Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,
To the reader's attention is directed the following video from the Veritas Forum - Miracles: Is Belief in the Supernatural Irrational? Also to the reader's attention is directed supplementary reading - Fides et Ratio by Pope St John Paul II. The fact of the matter is that there is no one more irrational than the dialectical materialist atheist (except perhaps the demonically possessed Islamic Jihadist), and no one more sane than he who has surrendered his will and his life to the care of God Almighty.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Daemon Karellen et Finis Pueritia ab Arthur C Clarke
Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,
The SyFy TV channel has converted Arthur C Clarke's 1953 novel Childhood's End into a three part television show. The ideas for Clarke's novel originates with the works of socialist Olaf Stapledon, particularly his novels Last and First Men, Last Men in London, and Star Maker. Communal intelligence, utopian socialism, and trascendent evolution are all extolled while individual freedom, religious principle and morality (particularly Judeo-Christian), and the responsibility of the free market are all denigrated. As a youth in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, I had read most of Arthur C Clarke's works. This TV show does not disappoint to follow the ideas (if not always the exact events) in his novel, and it is everything that socialist Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders supports, extols and advocates:
The alien who comes to bring this peace and prosperity turns out to have the form and physique of a demon: red skinned and yellow eyed with two horns, cloven hoofs and a tail.
Apparently humanity had a racial premonition that its transcendent evolution to a super-mind would require the dissolution of the race and the planet at the help of the alien. But he is portrayed as magnanimous and beneficent in helping humanity achieve world peace and transcendent evolution to the over-mind whereas religion is mocked and derided as having contributed nothing to mankind's progress, and God is accused at least by one protagonist of having caused disease and injury and turmoil and catastrophe. This is all the liberal progressive tripe which started in the late 19th century and early 20th with fantasizers like Olaf Stapledon.
But what really has God contributed? Telling liberal progressives that He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son is like telling them something incomprehensible, for they do not believe in sin or that they sin, so there is no need for God's Son. Theirs is a materialist universe devoid of any spirituality except this fantastic and mythical over-mind. They believe as the alien tells them that man can create a heaven on earth by his own works. There is no recognition of man's inherent concupiscence, that he is born dead in his sins and trespasses.
Even the physical things that God through His Church has done - all the scientists who were Catholic, all the hospitals and schools that the Church built, all the good works that the Church has done for the poor - are cats aside into non-recognition, and this alien whose name is Karellen comes to Earth and brings peace and prosperity that Christ never did. The world is turned upside down in this TV show and in Clarke's novel. The demonic provides the good. And at the end which is tonight Earth will be destroyed as humanity's children psychically joined the over-mind. Nothing is left of those whom God created in His image. yet if one tells these people who believe in nonsense like this that God will at the end of time melt the elements with fire, creating a new heaven and a new earth, they will deride and condemn one as a hater and a religious extremist.
Well as for me, I will proudly remain a Catholic Christian extremist, and will always oppose people like Bernie Sanders who come in human form but are really the spawn of Satan himself. Indeed, if it looks like a demon and acts like a demon, then it is a demon and the Lord Jesus Christ will one day send Satan and all his demonic spawn to burn in hell for all eternity.
The SyFy TV channel has converted Arthur C Clarke's 1953 novel Childhood's End into a three part television show. The ideas for Clarke's novel originates with the works of socialist Olaf Stapledon, particularly his novels Last and First Men, Last Men in London, and Star Maker. Communal intelligence, utopian socialism, and trascendent evolution are all extolled while individual freedom, religious principle and morality (particularly Judeo-Christian), and the responsibility of the free market are all denigrated. As a youth in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, I had read most of Arthur C Clarke's works. This TV show does not disappoint to follow the ideas (if not always the exact events) in his novel, and it is everything that socialist Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders supports, extols and advocates:
- There is no money and no need to work
- Food and the necessities of life are magically provided
- Free green energy is instantly available everywhere
- Religious extremism, war and fighting are gone
The alien who comes to bring this peace and prosperity turns out to have the form and physique of a demon: red skinned and yellow eyed with two horns, cloven hoofs and a tail.
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| Karellen with Children Childhood's End |
But what really has God contributed? Telling liberal progressives that He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son is like telling them something incomprehensible, for they do not believe in sin or that they sin, so there is no need for God's Son. Theirs is a materialist universe devoid of any spirituality except this fantastic and mythical over-mind. They believe as the alien tells them that man can create a heaven on earth by his own works. There is no recognition of man's inherent concupiscence, that he is born dead in his sins and trespasses.
