Back in the 90s when Fr. Paul Marx, founder of HLI, was asked his opinion about the efforts to legalize "same-sex unions" he commented in his usual forthright fashion, "When they do that," he said, "it's the end." He meant "the end" of the Christian civilization whose values used to form the basis of American common life. Fr. Marx, in a prophetic sense, saw rightly that a society cannot survive the perverse manipulation of the very structure of reality that God Himself has revealed to us, one very fundamental element of which is the institution of marriage. When we allow that to be changed-"It's the end."Continued here
In 2009, 52% of the voting population in California endorsed Proposition 8 which ratified the constitutional protection of marriage as between a man and a woman. One might argue that even 52% was shockingly low on something so important, but the people won that battle despite the veritable war of the homosexual militants to sink that Proposition. In fact, Christian decency won and the structure of reality stayed intact, at least in this aspect of law in California, until this week when a single judge just nullified 7 million votes and the will of the people and lifted the "ban" on gay marriage. There was rejoicing in Sodom on the Bay, but how sad for our nation and even for our poor, misguided world that will weaken in its opposition to the homosexual lifestyle as a result of this decision.
So why, you ask, is gay marriage wrong? Let me count the ways.
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Showing posts with label Atheism. Show all posts
Friday, August 13, 2010
Gay Marriage and the End of Christian Civilization
From Fr Thomas J. Euteneuer of HLI:
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Satan behind media attacks on the Pope, asserts Italian exorcist
Rome, Italy, Mar 31, 2010 / 11:47 am (CNA).- Noted Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, commented this week that the recent defamatory reporting on Pope Benedict XVI, especially by the New York Times, was “prompted by the devil.”Continued here.
Speaking to News Mediaset in Italy, the 85-year-old exorcist noted that the devil is behind “the recent attacks on Pope Benedict XVI regarding some pedophilia cases.”
“There is no doubt about it. Because he is a marvelous Pope and worthy successor to John Paul II, it is clear that the devil wants to ‘grab hold’ of him.”...
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
December 8-The Immaculate Conception
"I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she will crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Genesis, 3:15.
In the early years of the seventeenth century the armies of Sweden threatened to overrun Austria. They won victory after victory. The Austrian Emperor, Ferdinand III, was desperate. In 1629 he decided to make a public appeal for the protection of the Blessed Virgin, toward whom he had a tender devotion.
He ordered the building of a giant column in the city square of Vienna. It was decorated with numerous emblems, all representing some phase of the Immaculate Conception. At each of the four corners of the foundation he directed that angels in armor be placed, treading the dragon under their feet, showing how our Spotless Mother won the victory over original sin and all sin. On the summit of the column stood a statue of the Mother of God, her foot on the head of the satanic serpent. At the base of the imposing pillar were carved the words:
The devout emperor marched in the procession, attended by his son Ferdinand IV, who was king of Bohemia and Hungary, by his daughter Marianna, who was queen of Spain, by representatives of many countries, by all the nobility, by religious communities and by the secular clergy. An immense crowd followed as the pious parade made its way to the foot of the column. There the emperor repeated aloud and with all the fervor of his soul the words inscribed in stone, the words inscribed in their hearts, the words consecrating and dedicating himself and his kingdom and his people to the Immaculate Mother of God.
How pleasing this dedication was to Mary is seen in the sudden and striking assistance she sent to those who honored her Immaculate Conception. Motherlike she hurried to help. A few days after this magnificent demonstration the emperor met the enemy at Eger, close to the invaders' camp. With one blow he stopped the oncoming Swedes and forced them to sign a complete and lasting treaty of peace. His empire was saved.
Austria, or any other nation, never had more invaders than America has today. True, we do have friends. But those who plot our downfall are so great and numerous, so secret and satanic, that every true American must awaken to threatening enemies from within and without. There is no cause for hysteria, but there is need to realize that certain forces, foreign to the spirit of America, are working to wreck our glorious nation.
There was, for instance, a godless government called the Soviet, which openly admitted its purpose to envelop us within its Iron Curtain. Agents of that Red regime were (are) working in all classes and professions and in many departments of our government, to bring about the overthrow of all that we Americans hold sacred.
How long it takes some people to wake up! For decades the Catholic Church has been warning the world about Atheistic Communism. Only when war was waged in helpless Korea did some eyes and minds open.
Knowingly and unknowingly thousands of so-called Americans are working against our government. Our schools are honeycombed with teachers who are against God, the very foundation of our nation.
Another group who profess to believe in God are openly and secretly working against God's Church, the Catholic Church, the most patriotic and powerful force for true Americanism in the land. In college classrooms, in church pulpits, in secret societies, in telephone, back-fence, club, and Internet gossip there is ceaseless sniping at the beliefs and practices of a spiritual organization which stands and fights for every basic principle of the United States.
In this army invading America we see the greedy capitalist and the merciless money-changer who give ground to the charge of capitalist cruelty. Thank God, not all managers and owners are lined up with them. And we see the Marxists and the socialists who wish to rob the working man and his family of the fruits of his hard work.
The invaders include racketeers and fomenters of violence, race hatred and bigotry, printers and peddlers of pornography and impurity, producers and patrons of immoral movies, sellers and buyers and users of artificial birth control, the abortion industry engaged in infanticide with its supporters in government and even, God forbid, in the Church.
We witness evil and insidious forces within government heaping burden upon burden on Americans all while wasting tax dollars on non-essential or questionable government programs. We see the attack coming from those who wish to pervert and destroy the morals of society with the push to legitimize the deadly sins of homosexuality, adultery, contraception, and other sexually perverse acts.
In that army we see Blanshards and Oxnams, so-called converted Catholics and Witnesses of Jehovah, all tearing away at the nation's foundations.
Who can stop such invaders? Who can save our soil from such traitors?
All the policemen in the world, including our FBI and our military can not repulse such attackers.
Like King Ferdinand and the people of Austria, we Americans will appeal to one who has been victorious before, one who has won the greatest victory of all time, the victory over sin.
On December 8 we publicly and lovingly dedicate ourselves again to the Immaculate Virgin and Mother. Ask her help in halting the enemies of the country which chose her as patroness under the title of the Immaculate Conception.
May Mary Immaculate, the victorious Virgin, win another victory for us.
Amen.
__________________
Adapted from Feasts of Our Lady
by Msgr. Arthur Tonne
In the early years of the seventeenth century the armies of Sweden threatened to overrun Austria. They won victory after victory. The Austrian Emperor, Ferdinand III, was desperate. In 1629 he decided to make a public appeal for the protection of the Blessed Virgin, toward whom he had a tender devotion.
He ordered the building of a giant column in the city square of Vienna. It was decorated with numerous emblems, all representing some phase of the Immaculate Conception. At each of the four corners of the foundation he directed that angels in armor be placed, treading the dragon under their feet, showing how our Spotless Mother won the victory over original sin and all sin. On the summit of the column stood a statue of the Mother of God, her foot on the head of the satanic serpent. At the base of the imposing pillar were carved the words:
"TO THE MOST HIGH AND GOOD GOD, LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, FROM WHOM KINGS HOLD THEIR THRONES.Never in the history of the land was there a more solemn celebration than that which marked the dedication of this splendid shaft. It gave triumphant testimony to their love of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
"TO THE VIRGIN MOTHER OF GOD, CONCEIVED WITHOUT STAIN OF ORIGINAL SIN, BY WHOM PRINCES COMMAND, WHO HAS THIS DAY BEEN CHOSEN BY PARTICULAR DEVOTION AS PATRONESS OF AUSTRIA, THE EMPEROR FERDINAND III ENTRUSTS AND CONSECRATES ALL HIS POSSESSIONS, HIS PERSON, HIS CHILDREN, HIS PEOPLE, HIS ARMIES, HIS DOMAINS; AND IN PERPETUAL MEMORY OF THIS, HIS DEVOTION, HE HAS ERECTED THIS STATUE."
