Just like Braveheart but infintely more true and more free!

God is good!!!

America is quite a phenomenon. Think of the quick history. Settlers came seeking to wrest a life from this rich, untapped wilderness. In the midst of religious and social expansion, there were atrocities brought upon the African tribesman, borne over on European and New England slave ships, and these atrocities were added to by select southern masters who had gotten rich quick on their huge tracts of land and who, without mastery, split up families and denied education or generational progress. Greedy frontiersmen and executive authority drove peaceful Indians off of their lands (I am thinking especially of the Cherokee). This country revolted against England because of unfair taxes; then, it was set upon the course of centralized power after the bloodshed of the War Between the States. The unmeasured aggression of the Union was based upon a pseudo-religious notion of indivisibility. Now, we enjoy more taxes than our ancestors and founding fathers would have dared to dream, and by being tied to the dollar, we are tied to market-tycoons that can manipulate us and our government. We have so many of our civil liberties intact, and yet we feel the shadow of something dreadful (reminding me of middle-earth or Tolkien’s trilogy). Our families have been suffering as we enjoy so many material blessings, albeit upon the string of credit woven tight around the globe. What lies in wait for us? We look to Mary, who is the patron of our land, still rich in its soil. Surely, she will teach us purity, so that we may become a country full of freedom and virtue, a nation of christian values. As catholics, we must walk through the age of doubt and fear without doubt and fear, recognizing the innate dignity of every single person, created in the image of God. We must pass on the legacy of Christ and his Church, and a nation that is just will rise from the ash-heap of our day. I am pessimistic, but full of hope. And I have optimism on one count. There really are a lot of good people in America yet. There is a word present in the American vocabulary – revival. This time, instead of setting up tents or preaching fiery sermons, let us allow the Queen of Heaven to order it aright.

Peace to all

Capitalism is no ‘free’ market when it settles for the same materialisitic consumption as socialism portends for just-us-material humans. We become as a preternatural livestock to prey on each other, consuming as and how we will.

As one elderly, I know that time is fast approaching when they will discard my remnant from consumption lines. They will call me a ‘useless eater’, or some such, meaning that they no longer find anything about me of of which to consume me.

I am coming to an end akin to the extermination of not-yet-begun babies. I can become refuse of a ‘no-longer-consumable’ just as babies can be discarded as unwanted ‘non-consumables’ conceived (or not) in mutual consumption of ‘casual sex’.

And, frankly, we do not simply choose not to embrace our beloved Jesus Christ – we don’t even embrace each other.

Thanks for your sanity amidst the chaos.