The news is written and downloaded by a huge software program. The news program recycles the same stories, over and over.
Today, a “news” story told readers and viewers that “polar bears are in grave danger of communicable diseases”. It’s a typical “news” story that recycles, over and over. In past decades, polar bears have reported to be endangered once a week. Every week, a story is automatically written and downloaded about polar bears being “threatened”, […]
“Jesus Descended into Hell.”
The Creed tells us what Jesus did after He died on the cross. “He descended into Hell”. Today, the Saturday after Good Friday, He was not on earth or in Heaven. He descended into Hell. Dante, in The Inferno, tells us why. Jesus descended into Hell to unearth all the souls who’d been sent there until He came and […]
The Elevator Analogy
Our minds can understand vast distances. We can take in, for instance, the fact that the stars are farther away than the moon and that the various parts of the earth are even closer. We have been programmed and downloaded with the ability to understand physical distances. We know that some things are closer than […]
People Are Not Equal. Why Should Their Votes Be?
People in what they think are Democracies believe in “One Man, One Vote”. They will, without any reflection, think that to be the basis for a “good system”. Many are fond of saying things like: “Democracy may not be the best system, but it’s the best that’s ever been tried.” Such sentiments are followed by […]
What Pascal Saw as “The Jewish Problem”:
Pensees was published 6 or 7 years after Pascal died,in 1662. Twenty years after the first publications, Pensees was translated into English. The book was a record of Pascal’s thoughts. Why should anyone care what Pascal thought? Anyone brilliant enough to invent whole new fields of mathematics that included Statistics and Probability Theory sees and […]
“He’s Just Going Through a Stage.”
“He’s just going through a stage.”, my grandmother used to say about anyone who was doing something that wasn’t too bright or not quite right. Catholic Fundamentalism expanded a phrase from Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage”, into a theory of creation. “The Loving Programmer can program particles and energies. He compiled them into system […]
Fairness, Always an Excuse to Ignore God and Steal From the Poor
Gospel Jn 12:1-11 “Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for Him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with Him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard […]
The Saddest People in the World are the Lapsed Catholics Who’ve Left the Kingdom
Today’s reading is from 1 Ez, 37: 21-28: “Thus says the Lord GOD: I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which they have come, and gather them from all sides to bring them back to their land. I will make them one nation upon the land, in the mountains of […]
The Promises of Satan are Empty
Fidel Castro has been running the most brutal, sadistic government in the Americas since the 1400’s, when Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas instituted cannibalistic regimes that fed on human sacrifice. During his reign, Castro gave the most brutal, vicious, hateful people complete power over the Cuban people. They slaughtered hundreds of thousands of their neighbors. They […]
How old is the universe?
How old is the universe? Catholic Fundamentalists have no trouble believing how long ago The Loving Programmer wrote and downloaded The Creation Program, or as much of it as we needed to have provided for us. The Midnight Mass Liturgy on Christmas Eve/Day makes as clear as it needs to be when The Creation Program […]