As I’m sure is the case with many readers here, this means Kansas University associate professor of journalism David W. Guth is wishing death of our children. Their crime? Being the offspring of those who work to protect a natural right safeguarded by a Constitution that they openly deplore.
In the aftermath of Sandy Hook, comedian and actor Jim Carrey referred to gun owners as “heartless motherf**kers” and released the now infamous video for his song Cold Dead Hands. If you thought we might get out of another tragedy without a liberal lunatic outburst, think again. Kansas University associate professor of journalism David W. Guth vented online in the wake of the DC Navy Yard tragedy:
Guth’s Twitter feed also contained the following gem in response to a follower’s rebuke for calling on God to damn people, and wishing their children were dead:
And of course, none of this would be complete without an overview of David Guth’s views on freedom of speech:
Yes, when the NRA expresses their freedom of speech, or peaceably and successfully petitions elected representatives on behalf of their members, David Guth would have their children sentenced to death. But when the University of Edinburgh bans Blurred Lines, it’s a tragedy for open minds and free expression.
Liberal cognitive dissonance is never more clear than it is when a liberal opens his mouth to switch feet, or when he does the rough equivalent on his Twitter feed. Guth went on to double down on his earlier tweets about God’s justice and his death wish for the children of NRA members.
When contacted by Campus Reform about his tweet, Guth’s response was as follows:
“Hell no, hell no, I do not regret that Tweet. I don’t take it back one bit.”
Kansas University distanced itself from Guth’s statements, calling Guth’s tweet a private tweet that did not represent the views of the university. One wonders if Guth was on the clock, or in his office, or on KU’s Internet when he sent his tweet. Was it truly private, or did he engage in such reprehensible speech using KU’s resources while at work?
Is Kansas University even going to bother to look into it?
As a journalism professor, David Guth could have taken issue with the media coverage and its inaccuracies, specifically the misidentification of Lt. Rollie Chance as the shooter, or the initial reports that an AR-15 was used. In fact, a shotgun was used, the shooter was Aaron Alexis, and the media repeatedly got details wrong throughout the incident.
David Guth didn’t do any of that. Instead, he wished death upon the children of NRA members, because the liberal corrective is a child’s life for disagreeing on an issue, while liberals almost universally oppose capital punishment for convicted murderers. Disagree with a liberal, and they’ll endorse killing your children for having the temerity to depart from their ideological worldview.
At Grassroot Journal, we attempt to push citizen activism as part of our mission. In other words, we don’t just want to point out the liberal agenda and get you fired up, we want you to do something about the liberal agenda and the ugly ways in which it manifests itself. David Guth is a state employee who likely sent out these tweets on state time, while using a state funded and provided Internet network. In and of itself, that makes his speech anything but private. Kansas University would be well within its power to look into the matter, and to fire David Guth if he in fact engaged in such odious speech while at work.
What we’re asking you to do is simple enough. Call the University of Kansas at the numbers below, and let them know that you demand an answer as to where David Guth was, and what Internet network he was using, and you demand accountability for his inflammatory statements as it relates to your children.
Email the Human Resources Department at hrdept@ku.edu and tell them you want an investigation of Guth’s online behavior and where he was when it took place. Call the Human Resources Department at 785-864-4946 or fax them at 785-864-5790. Call Human Resources Director Ola Faucher at 785-864-7411 and let her know what you think of David Guth’s outrageous online speech. Tell her you want an investigation into the specifics of that speech, and whether or not he violated any of the university’s policies for its personnel. You can email Ola Faucher at ofaucher@ku.edu.
I know of at least one professor who lost her job after making veiled threats about the death of child — my oldest, who at the time was only 2.
At the time, I tried to dissuade people from contacting her university; I myself never did.
But as time has gone by I’ve changed my stance on such things. Assholes like this don’t deserve to be making a living off of taxpayer money — particularly when he’s wishing death on the children of millions of taxpayers whose own labor gives him license to vent his vile eliminationist fantasies.
