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Big BIG news in religion

Posted: January 29, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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If you have been following events in the Anglican communion as I have you would know that as western branches of the church have embraced non-biblical teachings. (Hello bishop Gene Robinson) or deferring to Islam (hi Rowan Williams) have shrunk while African churches that have held to scripture have thrived.

Well the successor’s of Henry VIII have created an opening and Pope Benedict is driving a truck right through it:

The Pope is preparing to offer the Traditonal Anglican Communion, a group of half a million dissident Anglicans, its own personal prelature by Rome, according to reports this morning.

“History may be in the making”, reports The Record. “It appears Rome is on the brink of welcoming close to half a million members of the Traditional Anglican Communion into membership of the Roman Catholic Church. Such a move would be the most historic development in Anglican-Catholic relations in the last 500 years. But it may also be a prelude to a much greater influx of Anglicans waiting on the sidelines, pushed too far by the controversy surrounding the consecration of practising homosexual bishops, women clergy and a host of other issues.”

Would they keep their structures? Yes:

If the Pope agrees, the TAC, which has a large number of married bishops and priests, would answer to the Pope but keep their existing structure, clergy and some elements of Anglican identity.

This has been in the works for some time. Damian Thompson makes a prediction:

My guess is that, if this happens, Anglo-Catholics in the C of E will move to Rome in unprecedented numbers under a similar arrangement.

I guess all those who said the Catholic Church was doomed because they didn’t change like protestants had it backwards. A society that expects instant gratification not a place to go for advice when you are a church that takes a view over centuries. That’s why Christ built it on a rock that still stands strong.

Hey how is that peeling conservatives from Rush business going?

Posted: January 28, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…It’s going so well that rep Phil Gingrey is on Rush’s show at his request backtracking faster than Michael Phelps in a pool.

Update: Could the Obama administration have demonstrated the power and dependency of Republican congressmen on Rush’s support to keep their seats in any more effective way?

Was it only 5 years ago…

Posted: January 28, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
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…that blogs were worrying about Curt Schilling’s comments on strike zones and writing how Tim Wakefield was worried that he wouldn’t be able to show his face in Boston?

We’ll flash back every now and again to that glorious year full of surprises.

You are going to die of something

Posted: January 27, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Yesterday I visited old Alfred who just came back from the hospital. I’d never been in his house before but saw him there daily as its next door to the Catholic grammar school that my boys, I and all my family went to since 55. He’s been in that house since the 40’s

The steps were solid stone 3′ x 2′ x 1′ The door was the old green door of my grandmother’s house, even the same type of paint. The chairs and tables were the same thing I used to see in her house. The stove had to be at least 70 years old and I think I’m underestimating it.

Alfred is 96 years old (will be 97 this year), he grew up on the street as my mother who he still calls “kid” (she will be 85 this year) We talked for a while and he talked about how as a kid he worked like a dog from sunrise to sunset, feeding the chickens, milking the cows, doing chores constantly.

He comes to mind today when I saw the doctor on Morning Joe complain about McDonalds, soda etc etc etc. She was stating how we should eat better, exercise more and get rid of the electronics, no TV no Computer yada yada yada…

She is correct about the health benefits and all that but the thing that really jars me is her objection to cheap plentiful food.

Any study of human history will show you that until the 20th century the specter of starvation and struggling to be able to feed a family was the norm of human existence. Anyone who lived through the depression knew how had it was to feed a family. Alfred’s his father and his family didn’t work like dogs because they wanted to, they did because they had to.

In a large chunk of the world the problem still remains and tens of millions face the scourge of hunger, not US food stamp hunger but African, Asian and South American no food to eat no clean water hunger. In human history that was and for a huge chunk of the world it still IS the NORM.

Thank God for a place where a person can eat and be full for less than the price of one hour of labor of the lowest paid person. You can make fun of McDonalds BK and the rest you can critique Chinese buffets, processed foods, genetically modified food etc etc etc, but these have helped to reverse the equation of human history and misery.

Dinesh D’Souza asked this question of an acquaintance of his “Why are you so eager to come to America?” He replied, “I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat.”

We will all die of something someday but thanks to this modern world if you are in the US it won’t be of hunger. If one of our biggest problems is too much to eat they we should be damn grateful.

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