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The law establishes some conditions for such procedures. The disease or condition must be serious and incurable and other end-of-life options must be discussed.Notice, if this were relevant, that "serious and incurable" doesn't even mean "fatal," much less that the person is presently dying. Not that it would be right deliberately to kill the person if he were presently dying, either, but one just gets so tired of the dishonest claims of strict regulations and restrictions after a while. Notice, too, that there is no mention of guarding people with dementia from "choosing" this option without full understanding or under pressure. Nor is this point merely theoretical. Suicide is not illegal for dementia patients in Switzerland.]]> at all times. Rather than looking for further ways to get government funding, they need to be looking for further ways to do without government funding, because at this point the confirmation is overwhelming: It will always come back to haunt your institution later on. This sort of thing will happen in the United States. Using funding as a means of control is a very old game in the U.S., so old that it is almost passe. It's an obvious thing for the "death with dignity" types to do, and they will probably start it on a state-by-state basis. An attempt to force facilities to cooperate with suicide was already made in California in 2007. The law would have required all nursing homes and hospices to allow assisted suicide on the premises. I have been unable to discover whether the bill passed or not. I think it did not pass. In the name of honesty I should add that the California law does not even appear to have used the excuse of targeting facilities that receive government funding. It simply imposed its requirement on healthcare facilities across the board. But it would seem even more "logical," by some people's notion of what is logical, to impose this on facilities that receive government funding. More and more disengagement from the government and more and more willingness to engage in civil disobedience are going to be required from healthcare workers and from those who run healthcare facilities. It is inevitable as our Western governments become more and more committed to enforcing the culture of death. ]]>
It is not necessary to a just inquiry into doctrines or facts, that a man should be absolutely indifferent to them before he begins that inquiry, much less that he should actually disbelieve them; as if he must necessarily commence atheist, before he can fairly examine into the proofs of the existence of God. It is sufficient to a candid examination, that a man applieth himself to it with a mind open to conviction, and a disposition to embrace truth on which side soever it shall appear, and to receive the evidence that shall arise in the course of the trial. And if the inquiry relateth to principles in which we have been instructed, then, supposing those principles to be in themselves rational and well founded, it may well happen, that, in inquiring into the grounds of them, a fair examination may be carried on without seeing cause to disbelieve, or doubt of them through the whole course of the enquiry; which in that case will end in a fuller conviction of them than before. (A View of the Principal Deistical Writers, 1837 edition, p. 129)Leland is right. No Christian should view himself as obligated, in the name of fairness and honest inquiry, to set aside his Christianity while he inquires into it. Inquiry and the acquisition of knowledge can proceed while continuing to be devoted to Christ. I believe that this misperception of evidentialism maybe part of why pastors and parents fear an evidential approach rather than welcoming it. (See this post.) 5) Evidentialism is not the position that, if you cannot answer every objection that can be or has been raised to Christianity, you are not rational in believing it. This cannot be emphasized too strongly. The Internet and the world of books are filled with misleadingly phrased objections, foolish objections, objections based on misconceptions, honest but answerable objections--objections everywhere. This is a function both of the importance of the subject and of the amount of time and energy that skeptics have devoted to it. It is not (repeat, not) an indication of inherent dubiousness in Christianity. The fact that someone can raise an objection doesn't make it a good objection or even an objection worth much concern. Philosophers in particular are in some danger of forgetting this. We train philosophy students to "know the literature" and to spend time in their papers answering objections that have been raised to their own position. This is not wrong in itself, but it can give the false impression that, at a minimum, any objection that is brought up by someone "respected" is itself worthy of respect. The principle is incorrect even taken at face value, because plenty of people who are respected in the scholarly world have poor judgement when it comes to objections to religion, and some entire scholarly fields have accepted and incorporated bad methodology for a long time. In the Internet age, this misconception about respecting any objection that others respect creates problems that go beyond granting too much credit to people on the basis of their scholarly credentials. For now, anyone with an Internet connection can get a following and be respected by someone or a group of someones and can even write a "book," and suddenly the ardent young philosopher thinks such a person might well be saying stuff worthy of concern. Two quotations from the older writers are relevant to an over-focus on answering objections. First, one that I quoted in the older post, from George Horne, an 18th century bishop:
In the thirty sections of their pamphlet, they have produced a list of difficulties to be met with in reading the Old and New Testament. Had I been aware of their design, I could have enriched the collection with many more, at least as good, if not a little better. But they have compiled, I dare say, what they deemed the best, and, in their own opinion, presented us with the essence of infidelity in a thumb-phial, the very fumes of which, on drawing the cork, are to strike the bench of bishops dead at once. Let not the unlearned Christian be alarmed, "as though some strange thing had happened to him," and modern philosophy had discovered arguments to demolish religion, never heard of before. The old ornaments of deism have been "broken off" upon this occasion, "and cast into the fire, and there came out this calf." These same difficulties have been again and again urged and discussed in public; again and again weighed and considered by learned and sensible men, of the laity as well as the clergy, who have by no means been induced by them to renounce their faith. [snip] Many and painful are the researches sometimes necessary to be made, for settling points of that kind. Pertness and ignorance may ask a question in three lines, which it will cost learning and ingenuity thirty pages to answer. When this is done, the same question shall be triumphantly asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written upon the subject. (emphasis added)As Horne implies, Christians have answered the same objections over and over again, yet they keep coming back up as if new. Moreover, answering objections can take much longer than the original statement of them, even if the objections themselves are based upon "pertness and ignorance." You are not lazy or a poor investigator if you cannot give an answer right now to every objection that comes up. Nor are you therefore unjustified in continuing to believe that Christianity is true. The mere existence of some objection you have not yet answered does not amount to a prima facie refutation of your position. Herewith the 19th century English archbishop Richard Whately:
