Monday, April 29, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
DANIEL HELMINIAK AND THE ANTI-GOSPEL OF HOMOSEXUALITY
It doesn't take long to be reminded that the homosexual lobby will do anything to drive their message down the throats of the public. The following is a PBS interview the Daniel Helminiak. Helminiak is a former Catholic priest of 28 years and is now an advocate for the pro-homosexual lobby. Within this piece of propaganda Helminiak claims that every translation of the Bible is incorrect regarding homosexuality. Every translation? He even states: "We are at a point in history where it should be considered outrageous for an educated person to quote the Bible to condemn homosexuality." This runs consistent with what people as have said about quoting the Bible in the national discussion about gay marriage and homosexual rights, which is essentially that the message contained with the Bible has nothing to say about anything substantive. More than this, it's a categorical rejection of western civilization of the whole and plea for the public embrace of sexual deviance and perversity.
The homosexual lobby would have people believe gay rights are human rights, that we are in fact talking about human freedom and if human freedom, what kind of human freedom? Freedom that releases man from bondage, hunger and economic burdens? Or is freedom that of a man to be a person of conscience in keeping with the divine and natural law? The freedom offered by human sin represents the complete lack of responsibility for oneself or others. Sin is the freedom of spiritual death and the belief that the satisfaction of human desire must be quenched at the expense of all other considerations. Authentic freedom, freedom from sin, freedom in Christ, requires work and faith. It is a burden of both physical and emotional taxation which can only be carried under the yoke of Christ and for which only the food of Christ can strengthen us and the confessional can prepare us. Homosexuality rights are no more civil right than NAMBLA is a child protection agency.
Helminiak states: It got to a point where I was not able to represent what I was supposed to be. I wasn't living what I was supposed to be living. It doesn't matter to me that lots of the other priests weren't either. . . . I was attempting to be an authentic person. I only preached about what I could believe in. I began to realize that my mind was much more of an academician and a teacher than a pastor, and . . . I should be on a campus somewhere, where you're free to express ideas and push the edge. I wasn't doing much pastoral ministry. The little bit I was doing was highly successful, I think, because I was so far on the edge. The further out I went, the more relevant I became.
Helminiak also attempts to make the case, as many homosexuals do, that homosexuality is a thing, a substance of a kind, which one must be and which inhabits the person like a residing spirit of truth. Homosexuality is not merely a state of personal sexual preference, but rather something to be proclaimed, like an anti-Gospel, to all men and woman everywhere, to the ends of the earth. Daniel Helminiak can't re-write the natural law however any more than he can re-write Sacred Scripture. Helminiak proclaims a great lie to the world. If Saint Faustina was the secretary of Jesus Christ for the message of Jesus' Divine Mercy, Helminiak would seem rather to be Jesus' critic in the morning paper, writing to the collective editorial page of world opinion. He wants his cake and to eat it however, trying to wedge doctrinal approval into the beliefs of erring Catholics while still implying that he is a "Catholic" of a kind. What Helminiak is, is a fallen away Catholic priest, a public apostate and a heretic.
Notice what Helminiak said: "I wasn't doing much pastoral ministry. The little bit I was doing was highly successful, I think, because I was so far on the edge. The further out I went, the more relevant I became." "The more relevant "I" became!" he says. Not Christ. Himself! He's demonstrating he had no fundamental idea of what his mission as a Catholic priest is, assuming he ever had a true calling.
What follows is the most disturbing element of Helminiak's testimony as he describes his personal descent into sin and moral destruction.
Helminiak also attempts to make the case, as many homosexuals do, that homosexuality is a thing, a substance of a kind, which one must be and which inhabits the person like a residing spirit of truth. Homosexuality is not merely a state of personal sexual preference, but rather something to be proclaimed, like an anti-Gospel, to all men and woman everywhere, to the ends of the earth. Daniel Helminiak can't re-write the natural law however any more than he can re-write Sacred Scripture. Helminiak proclaims a great lie to the world. If Saint Faustina was the secretary of Jesus Christ for the message of Jesus' Divine Mercy, Helminiak would seem rather to be Jesus' critic in the morning paper, writing to the collective editorial page of world opinion. He wants his cake and to eat it however, trying to wedge doctrinal approval into the beliefs of erring Catholics while still implying that he is a "Catholic" of a kind. What Helminiak is, is a fallen away Catholic priest, a public apostate and a heretic.
