Unearned Luck

Photo by Sunyu on Unsplash Last Friday, May 25, the Irish people voted 2 to 1 to repeal the Eighth Amendment to their constitution, an amendment ratified in 1983, and meant to protect the lives of unborn infants. In so doing, the Irish people have opened the door of the henhouse to the fox of "choice," a predator who will not stop until the Irish have killed themselves off, much like the Japanese and most of Europe are already doing. Having the fox's slyness without the dove's innocence, the  "pro-choice" crowd have begun with the unborn, since no one is nauseated by what can't be witnessed. Soon, though, this fox will have the Irish supporting the killing of everyone deemed "enslaved" by life, so long as these mercy killings are kept out of sight. It doesn't take an experienced tracker to see the bloody tracks this fox has left throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, yet, millions are entranced by his innocent gaze and soothing r...

A friend asked to hear the story of how I came to Jesus.  I replied briefly in an e-mail and I think I messed up a story I told.  I should never do more than one thing at a time. I don't know that my story is a matter of coming to Jesus.  I've always known that Jesus has been with me.  We used to have long conversations, when I was growing up about how things were and nothing ever changed.  I went to a Catholic grade school and had a fairly typical experience there.  We were a small class with the usual cliques and issues that exist among a small group of very different children who are together for three-fourths of every year for eight straight years. Our pastor for those eight years, Fr. Noll, was an eccentric man given to distraction and preoccupation, but he was a very good man and priest.  One of my classmates and I had similar builds, but very different names.  For eight straight years, though, Fr. Noll called me, "Alex" and called Alex,...

Before we describe as paranoia the thoughtful consideration of the possibility that there will not be a general election in November, we should take an educated look around the world today and throughout history and come to understand how people have thought that the drastic changes quietly overtaking them were only others' paranoia.  Most in Weimar Germany never believed that the funny little man and his pitiful group of losers would ever be a leader let alone lead them into a world war which would destroy their families, neighbors, friends and lives and would leave a lasting sorrowful legacy for their nation.  Few believed that a book written by a couple of pissed off intellectuals would result in almost 100 years of organized, government-sponsored terror, murder and poverty like the world has never seen in two of the oldest countries on the planet during a century that historians and popes have called the bloodiest in history.  Calling a sensitivity to the lessons of...