How US mainline Protestants made themselves extinct, or, exhibit number 4,295 demonstrating how a perfesser can't put two and two together

Protestants and the pill: How US Christians helped make birth control mainstream :

By the time the pill came on the market in the 1960s, liberal and even some conservative Protestants were advocating for birth control using new theological ideas about “responsible parenthood.” ... Multiple denominations endorsed birth control. ... Meanwhile, mainline Protestant churches, and their public influence, are shrinking.

 

Gee, I wonder why? 

Who lives that's not depraved or depraves?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Who lives that's not depraved or depraves? 

Who dies, that bears not one spurn to their graves 

Of their friends' gift? 

I should fear those that dance before me now 

Would one day stamp upon me: 't has been done;

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

-- Apemantus, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 1, Scene II 

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. 

-- Luke 11:44

Total depravity means losing the image of God

 

 

 So deplorable is the degradation of our nature, that whereas before we bore the image of God, we now retain only the image of men.

-- Robert South

Gay festival in Gran Canaria is to Monkeypox outbreak as gay Provincetown, MA, July 4, 2021 celebration was to COVID-19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONKEYPOX cases in Spain and Italy have been traced to an island festival attended by 80,000 revellers:

The Canaria Pride festival, held in the town of Maspalomas between May 5 and 15, has become a hotspot for the monkeypox outbreak, reports El País. ... Many known patients are gay men who were tested after going to STI clinics, the WHO said. Health chiefs warned gay and bisexual men to be on the lookout for new unexplained rashes.

 

The US CDC never used the word "gay" about the gay Provincetown outbreak in its report, except to say "Most cases occurred in males (85%)", lol. The outbreak was important at the time because it exploded the idea that coronavirus vaccination protected one from infection, but you probably never heard about that either, lol. "Approximately three quarters (346; 74%) of cases occurred in fully vaccinated persons (those who had completed a 2-dose course of mRNA vaccine [Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna] or had received a single dose of Janssen [Johnson & Johnson] vaccine ≥14 days before exposure)." 

 

 

 An idle person only lives to spend his time, and eat the fruits of the earth, like a vermin or a wolf.

 

-- Jeremy Taylor

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has finally been barred from the Lord's Supper over her support for abortion

"Therefore, in light of my responsibility as the Archbishop of San Francisco to be 'concerned for all the Christian faithful entrusted to [my] care" (Code of Canon Law, can. 383, §1), by means of this communication I am hereby notifying you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you publically repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance." he said.

More.

Only a degenerate people gives women political power

 Degenerous passion, and for man too base,

It seats its empire in the female race;

There rages, and, to make its blow secure,

Puts flatt'ry on, until the aim be sure.

-- John Dryden

Rod Dreher, poor wretch, has announced that his wife has filed for divorce after 25 years of marriage

Those domestick traitors, bosom-thieves,

Whom custom hath call'd wives; the

readiest helps

To betray the heady husbands,

rob the easy.

 

-- Ben Jonson

Pre-existent Jeremiah, pre-existent you

 

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 

-- Jeremiah 1:5

Don't be stupid with your money, protect yourself

And Rebbe Yitzchak said, A person should always divide his money into three: one third in land, one third in commerce, and one third at hand. 

-- Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia 42a (quoted here)

Americans stupidly now derive 42% of their wealth from stocks:

Through the end of 2021, the share of household wealth that comes from directly or indirectly held stocks hit a record 41.9%, more than double where it was 30 years ago, according to data from the Federal Reserve. 

We're so vain

 NASA wants to send nudes to space to attract aliens... 

This isn't the first time NASA has transmitted depictions of naked humans to the great beyond in hopes of luring the attention of aliens. Previously, plaques and golden records sent on the Pioneer and Voyager missions, each headed by famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan in the early 1970s, included illustrations of a naked man and woman, though much less detailed. 

"The launching of this 'bottle' into the cosmic 'ocean' says something very hopeful about life on this planet," Sagan concluded.

 

 

We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to selfawareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. 

-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980) 

 

The urge to cancel others is natural, a feature of mingled human nature, good and ill together

 Begone, or else let me. 'Tis bane to draw

The same air with thee.

 

-- Ben Jonson

Thus am I doubly arm'd

 

Thus am I doubly arm'd; my death and life,

My bane and antidote, are both before me:

This, in a moment, brings me to an end;

But that informs me I shall never die.

On aborting Roe v Wade

 Many politic conceptions, so elaborately formed and wrought, and grown at length ripe for delivery, do yet, in the issue, miscarry and prove abortive.

-- Robert South

Not in the welfare state

The poor sleep little.

-- Thomas Otway