April 22, 2010

Secularism's weakness and Earth Day

Some say Earth Day is today.  For me, I consider what I do everyday when it comes to Terra Firma, but, then again, I don’t think there is any reason to ‘celebrate’ the Earth either.  For one reason, the Earth doesn’t care. 

 

The Earth has been in existence in some form or another for many, many moons.   The human species is a late comer.  While other species have come and gone before the first human ancestor put his footprint in the mud.

 

Now, why do we have this 21th centery planet worship?  I suspect that when materialist atheism kicked and the secular world grabs whole, and when God is ignored, being that God can’t be negated (that’s what I believe so that’s that.), the material world must be worship and revered instead.  G. K. Chesterton said it best:  “When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing— they believe in anything.”

 

Earth is there proverbial Golden Calf, and as all know the planet has been assigned its open sex, being female.  A designation from earlier times, I won’t say primitive because in many ways modern societies, Western or Eastern are still primitive in their own particular ways.   In the East I blame secular Western colonialism. In the West, I blame Marxism and the assorted ‘isms’ it gave rise to. 

 

Face it.  Marxism is a very materialist political/economic system, which makes Capitalism seem almost pauper-ish.

 

But back to Earth Day, I say take time to pray to God.  Being a religious man that is my bias, and a vise I can live with, for one reason, no corporation or politician can make money off promoting my belief. 

 

Secularism has a weakness, and that is, everything it offers is transitory.  Even the Earth won’t last forever.

 

 

The Burqa Bomb

 

On April 17, a refugee camp at Kohat in Pakistan was struck by two suicide bombers that disguised themselves with burqas, the full-body veil worn by some Muslim women to make sure none of their skin is exposed. The attacks, which killed 41 people and injured 62, are sure to heighten the debate in Europe about whether wearing burqas and niqabs in public should be banned.

 

Afghanistan’s “Dancing Boys”

 

[…] a brave Frontline documentary about the “Bacha Bazi,” the underage “dancing boys” of Afghanistan. These children are sex slaves to older, powerful Afghan men–in this instance, former Northern Alliance warlords, who have purchased them from their impoverished families or, as orphans, simply taken them off the street. When they try to escape, they are found and punished—or they are murdered.

 

Selected articles from the previous two days

 

Hitler Parody Disappearing From YouTube

 

If you missed the recent wave of Hitler “Downfall” parody videos, you may be out of luck.

 

My comment:  Yes, you will be out of luck.  They’re hilarious. 

American Anti-Catholicism

 

During Lent and Easter this year, America’s anti-Catholics were out in force spreading misinformation and distortions in the hopes of toppling the pope and crippling the hierarchy of the Church.

 

The President Who Won't Grow Up

 

Everything I need to know about Barack Obama I learned as a Cub Scout den leader.

 

Take the Painkiller and Go Home

 

“The message from the President to America's sickest and most vulnerable should be the theme for Election 2010, and the message the American people will now send to Washington's ruling Democrats: Take the Painkiller and Go Home.”

 

Poland From Afar

 

President Obama didn't make it to Krakow the other day for the funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski. And so passed my one chance to have something in common with our president.

 

 

Sedition and the End of America's First Political Party

 

Over the past few days, several commentators have raised concerns about the tone of opposition to the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress.

 

 

Quayle Takes Flight

 

The 2000s were a quiet decade politically for former Vice President Dan Quayle. After flaming out early in his bid for the 2000 GOP presidential nomination the oft-ridiculed former veep repaired to a lucrative private business career and generally stayed out of the political limelight.

 

 

Phoebe and Neda: Bullying From South Hadley to Iran

 

Phoebe Prince.

 

Neda Agha-Soltan.

 

Two young women a world apart. The first, 15, lived in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The second, 27, lived in Tehran, Iran.

 

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