Outside The Asylum

“It Can’t Happen Here”? | The Lewis Crusade : Well worth reading, for those who think that we still have a First Amendment after this disaster of a Supreme Court.

It wasn't illegal when we started, but as of today, when the Supreme Court has officially embraced "consent" and "love" rather than commitment and having children to be in the next generation, it is now. I'm celebrating anyway-16 years of defiance against the standards of the morally bankrupt sexual revolution.

The Cultural Warrior That sinking feeling you get When you realize The battle was lost Long before you were born

Laudato Si  offers us some insight into the Church's opinions on many current political problems in America.    We would be wise indeed to listen to the words of Pope Francis on these topics; all of them will require adjustments to American culture and our habits of indifferent individualism. On what we individally can do to help the environment "Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly and significantly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices. All of these reflect a generous and worthy creativity which brings out the best in human beings. Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when d one for the right  reasons, can be...

I'm only halfway through reading it, but paragraphs 120-130 clearly put this new encyclical firmly into the tradition of Distributism. So without further ado, here are links to the now 8 encyclicals and one Apostolic Exhortation on human economics: Rerum Novarum from Pope Leo XIII Quadragesimo Anno from Pope Pius XI Mater et Magistra from Pope John XXIII Populum Progresso from Pope Paul VI Laborem Exercens from Pope John Paul II Centesimus Annus from Pope John Paul II Sollicitudo Rei Socialis from Pope John Paul II Caritas In Veritate by Pope Benedict XVI Evangelii Gaudium by Pope Francis Laudato Sii by Pope Francis I can easily believe that for libertarians who do not understand the full history, much of this latest document won't make sense either- it is one in keeping with the whole "You are your brother's keeper" theme, and I just got the following tweet: @Pontifex: There is no room for the globalization of indifference. #Lauda...

I've noticed something. It's correlation, not causation, but it's a strange fact regardless. Human beings north of the Tropic of Cancer have stopped breeding at replacement levels.   Every country North of the Tropic of Cancer needs immigration just to keep the population stable in the last 20 years. Human beings south of the Tropic of Cancer are still breeding above replacement levels.   Which means these countries are who are providing the immigrants.

This is my answer to The Anchoress's Challenge I am Catholic because after several years of study, I have found it to be a complete and consistent worldview that has evolved to support sustainable life on this planet we call Earth.  I'm not a particularly good Catholic.  I don't pray as much as I should, and while being extremely generous with the three T's of Time, Talent, and Treasure, I often use my generosity in sinful ways, which has affected my family and my marriage. I am currently going through the type of crisis of faith that sent many other souls running screaming from the Church.  I do not know if I will withstand what comes out of the upcoming synod, it feels very much like the way of Catholicism I have been practicing is under attack from within as well as without; the winds of change attack me at a level very deep down in my soul. And yet, I guess partially because of my autism, I persevere- too stubborn to admit that it would be far easier to join i...

There has been much written about how the Duggars were wrong to let it go on so long- but the  initial victims were all asleep, the touching was not bare skin, it was over clothes.  There was a concern about harming the other children.  This interview is fascinating . One big thing I noticed:  The Duggars practice Quiverful Christianity- but a very conservative version.  When in part III of the interview (at the link) discussed safeguards in the home, I see all of the "creepy" bits of their courtship rituals have been affected by this abuse.  And yet still, three of the most affected people, the perpetrator and two of his victims, have now started families of their own in apparently happy marriages. That must really make those who have invested years into the sexual revolution and the dogma of consent-based sexuality very angry indeed. Which might be while the police violated their public trust and turned the police records over to a tabloid.

Women Church of England Priests want to further damage Anglican/Roman relations by Calling God She as if Catholics haven't been referring to God by both genders since the 200s A.D. To bad it's really about chasing more men out of the Church, and making it more impossible for men to be Christian.

I never noticed this before: Article 7 of the US Constitution reads, in part:  the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord  one thousand seven hundred  and  Eighty seven  If the founders acknowledged Jesus Christ as Lord over our government, then the whole idea of the separation of church and state is a falsehood perpetuated to destroy that government.