And as we now live in a culture where we’re no longer allowed to simply pull a guy like this out of the comfortable cloister of his liberal bubble and give him the beat down he deserves — many of the problems the country has with liberals would be solved had we not turned the solving of all our disputes over to lawyers and law enforcement, but rather still respected a well-timed and well-deserved punch to the nose — I am in agreement with Grass Root Journal: call the university, email HR and contact its campus director, and continue to follow up on this.
In the meantime, as David Guth is so into “freedom of expression,” take advantage of his Twitter feed.
At the end of this, I’d like to be able to write the headline, “Liberal Asshole Professor Not in Kansas Anymore.”
Let’s make it happen. For the children.
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update: Loathsome shithole placed on administrative leave. Not good enough. His ass has no business in a tax-payer funded classroom ever ever ever again.
Go try to find a job in the world you agitate for, David. And be careful: Campus security doesn’t operate outside of the campus proper, so you might actually have to concern yourself with real world questions about how best to keep yourself and your family safe from the society that exists outside of your erstwhile academic bubble.
Fortunately for you, the people of Kansas whose children you’d like to see dead are, on the whole, armed — or open to the idea — which means crime isn’t going to be as big an issue where you are as it would be in, say, DC, where the gun laws are onerous, and Joe Biden’s gun of choice was used to murder the only level of security available to the 12 innocents who were then slaughtered by a liberal just like you.
So you’re welcome, ingrate.
plus he’s a momo
you don’t get blood on your hands when you shoot people that’s one of the biggest selling points
One cannot make this point enough. One reason civility is dead is that being uncivil has no consequences.
I’ll say it again: Dueling needs to make a return.
I favor horsewhipping.
Disagree with a liberal, and they’ll endorse killing your children for having the temerity to depart from their ideological worldview.
Not sure that’s precisely what’s happening here, in this particular case at this particular time. He might not say this about someone who wants to repeal the Estate Tax or strike down Bloomberg’s soda ban.
The subtext of this attack (as with that of the Sacramento dude about an opponent of Obamacare), is that “your policies are getting people killed.”
Ergo, “I hope you reap what you sow.” Good and hard.
Same as one of us hoping a gun-grabber finds himself in a situation where a gun would have come in handy.
Even so, we’ve all seen plenty of “I hope you die in a fire” from Lefties over taxation and theories of governance, so it’s not hard to put this incident in that pile.
They really need to find better ways to express themselves. Like my cat, however, they’re unlikely to depart from biting, scratching, and defecating on the bed.
we’re no longer allowed to simply pull a guy like this out of the comfortable cloister of his liberal bubble and give him the beat down he deserves
If I were world-wide empress, I’d compel academics to take frequent sabbaticals in which they are engaged for at least a year in activities where their brainpower helps them not at all, and where they’re surrounded by decidedly non-academic people who can run circles around them in that non-academic activity.
I know it helped me pull my head out to be around people who possessed skills I totally don’t have, to see the depth of their humanity, and to understand that their suffering is every bit as complex and significant as mine.
Same for above-the-liners in Hollywood, anyone inside the Beltway, and lawyers.
Meanwhile, from the “naming your duck ‘Boy’ file”…
“I Will Hurt You Physically and Metaphysically”
In case you missed it, via Insty, this clever Thai ad for a push-up bra.
The apparently all-male commenters at Insty missed the point: this is not an appeal to transsexuals or cross-dressers — it’s directed at flat-chested women.
Which, until I got fat 10 years ago, I totally was.
Is why I understand the intended audience.
Hmmmmm…..
I know! Prison!
Further evidence of David Guth’s ‘liberal cognitive dissonance’. Note the shotgun, formally approved by SloJo Biden.
CT Judge wants to have a country where many, many people will be killed year after year.
Shouldn’t judges who are caught openly declaring their refusal to uphold the Constitution be removed from the bench immediately?
In a sane world, yes, yes they would.
