My post on Canon Turner’s 1st Mass got a lot of attention considering it wasn’t instalanched and I wanted to make a point that might have been unclear. I have been to the Latin mass before just not a high mass of the type that was on display. Personally I think it would be healthy for both the vernacular and the Latin masses to both be offered in all parishes. It would be a perfect illustration of Christ as fully human and our brother while also fully Divine as our God. I think it’s healthy to remember both.
I don’t see why anyone is surprised that Joe Biden got the decade wrong that RFK & MLK were assassinated. Given the historical ignorance of the young who tend to vote democrat these days and the attempts to re-write history such a mistake makes perfect sense. Of course, maybe 1968 identifies as a year in the 70’s
Speaking of re-writing history the NYT 1619 project attempt to reframe a false history as true has actually been going on for a long time by the left. It’s been a full generation since Mary Lefkowitz Not out of Africa and the backlash she got for refusing to teach myth as history the only difference is now their bold enough to admit it and no amount of facts such as the Vice President of the Confederacy’s attack on the founding fathers for opposing Slavery and considering it evil will stop it. What happened with Lefkowitz was the broken window theory of this type of thing
On a similar subject that’s a pet peeve of mine on twitter this week the subject of Transgenders altering their birth certificates to change their birth sex/name is something I think is very wrong. A birth certificate is a legal document recording an actual event. Namely a person was born of a particular sex to a particular set of parents on a particular date at a particular place. These are all facts and are not subject to the whims or vanity of others. Now if you wanted to create a document that was a “certification of live birth” where a city can certify that a person who has a different legal birth name and a different legal birth sex was in fact born at a particular place on a particular year that would be a fair compromise but we have no business changing the written record.
Finally there is word that Dicks Sporting goods which made a big deal about being woke on guns is considering discontinuing guns altogether. It actually makes perfect sense when you consider the reaction by gun owners to the company’s previous move:
“I’m not furious, not at all. They made a business decision. I get it. They want to step out of their non-political lane and become corporate activists. I can calmly step out of my lane, too. And given every chance I get, I will not use their products,” he said.
If buyers of guns with long memories are still angry and not going to your stores and you have no interest in getting their business back it’s a logical business decision to stop carrying items that might appeal to that customer base, the remaining guns and hunting items in this case, and move to a set of items that appeal to the customers you still have.
It’s the same principle that MSNBC and the NYT is using when moving away from reality why give facts when your remaining base will only pay for propaganda?
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