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At least in terms of the blogs I\u2019ve been visiting.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, but I\u2019ve watched many a Catholic blog turn into a Catholic version of fundamentalist Protestant blog.\u00a0 Just remove King James Bible and insert Catholic Catechism.\u00a0 Right now, heading into the election, there is a rabid debate on just who to vote for, with many posts centered around a not-too-subtle attempt to suggest that there is only one way to vote, and any other approach must be from\u00a0folks who don\u2019t love Jesus as much as I do.\u00a0 Sure, they all deny it.\u00a0 But stand back and watch, and it\u2019s clear that the common Christian tendency of trying to stack the deck in favor of my own personal preferences is alive and well and living in the Catholic blogosphere.\u00a0 Not all mind you.\u00a0 There are still some who are maintaining a sense of balance and perspective.\u00a0 But others?\u00a0 I can read vitriolic and zealous atheist blogs and barely tell a difference in tone and measure.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t need that sort of frustration.\u00a0 When I go to\u00a0a blog and see people saying that my vote is meaningless, with the added insinuation that I should vote for a particular independent candidate or it\u2019s because I\u2019m too stupid to understand politics or just don\u2019t care about my faith, it\u2019s time to move on.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing uplifting or challenging in that.\u00a0 That\u2019s just good old fundamentalist Christianity, Catholic style.\u00a0 So I\u2019ll be spending more time doing anything other than visiting most of the blogs I\u2019ve been known to visit, including some that were, in their time, instrumental in helping me in my journey into the Church.\u00a0 The irony?\u00a0 Had these blogs been this way\u00a0then, there is a strong possibility I never would have come into the Church, or if I had, it would have been despite such fundamentalism in Catholic garb, rather than because. <\/p>\n

Anyway, on a brighter note, our 7th grader had his first home football game today.\u00a0 Being one of the smaller schools in the league, we don\u2019t fare well as a general rule.\u00a0 And today was no exception.\u00a0 They got creamed \u2013 though in fairness, they were without their quarterback who suffered an early injury.\u00a0 Still, they played hard and the defensive coach went out of his way to let us know he\u2019s doing great, and is one of the favorites of the head coach.\u00a0 When all else fails in the Catholic blogosphere, I need only turn to those gifts from God to be uplifted and remember what life is all about.\u00a0 Well done son.\u00a0 Now we\u2019ll see how our oldest does in his first Cross Country invitational this Saturday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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