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The real problem with moral relativism

DOG Black retriever with badminton birdie

There are two ways to ruin a game. The first is to add too many rules; the second is to eliminate all of them.

If a man were to sit me down for a one-legged, blindfolded game of chess in which pieces could only be moved according to the Fibonacci sequence, and the sides were switched every 17 moves, I might play a few moves before proposing we watch cat videos instead.

Worse though, would be if a man were to sit me down at a chessboard and say, “Let’s you and I do whatever we like. What’s right for you isn’t necessarily right for me.” I think I’d run straight to cat videos, no hesitation.

The most limiting cage in existence is woven by the lack of limitations, and it seems a rather obvious fact that the eradication of rules can only lead to the eradication of the game itself.

Excerpt from “The Only Rule Christians Must Obey.” Read the rest @

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/12/the-only-rule-christians-must-obey.html

H/t Bob

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Paid in Full by Divine Mercy

Divine Mercy Devotion

My Attorney [author unknown]

After living what I felt was a “decent” life, my time on earth came to the end. The first thing I remember is sitting on a bench in the waiting room of what I thought to be a court house. The doors opened, and I was instructed to come in and have a seat by the defense table.

As I looked around, I saw the “prosecutor.” He was a villainous looking gent who snarled as he stared at me. He definitely was the most evil person I have ever seen. I sat down and looked to my left and there sat My Attorney, a kind and gentle looking man whose appearance seemed so familiar to me; I felt I knew Him.

The corner door flew open and there appeared the Judge in full flowing robes. He commanded an awesome presence as He moved across the room. I couldn’t take my eyes off of Him. As He took His seat behind the bench, He said, “Let us begin.”

The prosecutor rose and said, “My name is Satan, and I am here to show you why this man belongs in hell.”

He proceeded to tell of lies that I told, things that I stole, and times when I cheated others. Satan told of other horrible perversions that were once in my life, and the more he spoke, the further down in my seat I sank. I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t look at anyone, even my own Attorney, as the Devil told of sins that even I had completely forgotten about. As upset as I was at Satan for telling all these things about me, I was equally upset at My Attorney who sat there silently not offering any form of defense at all. I know I had been guilty of those things, but I had done some good in my life – couldn’t that at least equal out part of the harm I’d done?

Satan finished with a fury and said, “This man belongs in hell, he is guilty of all that I have charged, and there is not a person who can prove otherwise.”

When it was His turn, My Attorney first asked if He might approach the bench. The Judge allowed this over the strong objection of Satan and beckoned Him to come forward. As He got up and started walking, I was able to see Him in His full splendor and majesty. I realized why He seemed so familiar; this was Jesus representing me, my Lord and my Savior.

He stopped at the bench and softly said to the Judge, “Hi, Dad,” and then He turned to address the court. “Satan was correct in saying that this man had sinned. I won’t deny any of these allegations. And, yes, the wage of sin is death, and this man deserves to be punished.”

Jesus took a deep breath and turned to His Father with outstretched arms and proclaimed, “However, I died on the cross so that this person might have eternal life, and he has accepted Me as his Savior, so he is Mine.”

My Lord continued with, “His name is written in the book of life and no one can snatch him from Me. Satan still does not understand yet. This man is not to be given justice but rather mercy.”

As Jesus sat down, He quietly paused, looked at His Father and said, “There is nothing else that needs to be done. I’ve done it all.”

The Judge lifted His mighty hand and slammed the gavel down. The following words bellowed from His lips… “This man is free. The penalty for him has already been paid in full. Case dismissed.”

As my Lord led me away, I could hear Satan ranting and raving, “I won’t give up, I will win the next one.”

I asked Jesus as He gave me my instructions where to go next, “Have you ever lost a case?”

Christ lovingly smiled and said, “Everyone that has come to Me and asked Me to represent them has received the same verdict as you, “PAID IN FULL.”

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Common Sense TV

Best line: “Maybe people are opposed to Obamacare because it’s no damn good.” LOL!!

Have you noticed how it’s only OBAMA’s supporters who are obsessed with his SKIN color? Dontcha think if he had done anything GOOD during his years in office, they’d be talking about THAT stuff, not harping on how much melanin he has?  It’s because he’s been such a total EPIC FAILURE that they have to keep playing that raggedy old RAAAAACISM card.