Even the physical things that God through His Church has done - all the scientists who were Catholic, all the hospitals and schools that the Church built, all the good works that the Church has done for the poor - are cats aside into non-recognition, and this alien whose name is Karellen comes to Earth and brings peace and prosperity that Christ never did. The world is turned upside down in this TV show and in Clarke's novel. The demonic provides the good. And at the end which is tonight Earth will be destroyed as humanity's children psychically joined the over-mind. Nothing is left of those whom God created in His image. yet if one tells these people who believe in nonsense like this that God will at the end of time melt the elements with fire, creating a new heaven and a new earth, they will deride and condemn one as a hater and a religious extremist.
Well as for me, I will proudly remain a Catholic Christian extremist, and will always oppose people like Bernie Sanders who come in human form but are really the spawn of Satan himself. Indeed, if it looks like a demon and acts like a demon, then it is a demon and the Lord Jesus Christ will one day send Satan and all his demonic spawn to burn in hell for all eternity.
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| Karellen the Demon Childhood's End |
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Stultitia et Hysteria Theoriae Commutationis Climaticae
Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,
Today Yahoo's new board had an interesting simultaneous display of two different news articles which reported mutually exclusive and opposite calamities both being caused by anthropogenic global warming:
Earth May Spin Faster as Glaciers Melt
Rising Sea Levels Will Slow Down Earth's Rotation
One wonders exactly how stupid these climate change alarmists think the rest of us are. One now knows from this display how stupid these climate change alarmists indeed are.
Today Yahoo's new board had an interesting simultaneous display of two different news articles which reported mutually exclusive and opposite calamities both being caused by anthropogenic global warming:
Earth May Spin Faster as Glaciers Melt
Rising Sea Levels Will Slow Down Earth's Rotation
One wonders exactly how stupid these climate change alarmists think the rest of us are. One now knows from this display how stupid these climate change alarmists indeed are.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Imperium Romanum Magnum Iterum Faciamus
Amici, Americani, Romani, Compatriotae,
Imperium Romanum Magnum Iterum Faciamus!
Imperium Romanum Magnum Iterum Faciamus!
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,
Nostra Domina de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe):
Nostra Domina de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe):
Encenium - Hanukkah
Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,
This year the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem runs from Sunset, 6 December to nightfall, 14 December during the Christian Advent Season. Its Biblical basis may be found at the following:
1st Maccabees 4:36-61
2nd Maccabees 10:1-9
John 10:22
The short story is this. Centuries before Christ's birth the Empire of Alexander the Great had broken apart into four or five separate parts. This can be read in the Old Testament books of Daniel (later half), and 1st and 2nd Maccabees. The greater of these was the Ptolemy Empire in Egypt and the Seleucid Empire in Syria. The Seleucids had conquered much of Israel and Judah. They were forcing their pagan Greek culture on the Jewish people, requiring sacrifice to Zeus Olympus, the eating of pork, the foregoing or reversal of circumcision, and all that the Mosaic Law required. This was not, however, simply a matter of clashing cultures between so-called enlightened Greeks and Jewish religious zealots. The Seleucids were cruel and abusive people. For example, when Jewish mothers had their male babies circumcised, the Seleucids would murder the infant, and with rope tie the dead infant around the mother's neck, strangulating her to death. Additional examples include where 2nd Maccabees records that the Greek pagans beat to death a scribe of old age, Eleazar, for refusing to eat pork, and burned alive a mother and her seven sons also for refusing to eat pork (the Mosaic Law forbade the consumption of pork because swine were regarded as unclean animals).
A man by the name of Matthias and his sons then rose up to challenge the Seleucid overlords. When he died he had placed his son Judas Maccabeus in charge of the freedom fighters. There were many battles where the Jewish contingent was outnumbered, but God always gave them the victory over the pagan Greeks. In the battle of 1st Maccabees chapter 4 Judas and his followers defeated Lysias, one the Generals of evil Seleucid Emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes. After Lysias retreated to Antioch, Judas and his contingent went to restore the violated Temple in Jerusalem where the Seleucid Emperor had sacrificed to Zeus Olympus a swine on the altar in the Holy of Holies. Our Jewish heroes thus found devastation and ruin everywhere. But while they had rent their clothes and pleaded for God's mercy and forgiveness, they persevered in restoring the Temple, and made a rededication. They found according to the Babylonian Talmudic a jar of oil for fueling a lit Menorah that had not been made unclean by the pagans. But the amount of oil was only sufficient for one day. Yet when used the Menorah continued burning for a full eight days. Thus, starting on 25 Chislev (approxinately 25 December, though the Jewish date varies with the Jewish calendar that is based on the lunar vice solar cycle), the Feast of Dedication was instituted for eight days in perpetuity to commemorate the restoration of the Temple from the pagans. This was the same feast for which Jesus in John 10:22 had returned to Jerusalem almost two centuries later.
