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March 1, 2010

There's an attempt to start every month's columns

with reasons to consider Catholic Fundamentalism as a useful way to see that Church, Scripture, and science relate perfectly. Our understanding begins by exploring the idea that God can program energies and particles. Catholic Fundamentalists crudely visualize The Creation Program by considering the human-programmed pixels on our computer screen and imagine them as having been programmed by God in 3-D. He compiled energies and 3-D pixels into systems and beings, and downloaded them into the universe we tend to think we know more about than we do. According to the First Programming Log, He wrote The Creation Program and downloaded all, or part of it, in six days. (One problem with which Catholic Fundamentalists wrestle: Did He download the complete Creation Program all at once, or did He download it as needed, with additional downloads still taking place?)

It's been suggested that Catholic Fundamentalism is our age's

Catholic Counter-Reformation to Vatican II.

Those who support Vatican II generally embrace the lesser heresies like evolution, the "big bang", and the exaltation of liberty, equality, and fraternity into a quasi-Christian religion. In such minds, the spirit of equality is taken so seriously that their apostasy must be the equivalent of Church's teaching that it attempted to discard. Such beliefs are similar to saying, "St. Peter had two legs. I have two legs. Therefore, my ideas are just as good as his."

The modernist has developed a religion that attempts to make The Church, and any other teaching that contradicts theirs, unnecessary. That's bad enough, but they go further. Since the traditional teachings disagree with the modernist, they must be wrong. It's a clear First Commandment violation that's excused by repeating the tired platitude of the centuries, "We know more, now."

Catholic Fundamentalism, on the other hand, puts such apostasies in their proper place, seeing them as attractive temples built on sand along the broad, popular pathways that lead to destruction.

We begin exploring Catholic Fundamentalism simply by imagining God as The Loving Programmer. We work to imagine Him, programming, arranging, and compiling particles as easily as human cartoonists program pixels together to make two-dimensional pictures, cartoons, and movies. Catholic Fundamentalists understand that the things we see in Creation are all programs made of sub-programs compiled out of 3-D pixels. The Creation Program was written and downloaded to appear to us humans as if every component of it could have been formed by accident. That's how dedicated The Programmer was to giving each human being perfectly free will.

He gave us so much free will that neither believers nor deniers can prove to the others' satisfaction that the earth was programmed into place ten or fifteen thousand years ago or that it spontaneously appeared after some mysterious explosion dozens of billions of years ago.

The Program was written carefully to provide us free-will creatures with the seemingly reasonable choice to believe either way. He didn't want souls forced to believe in Him because they didn't have any other choice as to the origin of the structures and movements around them. If we are to have free will, the universe had to be programmed so that it looked as if it could have been there forever. So, that's why He programmed it the way He did.

Once we begin trying to imagaine His programming power, it's hard to keep from more fully understanding that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom". Fear comes easily to Catholic Fundamentalists, if for no other reason than that we can see what a remarkably simple process erasure is. It's easier for Him to erase whole planetary systems than it is for us to press the nearby "delete" key to take away the period that used to be at the end of this sentence

March 2, 2010

Today's Reading from the Psalms

directly applies to yesterday's column. That briefly explained that The Loving Programmer had programmed and downloaded The Creation Program so that we couldn't immediately tell that He did it. To give us free will, He had to download a universe that looked as if it could have come into being without Him.

Today, we see, in Scripture:

                                          "To the upright I will show the saving power of God.
                                                     “Why do you recite my statutes,
                                                and profess my covenant with your mouth,
                                                          Though you hate discipline
                                                       and cast my words behind you?”

When He had the Psalmist write: "To the upright I will show the saving power of God", He is telling us that those who have not obeyed God, and will not do so, are blind to His saving power. Those who are not upright simply won't be shown what's going on. They are equally blind to His power to create The Creation Program and program each of our unique souls within it at the moment of our conception.

The "non-upright" cannot see, and will not believe, that The Loving Programmer has the power to program us and the countless programs and sub-programs around us. It's even harder for them to see that He downloaded the Creation Program in a week to make a universe in which we, His beloved free-will creatures, could choose to be upright enough to find and love Him.

March 2, 2010

Forks in the Road.

There are now, and always have been, many of us human programs who resist believing in God. Most non-believers are familiar enough with the faith of our fathers' to know that there are Ten Commandments that we're told to obey. Non-believers also know that Christians believe, even as they're being tortured to death, that those who willfully disobey God and His Commandments are going to spend eternity in agony.