The devout emperor marched in the procession, attended by his son Ferdinand IV, who was king of Bohemia and Hungary, by his daughter Marianna, who was queen of Spain, by representatives of many countries, by all the nobility, by religious communities and by the secular clergy. An immense crowd followed as the pious parade made its way to the foot of the column. There the emperor repeated aloud and with all the fervor of his soul the words inscribed in stone, the words inscribed in their hearts, the words consecrating and dedicating himself and his kingdom and his people to the Immaculate Mother of God.
How pleasing this dedication was to Mary is seen in the sudden and striking assistance she sent to those who honored her Immaculate Conception. Motherlike she hurried to help. A few days after this magnificent demonstration the emperor met the enemy at Eger, close to the invaders' camp. With one blow he stopped the oncoming Swedes and forced them to sign a complete and lasting treaty of peace. His empire was saved.
Austria, or any other nation, never had more invaders than America has today. True, we do have friends. But those who plot our downfall are so great and numerous, so secret and satanic, that every true American must awaken to threatening enemies from within and without. There is no cause for hysteria, but there is need to realize that certain forces, foreign to the spirit of America, are working to wreck our glorious nation.
There was, for instance, a godless government called the Soviet, which openly admitted its purpose to envelop us within its Iron Curtain. Agents of that Red regime were (are) working in all classes and professions and in many departments of our government, to bring about the overthrow of all that we Americans hold sacred.
How long it takes some people to wake up! For decades the Catholic Church has been warning the world about Atheistic Communism. Only when war was waged in helpless Korea did some eyes and minds open.
Knowingly and unknowingly thousands of so-called Americans are working against our government. Our schools are honeycombed with teachers who are against God, the very foundation of our nation.
Another group who profess to believe in God are openly and secretly working against God's Church, the Catholic Church, the most patriotic and powerful force for true Americanism in the land. In college classrooms, in church pulpits, in secret societies, in telephone, back-fence, club, and Internet gossip there is ceaseless sniping at the beliefs and practices of a spiritual organization which stands and fights for every basic principle of the United States.
In this army invading America we see the greedy capitalist and the merciless money-changer who give ground to the charge of capitalist cruelty. Thank God, not all managers and owners are lined up with them. And we see the Marxists and the socialists who wish to rob the working man and his family of the fruits of his hard work.
The invaders include racketeers and fomenters of violence, race hatred and bigotry, printers and peddlers of pornography and impurity, producers and patrons of immoral movies, sellers and buyers and users of artificial birth control, the abortion industry engaged in infanticide with its supporters in government and even, God forbid, in the Church.
We witness evil and insidious forces within government heaping burden upon burden on Americans all while wasting tax dollars on non-essential or questionable government programs. We see the attack coming from those who wish to pervert and destroy the morals of society with the push to legitimize the deadly sins of homosexuality, adultery, contraception, and other sexually perverse acts.
In that army we see Blanshards and Oxnams, so-called converted Catholics and Witnesses of Jehovah, all tearing away at the nation's foundations.
Who can stop such invaders? Who can save our soil from such traitors?
All the policemen in the world, including our FBI and our military can not repulse such attackers.
Like King Ferdinand and the people of Austria, we Americans will appeal to one who has been victorious before, one who has won the greatest victory of all time, the victory over sin.
On December 8 we publicly and lovingly dedicate ourselves again to the Immaculate Virgin and Mother. Ask her help in halting the enemies of the country which chose her as patroness under the title of the Immaculate Conception.
May Mary Immaculate, the victorious Virgin, win another victory for us.
Amen.
__________________
Adapted from Feasts of Our Lady
by Msgr. Arthur Tonne
Sunday, December 07, 2008
December 8-The Immaculate Conception
"I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she will crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Genesis, 3:15.
In the early years of the seventeenth century the armies of Sweden threatened to overrun Austria. They won victory after victory. The Austrian Emperor, Ferdinand III, was desperate. In 1629 he decided to make a public appeal for the protection of the Blessed Virgin, toward whom he had a tender devotion.
He ordered the building of a giant column in the city square of Vienna. It was decorated with numerous emblems, all representing some phase of the Immaculate Conception. At each of the four corners of the foundation he directed that angels in armor be placed, treading the dragon under their feet, showing how our Spotless Mother won the victory over original sin and all sin. On the summit of the column stood a statue of the Mother of God, her foot on the head of the satanic serpent. At the base of the imposing pillar were carved the words:
The devout emperor marched in the procession, attended by his son Ferdinand IV, who was king of Bohemia and Hungary, by his daughter Marianna, who was queen of Spain, by representatives of many countries, by all the nobility, by religious communities and by the secular clergy. An immense crowd followed as the pious parade made its way to the foot of the column. There the emperor repeated aloud and with all the fervor of his soul the words inscribed in stone, the words inscribed in their hearts, the words consecrating and dedicating himself and his kingdom and his people to the Immaculate Mother of God.
How pleasing this dedication was to Mary is seen in the sudden and striking assistance she sent to those who honored her Immaculate Conception. Motherlike she hurried to help. A few days after this magnificent demonstration the emperor met the enemy at Eger, close to the invaders' camp. With one blow he stopped the oncoming Swedes and forced them to sign a complete and lasting treaty of peace. His empire was saved.
Austria, or any other nation, never had more invaders than America has today. True, we do have friends. But those who plot our downfall are so great and numerous, so secret and satanic, that every true American must awaken to threatening enemies from within and without. There is no cause for hysteria, but there is need to realize that certain forces, foreign to the spirit of America, are working to wreck our glorious nation.
There was, for instance, a godless government called the Soviet, which openly admitted its purpose to envelop us within its Iron Curtain. Agents of that Red regime were (are) working in all classes and professions and in many departments of our government, to bring about the overthrow of all that we Americans hold sacred.
How long it takes some people to wake up! For decades the Catholic Church has been warning the world about Atheistic Communism. Only when war was waged in helpless Korea did some eyes and minds open.
Knowingly and unknowingly thousands of so-called Americans are working against our government. Our schools are honeycombed with teachers who are against God, the very foundation of our nation.
Another group who profess to believe in God are openly and secretly working against God's Church, the Catholic Church, the most patriotic and powerful force for true Americanism in the land. In college classrooms, in church pulpits, in secret societies, in telephone, back-fence, club, and Internet gossip there is ceaseless sniping at the beliefs and practices of a spiritual organization which stands and fights for every basic principle of the United States.
In this army invading America we see the greedy capitalist and the merciless money-changer who give ground to the charge of capitalist cruelty. Thank God, not all managers and owners are lined up with them. And we see the Marxists and the socialists who wish to rob the working man and his family of the fruits of his hard work.
The invaders include racketeers and fomenters of violence, race hatred and bigotry, printers and peddlers of pornography and impurity, producers and patrons of immoral movies, sellers and buyers and users of artificial birth control, the abortion industry engaged in infanticide with its supporters in government and even, God forbid, in the Church.
We witness evil and insidious forces within government heaping burden upon burden on Americans all while wasting tax dollars on non-essential or questionable government programs. We see the attack coming from those who wish to pervert and destroy the morals of society with the push to legitimize the deadly sins of homosexuality, adultery, contraception, and other sexually perverse acts.
In that army we see Blanshards and Oxnams, so-called converted Catholics and Witnesses of Jehovah, all tearing away at the nation's foundations.
Who can stop such invaders? Who can save our soil from such traitors?
