The Fifth Column: Moral Pygmies
Kellmeyer is right, once again. Contraception is always morally wrong because God is always the author of life, not us. The church is pandering to modern notions about sex only being procreative when man wishes for it to be procreative. It is crazy to expect Catholics to regard contraception as intrinsically immoral so long as professional theologians keep inventing exceptions to the immorality. It is the logic of the secular world that says that, well, you can commit sins, but prudence dictates that you make it safe for yourself to commit such sins. Isn't that the same logic as "safe, legal, and rare" abortion? If anything is safe to do, it isn't likely to be rare. What the Pope might have said is this: "Using condoms to prevent AIDS may be a good idea, but it is still a sin for the same reason that wearing a mask during the commission of a robbery doesn't change the nature of a robbery. And while wearing a mask isn't in itself immoral, contraception in and of itself is immoral."
Monday, November 29, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
From Sinai's Height, Part Two
Catholic Nurse Catherine Cenzon De Carlo, whose horrendous account of being forced by her employer Mount Sinai Hospital to perform an abortion appeared in Q.E.D.'s sister blog Aristotelian Moments last December, had her lawsuit against her employer thrown out by a judge. Apparently, the judge thinks that, although any other form of emotional trauma can make one extremely wealthy, being forced to commit murder by your employer against your will is something your employer bears no liability for. Maybe DeCarlo should have just taken the wrong acne medication--that is far more serious than being forced to betray your faith.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The Limits of "Fiscal Conservatism"
There is quite a debate going on in conservative circles right now over whether or not pro-lifers should stuff their principles right now. The argument is that economic issues are more important. Social issues are "divisive." We need a "big tent." Where was all this talk about a big tent during the years when economic conservatives got free trade, and pro-lifers got nothing? Where was the big tent when Bush cut taxes, and succeeded in doing nothing outside of appointing two pro-life supreme court justices? I really love it when we social conservatives are fine when it comes to unseating Bela Pelosi, but now that we won, we get to sit back and let the Ayn Rand club rule the roost. Really? Don't think so.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Representative Driehaus Contra Free Speech
Ohio Representative Steve Driehaus wants to jail Mrs. Dannenfelser, head of the Susan B. Anthony Fund, for stating that ObamaCare includes abortion.
The Fifth Column: Tom Lehrer's TOB
The Fifth Column: Tom Lehrer's TOB
Excellent article about "Theology of the Bawdy."
Excellent article about "Theology of the Bawdy."
Caroline Glick :: Latma brings you...Pallywood!
Caroline Glick :: Latma brings you...Pallywood!
I really think Drek O'Hara represents the anti-semetic tone of many Irish people.
I really think Drek O'Hara represents the anti-semetic tone of many Irish people.
What is This?
www.islamoncapitalhill.com
This site describes an Islamic prayer meeting in Washington. The President announced that he would not attend the National Prayer Breakfast this year, also stating that America is not a Christian nation. Allegedly, the event involving Islam is supported by the White House. Estase does not know if this is true.
This site describes an Islamic prayer meeting in Washington. The President announced that he would not attend the National Prayer Breakfast this year, also stating that America is not a Christian nation. Allegedly, the event involving Islam is supported by the White House. Estase does not know if this is true.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Why Are People Scared?
The President claims that the Democrats are behind because people are scared, ignoring totally his role in scaring them with:
*a one trillion dollar stimulus
*a byzantine health care bill
*an aimless war in Afghanistan
*no remedy for the imbalance in Social Security payments versus revenue.
In addition, we have Obama ally Representative Phil Hare calling the debt a myth!
Why wouldn't people be scared?
*a one trillion dollar stimulus
*a byzantine health care bill
*an aimless war in Afghanistan
*no remedy for the imbalance in Social Security payments versus revenue.
In addition, we have Obama ally Representative Phil Hare calling the debt a myth!
Why wouldn't people be scared?
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Why the Double Standard?
For several weeks, liberal talking heads have told us how backward the minister in Florida was for proposing to burn a Koran on September 11th. Oh how illiberal, hateful, un-American! This would never do!
Last week it came to light that the State of Colorado paid for an exhibition full of anti-Catholic propaganda, including a depiction of the Savior performing a sex act. Did the same people who told us we had to embrace Islam (a faith that sees no obligation to return the favor) have any objection to insulting Catholicism? No. Why is that?
Last week it came to light that the State of Colorado paid for an exhibition full of anti-Catholic propaganda, including a depiction of the Savior performing a sex act. Did the same people who told us we had to embrace Islam (a faith that sees no obligation to return the favor) have any objection to insulting Catholicism? No. Why is that?
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Earth to Phil Hare, Come In Phil Hare
Phil Hare is now claiming that the United States isn't in debt, and can spend at will.
Total liabilities of the U.S. Government are 53 TRILLION!
Much of this is owed to COMMUNIST CHINA!
I cannot believe this clown is my congressman.
Total liabilities of the U.S. Government are 53 TRILLION!
Much of this is owed to COMMUNIST CHINA!
I cannot believe this clown is my congressman.
Dropping the Ball
Dropping the ball in religion--
Catholic liberals who get freaked out by making scriptural references in Mass prayers that no one questioned before 1962.
Dropping the ball in politics--
Illinois Republicans who made a lying pro-abort their Senate candidate.
Good job on both!
Catholic liberals who get freaked out by making scriptural references in Mass prayers that no one questioned before 1962.
Dropping the ball in politics--
Illinois Republicans who made a lying pro-abort their Senate candidate.
Good job on both!
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Crass Money Grubbers? Or Sincere Voices?