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The year Jesus died

Star of Bethlehem DVD

You know how God loves THREEs? Check this out!

In The Star of Bethlehem DVD, Fred Larson explains how computer-generated star maps show that Jesus was born in mid-June of 2 BC, which put His birth date on the Hebrew calendar in Sivan, 3759. Sivan is the THIRD month.

A long-standing tradition has it that He was 33 years old when He died. On the DVD, Larson explains how we can be certain that His death date was April 3, 33 AD, aka, Nisan 14, 3793.

33 AD Roman-Hebrew calendars

Jesus would’ve calculated His age by the Hebrew calendar. Although 3793 – 3759 = 34, Nisan is two months ahead of Sivan, so at the time of his death, Jesus would have still been 33, exactly what the tradition has always said He was.

To calculate this in the common calendar, you add the AD (33) to the BC (2), then subtract one, because there was no year zero. The last day of 1 BC was followed by the first day of 1 AD. So 33 + 2 – 1 = 34, the same as the Hebrew dates show. And, again, because April is ahead of June, He was still 33.

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The year Jesus was born

Star of Bethlehem DVD

In The Star of Bethlehem DVD, Fred Larson explains how computer-generated star maps show that Jesus was born in June of 2 BC. This was Sivan of the Hebrew year 3759. Sivan is the THIRD month; you know how God loves THREEs.

  • The Hebrew month count begins with Nissan.
  • The Hebrew year count begins with Tishri.
  1. Nissan <- Passover, Firstfruits
  2. Iyar
  3. Sivan <- Jesus’ birth
  4. Tamuz
  5. Av <- Baby Jesus presented at Temple
  6. Elul
  7. Tishri <- New Year, Yom Kippur, Sukkot
  8. Cheshvan
  9. Kislev
  10. Tevet <- Magi visit Child Jesus
  11. Shevat
  12. Adar (In leap years, there are two Adars)

2 BC Roman-Hebrew calendars

Larson’s DVD doesn’t show precisely what day Jesus was born, but it appears to me to have been around June 17, 2 BC, aka, Sivan 15, 3759.

According to Leviticus 12, when a Jewish woman gave birth to a boy, she remained ritually unclean for a period of 40 days, after which she would undergo ritual purification and then go to the Temple to offer a sacrifice. According to Luke 2, Mary and Joseph fulfilled these obligations, so I marked off that period in purple.

In the DVD, Larson explains how star maps show that the Magi visited the child Jesus and presented their gifts to Him on December 25, 2 BC. How cool is that!

Jesus’ birthday wasn’t even celebrated in the early church. And it wasn’t set on December 25 until the fourth century which, as I understand it, was done mostly to give pagan converts a holiday to celebrate in place of (and so they wouldn’t go sneaking off to) their old Winter Solstice bacchanals.

I know that we always picture the Kings visiting Jesus as a newborn in a stable, but the Scriptures say they visited Mary and the CHILD Jesus in a HOUSE, so there’s nothing there to make it wrong to suggest He was 6 months old when they dropped in. It also helps explain why Herod told his soldiers to slaughter not just infants, but also toddlers.

I think it was totally cool of God to have the Kings show up with their presents on the day that would become Christmas, even though nobody would figure it out until some lawyer geek with an astronomy software package and a speedy little laptop computer would get all obsessed with the Star of Bethlehem!

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It’s not enough to “follow your heart”

  • The conscience can be misled and even deadened.
  • Therefore, each person has a lifelong responsibility to form and inform his or her conscience.
  • God will not blame anyone for harm that may result from a wrong judgment of conscience.
  • But He will blame those who neglect to ensure their hearts are pure and wise.

Dig Deeper: Corresponding CCC section (1783-1802) and other references:

http://www.catholiccrossreference.com/catechism/#!/search/1783-1802

DOG Not okay, forgive

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In the horns of the bull

2013_05 26 Conjunction in constellation w Liberty

For my first blog on this sky sign, see https://polination.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/signs-in-the-sky/.

