New testaminted

Via Evangelical Outpost comes a link to a review of "Jesus Junk" that I can mostly agree.
There are many useful things to use out there, but then there's this:

Picture this. A man, dead in trespasses and sins, sits on Waikiki Beach as he gazes across the mostly naked bodies baking in the sun. He decides to take a stroll/strut down the water’s edge to “see what he can see.” Luckily, he glances down and sees an impression in the sand—right there in bold letters on the sand “Follow” and a little further “Jesus.” His eyes follow the footsteps and sure enough. About 15 feet further down the beach is a beautiful babe wearing just enough clothes to keep a squirrel warm on a windy day. Conviction overwhelms him as he gazes at her. He runs to her and grabs her hand and says, “Please, give me a reason for the hope that lies within you.” She says, “I’d love to. I’ve been waiting for this divine appointment.” He takes in her breath, recently made fresh by her Scripture Mint. And right there, she flips her hair over her shoulder, takes out her EvangeCube, kneels with him on the beach, and leads him in the sinner’s prayer. As they part, she encourages him to take her sandals and continue to spread the Word wherever he goes. After all, how beautiful are the feet of them . . .

Yep, I can just see it now :-( The rest is not quite as sarcastic as the excerpt.

EO adds on his blog: If you give people Scripture mints or wear Virtuous Woman perfume and think your are fulfilling the Great Commission, then you must read this post -- and repent of your misguided ways.

How to rock on treadmills

Sadly, this more likely how I would use treadmills than how I ought to use them :-)


The Treadmill Dance

The line is getting thin for plan B

The CurtJester is commenting on a Christianity Today link for Amy Welborn.
First, check out the first comment that really puts things in perspective on Amy's link and then check out Curtjester's comments.

The line is really thin for Catholic and protestant alike who are trying to walk that line.
Christianity Today does a good job of summerizing it for the average person.

Bush supports backup plan.

This artilce from lifesite.net indicates that the President Bush is accepting of the "Plan B" pill over the counter status. He stated that it should be a prescription for minors. This is rediculous! If I was caught giving alcohol to a minor, I would be in be big trouble. I will predict to you right now, that there will be women (and some older boy friends) getting this pill and distributing it to minors with no worry of prosecution. I think Planned Parenthood (part of Evil Inc) within a year will be giving it out to minors without any prodecution. They are already transporting minors across state lines for abortion and not being successfully prosecuted. No judge is going to nail them for it because of this kids constitutional right to this abortificient.

I have said since 1999 the President was not commited to the pro-life cause from the beginning and there were plenty of warning up front. Then his compromise on ESCR was the clincher if you needed any proof. Don't get me wrong, I am glad he is POTUS instead of Kerry. John (if you didn't know, served in 'nam) Kerry would have created a special government department just for funding ESCR. Kerry would have also put SCOTUS nominees that would have been wildly endorsed by the ACLU and Planned parenthood. I just want to point out that we can't give Bush a pass just because we agree with him on a few other things.

7 Sacroments of the Party of Death

I have lifted the first part of a Bishop Doran letter from the Curtjester. Please take the two minutes to read it.

Reaping the whirlwind of abortion

I want to touch on this matter before we get too close to the November madness. As human beings, as citizens of a “first world country,” as Americans, and as Catholics, most importantly, we have to take count of the circumstances in which we live. We know that the only creatures of God that outlast time are those created having intellect and will. All other things, with the passage of time, break up or break down.

Many of the issues that confront us are serious, and we know by now that the political parties in our country are at loggerheads as to how to solve them. We know, for instance, that adherents of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people.

The seven “sacraments” of their secular culture are abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic experimentation and mutilation. These things they unabashedly espouse, profess and promote. Their continuance in public office is a clear and present danger to our survival as a nation.

Since the mid-1940s we have been accustomed to look askance at Germans. They were protagonists of the Second World War and so responsible for fifty million deaths. We say, “How awful,” and yet in our country we have, for the most part, allowed the party of death and the court system it has produced to eliminate, since 1973, upwards of forty million of our fellow citizens without allowing them to see the light of day. They have done their best to make ours a true culture of death. No doubt, we shall soon outstrip the Nazis in doing human beings to death.

