In Glorious Contradiction of the Spirit of the Age
by Mark Noonan on January 4th, 2009 at 09:14am
Deep within all of us is not just the ability to do the right thing, but the desire to do it - some people still rise to the challenge:
They are the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. They wear long white habits, carry rosaries, live in community, teach, and attract so many new recruits that they’re building a new motherhouse big enough to house 100 women religious.
The community, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., is only 11 years old. It started as an offshoot of a large convent, with four nuns, but it has grown to 85 sisters. Their average age is only 28, more than 40 years younger than the average age of all women religious in the United States. They come from more than 30 states, plus Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. They have been featured on NBC, ABC, National Public Radio and Canadian TV.
Their lives, traditions and devotion are part of the 800-year-old Dominican charism. They form “a beautiful and alluring sign of contradiction,” says one of the foundresses, Sister Joseph Andrew, director of vocations. “You can get ‘the world’ wherever you go.”
Young women discerning religious life, she said, want authenticity, and with her community, “what they see is what they get,” that is, one with “a clear vision and identity.”…
…“I can’t imagine living religious life in an apartment,” said Sister Maria, a native of the Bronx, a first-year novitiate. “It’s not puppy dogs and rainbows every day; your sisters bring you up.”
She gave up a successful corporate career in the car business to enter the convent. She chose the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, she said, because of their devotion to Mary, traditional lifestyle and sense of humor.
“I knew that to go to heaven, I needed to be in a convent!” she said with a laugh. “I knew that I could slip into being greedy. I wanted more than a house on the lake and a closet full of shoes. Life is empty without Christ. It doesn’t make any sense without him.”
In the end, she said, she felt compelled to stand up for what she believed in, regardless of what other people thought she should do.
“Go big or go home,” she said. “No one will live my life but me.”
Sister Maria Jose, a second-year novice, grew up in a strong, Catholic, Mexican-American family and graduated from the University of Texas-El Paso. After working as a software engineer for six years, she entered the convent.
“I loved my career, but Jesus Christ is better,” she said. “I realized that there was more to life than going to a job. There was a lot of emptiness there. I could either do something to distract me, like going out to the bars, or I could pursue prayer, seek Jesus, and see what it was that Jesus was calling me to do.”
And the meek shall inherit the earth…or, at least in this case, the feminist movement. Wrap all the broads at NOW together and you won’t get something a tenth as worthy as these Sisters, and their like around the world. One of the wisest statements I’ve seen is that - “There was a lot of emptiness there.”. False feminism held that for women to be fulfilled they would have to follow men on the treadmill of corporate life…get a degree, slave away in a corporate behemoth, expend your sexual energy in pointless affairs, eschew children or - if you have them - consign them to the care of others…that terrible mistake men made was, for the feminists, precisely what women should do. Never in the course of human history was there ever a more stupid idea.
And here, now, is the signpost back - just as it was 2,000 years ago, it is the devoutly Christian women who will save our society (and, yes, devoutly Jewish and Moslem women will, too, but we’re a mostly Christian society and thus the lion’s share of it will be from Christians). In a large sense, the Greco-Roman world went insane and the only thing the women of Rome could think to do was to follow the men into their insanity. Along came the Christians - men, of course, but it was the sobriety and solidarity of the women, I think, who really made the running - to recall people back to sanity; and thus it will be again, in this time when our society has gone insane.
The most important thing for those who are not Catholic to understand here is that these women are not so much giving up everything, but mostly giving up nothing, and seeking for something…in fact, seeking for the only genuinely real thing there is. The biggest mistake anyone can make in contemplating this story is to think that these women are in retreat - they are in the vanguard, the sharp point of the revived world.
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January 4th, 2009 at 11:09 am
markadiction
you cosmic catholic
it’s black hole bewilderment as usual for us
why do you use the earthly word “broad”
in the same breath as ‘devoutly christian women’
January 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Mark
what a difference…………..
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components.The religious component is a beard for
all of the other components. Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.
When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges,
some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here’s how it works.
