Outside The Asylum

Way back last April, on my 2nd reading of Amoris Laetitia, I had the idea to try to find out what the simple message of the document was, by using  word frequency tables  and generating a Word Cloud: Church Family Can Love Life. That simple phrase, I believe, sums up what Pope Francis was really trying to say with Amoris Laetitia. But as in any family, the devil lies in trying to communicate, communicate a Truth much larger than just our human love- the Truth of Christ. The Truth of Christ doesn't always feel good. It is not the easy way out. Mercy can't be allowed to destroy justice. And yet, today on Crisis Magazine, we have a  Bishop from Kazakstan claiming that four Cardinals, four Prophets, are being ignored. Four Prophets who claim that due to errornous interpretations of Amoris Laetitia, confusion has been created. Four Prophets who say that with Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia, in certain diocese and certain countries in the world, Mercy has been allowed ...

This is going to be a rather long post, inspired by a comment somebody made in a discussion on Voting and politicians on Disqus. It's too long for a comment, and will get rather deep into what I'm beginning to see as a very scary 8th generation American post-Christian religion that is emerging among Libertarian minded people in the United States of America. As this is a religious post, on this subject, I find it important to start with a prayer- The Novena for the Election from Priests for Life : O God, we acknowledge you today as Lord, Not only of individuals, but of nations and governments. We thank you for the privilege Of being able to organize ourselves politically And of knowing that political loyalty Does not have to mean disloyalty to you. We thank you for your law, Which our Founding Fathers acknowledged And recognized as higher than any human law. We thank you for the opportunity that this election year puts before us, To exercise our solemn duty not only ...

Under Obergefell, marriage no longer carries the presumption of paternity.  This guy should fight this all the way to the Supreme Court. Man contests support for child he says he didn't father : 'via Blog this'

A scientific analysis, in e-book form, of the scientific evidence surrounding "Born that way" gender identity, and a very strong disproff of genetic idenity in human beings. Download My Genes Made Me Do it - Homosexuality and the scientific evidence | : 'via Blog this'

Interesting list from the website Real Sexism : Men are 97% of combat fatalities. Men pay 97% of Alimony Men make up 94% of work suicides. Men make up 93% of work fatalities. Men make up 81% of all war deaths. Men lose custody in 84% of divorces. 80% of all suicides are men. 77% of homicide victims are men. 89% of men will be the victim of at least one violent crime. Men are over twice as victimized by strangers as women. Men are 165% more likely to be convicted than women. Men get 63% longer sentences than women for the same crime. Court bias against men is at least 6 times bigger than racial bias. Males are discriminated against in school and universities. Boys face vastly more corporal punishment than girls. 60-80% of the homeless are men. Women's cancers receive 15 times more funding than men's. At least 10% of fathers are victims of paternity fraud.