When we arrive at a point of making the decision to believe and obey God, we have reached an important fork in our road. We do one of three things when we get there: we move toward Him, away from Him, or stop dead in our tracks, just where we are. In every age, immense crowds mill around the intersections, often spending much of their lives in indecision. Many of the undecided announce that they are proud of themselves for "thinking independently" and "not being stampeded into a rash decision" as they walk around in ever more boring circles.

Those who turn away stroll down a broad, pleasant, gently descending roadway. While moving along, they tend to find and adopt belief systems that discount:

A. The possibility that God is real.

B. The possibility that they will suffer eternal punishment for not believing in and obeying Him.

C. The need to repent, renounce, and avoid the thoughts, words, and deeds that displease the God, Who is, in their carefully crafted heresy, either not there, or, if He is, doesn't care enough about such enlightened souls as to mind anything they choose to do.

Those in Group C sometimes find themselves involved in endlessly complicated justifications for doing what they want to do. Sometimes, the mountain of justifications that they carry becomes such a burden that they get sick of it, and cast it from them. When they do that, they find that they've miraculously arrived at another fork in the road.

Forks in the road appear before us until our very last moment on earth. (An unbeliever reading this, right this second, is at such a juncture.) Until our soul leaves its body, it has a chance to be reconciled with He Who Programmed it, and join with Him forever.

The smart thing to do is look at each chance to be saved as our last, and take advantage of it. We hear of sudden death. It exists as a warning not to dawdle. Since all of us are made aware of sudden deaths, which often headline various "news" releases, we all know that our own death may come upon us so suddenly as to preclude the possibility of asking for salvation, therefore, precluding salvation, itself. Sudden death also keeps people from being able to excuse themselves at Judgment: "If I'd known I was going to be run over by that truck, I'd have asked for forgiveness." The answer, if The Judge bothers to reply, "You knew that death could come unannounced at any moment, and you refused to get ready for it."

Those who prefer to save their souls choose the fork on the right. The more serious among them work the hardest to stay on a straight, narrow path that leads to Heaven. Those who take that fork in the road adopt a belief system that includes:

A. A growing awareness of God and His power. (If Catholic Fundamentalism is a part of that awareness, realizing that God can program energies and what appear to us to be particles, compile them into systems and beings, and download them into the Creation Program with blinding speed makes them even more aware of His power.)

B. The knowledge that they will avoid punishment by obeying His Commandments, especially the ones telling us to love both God and our neighbors.

C. Realizing that the safest way to live consists of rooting out ever more tendencies toward disobedience.

March 3, 2010

"Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign Nation"

is a phrase that came into my mind last night and wouldn't leave. Over and over, I found myself repeating "Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign Nation; Jesus Christ Our Sovereign Lord."

It became a puzzle to be solved. As Catholics, we are part of The Body of Christ. Just as His Body, in the Sacrament of Communion, becomes part of our bodies, the wholeness of the structure thereby set to reverberating in some Gregorian harmony in which we may be so fortunate as to find ineffable joy. No matter how discordant our own "untuned cymbals" may be, they are necessary parts of the great harmony that exists within The Body of Christ What has gracefully opened Its Holy Being to us. So, that part was dimly understood. But, the concept of Jesus Christ as a "Sovereign Nation" was startlingly new to me.

As I reflected on it, (while still repeating "Jesus Christ, our Sovereign Nation, Jesus Christ, our Sovereign Lord." in a sing-song that adapted itself to the music of a surprising number of hymns) the fact that He is a "Sovereign Nation" became as understandable as the more familiar phrase, "The Kingdom of God".

Most of us who believe and obey do recognize that there is a "Kingdom of God". We understand that we live in it, maybe out in its most distant suburbs, possibly even teetering on the wall that separates it from the chaos beyond, but we do frequently try, or think about trying, to get closer to The Throne than we are.

As I thought more about "Jesus Christ, our Sovereign Nation.", I was reminded of the Protestant political figure, John Ashcroft, and how he was pilloried by the left when a video tape surfaced in which he told an audience, "We have no King but Jesus."

He lived in the Kingdom, and wasn't afraid to say so.

But, if we are a part of The Body of Christ, He actually is "our Sovereign Nation". He is the land in which we live, His is the country that demands our first and highest allegiance. The concept expressed a oneness with Him that I'd never experienced.

"Jesus Christ, our Sovereign Nation,

Jesus Christ, our Sovereign Lord.