As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be
regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:
United States — Muslim 0.6%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1.8%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major
recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:
Denmark — Muslim 2%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example,
they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs
for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats
for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — Muslim 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago — Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos)
under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about
their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in
uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such
tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:
Guyana — Muslim 10%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 15%
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings,
and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:
Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
Bosnia — Muslim 40%
Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions
(including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon,
and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:
Albania — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide,
as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and
in some ways is on-going in:
Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace. Here there’s supposed to be
peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:
Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
Somalia — Muslim 100%
Yemen — Muslim 100%
Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew
hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.
‘Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother
against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the
world, and all of us against the infidel– Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’
It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France ,
the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they
live by Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts,
nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community
at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime
punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise
more power than the national average would indicate.
Today’s 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world’s population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth
rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the
world’s population by the end of this century.
Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam:
The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat!
This is scary. This book is some serious reading for serious thinkers.
Now that you know, what will you do with this knowledge?
January 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am
“Wrap all the broads at NOW together and you won’t get something a tenth as worthy as these Sisters, and their like around the world.”
So why does this have to be an either, or? I think it’s great that these nuns are doing well. I hope they keep expanding. But that really has nothing to do with NOW or women’s rights. It’s a big world, we have room for both.
January 4th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Interesting point of view on the Sisterhood. And interesting comments by some of these women. I can’t imagine living my religious life as a woman in a convent. As a female who was raised in the church, I was taught I needed to spread my wings of faith and fly. Grant you I am not Catholic. Considering the Vatican has surrounded itself with materialism and wealth, I find some of their comments hypocritical. I admire their faith and dedication. I see women of all faiths and religions doing GOD’s work around the globe.
If guys lost their man card, I don’t think you should blame it on feminism. If guys feel threaten by women in the work place, I don’t think you should blame it on feminism. You going to ask some female nurse or doctor in the ER if she is a feminist while she tries to stop the bleeding from an artery you just severed?
Sure you have radical women who proclaim they are feminists. But get real, most women go thru life the best they can with what skills they have…..just like men do. They don’t have any claim to fame.
January 4th, 2009 at 11:43 am
cuspurrrrr
spoken like a typical, govt indoctrination camp liberal pinhead!
January 4th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Uffy
If guys feel threaten by women in the work place, I don’t think you should blame it on feminism.
You are partially correct.
However being a WM who worked 40+ years in corporate America have witnessed many who wielded this “minority”status as a sword.
Most of them indoctrinated by liberalism incollage viewed any WHITE male as the enemy, thus we were regularly belittled, and threatened with our jobs by racists, and angry women…many lesbos.
Dare not say ANYTHING about the transgendered freek nutjob OH the SHEHIM was in a protected bubble in stead of in an insane asylem.
January 4th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
bagni,
With malice aforethought, that’s how :o)
January 4th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Casper,
Its not so much an “either/or” but, rather, a “my goodness, we’ve been a bunch of idiots for 40 years”. Figure it like this - I’m wrong about this if you can demonstrate that a woman shuffling papers in a cubicle is having a better life than a woman at home raising her children…the former just helps keep the corporate wheels grinding, the latter raises up the next generation. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being abject-degradation and 10 being near-saintly, I give the paper shuffler a 3 and the mother a 10. How ’bout you?
January 4th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
uffy,
I’m afraid you’ve entirely missed what I was saying, and I apologize for my failure to make myself clear. We’re not talking about what feminism has done to men but, rather, its baleful effect upon women.
January 4th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
My wife likes her job as a lawer. She truly likes it. Can’t she keep that job?
January 4th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
mule,
Certainly - from milkmaid to Empress, all jobs are open and possible…but it must be kept in mind what are actually important jobs, and its also good to keep a level head about one’s self.
January 4th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
It’s always funny when you try to wrap your desire to keep women chained to the home in some sort of noble trapping, Mark. I applaud these women for finding what they want to do with their lives, just a I applaud women who do the same thing in the workplace. You only applaud the former and denigrate the latter for…I dunno…being to independent, I guess.
January 4th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Orlando,
A woman chained to a cubicle and dependent upon faceless, corporate masters for her livelihood is “independent”?