Similar to this case is that which may be called the Fallacy of objections; i.e. showing that there are objections against some plan, theory, or system, and thence inferring that it should be rejected; when that which ought to have been proved is, that there are more, or stronger objections, against the receiving than the rejecting of it. This is the main, and almost universal Fallacy of anti-christians; and is that of which a young Christian should be first and principally warned. They find numerous 'objections' against various parts of Scripture; to some of which no satisfactory answer can be given; and the incautious hearer is apt, while his attention is fixed on these, to forget that there are infinitely more, and stronger objections against the supposition, that the Christian Religion is of human origin; and that where we cannot answer all objections, we are bound, in reason and in candour, to adopt the hypothesis which labours under the least. That the case is as I have stated, I am authorized to assume, from this circumstance,—that no complete and consistent account has ever been given of the manner in which the Christian Religion, supposing it a human contrivance, could have arisen and prevailed as it did. And yet this may obviously be demanded with the utmost fairness of those who deny its divine origin. The Religion exists; that is the phenomenon. Those who will not allow it to have come from God, are bound to solve the phenomenon on some other hypothesis less open to objections. They are not, indeed, called on to prove that it actually did arise in this or that way; but to suggest (consistently with acknowledged facts) some probable way in which it may have arisen, reconcilable with all the circumstances of the case. That infidels have never done this, though they have had 1800 years to try, amounts to a confession, that no such hypothesis can be devised, which will not be open to greater objections than lie against Christianity. Elements of Logic, 1870, pp. 144-45.The phrase "the fallacy of objections" should become common currency among apologists and their students and should be guarded against with vigilance. This, for two reasons: First, as Whately implies, the evidence for Christianity is very strong and tough. It is emphatically not just "one premise away" from being refuted. On the contrary, it is the very nature of a good empirical argument that it overjustifies the subject in believing its conclusion. Hence, even if we don't know why Jesus said this or what the correct resolution is to that putative contradiction (for example), this does not mean that our entire edifice is trembling, any more than that is the case for a well-justified scientific theory. Second, apologists and students should come to recognize the shape of the argumentative landscape. This will include recognizing objections according to the class into which they fall, which will in turn result in a tough-mindedness that remains unshaken by the next thing one happens to read. The well-versed apologetics student should be able to say, "Wait a minute. Are you really implying that the disciples thought Jesus was risen from the dead because this would make him resemble some pagan God? That's absurd," and should know enough of the history of 1st century Palestine, as well as enough of human pscyhology, to know why this is absurd and hence to be scarcely slowed by it in his progress. He should be able to say, "Ah, another argument from silence" or "Oh, I see, that's another manufactured contradiction." He should recognize that our not knowing why Jesus made some comment (such as asking the disciples if they have swords and then later telling Peter to put up his sword), so far from being a problematic objection to Christianity, is a plausible mark of the authenticity of the narrative. For, whatever Jesus meant, forgers and legend-makers are unlikely to stick pointlessly inexplicable and apparently conflicting comments into the mouths of the figures whom they are making larger than life. This jujitsu move, whereby the skeptic's bullying objection is seen to be an argument for the narrative, should be familiar to every student of Christian apologetics. I do something similar in this post where I discuss the surprisingly "kingly" portrayal of Jesus in the early Lukan account of the words of the angel at the annunciation and of the Song of Zechariah. The point I am making here is that evidentialism is not, never has been, and never should be an intellectual game of whack-a-mole. It is not a matter of trudging through a landscape of endless objections, answering one and then plodding on to tackle another. And if that is what students think it is, then the sooner they are disabused of this notion the better. Rather, they should be encouraged to lift up their heads and see the landscape at large. They should be taken up to a mountaintop and shown the lie of the land. They should come to see the objections and replies they already know as part of a pattern so that they can fit objections they encounter into the pattern. This will be immeasurably strengthening to their faith. Withal, we cannot neglect prayer. For it is undeniable as a matter of individual psychology that what strengthens one person may unsettle another and that a young person who is taught as well as possible by excellent teachers may nonetheless feel unsettled and confused. He may misevaluate probabilities, or it may prove surprisingly difficult to convey that clear image of the lie of the land to some given individual. Some people may be susceptible to falling into the fallacy of objections however often they are warned against it. This is all true. But none of that is a telling objection against the evidential approach, for the true brittleness of a fideistic faith is a greater danger still. I propose that those of us who are interested in evidential apologetics should be talking among ourselves about how we can avoid conveying the false images of our approach discussed here and strengthen earnest young people attracted to it. These are matters of eternal significance.]]>
[By] organizing pickets and manifestations in defense of unborn children, I was spreading false information about the work of the hospital Pro-Familia in Rzeszow. In particular, I was spreading information that the babies in this hospital were being killed.]]> Roe v. Wade was a huge judicial imposition nonetheless. Anti-democracy reactionary conservatives frequently ignore actual history in their push to say that the whole problem is democracy. Even the fact that judges are appointed by an official (such as the President) who is elected is a weak argument, since the entire point of the indirect influence of the popular will upon judicial nomination was to make judicial positions less a product of democracy than the position of an ordinary politician. That is also the point in American law of the fact that federal judges are appointed for life unless impeached. It appears that the court system in Poland is similarly a matter of appointment rather than direct election with the need to seek re-election. Watching the imposition from on high of pro-abortion ideas in Poland should remind us of our own history. It should also encourage us to continue in the fight to spread pro-life truths at the popular level despite the bad teaching effects of law and never to give up our fight against abortion. May God strengthen Jacek Kotula to resist this wicked court order, whatever happens in his appeal. Related article here. ]]>