May 23, 2013, just three days before the stars and planets lined up over our national symbol in this ominous manner, a coalition from the Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, National Council of Jewish Women and Union of Reform Judaism sent a letter to Congress, officially opposing H.R.1797, the “District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.”

This bill, sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz), would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, when fetuses are near or at viability and are known to be not just capable of experiencing pain, but of actually feeling it much more intensely than we do, because they have not yet developed the capacity to filter out or ignore stimuli.

In their letter, these alleged servants of God stated: “We stand united across our faith traditions in opposing this extreme legislation.”

“Extreme.”

God said He knows each of us personally in the womb. He vehemently opposed the sacrifice of children to pagan gods, especially Moloch, the Bull god, into whose fires LIVE babies were thrown.

But these “religious” leaders call an attempt to stop the cruel and wanton destruction of innocent lives “extreme.”

Now, I know these people don’t represent all religions or even a majority of the people in their own denominations. But they are taking a leadership role, in the name of their churches, on behalf of evil.

Moreover, these people and their followers support the Democrat Party leaders who have held majority rule in Washington since January 2007.

2012 Democratic Party Platform on Abortion: We strongly and unequivocally support Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including obtaining a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay. We oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.

In other words, no limitations will be tolerated and yes you stupid Pro-Lifers will be forced to cough up the bucks to pay for it.

  • Nation-wide, 22% of all pregnancies end in abortion.
    • That’s more than one in five.
  • In New York City, 40% of all pregnancies end in abortion.
    • That’s two out of five and nearly double the national average.
  • And the Democrats who run the nation and their apologists who call themselves our religious leaders support this.

God will not be mocked.

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Site showing Party Platforms of Parties Receiving Electoral Votes: 1840 – 2012

You can read for yourself how all ‘sweetness and light’ pro-choice religious leaders are about the Democrats’ policies on abortion

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How can a person tell whether his action is good or bad?

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A person is capable of distinguishing good actions from bad ones because he possesses reason and a conscience, which enable him to make clear judgments.

The following guidelines make it easier to distinguish good actions from bad ones:

(1) What I do must be good; a good intention alone is not enough. Bank robbery is always bad, even if I commit that crime with the good intention of giving the money to poor people.

(2) Even when what I do is truly good, if I perform the good action with a bad intention, it makes the whole action bad. If I walk an elderly woman home and help her around the house, that is good. But if I do it while planning a later break-in, that makes the whole action something bad.

(3) The circumstances in which someone acts can diminish his responsibility, but they cannot change at all the good or bad character of an action. Hitting one’s mother is always bad, even if the mother has previously shown little love to the child.

May we do something bad so that good can result from it?

No, we may never deliberately do something evil or tolerate an evil so that good can result from it. Sometimes there is no other course of action but to tolerate a lesser evil in order to prevent a greater evil.

The end does not justify the means. It cannot be right to commit infidelity so as to stabilize one’s marriage. It is just as wrong to use embryos for stem cell research, even if one could thereby make medical breakthroughs. It is wrong to try to “help” a rape victim by aborting her child.

Dig Deeper: Catholic Catechism section (1749-1761) and other references @ http://www.catholiccrossreference.com/catechism/#!/search/1749-1761

My Source: I got this in a daily email I get about Catholic teachings. Okay, not the cat. That I added myself. 🙂

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Signs in the sky

Star of Bethlehem DVD

One of my all-time favorite DVDs, The Star of Bethlehem, presents an incredibly compelling and spiritually beautiful explanation for the sky events that led the Magi to take gifts to Bethlehem. I was so moved by it that I got it for everyone on my Christmas gift list and have lost track of the number of times I’ve watched it.

One question it answers is this: Is it okay for Christians to watch the stars?

Yes and no. The Bible clearly forbids divination, but it also says the skies carry signs from the Almighty, as it did when the stars guided the Magi to Bethlehem. Therefore, astrology, which holds that celestial bodies exert force on human behavior, and studying horoscopes for the purpose of making life decisions is definitely forbidden. However, noticing major sky signs and pondering their significance in God’s big plan is permitted.