All the policemen in the world, including our FBI and our military can not repulse such attackers.
Like King Ferdinand and the people of Austria, we Americans will appeal to one who has been victorious before, one who has won the greatest victory of all time, the victory over sin.
On December 8 we publicly and lovingly dedicate ourselves again to the Immaculate Virgin and Mother. Ask her help in halting the enemies of the country which chose her as patroness under the title of the Immaculate Conception.
May Mary Immaculate, the victorious Virgin, win another victory for us.
Amen.
__________________
Adapted from Feasts of Our Lady
by Msgr. Arthur Tonne
In the early years of the seventeenth century the armies of Sweden threatened to overrun Austria. They won victory after victory. The Austrian Emperor, Ferdinand III, was desperate. In 1629 he decided to make a public appeal for the protection of the Blessed Virgin, toward whom he had a tender devotion.
He ordered the building of a giant column in the city square of Vienna. It was decorated with numerous emblems, all representing some phase of the Immaculate Conception. At each of the four corners of the foundation he directed that angels in armor be placed, treading the dragon under their feet, showing how our Spotless Mother won the victory over original sin and all sin. On the summit of the column stood a statue of the Mother of God, her foot on the head of the satanic serpent. At the base of the imposing pillar were carved the words:
"TO THE MOST HIGH AND GOOD GOD, LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, FROM WHOM KINGS HOLD THEIR THRONES.Never in the history of the land was there a more solemn celebration than that which marked the dedication of this splendid shaft. It gave triumphant testimony to their love of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
"TO THE VIRGIN MOTHER OF GOD, CONCEIVED WITHOUT STAIN OF ORIGINAL SIN, BY WHOM PRINCES COMMAND, WHO HAS THIS DAY BEEN CHOSEN BY PARTICULAR DEVOTION AS PATRONESS OF AUSTRIA, THE EMPEROR FERDINAND III ENTRUSTS AND CONSECRATES ALL HIS POSSESSIONS, HIS PERSON, HIS CHILDREN, HIS PEOPLE, HIS ARMIES, HIS DOMAINS; AND IN PERPETUAL MEMORY OF THIS, HIS DEVOTION, HE HAS ERECTED THIS STATUE."
The devout emperor marched in the procession, attended by his son Ferdinand IV, who was king of Bohemia and Hungary, by his daughter Marianna, who was queen of Spain, by representatives of many countries, by all the nobility, by religious communities and by the secular clergy. An immense crowd followed as the pious parade made its way to the foot of the column. There the emperor repeated aloud and with all the fervor of his soul the words inscribed in stone, the words inscribed in their hearts, the words consecrating and dedicating himself and his kingdom and his people to the Immaculate Mother of God.
How pleasing this dedication was to Mary is seen in the sudden and striking assistance she sent to those who honored her Immaculate Conception. Motherlike she hurried to help. A few days after this magnificent demonstration the emperor met the enemy at Eger, close to the invaders' camp. With one blow he stopped the oncoming Swedes and forced them to sign a complete and lasting treaty of peace. His empire was saved.
Austria, or any other nation, never had more invaders than America has today. True, we do have friends. But those who plot our downfall are so great and numerous, so secret and satanic, that every true American must awaken to threatening enemies from within and without. There is no cause for hysteria, but there is need to realize that certain forces, foreign to the spirit of America, are working to wreck our glorious nation.
There was, for instance, a godless government called the Soviet, which openly admitted its purpose to envelop us within its Iron Curtain. Agents of that Red regime were (are) working in all classes and professions and in many departments of our government, to bring about the overthrow of all that we Americans hold sacred.
How long it takes some people to wake up! For decades the Catholic Church has been warning the world about Atheistic Communism. Only when war was waged in helpless Korea did some eyes and minds open.
Knowingly and unknowingly thousands of so-called Americans are working against our government. Our schools are honeycombed with teachers who are against God, the very foundation of our nation.
Another group who profess to believe in God are openly and secretly working against God's Church, the Catholic Church, the most patriotic and powerful force for true Americanism in the land. In college classrooms, in church pulpits, in secret societies, in telephone, back-fence, club, and Internet gossip there is ceaseless sniping at the beliefs and practices of a spiritual organization which stands and fights for every basic principle of the United States.
In this army invading America we see the greedy capitalist and the merciless money-changer who give ground to the charge of capitalist cruelty. Thank God, not all managers and owners are lined up with them. And we see the Marxists and the socialists who wish to rob the working man and his family of the fruits of his hard work.
The invaders include racketeers and fomenters of violence, race hatred and bigotry, printers and peddlers of pornography and impurity, producers and patrons of immoral movies, sellers and buyers and users of artificial birth control, the abortion industry engaged in infanticide with its supporters in government and even, God forbid, in the Church.
We witness evil and insidious forces within government heaping burden upon burden on Americans all while wasting tax dollars on non-essential or questionable government programs. We see the attack coming from those who wish to pervert and destroy the morals of society with the push to legitimize the deadly sins of homosexuality, adultery, contraception, and other sexually perverse acts.
In that army we see Blanshards and Oxnams, so-called converted Catholics and Witnesses of Jehovah, all tearing away at the nation's foundations.
Who can stop such invaders? Who can save our soil from such traitors?
All the policemen in the world, including our FBI and our military can not repulse such attackers.
Like King Ferdinand and the people of Austria, we Americans will appeal to one who has been victorious before, one who has won the greatest victory of all time, the victory over sin.
On December 8 we publicly and lovingly dedicate ourselves again to the Immaculate Virgin and Mother. Ask her help in halting the enemies of the country which chose her as patroness under the title of the Immaculate Conception.
May Mary Immaculate, the victorious Virgin, win another victory for us.
Amen.
__________________
Adapted from Feasts of Our Lady
by Msgr. Arthur Tonne
Thursday, November 13, 2008
News Updates, 11/13
US bishops approve Revised Grail Psalter, ICEL Mass translation
The US bishops on Tuesday approved by a 203-5 vote the Revised Grail Psalter for use at Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours in the United States. By a 189-30 vote, the bishops also approved, with modifications, the International Committee for English in the Liturgy’s 2007 translation of the liturgical prayers for Masses in Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter....
God Is Not Catholic, Cardinal's Word of Honor
Carlo Maria Martini publishes a book "on the risk of faith," and calls for distrust of doctrinal definitions, because God "is beyond." But this brings the risk of emptying the articles of the Creed, object Professor Pietro De Marco. And he explains why....
[The good cardinal has is no longer Catholic...He's bitter and feels justified in spreading his heresy ]
Without The Coming of Christ, the World Will Not be Just or Renewed, Pope Teaches
"Every Christian discourse on the last things, called eschatology, always begins with the resurrection,” Pope Benedict began as he turned to Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians...
Bishops warn Obama about abortion issue
Official statement: we vow to oppose 'culture of coercion'
[A statement with no teeth to a marxist dictator supported by a majority of professed Catholics who suffer no consequences in this life for their actions. Nothing new here...]
Bishops conference cuts funding for ACORN
In wake of embezzlement scandal, voter registration fraud
[Until new methods of funding are found, no doubt. This is too little, too late. The warnings came years ago, but were ignored.]
Obama has first phone conversation with Pope
Neither leader made any reference to stem cell issue
Contrary to Campaign Claim, Obama Told Paper He Attended Trinity Church ‘Every Week’
President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 – while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat – that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week. This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced. Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright’s comments.