This comparison doesn't help anyone or anything. It is ratcheting up the culture-war rhetoric to the highest possible pitch, and I think inappropriately, since the issue at hand is Creighton University's decision to provide benefits to legally married same-sex spouses. Isn't that an eminently defensible action on specifically Christian grounds, namely the grounds of charity? After all, Jesus didn't subject people to tests of their morals before healing them. In this case, isn't the university just saying, "We may not approve of your sexual behavior, but we don't want people you love to get sick and die?" In a country without universal health care, an employer who seeks to deny benefits to spouses comes off simply as punitive.Now I'm going to ignore the question of whether or not Reno's comparison used 'too hot to handle' rhetoric – that question doesn't interest me at the moment. Instead, focus your attention on Jacob's later comment that the "decision to provide benefits to legally married same-sex spouses" is an "eminently defensible action on specifically Christian grounds, namely the grounds of charity." In a word, no, the decision is not in any way defensible on Christian grounds – based on charity or love or any other fruit of the Holy Spirit. Let us not forget that the Christian God is the God of Truth – and it is first and foremost a lie to go around claiming that two men or two women who live together and commit sodomy are married. Period, end of story, full stop. As Christians we should not participate in any way in this fiction and lie. As Jacob's implies, folks who are caught up in this lie are indeed sinners in need of the cross and we should continue to preach the message of hope to them. What about helping these people get health insurance? Asking this question might be even more crazed when you stop and think about it for a moment. Here is what is being claimed: that two adults who presumably could and should be independently supporting themselves (i.e. working in jobs and purchasing their health insurance on their own) somehow are living together as an ersatz family with one adult (the one employed by Creighton) supporting the other financially and expecting the university to help them financially support their sexual partner, excuse me – the person they love – because that's what is expected of a Christian employer?! So if Creighton hires me and I tell them that I love my unemployed brother, sister, my friend who happens to be a drug addict and was recently fired from his last job, and my aunt who was just laid off at the local meat-processing plant because they could hire cheap immigrant laborers that the Church is eager to turn into citizens instead of my aunt who had 15 years at the plant and was costing the employer too much; well then Creighton has to suck it up and provide benefits to all these people because we don't want people I love to get sick and die do we? Remember, from the Christian perspective these two people are not married and should not be considered married. End of story. Let's hope we see less and less of this argument from Bible-believing Christians in the future! ]]>
And Simon he surnamed Peter; And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder. (Mark 3:16-17)]]> guess that a clue to "Boanerges" is found in Luke 9:53-54, where James and John suggest calling down fire on a Samaritan town after the people there refuse to receive Jesus. Perhaps this is an indication of their personalities. But that, though interesting, is not clearly the correct explanation. If Jesus gave the nickname earlier in his ministry, it cannot be the only explanation. There could in any event be many possible reasons for Jesus to give the nickname. One must consider that John in particular was almost certainly quite young at the time, possibly only a teenager. Anyone who has ever known teenage boys or even college-age young men can think of plenty of reasons for calling a pair of brothers "the sons of thunder"! Maybe they were especially loud and boisterous. Maybe they scuffled with each other and with the other disciples. Maybe the Samaritan incident was only one in a series of cases where they thought it would be cool to blow up a city--boom! The sons of thunder. The fact is that we simply don't know for sure. But that is itself a fascinating point. The passage in Mark is a list of the names of Jesus' disciples. That's it. It's just a list. In its very bareness lies its verisimilitude. What other reason than truth, and truth remembered by one in a position to know, could there be for telling us en passant that Jesus nicknamed James and John Boanerges, the sons of thunder? The detail serves no literary purpose. It serves no theological agenda. Of course there must have been a reason, maybe several reasons, for the bestowal of this nickname, but Mark, following his source (probably Peter), feels no compulsion to tell us what that reason is. Perhaps Mark never found out from Peter what the reason was. The detail is taken to be worth mentioning in itself, but only as part of the list of the disciples. This is who they were. This was what Jesus, the Master, called them. This is just one small, internal mark of truth (no pun intended) in the gospels. There are so many others. I want to suggest, too, that laymen may be cuing to these marks of truth unconsciously. The gospels read like memoirs. They don't read like abstract, ahistorical, pious "holy books." They don't read like made-up stories. It is no exaggeration to say that the relationship between the disciples who wrote or served as sources for the gospels and Jesus was like the relationship between Boswell and Johnson. Jesus emerges as an historical figure not only real, but real in remembered detail. I believe that people can see this even if they can't articulate what they are seeing. This is in itself evidence for the truth of Christianity. For if this, this story, including the miraculous parts, including Jesus' resurrection and their meetings with him afterwards, is really what the disciples were claiming, and if they really were close to the events, really in a position to know, and if they were willing to die for their testimony, why? What explanation is there for it, since they had so little to gain and so much to lose? It is little details such as this one in Mark that, in the aggregate, blow to smithereens the fantastical ideas of literary biblical criticism that would give us four gospels built by layers of unhistorical accretion. The evidence for the historicity of the gospels (and of other parts of Scripture as well) is so strong in part because it is varied in type. Apologists should add the unexplained allusion to their toolbox of internal evidences.]]>
Don't use phrases such as "boys and girls," "you guys," "ladies and gentlemen," and similarly gendered expressions to get kids' attention. Instead say things like "calling all campers" or "hey campers" or "could all the athletes come here." Create classroom names and then ask all of the "purple penguins" to meet on the rug.If you have any question as to whether debunking is in order, I suggest that you go and read the document for yourself. It assumes that teachers are (or will be) on board with the complete elimination of gender binaries and then tells them what they ought to do to excise any traditional ideas of male and female from their own thinking and language, impose the new worldview on their students, and actively introduce and promote gender-bending ideas. It is utterly radical. For example:
Have visual images reinforcing gender inclusion: pictures of people who don't fit gender norms, signs that "strike out" sayings like "All Boys..." or "All Girls..." or "All Genders Welcome" door hangers.
