Outside The Asylum

Pope Francis: Uniter or Divider? - Aleteia : The three things you need to remember when asking this question: 1. The pope is a “dream catcher”; we project our dreams of unity or division on him. 2. The Pope is divisive and uniting because he is above all a pastor. 3. Pope Francis is that guy who challenges our assumptions and stretches our understanding. I for one am really frustrated with #2.  Oh, I understand the need to go running after the lost sheep.  But in the mean time, on both the left and right sides of the pen, there's a hungry wolf who has cut a hole in the fence and is stealing sheep while the shepherd is away.

Yes, exactly right. And I heard some of these before I even had my diagnoses at age 30:

If Sex is so great, why do you need to be chemically neutered to enjoy it?

The Gay Bullyboys Want You Jailed - Crisis Magazine : Alarmist?  yes.  Accurate?  Yes. There is a dark side to many liberal organizations.  And as the article points out, conservative organizations are not immune to seeking state support. But I've got a question- How does an "Institute" in the United States, running on a budget of a mere $54,494/year, lobby governments in Moldova, Russia, and Poland and actually accomplish their goals enough to get on a hate crimes report? Or Family Watch International, who has apparently been lobbying the UN on a budget of $26,569/year (maybe Sharon Slater is cleaning their toilets?). Scott Lively is the one who has been receiving the actual death threats from the Human Rights Campaign, alledgedly for singlhandly being responsible for anti-gay legislation in Uganda, Eastern Europe, Russia, and the United Kingdom. All on a budget of less than $100,000/year (I challenge you to even take a vacation in those four areas in a year...

Paul Harvey, from 1965. He did the same speech over the years, updating it regularly. Not sure quite what year this is, but because I've run into people who no longer believe in the devil today:

Even when they seem to create a good at first , when you mix drugs and sex, things go badly.

Scientism Cannot Explain Away the Grandeur of God - Crisis Magazine : The real problem is that Scientism isn't really a form of atheism.  It just replaces the authority of God with the authority of Science (tm) of a form that most people don't understand is really just materialism.

An old story, but one that shows the culture of death goes far beyond human beings, and yes, the courts are involved too: The following story is from This is True dated 17 July 2005. It is Copyright 2005 Randy Cassingham, all rights reserved, and reprinted here with permission : "Ethical" Defined After more than 100 dead dogs were dumped in a trash dumpster over four weeks, police in Ahoskie, N.C., kept an eye on the trash receptacle behind a supermarket. Sure enough, a van drove up and officers watched the occupants throw in heavy plastic bags. They detained the two people in the van and found 18 dead dogs in plastic bags in the dumpster, including puppies; 13 more dead dogs were still in the van. Police say the van is registered to the headquarters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the two occupants, Andrew B. Cook, 24, and Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, identified themselves as PETA employees. An autopsy performed on one of the dogs found it was healthy before...

Apparently there has been some inflation under Allah's government in the afterlife. Forget 72 virgins, try for 19,880 of them . Plus your four wives. Plus 70 years of sex with each of them. Which brings us to nearly 1.4 million years of sex to start out your eternity.

If the Freedom From Religion Foundation claims that spending *any* tax money on religion is against the Constitution, and religion is defined as any system of belief, and atheism is a system of belief, isn't it wrong to use the courts, which are paid for with tax dollars, to promote atheism?

Statistical abstinence works better than condoms , at least in Africa, where the HIV rate is extremely high. Best way to protect individuals- don't have multiple sexual partners. Sounds like a no-brainer, right?

I don't know who dogman@europa.com was, but this bit of brilliant rant against 1980s eurocentric hubris is well worth saving from the Wayback machine. And since it's just a static HTML page, it's easy to rescue. Well, mostly easy to rescue. Because I'm not even sure dogman@europa.com still exists, or even if europa.com still exists To hell with the OSI 7 Layer Model Back in the 1980's, when all music sucked and men dressed like sissies, a bunch of sissy Europeans got together in a passionate effort to overstandardize computer networking. They created this thing called the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking suite . Anyone who has taken a CS (Computer Science) or CIS (Computer Information Systems) course knows this; they cram this fact down the student's throat from day freaking one. It is only when the student enters the real world do they realise that the OSI seven layer model is a sham. First off, what the hell is any European organi...

Fr. Dwight Longnecker explains the problem of mercy without morals or values.

One of the strange marks of Sedevanatist Catholicism today is a certain amount of anti-semite hysteria. The Gibson clan of Hollywood has made it rather famous in the last 20 years, but the coziness of the Popes to the Jews since WWII has been a point of contention that pushes people towards radical traditionalism. Radical traditionalists are also considered to have some affiliation with the old Jansenist heresy, which was a form of Catholic Calvinism- fierce loyalty to the Pope but hopelessly elitist, they treated the sacraments, especially the Eucharist, more as reward than as Grace, requiring long years of study to be admitted to the sacraments. And certainly, no non-Christian could be saved in their predestined view of the world. Which leads us to an interesting bit of prooftexting. Could the modern Popes be right about the lack of any need to evangelize the Jews? Romans 11:25-26 seems to indicate so: 25 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of t...

All revolutions trade away good for evil. The sexual revolution was no different. It thought it was trading away repression and exclusive partnerships for "Free Love", but what it was really trading was a definition of life from conception to natural death, for euthanasia from conception until natural death. It isn't just the unborn, but anybody whose life is deemed not worth saving. There is no right to life left.