After I reread my post yesterday, you know the one that said I wouldn\u2019t be posting much, I thought I needed to clarify.\u00a0 Readers of my blog who have followed it for the last several months, ever since I first started the thing, know there has been a little issue about just how Catholic my blog is.\u00a0 I have repeatedly explained that I don\u2019t see myself as, nor do I want to be, a Catholic Blogger.\u00a0 Yet my little title summary seems to suggest at least some Catholic behind my posts.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Well, the actual obvious \u2018Catholic Identity\u2019 might not always be there.\u00a0 I post a lot on politics, social and cultural trends, the media, and occasionally things like history or religion.\u00a0Occasionally I\u2019ll\u00a0reflect on something, or post on something that moves me or gets me to thinking. Once in a while my posts might reflect an overt Catholic perspective.\u00a0 As often as not, a person could be forgiven for reading a rant on the latest attempts to squelch freedom by way of Gay Rights, or what this or that politician has done, and conclude nothing at all about my faith.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019ve explained that, in a way, my faith often informs just what I think is important.\u00a0 After all, it wasn\u2019t some innate culturally impressed notion that has caused me to reject human homosexual normality.\u00a0 As an agnostic, I had no problem with the stuff.\u00a0 Live and let live was my motto.\u00a0 Though I think I would have been somewhat dismayed at the modern Gay Rights \u2018celebrate us or watch your butt\u2019 approach to its agendas, I wouldn\u2019t have cared one way or another about the lifestyle.\u00a0 When I became a believer, however, I was forced to confront the fact that the overwhelming witness of Scripture, and the Christian Faith in general, has always been to reject that particular lifestyle.\u00a0 So when I see the creeping \u2018there ain\u2019t room enough in this world for the two of us\u2019 approach of Gay Rights today, it\u2019s my faith that compels me to take notice from the POV that I write.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
But still, I can see where folks might see that as a cop out.\u00a0 Just me trying to wade one toe in the pool, while allowing myself the freedom to wander around and post on anything under the sun whether it pertains to the Catholic Faith, my Catholic Faith, or anything Catholic at all.\u00a0 In a way, they would be correct.\u00a0 I said long ago that I just started this blog because some individuals I know persuaded me to start a blog so I could have a platform for putting down my thoughts and insights.\u00a0 So I did.\u00a0 And I didn\u2019t want to be confined to a single \u2018type\u2019 of blog.\u00a0 If that has cut me out of this or that little blogging community, so be it.\u00a0\u00a0 It was just so I could toss out some ideas, and hear back from those who read my ideas. <\/p>\n
But a few things have happened.\u00a0 First, the comments section disappeared.\u00a0 Something went screwy with the blog some weeks ago, the whole thing went down for a day or so.\u00a0 The Comments boxes vanished, and I\u2019ve not had the time or the desire to look into where they went and how to get them back.\u00a0 Visitors may\u00a0not return when they see no comments available.\u00a0 But to be honest, that\u2019s OK.\u00a0 Though I appreciate those few who did come by and post their thoughts, they were few.\u00a0 And while there is always the quality, I noticed that once I stopped a few readers from coming in and just insulting people and saying stupid things (and yes, I know that sounds harsh, but some of the things were nothing else,\u00a0even by the most gracious assessment), the number of comments dropped off exponentially.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if the Bloggosphere is where people want to go in order to behave in ways we would never behave in any other setting.\u00a0 And when I said I want good, reasoned debate that is polite and not just a drive by insult-fest, folks stopped coming by.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Yes, I was still visited by some great people who continued to comment and give me insights and suggestions, and I\u2019m very thankful for that.\u00a0 But if I had to have folks coming in and acting like little brats in order to increase the number of comments and visits, I would rather have no comments at all. So for those who kept coming back with reasoned insights and thoughtful and polite comments, I do miss you.\u00a0 But I will let it be for a while at least, enjoying not seeing random and anonymous folks swinging by, throwing out insults and the latest intellectually vacant talking points from various radical sides of any given debate.\u00a0 Someday I might find a way to bring back the comments, but it will be a while. <\/p>\n
Another thing has also impacted how I do this blog is the Catholic Bloggosphere.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t I want to be a \u201cCatholic Blog\u201d?\u00a0 Well, because of what I\u2019ve seen happening in the Catholic Bloggosphere, that\u2019s why.\u00a0 And when I have time, I\u2019ll drop back by and post on just what I mean, and the sadness I have over what I\u2019ve been reading in so many Catholic blogs over the last year or so.\u00a0 Right now, I have places to go and people to see.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be back, and continue this little train of thought then.\u00a0 Till then, TTFN.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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