[There is no truth in this man - he is a liar and a fraud]
Same-sex "marriage" begins in Connecticut [Sure it does]
First ceremony punctuated with tears, roses, balloons
[with Satan watching over with glee]
Former Milwaukee archbishop admits shuffling abusive priests
In a deposition made public yesterday, Archbishop Rembert Weakland, the former head of the Milwaukee archdiocese, conceded that he had knowingly assigned abusive priests to pastoral work and kept parishioners uninformed about the clerics' past offenses....
Group Confirms Obama Would Fund Forced Abortions if UNFPA Money Restored
Incoming president Barack Obama is considered very likely to restore funding to the UNFPA soon after he takes office in January. However, a group that has been the top monitor of the UN agency says Obama would be forcing taxpayers to fund a group involved in forced abortions if he does. As LifeNews.com has reported, the Obama campaign confirmed to a pro-abortion web site that he would restore funding for the UNFPA...
Somali Islamic courts deny kidnapping nuns in Kenya
Group says they're 'against taking hostages for ransom'
Vatican clamps down on slackers at Curia
Timekeeping reintroduced after being scrapped in 1960
'Why Believe in a God?' ad campaign launches
American Humanist Association prepares for Christmas
{Satan's minions on the attack from another of several fronts]
Gay activists storm pulpit during Sunday worship
'Queers and trannies' target 'anti-queer establishment'
[Hose 'em down - with holy water!]
EXCLUSIVE: Did Next Commander-in-Chief Falsify Selective Service Registration? Never Actually Register? Obama's Draft Registration Raises Serious Questions
To accept abortion is to challenge God, Lord of all things...
Abortion violates the universal order created by God, Who established the right to life as a fundamental right of man. No convenience of economics or politics, social consideration, question of health or other problem can justify an attempt against that universal order....
Us Supreme Court Clerk Danny Bickell Continues Sabotage Of NJ Citizen Law Suit Challenging 08 Election
As of 9:53 AM, November 13, 2008, the Docket for US Supreme Court case # 08A407 has still not been updated to reflect the fact that the case...
Lobbyists Swarm the Treasury for Piece of Bailout Pie
Many new supplicants are lining up for an infusion of capital as billions of dollars are channeled to other beneficiaries like the American International Group, and possibly soon American Express....
House Republican leader John Boehner Demands Fed Identify Recipients of Loans
Called for the Federal Reserve to disclose the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers and the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral....
Democratic Senator Unveils Mandatory Health Insurance Plan
The New York Times reports that Democratic senator Max Baucus will unveil his nationalized health care proposal today, and (surprise!) it would require all Americans to purchase health insurance...
{The people should ensure that Congress-criminals submit to mandatory intelligence and morality checks]
Democrats’ Auto Industry Bailout Is A UAW Bailout, Group Says
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is writing a bill that would allow the auto industry to get some of the $700 billion intended to restore liquidity in the nation’s financial markets. But a union watchdog group says Frank’s plan really is intended to bail out the United Auto Workers union. Under Frank’s legislation, car companies receiving bailout money would face tougher restrictions on executive pay and dividends to their shareholders.
[Bawnee Fwank and buddies need to keep buying votes]
Mysterious glowing aurora over Saturn confounds scientists
A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system.
Barbara Walters Exclusive: Pregnant "Man "Expecting Second Child
In First Interview Since Giving Birth, Thomas Beatie Tells Barbara Walters About Life With Daughter Susan
The US bishops on Tuesday approved by a 203-5 vote the Revised Grail Psalter for use at Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours in the United States. By a 189-30 vote, the bishops also approved, with modifications, the International Committee for English in the Liturgy’s 2007 translation of the liturgical prayers for Masses in Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter....
God Is Not Catholic, Cardinal's Word of Honor
Carlo Maria Martini publishes a book "on the risk of faith," and calls for distrust of doctrinal definitions, because God "is beyond." But this brings the risk of emptying the articles of the Creed, object Professor Pietro De Marco. And he explains why....
[The good cardinal has is no longer Catholic...He's bitter and feels justified in spreading his heresy ]
Without The Coming of Christ, the World Will Not be Just or Renewed, Pope Teaches
"Every Christian discourse on the last things, called eschatology, always begins with the resurrection,” Pope Benedict began as he turned to Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians...
Bishops warn Obama about abortion issue
Official statement: we vow to oppose 'culture of coercion'
[A statement with no teeth to a marxist dictator supported by a majority of professed Catholics who suffer no consequences in this life for their actions. Nothing new here...]
Bishops conference cuts funding for ACORN
In wake of embezzlement scandal, voter registration fraud
[Until new methods of funding are found, no doubt. This is too little, too late. The warnings came years ago, but were ignored.]
Obama has first phone conversation with Pope
Neither leader made any reference to stem cell issue
Contrary to Campaign Claim, Obama Told Paper He Attended Trinity Church ‘Every Week’
President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 – while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat – that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week. This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced. Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright’s comments.
[There is no truth in this man - he is a liar and a fraud]
Same-sex "marriage" begins in Connecticut [Sure it does]
First ceremony punctuated with tears, roses, balloons
[with Satan watching over with glee]
Former Milwaukee archbishop admits shuffling abusive priests
In a deposition made public yesterday, Archbishop Rembert Weakland, the former head of the Milwaukee archdiocese, conceded that he had knowingly assigned abusive priests to pastoral work and kept parishioners uninformed about the clerics' past offenses....
Group Confirms Obama Would Fund Forced Abortions if UNFPA Money Restored
Incoming president Barack Obama is considered very likely to restore funding to the UNFPA soon after he takes office in January. However, a group that has been the top monitor of the UN agency says Obama would be forcing taxpayers to fund a group involved in forced abortions if he does. As LifeNews.com has reported, the Obama campaign confirmed to a pro-abortion web site that he would restore funding for the UNFPA...
Somali Islamic courts deny kidnapping nuns in Kenya
Group says they're 'against taking hostages for ransom'
Vatican clamps down on slackers at Curia
Timekeeping reintroduced after being scrapped in 1960
'Why Believe in a God?' ad campaign launches
American Humanist Association prepares for Christmas
{Satan's minions on the attack from another of several fronts]
Gay activists storm pulpit during Sunday worship
'Queers and trannies' target 'anti-queer establishment'
[Hose 'em down - with holy water!]
EXCLUSIVE: Did Next Commander-in-Chief Falsify Selective Service Registration? Never Actually Register? Obama's Draft Registration Raises Serious Questions
To accept abortion is to challenge God, Lord of all things...
Abortion violates the universal order created by God, Who established the right to life as a fundamental right of man. No convenience of economics or politics, social consideration, question of health or other problem can justify an attempt against that universal order....
Us Supreme Court Clerk Danny Bickell Continues Sabotage Of NJ Citizen Law Suit Challenging 08 Election
As of 9:53 AM, November 13, 2008, the Docket for US Supreme Court case # 08A407 has still not been updated to reflect the fact that the case...
Lobbyists Swarm the Treasury for Piece of Bailout Pie Many new supplicants are lining up for an infusion of capital as billions of dollars are channeled to other beneficiaries like the American International Group, and possibly soon American Express....
House Republican leader John Boehner Demands Fed Identify Recipients of Loans
Called for the Federal Reserve to disclose the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers and the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral....
Democratic Senator Unveils Mandatory Health Insurance Plan
The New York Times reports that Democratic senator Max Baucus will unveil his nationalized health care proposal today, and (surprise!) it would require all Americans to purchase health insurance...
{The people should ensure that Congress-criminals submit to mandatory intelligence and morality checks]
Democrats’ Auto Industry Bailout Is A UAW Bailout, Group Says
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is writing a bill that would allow the auto industry to get some of the $700 billion intended to restore liquidity in the nation’s financial markets. But a union watchdog group says Frank’s plan really is intended to bail out the United Auto Workers union. Under Frank’s legislation, car companies receiving bailout money would face tougher restrictions on executive pay and dividends to their shareholders.