Notice what Helminiak said: "I wasn't doing much pastoral ministry. The little bit I was doing was highly successful, I think, because I was so far on the edge. The further out I went, the more relevant I became." "The more relevant "I" became!" he says. Not Christ. Himself! He's demonstrating he had no fundamental idea of what his mission as a Catholic priest is, assuming he ever had a true calling.
What follows is the most disturbing element of Helminiak's testimony as he describes his personal descent into sin and moral destruction.
Most disturbingly Helminiak writes: I can remember the first time I deliberately went and had sex with someone. It was somebody I had known, who had approached me . . . and I was being sympathetic because he's telling me he's gay. I remember going to the telephone, picking it up, and saying, "If ever there was a deliberate act of the will with full knowledge," (and that's what constitutes mortal sin), "this is doing it." I dialed the phone number. I said to myself, "I've talked about it and prayed about it and read about it and studied about it. How am I ever going to figure this out if I don't do something with it?" There came the point where the moral thing to do was to find out in a responsible way what sex is about. . . . I did not think that was wrong. In fact, I thought God was happy that finally I got off my duff and did something. God said, "Yay! Finally you're growing up! You're starting to live." Then I start to deal with being gay and coming out, getting to know what the gay scene is, and rethinking. People find that hard to believe. . . . I'm ordained, and a priest, and all of a sudden I'm finding out who I am. Well, it happens.
Helminiak still has the capacity to know right from wrong and yet he has become a slave to the glamour of sin and the passions of the flesh. He's not living. He is in fact, dying. He doesn't even believe that mortal sin is wrong, even after he describes what the conditions for such an act are. It is painfully disturbing and the act of a person who has lost control of their life and risks the fires of hell which consume body and soul for eternity. That language may seem biblical, dramatic even, but in a world that constantly questions why so much evil exists, it is puzzling that man is no longer inclined to inquire towards what ends evil works in the lives of men. What we are left with is a sheep who has left the fold, who has followed the pied piper of homosexuality into the rocks and brambles and proclaims sin as his right and calls God a liar. That's hardly an unwarranted accusation perhaps for a man whose claim to fame is the libelous accusation that our understanding of Sacred Scripture is wrong.
Monday, April 1, 2013
HOW DOES OUR SOCIETY PRODUCE MURDERERS?
What is as bad or worse in our society, than abortion itself, is the absolute intellectual, moral and emotional disconnect that exists between personal actions and the real material outcomes of human lives. This society seems to think that it can undo everything that human individuals do with means up to and including murder. It's just mind blowing. How does our society do this? We have disguised so much of life in politically correct euphemisms that we seemingly are unable to tell the truth about anything. Abortion kills an unborn child. A few minutes of honest thought about what a pregnancy is and why women go to abortion facilities draws that conclusion from any reasonably intelligent mind. And yet, 3000 times a day on average, the gears of human discovery become completely unhinged. Look at the face below. Look at the face of Dr Cheryl Chastine. Is hers the face of evil? What does evil look like? It looks like anyone who does not hold themselves accountable for the discovery of truth in their own live's or in the world around them. Evil is not a human person. Evil is what human persons do. Evil is what happens when human persons who know the difference between good actions and evil actions do nothing to point out the difference to those who do not.
SURVIVORS OF ROE ON FACEBOOK
SURVIVORS OF ROE ON FACEBOOK
In all of Dr Cheryl Chastine's online professional medical credentials, nowhere does it say she either performs or supports the practice of abortion. I wonder why that is.
Does she know the difference?
About Dr Cheryl Chastine:
A little bit about me:
Dr. Chastine’s patient-centered, wellness-focused family medicine practice draws devoted patients from across Chicago and the western suburbs. She combines rigorous evidence-based medicine with a caring, listening approach that empowers her patients to act as partners in their own care. She prefers to use judgment, lifestyle changes and the body’s healing powers whenever possible over tests and medicines.
