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July 17, 2015

Give up on the half-way house of “dialogue” and “dialectic”: Christ is all or nothing.

Outside, the whole world is our dar al-harb.
Every parish church is in mission territory, and stays in mission territory, fighting an uphill battle against its own parishioners, often including the priests — who are reverting to paganism twenty times a day, and can only be retrieved through the faith, communicated chiefly through the Sacraments. My own special pleading for the devolution of government, on the subsidiary principle, is not based on any utopian hope that people with be “nice.” There will always be wars: I would prefer them to be smaller. There will always be tyrants: I’d prefer them to contained. Little governments will fail as big governments do: I’d prefer smaller failures. The world could be made quieter, but it will always be a mess. - - David Warren Towards wisdom : Essays in Idleness

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 17, 2015 5:35 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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In my house it's me and mine or nothing.
~ focus ~

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 17, 2015 2:13 PM

"Just as no one is born Catholic. We are made, or make ourselves, into Catholics, by the grace of God, but we are all born as little pagans, rife with original sin."

We are born pagan.

Yes.

Perhaps this is what these leftists are fighting for: To be children without care or cost

The Welfare State fosters paganism as you can "eat all the 'fruit' and throw away the rind" (no cost. No work).

www . youtube . com/watch?v=MRewcZXEMb8#t=8m20s

Yeah... brother.

Saturnian Sloth, endemic in places where Communism had taken root, with the East German sloth as a stark contrast example being that the vaunted Work Ethic of the German Culture was remarkably absent at its re-unification with West Germany.

We are born pagan.

Yes.

Entropy towards paganism is a constant battle. How does one fight it and turn away from enjoying 'Sunday' 7 days a week?

Understanding that with luxury comes cost - and the cost is work (ie doing things you do not want to do). Even after purchase via Labor, there is a requirement to maintain that which you have, else it becomes a liability to yourself.

Thus the Benedict Option - "Ora Et Labora". Work and Pray.

So how do you battle the leftists and cast them out of this eden they have built for themselves?

End the Free Handouts.

Yeah... Brother.

Posted by: John Condon [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 18, 2015 6:47 AM

This is the only way I know to have God in my life: John 14:6

The Way, the Truth, and the Life

5-Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?"
6-Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
7-"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him."…

Of course if you choose to live a Godless life disregard the above.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 18, 2015 6:47 AM

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