“SPIEGEL: Doesn’t the perception of Hitler as an artist make him seem less evil?” This is a question that could only be asked by a post-Christian. One of the many problems with post-Christian thought is that, in rejecting the doctrine of the Fall and the reality of human sin, it tends to explain evil by regarding the evildoer as something other than a human being. Anytime somebody challenges this (by, say, noting that Hitler liked art and dogs, a trait... Read more

I’m happy I don’t have cable. Read more

My respect is given to those who opt not to have children (often for very good reasons, provided they do it without recourse to artificial contraception). But it’s hard to govern my contempt for people who evangelically urge the world not to have children. They are self-absorbed enemies of life and servants of the devil whose only excuse is that they are such fools as to not know it. Michael Coren has their number. Read more

But even if it is, it’s still depressing because of the fool writing the article who obviously takes it all very seriously as Cutting Edge Stuff. Depravity always casts itself as liberation and it’s always just sadness and chains. I suspect the day will come when every single form of aberrant behavior in the world will be declared a “sexual orientation”. From murder to theft to graffiti to double parking, somebody will explain that they need to do it to... Read more

But even if it is, it’s still depressing because of the fool writing the article who obviously takes it all very seriously as Cutting Edge Stuff. Depravity always casts itself as liberation and it’s always just sadness and chains. I suspect the day will come when every single form of aberrant behavior in the world will be declared a “sexual orientation”. From murder to theft to graffiti to double parking, somebody will explain that they need to do it to... Read more

First, some prefatory remarks from one of the most hilarious preachers of our time: The above was delivered in deadly earnest by one Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ. It is, as you can tell from the video, an itsy bitsy storefront church with a few repressed members who spend their days singing hymns and listening to Pastor Anderson’s unintentionally hilarious rants as he works out some of his issues concerning his manhood. Catholics... Read more

On the one hand, naturalism is true and supernaturalism is false. On the other hand, supernaturalism is false, but naturalism is true. It’s okay to say creation exhibits signs of “design” and teleology, just so long as you make it absolutely clear that none of that finds its origin or endpoint in a transcendent supernatural God. Read more

CMG Booking (run by the redoubtable and competent Joe Condit) contacted me last month and said the Sacramento Catholic Breakfast Club needed a speaker and could I do it? Soitantly! I replied, and so he made it all happen. No fuss. No muss. I didn’t even have to book the flight! Plus, it was on the West Coast, so I was back home in time for dinner! The folks in Sacramento were lovely! I got a tour of the Cathedral... Read more

She has a Smart Car. She knows all the right buzz words to achieve MSM approval. Oh, and she leavens it with tedious LibProtSpeak: “For me the word ‘faith’ is part of a new paradigm … the word belief sounds too static, where in fact in faith we are invited to participate relationally.” In other words, she said, “belief is a noun and faith is a verb.” Can anyone even tell me what that means? As near as I can... Read more

…doesn’t much like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Nor does Daniel Mendelsohn (whose review you really need to read). I’ve never understood the appeal of Tarantino’s films. But then, I’ve never quite understood the sort of girlish fascination that extremely violent imagery holds for wussy film critics who would faint at the sight of a drop of their own blood. As Jeffrey says, yeah, they’re “cinematic”. But cinematic about what? Hell! Triumph of the Will is cinematic. What bothers me most... Read more