Americans Exaggerate Church Attendance By 88%

So says this story, which reports that about 24% actually go to church every Sunday when 45% claim to do so.

As the French say, everything in America is big.

Let's Bring Back Hangings And The Age Of Edward

So says Peter Hitchens, here:

We disagree about almost everything, but I find him impossible to dislike. In person he is polite and engaged, and in print always a contrarian but never a controversialist, sincere in beliefs that are almost as unfashionable on the right as they are anathema to the left. He champions civil liberties but abhors libertarianism, would like to bring back hanging and see off pre-marital sex, and is in a perpetual state of lament for the passing of Christian values, which he dates back to the first world war. "If anybody else tells me that I think the 1950s were a golden age, I'll strangle them. I remember the 1950s – chilblains, Wall's ice cream, everybody smoked. I didn't like the 1950s." Hitchens's golden age was the late Victorian/early Edwardian era, a period of "How shall I say? Increasing self-imposed moral conduct."

On "Scripture"

"Scripture" is a construct, a box which we manufacture in which to carry God around, not unlike the ark of the covenant. Its handlers similarly use it to perform miracles of various kinds, from changing human hearts to changing water, bread and wine into "salvation". But we have no instructions to build such Scripture like we have for the ark.

In a way the construction of such a box for God is a reactionary response to his perceived departure in the form in which he had been known. This is true even of the ark where God dwelt, whom the author of Hebrews said cannot be contained in houses made with human hands, nor even by the universe which God himself has made, as Solomon observed, who proceeded to build him a house anyway.

The presence of God prior to these events, however, in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, was what led the people forth. It was not the other way around, picking up "God" and taking him here and taking him there. And in the mornings it was God who did the saving, with heavenly manna. And it was at length to be God who did the writing of Scripture, inscribing with his very fingers his Law on tablets which he gave to Moses.

All these stories are in what we call "Scripture", but who is doing the writing? 

Are You A Disciple?

"So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple."

-- Luke 14:33

On Making War: Every Christian A Smith And Wesson

And every Jew a .22.

While Catholic Europe acquiesced under the tyrannical hand of Hitler, and Orthodox Russia under the dictatorial hand of Stalin, it was Protestant America which took up arms to defeat them both.

Think about it, and buy a gun today.

USA Today Celebrates The Decline Of Protestantism

You wouldn't know it from the article, here, that Protestantism remains the overwhelmingly dominant religion of America, despite losing its majoritarian ranking. Protestants still outnumber Catholics by over 2 to 1, on whom the unaffiliated are gaining fast.

Judging by the comments section, it will only be a matter of time before the secularists begin tearing religious people limb from limb for sport.

Forget that turning the other cheek stuff. It's best to be armed and ready for them.

God, guns and guts made America great. Let's keep all three.

Meanwhile, subscribers to that USA Today rag are only encouraging the bastards. USA Away is more like it. Forget 'em.

Roman Catholic Wafer Worship: And You Thought Idolatry Was Dead

Not only do Catholics worship a man as a god, they worship a wafer and keep vigil over it in various places all over the world.

And you thought circumambulation of a meteorite marked only others as so 7th century, so primitive.

Videos here and here.

Cold Obstruction

"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;

To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;"

-- Claudio, William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 1