Refusal to uphold the constitution? That judge is a common thief (he ‘never returns guns’) and isn’t removed…
Well…I think that the the sequence of all this:
1.) tweet a bunch of evil shit ->
2.) Lose your job over it ->
3.) tweet some more
clearly indicates someone who is too dumb to learn rapidly much less too dumb to teach.
OT, want another 1000+ comment thread?
” bed and breakfast owners who once famously refused service to a gay couple in the U.K. ”
It can’t happen here!
Could the judge not be sued ? Or charged with a crime and arrested?
Liberal cognitive dissonance is never more clear than it is when a liberal opens his mouth to switch feet, or when he does the rough equivalent on his Twitter feed.
Open mouth, insert foot.
Open wider, insert other foot.
Fall on ass.
If the judge proclaiming his contempt for the Constitution would be held to account, then what of those who make law on the fly, arbitrarily or even possibly ex post facto, to accord only with their whims of the moment?
Holding any such as these to account to a rule or supreme law like the Constitution isn’t our way any longer.
No. Our way is to submit to the supremacy of men who need not consult, suggest, deliberate, persuade, amend, repair, or look to a benefit to the people or any others than themselves, but who may impose, restrict, disregard, encircle, remove, waive, reward, punish, ignore, and act as they alone see fit to their purpose, whenever they choose.
This is the new, fundamentally transformed America; it’s an America without fundament; it’s an America having no foundation.
Aside from the contempt for the Constitution[s] and his theft of property there is the fact that he put on display that he is too stupid to be doing the job. He plainly stated “No one in this country should have guns.”
If he means that, then he is too stupid because without armed officers in a judge’s courtroom the name for the judge will be “recently deceased” as some defendant of large stature and mean temperament takes exception to a ruling.
If he meant that all persons not in government employ should not have guns but stated it as above then his command of the language is inadequate for the job.
Either way too stupid to be a judge.
As for stupidity, an oldie that came up today.
1.2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Yeah, won’t be long now.
Great, first science by consensus, now religion and morality.
From geoffb’s link: “A stupid man is born a stupid man by an act of Providence.”
I’m not so sure about that. I mean, I’m sure it’s true in many and perhaps most cases, but I can’t help but think diet, especially pre-natal, is an important element of mental as well as physical development.
In a world of working mothers and fast food, it definitely would go along ways to explaining the modern voter.
“Is the Pope Catholic?” is no longer a rhetorical question, but a real one.
link
The Pope’s Encyclical is a hopeful message for all Christians, it is not a refutation of Catholic Doctrine nor an embrace of homosexuality and abortion.
Only morons and leftists read it that way.
The Pope’s Encyclical
the interview is what has peeps hopping
The peeps are mediots who are trying to grab what they think is a brass ring. They’d be wrong. Again.
LBascom,
I took a peak at the link you provided. According to the article, the B&B does not allowed unmarried couples to share a bed, straight or homosexual. Of course, it was a couple of homosexuals who kicked up the fuss.
The mother’s act of not providing the proper nourishment could be interpreted as an “unfavorable act manifesting God’s will” for that particular child in some of the sects of Christianity, not mine though.
To take on the author’s contention that stupidity is genetic, I’d say genetics lays down the maximum that an individual can be physically, mentally. The environment can then only subtract from that maximum and at best subtracts little from what that individual could be at his best.
So stupid people are born but can also be made if that is what is wanted.
we have to find a new balance
i will try to find some time to help after dinner maybe
emphasis on maybe cause of I might go watch a movie, but probably not
but i might so mark me down as tentative
– Having possibly found the frustratingly obscure problems with our internet feed after 2+ years of countless techie visits and dissapointing results, even Proturd meat headedness can’t make me depressed today.
– (Of course, even as I say that theres always the distinct chance that as the Cox truck pulls out of the driveway the net will go tits up again, but we’ll see.)
