Posts Tagged ‘reality’

Why is this bad news…

Posted: March 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…if you are in favor of abortion rights:

Selective abortion of female fetuses is common in China, India, and some other Asian countries. A Plos One report finds that Vietnam shows signs of following the same pattern with a rise in the number of male births to 100 female births (Sex Ratio at Birth or SRB).

As a person who thinks abortion is the murder of a living person I think selective abortion is an abomination. What I can’t understand is the reaction of people who are pro abortion.

And I’d like to know why it’s an unfortunate thing? Is it an unfortunate think like a flat tire or is it something bad and tragic. If it is something bad why is it something bad? Why would it be tragic? Is pulling a bad tooth tragic?

This is the dance that people make when they know in their gut that something is actually wrong but are unwilling to say it. That would force a moral choice that people are unwilling to make as Frank Turek talked about on another subject.

Finally I see someone else say it!

Posted: March 4, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, personal
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The Curt Jester uses my favorite phrase in an article about another priest who needs a visit to his confessor:

The only reason to be Catholic is because it is true – that’s it.

He elaborates:

I just don’t understand what their ecclesiology can possibly mean other than just being a form of Catholic tribalism. If I believed what they believed of the Church I would denounce the Church as evil and would want no part of it. The Protestant so-called Reformers were at least honest in realizing their theology of the Church was quite at odds with the Church.

This is what drives me nuts about pseudo Catholics. When I sin I tend to know I’m sinning. It bothers me and my inability to conquer it is painful and embarrassing particularly when I’m trying to teach my kids. These guys along with people like Andrew simply re-define sin so they can have their sin without the guilt. I know I need confession, and I know I need the prayers of my fellow believers if I’m going to win the race. These guys are trying to convince themselves that they’ve already won. Madness.

But in the end it will be little comfort to me or anyone else if we all suffer the same fate. This is why we have lent to help us from that fate.

Quiz time: Which right wing pundit…

Posted: March 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…said the following about the president today:

Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that “the status quo is not acceptable,” even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork.

National Review has the answer. Here is the actual article.

Let’s remind everyone what the goal of the administration is…

Posted: March 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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….is to push their rewards to their friends early when it will have the least political cost while delaying the recovery that would come on its own long enough so they can take credit for it when it happens.

Period!

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