We who are part of His Body

Are His hammers, pens, and swords."

Each of us is a living word

Living as we do within.

Sharing in His Holy Body

And becoming one with Him.

Artillery and infantry,

We will hold the battles' lines

Pray that we remain victorious

Holding fast in space and time.

Though the evil, running rampant

Seems to have the biggest guns

We smile as we soldier onwards

Toward the ruling Three in One."

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Every year, we are reminded

that today, for the only time in the year, the very calendar, itself, has given us a direct command. We fail to obey the order of the war-god for whom the month was named at our peril. Shunning our duty to do as the calendar clearly commands will bring naught but embarrassment and failure to us. Today, loins are to be girded, boots laced, provisions prepared, weaponry made ready, our farewells made, and the journey to which we are ordered must be begun. Therefore, we heed the calendar's dictate. We do as we are directed. We march forth.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Teachers' Unions: the Sleeping Giant Begins to Battle

Against the Environmental, Health, and Financial “Reformers”.

Over the last 60 years, America's teachers have made amazing progress. They’ve built up a funding mechanism that’s resulted in a secure, steady cash-flow which is the envy of those outside it. In the process, public school teachers have been elevated into upper-middle class income levels, with pensions and benefits that few millionaires can afford.

Their huge, powerful structure is funded mostly by property taxes, augmented by growing amounts of sales and income tax. Their supporters are able to mobilize and direct the votes of teachers, relatives, employees, and contractors of all those associated with Public Education. Few legislators have the courage to stand up to that incredibly well-organized, highly motivated political machine, so the money just keeps rolling in.

Lesser leftists gnash their teeth with envy and make funding plans of their own.

Environmentalists want their own version of Public Education’s funding mechanisms. To that end, they are attempting to replace cheap, proven coal and nuclear power generators with the costly, and downright silly, inefficiencies of wind, solar, and biomass. The plan is to mandate these sources for their forthcoming Public Energy Monopoly, which they hope will provide the same, long-term income stream enjoyed by those in Public Education. Mandating "alternative energy" will drive the price of electricity up tenfold. Then, as the nation is reeling from the shock, they return to producing electricity with coal and nuclear, and fund themselves with the prices they drove upwards in their insane search for "sustainability".

Health-care leftists see the possibility for obtaining endless, Public Education-type funding by hi-jacking the health care system. They see that England's NHS has succeeded in providing countless jobs for mid-level drones hired for “inspecting” and “analyzing” whatever goes on in hospitals. As a result, England now has more deaths than ever from infections picked up in filthy wards, those needless deaths increasing in lockstep as the throngs of superfluous administrators sky-rockets.

Financial leftists want to fund themselves by providing free housing for all. Their plan to give everyone who wanted one with a home and rapidly mortgagable assets has back-fired. The subsequent loss of property values, over 20% per home in some areas, has been a real disaster to public education funding. Increasingly, the proponents of such fiscal boobery are being seen as a threat to Public Education funding and are coming under fire from the smarter people in teachers' organizations.

Until recently, the powerful teachers' unions have smiled benignly on the energy, medical, and financial leftists' attempts to get themselves funding streams that will direct vast streams of income to them. Now, however, the brighter public educators have stopped smiling.

"If those hare-brained environmentalists convince people to put up these silly windmills that generate electric power for $1.20 a kilowatt hour, and shut down hydro-electric dams and nuclear reactors that generate it for two cents/kwh, taxpayers are going to have a lot less money. Having less money makes them fight harder to reduce the amounts they’re giving to Public Education!” That thinking is validated by teacher furloughs and educational funding cutbacks in California, New Jersey, and other places where teacher funding as been put at risk by too many other groups, especially environmentalists, dipping into taxpayers' pockets.

Similarly, the more perceptive teacher union members are now understanding that the latest proposed health care system may be very bad for them. They see the threat posed by this new, untried system that drains trillions of dollars a year into a new, and purposefully useless, bureaucracy. They come to the inevitable conclusion that such plans will make it harder for Public Education to maintain its growth in funding. "All this money they plan to waste on useless, mid-level "administrators", who'll do nothing but push paper, will be coming out of our future raises and pensions!", a growing number of public educators understand.

More than ever, those in the Teachers’ Unions realize that tinkering with the financial markets hurts the public education funding base. When leftists insist that they "must" make mortgage money available to those who can’t make monthly payments because housing must be "fair", foreclosures result. That prompts teachers to understand, "People just shouldn't be allowed to borrow money they can't pay back. The consequent drop in appraised values puts our entire funding system at risk."

