Big Rock Candy Nation, Part Two

ESOLEN:

All of the virtues, even the grayish one called tolerance, are difficult to attain. But we on the RC Mountain have come to expect them, just from being the people we are. So long as we don't shoot pigeons or smoke cigarettes, and we pull the right lever in a voting booth, we are all right. And if we sweat a lot, even if it is for emptiness, we are worthy of everyone's admiration. 

Justice is what we are owed, not what we owe. Temperance is for the waistline, nothing else. Courage is to be offensive, prudence is to be sly, and chastity is strictly for the time being. We will be the spiritual equivalent of a skinny kid with a sunken chest, but we will move mountains. 

Or somebody will move them for us.

Vatican Does Horrible Job of Being Anti-Science | Blogs | NCRegister.com

Vatican Does Horrible Job of Being Anti-Science | Blogs | NCRegister.com: Embryonic stem cell research is in its second decade of testing. Its taxpayer funding was reinstated in 2009 by President Barack “Kill ‘Em All and Let the Flying Spaghetti Monster Sort ‘Em Out” Obama, and hundreds of companies devoted to the field have received billions of dollars in funding.

And yet the field has shown mixed results, if by “mixed results” you mean “dismal and unmitigated failure.” When asked to list “diseases cured by embryonic stem cell therapy,” Google Chrome said, “Aw, snap. The information you are looking for does not appear to exist.” It then asked, “Did you mean ‘adult stem cell cures?’” and offered 13,700,000 results.

The Religion That Immolates Children

MAGISTER: The first person on the right in the photo, next to the pope, the patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, and Rabbi David Rosen, is Professor Wande Abimbola, from Nigeria.

Abimbola spoke in Assisi, at the "pilgrimage" organized by Benedict XVI last October 27, "in the name of the leaders and followers of the indigenous religions of Africa." He himself is a priest and international representative of the religion Ifa and Yoruba, spread throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa and even to the Americas on immigration routes.

 

 

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Africa. The Religion That Immolates Children

via Chiesa - on 11/2/11

In Assisi in general terms, and to the bishops of Angola with a direct denunciation, Benedict XVI has criticized the traditional African religions. Which go so far as to kill the elderly and children in a modern witch hunt

 

 

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