When you find it necessary to reference gender, say "Boy, girl, both or neither."When asked why, use this as a teachable moment. Emphasize to students that your classroom recognizes and celebrates the gender diversity of all students.Here is one of my favorites. Emphasis added:
Be intolerant of openly hostile attitudes or references towards others EVERY TIME you hear or observe them, but also use these as teachable moments. Take the opportunity to push the individual on their statements about gender. Being punitive may stop the behavior, at least in your presence. Being instructive may stop it entirely.Isn't that reassuring? Teachers will punish your child for evincing "openly hostile attitudes" towards gender-bending, but only if they must. They would rather brainwash them into accepting gender-bending. Viz.,
Point out and inquire when you hear others referencing gender in a binary manner. Ask things like, "Hmmm. That is interesting. Can you say more about that?" or "What makes you say that? I think of it a little differently." Provide counter-narratives that challenge students to think more expansively about their notions of gender.
Avoid using "normal" to define any behaviors.If you were a parent and if the school your child attended were training its teachers with this material, would you be reassured by being told that words like "boy" and "girl" are not officially banned and that this training material is not reinforced by explicit school policy? The question should answer itself. The material is absolutely coercive both of teachers and of students. The assumption of "gender binaries" is treated as a wicked form of bigotry to be punished when necessary and removed from all minds and from the whole running of the school by relentless propaganda whenever possible. If you were a teacher who refuses actively to advance the gender-bending agenda, and if you had been given this handout in a training session, how reassured would you feel about your job security if the superintendent told the press that the imperatives in the handout are "suggestions" rather than official school policy? If you had any brains, not reassured. As far as I am concerned, parents should have gotten their children out of the public school if at all possible years ago. To those who have no other options--they are poor, for example, and have to work just to keep food on the table, or one member of the couple is adamant about keeping children in the public school--my deepest sympathies go out. But for others, not so much. At this point we have gone far beyond parody, beyond satire. Here the war on reality is carried relentlessly into the minds of the youngest children. This story exemplifies so many things: The utter craziness of the left and the bankruptcy of the public schools. It also exemplifies the fact that the left simply will not allow itself to be ridiculed in the public mind without pretending that someone, somewhere is lying or exaggerating. We saw this with the story about the wedding chapel in Coer D'Alene, but it is even more evident here. In this story a public school passes out an utterly radical gender-bender brainwashing plan as part of teacher training, and the left tells us to shoot the messenger. Ah, yes, that's it: The problem lies with the parents who are upset, the teacher who leaked the document, and National Review, which brought this to national attention. Not with what is being taught to the children. There are a few Christians and conservatives out there who will dutifully play along, lecturing others about the need to be precise. Now, I myself do try hard to be precise, and when I report stories like this I do look into them and word what I say carefully. Well and good. But the temptation to miss the forest for the trees here is huge. Oh, horror, horror! Some news story (not from National Review) used a phrase such as "bans the terms 'boys' and 'girls'" when in actuality the school merely endorsed training materials in which teachers are told (in the imperative mood) not to use "boys and girls" as a general phrase. Presumably the teachers are allowed to use the term "boys" when referring to a group of students who have given "boy" as their "preferred gender"! Wow, I feel so much better. And maybe a teacher who says, "The heck with all of that. I'm going to go on saying, 'Boys and girls' to my class all the time, and I will never, ever, say, 'Boy, girl, both, or neither'" won't lose his job. Maybe. Because, you know, these training materials are "suggestions." Wow, I feel even more better. How irresponsible those conservative news outlets are! Reasonable parents know that that is not the story. The story is the disgusting, anti-reality dreck that teachers are being told to promote in their classrooms. So let's not be bullied into thinking that our own side is just irresponsible. Instead, let's draw the lessons and the conclusions needed for our own work in the world. And the first one should be--please, please try to get your kids out of public school if at all possible.]]>
From the moment that the order of creation is determined by orientation towards Christ, it becomes necessary to distinguish without separating the various levels through which God communicates the grace of the covenant to humanity. Through the law of gradualness (cf. Familiaris Consortio, 34), typical of divine pedagogy, this means interpreting the nuptial covenant in terms of continuity and novelty, in the order of creation and in that of redemption.]]> starting in a different place, that of IMPERFECTION, not of grave evil. Wait, what's the difference? That which is evil is imperfect, that which is imperfect fails to be good precisely in that it is evil in some aspect, right? No, that's not quite it. Let's take a straightforward example. Suppose a mafia don goes to church once a month on Sunday to do the following: Intimidating people to collect his "insurance fees" from certain parishioners (pride), collect his share of the bookies' take (love of power), order his henchmen to push his territory another block over (greed), and to set about conquering a new mistress for a while (lust). Oh, and he also enjoys the choir, which is professional quality and worth hearing. The attitude of the Relatio is this: the Church can use the man's "going to church" with his good love of music to gradually open his heart to a BETTER love of the mistress than sheer personal satisfaction. And he can grow from this better love of the mistress to a more benign attitude about the "insurance fees" – maybe he will actually provide a real service instead of just taking. And maybe he will from there change the numbers rackets so the odds are a little less burdensome – the gamblers have a little better chance of winning. And so on, so that the don can by gradual steps turn his loves better, and better, and still better until they are pristine. This attitude makes the act of "going to Church" an act that is partly good and partly defective, it is not a bad act properly speaking. The act is thus characterized by its parts individually. Thus there is no such thing as a "Bad Act" because every man, when choosing, chooses for a good. Before this, the Church seemed rather to reject this theory. It said, instead, that the evils of pride, greed, and lust, of themselves vitiate the act of going to church and even the love of music, so that his act of going to church is a morally evil act, not a "mostly bad act but partly good act". That is, the deformities in his soul in placing the "going to church" at the service primarily of grave evils are deformities that infect the going to church that is a secondary aspect which (considered as if on its own) would be a good. Even his going to church for music is a moral evil because of its riding on gravely disordered coat-tails. Opposed to this, consider the alternate example: a man goes to church every Sunday because he loves the music, and because he enjoys talking to Peggy after church, and because he wants to pray and worship God, and because he believes good people should support each other in community – in roughly that order. None of these desires and intentions are in themselves evil, but the order is not