I do not think that we should spend a great deal of time in lamentation over the children whose lives have been snuffed out by the barbaric practice of therapeutic abortion. They passed from their lives quickly in this world and have gone into the hands of the Lord of Life and Mercy for all eternity. We must make it clear too, that many who have sought to have practiced on themselves therapeutic abortion are in many instances driven to it by persons heedless of their welfare, or by well- meaning but inept parents or guardians who regard abortion as a solution and not as what it is — an immense problem. There are some, I think few, largely given over to immoral lives who regard abortion as a good, but their number is not great.

What we have to remember is that violence breeds violence. When we tolerate unjust attacks upon the tiniest innocents among us, we habituate ourselves to violence. And so we have allowed these barbaric practices to corrupt our laws, our medical practice, and even our ordinary lives. How accustomed we have become to the immense loss of life in our wars throughout the world! Those who have killed millions under their mother’s hearts cannot be expected to balk at a mere few thousand killed in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Somalia, in Darfur, in Bosnia, in Madrid, in London, in Baghdad, in Beirut, in Washington, in New York. The violence of abortion coarsens the lives of all of us.

God's Protection?

From the Wall Street Journal editorial section comes this piece from an assistant professor from Wheaton College.

...evangelicals overwhelmingly support birth control (88%).

...Such pleasures are not lost on evangelicals. A recent trip to a local Christian bookstore suggests that evangelicals enjoy sex--and often. The classic Christian sex manual, "Intended for Pleasure" (1977), has been joined by many others. "Sizzle" seems to be the new goal: At least four new books use the word in their promotions.

A pro-contraception outlook among evangelicals does not, however, imply a "pro-choice" position on abortion. In some cases, like Plan B--which may thin the uterine lining and prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg--contraception and abortion may appear to be the same thing.
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At issue is the matter of control. Anti-contraception evangelicals assert that birth control inappropriately wrests control of the body from the body's creator. Interestingly, the opposite argument is being made by evangelicals in the sexual-abstinence movement, according to my study of church-based virginity-pledge programs. Such evangelicals adopt the feminist argument of "my body, my choice" to curb teenage sexual activity. They believe that our hypersexualized culture--including the condom-in-the-schools crowd--wrongly implies that there is no choice.

Both the anti-contraception and the abstinence movements offer rewards: great sex in marriage for abstinent teens and the blessing of children for anti-contraception couples. But what reward is there for the 40-year-old virgin or the infertile couple? The rhetoric of sacrifice, it seems, has lost its sizzle.
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Still, many evangelicals portray abstinence not as obedience but as an investment in future great sex. For those who marry, the "my body, my choice" attitude contributes to a contraception culture that places fulfillment of personal desires ahead of God's desires.

Some evangelicals charge that the Pill has contributed to the moral breakdown of society; perhaps, but evangelicals' embrace of the contraception culture has not helped. It may have made Christianity sexier to potential adherents but diminished a public understanding of marriage in the process. For evangelicals, this may be a bitter pill to swallow.

You can read the whole thing Here.
Please comment on how this affects, or does not affect, your position on Embrionic Stem Stell research.

The Rapture and Purgatory

Just a quick thought. Isn't the evangelical "Rapture" closer to what they think Purgatory is than what the Catholic Church teaches?
The Church teaches that when you die, you are going to Heavan or Hell. You may have to spend some time in purgatory getting cleaned up to enter Heavan. But the decision was already made between Heavan and hell.
The Rapture indicates that all who are saved will be "caught up" with the Lord. The rest will remain on earth and still have a chance at salvation if they choose. Aren't the people being left behind getting a second chance at the end?
I realize the this is not an apples to apples comparison because the people on the ground would still be alive in an earthly sense. Just something to think about.

Darth Vader's Humor

This is made me laugh pretty hard. Maybe I am just too tired....maybe not....

You can decide for yourself here.

Time to get Roto-Reutered

Rueters has apparrently run with multiple doctored photos in Lebanon. They are about as clean as Barry Bonds.
Michelle has a full rundown here on the use of ster-rueters in the news.


We can see in this 18 minute documentary how many of these scenes are just staged for the media. The MSM picks up the edited copy that they did not have to do themselves and run with it as if it was real. I am sure the makers of these films are glad there are very few (if any) MSM fact checkers for this type of footage.

Colbert Debates Himself On Stem Cells

YouTube - Colbert Debates Himself On Stem Cells


Sometimes comedy is more truthful than the news.