For all the saints who from their labors rest . . . all 100.8 billion of them, or so

The Scarlet Pimpernel

That's the total number of the dead.

Whether they be in heaven or in hell and in what proportion, sink me, I do not know.

And neither does Mona Chalabi. 

The Benedict Option in one picture

Evangelical women swallow the communist bait, will help elect an open borders, partial birth abortion fanatic president of the US

Gleefully showcased here in The Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Trump’s support among white evangelical women stood at 58% in mid-October, down from the nearly 77% who voted for Mitt Romney four years ago, according to a poll from the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit organization, conducted after the video. More than 70% of white evangelical men still support Mr. Trump. ... After voting Republican for her entire life, Ms. Dingle, [a Christian blogger] 34, declared her intention to vote for Mrs. Clinton. Being pro-life, she said, was about more than abortion—it also meant sticking up for immigrants, refugees and other groups.

Russell Moore embraces the immanentized eschatology of Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Jaffa and Abraham Lincoln

Quoted here:

[I]magine a 1960s civil rights movement led not by Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, but by Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright. King did not simply speak to the passions of his followers but to the consciences of his detractors and to the consciences of those on the sidelines, overhearing it all. Behind that was a coherent set of ideas, grounded in the Bible and the Declaration of Independence.

Clinton v Trump: Who is worse morally?

Donald Trump is notorious for his sexual promiscuity.

Hillary Clinton is widely distrusted as an inveterate liar, including about even such small matters as the provenance of her own name.

Which is worse?

The answer from Dante's Inferno puts The Donald in the second circle of hell with all the lustful, just beneath Limbo, and Hillary in the eighth circle with all the fraudulent, just above Lucifer the father of lies, who is trapped in the ice at the very pit of hell.

To the Calvinist Doug Wilson, Donald Trump is a boorish pig whose dog poo he will not have on his shoe

Here, and so he will have Hillary's cow pie instead.

And you thought the Pharisees were ancient history.

Give that man the Duranty Award: Rod "Benedict Option" Dreher is so insular he can't find his own ass with both hands let alone the unfree world in 2016

 

 

Guess he never heard of China, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela for starters, then there's all the Muslim tyrannies, and then the tens of millions of aborted in Europe and the United States who never made the light of day because we think we're so free.

What's the unfree world in 2016? One in five people in the world still live under communism . . . at a minimum.

Apparently Rod Dreher is enjoying too much grilled octopus in Manhattan these days to be awake to the rest of the world.

Too bad Trump did not touch or kiss a man, then he would be celebrated for his courage in coming out of the closet

Seen here in the comments to "Donald Trump Denounced by Liberty University Students".

Once again the communists succeed by getting the true believers to live up to their own book of rules while they break all of them.

Calvinism kills as surely as apocalyptic, or Mao.

America has long since become Richard Mitchell's civilization of the ignorant who think that they are educated

"It is possible, of course, to keep educated people unfree in a state of civilization, but it’s much easier to keep ignorant people unfree in a state of civilization. And it is easiest of all if you can convince the ignorant that they are educated, for you can thus make them collaborators in your disposition of their liberty and property. That is the institutionally assigned task, for all that it may be invisible to those who perform it, of American public education." 

-- Richard Mitchell, underground grammarian and author of The Graves of Academe

Since when, you ask? Oh, since about 1913 or thereabouts.

Let him who is without sin among you be the first to vote

h/t Nita

What's more servile, prostrating yourself five times a day in submission to Allah, or calling yourself another man's slave?

From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God. -- Romans 1:1

The dead in Christ shall perk up: Renato Bialetti, son of Alfonso Bialetti, cremated and buried in a moka pot

Story here and here.

Looks much larger than the largest available pot, a 12-cupper retailing for $65, but autenico nonetheless. Though I'm guessing they didn't add water, or use the filter basket. 

My Enneagram number: 1,224,720

heh heh

Missionary hubris: Between 1 AD and 1776 over 40 billion people have come and gone in the world, most of whom never heard the gospel even once

That's the inescapable conclusion one reaches from the (admittedly speculative) data assembled by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar at the Population Reference Bureau, in "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?"

The answer he gives to that question is about 108 billion, in response to the familiar assertion made "some time back in the 1970s . . . that 75 percent of the people who had ever been born were alive at that moment." He calculates, however, that only 6.5% of those ever born were alive in 2011.

This means that just since the American Revolutionary Era, the worldwide gospel mission has been a phenomenon reaching, or intending to reach, only the roughly 18 billion who have come and gone since then. If billions who have never heard and/or do not believe now are "lost", literally tens of billions were already lost before.

Hell must be teeming, and heaven a lonely place.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. -- Luke 14:28ff.

Whole nations have died every year without hearing the gospel, so what's the point of delaying the end if it's already too late to evangelize them?

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. -- Matthew 24:14

World Death Clock here.

Outed for being secretly uncollegial, Yale University Professor of Philosophy publicly erupts with hatred for much more distinguished Oxford Christian colleague

Reminds me of the outburst directed at yours truly's happy disposish by another philosopher on the day after Ronald Reagan's reelection in 1984. I guess it comes with the territory, but what idiot expects us to believe he believes anything will stay private on Facebook? Maybe Yale should recheck his credentials.

Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, 344 College St, New Haven, CT 06511-6629, 203-432-1689, jason.stanley@yale.edu, whose public Facebook attack on University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Richard Swinburne is quoted here:

"'F*ck those assholes' ... wildly understates my actual sentiments towards homophobic religious proponents of evil like Richard Swinburne, who use their status as professional philosophers to oppress others with less power. I am SO SORRY for using such mild language. I am posting this on 'public' so that there will be no need for anyone to violate any religious code of ethics and take pictures of private FB pages to share my views about such matters."

The "Nones" mentioned in the Bible: Just maybe some of ours are descended from them

  

 

 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

-- 1 Kings 19:12ff.

Roman Catholic sainthood process corrupted by cash

Reported here:

[T]he saint-making process has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations per candidate with virtually no financial oversight.

To liberals Donald Trump's charity isn't charity unless everybody knows about it, especially the IRS

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. -- Matthew 6:1ff.

Treats Family Restaurant: Best Place to Eat in Lonsdale, Minnesota

Story here.