Perhaps the most repulsive lyrics in all of Christian gospel music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SONS OF GOD (popularized by gay Catholic Ray Repp from 1966 onward)

 

Sons of God: Hear His Holy word,
Gather around the table of the Lord
Eat His Body, drink His Blood
And we'll sing a song of love
Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia. 

 

-- James Thiem, OSB

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

 

-- Ezekiel 5:10

A clown traverses the stage of the world, entertaining by pretending

With a grave look, in this odd equipage,

The clownish mimick traverses the stage.

 

-- Matthew Prior

Lent is the PERFECT time for NOOM

Rod Dreher dines out on many enthusiasms, the latest of which is Hungarian nationalism

 It's gotten so bad he literally had to go on a diet recently to lose some of his many accumulated pounds, but he's not letting that stop him from luxuriating abroad this spring.

Make sure to buy his next book to support his sumptuous Christian lifestyle.

 

 

Clown Rod Dreher gets a Christian tattoo

 LARPing grifters, both of them.

 

When there is no balm in Gilead, sleep

Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care;

The birth of each day's life, sore labour's bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,

Chief nourisher in life's feast.

-- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Excess is greatness' own worst enemy

He must be no great eater, drinker, sleeper;

no gamester, wencher, fopp.

He must discipline his senses, and exert his mind.

Every worthy undertaking, requires both.

 

-- Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712), Cosmologia sacra, Book II, Chapter VII, Of Virtue, 39.

Nothing is sacred

 

When the Irish fancied themselves Spanish

Of all nations under heaven, the Spaniard is the most mingled, and most uncertain. Wherefore, most foolishly do the Irish think to ennoble themselves, by wresting their ancientry from the Spaniard, who is unable to derive himself from any in certain.

-- Edmund Spenser

Trinitite, a creation of the Trinity test

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that
had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 

-- Revelation 15:2

The Italians were first in the higher learning of the Renaissance

The Italians have carried away the bell from all other nations, as may appear both by their books and works.

-- George Hakewill (1578-1649)

The belief of fools and wise men

 Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men.

-- Francis Bacon

The light of day deceives us

Paint, patches, jewels laid aside,

At night astronomers agree,

The evening has the day bely'd,

And Phillis is some forty-three.

-- Matthew Prior

The greatest line uttered in a Jesus movie was by Telly Savalas playing Pontius Pilate in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told

 

Passion has a way of suddenly appearing and blowing one off course

18th century compass card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On life's vast ocean diversly we sail;

Reason the card, but passion is the gale.

-- Alexander Pope

What's in your soup?

Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;

Finger of birth-strangled babe,

Ditch-delivered by a drab;

Make the gruel thick and slab.

 

-- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

The Academy, the destroyer within

 The vice of professors exceeds the destructiveness of the most hostile assaults, as intestine treachery is more ruinous than foreign violence.

-- The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety

Tut-tut, my pain spells rain

 

 

 

 

 

Aches, and hurts, and cords, do engrieve either towards rain, or towards frost.

-- Francis Bacon

Lent so phony a Jesuit is embarrassed by it

With that in mind, can we talk about our choices for Friday evening meals this Lent? Because over the years I feel like I’ve seen—and been a part of—quite a few Friday Lenten dinners that were every bit as fancy as any non-Lenten meal I have ever eaten. Kingfish ceviche tacos, coconut macadamia-crusted salmon steaks, Lobster Thermidor. Hey, it’s not meat!

I know of nothing in the literature about Lent that says food on Fridays shouldn’t taste good. Nobody wants that. But when our Lenten fasts start to resemble this recipe site’s announcement that “Fish on Good Friday doesn’t have to be a tired tradition. Indulge your guests (or treat yourself) to a fishy dish that’s equal parts impressive and delicious,” I think we might be headed in the wrong direction.

 

Jim McDermott, here.

Man, five foot six, fights off great Russian bear for 18 days and counting

Thus, by degrees, he rose to Jove's imperial seat:

Thus difficulties prove a soul legitimately great.

-- John Dryden