– Anyway, thats sort of how I view the dissonance of the Left. A series of failed mental interconnecets that intermittantly make and break contact at a slow steady water drip toturous rate so the perp never quite is fully crazy or fully lucid, but is always bouncing back and forth between some sort of schizo-paranoia self hate and manic euphoria fabulism. YMMV
Yeah Blake, that kinda intolerance will not be tolerated. Queen save the god.
Leigh I took his remarks the same way. More like a refocusing on core missions than anything else.
Of course, i have been on a leave of absence from the Church for 40 years, so my read might not be as informed as others.
“…stupid people are born but can also be made if that is what is wanted.”
I’ll buy that.
“More like a refocusing on core missions than anything else.”
Cool, as long as the core of the mission isn’t to become popular in the world.
Matthew 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
BT, I read it as such a hopeful, forward looking piece. The Holy Father is truly a visionary man. If you have a chance to read Cardinal Dolan’s remarks, they are joyful. The bishops are seeing this as loosening the stranglehold on their jobs as pastors and refocusing on the core missions, as you say. It was inspiring, both the Pope’s and the Cardinal’s take on his remarks.
I ‘ve found in my own life, that cradle Catholics never stop being Catholic. They just stop going to Mass. Maybe this will bring some back.
The Holy Father is truly a visionary man.
for the church of england
No. For the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
“I see the church as a field hospital after battle,” Francis said. “It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.”
Core Mission.
It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars.
yea ’cause asking about high cholesterol is like asking about killing babies. y’all sound like rah rah gop
Is it steely dan time already?
I see the church as a field hospital after battle
kinda useless hospital what with all the christians being murdered by muslims lately. good allan i’ve gotta depend on ex kgb puty putin the defend christendom.
OT: Odd.
Al Qaeda linked terrorist group attacks shopping Mall in Kenya. 39 killed so far including close relatives of the Kenyan president and an ambassador. Terrorists are killing only non-Muslims. Releasing those who can recite an Islamic prayer.
Operations are ongoing. Reports are that the terrorists have gotten their arms from Libya and Iran. It is also reported that Israel is helping out the Kenyan’s but the US is nowhere to be found. CNN and Al Jazeera have ongoing reports.
Drudge is covering Typhoon Sailor Moon instead.
Is it steely dan time already?
questioning the “feel good ” pope is not allowed. dude you should be like kc prof and wish my kids dead.
Newrouter, I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that perhaps you haven’t read the Encyclical itself, but only the newspaper articles that are selectively quoting a 12000+ word piece.
You are missing BT’s point, and the Pope’s. Salvation is the core mission of the church through evangelization of sinners. The sin itself is irrelevant to the wish to live a sinless life. To be like Christ.
The Holy Father is stating the obvious in that the modern church has gotten bogged in the details and are missing the forest for the trees. Open one’s eyes to Christ and the living church and salvation will follow.
The journey isn’t important, it is the destination.
Sure it is. But your interpretations do not automatically become gospel.
Not my style.
The Holy Father is stating the obvious in that the modern church has gotten bogged in the details and are missing the forest for the trees.
he should ask karltherover for a whiteboard.
The journey isn’t important,
i remember that next holy thurs, good friday & easter
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Salvation is the core mission of the church through evangelization of sinners.
oh good community organizing trumps theology.
Cranky gets it.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
what is sin? not abortion that’s wyman’s health care.
sorry i was looking for a church that was for the truth. not bush family wannabes.
Abortion is a sin. No one has said otherwise.
Is repentance and forgiveness too much for you, nr?
BT, if that is a refocusing of the churches core mission, is he saying before now the church was only checking cholesterol on the seriously battle wounded?
Seems a harsh indictment.
Francis never said the Church was reversing it’s stance on abortion. So why would you imply he did?
Ya know Lee, the words i posted on the screen were his words. Did you get that impression, that that was what he really meant?
A sin is an action that harms the soul of the person doing the action, and often harms the soul of any others who are involved.
If one does not believe in a soul, one could consider the sin as harming the person in a psychological sense, in that it does damage to his or her mental health.