As one Public Education observer noted: “Anything that makes middle class property owners poorer reduces the funds available for teachers’ salaries, benefits, pensions, and increases. If environmentalists raise power bills and put companies out of business, it reduces the tax stream that provides much of our funding. If medical care is allowed to soak up trillions of taxpayer dollars, that, too can't help but reduce our funding. If unqualified people are allowed to borrow on property they can't pay for, real estate values collapse, and our funding is diminished."

We now see that the older and wiser teachers, who grew up disliking conservative values, Ronald Reagan, the Laffer Curve, and private enterprise in general, are now becoming some of the most solid defenders of conservative institutions and ideals. What went around has come around.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

The Joy of Watching the Left's Lies Collapse

should be alloyed with the remembrance of our duty to pray for their endangered souls. "Dear God, please continue to collapse the leftists' lies. Let those who have built their lives on those lies become so sick and tired of believing and repeating them that they become disgusted with self-serving frauds. Let that gift of repugnance for having let falsehood pollute their souls, minds, and bodies be so overpowering that they move toward truth. Let their journeys end in finding You and Your Church so that their souls may be healed and saved."

It's not helpful to laugh at them, mock them, make fun of them, and call them names, no matter how accurate such insults may be or how enjoyable we find that the expressions of our feelings of moral and intellectual superiority to be. We must remember that within each of them is the same immortal spark that dwells within us. It is plainly our duty to plead with God to move them to love and embrace the truth that they should, for the sake of their immortal souls, love more than the continual impoverishment and destruction of their neighbors.

Monday, March 8, 2010

The Sons of Ishmael

are still working hard to take over the world. While lots of people complain about the takeover of European cities and countries by middle-eastern settlers, few go back to the beginnings of the problem.

Abraham was one of the richest men in Israel. His oldest son, Ishmael, was set to inherit everything. Then, Sarah conceived, and Isaac was born. Fearful that Isaac would lose everything to Ishmael, she forced Abraham to sent Ishmael, and his mother, Hagar, away. They spent the rest of their lives hating Abraham and his other children.

Genesis tells us that God blessed Ishmael, whose twelve sons formed the Arab tribes and peoples with whom we deal today. Genesis also tells us that Ishmael "set himself against his brothers". That anger and hatred for the rest of Abraham's children, whom Catholic Fundamentalists think have become the peoples of Europe, the Anglo-sphere, and much of the the Americas' has their extinction as their primary motivation. They are working for the extinction, first, of Abraham's other descendents, then the rest of the world. It's hard to imagine that any people could have that much hate in their hearts, but their past and current practices leave little doubt about it.

Along those lines, we can find various places on the internet that show aerial shots from Afghanistan, portraying the frequent destructions of those involved in blowing up roads, planting mines, and firing at American helicopters and airplanes. We see grainy videos, invariably ending with a smart-bomb or barrage of bullets from some source invisible to the targets, and any number of enemies on the ground are suddenly dead.

There hasn't been much complaining about this slaughter from the middle-east, nor from those in the media who serve them. One reason has been suggested: Most of those killed, like the Afghans, are native peoples who are not descended from Ishmael. Those financing, encouraging, and controlling the terrorists know that those peoples are not related to them. So, they are in the way, and are to be ultimately wiped out, as well. The Ishmaelites have learned that few forces on earth are as good as wiping out their enemies as America's high-tech battle systems, and are using them to facilitate the elimination of all others.

If this movement toward polygamy, slavery, spousal abuse, and

world take-over is so bad, why doesn't the media tell us?

Bribes. Media outlets, whether of print, radio, or television, are notoriously susceptible to bribery. Armies of Public Relation specialists know whom to pay, and how much, to get their messages into, or kept out of, the news.

A case in point: About a year ago, a "moderate" Moslem, who owned a TV station, cut off his wife's head in a vicious attack. News media in the immediate city mentioned the murder, but it was barely mentioned on any more widespread media. Nearly every time that it was mentioned, the following sentence, or some near variation, was added: "The killing was not related to the husband's religion."

Such news control costs money. As long as similar bribes convince Americans and Europeans not to provide their own oil, they'll have plenty of it to continue controlling what many still believe to be the "news".

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Holding On to Lies, I.