[Bawnee Fwank and buddies need to keep buying votes]
Mysterious glowing aurora over Saturn confounds scientists
A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system.
Barbara Walters Exclusive: Pregnant "Man "Expecting Second Child
In First Interview Since Giving Birth, Thomas Beatie Tells Barbara Walters About Life With Daughter Susan
Friday, October 17, 2008
No Respect for Life, & No Respect for Others
Joe doesn't say that he makes $250K/year. He tells B. Hussein Obama that he wants to buy a business that would make $250K-$280K/year.
Later on the campaign trail, "The One" mocks Joe and plumbers (and the middle class)!
He and his followers laugh at those concerned about achieving the American Dream in the face of higher taxes.
Evidently, "The One" is clueless about small business and prefers to ridicule those of us who work for a living and are concerned about his desire to spread what little worth we have around to those disinclined to work for the American Dream. More of the entitlement mentality, more socialism. And he seems to harbor a deep vehemence toward those who would dare to question him or speak out against him. What a loser! The working middle class are beneath this man. What contempt he displays, not only to Joe the plumber, but to all of us.
As I said before, one cannot possibly have any respect for the dignity of others when he has nothing but disdain and hatred for the most innocent and defenseless unborn or born alive children.
It's a shame that so many are mesmerized by his words. Perhaps their eyes will be opened to just how repulsive this charlatan is before they cast their votes?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
I’ll do something that shows this cracker has no power
Another psychotic wailing of University of Minnesota professor.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented on the latest developments to surface regarding the pledge made by Paul Z. Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota, to desecrate the Eucharist:This man doesn't appears to be "normal." Only a fool mocks the Almighty as this.
“Myers was quoted yesterday saying, ‘I have to do something. I’m not going to just let this disappear.’ [Last Friday it was reported that he had acquired a Host.] He continued, ‘Something will be done. It won’t be gross. It won’t be totally tasteless, but yeah, I’ll do something that shows this cracker has no power....’
“The biology professor made it clear that he would never disrespect Islam the way he does Catholicism. When asked about those who abuse the Koran, for example, he said such an act was analogous to desecrating a graveyard. ‘That’s completely different,’ he said. ‘I don’t favor [that idea].’ But when it comes to the Body of Christ, he opines, ‘The cracker is completely different...’He may deny it, but the consecrated Host, is completely different...From the above and previous comments attributed to this man, we can only pray that his family and friends obtain for him the pschological help it seems he so desparately needs. He appears consumed with hatred and hostility toward the truth...There's something wrong with this man. Some make think he could even benefit from an exorcism. I would tend to agree.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Minnesota Professor Pledges to Desecrate Eucharist
Updated 7/11-Below is a screen capture of the UMM page which linked to Myers' site before the link was removed.
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From the Catholic League:
Apparently the guy is a bigot and seems to have major issues...It's beyond disgraceful that he is teaching young adults. And taxpayers are paying him to do it! Will the university do something about this? We can only hope and pray.
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From the Catholic League:
Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. He is responding to what happened recently at the University of Central Florida when a student walked out of Mass with the Host, holding it hostage for several days. Myers was angry at the Catholic League for criticizing the student. His post can be accessed from his faculty page on the university’s website.Some might wonder how willing this guy is to desecrate a Koran?
Here is an excerpt of his July 8 post, “It’s a Frackin’ Cracker!”:“Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?....if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I’ll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won’t be tempted to hold it hostage (no, not even if I have a choice between returning the Eucharist and watching Bill Donohue kick the pope in the balls, which would apparently be a more humane act than desecrating a goddamned cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web.”
Apparently the guy is a bigot and seems to have major issues...It's beyond disgraceful that he is teaching young adults. And taxpayers are paying him to do it! Will the university do something about this? We can only hope and pray.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
June 8 - Are You a Catholic Atheist?
Are You a Catholic Atheist?
A Practical Guide To Keeping the Faith In Our Times
by John Horvat
to be held at our new location:
St. Agnes Home
10341 Manchester Rd.
Kirkwood, MO
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM
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Many people call themselves Catholics and yet for all practical purposes act as atheists. They say they are Catholics and yet hold positions contrary to the Church in matters like abortion or other issues. This even happens to children who are sent to the best Catholic schools or those who are home schooled.
How does this happen? How is it possible that the Faith was taken from so many people? How do we prevent ourselves from becoming “Catholic atheists?”
Mr. Horvat will speak on this topic and provide many examples of how the Faith is undermined in society. He will also give some practical advice of how to avoid this problem and fortify one’s own Faith.
A question and answer period and refreshments will follow the presentation.
Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating afternoon of Catholic conviviality, enlightening conversation, and hope for the future.
For additional information about this meeting, contact Mark Serafino at (573) 459-5531.
The American TFP – America Needs Fatima
P.O. Box 251
Spring Grove , PA 17362
(717)225-7147
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Spanish Archbishop Calls Zombie Parade Blasphemous
MADRID (Reuters) - A procession of devils, ghosts and zombies through the historic Spanish city of Toledo has been branded blasphemous by the Catholic Church.
Actors from the Morboria theatre company performed a representation inspired by the medieval Dance of Death in Toledo's streets on Saturday, provoking an angry reaction from the cathedral pulpit the following day.
"We ask forgiveness for those who yesterday insulted the body of Christ," said Archbishop Antonio Canizares, quoted in newspaper El Pais.
He told worshippers the procession, which also included a Virgin Mary and a Saint Peter, made a mockery of the Catholic celebration of Corpus Christi....
Monday, April 07, 2008
Dr. Peter Kreeft: "We are living in a spiritual Hiroshima"
From CatholicCitizens.org - Notes By Joe Wemhoff -The Annual Parish Respect Life Coordinator Conference, Archdiocese of Chicago
Much more can be found in this enlightening report here.
Dr. Peter Kreeft (pronounced "kreft") is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is an orthodox Roman Catholic, who has written over 45 books, and who contributes regularly to various Christian publications. Dr. Kreeft is one of the most eloquent voices for the Faith in America. This summary of Dr. Kreeft's remarks was prepared on March 9, 2008, by Joseph A. Wemhoff, from memory and from extensive notes taken during the talk. Dr. Kreeft has his own website at www.peterkreeft.com.So what do we do? Dr Kreeft reminds us of what the Church has always taught: Prayer, the sacrament of confession, and the Holy Eucharist....
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The term "Culture War" is simply a euphemism for the conflict between Christ and the Antichrist, with the stakes being the fate of the universe.
Sadly, today, the Antichrist controls all of the formal and informal means of education and information in America, including the media, news reporting, publishing, music, movies (Hollywood), etc. Today, pornography generates more revenue in America than any other industry except gambling.
...The Christian religion is now in decline, and the Antichrist is now winning...Most people today "feel;" they no longer "think."
We are living in a "spiritual Hiroshima." The Catholic Church is full of psychobabble. Our bishops have all the courage and behavior of rabbits. Since Vatican II, three-quarters of our nuns are gone. Sunday Mass attendance has declined from 75% to 25%. Belief in the Real Presence has dropped from nearly 100% to about 30%. The Catholic Church has lost the power to arrest the decline of our culture.
Properly said, ours is not a "Culture of Death," but a "Culture of Murder." There is the murder of marriage (divorce). There is the murder of the unborn (abortion). There is the murder of reason by militant feminists and by militant homosexuals. The cloning of humans promises to turn the "I am" of God into the "it is" of humanism. Science is promising eternal life by working to eliminate from humankind the "age and die" gene, which supposedly is not found in non-sexual species and in cancer cells....