perfect. The man wants the highest good (worship of God), he just doesn't want it as earnestly as he ought: He still goes to church when the choir is off, and when he knows Peggy won't be there. That imperfection in his soul is a defect, and if it is entirely voluntary that defect is sinful, but it is not utterly destructive of all the good intentions. The defect is one of degree, not of kind. He does not hate the true good, he merely does not love it enough. The defect does not vitiate the worship into an evil act, it merely makes the worship less pure. Based on long tradition the Church says of this second man that his loves are not in apple-pie order, but that they can become gradually perfected through proper application to intentional acts by which he wants and strives to want the higher more than the lower. In Catholic terms (but by no means wholly opposed to many other Christian approaches) the man's venial sins can be gradually overcome by ordinary graces helping him form habits of virtue, leading him toward perfection so that his will is orderly from top to bottom. There is no mortally grave defect that impedes the ordinary operation of such graces to, bit by bit, eradicate one flaw and defect after another. God's grace is alive in his soul, leading him on from partial rightness toward complete rightness. Whereas, for the mafia don, since the evils in his will deform even the love of good things so that they become morally evil acts, there is nothing for ordinary graces to grab onto to for a gradual improvement of his moral life. He has not the substrate of good intentions and good hopes for gradual improvement. No, what he needs is an EXTRA-ordinary grace, one which can so revolutionize his soul as to completely reverse his grasp onto evil intentions and turn his will 180 degrees around. This is no gradual change, not growth of a tree from a sapling, it is being born into life out of death. God's grace is NOT alive in his soul, and nothing can correct this state but something radically DIFFERENT. Even the very first tiny spark of Divine Life in his soul, if it comes to be there, must be utterly other in kind from his past deformity of loves.
They must also be supported by an upright and generous willingness to embody these values in their concrete decisions. They cannot however look on the law as merely an ideal to be achieved in the future: they must consider it as a command of Christ the Lord to overcome difficulties with constancy. "And so what is known as 'the law of gradualness' or step-by-step advance cannot be identified with 'gradualness of the law,' as if there were different degrees or forms of precept in God's law for different individuals and situations. [Familiaris Consortio, my emphasis]There is a big difference between an imperfect but valid marriage where husband and wife do in fact love each other, though their love is immature and imperfect, where they each need to learn better about self-sacrifice and love of God's will rather than their own, versus a cohabitation relationship where each person lusts after the other, and in the throes of the affections associated they do nice things for each other. The big difference is not one of large degree but of kind. You cannot gradually change what is primarily lust-with-kindly-affections into true love, because they are of different species. A rabbit cannot gradually become a dog (it can happen quickly, only by the dog eating the rabbit), they are of different kinds altogether. It is true that grace can overcome even the un-love of lustful cohabiting, but it is no ordinary grace that can do this, only extraordinary grace. By and large, what successfully turns such a couple around is a shock of some sort, (an illness, an accident, etc) leading to a profound re-evaluation of their condition, not a bit by bit "improvement" in their love for each other. You can't make what is dead grow a little bit at a time. The change from dead to alive does not happen by gradual accretions. When the Relatio refers to the passage of Familiaris Consortio, it misuses the notion of the "law of gradualness". In FC, the gradualness is from a state of alive in Christ but not yet perfect, toward a state of perfection where every act is done with and for Christ. But FC rejects the notion of gradualness of change from death to life, from a state of open rebellion to God to a state of acceptance of him. Here is more of the passage.
But man, who has been called to live God's wise and loving design in a responsible manner, is an historical being who day by day builds himself up through his many free decisions; and so he knows, loves and accomplishes moral good by stages of growth. Married people too are called upon to progress unceasingly in their moral life, with the support of a sincere and active desire to gain ever better knowledge of the values enshrined in and fostered by the law of God. They must also be supported by an upright and generous willingness to embody these values in their concrete decisions. They cannot however look on the law as merely an ideal to be achieved in the future: they must consider it as a command of Christ the Lord to overcome difficulties with constancy. "And so what is known as 'the law of gradualness' or step-by-step advance cannot be identified with 'gradualness of the law,' as if there were different degrees or forms of precept in God's law for different individuals and situations. In God's plan, all husbands and wives are called in marriage to holiness, and this lofty vocation is fulfilled to the extent that the human person is able to respond to God's command with serene confidence in God's grace and in his or her own will."(95) On the same lines, it is part of the Church's pedagogy that husbands and wives should first of all recognize clearly the teaching of Humanae vitae as indicating the norm for the exercise of their sexuality, and that they should endeavor to establish the conditions necessary for observing that norm.The norm laid down by Humanae Vitae does not provide for men and women to gradually become chaste enough to eventually practice sex without contraceptives after many years of contracepted sex – it is not a gradualness of the law. The process is that of practicing in the flesh the objective moral norms with constant attention to the mind and heart of God in so forming the law, they will eventually and ever so gradually make that godly view of sex so vibrant in their own souls that they no longer desire any other way of being intimate. The gradualness starts with moral behavior and ends in moral habits and purity of soul. But the start of this process requires that the couple be alive with the grace of God in their souls already, something impossible if they are in clear rebellion of the law of God and nature. ]]>
Horrible old man! Who's over him, he cries; — aye, he would be a democrat to all above; look, how he lords it over all below! Oh! I plainly see my miserable office, — to obey, rebelling; and worse yet, to hate with touch of pity! For in his eyes I read some lurid woe would shrivel me up, had I it. [ . . .] Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea. The white whale is their demigorgon. Hark! the infernal orgies! that revelry is forward! mark the unfaltering silence aft! Methinks it pictures life. Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings.But before the playful theater emulations and all the discursions that follow, there is Ahab's unforgettable speech and the fire that undergirds. This is the center of the book. Here there few no digressions; all is concentrated, galvanizing disclosure; dialogue and mostly sparse description, owing more to density of meaning than ornateness of elaboration. It is, as I say, perhaps America's highest achievement in the category Oratory in Fiction. Readers may now commence to offer their own nominees, or belittle mine. ____________


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What a month it has been! Ups and downs and my first trade show! We've got a lot of catching up to do, but before we do the end of the month has come and gone and most of November (whoops).
|With so much stuff this month, it was hard to make my "trash" pretty.