Those who embrace lies tend to hold on to them. We may be thankful for having been given the wonderful fraud of Global Warming to help us see how liars won't let go of lies. A few weeks ago, we were solemnly warned that "The world's glaciers are melting. The ice caps are melting, too, and will cause floods." Various arguments were made purporting to show a connection between the global ice-melt and the need for increased taxes and regulations.

A week or so ago, it was discovered that glaciers are actually advancing, and that the two icecaps have been increasing in size.

The one, scientific fact that emerges is that not one person who'd put forth the lies about shrinking ice cover said, "We were wrong." Instead, they just kept telling more lies.

How could, and why would, a human soul knowingly tell one lie after another, even as the lies are exposed as blatant frauds?

Liars hold on to other liars as firmly as they hold on to lies. Paul Ehrlich, who's never been right about anything (he said we'd all starve to death by 1980) continues to be quoted by modern liars as if he ever makes sense about anything. Two generations ago, the liars were all supporting Communism, and the lies of Alger Hiss, even when plainly exposed, were ignored as he was transformed into a "hero". So, it seems to be a scientific fact that there's a concerted, ongoing effort that some people make to generate more lies. In the process, they ignore any concerns that there may be an eternal punishment for lifetimes of bearing false witness.

Once we consider the finality of death, and realize that our soul will not have another chance to motivate our mind and body to do good, we may want to play the odds. That means that those who have embraced lies have to stop holding on to them. It costs little to prefer truth to lies, but some would rather hold on to their lies than do what they can to save their souls. We shake our heads at the short-sightedness that will cause them to choose eternal agony, and we ask God to help them save their souls, and we endeavor to love our enemies, and we try to convince them of the error of preferring lies to truth, but it doesn't appear to do much good. Some people simply do not want to save their souls.

End note: All that any of us can be sure of is that there is a diminishing amount of time between now and the time we die. To get around the need for reforming and reorienting our souls, some think they've found an "out" with reincarnation. In fact, those who prefer to avoid being bothered with the need to embrace truth have only beliefs in reincarnation or in a judgmentless creation, that's preferably Godless in origin, to justify not trying to save their souls. Those are two commonly held, and invariably exalted, beliefs of the left.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Holding On to Lies, II.

Monkeys are considered a delicacy in some cultures. Few people can outrun or outclimb them, so before bows and arrows, blowguns, and firearms it was so hard to catch monkeys that their meat was among the rarest of delicacies.

Then, some smart person invented the clay jar. It was found that if a person made a strong, clay jar, put some food in it, and tied it to a tree, that a monkey would reach into the jar and take the food. Then, it was found that if the jar had a small hole at the top, the monkey would reach in, grab the food, and not be able to get its hand out.

The monkey's greed kept him from letting go of the food, so he was easily caught, killed, and eaten.

Just as the greedy monkey preferred death to letting go of its bit of food, so we see leftists (who have, themselves, they endlessly assure us, their own origins in those self-same monkeys) losing their souls because they can't let go of the lies onto which they hold with such silly tenacity. Rarely has an heretical notion like evolution taught such an invaluable lesson.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Working away.

Most of us work. Mothers who stay at home with children work harder than anyone, and are paid less. Those who rely on increasing the amount of taxes collected spend a lot of time and money discouraging mothers from staying at home to raise their children and take care of their families. The tax-addicted also encourage people to have fewer children, citing any number of Imaginary Problems in their arguments.

After fifty years of such propaganda, there are fewer stay-at-home moms than ever. And, there are fewer children, who tend to be less happy than ever. The once-common goal to have children has been diminished as more women are led to think it's meaningful to waste years in college and careers that will leave them no undying legacy.

Every society that "grows" so far that it starts to value ephemera more than children soon sees its numbers decrease, leading the way to the society's death. The Programmer gave us free will, and when enough people use that free will to make bad, anti-life choices, He goes where He's more welcome.

We see how The Programmer works when we consider what's happened to the countries of Europe. They are nearly childless, aging rapidly, and are overwhelmed by rapidly multiplying invaders who do not practice birth control or tolerate abortion. Further, many of them are committed to life. So, we may wonder if The Programmer is guiding and protecting them in their invasion.

The Programmer may begin to help us if we begin to value women as wives and mothers, rather than as taxable units herded into milking parlors where they are drained until retirement. If men and women would shun such thinking, and focus on having another child or so, they will be working for eternity, rather than for a brief pension. The Programmer would be pleased, and turn His face toward those who do the truly satisfying work for which He programmed them.