Now some things are important here. The Temple was restored from pagan uncleanliness to holiness on or about 25 December. In the same way the Christ child came into the world to restore mankind from uncleanliness to holiness on 25 December (at least that's when we celebrate his birth, though the actual birth date is likely in springtime). It was the Temple of the Most High God which was cleaned out and rededicated, and St Paul in the New Testament calls our bodies the Temple of the Holy Spirit which we likewise are to keep clean and un-defiled. The celebration that the Jews made at the rededication of the Temple was much like the celebration that they would make much later when Christ Himself would come riding on an ass into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. And the oil that did not run out for eight days at the first Hanukkah is reminiscent of the Holy Spirit whom we receive at the Sacrament of Confirmation by anointing with oil, and who heals us on the anointing of oil at the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.
There are many allusions to Christ in the Old Testament. This is but one example. Here an ostensible Jewish Holy Day celebrated in parallel with the Christian Christmas point to that very event of the birth of the Christ child. Unfortunately, the Books of the Bible which talk about this particular Holy Day are missing from the Protestant Bible because in their rebellion against the Church in the 16th century AD, Martin Luther and John Calvin removed them on their own recognizance.
This year the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem runs from Sunset, 6 December to nightfall, 14 December during the Christian Advent Season. Its Biblical basis may be found at the following:
1st Maccabees 4:36-61
2nd Maccabees 10:1-9
John 10:22
The short story is this. Centuries before Christ's birth the Empire of Alexander the Great had broken apart into four or five separate parts. This can be read in the Old Testament books of Daniel (later half), and 1st and 2nd Maccabees. The greater of these was the Ptolemy Empire in Egypt and the Seleucid Empire in Syria. The Seleucids had conquered much of Israel and Judah. They were forcing their pagan Greek culture on the Jewish people, requiring sacrifice to Zeus Olympus, the eating of pork, the foregoing or reversal of circumcision, and all that the Mosaic Law required. This was not, however, simply a matter of clashing cultures between so-called enlightened Greeks and Jewish religious zealots. The Seleucids were cruel and abusive people. For example, when Jewish mothers had their male babies circumcised, the Seleucids would murder the infant, and with rope tie the dead infant around the mother's neck, strangulating her to death. Additional examples include where 2nd Maccabees records that the Greek pagans beat to death a scribe of old age, Eleazar, for refusing to eat pork, and burned alive a mother and her seven sons also for refusing to eat pork (the Mosaic Law forbade the consumption of pork because swine were regarded as unclean animals).
A man by the name of Matthias and his sons then rose up to challenge the Seleucid overlords. When he died he had placed his son Judas Maccabeus in charge of the freedom fighters. There were many battles where the Jewish contingent was outnumbered, but God always gave them the victory over the pagan Greeks. In the battle of 1st Maccabees chapter 4 Judas and his followers defeated Lysias, one the Generals of evil Seleucid Emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes. After Lysias retreated to Antioch, Judas and his contingent went to restore the violated Temple in Jerusalem where the Seleucid Emperor had sacrificed to Zeus Olympus a swine on the altar in the Holy of Holies. Our Jewish heroes thus found devastation and ruin everywhere. But while they had rent their clothes and pleaded for God's mercy and forgiveness, they persevered in restoring the Temple, and made a rededication. They found according to the Babylonian Talmudic a jar of oil for fueling a lit Menorah that had not been made unclean by the pagans. But the amount of oil was only sufficient for one day. Yet when used the Menorah continued burning for a full eight days. Thus, starting on 25 Chislev (approxinately 25 December, though the Jewish date varies with the Jewish calendar that is based on the lunar vice solar cycle), the Feast of Dedication was instituted for eight days in perpetuity to commemorate the restoration of the Temple from the pagans. This was the same feast for which Jesus in John 10:22 had returned to Jerusalem almost two centuries later.
Now some things are important here. The Temple was restored from pagan uncleanliness to holiness on or about 25 December. In the same way the Christ child came into the world to restore mankind from uncleanliness to holiness on 25 December (at least that's when we celebrate his birth, though the actual birth date is likely in springtime). It was the Temple of the Most High God which was cleaned out and rededicated, and St Paul in the New Testament calls our bodies the Temple of the Holy Spirit which we likewise are to keep clean and un-defiled. The celebration that the Jews made at the rededication of the Temple was much like the celebration that they would make much later when Christ Himself would come riding on an ass into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. And the oil that did not run out for eight days at the first Hanukkah is reminiscent of the Holy Spirit whom we receive at the Sacrament of Confirmation by anointing with oil, and who heals us on the anointing of oil at the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.