January 4th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
No, Mark, a woman who makes her own decisions is independent–a concept that apparently frightens and confuses you. Better to just tell them what their lives will be (get on that Catholic Plop ‘Til You Drop program post haste and make friends with the stove and the vacuum!) then let them decide for themselves, right?
January 4th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
fmrmarine is a WM!!! BWAHAHAA!!! She’s a BAM!!! Nothing more than a typist.
January 4th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Mark,
“Figure it like this - I’m wrong about this if you can demonstrate that a woman shuffling papers in a cubicle is having a better life than a woman at home raising her children…the former just helps keep the corporate wheels grinding, the latter raises up the next generation.”
That might be true, if those were the only options women had. I know women that are doctors, electricians, soldiers, lawyers, business owners, and teachers. In fact, I can’t thing of many jobs anymore that women don’t hold. Many of the best students I work with have working moms. Many have stay at home moms. Why shouldn’t my daughters have the same opportunities as my son?
January 4th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
douchebag
your name says it all.
nice try though moron.
January 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Casper,
Certainly, your daughter is “empowered” to be dependent entirely upon the vagaries of someone she doesn’t know for her living…this will make her just as “empowered” as the men similarly situated.
Perhaps it is time that we rediscovered just what the words “empowered”, “free”, “independent”, etc mean…I’m beginning to suspect that you don’t really know.
January 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
My problem is not with the concept of feminism - the idea that women have the same life choices as a man - my problem is with extreme feminists who discriminate against women who choose to stay at homke.
January 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
fmrmarine,
ok typist, get out from under the 1st shirts desk
January 4th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Orlando,
My contention is that anyone who is dependent upon the leave of another to make a living isn’t really making his or her own decisions. I know that for you on the left the most important choices a person can make are whether or not to have sex and abortions, but real freedom involves far more than that.
January 4th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
My contention is that anyone who is dependent upon the leave of another to make a living isn’t really making his or her own decisions.
Thank you for finally admitting that your idealized vision of womanhood is one that is dependent. After all, a housewife is dependent upon her husband to support her and make any decisions beyond food and cleaning. This is per your own description.
Also, your attempts to define down the meanings of the words “empowered,” “free,” and “independent” are both weak and sad, but they’re also in keeping with your attempts to cast your desire for female subservience as something noble.
January 4th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Mark
Also, your attempts to define down the meanings of the words “empowered,” “free,” and “independent” are both weak and sad, but they’re also in keeping with your attempts to cast your desire for female subservience as something noble.
Obviously oleando is to stupid to understand what you are espousing.
A blind man who has only been a bathtub will never be able to conceive the majesty of the ocean. Not only will orl. not be able to comprehend this, he will argue with you and tell you that you are wrong……….
January 4th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I’m sorry I’m over your head, Alleged marine. Perhaps if you fixated on things other than anal sex, you’d be better equipped to handle these conversations.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Mark: Perhaps it is time that we rediscovered just what the words “empowered”, “free”, “independent”, etc mean…I’m beginning to suspect that you don’t really know.
I’m beginning to suspect that you’re preparing yourself for the possibility of being required to find out.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
blowlando
you fixated on things other than anal sex, you’d be better equipped to handle these conversations.
Hmmm i dont remembering mentioning it here?
sounds like you protest a bit to much huh ranger?
January 4th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
orlando,
You’ve been entirely propagandized on the issue - but I hope that in years to come you’ll start to ponder the relative merits of home vs cubicle.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
ricorun,
Ah, but I already know - I learned it a long time ago from Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn: “possess nothing!”. It took me a while to really understand it, but the person who has voluntarily denied himself possessions is the free person…the fool climbing the corporate ladder and piling wealth upon wealth is enslaved, on the other hand.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Thanks for admitting I’m right, Mark, with your “propagandized” dodge. That’s the first step toward correcting yourself.
But at least you were able to work a joke–however unintentional–into your capitulation. “Home” and “cubicle” are the only two options, Mark? Whoops!
January 4th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Mark,
“Perhaps it is time that we rediscovered just what the words “empowered”, “free”, “independent”, etc mean…I’m beginning to suspect that you don’t really know.”