My Philosophy
The Paleo/primal lifestyle is powerful medicine that I use as first-line treatment for a variety of ailments, including diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome, arthritis, depression, irritable bowel syndrome and GERD, among others. More than that, it’s simply the optimal way for humans to live. I work with my patients according to their degree of preparedness for the Paleo lifestyle, with the goal of achieving a state of optimal health and wellness.
Identity of New Wichita Abortionist, Cheryl Chastine, Uncovered
Life Site News has more about this story as well.
Dr Cheryl Chastine
Monday, March 11, 2013
AN EXCHANGE ABOUT WAR WITH MARK SHEA
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/nationalism-vs.-patriotism
WARNING: CONTAINS PROFANITY!
WARNING: CONTAINS PROFANITY!
- Mark Shea The deliberate targeting and murder of thousands of innocent civilians is emphatically something to feel ashamed of America for.
The Church is unequivocal:
2314 "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation."110 A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons - to commit such crimes.
There is no place many American conservatives are in more open defiance of extremely clear Catholic teaching than on this point. - Mark Shea Brian: Yes. Obviously. Painfully obviously. And at Nagasaki, it was the Eucharist (Urikami Cathedral) that was used to sight the bomb.
- Brian F Hudon The bombs should have proved the folly of war. They did not. That is something to be ashamed of. The war would have gone on for years, perhaps indefinitely had we not used the bomb while accruing casualties beyond reckoning. Japan was the only target and we brought about the end of the war through the use of those bombs.
- Mark Shea That's rationalization at several different levels. First, it's consequentialism: "we deliberately murdered civilian children in their beds by the thousands for the Greater Good". In short, you are arguing--in the teeth of the whole Catholic moral tradition--that good ends justify monstrously evil means. Second, you are ignoring the testimony of military leaders like Eisenhower who pointed out that Japan was seeking a conditional peace and we "didn't need to hit them with that awful thing." Finally, and most outrageously, you are attempting to say that because we only slaughtered Japanese civilians (the only nation we were at war with in August 1945) with the only two bombs we had, our indiscriminate slaughter of two cities was not really indiscriminate. This sort of rationalization is poison to Catholic discipleship and obedience to Holy Church. Stop kidding yourself.
- Brian F Hudon How would President Shea have responded to Pearl Harbor and Japan's declaration of war? How would President Shea have ended WWII and the war with Japan?
- Mark Shea That is a lie of the first order. It is *exactly* what bin Laden said in attacking the World Trade Center. It is *exactly* how the Nazis justified the murder of millions of "enemy aliens" called Jews in their territories.
President Shea would have listened to the Church's Just war teaching. You are urging radical acts of deliberate mass murder against civilians. Listen to yourself, man! - Mark Shea You're making me think "Nationalist lies in service of war crimes continue to poison Catholics aganist elementary facts of Catholic moral teaching." "There are no civilians in war" is one of the great nationalist lies. The children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will rise at the judgment and bear witness before the face of God to the falsity of that lie. Tremble and repent of it.
- Brian F Hudon When does war end? When each new thing becomes a military objective after the last thing destroyed becomes no longer useful to the war effort? All things in war become targets eventually as all things become part of the war effort, even children. The way you end war is to destroy a people's will to support it. War ends when people love their children more than they hate their enemy. Japan hated America more than they loved their children only until they realized we could kill all their children. The only objective in any war is to end the war. War was Japan's choice, not ours, just as war has been Islam's choice, not ours. The bomb saved more lives than it destroyed.
- Mark Shea Bullshit. The bomb was mass murder of innocents. You are openly and nakedly advocating shitting on the fifth commandment, desecration of the Eucharist, and the cold-blooded slaughter of children. A Nazi pilot showed more humanity than your argument for peeing on the teaching of the Church: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/09/living/higher-call-military-chivalry/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 Be ashamed.
- Brian F Hudon All actions of war are crimes of a sort, some more or less justifiable in the eyes of the world, are they not? Do we not all hate wars? Short of allowing ourselves to all be murdered by lunatics and regimes, we simply choose which crimes we will commit. Justifiable war, just war, etc. Are not these all rationalization as opposed to choosing martyrdom for peace in stead of the violence of war?