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Acure Organics Cinnamon Chai Latte Argan Oil Soap*: This body soap is mildly exfoliating and great for the changing seasons. The macha tea scent is earthy and the most "green" scented of the soaps that they have to offer. I really enjoyed this bar from the first to last use and would consider purchasing it in the future.
Meow Meow Tweet Beer Shampoo Bar Soap: I use this particular soap to wash my makeup brushes and my son uses as intended. Currently this bar is being used by him as a shampoo bar. I stocked up during their most recent sale. If you are in the market for a shampoo bar/makeup brush cleaner this is one to consider.
Saint Francis Organics NSF Organic Body Wash & Hand Soap*: Has switching to organic & SLS free products have you missing your bubbles? Then try Saint Francis Organics products featuring the soap berry. I was in awe by the amount of suds this natural surfactant produced. Soap Berry, a botanical surfactant from the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal, has antimicrobial, anti-fungal and antibacterial properties. I reviewed these products >>here<<.
Hair Products
Acure Organics Moroccan Argan Stem Cell + Argan Oil Conditioner: My tried and true favorite conditioner. This is a staple product in my collection and I will always have an extra on hand. So far no other product regardless of price point has made me abandon my Acure conditioner.
Alaffia Shea & Honey Nourishing Shampoo in Citrus Blossom: This was a Whole Foods purchase from their travel section in the health and beauty department. Marketed for dry and damaged hair this product did nothing for me at all. According to the directions it will "massage into a rich lather." This product failed to do so without using large amounts of product. In a short amount of time my hair was showing signs of drying and the experience of using the product was very disappointing. Will not repurchase.
Saint Francis Organics NSF Shampoo* (Lemon) & Conditioner* (Lavender): I reviewed these products >>here<<. I love the shampoo more than the conditioner. Who knew that soap berries generated so many bubbles? If you are missing suds since abandoning SLS give this brand a try.
Rare Elements Pure Shampoo* & Essential Lite Conditioner* foil packet samples from Petit Vour* subscription box: While I much prefer a travel size sample to get a better feeling of how a shampoo & conditioner is going to work out for my hair, my very brief experience with this product was positive. It cleaned without stripping and the conditioner was very hydrating. I do not know if I will ever purchase the full size off of this one time experience.
Rahua Voluminous Shampoo & Conditioner foil packet samples included in a Detox Market order: again I love getting samples, but this was not enough to know if the product will wow me long term. My hair looked great for the few days after I used it and the feel of the product seemed nice. My main personal preference though is to run far away from volumizing products in the hair department. I already have thick hair and for that alone I would not repurchase. I think I need to try Rahua's Original Travel Size Shampoo & Conditioner.
Seaweed Bath Co. Wildly Natural Seaweed Argan Shampoo* and Conditioner* foil packets from Soap Hope sample box: I've used the Seaweed Bath Co. Shampoo before and enjoyed it. To be honest it's been so long since sampling the conditioner I do not remember how it preformed. Again another case of I need to have more of the product for it to make an impact on me.
Wonderment Gardens All Natural Tea Tree Deodorant: This is a local South Dakota brand. The surprise ingredient to me was Magnesium Powder. Since I'm most likely deficient in magnesium as a migraine sufferer I figured why not get some topically via my deodorant. This was a very effective deodorant and I used it mostly in the summertime. If I happen to see her again locally I will most likely repurchase.
Saint Francis Organics NSF Organic Body Lotion in Peppermint Vanilla*: This is a lovely body lotion and if I do say so myself the perfect scent for the season! Review >>here<<
Sranrom Urban Wellness Calm Down Hand Cream: received this in a subscription box last year. I really enjoyed the scent and found this head cream very moisturizing. For those avoiding Phenoxyethanol this product contains it. Unsure if I will repurchase.
One Love Organics Pretty Pores Complexion Toning Mist (Limited Edition): I enjoyed the scent of this toner very much, but was unsure if I would have repurchased it when OLO was asking customers what product was their favorite of the summer's limited edition items. Well, the decision was made to keep the dry shampoo and so I no longer have a decision to make. Cannot repurchase.
Acure 100% Certified Organic Argan Oil: Loved this argan oil to the last drop. Mixed it with other facial oils, used it as a hair oil, mixed it into hand creams, used it as a body oil... What did I not use it as? I will eventually repurchase it, but for the time being I'm using Acure's new Aromatherapeutic Argan Oils.
Jacq's Organics Face Toner in Sweet Orange (travel size): I used this over the summer when I had to travel for a family emergency. You bring a product you love with you when you are under periods of high stress. Not only does this toner hydrate this skin it also is very calming with it's scent of fresh cut oranges. I have no idea how Barbara from Jacq's Organics has managed to bottle that experience, but every time I spritz this toner on my face I feel like I'm cutting into a fresh orange next to her in Miami. I already have the full size bottle in stock.
Sellwood Soap Facial Oil* (old formula): I don't feel like this review would be an accurate one as the formula is now different to the one that I used. I did enjoy this, but it was a tad on the heavy side. That must be why the formula has since changed.