I suspect you are correct, but maybe not for the reasons you think. I think our differences are more in how we see work. You see work as “shuffling papers in a cubicle”. I see it as something fulfilling and interesting. Of course I wouldn’t want my daughter or son for that matter, stuck “shuffling papers in a cubicle”. What I would hope for them is to have a job like mine or my wife’s. You see, I love my job. I can hardly wait to get up in the morning and go to work. I have a blast almost everyday. And it’s not just me. I have a brother who remodels houses. He loves starting with a trashed out house and turning it into a showplace and he’s very good at it. My other brother is a TV producer and gets great joy out of creating videos. My sister is a teacher, and yes she loves her job too.
Maybe what you need is a new job, doing something you enjoy. Then you wouldn’t look as such a terrible.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
douchbag
ok typist, get out from under the 1st shirts desk
0311
1311
RVN 1966-1968
Battles of
Khe sanh,
Hue
Dong Ha
yours loudmouth?
January 4th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Opps. I meant to say “Then you wouldn’t look at work as such a terrible thing.”
January 4th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
capspurp
“Then you wouldn’t look at work as such a terrible thing.”
Where the F did you get that from?
you are supposed to be a teacher?
you like whorlando read way to much between the lines, and let your peanut brains run wild with imagination.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
fmrwmarine,
I call BS. In post #6 you claim to be a WM. Sorry no 0311 WM’s. Which is it? Can’t be both. Period.
January 4th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
douschebag
WM = WHITE MALE!
asshat
January 4th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
WM=Woman Marine
Anyone in the Corps since WWII knows that asshat
January 4th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
douschbag
and you a BM?
still waiting to hear your record, or was it smoking crack in DA HOOD?
wit DA homies?
January 4th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
douschebag
did you even read the post?
If you came away with woman Manine out of that you are even a bigger douschebag than i give you credit for.
answer the question………….?
YOUR record??
January 4th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
fmrwmarine,
That is your alleged service record. I am not convinced you were ever in the Corps, given your lack of basic USMC knowledge. Asshat and fraud.
January 4th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
douschebag
YOUR record ….camon big man lets hear it!
bigmouth never was BM!
January 4th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
What’s your real story fmrwmarine? Obviously you weren’t a jarhead. Did you get those battle names off of Wikipedia? I’m not claiming any record. I think I’m going to Swift Boat your phony ass.
January 4th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
fmrwmarine,
BTW, there is no s in douchebag. asshat
January 4th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
douschbag
I’m not claiming any record. I think I’m going to Swift Boat your phony ass.
BWWWWWWAAAAA HA HA HA!!!!!!!
ROTFLMAO!
swift away MO FO……..Im no john kerry or YOU.
DO IT CAMON ……lets see it………….mr NO RECORD
January 4th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Its not so much an “either/or” but, rather, a “my goodness, we’ve been a bunch of idiots for 40 years”
Mark,
Yes … and there is where I’m sure, if you’ll look … you’ll find the public schools to be the culprit … and I’ve been doing some thinking … how we fix the public education system … I know many Christians are withdrawing their children from the public schools, and hopefully there’ll be a mass exodus from them over the next year or two…this would help to further minimize the number of children who are exposed to the evil system … but then again, to allow the public education system to collapse wouldn’t necessarily be helping the problem … of course, it would help the many children who are raised in Christian homes…but overall, would help very little the battle that is already in place from the last forty years of indoctrination (teachers filling their students heads full of propaganda, the fruits of which we experience today in the form of a ever rapidly declining society).
Instead of weakening the system in that manner, what need to be doing is strengthening the public education system by demanding that all of their revisionist material be destroyed, and bring back the traditional school material … at the same time, completely destroying the more modern subjects that would be the studies of homosexuality, feminism, the social science, etc.
You see, for a long time I thought shutting public schools down would be a “good” thing per se, but now that I have contemplated the matter … the problem is bigger than just shutting them down … we have to CHANGE them, so that we clean the new and corrupted ways out, and even teachers who might teach the new and corrupted ways out…and replacing them with teachers who are willing to teach the courses in their proper context, so to speak … many teachers have left the public school system for the very reason that the N.E.A, who have you … have a set agenda of liberal revisionist based curriculum to teach the children…..so they left the public school to join the private school force where they could teach the children truth.