Much more can be found in this enlightening report here.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Gorbachev Dispels "Closet Christian" Rumors; Says He is Atheist
An Inside the Vatican Editor's note states:
Perhaps Gorbachev is, and wants to remain, a closet Christian. Ambassador Thomas Melady, former US Ambassador to the Vatican, at an Inside the Vatican dinner in Washington D.C. in December, told others at his table that he found out in about 1990 that Gorbachev had been secretly meeting with John Paul II for 2 years leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and communism. The White House had sent Melady to Rome to find out why Gorbachev, on his way to meet with Reagan, was stopping first in Rome. That is when Amb. Melady first learned of this, and he said he credits John Paul II with helping to bring about the democratization of Russia.
Now, if Gorbachev is an atheist, why would he consult with John Paul II above many others?
And why did he recently kneel at the tomb of St. Francis, rather than stand and take photos as a non-pilgrim, tourist would do?
Things just don't add up.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
"The Most Anti-Christmas Film Possible"
VATICAN CITY, December 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano added its voice yesterday in condemnation of the newly released film 'The Golden Compass" and the book series on which the film was based. In a lengthy editorial on December 18, the paper said Golden Compass was "the most anti-Christmas film possible."Continued at LifeSiteNews here...
This latest confirmation of Catholic opposition to the film, puts into sharp relief once again the positive review which the film received from the film office of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). After several Catholic leaders and many lay faithful contacted the USCCB with their concerns the review was officially withdrawn. Since then a growing number of Catholic bishops and archbishops have publicly condemned the film.
The Vatican paper's editorial explained, "It's a film that leaves one cold, because it brings with it the coldness and the desperation of rebellion, solitude and individualism."
Friday, December 14, 2007
Archbishop Burke on "The Golden Compass"
...Recently, the pastors in our nation have cautioned the faithful, especially parents, regarding the film "The Golden Compass." Through George Henry, superintendent of Catholic education in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, parents and teachers were warned that the author of the books ("His Dark Materials," by Philip Pullman) from which the movie is drawn is an avowed atheist who has a particular hatred of the Catholic Church.From his weekly column here.
As archbishop, I caution all Catholics regarding the atheistic and antiCatholic nature of Pullman’s writings, upon which "The Golden Compass" is based. If you wish further and more in-depth information, I recommend the publication of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, "The Golden Compass: Agenda Unmasked," which can be obtained through the League’s website, www.catholicleague.org. I also commend the book by Peter Vere and Sandra Miesel, "Pied Piper of Atheism: Philip Pullman and Children’s Fantasy," published by Ignatius Press (www.ignatius.com).
Before concluding, I wish also to correct an erroneous statement made in a commentary in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, titled "After ruckus over its roots, ‘Compass’ film mollifies some" (Dec. 8, 2007, p. A23). The commentary claims that the Catholic bishops of our nation viewed the film and praised it. The statement is false. A most defective review of the film was published by Catholic News Service. The review has by now been removed from the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The review was not based on a viewing of the film by bishops and was not endorsed by the bishops....
Friday, December 07, 2007
The Golden Compass - Deciphered...
St Louis Review film critic, Tom Kavanaugh, has provided his critique of the trilogy "His Dark Materials," by British atheist Philip Pullman...I'm not certain if this longer version is in the St Louis Review's printed version or not...It's well worth distributing to friends and family or anyone else who may have been duped into thinking "The Golden Compass" is a movie worth spending money on...
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There has been a lot of controversy about the New Line release of the film version of "The Golden Compass," based on the first book in an equally controversial trilogy of books called "His Dark Materials" by avowed atheist Philip Pullman.
But much of the controversy centers on the question of whether there should be any controversy at all.
This is mainly because Pullman, along with the film’s director and New Line Cinema the studio that made the film, have cleverly — some might say devilishly — positioned this first installment (in part, by disguising the few things from the first book that directly attack Christians) as a harmless holiday film. They did so in such a way as to make any opposition to it appear repressive and foolish.
Some, however, like the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue, say the film is anything but harmless, calling this positioning of the film a "stealth campaign" and "bait for the books: unsuspecting parents who take their children to see the movie may feel impelled to buy the three books as a Christmas present."
What’s wrong with that? Only that the other two books in the trilogy, with growing virulence as they near the last book’s conclusion, are not only an attack on the Catholic Church but Christianity and God, as well.
Pullman insidiously leads his readers to root for themes, beliefs and ideas, such as witches and paganism, in their overthrow of God, religion and heaven.
Pullman’s god, in fact, is a pathetic old fraud who has ruled by oppression and intimidation until he’s mercilessly killed by the two children protagonists of the story. In his trilogy, it was actually Satan and the fallen angels who brought consciousness and free will (and everything good about being human) to this earth, something that God and his Church, the Magisterium (what the Catholic Church calls its teaching authority) will do anything to end — because we call such free-thinking "sin" — including murder and torture.
You might think I’m exaggerating, so I’ve included some passages straight out of the three books of "His Dark Materials" — "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass" — to give you an idea of just what your children might be reading this Christmas. Or, if the movie version of "The Golden Compass" is a hit, what they might be seeing in the Cineplex next Christmas.
First, we really are talking about God here, despite claims that the series is a fantasy that involves other worlds in parallel universes to ours. Consider this passage:
Another lie told by the Authority and its Church is that good people go to heaven when we die. In fact, some parts of us just disintegrate while a part of our consciousness is forced by God to stay throughout eternity in a frightening, eerie, lonely, colorless place, controlled by fearsome Harpies (who are only mean because God is forcing them to be so) located far underground on a planet in one of our parallel universes.
Lena Feldt gasped, "She will be the mother—she will be life—mother—she will disobey—she will—" "Name her! You are saying everything but the most important thing! Name her!" cried Mrs. Coulter.
"Eve! Mother of all! Eve, again! Mother Eve!" stammered Lena Feldt, sobbing.
Lyra fulfills the prophesy of becoming the new Eve when, after Heaven has been destroyed she and her young friend Will are sent away to an island paradise on another world to recover. There, as also predicted, a scientist from Will’s (our) world named Mary Malone has been directed in dreams to play the part of the young couple’s "temptress," telling the pre-teens the blissful joys of carnal love. They immediately, discover their own and each other’s bodies and fall passionately in love.
" … I love you, Will, I love you." The word love set his nerves ablaze. All his body thrilled with it, and he answered her in the same words, kissing her hot face over and over again, drinking in with adoration the scent of her body and her warm, honey-fragrant hair and her sweet, moist mouth that tasted of the little red fruit.
One of the things Malone tells the kids as part of her temptation is how she herself had been a Roman Catholic nun until a sexual experience caused her to see the errors of her ways, causing her give up her vows, the Church and God all in one glorious moment.
A dear old man who teaches Will how to use the Subtle Knife to cut windows into other worlds, and teaches both kids that suicide is really a pretty good option for ending your life when the time comes.
And because the Texan aeronaut was one of the few humans Iorek had ever esteemed, he accepted the man’s last gifts to him. With Deft movements of his claws, he ripped aside the dead man’s clothes, opened the body with one slash, and began to feast on the flesh and blood of his old friend.
A pair of "good" i.e. (anti-God) male angels named Baruch and Balthamos, who happen to be lovers.
A Russian priest who offers to "help" Will.
Everything from the ages of the young protagonists to the inclusion of every favorite childhood imagery — from cute cuddly animals to fluffy white bears, to flight in balloons, to secret and magical gadgets, to cowboys … even, nowadays, witches … and especially in granting license and empowerment of adolescents and pre-adolescents, especially girls, to do and be whatever they want to do and be.
