tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post42312189715624747..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The New Worldbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-65014726799641553562019-05-25T13:30:26.365-07:002019-05-25T13:30:26.365-07:00The Puritans came to America to practice their rel...The Puritans came to America to practice their religion without interference. There was strong prejudice against Catholics from the get go. However, as Timothy Gordon states repeatedly in his recent book Catholic Republic; Why America Will Perish Without Rome, "America is the republic wired Catholic, labeled Protestant, and currently functioning secular." The European religious wars terrorized many into silence- hence the Crypto-Catholicism that enabled liberty to flourish in the light of natural law in America. Without it we are doomed.PaleoPapistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-45465539625058276832019-05-24T20:08:42.145-07:002019-05-24T20:08:42.145-07:00Isaac Newton may or may not have been a deists, th...Isaac Newton may or may not have been a deists, though deists may have been of less impersonal that we think today. Ben Franklin suggested an on-your-knees prayer meeting in that secret convention for intervention by God in their impasse. Smithsonian now hides (or lost) a once-famous painting depicting it. <br /><br />And the first act of the new Congress was to thank God for his divine intervention.<br /><br />As for Isaac Newton, and in the same sentence about deists and neglecting scripture?! Wow. Isaac Newton wrote more about the Bible than he did science and math! He wrote about prophecy a lot. And predicted from it that man would invent >70 mph transportation before the Second Coming. <br /><br />Freedom from the secular co-Regency of Church and state, Pope and King, of course unleashed ugly stuff with the good.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-71859472950424602392019-05-24T19:26:19.641-07:002019-05-24T19:26:19.641-07:00Bionic, I’ve read your blog posts on religion with...Bionic, I’ve read your blog posts on religion with alacrity. As mentioned before, I’m not a believer, and as far as I can recall even as a youngster I was skeptical about such a thing as a supreme being. <br /><br />However, reading your discussions on the ideas presented in various writings by religious scholars, I’m beginning to think that even if one is not a believer, it is likely a good idea to assume there is indeed a supreme being and proceed with life accordingly. <br /><br />I was reared in the Christian tradition, which as you’ve suggested, most Americans were before mid-20th century. It’s a tradition I can enthusiastically support because if people behave as they are instructed by this tradition, the result will predictably promote peace and benevolence toward our fellows more than the inexorable slide into chaos we are witnessing in the present day. <br /><br />The above isn’t to say I don’t appreciate the impact of political squabbling on the body politic, which is not only substantial, but may be directly related to such “slide into chaos.” Nor do I overlook that humans, in spite of their better impulses, will often enough degenerate into barbaric behavior. Peg<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-10440177931388916192019-05-24T12:31:55.098-07:002019-05-24T12:31:55.098-07:00"What happens to the ideas in the documents w..."What happens to the ideas in the documents when even the remnants of this common culture are lost? Are the documents any longer of functional use, or are they merely museum pieces? And then what?"<br /><br />The label on the bottle of Champagne says it is Champagne, but slowly it has been filled with piss. I hear all the time, "it is unconstitutional" or that the "SCOTUS ruled it is constitutional."<br /><br />Then what? We continue drinking what is the bottle and call it Champagne.JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-28912176389507688292019-05-24T08:13:28.499-07:002019-05-24T08:13:28.499-07:00If you are not a jesuit, you are an acolyte and re...If you are not a jesuit, you are an acolyte and really doing a great job of carrying water for them.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013002696078856805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-50699522858708696492019-05-24T05:59:02.875-07:002019-05-24T05:59:02.875-07:00You should listen to Fr Thomas Hopko’s magnificent...You should listen to Fr Thomas Hopko’s magnificent lecture, The Abolition of Man in which, this topic is covered in amazing detail. Gripping. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039896718452195297noreply@blogger.com