Nor will you ever be. Why? Because since I moved to Patheos, BadCatholic has passed the million views mark! No prizes for any one! Woohoo! Well, sorta. You could be the millionth unique visitor. Fine. You can have a prize, which may or not be a prize for me. Post requests! List what you want me to write about below. I’ll take all your excellent suggestions and try my best to write about them. Read more
If you belong to any religion besides Judaism or Christianity, having a religious experience is simple stuff. You obtain it. If you’re a Buddhist, simply get better and better at meditation and complete separation from earthly desires, and you’ll obtain a supernatural experience of peace. If you’re a Muslim, keep on the Straight Way, look “in the heavens and the earth [for the] signs for those who believe” (Qur’an 45:3-5) and you’ll find them. If you’re a Wiccan, draw the circle,... Read more
You guys crack me up. You’re clearly putting a crap-ton of money into your Facebook ad campaigns, enough for me to get treated to them every freaking time I log on to poke my friends. And I’ll admit it — I was proud of you at first. You’ve got beautiful pictures of young, lively minorities, giving me the pleasant impression that Catholics for Choice are a far more inclusive and joy-filled bunch than Us Normal Catholics. Good stuff. But forgive... Read more
…stop killing girls. Why? Well I can’t believe I have to say it — and I could have sworn we went over this in the sixties and seventies — but girls are wonderful, beautiful creatures, equal in dignity to men. To perform an abortion on the sole basis that the human being inside the mother’s womb is — God forbid — female, well that’s what we call sexism. Please do stop. Everyone else — ye who think perhaps gendercide isn’t... Read more
I wrote this as a guest post for The Art of Manliness, only to find that they are no longer accepting guest submissions. I hope it won’t seem too out of place here then: I think it’s fair to say that the average man exposed to the above advertisement is either: a) uproariously amused, under the impression that it is fake or b) painfully creeped out, under the realization that it is real or c) a little of both. As... Read more
So check it! I got a wonderful guest post, and I thought it pretty well sums up the abortion debate: It goes without saying that the paramount responsibility of rational government is the protection of human life. That’s why laws prohibiting murder carry the harshest penalties in society. In the English Common Law system, there are even shades of criminal liability, from murder through manslaughter, designed to discourage the killing of human life. Human life is the sine quo non of all other rights... Read more
Some awesomeness you should all be aware of: From their Facebook page (which I will mail you some bacon for liking): “Imagine Sisters is a web and campus-based movement that aims to inspire the imaginations of young women to consider the beautiful call to consecrated life as a sister.” Given that a) nuns are awesome, b) this seems to me to be the first comprehensive, web-based promotion of the female religious life and c) nuns are awesome, you should all... Read more
It is a tangible reality of human experience, that in the presence of a Beauty we let slip groans that sound an awful lot like dissatisfaction. In the light of some masterpiece of nature, we screw up our faces like we’ve stubbed a toe. In the quiet dark of of an old stone room, observing an icon or painting lit by candlelight, we may even cry. Tears and moans and groans are the songs Beauty sings. Beauty hurts. But if Beauty, by... Read more
Christians like to believe that our age is a frightening one, an age in which everything is allowed, and all the horny powers of hedonism run rampant. The Godless — God bless ’em — believe the same, but as far as I can tell, they’re happier with the prospect. We’re all becoming pagans, the Christian frowns, using that wonderful, royal we. We’re becoming pagans, the Godless smile back, shaking off the cruel bonds of organized religion. Lol, pagans? C.S. Lewis asked.... Read more
Christians, Catholics, men and women with same-sex attraction, advocates of Gay Marriage and dissenters of the same: The Gay Marriage debate is no debate. It has been rigged, framed and devalued into a series of pre-ordained slogans for each “side” to scream, to the point that entering into it now is less like having an argument and more like getting punched in the face by a Snorlax on crack. There’s nothing quite as depressing, for the simple reason that everyone... Read more
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