Is there anything we can do? Protesting and boycotting the movie of "The Golden Compass" would only be turned against us, making us look anti-art, anti-literature, anti-free expression, repressed as well as repressive of thought and imagination, paranoid and self-pitying as the priests and monks of the Magisterium.
Instead, I suggest the open sharing of information with other parents and talking with your children about this very serious matter of using cute animals and an eye-candy movie production to lure children into believing things their parents believe are wrong. If your kids want to see the movie and you decide to let them, talk about it beforehand and afterward, explaining some of the things that you think are bad that will be in the next movies. If you decide not to allow them to see the movie, explain to them why; that the movie seems harmless but leads to very bad things that the man who wrote the books wants to make children believe about God and heaven.
To share the information about the movie, send these few passages I’ve quoted from the books (out of the hundreds of disturbing passages I’ve found) to every parent you know so they can be informed about Philip Pullman’s agenda to change the hearts and minds of our children.
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Personally, I think the film should be boycotted, primarily by Catholics, as well as by other Christians and anyone else who can envision the poisonous effect these books could have on oinnocent children. Does it matter if the atheists and secularists turn against us? Aren't they already against us - daily? Why would anyone want to feed this beast so that it could grow even bigger? Starve it of your hard earned money and support! Let it die from hunger of money and lack of attention! Instead, would it not be better to use that money to help feed, clothe and shelter those truly in need?
The full article from the St Louis Review is here.
Please let us know if I have made errors in any formatting of the article - I attempted to make it a bit more readable.
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There has been a lot of controversy about the New Line release of the film version of "The Golden Compass," based on the first book in an equally controversial trilogy of books called "His Dark Materials" by avowed atheist Philip Pullman.
But much of the controversy centers on the question of whether there should be any controversy at all.
This is mainly because Pullman, along with the film’s director and New Line Cinema the studio that made the film, have cleverly — some might say devilishly — positioned this first installment (in part, by disguising the few things from the first book that directly attack Christians) as a harmless holiday film. They did so in such a way as to make any opposition to it appear repressive and foolish.
Some, however, like the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue, say the film is anything but harmless, calling this positioning of the film a "stealth campaign" and "bait for the books: unsuspecting parents who take their children to see the movie may feel impelled to buy the three books as a Christmas present."
What’s wrong with that? Only that the other two books in the trilogy, with growing virulence as they near the last book’s conclusion, are not only an attack on the Catholic Church but Christianity and God, as well.
Pullman insidiously leads his readers to root for themes, beliefs and ideas, such as witches and paganism, in their overthrow of God, religion and heaven.
Pullman’s god, in fact, is a pathetic old fraud who has ruled by oppression and intimidation until he’s mercilessly killed by the two children protagonists of the story. In his trilogy, it was actually Satan and the fallen angels who brought consciousness and free will (and everything good about being human) to this earth, something that God and his Church, the Magisterium (what the Catholic Church calls its teaching authority) will do anything to end — because we call such free-thinking "sin" — including murder and torture.
You might think I’m exaggerating, so I’ve included some passages straight out of the three books of "His Dark Materials" — "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass" — to give you an idea of just what your children might be reading this Christmas. Or, if the movie version of "The Golden Compass" is a hit, what they might be seeing in the Cineplex next Christmas.
First, we really are talking about God here, despite claims that the series is a fantasy that involves other worlds in parallel universes to ours. Consider this passage:
"(The angel) Balthamos said quietly, ‘The Authority, God, the Creator, the Lord, Yahweh, El, Adonai, the King, the Father, the Almighty’ — those were all names he gave himself. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves — the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are."Pullman’s god, called the Authority, is described in the third book as a doddering old angel who is relieved to be snuffed out of existence by Lyra and Will, who don’t even know who they are helping to kill when they help him out of his toppled crystal chariot:
"Oh, Will, he’s still alive! But — the poor thing ... " … Demented and powerless, the aged being could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery, and he shrank away from what seemed like yet another threat."The Authority is actually a fraud, one of a group of angels who battled for dominion over heaven and earth and won, kicking out better angels and literally demonizing them through falsehoods told in the Bible and by the Authority’s Church on Earth, the Magisterium. Both seem to be in the business of making humans unhappy:
"I don’t know who will join us, but I know whom we must fight. It is the Magisterium, the Church. For all its history … it’s tried to suppress and control every natural impulse. And when it can’t control them, it cuts them out.The Authority never created anything, much less the human race. The fallen angels did that by finding a world where they could start a kingdom to rival the Authority’s. They used Dust to give some of the creatures intelligence and, voila, humanity was created. Not by the evil Authority but by a friendly serpent.
" … They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so they shan’t feel. This is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling."
Another lie told by the Authority and its Church is that good people go to heaven when we die. In fact, some parts of us just disintegrate while a part of our consciousness is forced by God to stay throughout eternity in a frightening, eerie, lonely, colorless place, controlled by fearsome Harpies (who are only mean because God is forcing them to be so) located far underground on a planet in one of our parallel universes.
"Ghost people — so many that Lyra couldn’t guess their number. No one was moving about, or running or playing, though many of them turned to look at these new arrivals, with a fearful curiosity in their wide eyes. "Ghosts," she whispered. "This is where they all are, everyone that’s ever died."Later, when Lyra and Will found a way out of the land of the dead, so that the souls/ghosts could be "freed" into eternal extinction, some hesitated to go believing they would still one day go to heaven.
"No one spoke until a young woman came forward. She had died as a martyr centuries before. She looked around and said to the other ghosts:Lyra and her friend Will (from Earth) eventually go to this land of the dead to find the ghost of one of her playmates and end up releasing these poor tortured souls into sweet oblivion. They themselves come back from the dead, the only ones to do so in the history of any world.
"‘When we were alive, they told us that when we die we’d go to Heaven. And they said that Heaven was a place of joy and glory and we would spend eternity in the company of saints and angels praising the Almighty, in a state of bliss. That’s what they said. And that’s what led some of us to give our lives, and others to spend years in solitary prayer, while all the joy of life was going to waste around us and we never knew.
"Because the land of the dead isn’t a place of reward or a place of punishment. It’s a place of nothing. The good come here as well as the wicked, and all of us languish in this gloom forever, with no hope of freedom, or joy, or sleep, or rest, or peace."
"We shall come back," whispered Lyra fiercely. "…I swear I’ll come back…even if no one’s ever done it before, I swear I will."Lyra will actually accomplish three pretty impressive things in the three books: she will be responsible for the overthrow of Heaven, she will overcome and defeat Death, and she will be the new Eve/Mother for a new Republic of Heaven on Earth.
Lena Feldt gasped, "She will be the mother—she will be life—mother—she will disobey—she will—" "Name her! You are saying everything but the most important thing! Name her!" cried Mrs. Coulter.
"Eve! Mother of all! Eve, again! Mother Eve!" stammered Lena Feldt, sobbing.
Lyra fulfills the prophesy of becoming the new Eve when, after Heaven has been destroyed she and her young friend Will are sent away to an island paradise on another world to recover. There, as also predicted, a scientist from Will’s (our) world named Mary Malone has been directed in dreams to play the part of the young couple’s "temptress," telling the pre-teens the blissful joys of carnal love. They immediately, discover their own and each other’s bodies and fall passionately in love.
" … I love you, Will, I love you." The word love set his nerves ablaze. All his body thrilled with it, and he answered her in the same words, kissing her hot face over and over again, drinking in with adoration the scent of her body and her warm, honey-fragrant hair and her sweet, moist mouth that tasted of the little red fruit.
One of the things Malone tells the kids as part of her temptation is how she herself had been a Roman Catholic nun until a sexual experience caused her to see the errors of her ways, causing her give up her vows, the Church and God all in one glorious moment.