Dawn Eden, who bravely questions the pseudo-Catholic ramblings of Christopher West, has found herself accused of being a crass money-grubber by Dr. Janet Smith.
Coincidentally, Riehl World View is now accusing Glenn Beck of the same thing, comparing Mr. Beck to a feminine televangelist. Touche!
Remember reader, no one has any legitimate opinions about anything. It is all just a ploy to make money.
Unless you are Christopher West or Dan Riehl.
Such can be described either as cynicism or as psychological projection of one's own faults onto others.
Coincidentally, Riehl World View is now accusing Glenn Beck of the same thing, comparing Mr. Beck to a feminine televangelist. Touche!
Remember reader, no one has any legitimate opinions about anything. It is all just a ploy to make money.
Unless you are Christopher West or Dan Riehl.
Such can be described either as cynicism or as psychological projection of one's own faults onto others.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Reliapundit Is Full of Sh**
Astute Bloggers' Instapundit blames European irreligion on celebate Catholic Priests. Baloney! England is a very irreligious country and it has had married clergy for 500 years. If Instapundit were right, England should be the holiest country on Earth. It isn't.
Was reading Jacques Maritain's Moral Philosophy, where it talks about the Hegelian concept that the collective is the source of freedom, meaning, and values. It reminded me a lot of the character we have in the White House right now. Maritain writes,
"As a crowning piece of political hypocrisy, this mythology guaranteed by the dialectic gives complete security to the sovereign power of the State, which, far from exercising restraint upon me, is my freedom, and consequently has a right not only to my obedience, but also to my enthusiasm and to a warm glow in my heart."
This pretty much sums up the Oh Blah Blah philosophy of life. And add this little gem about Hegelian political morality.
"History is the judgment of God. The history of the world is the tribunal which judges the world, Weltgeschichte ist Weltgericht. To cooperate in the victory of the community, which in virtue of its historical success will be absolved at this tribunal, that is the only requirement that the higher ethics makes of the individual, the ethics which has to do with the destiny of peoples. It was when the one-party systems, the organized prophetic Minorities of the totalitarian type appeared, that this implication of the Hegelian Sittlichkeit became fully manifest, an implication more secret but even more deeply rooted than that which has to do with the State. At the same time it became clear that this same Sittlichkeit had opened the doors of the modern world to what can best be called absolute Machiavellianism."
Good Morning! The old God is dead, please face your Post Office and bow for morning prayers!
Was reading Jacques Maritain's Moral Philosophy, where it talks about the Hegelian concept that the collective is the source of freedom, meaning, and values. It reminded me a lot of the character we have in the White House right now. Maritain writes,
"As a crowning piece of political hypocrisy, this mythology guaranteed by the dialectic gives complete security to the sovereign power of the State, which, far from exercising restraint upon me, is my freedom, and consequently has a right not only to my obedience, but also to my enthusiasm and to a warm glow in my heart."
This pretty much sums up the Oh Blah Blah philosophy of life. And add this little gem about Hegelian political morality.
"History is the judgment of God. The history of the world is the tribunal which judges the world, Weltgeschichte ist Weltgericht. To cooperate in the victory of the community, which in virtue of its historical success will be absolved at this tribunal, that is the only requirement that the higher ethics makes of the individual, the ethics which has to do with the destiny of peoples. It was when the one-party systems, the organized prophetic Minorities of the totalitarian type appeared, that this implication of the Hegelian Sittlichkeit became fully manifest, an implication more secret but even more deeply rooted than that which has to do with the State. At the same time it became clear that this same Sittlichkeit had opened the doors of the modern world to what can best be called absolute Machiavellianism."
Good Morning! The old God is dead, please face your Post Office and bow for morning prayers!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Unproven Assertions
Yet to be proven, but asserted as fact. . .
1)Republicans had something to do with the housing market crisis and recession
2)Tea Parties attract strange people
3)Human beings only exist after birth
The list could easily expand. These are just three I came up with that are typically treated as though they were facts by CERTAIN people. Such said people are mainly remarkable for holding the reins of power and writing the news stories in this country. I have a counter-list.
1)Government meddling had something to do with the housing market crisis and recession
2)The strangest thing about Tea Parties is the reaction of leftists
3)Human beings exist long before birth, perhaps even (shudder) from conception
My list isn't proven either, but so what?
1)Republicans had something to do with the housing market crisis and recession
2)Tea Parties attract strange people
3)Human beings only exist after birth
The list could easily expand. These are just three I came up with that are typically treated as though they were facts by CERTAIN people. Such said people are mainly remarkable for holding the reins of power and writing the news stories in this country. I have a counter-list.
1)Government meddling had something to do with the housing market crisis and recession
2)The strangest thing about Tea Parties is the reaction of leftists
3)Human beings exist long before birth, perhaps even (shudder) from conception
My list isn't proven either, but so what?
The Fifth Column: Honor Killing in Islam
The Fifth Column: Honor Killing in Islam
Dhimmitude! Read all about it!
Dhimmitude! Read all about it!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Why Obama Isn't Muslim
Obama's speech to the Hispanic Congressional Caucus uses a verbatim quote from the Declaration of Independence-- minus the words "by their creator!" This is not accidental. Obama is a sixties-style european socialist, whose legal philosophy is positivist. There is no room for God in Oh Blah Blah's equation. This is why he calls middle Americans "bitter people who cling to God and guns." Why is anyone surprised by this? Oh Blah Blah has no attachment to any kind of religion, save Jeremiah Wright type "God damn America."
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Steven Givler Online: Bigot
Steven Givler Online: Bigot
Another reason why John Quincy Adams is one of Estase's favorite presidents.
Another reason why John Quincy Adams is one of Estase's favorite presidents.
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