Jeffrey Miller

Gerald at The Cafeteria is Closed writes:

Another proof that the world is full of *bleeps* – my wife is the director of the San Diego office of a foster care agency. So she comes home tonight and says, "look what I got from my secret snowperson". I thought she was kidding. But – the social committee decided that "Secret Santa" was politically incorrect" because there were Jews and Pagans working for the company as well who might be offended. So, it was renamed into "Secret Snowperson". Not snowMAN of course because that’d be sexist. How *bleep* idiotic can you get? How much of a complete *bleep* do you have to be to set up a meeting deciding the fate of "Secret Santa" ? I cannot believe that there’d be people so humorless and brain-damaged to come up with something like that!

The idea of a Snowperson in San Diego of all places is pretty stupid. A song or a annual Christmas cartoon called Frosty the Puddle just would never catch on. Isn’t inflicting Snowpersons on San Diego geographical bias? Trying to inflict weather norms from other parts of the country in a much more warmer clime is pure hateful bias. What about those who have never experienced snow or made a snowperson won’t they feel left out and weather discriminated against? Somebody should file a complaint there about this Latitude/Longitude bias.

A reader sent me a link to a Google Video of Womenpriests at the Call to Action conference from November. If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. Now I would suggest a drinking game that every time someone at a Call to Action conference uses the word prophetic that you take a drink. I would suggest it if it wasn’t gravely sinful to get that drunk and I think even King Kong with his massive body weight would be pretty tipsy be the end of the conference.

The video also includes Cindy Sheehan who is sitting in the front row. Though not long ago an CSPAN when asked if she was still Catholic she replied no. I think this would be a more honest reply for anybody from CTA. If anybody has doubts about Bishop Bruskewitz excommunication of this group in his diocese should have their doubts lifted by viewing this.

One of the funniest phrases I have heard in reference to advocates of women priest is prophetic obedience. I think it means that in the future there will be women priest so they are being obedient to what will occur then. The women homilist (who wore a cross so big that it would be proportional for Flava Flav from Public Enemy to wear) talked about prophetic obedience and how the "unjust law" of the male only priesthood must be ignored. I will have to try this line of reasoning if I am ever stopped for speeding."But officer, in 100 years the speed limit will be 200, I am actually going to slow." How about prophetic savings. That would be so cool. Just to go into my bank and withdraw an amount of money that would be equal to a couple hundred years worth of interest.

Funny though that my reading of the Old Testament the prophets themselves never acted like this. They were always calling Israel back to the practice of the Faith as handed down. They were always fighting against the culture of the time not being synchronous with it. Pointing out the sins of the country and then usually getting killed for it. I guess the new way of being a prophet has some advantages. Preaching a cultural message in sync with the current culture isn’t very likely to get you persecuted or killed. If the Old Testament prophets had not been so judgmental and had only preached about how it was okay to pray to idols and sacrifice to other gods they would have been left alone. Tolerance instead of talk about covenant curses and equating idol worship with adultery. Modern prophets get invited to conferences instead of being stoned to death. If only God had called up prophets to affirm people instead of calling them to be faithful and to a life of holiness. John the Baptist could have opened up a shop of fashionable camel hair clothing instead of being beheaded for criticising the marriage of Herod.

In this screed by Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post, John Paul II is at fault for the latest Anglican schism in Virginia for the formation of the Orthodox International (OI).

The OI’s founding father was none other than Pope John Paul II, who spent much time and energy endeavoring to reconcile various orthodox Christian religions and whose ecumenism prompted him to warn the Anglicans not to ordain gay priests.

John Paul also sought to build his church in nations of the developing world where traditional morality and bigotry, most especially on matters sexual, were in greater supply than in secular Europe and the increasingly egalitarian United States, and more in sync with the Catholic Church’s inimitable backwardness. Now America’s schismatic Episcopalians are following in his footsteps — traditionalists of the two great Western hierarchical Christian churches searching the globe for sufficiently benighted bishops.

Gee who would have thought that we could blame an Anglican schism because Anglicans listened to the Pope.

Personally I am waiting for the new Fox series The O.I., no beach scenes but plenty of Tiber heresy smack-down action.

Deal Hudson bloging on the same stories said:

Meyerson cites once again a report I have seen before that Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, under whose authority some of these Episcopal parishes are putting themselves, is an advocate of laws against such things as homosexuals meeting openly in restaurants. As far as I am concerned, this is neither Christian nor orthodox. I await verification of Akinola’s position on such matters, but if it is true then I doubt if these break-away parishes will finally unite with the Nigerian archdiocese. They will find some other communion, or form one of their own.

These Episcopalians did not break away from one kind of nonsense to join forces with another.