And what does that add up to?
God and Sinners reconciled.
If there are more comforting words than that I’m not aware of them.
Christian Thoughts Under the Fedora: Late Bloomers, Loving Enemies, Selective Worry, Odd Coincidences and And the Unforgiving God of Wokeness
Posted: December 24, 2021 by datechguy in abortion, catholic, culture, under the fedoraTags: christianity, under the fedora
I wrote a while back about the conflict about being Sicilian and being Catholic plays out on occasion and the more I see of the left lately the stronger that conflict becomes.
That’s when I remember the parable of the workers in the Vineyard and remember those who were hired with one hour to go in the day and a sermon that my priest gave reminding us that if we met Matthew the Tax Collector, Mary Magdalene or Saul of Tarsus the day before they encountered Christ we would not like what we saw.
We are dealing with a lot of really bad people right now but they are one encounter with Christ from change. If God’s willing to wait on them who am I not to?
One of the single hardest things about Christianity is the idea of loving your enemies, particularly when they don’t feel that obligation.
We’ve seen a lot of that lately from our friends on the left, a lot of it on the assumption that the good Christian folks on the right will just keep taking it.
They should be aware that Christians sometime slip, after all that’s what confession is for. So I’d be wary of pushing people to that point.
Nobody is going to convince me that all of the “don’t get together for Christmas” and “Cancel Christmas” for your own safety is about the virus.
As Don Surber noted: ” WHO didn’t tell the Saudis to call off the Hajj.”
Most of what the left does frankly is all about hatred of Christianity so I don’t see why this would be any different.
Speaking of tactics to hamper Christians the New DC Vaccine Passport rules go into effect two days before the March for Life.
I think with hundreds of thousands of people there it will be tough to enforce such rules but I don’t see the correlation between Christianity and not getting the vaccine, except for the fact that many Christians are able to get a religious exemption, but then again so can any other religion.
Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if more than a few non-religious suddenly found religion when looking for an exemption. After all during prohibition a lot of folks suddenly starting going to mass to receive the cup.
Finally I see the the group pushing trans priests in the Lutheran Church has suspended the 1st openly trans Lutheran Bishop over unspecified: “harm done by the Sierra Pacific Synod Council and Bishop Rohrer to the Latinx community in Stockton, CA.”
Of course some Spanish speaking people might consider the term “latinx” harmful in itself but it just goes to show you that wokeness is an unforgiving God and no matter how high in the woke hierarchy you are, you’re always one step away from being cancelled.
Me I think they should have stuck with Christ myself.
Here’s to everyone who’s not letting fear or government nonsense interfere with their usual Christmas festivities
Posted: December 23, 2021 by Jon Fournier in UncategorizedTags: christmas, coronavirus, covid19, datechguy's magnificent seven, jon fournier, wuhan virus
Sorry for the short article. This week I’m absolutely swamped with the usual preparations for my family’s annual Polish and French Canadian Christmas Eve extravaganza.
Our feast will include Pierogies, kapusta, crepes, meat pies, and so much more. My job every year is to make the kapusta. I follow a recipe that has been handed down through the generations from the Szczecin region of Poland. I’ve also brewed two batches of homebrew beer to share with everyone.
I’m living in the household where our extended family gathers for every holiday. The usual throng of relatives will gather here again this Christmas Eve. Not a single relative has canceled out. We are not altering our festivities in any way at all. We have done this all during pandemic, except for the Easter Brunch that happened a couple weeks into the pandemic. We canceled that particular holiday gathering at the beginning out of an abundance of caution because no one knew just then the true nature of the Wuhan Virus.
Ever since then we have held every single family gathering including major holidays, minor holidays, and a great many birthdays. Not a single one of us wears a mask or gives a damn about anyone’s vaccination status. Everyone hugs the customary amount and no one social distances at all.
Last year the governor of our state banned all gathering in private homes of over ten people. We steadfastly ignored his ban even though we faced heavy fines. We are determined to do the same again if that idiot institutes the same fascist restrictions.
Unfortunately a large segment of the population in this country have succumbed to the fear and restrictions, and are canceling their Christmas festivities once again this year. They are missing out on so much.
It saddens me and angers me so much that so many countries have descended into abject tyranny and are placing draconian restrictions on the Christmas festivities of their entire populations.
Mass non-compliance and mass resistance to all of this tyranny is the only way everyone’s holidays festivities will be truly free again.
NFL Covid, DTG’s Plan, Pats streak ends, Brady Does Jones a favor and Baseball’s Stupidity Under the Fedora
Posted: December 23, 2021 by datechguy in baseball, nfl, SportsThe Woke NFL’s new policy on COVID whereby players aren’t constantly tested unless they are showing symptoms is a bow to reality and to the narrative.
The NFL embraced the whole Biden Admin you MUST get the vac business but the sight of games cancelled because of fully vaxed players still coming down with COVID is not only a danger to the bottom line and to player relations but it looks really bad for the Vax Nazis when fully vaxed players with little or no symptoms are missing games while at the same time trying to push said vax on the working public.
Of course the players who will not be tested can still catch the virus, carry the virus and even pass it on, but as long as they do so without causing a game to be delayed or cancelled it’s OK with the league.
The obvious question is: Do I have a better plan? Given what we’ve seen and know, yes.
Drop all testing. If a player is sick he doesn’t play. If he is not he does.
No charge
The Patriots winning streak ended in Indy as all winning streaks eventually do. the QB Mac Jones was rather subdued about it as several rookie mistakes on his part (combined with some horrible undisciplined penalties) cost them what was a very winnible game.
How he comes back from this next week vs Buffalo will say a lot about his future but with three weak opponents out of the final four games it’s pretty safe to say that Jones will be starting at least one playoff game as a rookie.
The other question is will the people who’ve been lionizing him for a month now jump off the bandwagon? I suspect that will depend on Buffalo.
Ironically one of the best things to give Jones perspective was Tom Brady’s and the Tampa Bay Bucs humiliating 9-0 shutout by the Saints.
“Just a tough night,” Brady said after the first home shutout of his 23-year career and first anywhere since a 21-0 loss at Miami on December 10, 2006, when Nick Saban was still coaching the Dolphins.
No current member of the Saints was in the NFL at the time. Defensive end Cam Jordan, who had two of the four sacks of Brady, was in high school in Chandler, Arizona.
Brady was clearly losing his temper on the sidelines but to me that’s a good thing. Great players expect a lot from themselves and if they fail to deliver as spectacularly as Tom did last week they should be angry.
But Mac Jones can get perspective here. If the best of all time can have a game like this during an MVP caliber season then he sure can have a bad game took.
BTW Watch for the media to go full on “Brady is finished” narrative to start up again.
The Baseball lockout is a great example of insanity.
You have a sport whose fanbase like me is aging and is in declining popularity. A sport that needs a spark and what do you get? Players making 6-10 figures arguing with owners making even more. This type of incompetence give the Biden Administration a run for its money.
The proof that baseball is the worlds most perfect sport is that it manages to survive time and again the regular idiocy of those in charge of it.
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