To sum it up … the problem I see, is that instead of facing the problem … we are backing away from it … and this is not good, because what this tells me, is that we don’t have enough people with the courage to stand in the face of the secular pinheads and put an end to their twisted ways.
In my honest opinion … secularists do not deserve jobs. period.
Think the matter over if you will, as this is a very important issue … and then maybe you can add to it.
January 4th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Mark: I learned it a long time ago from Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn: “possess nothing!”.
That’s good to know. And if it so happens that you are required to put what you learned into actual practice, I will pray for you.
January 4th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I believe you mean “come on” not “camon”. Look I could type up a record and it would be unverifiable, just like yours. And again, given your basic lack of Marine Corps knowledge, I suspect your record is a fraud, tough guy.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Mark
- I’m wrong about this if you can demonstrate that a woman shuffling papers in a cubicle is having a better life than a woman at home raising her children…the former just helps keep the corporate wheels grinding, the latter raises up the next generation. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being abject-degradation and 10 being near-saintly, I give the paper shuffler a 3 and the mother a 10. How ’bout you?
I give the paper shuffler a 3 and the stayhome 100!
My wife is a stay at home mom/wife.
95% of her gal friends have confided to her they are jealous and wish they could have a life closer to hers than the corporate grind.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Jeremiah: In my honest opinion … secularists do not deserve jobs. period.
I have to say that sometimes you greatly challenge my resolve to consider the source in your case. But still, I will leave this latest proclamation of yours alone. After all, it speaks loudly enough all by itself.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
douchebag
I believe you mean “come on” not “camon”. Look I could type up a record and it would be unverifiable, just like yours. And again, given your basic lack of Marine Corps knowledge, I suspect your record is a fraud, tough guy.
so I use the initials “WM” (white male) YOU interpolate it to mean woman Marine…how you would make that conclusion from my post is beyond RETARDED-so far ok?
I provide you with my record, 100% accurately, and you contend I have a basic lack of knowledge of the corps from that? WTF?
Man you are a STUPID wanna be never was.
now run along BOYand leave the men to do the heavy lifting.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
jeremiah,
You can probably start by running for the local school board. That’s who is charge of most schools.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
caspurrrrrr
You can probably start by running for the local school board. That’s who is charge of most schools.
Not really
the fed, state govts and of course the NEA run them.
dont believe me….try to end busing, try end diversity indoctrination, try teaching Christian based morality.
They and you are simply leftwing marxist indoctrination camp directors.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I have to say that sometimes you greatly challenge my resolve to consider the source in your case.
Well, that’s probably because you’re a pragmatist … or in most sophisticated terms, a Post-Modernist…lol.
So, you really have no belief…except that everything subjective to your own feelings and ego…you tend to interpret things from what your mind or flesh tell you instead of what God’s Word says which is absolute truth … in other words, you don’t stand for anyone, or anything except … you. In a sense, I guess you could say that you’re on idle, give or take … you make a lot of noise, but it doesn’t do any good, it’s not of any benefit to society. In more than most cases, however, with neutral people (pragmatists/postmodernists), they generally tend to side to the left in political matters … and today, that’s not such a good thing.
We desperately need people who are willing to stand for what is right and truth and holy … such as the dear lady quoted in this article.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
You can probably start by running for the local school board. That’s who is charge of most schools.
I doubt it, Casper … even if I did make it, I’d be the only one in the public education system who would be willing to teach truth … say I have 50 students per day … that still does not account for the thousands of others being indoctrinated in left-wing revisionism across the nation … even in my own school, because of the other teachers who would teach differently … me teaching truth, while they’re teaching falsehoods isn’t going to work.
It’s going to take a shift on a national level … and the one way to start is by cutting funding to the N.E.A … the most dangerous organization in America today.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
fmrmarine,
“the fed, state govts and of course the NEA run them.
dont believe me….try to end busing, try end diversity indoctrination, try teaching Christian based morality.
They and you are simply leftwing marxist indoctrination camp directors.”
We don’t have busing in my district. As for diversity indoctrination, I’m not sure what you mean. We do try to teach our students to respect themselves and others, which some might see as a Christian based moral. The closes thing we do as far as indoctrination is have the students say the pledge every morning.
