Pitch Perfect Politics

http://shamelesspopery.com/burden-shifting-protestants-and-atheists/ I rked   says: July 15, 2019 at 10:07 am Respectfully, a Constitutional originalist might reject more recent court cases if he believed they conflicted with the original intent. That’s the point, right? They don’t accept the way the reading of the law has changed over time; they want the meaning the writers had. From a Protestant perspective, that’s exactly what we’re doing: getting back to what God, through the writers of Scripture, originally intended, and rejecting the “drift” over the years away from the beliefs of the early church. When one reforms what has been deformed, one is seeking the original shape. Obviously that’s not the Catholic interpretation of Protestantism, but for many of us, that’s our internal perspective – and in that sense, I don’t think it’s odd at all that we’d be “originalists” in both spheres. The Shameless Popery Blogger is a seminarian  ...

Yes.  Kermit the  Fort  sang It ain't easy being green  and could have added, But its tougher  being  Christian (because what one is constrained  to  confess  seems insane  to others). Now, it  doesn't   mean  that Christians have to  acquiesce  in or succor such a  government  and the Christian can use  every  natural  law/moral means necessary to change the government  controlled   by such men but it does mean that God did grant those wicked men power. City of God, St Augustine, Book 5: Chapter 19.— Concerning the Difference Between True Glory and the Desire of Domination. ... B ut it was Nero Cæsar who was the first to reach the summit, and, as it were, the citadel, of this vice ; for so great was his luxuriousness, that one would have thought there was nothing manly to be dreaded in him, and such his cruelty, that, had not the contrary been known , no one wou...

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ABS is of the opinion that the artist who created the imagery for the Band, "It's a Beautiful Day," was channelling (intentionally or not) Claude Monet

A kind gentleman left a nice note on a post the other day and ABS tried three times to respond but the response wouldn't post. The gentleman was responding to ABS having sport with Rosie O'Donnell and Bullets Barhardt and the onliest response ABS could arrive at was to confess the post may have been too churlish.

Even before she was attacked by the Fifty Foot Woman, suffering a stage four hickey wound and nearly being turned into a lesbian, Bertha DaBluz *  was having a difficult time getting her Door-To-Door Laundry Folding Service off the ground. It was not so much that it was sort of a niche business, prolly fit solely for rich and insane housewives, but her "pitch" had not yet been perfected despite literally hundreds of attempts: Bertha knocks on the door or depresses the door bell and when she is responded to she goes right into her pitch: Hi, are you the lady of the house? You are?  Excellent - and here she'd flash her much practiced smile - well, my name is Bertha, Bertha DaBluz.  I'm from Poland and I'd like to know if you have any laundry you'd like folded. What, yes...that's right. I have a door-to-door laundry folding service and I..what's that, what does it cost? Well, I'd gladly fold all of your laundry for ...

The Catechism explained, an exhaustive explanation of the Catholic Religion; Spirago -Clarke 3. Furthermore we are under a strict obligation to do nothing that tends to destroy health or life. Consequently it is a sin to rashly hazard one s life , wantonly to injure one s health, or to take one s own life. 1. Those persons generally risk their life without a thought who perform hazardous feats, or who neglect due precautions. Acrobats, equestrian performers, lion-tamers, and the like commit sin unless they take all necessary precautions to avoid fatal acci dents; the professions they follow are objectionable on moral grounds, and even unlawful. Performers of this character are too often disso lute in their manners, and their hazardous feats frequently cost them their life. The same may be said of those who are foolhardy, and wilfully risk their lives in athletic sports, or public games, such as the bull-fights which are the national amusement in Spain. Want of ordina...

Dear Lord, we are gathered here today to buck these broncos and to humiliate these bulls, your massive, stupid, and angry creatures, that remind us so much of Rosie O'Donnell but lacking her mephitic stink that trails behind her like the way some old man leaving a Port-A-Potty trails twenty five or thirty feet of toilet paper behind him because it got stuck on the right heel of his Red Wing work boots. Lord, all of us gathered here today lament the loss of Lil' Lasso Louie, the merriest Mexican any of us have ever knowed and whom you called home to that big rodeo in the sky last year when The Widow-Maker shook him off his back within two seconds and then reared back and bit off his Lil' Legs like they  were two baby carrots. Lord, we ask that you bless us and keep us from having El Diablo, the meanest bull what ever lived, buck us off his back and grab us by our legs and toss us way the hell up into the a...