There are many allusions to Christ in the Old Testament. This is but one example. Here an ostensible Jewish Holy Day celebrated in parallel with the Christian Christmas point to that very event of the birth of the Christ child. Unfortunately, the Books of the Bible which talk about this particular Holy Day are missing from the Protestant Bible because in their rebellion against the Church in the 16th century AD, Martin Luther and John Calvin removed them on their own recognizance.
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| Hanukkah Menorah |
Friday, December 11, 2015
Epistula Aperta Papae Francisco
Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,
The Remnant Newspaper has published the following in the wake of the continued heretical statements and practices of the current Roman Pontiff, not the least of which was the recent pagan environmentalist light show displayed on St. Peter's Basilica:
The Year of Mercy Begins: An Open Letter to Pope Francis
Please sign the petition presented within the letter. Yes, we should pray for the Roman Pontiff to repent. But we must have our eyes wide open. The open letter linked above describes well who and what the current occupier of the Seat of St. Peter really is. No more need be said here.
The Remnant Newspaper has published the following in the wake of the continued heretical statements and practices of the current Roman Pontiff, not the least of which was the recent pagan environmentalist light show displayed on St. Peter's Basilica:
The Year of Mercy Begins: An Open Letter to Pope Francis
Please sign the petition presented within the letter. Yes, we should pray for the Roman Pontiff to repent. But we must have our eyes wide open. The open letter linked above describes well who and what the current occupier of the Seat of St. Peter really is. No more need be said here.
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| The Argentinian |
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Prophetia Adventiciae Infantis Christi a Pagano Poeta Romano Publio Virgilio Marone
Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,
The pagan Roman Poet Publius Virgilius Maro who lived from 70 to 19 BC recorded a prophecy of the coming of the Christ Child in his Fourth Eclogue. Details are given in Christ the Greatest Black Swan: The Unexpected Expected Messiah at The American Catholic blog.
The original text is provided below:
The pagan Roman Poet Publius Virgilius Maro who lived from 70 to 19 BC recorded a prophecy of the coming of the Christ Child in his Fourth Eclogue. Details are given in Christ the Greatest Black Swan: The Unexpected Expected Messiah at The American Catholic blog.
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| Publius Virgilius Maro Poeta Romano |
Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus.
non omnis arbusta iuvant humilesque myricae;
si canimus silvas, silvae sint consule dignae.
Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;
magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. 5
iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna,
iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.
tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget gens aurea mundo,
casta fave Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo. 10
Teque adeo decus hoc aevi, te consule, inibit,
Pollio, et incipient magni procedere menses;
te duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri,
inrita perpetua solvent formidine terras.
ille deum vitam accipiet divisque videbit 15
permixtos heroas et ipse videbitur illis
pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.
At tibi prima, puer, nullo munuscula cultu
errantis hederas passim cum baccare tellus
mixtaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho. 20
ipsae lacte domum referent distenta capellae
ubera nec magnos metuent armenta leones;
ipsa tibi blandos fundent cunabula flores.
occidet et serpens et fallax herba veneni
occidet; Assyrium vulgo nascetur amomum. 25
At simul heroum laudes et facta parentis
iam legere et quae sit poteris cognoscere virtus,
molli paulatim flavescet campus arista
incultisque rubens pendebit sentibus uva
et durae quercus sudabunt roscida mella. 30
Pauca tamen suberunt priscae vestigia fraudis,
quae temptare Thetin ratibus, quae cingere muris
oppida, quae iubeant telluri infindere sulcos.
alter erit tum Tiphys et altera quae vehat Argo
delectos heroas; erunt etiam altera bella 35
atque iterum ad Troiam magnus mittetur Achilles.
Hinc, ubi iam firmata virum te fecerit aetas,
cedet et ipse mari vector nec nautica pinus
mutabit merces; omnis feret omnia tellus.
non rastros patietur humus, non vinea falcem, 40
robustus quoque iam tauris iuga solvet arator;
nec varios discet mentiri lana colores,
ipse sed in pratis aries iam suave rubenti
murice, iam croceo mutabit vellera luto,
sponte sua sandyx pascentis vestiet agnos. 45
'Talia saecla' suis dixerunt 'currite' fusis
concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae.
Adgredere o magnos—aderit iam tempus—honores,
cara deum suboles, magnum Iovis incrementum.
aspice convexo nutantem pondere mundum, 50
terrasque tractusque maris caelumque profundum;
aspice, venturo laetantur ut omnia saeclo.