If you’ve been following my Bible blogs, you’ll know I believe it is likely the Rapture will be very soon. Given this and my interest in The Star of Bethlehem, my brows definitely rose when I saw a news item about last night’s rare conjunction of planets and stars.

2013_05 26 Three planet conjunction over Liberty

A tight conjunction of these three planets has occurred only five times in the last century and will not occur again for 43 years. (I don’t know when it last showed up between the horns of the bull.)

2013_05 26 Triple conjunction in Taurus

While Jupiter, Venus and Mercury can be interpreted as symbols for either good or evil, a triangle of them smack dab INSIDE the horns of the BULL definitely gets me looking toward the evil side, which means:

  • Jupiter is the BIGGEST planet. Jupiter is king of the gods and was chief deity of the Roman Empire’s state religion.
  • Venus is the BRIGHTEST planet. Venus is the goddess of sex and was the mother of the Roman people.
  • Mercury is the FASTEST planet. Mercury is Jupiter’s son and was the god of commerce (thieves) and communication (divination). He also guided souls to the underworld.

Wall Street Bull

The constellation Taurus the Bull: One of the stars in the Taurus constellation is named for Mercury’s mother Maia and loads of evilness is associated with bulls.

  • The Golden Calf episode in the Sinai definitely puts cow worship at the tippy top of God’s list of Do Nots.
  • Ditto worship of the pagan deity, Moloch, who was often depicted as a bull and into whose fires live babies were thrown as offerings. Moloch was worshiped by various Middle Eastern cultures, including the Egyptian and Phoenician.
  • In Greek mythology, when Zeus (father of the gods, comparable to the Roman Jupiter) fell in love with the Phoenician princess Europa, he transformed himself into a white bull with golden horns to whisk her away to Crete, where bulls were worshipped by the Minoans.
  • The Romans were reputed to have used a brazen bull as a torture device to kill Jews and Christians. The martyred Antipas mentioned in the Revelation Letter to Pergamum (Rev 2:13) was the Bishop of Pergamum who it is believed was roasted to death in a brazen bull during the persecutions of Emperor Domitian ca 92 AD.

Are you seeing a theme here? I sure am.

  • We’ve got a triangular three-some of bad god symbols perched inside the horns of a bad god symbol.
  • We’ve also got the raised arm of the constellation Orion the Hunter aimed right at the trio in the horns.
  • And it’s all happening on TRINITY SUNDAY!

The constellation Orion the Hunter: Nowhere in the entire Bible does God speak one word against those who hunt righteously and utilize the meat fully. (Methinks this could be why the vegan-treehugging-PETA crowd hates hunters.)

  • The Hunter’s BRIGHTEST star, Rigel, is actually THREE stars that, from Earth, are so close that they appear as ONE big one = The Trinity.
  • The Hunter’s SECOND brightest, Betelgeuse which marks the shoulder of the hunting arm, is a RED GIANT = Jesus who shed His blood for all.
  • The belt of Orion is THREE stars, more or less evenly spaced in a straight line = The Trinity again, plus:
    • Jesus’ birth: In the Philippines and Puerto Rico, the stars on the belt are called the Three Kings, because they start appearing in the sky around Epiphany. The Three Kings, of course, were the Magi who followed the Bethlehem star to see the newborn King.
    • Jesus’ death: In Spain, Portugal and South America, the stars on the belt are known as the Three Marys after the three women the Bible names were at the Crucifixion and later came to Jesus’ tomb.

Do you see in all this a great big honking SIGN in the sky of the impending END TIMES WAR?!

I sure do.

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Catholic teaching on human dignity

Abortion Industry still at large

Every person, from the first moment of his life in the womb, has an inviolable dignity, because from all eternity God willed, loved, created, and redeemed that person and destined him for eternal happiness.

If human dignity were based solely on the successes and accomplishments of individuals, then those who are weak, sick, or helpless would have no dignity.

Christians believe that human dignity is, in the first place, the result of God’s respect for us. He looks at every person and loves him as though he were the only creature in the world.

Because God has looked upon even the least significant child of Adam, that person possesses an infinite worth, which must not be destroyed by men.

Read more about this subject in the Catholic Catechism @ http://www.catholiccrossreference.com/catechism/#!/search/1699-1715

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