Since abortion results in the death of another who is usually doing no harm to the person doing or sanctioning the killing, I would say that it’s some serious sinning. However, I am not equipped to judge the relativity of one sin to another.
– Sin is between you and your god. Personally if you’re contemplating trying to game god when it comes to your sins you’re probably on shaky ground. In either case, what the church 0r the Holy see thinks is irrelevant.
link
I’m not sure where he’s going BT. Sounds kinda like he wants to grant mercy and salvation before repentance or even acknowledgment of sin, which can be talked about later. I don’t think it works that way.
I’m not trying to be antagonistic, just trying to understand in a mildly curious sense (I’m not Catholic). Feel free to dismiss me as a moron if the subject is too touchy.
Is repentance and forgiveness too much for you, nr?
looking for clarity per prager
Pope Francis offered an olive branch of sorts to the doctrine-minded, conservative wing of the Catholic Church on Friday as he denounced abortions as a symptom of today’s “throw-away culture” and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them.
hey that gig in england might still be open frank.
Prager is a Jew. I’m not going to rely on him to interpret the word’s of the Pope.
No offense to our host and fellow members of the tribe.
“and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them.”
they WERE doing them? god allan what a putz pope.
“Prager is a Jew. ”
because clarity is jewish?
G’night, all.
pope frank is the eric cantor stupid of the vatican
“Since abortion results in the death of another who is usually doing no harm to the person doing or sanctioning the killing, I would say that it’s some serious sinning. However, I am not equipped to judge the relativity of one sin to another. ”
Like my dad told me, you’ll go to hell for lying as fast as for stealing.
I think this is probably where Francis was going, in that we don’t need to focus on just the big three sins. The problem with that from my point of view is those are the front lines in the battle, whether we like it or not. The world is trying to force us to accept those things as not sin at all, and you can’t draw close to God in Christ as an unrepentant sinner.
If the enemy is attacking your right flank, it does no good to fortify your left.
Yes Francis accused Catholic Doctors of performing abortions and then encouraged them to refuse to perform.
It is right there in his quote.
It ‘s almost like when the NRA encourages gun owners to practice gun safety, they are admitting that their members don’t practice gun safety.
It is the only conclusion available.
/sarc
Apropos nothing at all, a discussion today of the relative merits of Muslims and Christians led me to point out that even the Phelpsies haven’t blown up any buses.
Of course, if they tried, they would burn their lips.
A muslim merit.
Yes Francis accused Catholic Doctors of performing abortions and then encouraged them to refuse to perform.
mealy mouth frank says the stupid
Since abortion results in the death of another who is usually doing no harm
A stupid person is a person who caused losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
– McGehee, do you ever tire of causing me to blow soda all over my monitor…..nevermind
And a muslim demerit.
>. It has been alleged that the rolling paper used in Merit is excessively flammable to standards.<
all hail proggtardia
>fellow members of the tribe.<
i be the non tribe. i be the individual.
There is, for example, the ideal of socialist man. In our harsh reality,
anyone who does not correspond to that ideal is atypical. Anyone
who is atypical, and yet exists, is an ‘evil’ reality and has no place in
real socialism. Anyone who is not a socialist man, therefore, can
only be a residuum of the past, an agent of imperialism, a dissident.
In any case, he or she is a foreign element. Because this foreign
element is by definition outside real socialism, however, there are
only proper socialist people in real socialism. What does it matter
that we have to invent them and that the overwhelming majority of
the nation is still foreign to real socialism? The essential thing is that
the socialist man is typical of real socialism. Another of our ideals is
that of free and creative work as one of the vital needs of socialist
man. What does it matter that we guarantee this free work by
making work compulsory, that its creative aspect, as far as most
of the nation is concerned, is manifested in seeking ways to shirk
it, that this foremost vital need is not pleasurable, but a necessary
evil to earn a livelihood? The only typical and real work is socialist
work.
page 158 power of the powerless
for bt
Steely Dan Here At The Western World
Christians are being martyred across the ME and our president could care less. In fact, our president is arming the very people who are killing Christians. However, let a few Muslims get gassed in an ugly civil war, and the president is in high dudgeon.