Now based on your comment, if jeremiah wants to effect change, he needs to either work for the state or federal government or become a member of the NEA. I’m not sure he wants to take those options. In our district, the school board has a lot of power, and if you were looking to change the system, that would be the place to start.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
he needs to either work for the state or federal government or become a member of the NEA. I’m not sure he wants to take those options. In our district, the school board has a lot of power, and if you were looking to change the system, that would be the place to start.
That’s what I’m saying, Casper … I am powerless by myself. Common sense tells you that there is strength in numbers … and this is why we have the rights guaranteed us in the Constitution to petition our government … just like they did in proposition 8, just like they did over the atheist sign in the State of Washington … you see what a difference we can make when we put an effort into winning the battle … but we have to keep up the momentum … we can’t just stop on one issue and hope the rest will cure itself, because it’s not, because the atheists are going to continue to take advantage of the places that we leave off at … just because some stupid lawyer convinced a judge that prayer and Bible reading “shouldn’t” be in school does not make that pinhead judge or lawyer “right”, it just makes them stupid … and stupidity is how we got the ruling in Everson v Board of Education and we have to reverse that stupid ruling.
The longer we wait to push back, however, is that much longer for the masses to be indoctrinated, and in time, time will have run out.
So … Saddle up, blow your trumpets and holler CHAAARGE! .. ;)
January 4th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I applaud the decision of anyone to forego a life of materialism and corporate success to pursue spirituality. Still I cannot understand what is gained by renouncing the society of the larger world for the contrived rigor of a religious institution.
You say, “The biggest mistake anyone can make in contemplating this story is to think that these women are in retreat - they are in the vanguard, the sharp point of the revived world.”
What vanguard of what revived world? The world generally never hears from these women again. Out of ten thousand nuns comes one Mother Teresa. I remember two courageous Franciscan nuns from Iowa who were imprisoned years ago for protesting at the School of the Americas, but I suspect they made their bold statement independent of the convent.
Jesus said, “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:13-16.
The either/or scenario portrayed by Sister Maria Jose of spiritual “emptiness”, “going out to bars”, etc, vs. pursuing prayer and seeking Jesus in a convent is a simplistic, false dichotomy. Prayer is an attitude that can permeate one’s life regardless where you are. Perhaps the greatest challenge and triumph of all is to bring the spirit of Christ into the larger world through one’s own personal values and demeanor. How do you square Jesus’ command to “Let your light shine before men” [or the world] with life in a convent?
January 4th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Casper,
Oh, I like what I do fine - and when it gets to be drudgery (which it does, at times) I bring to mind that all lawful work is to be done for the glory of God and, also, it allows us to put into practice the advice to pray without ceasing. But I’m not independent - I don’t set the hours of my work, I don’t set the conditions of my work, I don’t get to choose if I’ll work 12 hours today and 3 hours tomorrow. I am, while I am my job, ruled by others - as are all of those who labor in corporate America.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Mark,
“But I’m not independent - I don’t set the hours of my work, I don’t set the conditions of my work, I don’t get to choose if I’ll work 12 hours today and 3 hours tomorrow. I am, while I am my job, ruled by others - as are all of those who labor in corporate America.”
Few people are independent, including stay at home moms. My daughter-in-laws world is built around the sleeping and eating habits of a 1year old and a four year old. Both of my brothers have a lot more control over their schedules, seeing that they both work for themselves. There are a lot of jobs that have some leaway built in. Corporate America doesn’t provide all of the jobs. As for the difference in how we look at our jobs: I like what I do fine is a long way from loving a job so much you can’t wait to go to work in the morning. I’ve had a lot of jobs I liked just fine, but only a couple I’ve been passionate about. And while I am ruled by others to a degree, it’s not a problem because I enjoy what I do so much. I personally feel that God has guided me to where I am now, because everything I’ve done in the past has prepared me for what I do now.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
fraudmarine,
That is some mighty scary typing; your use of all caps and bold has put the fear of your god into me. BTW, if you were in Viet Nam 1966-1968, how come you told Mark your wife is a “stay at home mom/wife”, present tense. That would put you in your sixties. Your kids must be pushing 40. Your story just keeps getting harder to believe.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
The Virtuous Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9OVpqCMGE&feature=related
January 4th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Mark: Oh, I like what I do fine - and when it gets to be drudgery (which it does, at times) I bring to mind that all lawful work is to be done for the glory of God and, also, it allows us to put into practice the advice to pray without ceasing.
