send them to your pastor, your congressman, the local paper, ask why this isn't covered, why this isn't discussed. Just don't remain silent, for our lack of information, and our silence when we have it are the greatest asset the persecutors have.
Leaving aside the calls for "Israel to wiped from the face of the map" that emanate from the Muslim world, in Germany a Mohol--a rabbi who specializes int he ritual circumcision of infants, a very basic part of Judaism--was arrested for performing the rite. In Germany, the one nation that should most be aware of the dangers of persecuting a religious minority, he was arrested! The law against this practice wasn't passed by legislation, but by a District Court judge in Cologne, who decided circumcising boys was unlawful bodily harm. So, shades of the Nuremberg Laws, a rabbi is arrested fro practicing his faith.
Religious persecution isn't getting talked about. When the Wall Street Journal runs a column wondering why the pulpits aren't abuzz with the stories that occur weekly, sometimes daily, of religious persecution, you know that there is a problem not being discussed in the press, or the churches.
We don't have to look to the Islamosphere, or even Europe to find it, either. Right here in the US, in California. Churches are banned in an area of Temuecula County known as "wine country". That's some 7,000 acres of privately owned land, and the County is holding hearings to expand it to 18, 990 acres, specifically zoned "no churches". The vineyard owners told those trying to expand their facilities, or build churches "We don't want your kind out here".
In Little Rock Arkansas, a pro-life demonstration (pro-lifers are widely identified--inaccurately--as exclusively Catholic) was disrupted by an attack July 17th, on one of the protestors. The attacker used force to prevent them from calling 911, and attacked an American Flag as well. The attacker approached the demonstrators saying "Praised be Mary", the laid in.
In Chicago a priest was surrounded and harassed by
Also in June, the home of of Kieth and Jennifer Mason was vandalized after Newsweek magazne profiled them. The are the leaders of a group called Personhood USA. the web site "The Daily Beast" also ran the profile, and the comments section contained many threats and calls for violence. One reader tracked them down, and vandalized their home. Also in June, Everett Stadig was assaulted while petitioning for a personhood initiative in Colorado, and ended up with a broken hip. This is particularly distressing because in an elderly person, a broken hip is often the beginning of a final decline in health.
In Oregon a Judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming that priests were employees of the Vatican, and so the Vatican should pay for priestly misconduct. Leaving aside the evils of evil priests to concentrate on the case at hand the attorney suing the Vatican said 'It was documented and known by the Vatican, and handled under the 'secret protocols' of 'Vatican mandates'. (Quotes are mine to offset the parts that struck me) Secret protocols? Vatican mandates? This sounds like the fraudulent "Secret protocol of the Elders of Zion" that was written by Czarist secret police to justify and fuel Pogroms and taken up by the Nazis, and now the Jihadists. The suit was dismissed by the courts for lack of factual proofs of the plaintiffs claims. But it will be appealed, and was in fact entertained by the courts.
International Christian Concern is a group that documents and reports acts of persecution on a global basis, and just a quick count of the blurbs on their home page gives reverences of over a dozen acts of major persecution in the last month. So Where is the News Coverage? Are CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC Fox and the other major outlets even covering this? In any depth at all?
No, not really, and that's why it's here, and why it continues. In the face of documented assaults, vandalism, even the firebombing of a pro-life (and therefore, inaccurately though it be, considered Catholic and Christian event) event there is just silence. Silence from the press, silence from the pulpits and silence from our government an law enforcement. The last even goes so far as to point to Christians and Pro-lifers as potential terrorists while they are on the receiving end of hate crimes and terrorism attacks.
So what to do? This one is the easiest--do not be part of the conspiracy of silence. Link to this post, read the links in the is post and put them on your Facebook page. Send them to your pastor, your congressman, the local paper, ask why this isn't covered, why this isn't discussed. Just don't remain silent, for our lack of information, and our silence when we have it are the greatest asset the persecutors have.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
The first thing I'd like to say, is that I'm thankful I'm not in Egypt; the Muslim Brotherhood, in accordance with Sharia law, is crucifying opponents and waging war against the Coptic Christians to reduce them to dhimmitude, to impose the Jizyah and using forced marriage, forced conversions of girls and slavery to commit genocide on the Christian population. Of course, the 1.5 billion Dollars Obama sent to them helped them gain the power to do this.
The second thing I'd like to say is that not all the news is bad. In Santa Monica California, a jury found a Muslim Hotel Owner guilty of violating the civil rights laws, and the civil rights of Jewish patrons, fro throwing them out of the pool. We're not all knuckling under yet. And, in Buffalo NY, the Student Judiciary has decided that Inter-Varsity Fellowship can remain a student group, saying that requiring the leadership of a group to accept the beliefs of a group isn't discrimination, it's common sense.
The third thing is that things still look pretty bad. Floyd Lee Corins II, the guy who tried to shoot up the Family Research Council, but only succeeded in shooting a security gaurd, who then 'overpowered' him had contact info for the Traditional Values Coalition in his pocket, which makes it look more like a concerted effort to kill Christian who speak out in defense of our values. The Southern Poverty Law Center listed the Traditional Values Coalition as a hate group as well as the Family Research Council. In fact, when you look at things like the SPLC's "Hate Map" you notice some odd things For instance Culture Wars/Fidelity Press , a Traditional Catholic publishing concern is listed as "extremist" and a 'general hate" group. We have as much to fear, from a group of humanistic fundamentalists who will egg on their less stable or more angry followers to acts of violence, then decry any one who attempts to hold them accountable for labeling anyone who disagree with them as haters.