Call me crazy, but I suspect our president doesn’t much care for Christians.
it’s a conundrum
BBH, yeah, ask David how it worked out when he tried to hide his dalliance with Bathsheba.
LBascom, Queen save the god, indeed.
>it’s a conundrum<
comfort food for the pikachu
Falafel
“BigBangHunter says September 21, 2013 at 7:16 pm – Having possibly found the frustratingly obscure problems with our internet feed after 2+ years of countless techie visits and dissapointing results”
2 years huh? And you couldn’t figured it out.
“McGehee, do you ever tire of causing me to blow soda all over my monitor ……nevermind”
Mind BBH, mind…
About that student union song ban:
“Alice Smart, an officer at Leeds’ student union, told The Independent that the song would not now be played in any of the three nightclubs and two bars operated by the union… “A few students are asking why if we have banned this song, we aren’t banning everything, but we’ve chosen this one as an example, because it’s so popular.”
Oh?
“Blurred Lines” has been a worldwide hit, reaching number one in the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland. With more than 5m sales in 22 weeks in the US alone, it is the fastest-selling digital song in history.”
Clearly, Thicke’s not so thick, and Alice ain’t so smart…
I believe what the Holy Father was getting at is that lack of acceptance of Jesus as our Lord and Savior leads to acceptance of other, erroneous, false worldviews which allow for abortion and sexual license (among other things) to be acceptable. Remember how Chesterton said something about not believing in God leads one to not believe in nothing, but to believe in anything? I think Elizabeth Scalia’s new book about worshiping false idols covers this territory, but I haven’t had the chance to read it yet.
I used to call myself a Wiccan: ‘an as thou harm no one, do as thou wilt.’ It made sense when I was young and dumb and thought the point of life was to have a good time and get your way as much as possible. Then I had an encounter with Jesus, and as a result came to grasp my nature as a sinner and his nature as my Redeemer, and as a result of THAT, my entire worldview was turned upside down and I seek to obey and serve God and accept his moral precepts because I love Him, and because I’ve come to understand that they form the structure of a life based on love and service.
I’m shitty at it the obeying and the serving, but I still order my life on the knowledge that that is the Truth, no matter how far short I fall.
The obedience and submission to God’s laws grows from the love, in other words. Many left the Church because they saw it as being hollow inside, with no love or authenticity, only rules and guilt and condemnation. I agree with Francis that only when people have a loving relationship with Jesus will they understand the nature and purpose of God’s laws.
tomorrow we need to find a new balance
today just kinda got away from us
2 years huh? And you couldn’t figured it out.
– I could take acception to that and launch into a long winded explaination in which I take the name of the Lord in vain on multiple poccassions, point out the uselessness of a president who can’t control downtown Chicago militants but wants to invade Syria as long as it doesn’t interfer with his tee off times, but in the interest of brevity I’ll just mention it finally came down to some Mexican workers and cables they apparently cut in several places on the roof during the so called remodeling and then tried to repair using aluminum foil and wrappers from some street stand burritos and let you use your imagination. That the intermittant connections were in several almost inaccessable places may have had something to do with the 2+ years. It almost took an act of congress, but I used the threat of contacting the FCC instead. They found the problem in the very next trip out here.
– No shit – burrito wrappers.
– In retrospect, after watching Bumblefuck play Keystone president for five years I don’t think he’s Kenyan, I think he’s Mexican.
Of course they were. It is well known that “burrito wrapper” repairs last longer when they are well covered up from the weather and the eyes and meddling of others. They are the Schrodinger’s cat of repair. Open the box to look and their functionality collapses. Before looking they wiggle between the working/non-working states.
The Kenyan’s at least know who their enemy is and respond.
