Michael Savage: Suicide is an anciently outlawed impulse and is wrong because it's self-murder

Of course.

In German we call it exactly that: der Selbstmord.

The tyrant Lucre

 

Up, up, says Avarice; thou snor'st again,

Stretchest thy limbs, and yawn'st, but all in vain:

The tyrant Lucre no denial takes;

At his command the unwilling sluggard wakes.

-- John Dryden

The one and only temple

 

 

The heav'n, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,

Make but one temple for the deity.

-- Edmund Waller

Welcome to I Can Hardly Remember Orthodox Catholicism Day

Jesus hardly speaks of thanksgiving as characteristic of the daily spiritual life the way Paul does, but is instead more unsettled and on guard in his estimation of it

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 

-- I Thessalonians 5:18

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

-- Luke 18:1

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

-- Luke 21:36

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

-- Mark 3:35

Newly-elected Marxist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks just like a Christian end-of-the-world fanatic

Atheist Camille Paglia: The remodeled university of the future should have comparative religion for its undergraduate core curriculum

Camille Paglia: It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World:

Post-structuralism, along with identity politics, made huge gains in the 1970s, as the old guard professors proved helpless against a rising tide of rapid add-on programs and departments like women’s studies and African-American studies. The tenured professoriate seemed not to realize that change of some kind was necessary, and thus they failed to provide an alternative vision of a remodeled university of the future. I myself was lobbying for interdisciplinary innovation in the humanities—something that remained highly controversial right through the 1980s, when there were fierce battles over it where I was then teaching (during the merger of the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts with the Philadelphia College of Art to form the present University of the Arts). Another persistent proposal of mine has been for comparative religion to become the undergraduate core curriculum, an authentically global multiculturalism.

The wrath of the Son may soon be kindled

Do homage to the Son,

that He not become angry,

and you perish in the way,

For His wrath may soon be kindled.

How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!

-- Psalm 2:12

The individual's last stand

 

Must the whole man, amazing thought! return

To the cold marble, or the contracted urn!

And never shall those particles agree, 

That were in life this individual he?

-- Matthew Prior

How to lose your country through magical thinking

News from the future, UK Daily Mail:

MING THE MERCILESS CROWNED EMPEROR OF CALIFORNIA IN PACT WITH NEW CHINESE GOVERNOR

• Christians insist they did their part and that life goes on

• Say happiness is not dependent on who loses elections

National Catholic Reporter attacks its conservative luminaries and First Things, denies Catholic abuse scandal is primarily homosexual in origin

This snooty editorial demanding deep self-examination is itself blind to the sin of homosexuality which has metastisized in the Catholic priesthood. The church's view that God has created people homosexual is the little leaven that has leavened the whole lump.

Here:

Those who worked so ardently in the past to enable you — the faithful, so betrayed, who just couldn't believe you would engage in such a deliberate cover up; the likes of George Weigel and his blind, uncritical hagiography of Pope John Paul II; Dr. Mary Ann Glendon and the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus and their naive celebration and defense of Maciel; the rest of the chorus at First Things and like publications; the telling silence of so many other Catholic outlets; the absurdity of charlatan William Donohue and his silly "Catholic" League — they helped sustain your weak narrative as many of them denigrated those who raised the tough questions and pursued the truth.

It's over.

None of them any longer has a persuasive case to make. Some of them now try to blame the crisis on gay priests. You might be tempted to latch onto that diversion, but it will only prolong the already intolerably long agony.

Gay priests and bishops are certainly among us — probably a greater percentage of gays in the Catholic clergy, if anecdotal evidence and the private chatter of seminary rectors and heads of orders is to be believed, than one would find in the general population. ...

Unless the preponderance of credible experts has suddenly flipped its understanding of things, however, sexual orientation is not one of the topics that match with sexual abuse.

The mother's womb the dressing room

 

 

Man's life's a tragedy; his mother's womb,

From which he enters, is the tiringroom;

This spacious earth the theatre, and the stage

That country which he lives in; passions, rage,

Folly, and vice, are actors.

-- Henry Wotton (1568-1639)

Everything is awesome, same as ever

 

 

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

-- Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

Your new electorate: More than a third of millennials are nones but many share the irrational beliefs of the young

Michael Graham, here:

About 35 percent of all adult millennials (born between 1981-1996) are part of the “nones,” people with no identified religious faith. ...

It’s not that millennials and young Americans are too rational to be believers — far from it. According to a new report from MarketWatch, half of all young Americans “believe astrology is a science.”

“The psychic services industry — which includes astrology, aura reading, mediumship, tarot-card reading and palmistry, among other metaphysical services — is now worth $2 billion annually,” MarketWatch reports.

The human capacity to believe in the beyond believable is all but limitless.

When your name is Martha

Verily, verily, I say un-to thee:

One thing is needful when your name is Mary;

But if you should happen to go by Martha,

You're stuck serving lunch because that's your karma.

-- Johnny