Ontological Confusion

We started with babies are not babies; and now we are at men are not men, women are not women, boys are not boys, girls are not girls. Where will it end?

Semantic Haloes

In his Studies of Words C.S. Lewis wrote of 'semantic haloes', the practice of making a word or idea sacrosanct, giving it an encompassed, often emotive, reading which destroys the definition. Instead of being a word of description of something definite, it becomes a term of praise or condemnation. We are presently seeing so much language used this way (largely for the end of social engineering) that one almost needs a seperate dictionary for this hagiography of language.

The Separation That Didn't Seem to Matter

On the separation of children from their parents, especially mothers. Somehow I don't remember any such outrage when the feminists succeeded in separating mothers from children and having them, the children, placed in detention centers euphemistically called "Day Care" while the mothers were liberated from the confining home to the freedom of the factory.

Interrogate the Text

Interrogate the text. Given a photo, a bit of print media, a headline with a leading adverb like "deceitfully" or "hatefully", we must first evaluate the source. If it is from the Huffington Post, NY Times, TIME magazine, Newsweak (misspelling intentional), CNN, MSNBC, consider that these agencies, have long since ceased to be agencies of news but architects of social engineering. Consider their anti-America, Anti-Trump, Anti-Conservative, Anti-Morality, and most importantly, Anti-Christ agenda. Consider how the text or photo molds our opinions perhaps through an emotive---children are often quite handy---especially in photos---and crying children most especially (how easy it is to get a child to cry on cue---quite handy as a propagandic tool). And consider the end game: emotional manipulation that would seek to make us, even the religious, atheistic allies to a godless country, a godless world.

Josef Goebels Would Be Thrilled

The propaganda today in images and words would have thrilled Josef Goebbels. Could he have imagined a magazine like TIME, a "mainstream" periodical, posting a cover of a gigantic Patriarchal Capitalist Businessman Conservative Hater Hard-Hearted Hitler towering over a tiny child crying. Goebbels must be applauding where he is in his eternal rest.

The Left Weeps. Children in Cages.

The Left weeps. Children in cages. Who can blame them? Somehow the children that made it by their scalpels and vacuum hoses, suction tubes and kindly calipers have made it into the world. I supposed the Leftists loved them then too when they were in the womb, or perhaps that was a cage needing liberation from? 
Anyhow the Left most recently celebrates the liberation of Ireland from her children no doubt with only kindness as their motive. Only a religious hater I suppose would lament the dismemberment of the little arms and legs, fingers and toes, the excavation of the skull of all that brain matter. Of course, the Left certainly wouldn't lament such progress. After all their compassion lies in not restricting immigration to these little ones that happened to make it through the warzone of wombdom. Now they will be placed in palaces. I for one thought at first the Left was using children as political pawns---but then I had to ask how could anyone ever think the Left would stoop to that? They really love little ones---don't all the contraceptive and abortive rants tell us this? So I must acknowledge that it appears that such moralists on the Left are guiding us. Somehow I had the mistaken notion that they were against anything good; but I can see now that it was we conservatives and Christians who were the real anti-moralists. Hopefully we conservatives and Christians can undergo a real miracle of the metanoia of the mind. Hopefully we too will come to view the child as a disposable doll when it is in the womb and to live when outside the womb, wherever, regardless of the law, he wishes.

I Remember the Days

For Father's Day: I remember the days parking at the State Police Barracks by the Museum of Science and walking over to the Garden with a boy's expectancy to see the Bruins. And I remember passing in the tickets and jumping the stairs not to miss a thing, and to hear over the speakers, "Goal Number Four, Orr, assist..." Ah, we missed it! And then to get our seats in the aisle---and many did this---and the ushers walking the perimeter of the Garden knew this as well, and they would motion us out of the aisle and up the walkway. He would leave and every one of us aisle-sittings would take up residence again in these which seemed the best seats anyone could have. Yet, we kept an eye on seats that were still unclaimed by the end of the second period and we'd make our way down to them...or sometimes just stay put. That was fine, because there in front of you, Dad, I was safe and so full of happiness with you shouting behind me that there must be something like aisle seats and hockey in heaven.

The Separation of Children from their Parents

People are worried about the separation of children from their parents. I get that. But I don't understand how they are so against the man that has done more to fight the separation of children from their parents in the womb than any politician within memory. Consistency should be part of our reasoning.

A Berean People

More than ever it seems we live in times where we must be more than ever a Berean people who are so familiar with the Scriptures that our palates can recognize the real food of the Ancient Faith and spit out that which only masquerades as the true manna. In these debauched days may we resist that which seeks to make us the holy of Hollywood rather than those separated unto the Kingdom of Heaven. May we become less and less a people catechized by Caligula, and more and more a people catechized by Christ.

Indulging the Imagination of the New Heavens and the New Earth

And there will be a new heaven and a new earth...what will that be like? Simply more sunny days, a little less litter on the streets, a few more daisies by the roadside? An absence of poison ivy, a taming of ticks, a muzzling of termites? St Paul tells us that it is more than these mere improvements. It will be more than eye can see or ear has heard. We should perhaps sometimes indulge our imaginations. Perhaps our eyes will be able to see quarks and the strings of string theory. Perhaps we will be able to hear the vibrations; perhaps we will be able to see the music.

The Tariff on Truth

Have we even as a Church allowed our eyes to become contaminated by a culture that continues to persuade us to sell our birthrights for a mess of porridge? Have we sold the beauty of Mennonite modesty for the seductive lure of Manhattan's manikins? sold the distinctive gemstones of God ordained altar love for the cheapness of casual couplings? should we hold up a biblical mirror and see that we have nurtured Neapolitan niceness over a crusader's courage? made blind the Beatific Vision for voyeurism and Vegas? traded the enduring iron of truth for the sentiment of seductive soundbites? Maybe it wasn't just Esau made a bargain that will in the end betray.

Counter Cultural when the Culture is Antichrist

Following Jesus is going to be counter-cultural when the culture is antichrist. May you stay strong, my friends, in a time when even the very elect, as our Lord forecasted, will be deceived. And of course Satan will use niceness, tolerance, and all the buzzwords we use to feel good about ourselves to capture the sentimental soul.