- Mark Shea Again, bullshit. Actions in just war are legitimate acts of self-defense against an aggressor. This is another rationalization for mass murder.
- Brian F Hudon One man who had served in the middle east in post 9/11 told an uncle of mine that the only way to eradicate the violence of Islam would to be to kill all but the infants there, that every child is essentially trained in hatred of the enemy, readying them for war, from the time they can read and memorize the Quran. Their religion is a poison that effects every member of their society. Think about that.
- Mark Shea No. I engage in war according to the teaching of Holy Church. You piss on the teaching of Holy Church and advocate the deliberate slaughter of children--all while claiming to be prolife. This is exactly what I mean when I speak of Catholics who imagine wearing a precious feet pin takes away the sins of the world.
- Mark Shea Exactly. Anti-abortion, but not prolife. You are quite comfy with the slaughter of unborn children if they happen to reside in the wombs of innocent civilians in enemy territory.
- Mark Shea Translation: Screw the fifth commandment when it gets in the way of my devotion to American nationalist excuses for murder.
- Brian F Hudon War is not theoretical. War is what happens when you kill other people because they want to kill you first.
- Mark Shea The children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki we murdered were not going to cut your throat. Once again, your rationalizations are the same offered by the Nazis for the Holocaust. You are basically saying, "Fuck the Church's teaching. The Church is dead wrong when it condemns murder when America really wants to do it." Sheer cowardice.
- Mark Shea "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees. You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." The real obscenity in this conversation is your advocacy of murder and your open and naked contempt for the Church's teaching. Hence my use of profanity: to get at the heart of what you really mean.
http://www.mark-shea.com/sav.html
- Brian F Hudon Profanity is a weak mind expressing itself strongly or a strong mind expressing itself weakly. -my high school science and math teacher
- Mark Shea Whatever. It is pathetic that you are more bothered by the fact that I said "fuck" than that you are essentially saying "Fuck the Church's teaching." Gnats and camels indeed.
- Brian F Hudon I'm disturbed that you think I like war or advocate killing children. I advocate the idea that war should be as terrible a proposition as possible for the enemy, ghastly, unthinkable.
- Mark Shea I don't think you like war. But you absolutely do advocate killing children and have been defending it throughout this thread. "There are no civilians in war" *means* that children are enemy combatants and who and should be deliberately targeted as they were at Hiroshima. Take some responsibility for your deeply evil words.
- Brian F Hudon War should not and cannot be polite. War is not a game for gentlemen. War is the worst of men. It's hardly suitable for a Christian. War is an ungodly bloody stinking (literally) horrifying mess. War is a man trying to eat a sandwich among his decomposing fellow soldiers on a worthless rock in the middle of the Pacific. War is not sleeping because you fear the enemy will kill you and cut off your genitals and shove them in your dead mouth as the Japanese did on Iwa Jima. War is nightmares 50 years after time and drink have no made you forget. If you think I like anything about war, or have learned nothing from the men who fought them, you sadly underestimate and misunderstand me. I have a friend who was at Iwa Jima who though 90 years old still to this days says he would kill any man who endangered me or give his life for mine because I am an American. It's not bravado from a man like this who has been told by his doctors he could die any day. He means it because he has known war. God I wish there were no more wars but evil that resides in the hearts of men just won't take a day off. Men who fight for freedom in war do things they could never imagine in peace. We cannot condemn them. We can only thank them that we are alive today and love them for their sacrifice. You and I would not be here but for such men as these.
- Mark Shea Elizabeth: I suppose it's because I'm a Platonist at heart. I keep thinking that if you explain the Church's teaching to a Catholic who claims to believe it, he will listen and change his thinking instead of offering filthy lies to shit on it. At the end of the day, Brian happens to like the Church's teaching about abortion. But when the Church crosses him with its just war teaching, he says "Fuck the Church's teaching." A living illustration of Augustine's point that when you accept only what you like from the Church, it is not the gospel, but yourself you believe.
- Mark Shea Brian: Thanks for that poetic excuse for shitting on the Church's teaching. At least have the grace to just say, "Fuck the Church's teaching." It's what you mean.
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