Showing posts with label St. Paul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Paul. Show all posts

THE BLOOD-MOON BAMBOOZLER



In what can only be deemed a miracle, the peoples of earth have managed to pass through a fourth blood moon this year without the apocalyptic events predicted by the all-you-can-eat buffet fiend and supposed Christian evangelist John Hagee.

The nuclear accord between the United States (and the rest of the world) and Iran has not ended in some sort of global conflict, nor has Iran used the opportunity to “wipe Israel off the map,” as the neocons and their Christian Zionist sycophants have continuously been predicting. Gog and Magog must have spent the entire duration of the blood moon saga playing Angry Birds on their iPhones and drinking their Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes, thereby missing their cue to invade plucky Israel and initiate the Battle of Armageddon.

"EVERYDAY" INNOCENCE

Buddy Holly: a nerdy knight of faith.

A corrupt age views innocence as an essential absence; that is to say, as a state of being “not guilty.” Since all ages are corrupt, to varying degrees, we never quite apprehend innocence for what it truly is: a positive presence.

Philosophy, after all, teaches that man’s telos is the Good; if this is so, then the condition of innocence can’t simply be dismissively consigned to the silly naivety of childhood, while “knowledge” and “wisdom” get to be associated with an individual’s embracing of the corruption that invariably attends maturity, thus demonstrating his complicity with that which spoils his innocence.

In truth innocence is wisdom, and corruption is folly, NOT the other way around.

EXTRAORDINARY SYNODS AND CHEAP GRACE



There is at present a good deal of "Chicken Little-ing" going on amongst conservative Catholics with regard to the Extraordinary Synod of the Family now convening in Rome, under the questionable leadership of glib, grinning mountebank extraordinaire Pope Francis, nee "Father Bergoglio," as he apparently still likes to call himself when dispensing exceedingly dubious pearls of "wisdom" to members of his flock.