Again, the answer is to network!!!! Network intensively, but very cautiously. Remember that despite the wave of violence, intimidation, vandalism, extortion and hate speech directed at Christians in the wake of California's Proposition 8, and inspite of the lengthy lists of pro-abortion violent acts compiled by various groups over the last ten years or so, (there used to be on online list detailing these, but it's disappeared) and the increase of Church vandalism and arson in the US, the Federal Government under the Obama regime lists us as the potential terrorists. The guidelines for who to watch mention Pro-life, and other Christian heavy groups as potential terrorists (while ignoring groups such as the Occupy Movement--even though it was implicated when two of it's more active members were caught trying to blow up bridges in Cleavland OH!) So you have to be very, very careful. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have a history of placing agents provocateur in groups they are afraid of, and of trying very hard to infiltrate such groups.
Only network with those you've known, and known for a considerable period. Just "seeing him around" the church on Sunday isn't enough. You need to know them. You also need to network with those who are stable. Various underground groups have, over the years, found that people who are stable, when they commit to a group, are stable with in the group. Don't network with people who have substance issues, mental health issues, weak marriages--there is nothing about these people that is inherently wrong, but they are under internal pressures that render them undependable.
Start a local network--perhaps with 4 or 5 others, or couples, and not more than about 9 or 10. As time goes on, these people become the core of your network, and form small networks of their own. Be sure that the people you network with have an already firm spiritual foundation and commitment, or a just as firm commitment to the principles of Religious Liberty.
One person in the network should have the time, energy and connections to make contact with one other person, in a different place but within the same region. This person should be motivated to form a network int heir locality, but keep contact between the groups to as little as possible.
Then make your first plans. Plan to be able to evacuate Priests and Ministers who are in trouble fro preaching the Gospel and celebrating the Sacraments. Plan on ways to get family members support when a wage earner or head of a household is arrested. Plan first of all, to take care of the victims of oppression who are still on the street.
Plan now, plan ahead, and be able to help your brothers and sisters when the State comes for them, or when the tools of the Secular extremists turn violent.
And be very quiet about it.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Aliens?
My comment on Cardinal Dolan's Blog, referencing his lame explanation of
why he is partying with Obama at the Al Smith Dinner. Complete with
typos.
YOur Eminence, I have not other way to say this than bluntly. You. Are. Wrong. There, I said it. What you have done is to provide President Obama with a wonderful Photo Op and propaganda tool. While he works, through his cabinet officials, to restrict the autonomy of Churches in the US by attempting to redefine who is a minister, what is ministry and what constitutes religious activity while threatening to impose crippling fines, disguised as taxes, on those institutions that do not materially support evil in a financial manner.
Blessed Clemens Von Galen didn’t cave. St. Anthanasius didn’t cave. St. John Fisher didn’t cave. You Sir, caved in big time.
The confusion that results from this, and from inadequate and distorted catechesis on “Faithful Citizenship”, will lead others into Perdition. This action marks a failure on your part to Teach and Sanctify the faithful. That’s two out of three, and that ain’t good! Remember, for the good of your own soul, that actions are much louder than words, and by your actions you have spread confusion and strengthened a ruler who opposes the Church, and wishes to spread division in it through various groups that claim Catholicism, yet the USCCB has said are non-catholic.
You wear red, to signify your willingness to die for the Faith. I submit, sir, that you should avoid it, because you are unwilling even to risk offending a man who is seeking to destroy the Church in the public square.
Consider this an exercise of the 3rd Spiritual Act of Mercy.
Here's a picture to show how the war on Ctholics is proceeding--even after they won the first court case that the Department of Health and Human Services was infringing on their right to Free Exercise of Religion:
And, because I feel it's as if Aliens had somehow gained control of our country, here is a link to an appropriate Music Video , although being modern Music the skirts are rather short. (BTW--this group "Wild" has the oddest Ave Maria I've ever heard.
YOur Eminence, I have not other way to say this than bluntly. You. Are. Wrong. There, I said it. What you have done is to provide President Obama with a wonderful Photo Op and propaganda tool. While he works, through his cabinet officials, to restrict the autonomy of Churches in the US by attempting to redefine who is a minister, what is ministry and what constitutes religious activity while threatening to impose crippling fines, disguised as taxes, on those institutions that do not materially support evil in a financial manner.
Blessed Clemens Von Galen didn’t cave. St. Anthanasius didn’t cave. St. John Fisher didn’t cave. You Sir, caved in big time.
The confusion that results from this, and from inadequate and distorted catechesis on “Faithful Citizenship”, will lead others into Perdition. This action marks a failure on your part to Teach and Sanctify the faithful. That’s two out of three, and that ain’t good! Remember, for the good of your own soul, that actions are much louder than words, and by your actions you have spread confusion and strengthened a ruler who opposes the Church, and wishes to spread division in it through various groups that claim Catholicism, yet the USCCB has said are non-catholic.
You wear red, to signify your willingness to die for the Faith. I submit, sir, that you should avoid it, because you are unwilling even to risk offending a man who is seeking to destroy the Church in the public square.
Consider this an exercise of the 3rd Spiritual Act of Mercy.
Here's a picture to show how the war on Ctholics is proceeding--even after they won the first court case that the Department of Health and Human Services was infringing on their right to Free Exercise of Religion:
And, because I feel it's as if Aliens had somehow gained control of our country, here is a link to an appropriate Music Video , although being modern Music the skirts are rather short. (BTW--this group "Wild" has the oddest Ave Maria I've ever heard.
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