"There’s no one to fret, no one to condemn, no one to bless me for being a good girl, no one to punish me for being wicked. Heaven was empty. I didn’t know whether God had died, or whether there had never been a God at all. And I took the crucifix from around my neck and I threw it in the sea. That was it. All over. Gone.As opposed ro the Magisterium, Pullman’s witches, on the other hand are not wicked, ugly old crones but rather a wonderful sisterhood of free-loving, wise, compassionate heroes of the sky — beautiful, ageless and powerful.
"So that was how I stopped being a nun," she said. The Magisterium of Lyra’s world (and by implication the Christian religions of our world) are obsessed by sin to the point of perversion and will do anything to stop people from enjoying life and thinking for themselves, even if that includes murder, assassination, torture, or wholesale slaughter of innocent men, women and children.
"There was a precedent. Something like it had happened before. Do you know what the word castration means? It means removing the sexual organs from a boy so that he never develops the characteristics of a man. A castrato keeps his high treble voice all his life, which is why the Church allowed it: so useful in Church music."
"She was young — younger than Mrs. Coulter; and fair, with bright green eyes; and clad like all the witches in strips of black silk, but wearing no furs, no hood or mittens. She seemed to feel no cold at all. Around her brow was a simple chain of little red flowers. She sat on her cloud-pine branch as if it were a steed and seemed to rein it in a yard from Lyra’s wondering gaze."Led by their beautiful queen Serafina Pekkala, the witches save the day several times during the trilogy, not only for Lyra but for others as well, including the rescue of the children from the torture chambers of the Church’s General Oblation Board (the dreaded Gobblers).
"… Lyra saw in the air beside her a witch, one of those elegant black shadows from the high air, but close enough to touch; and there was a bow in the witch’s bare hands, and she exerted her bare pale arms (in the freezing air!) to pull the string and then loose an arrow into the eye slit of a mailed and lowering Tartar hood only three feet away. Up! Into midair Lyra and Roger were caught and swept, and found themselves clinging with weakening fingers to a cloud-pine branch, where a young witch was sitting tense with balanced grace."But there are other sweet, kind, gentle and heroic people who help Lyra and Will along the way, offering sage atheistic advice, and gladly join them in the kids’ mission to kill God. They include:
A dear old man who teaches Will how to use the Subtle Knife to cut windows into other worlds, and teaches both kids that suicide is really a pretty good option for ending your life when the time comes.
"Now go. I shall die very soon, because I know where there are poisonous drugs, and I don’t intend to wait for the Specters to come in, as they will once the knife has left. Go."A talking polar bear, Iorek, a great blacksmith (as well as kind, protective friend to Lyra) is also a great fighter, ripping off the bottom of the face of the King of the Bears in a fight for supremacy over the bear clan; later Iorek eats the flesh and organs of his good human friend, Lee Scoresby, after the aeronaut’s death, as a way of honoring his lost comrade.
"You en’t really going to poison yourself?" said Lyra distressed.
"Hush," said Will. "It won’t hurt him. He’ll just go to sleep."
And because the Texan aeronaut was one of the few humans Iorek had ever esteemed, he accepted the man’s last gifts to him. With Deft movements of his claws, he ripped aside the dead man’s clothes, opened the body with one slash, and began to feast on the flesh and blood of his old friend.
A pair of "good" i.e. (anti-God) male angels named Baruch and Balthamos, who happen to be lovers.
"The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion."And, after the death of Baruch:
"Then Balthamos stood up, sick and weary and full of pain.All of these people friendly to the idea of killing God are so nice, even loveable, and described by Pullman in rhapsodic, even heroic, terms. On the other hand, the defenders of God and of His Church are described in ways that are reminiscent of Nazi propaganda against Jews, either being cruel, manipulative, lecherous, filthy, smelly, murderous, fanatically religious, or all of the above. For example:
"‘Baruch," he said, "oh, Baruch, my dear, I can do no more. Will and the girl are safe, and everything will be well, but this is the end for me, through truly I died when you did, Baruch, my beloved.’"
A Russian priest who offers to "help" Will.
"The priest kept leaning forward to look closely at him, and felt his hands to see whether he was cold. And stroked his knee. ‘My boy,’ he said and then closed his eyes and began to intone a prayer or a psalm. Vapors of tobacco and alcohol and sweat came powerfully from him, and he was close enough for his thick beard, wagging up and down, to brush Will’s face. Will held his breath."Another priest, Father Gomez, who is sent by the Church to murder Lyra.
"… Father Gomez found himself praising God for his mission, because it was clearer than ever that the boy and the girl were walking into mortal sin. They hadn’t looked back once since coming over the top of the ridge, but he still kept low, moving down the stream at a crouch, holding the rifle in one hand, balancing with the other."God’s regent, Metatron, who is willing risk Heaven and Earth to get a chance with Mrs. Coulter.
"‘When I was a man," he said, "I had wives in plenty, but none was as lovely as you.’And even Mrs. Coulter herself, at least before she comes to her senses and switches sides against God, embodies the malicious punishment of the Magesterium.
"That was the moment she felt most exposed and in most danger. But she trusted to her lies, and to the strange truth she’d learned about angels, perhaps especially those angels who had once been human; lacking flesh, they coveted it and longed for contact with it. And Metatron was close now, close enough to smell the perfume of her hair and to gaze at the texture of her skin, close enough to touch her with scalding hands.
… And the shadow hungrily sniffed and seemed to gulp at the scent of her flesh"
"‘We have a thousand years of experience in this Church of ours. We can draw out your suffering endlessly. Tell us about the child,’" Mrs. Coulter said, and reached down to break one of the witch’s fingers. It snapped easily."This series of books and the movies made from them are for children — pre-teens and adolescents. Pullman has denied this saying he intended the books for any thinking person of any age, but that is pure rubbish.
Everything from the ages of the young protagonists to the inclusion of every favorite childhood imagery — from cute cuddly animals to fluffy white bears, to flight in balloons, to secret and magical gadgets, to cowboys … even, nowadays, witches … and especially in granting license and empowerment of adolescents and pre-adolescents, especially girls, to do and be whatever they want to do and be.
Is there anything we can do? Protesting and boycotting the movie of "The Golden Compass" would only be turned against us, making us look anti-art, anti-literature, anti-free expression, repressed as well as repressive of thought and imagination, paranoid and self-pitying as the priests and monks of the Magisterium.
Instead, I suggest the open sharing of information with other parents and talking with your children about this very serious matter of using cute animals and an eye-candy movie production to lure children into believing things their parents believe are wrong. If your kids want to see the movie and you decide to let them, talk about it beforehand and afterward, explaining some of the things that you think are bad that will be in the next movies. If you decide not to allow them to see the movie, explain to them why; that the movie seems harmless but leads to very bad things that the man who wrote the books wants to make children believe about God and heaven.
To share the information about the movie, send these few passages I’ve quoted from the books (out of the hundreds of disturbing passages I’ve found) to every parent you know so they can be informed about Philip Pullman’s agenda to change the hearts and minds of our children.
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Personally, I think the film should be boycotted, primarily by Catholics, as well as by other Christians and anyone else who can envision the poisonous effect these books could have on oinnocent children. Does it matter if the atheists and secularists turn against us? Aren't they already against us - daily? Why would anyone want to feed this beast so that it could grow even bigger? Starve it of your hard earned money and support! Let it die from hunger of money and lack of attention! Instead, would it not be better to use that money to help feed, clothe and shelter those truly in need?
The full article from the St Louis Review is here.
Please let us know if I have made errors in any formatting of the article - I attempted to make it a bit more readable.
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