Heresy always mutates into its opposite

Last updated on: February 28, 2018 at 1:31 pm By Mark Shea

I pointed this out years ago in an essay I wrote for the New Oxford Review called “Truth Cancer and the Redemption of Rebellion“. And now the Christianist heresy, a theopolitical cult that dresses the Trumpian adoration of money and power in Christian trappings, imagery, and jargon, illustrates my point yet again by sacrificing its “prolife” rhetoric (and the unborn it claims to care about) on the altar of one of the most important gods in its pantheon, the gun:... Read more

So it appears The Remnant is thinking about libelling me

Last updated on: March 2, 2018 at 12:53 pm By Mark Shea

Steel Magnificat has the story. Dunno if they will go through with running this silly charge that I advocate violence against the GOP and the Gun Cult now that Mary has done such a hilarious takedown. But for those metaphor-impaired readers who seriously think that my calls for the destruction of the GOP and the Gun Cult at the polls and in the free market mean anything more than that, here are some samples of my condemnations of violence, including... Read more

Deacon Steven Greydanus on the Denial of Jesus by Peter

Last updated on: February 23, 2018 at 10:44 pm By Mark Shea

This is really good: Some thoughts inspired by a friend’s comment about Peter denying Jesus despite having seen his miracles: Something we have to constantly keep in mind as we read the Gospels is that the story as we read it and the story as it appeared at the time to those living through it are two very different things. C.S. Lewis once pointed out that something similar is true of the Old Testament in its original context and in... Read more

Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Gun Cult

Last updated on: February 24, 2018 at 11:48 pm By Mark Shea

We’ve heard it a million times. The second amendment was ratified so that portly suburbanites in Lubbock and Butte could make war on Future Hitler when he takes over the government. It is therefore necessary to offer 35,000 real human sacrifices each year in order to prevent the imaginary slaughter that is come. Never mind that this theory of gun rights was tested from 1861 to 1865 and the results were negative. Never mind that well-regulated militias do not slaughter children... Read more

As you knew would happen…

Last updated on: February 27, 2018 at 5:58 pm By Mark Shea

…the Right Wing Noise Machine and Gun Cult lie spread by FOX, claiming that CNN tried to script their Town Hall meeting on guns is now exploded: The family of a Parkland shooting survivor appears to have provided doctored emails to Fox and HuffPost in an attempt to support their claim that CNN "scripted" its Wednesday town hall. https://t.co/AdiXw2lmRz pic.twitter.com/3O5EneClcK — Eliza Relman (@eliza_relman) February 24, 2018 But, of course, the same sort of Christianists who cheer for death threats... Read more

And now Walmart ends sales of assault weapons

Last updated on: February 28, 2018 at 1:41 pm By Mark Shea

Bravo, Walmart! Words I never thought I’d write. 🙂 Update: My mistake. This happened in 2015. Even better, as far as I’m concerned since it was done *without* the spur provided by the wonderful kids of Parkland and the national corporate stampede away from the NRA. Any way it gets done is good enough for me. Also, here‘s a happy story about how the election of Trump has spelled disaster and, in Remington’s case, doom for the merchants of death... Read more

Glorious!

Last updated on: February 28, 2018 at 10:09 am By Mark Shea

The NRA is bleeding corporate ties

Last updated on: February 27, 2018 at 5:50 pm By Mark Shea

…and you can help it hemorrhage to death. Credo has a petition to the remaining corporate sponsors of this poisonous organization with this message. “The NRA is a dangerous extremist group. Its ‘guns everywhere’ agenda threatens public safety and makes it almost impossible to pass gun control legislation at the federal or state level. It’s time to stop supporting them.” The petition can be found here. And, by the way, the latest lie from the NRA is that it is... Read more

Opposite evils–so far from balancing–aggravate one another

Last updated on: February 23, 2018 at 9:18 pm By Mark Shea

Case in point, the following tweet and rebuttal: Listen to me carefully: YOUR RIGHTS DO NOT COME FROM ANY GOD. YOUR GOD DIDN’T WRITE THE CONSTITUTION. The Constitution is an agreement between citizens regarding how government will be run. No more. No less. YOUR GOD HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH IT. NOTHING. To declare the Constitution the word of some god fails the smell test immediately. After all, what holy writ contains a clause for amendment and modification? What... Read more

We Must Obey God Rather Than Men

Last updated on: February 27, 2018 at 5:35 pm By Mark Shea

Catholics get arrested for doing the right thing: Hundreds of Catholic Leaders Demanded a Clean DREAM Act Outside Senate Offices Over 40 Arrested as Part of #Catholics4Dreamers Day of Action As the March 5 deadline for DACA looms, the Catholic community is escalating its demands for a new policy which protects Dreamers while not harming their families and communities Washington – Today, nearly 200 people of faith demanded a clean DREAM Act from lawmakers at a press conference followed an... Read more