Here we seem to have this “command” problem where those in charge order “stand down” or “hold in place” when their men are running to the sound of guns. Then they engage in bureaucratic maneuvers to coverup the order.
Our “command” problem might stem from just whose agents of influence we have fecklessly allowed to be part of the command establishment.
So is The Clown Disaster using the question of his support for any possible Israeli attempt to shackle Iran’s nuclear weapons acquisition as leverage to induce the Israeli gov’t to help his daddy’s native land, so that he can hide his personal interest in Kenya from the American people, in order to maintain a charade that he knows no exceptional nations? Sounds ridiculous to me even as I formulate it, but then I notice The Clown Disaster has been unusually quiet about the topic the last day or so.
Isn’t this just you attempting to form a consensus and impose your will on religion?
Otherwise, if you’re proposing a strict adherence to some Scripture or other (probably at the abandonment of other passages that seem to read the other way), the Church ought to return to excommunication for divorce, and also tack on excommunication for bearing false witness, not to mention failing to honor one’s parents.
I think Francis is just refusing to turn his back on people because they have sinned, and are continuing to sin. Sounds kind of like something that Jesus would have a certain appreciation for, if done properly.
Subordinated.
The obedience and submission to God’s laws grows from the love, in other words. Many left the Church because they saw it as being hollow inside, with no love or authenticity, only rules and guilt and condemnation. I agree with Francis that only when people have a loving relationship with Jesus will they understand the nature and purpose of God’s laws.
Well said, Ruby.
I think Francis is just refusing to turn his back on people because they have sinned, and are continuing to sin. Sounds kind of like something that Jesus would have a certain appreciation for, if done properly.
Well said, Slarti.
The Catholic church has been hemorrhaging members for decades. Francis is instructing us to be like Christ in accepting those who are still suffering to bring them to salvation. It is an attitude that has been sorely lacking in the church for a very long time. Many people see their pastor as the face of the church and put their faith in him not in Him who the priest serves to guide us. Francis is instructing his army of priests to remember the mission and not get lost in the minutiae.
Bingo.
It’s more difficult to spread the Word if you persist in locking out sinners.
Just some sinners. Because aren’t we all?
Indeed we are all sinners and it is only through belief and baptism that we may be saved. If we refuse to open the doors to all, I’m thinking Jesus would toss us out on our ears.
“Isn’t this just you attempting to form a consensus and impose your will on religion?”
Wow, caught me! It’s like you can see my soul!
Protestants, naturally, have a different take on things than does the Catholic Church. That’s probably why there are over 36000 different denominations, including the so-called “non-denominational” churches. Otherwise known as making it up as we go along.
Many Protestants are big on quoting scripture as if to put a “nuff said!” on their remarks when that isn’t the case at all. While several Protestant denominations have a history of scholarship, none of it is of breadth and scope of Catholic teaching which is the church of Peter, Jesus’ right hand man. Instead, they rely on the letters of the Apostle Paul and Paul’s interpretations of Christ’s teachings. Five entire books of the Bible have been stripped for Protestant Bibles, as well. Simply quoting a verse of a passage without understanding the context of that passage and the numerous translations it has gone through throughout the ages further confuses these kinds of conversations and leads to misunderstandings.
for = from
As rhetoricians go, ol’ Apo-Paul is a tough standard to have to live up to. Heck, he even gives The Clown Disaster a run for top-prize.
Paul was a con man, sadly. Entrusted with a mighty task, a holy one, he made it all about him not Him.
ok is Sunday after breakfast we need to find a new balance
Homeostasis is overrated. It’s a process, not a goal.
The Master of Disasters and fount of many lies speaks of his desire to have as many citizens die as can be made possible. Or he’s just saying it because “stupid is as stupid does.”
Once the conversation on religion devolves into people arguing which flavor of Christianity is correct, I can bow out. That stuff is annoying and unhelpful.