O mihi tum longae maneat pars ultima vitae,
spiritus et quantum sat erit tua dicere facta:
non me carminibus vincat nec Thracius Orpheus 55
nec Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit,
Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.
Pan etiam, Arcadia mecum si iudice certet,
Pan etiam Arcadia dicat se iudice victum.
Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem; 60
matri longa decem tulerunt fastidia menses.
incipe, parve puer. qui non risere parenti,
nec deus hunc mensa dea nec dignata cubili est.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Cecile Richards Est Carnifex - Infantaria
Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,
The Conservative News Service (CNS) has a most appropriate article entitled, "When Pro-Abortion Mantras Trump Facts." It reports that the head of Planned Parenthood - Cecile Richards - was decrying the incendiary rhetoric of the pro-life movement against the infanticide of the unborn as the causative factor in Robert Lewis Dear's terrorist rampage of blood shed at an abortuary that her organizations operates in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This woman has heard nothing yet of incendiary rhetoric for God remains to speak - "Depart from me, ye worker of iniquity; I never knew you."
Let us however be very clear. What Mr. Dear did this past weekend was the act of an insane lunatic who should be incarcerated for the remainder of his life in order to protect society. None of us is God, and as such none of us has any moral right to take the law into our own hands. No one outside of what God has appointed (see Romans 13:1-7) has any authority to initiate violence against Cecile Richards or any other person within Planned Parenthood. Doing so makes the person who commits the violent act as bad as those against whom he is committing the act. A second immoral act cannot correct the first immoral act. Therefore, this is an advocacy for sanity in judgment.
But with that said, long before Mr. Dear began his bloody rampage with neither motive nor goal, Cecile Richards was already butchering unborn babies, dismembering them to sell their internal organs to the highest bidder. The ancient Romans had a word for the kind of person this woman is: infantaria which means murderess of infants. The Nazis who before and during Word War II did to non-Aryan babies (e.g., Slavic and Jewish) what Cecile Richards now does every day of the week with not just impunity but praise from the President of the United States were brought to trial at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, and upon finding of blood-guiltiness, were hung by their necks till they were dead. But a duly appointed court made this determination, NOT a vigilante.
It is morally inconceivable that today some 70 years later equally wicked women and men like Cecile Richards are not just protected against punishment, but glorified and lauded by the man who sits in the highest office of the nation. God is NOT a disinterested spectator in the events of human activities. He will one day show His mercy for the unborn and it will likely become His eternal justice rained on the rest of us.
The Prophet Elijah warned wicked Queen Jezebel that she would be eaten by dogs for murdering Naboth the Jezreelite. And King Manasseh of Judah who made his children to walk in fire as sacrifice to Moloch fell under the Divine eye as God sent King Sennacherib of Assyria to take him away into captivity in a dungeon for 12 long years for his crimes against humanity. God being the same yesterday, today and forever, will do it again. God's mercy is God's justice, and we having abdicated our responsibility and having evaded our accountability are now likely to receive His mercy as justice.
The Conservative News Service (CNS) has a most appropriate article entitled, "When Pro-Abortion Mantras Trump Facts." It reports that the head of Planned Parenthood - Cecile Richards - was decrying the incendiary rhetoric of the pro-life movement against the infanticide of the unborn as the causative factor in Robert Lewis Dear's terrorist rampage of blood shed at an abortuary that her organizations operates in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This woman has heard nothing yet of incendiary rhetoric for God remains to speak - "Depart from me, ye worker of iniquity; I never knew you."
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| Cecile Richards - Infantaria |
But with that said, long before Mr. Dear began his bloody rampage with neither motive nor goal, Cecile Richards was already butchering unborn babies, dismembering them to sell their internal organs to the highest bidder. The ancient Romans had a word for the kind of person this woman is: infantaria which means murderess of infants. The Nazis who before and during Word War II did to non-Aryan babies (e.g., Slavic and Jewish) what Cecile Richards now does every day of the week with not just impunity but praise from the President of the United States were brought to trial at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, and upon finding of blood-guiltiness, were hung by their necks till they were dead. But a duly appointed court made this determination, NOT a vigilante.
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| Executed Nazi Leaders |
The Prophet Elijah warned wicked Queen Jezebel that she would be eaten by dogs for murdering Naboth the Jezreelite. And King Manasseh of Judah who made his children to walk in fire as sacrifice to Moloch fell under the Divine eye as God sent King Sennacherib of Assyria to take him away into captivity in a dungeon for 12 long years for his crimes against humanity. God being the same yesterday, today and forever, will do it again. God's mercy is God's justice, and we having abdicated our responsibility and having evaded our accountability are now likely to receive His mercy as justice.