Know Your Ingredients Whipped Shea Butter Mask in Chamomile Lavender (sample): I used this as a heavy night cream on days my skin is super dehydrated. It does work and my skin was not greasy in the morning. I would consider purchasing the full size in the future.
Gressa Skin Balancing Cleanser (foil packet sample): Was very effective in removing the makeup I was wearing. This is an oil cleansing method type of cleanser. I would consider purchasing in the future.
W3LL People Expressionist Mascara: Holy grail mascara! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!! I would re-order right this moment if I didn't have other mascaras in my stockpile to use. Did not transfer, smudge, clump.
Cowgirl Dirt Finishing Powder sample: It did not mattify my skin at all. Did not care for and will not purchase the full size.
RMS Beauty lip2cheek Smile sample: I enjoyed the sample while I used it. Unsure if I will repurchase as I'm starting to see how long it is taking me to finish a cream blush product. Would consider purchasing in the future after I empty a blush.
Vapour Atmosphere Foundation sample in shade 100: This is the shade I use from Vapour and I just needed to use up the sample that was laying around. Already have the full size.
Golden Path Alchemy Skincare Products (Review): Renew Toner*, Kiwi Exfoliating Mask*, Refine Healing Herbal Serum*, and Renew Serum* all finished this past month. I would repurchase them all. You can to at a discount. Use code: Paula and save 25% until the end of the 2014.
Yes, I finished a lot of products this past month. I continue to do so every month. The month the empties bag is light I think I might be surprised!
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I have just started working on my first Android application and am going ok. I have managed to get the app to locate my current position on a map and place the blue circle there. I can see the satellite icon in the notification bar working (satellite dish with rays coming off it).
I am very new to android phones altogether but upon being done with my app I just exit it by either using the back key or the home key which works fine, however I notice the satellite icon is still working. Going back to my phone an hour later the GPS is still running. This of course sends the phone battery flat very quickly.
I assume unlike iPhone that Android apps can run in the background and this is still running. How do I get my app to stop using GPS when it is no longer on the map view?
Here is an example of what I have done so far:
//find and initialise map view
private void initMapView() {
map = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.map);
controller = map.getController();
//start tracking the position on the map
private void initMyLocation() {
final MyLocationOverlay overlay = new MyLocationOverlay(this, map);
//overlay.enableCompass(); does not work in emulator
overlay.runOnFirstFix(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
//zoom in to current location
Do I need to disable something when I leave the map view? if so, how?
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Chris Blackhurst: How the Sultan of Berkeley Square fell off his throne
There was a period when the City was transfixed by Asil Nadir. He was the poster boy of the Thatcher generation, whose rise followed her own and seemingly stood for the same values of hard work and enterprise.
In less than 10 years, from 1982, he built a business empire – turning Polly Peck from a company with a stock market value of just £300,000 to one of £1.7 billion. Investors clamoured to grab a part of his success – the Square Mile was littered with tales of Polly Peck shareholders who had become multi-millionaires on the back of a punt of a few thousand pounds.
He was a huge figure, so big that if he had still been operating in London decades later he would have given Alan Sugar a run for his money as the frontman for The Apprentice. He was that large: employing tens of thousands of people worldwide, living in a house in Belgravia and a stately home in Leicestershire, flying everywhere by private jet (this in the days when such things were relative rarities), and owning racehorses.
There was something exotic about him: his office in Mayfair earned him the nickname of the Sultan of Berkeley Square (before that, I remember meeting him on the eastern edge of the City, where Polly Peck occupied an imposing office block).
Looking back, there were clues as to what was to come. He appeared to have the gift of alchemy, turning mundane activities into FTSE gold. His first, serious venture was Uni-Pac, a company that made corrugated cardboard boxes to hold fruit from his native Cyprus. You would not have thought it could produce much in the way of profits: for Nadir it was a cash cow, generating millions a year.
He did it again with bottled water and shirts, each time growing the firm to stellar proportions. With Polly Peck, his main holding vehicle, he created a vast conglomerate to match that of another Thatcher hero, Lord Hanson. TVs, video recorders, air-conditioning units, microwaves, washing machines, fresh fruit and vegetables – you name it, Nadir was into it.
Yet when asked how, exactly, he had a skill that others, also in the same line of ordinariness, lacked, he was vague. There is a City adage that if something is too good to be true it usually is. Yet for all that apparent wisdom, the City also has a habit of not wishing to explore the detail, of basking in a constantly rising share price rather than demanding the answers to awkward questions.
Like the late Robert Maxwell, Nadir's organisation was built on sand, and like the former newspaper tycoon, he was moving cash around his empire to give the illusion of financial health.
At the same time, assets were being siphoned off to Northern Cyprus. When the pressure grew too much, after Polly Peck duly collapsed and those shareholders who remained and the employees lost everything, and following the bringing of charges against him for false accounting and theft, that was also where he went.
Why do I think he came back? Because he thought he could get away with it. He'd done it before and he calculated that memories were short. On this occasion, for once, his confidence in his own ability to hoodwink was misplaced.
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Nov 06, Colombo: The International Organization for Migration has said that some Sri Lankans arriving by boat are economic migrants not refugees.
Backing Australia's view, the Chief of mission for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Sri Lanka, Richard Danziger has told Radio Australia that some of the asylum seekers are migrating to Australia for economic reasons.
Has explained that following the end of war in May 2009 Sri Lanka has loosened the restrictions on maritime activities and the asylum seekers can leave in boats so easily now.
The IOM is assisting the Australian government to return the Sri Lankan asylum seekers, who have expressed desire to return home rather than being sent to detention centers in Nauru and Manus Island.
Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship says those who choose to depart voluntarily can be provided with individual reintegration support to assist with their sustainable return, through the IOM.