The yellow peril can feel free to shut up about it entirely.
and also before we do the balancings Zac Brown you can just shut your stupid mouth nobody wants to hear what you think about nothing cause you a momo and mean as a snake on top of it
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It looks like the Vikings will be giving the Browns their first win of the season.
How wonderful for them.
Lose Mike Morse, dammit. Oh, and let him take Jason Hammel with him.
Once the conversation on religion devolves into people arguing which flavor of Christianity is correct, I can bow out. That stuff is annoying and unhelpful.
It pretty much started out that way, but I know what you mean.
Steelers better get it together and beat the Bears. Three losses in a row is going to be tough to take.
What are the J’ints doing down to the Carolinas 24-zip in the 3rd? Did they eat a bad blintz this morning?
Student Indoctrination
Walter E. Williams
Good on Walter Williams . . . even for invoking Lenin to prove my point.
“We fought a good fight earlier this year, but we came up short, and that means we’ve got to get back up and go back at it,” Obama told an awards dinner for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
– Interesting how every time he needs a quick boost in ego stroking he runs home to his true constituency. Its just a question of how much longer the whities are going to take it in the ass for the black minorities.
…and talks about how he’s delivered absolutely nothing to them.
I went to Chick fil-a yesterday. No “have a blessed day” . Just “Have a nice day sir.”
Maybe my local stores are in rebellion or something. Just sayin’.
Zac Brown has got a Coweta connection. He has a place in Senoia that the proceeds go to help build his camp for disadvantaged kids.
yes yes yes he runs a camp
i just bought this cap here it’s $25 plus $7 for priority mail you’d think if you was gonna charge 30 sumpin dollar for a ballcap you’d be more nicer
>Steelers better get it together and beat the Bears<
snort c 17-p 0 1st q
Or not, I guess.
Obama uses eulogy for Navy Yard victims to push his gun control agenda. Anyone surprised?
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-michigan-professor-gop-raped-20130905,0,3715971.story
“A Michigan State University professor has lost his teaching duties after telling his students in a video lecture that Republicans “raped this country,” among other derogatory remarks.”
@DWGuth Twitter apparently account no longer exists. Guess the response to his rant was a bit….overwhelming? Or, trying to remove the evidence.
Not to mention….
“Unhinged: UCSF fundraiser wishes death on all Obamacare ‘nonbelievers’; Nick Searcy shreds….”
Funny thing about the healthcare Twitchy, the implicit tone is that denying government health care = death, ie – there will be no other option for people who can’t/don’t use Obamacare. Or that cutting people lose from the government’s apron strings is the worst punishment this Lib chic could imagine. CAST THEM INTO THE DARKNESSS, WHERE THERE IS WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH!
Judge Dredd anyone?
Supposedly, in 1976, Judge Dredd started out as a protest against the UK government allowing the SAS to hunt and arrest the IRA and their alleged associates largely outside of the normal legal system and imprison them for long periods of time without trial.This was considered to be the beginning of a dystopian police state in the UK.
But, the people who wrote it in 2000 AD magazine didn’t want to attract too much government attention to the publisher so they changed the setting to the US after a nuclear war in the 2060’s and made fun of US pop culture to throw critics off their scent. It also let them base Dredd on a sort of Super-Dirty Harry template who never takes off his helmet on the page and is never directly shown without it when it gets knocked off.
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It truly saddens me to see you write this. Paul lived a life of devotion unmatched (by humans) in the Scriptures. Among his many accomplishments is confronting a certain “right-hand man” about his weakness in the faith.
Furthermore this pope has much to answer for besides relaxation of some church rules:
Heaven for atheists? Pope sparks debate.
Seems like Pope Francis and Vatican II have a lot in common: What people know about them comes from reading what other people say about them, not from reading what they actually said.
“Fortunately for you, the people of Kansas whose children you’d like to see dead are, on the whole, armed — or open to the idea…”
Even more fortunately, he would find that we fellow Kansans are mostly tolerant and respectful, even to loathsome shits like him.
Therein lies the problem, Darth.