Angry Pope slaps St. Peter's Square pilgrim's grasping hand

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God is dog spelled backwards

David Bentley Hart not gonna be happy about this development, no siree

The kingdom of God is at hand: Repent and believe

The incapacity of Catholicism to rebel against evil is a feature, not a bug

Submission is the meaning of both Islam and Catholicism. It's not for nothing that the American Revolution was called a "Presbyterian Rebellion". A Catholic America is a supine America.

John's pre-crucifixion Jesus leaves an opening for Gentile Christian self-identity, Matthew's denies the possibility of it

These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

-- Matthew 10:5f.

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

-- Matthew 15:24

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

-- John 10:16

And the word is Lutherans

Heretic Bill Johnson's Bethel Church in California is in the news trying to resurrect church member's 2-year old who died December 14th

Opinion: Tragically, Bethel leaders praying for 2-year-old's resurrection are believing God for promises He hasn't made

Bethel Church leaders, members trying to resurrect worship leader's deceased 2-year-old daughter

ἤδη ὄζει -- John 11:39

Oswald Spengler: The opposite of noble is not poor, but vulgar

Pride and quietly borne poverty, silent fulfilment of duty, renunciation for the sake of a task or conviction, greatness in enduring one's fate, loyalty, honour, responsibility, achievement: All this is a constant reproach to the "humiliated and insulted".

-- Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision, tr. Charles Francis Atkinson (London: Allen and Unwin, 1934), p. 94.

The mingled paint of living, good and ill together

'Tis in life as 'tis in painting,

Much may be right, yet much be wanting.

-- Matthew Prior

Atheist, feminist from a Texas family full of Trump supporters says Trump has ruined Christmas and turned it ugly

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He ruins everything he touches. ... Now [Christmas] has morphed into something even uglier.

So it was already ugly, right?

But Ms. Amanda Marcotte obviously hasn't seen the big, ugly above-ground pool my new liberal neighbors installed next to my rear lot line. They are big Rachel Madcow fans and proponents of gun control who chose to live out here in rural America where gunfire is something of an evening ritual. Nor has the Salon writer heard the loud, drunken parties until the wee hours of the morning these liberals have brought with them, disturbing the peace. And now we've got a big ole SUV in the front yard with the hood up for at least the last month! Who leaves their hood up in the rain and the snow? It's a $330,000 house on two acres, quickly turning into White Trash America.

I sure do miss those Calvinists who used to own the property, even if they didn't think too much of me because I wasn't Dutch. At least they were tidy and quiet. And they had a beautiful lawn, too, underneath that pool.

Donald Trump has no corner on ugly.