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The Department returned 11 Sri Lankans home voluntarily on Sunday bringing the total number of Sri Lankans to return home in 2012 to 126.
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The Naomi Wolf Award, Light-Hearted and Playful Burqa Edition
Originally posted at David Horowitz's NewsReal
Elizabeth Lakey used to be one of the unenlightened. As a student of Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, she struggled to understand why any woman would cover herself in a burqa.
Like many people I know, I feel a frisson of doubt whenever I see these shadowy figures entirely covered up. I struggle daily with these feelings in my studies.
But after a chance department store encounter with a Muslim family, Lakey saw how judgmental she was being. The burqa isn't just a veil, she realized, it's also a mobile playground for young Muslim children! Via my Twitter pal @s_dog comes Lakey's heartwarming tale of "common humanity" inspired by a pair of strangers in identical black burqas:
[A young child] stops, dizzy and out of breath, as her father and mother look on.
But she is caught between the queues, between two women wearing the same burqa with the same gold trim. She is confused. Her head bobs from side to side as the women chortle behind their face coverings.
They are playing a game with her. The one who is not her mother reaches out and calls to the girl. She acquiesces, moving cautiously to this covered mother but still shooting doubtful glances backwards.
Once up close, her uncertainty deepens. She extends a finger and begins to poke this woman gently, as if trying to ascertain her identity by the feel of her veiled flesh.
Her father looks to me and grins from ear to ear. In heavily accented English, he says simply: "Ah, she is very confused."
No judgment passes between us, despite the fact that I am wearing a short skirt and his wife goes about her day covered from head to toe. I am an unlikely participant in this social play, yet I leave the store feeling somehow enriched.
Ah, yes, the enriching jocularity of the Islamic veil. Is there anything more charming than a heavy black burqa that keeps a little girl from recognizing her own mother?
Andrew Bolt of Melbourne's Herald Sun summarizes Lakey's story perfectly: "Whoever wore the burqa was probably nice, but I spoke to her husband instead." He adds, "What's she's indeed forgotten is not that there's a woman under the burqa, but an individual to whom she did not – or even could not – speak." Lakey ignores that aspect of her "interaction" with the veiled mother, instead focusing on her burqa epiphany (emphases mine):
I had never considered the burqa in a light-hearted fashion until this chance encounter. I had never seen women playing under the burqa or considered the everyday practicalities that must be accommodated in terms of family life.
Well in that case, maybe all women should try out this burqa thing. After all, women who go unveiled are missing out on the fun of "playing" burqa games! Forget frolicking at the beach with your kids or running around the park without tripping. A little "light-hearted" game of Guess Who's Behind Burqa Number One is where it's at! Lakey continues:
I freely admit to feelings of doubt when confronted by a life choice so different to my own. But it is all too easy to forget that there is a woman in every burqa, and that she is a unique individual with her own reasons for dressing the way she does.
I reject the notion that all women clothed in the burqa are repressed beings. I further reject the idea that in order to liberate them we must dictate to them what (not) to wear.
A "life choice"? How many women entombed in cloth crypts actually choose to spend their days cut off from the world, unable to fully participate in the most basic social interactions? How many of these walking mummies choose the serious and debilitating health issues that accompany burqa-induced vitamin D deficiency? How many freely embrace the destruction of their public identities?
Lakey asks none of these questions, instead opting for the cultural relativism typical of the academic Left. "Who am I to judge these women's motives for wearing the burqa?" she asks.
As a scholar of Islamic Studies, Lakey is precisely the person who should be questioning the notion that the burqa is a sign of religious devotion. She is exactly the person to take a critical look at the way the burqa spits in the face of liberty and equality. But her warped, politically correct, Islamically prescribed view of the veil won't allow for it.
And so, for her refusal to address the way the burqa dehumanizes and marginalizes Muslim women and for her portrayal of the veil as something "light-hearted" and fun, I am extraordinarily pleased to recognize Elizabeth Lakey with the Naomi Wolf Award, also known as The Howler. For those not familiar:
The Naomi Wolf Award recognizes the failure of feminist commentators to identify Muslim veils, particularly the burqa and the niqab, as powerful symbols of extremist ideology and instruments of subjugation. Nominees will be judged on their use of the rhetoric of freedom and choice to justify these emblems of Islamic gender apartheid.
Congratulations, Elizabeth. You're in good company.
(Originally posted at David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog)
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The only thing I've worshiped is a few women. You in your haste to make government godly are making government your god. The United States is not Iran, it is not a theocracy.
"It appears to me that the town voted to put the signs back the way they were before this issue was raised."
The majority does not get to dictate what religion others must live under.
"Sylvania and it's residents are not congress therefore the verse on their sign in no way violates the constitution. ~ they most certainly can establish Christianity or any other religion as the official religion of their town if they see fit to"
The 14th amendment prevents any governing body from superseding the constitution. This is why Kalifornia cannot outright ban gun ownership or establish a state religion. A state cannot trump constitutional rights of individuals. Key word is Individual… They are "individual" rights, not "we're the majority we get to say what goes" rights.
Basically you are wanting to open a Pandora's box for any religion that gains a majority in a given area. Imagine breaking a law in a county you're passing through that is predominantly muslim and going to trial in a court room that has Qur'an quotations. Would you be the least bit comfortable with that?
You people are not Right, Left, Republican, Democrat, Conservative, or Liberal. You're theocrats.
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The absence of religious idols and symbols isn't establishing anything. If a community placed a pentagram on public land to memorialize war veterans would you be so quick to dismiss it?
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Feb 14, 2013 12:02 PM by Ian Auzenne
Need assistance from Scott police? There's now an app for that. The Scott Police Department has unveiled a new smart phone application which they say will better serve residents. The app allows you to call the department, send tips, and receive emergency notifications. The app is free and can be downloaded to iPods, iPads, and Android devices.
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