Goodness, how fatalistic. But pardon me for reading between the lines: you really don’t want to resign yourself to your fate. That much is obvious, despite your protestations. You don’t have to admit it to me (or anyone else here) but I’m guessing you feel both trapped and worried, and you’re praying for a way out. It that’s the case, I think you should admit it to one or more someones who could do you some good. The person that immediately comes to mind is your priest. To be perfectly honest (and perhaps inappropriately so, especially given the topic), I tend to have problems with nuns as a general rule. But also as a general rule I have a high regard for priests. At least in my experience most of them actually do know what they’re doing.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
ricorun,
Careful reading between the lines. fmrmarine might get mad.
I’m not going to say you are right, but I can tell you that I was once there. About twenty years ago I was a retail manager and while I was very well paid, I was very unhappy. It started affecting my health and my relationship with my wife and family. My wife and I made the decision that I needed to do something different. I went back to school, got my teaching degree, and was able to find a teaching job fairly quickly. And when I say God guided me to this decision, I really mean it. Everything fell into place and I’ve never looked back. I can’t say it was easy though. I was out of work for a year and a half and when I did get a job, I took a forty percent pay cut. Things were very tight for years, but it was probably the best decision I’ve ever made. I could never have done it with out the support of my wife and family and God’s help.
January 4th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Jeremiah strikes again. Spoken like a true anti-American theocrat.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Jeremiah strikes again. Spoken like a true anti-American theocrat.
Haaaahaaaahaaa!
You and Rico, like most libs … don’t like it when something or someone comes along to threaten your evil little games.
Yeah, I don’t like it either when teachers are betraying America behind the backs of godly fathers and mothers all across the nation, and turning their children into monsters … I mean real geniuses, with purely demonic minds…
As Ravi Zacharias would say … ‘Genius gone wrong!’
But … whose fault is it? None other than their parents, who have sit back for the last forty years and let it happen … and now, most of them are gone…and the ones who are left are the very products of those generations, who wouldn’t fight for what’s right.
It’s a mess … One gigantic ball of shame, just pure shame!
January 5th, 2009 at 5:04 am
douchebag
Your story just keeps getting harder to believe.
Who gives a flying crap what a MORON like you thinks.
as one poster says “if stupid were a crime- you would be on death row”.
ASShat!
January 5th, 2009 at 7:11 am
“… secularists do not deserve jobs. period.”
I must say, this makes you more offensive. Why do we not deserve jobs? Are you jealous because we don’t have to do other people’s bidding?
January 5th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Mark and Marine: Thank you for responding to my post. I do NOT want to sound like I am beginning the battle of sexes so please bear with me as I try to make my point clear.
When women became empowered and sexual harrassment laws were put into place……that was a GOOD thing. I don’t want to go back to the old days when some guy wanted to play grab ass with me in the work place. I don’t want to go back to the days when the church hid spousal and child abuse. Unfortunately, the last 25 years we have seen an increase of violence against women. What women achieved in the mid 60s-80s is being lost due to inferior education and the moral break down of society. The Supreme Court decided it was okay to kill the innocent preborn and several states said that you can kill granny at the same time. The old slogan “we have come along way baby” does NOT hold much truth. I don’t blame feminism for this……..I blame society as a whole. Where was the moral outrage from not only the Conservatives, but also the Right Wing? Where were the marches for parental rights? for mandatory graduation from high school? for 0 tolerance? for not tying the hands of our law enforcement? for following the Rule of Law? The USA has devolved as a society.
If you don’t believe me, look at some of the liberal posts on this blog. Not only are they disgusting, it makes one wonder if these kids who blog here have any parents. You can’t blame that on feminism. You can only blame the woman for not keeping her legs closed and the guy for not keeping his zipper shut.