Alternative title:  Last one to the gallows is a rotten disciple

From an article in Portland, Oregon’s secular newspaper by editorialist M.D. Harmon (mharmon@mainetoday.com) ….

On Sept. 29 [the Feast of the ArchAngels], the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, the umbrella policy group of American Catholicism, announced the formation of an “Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty.”

Why might the bishops be concerned about freedoms that are protected both in ordinary law and the Bill of Rights?

They’re worried because they have good reason to think that our current national leadership places other priorities much higher than mere constitutionally protected liberties.

In a statement released by Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the president of the council, the committee’s purpose is “to address the increasing threats to religious liberty in our society so that the church’s mission may advance unimpeded and the rights of believers of any religious persuasion or none may be respected.”

Dolan listed six areas of concern “arising just since June”:

• Rules from the Department of Health and Human Services would mandate the inclusion of abortion-causing contraceptives and sterilization in all private health plans, thereby requiring groups and individuals with moral objections to such things to pay for them or provide them to others.

• HHS requires that USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services provide “the full range of reproductive services” — that is, abortion and contraception — to refugees and others under the private agency’s care.

• There are provisions that HIV prevention programs conducted by Catholic Relief Services require condom distribution and other contraceptive services to its clients abroad.

• “The Justice Department’s attack on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has presented DOMA’s support for traditional marriage as bigotry.” (DOMA was signed by President Bill Clinton, I would point out.) The USCCB concludes that if this view is adopted by the courts, it will result in “church-state conflicts for years to come.”

• New York state’s new law redefining marriage offers “only a very narrow religious exemption. Already, county clerks face legal action for refusing to participate in same-sex unions” (in an attempt to drive traditional Christians out of such jobs completely, I would guess) and “gay rights advocates are publicly emphasizing how little religious freedom protection” is available under the new law to those with faith-based objections to it.

• Finally, the USCCB condemns the Justice Department’s “recent attack on the critically important ‘ministerial exception.’ ” The exception says churches, not the state, have the right to determine who is qualified to perform religiously related duties.

But Justice, in a current case involving a teacher in a Lutheran school, has denied not just the school’s claim the post was religious, but that the exception should apply to anyone (except possibly a tiny minority of church workers).

If that view prevails, it could spur suits against a church’s standards for any of its staffers, including that some be men. Or, for that matter, heterosexual.

Thus, “separation of church and state” only seems to work one way with these people.

Now, I’m not a Roman Catholic, and I don’t hold to every detail of that church’s teachings on these issues. But it seems very likely that faithful Catholics and other faith groups are at greater risk of government-sponsored persecution now than at any time in our history.

Is “persecution” too strong a word? Watch people lose their jobs, or a valued hospital, school or adoption service close, because the government dislikes their religious views, and then tell me if it is OK.

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Are you ready for the storm, “yessir, ready?”  Click here and here to muse on that question artistically. 

Hat tip to Doug Lawrence for the above article.   Find it in print through his very fine website, here.

One of the factors weighing down markets is the perception that the situation is worse than 2008, and that there are fewer policy options available to governments and central banks.

“The underlying cause is the same – excessive levels of debt,”

Source: 

As good as Rich Mullins does with this song, here it is done even better ….

God help us …  We must stop the madness.  We have butchered our own little ones like this for so long we no longer know right from wrong.

THE MADMAN—-Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: “I seek God! I seek God!”—As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated?—Thus they yelled and laughed

The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is God?” he cried; “I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

“How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us—for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto.”

Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. “I have come too early,” he said then; “my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than most distant stars—and yet they have done it themselves.

It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his requiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: “What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?”

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882, 1887) para. 125; Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]

Here is Ravi Zacharias using this same Nietzsche poem

To be fair to the secular progressives at USA Today, they did try to separate the advent of oral contraceptives from sexual license, but fell short as they described all of the benefits that derived from, in the words of the Magisterium, the separating of the unitive from the procreative.  Here is the link to a prophetic document warning the world of the harms that can arise out of the post-modern lust for sexual license.

Here is the abbreviated take on the USA Today celebration:  Our cultural overlords led us into a Brave New World where Mother’s Day becomes cause to celebrate intentional sterility – what some would dub a very unmotherly status.

Beyond a sociological disconnect is this glaring error:   USA Today’s article failed to mention some of the most seriously disturbing social and environmental affects of the pill.

Last Fall I was invited to speak at Right to Life Kanasas’ state convention, thanks to my old friends Elmer and Audrey Feldkamp.   Elmer has been in pro-life leadership in Kansas since Roe v. Wade came down, plowing on, through thick and thin, victories and losses, ever since.  He and Audrey are good people.

They asked me to address the downside of oral contraceptives.  The result is a powerpoint presentation entitled “The Four Horsemen of a Chemical Apocalypse.”  (Presentation available upon request.)

Note:  Right to Life Kansas is not affiliated with the National Right to Life Committee.  The NRLC has no position on contraception or the pill.

Like USA  Today, I found the advent of the pill quite profound.  Unlike USA Today, I found this advent profoundly disturbing.  Both my research and the USA Today article argree that the introduction of the pill marked the ascendancy of the Culture of Death over Christian history.

Unlike USA Today, I find no cause to celebrate.

This is because the pill has disturbed male-female dynamics.  The pill has disturbed women’s mental health.  The pill has disturbed women’s physical health.  And the pill has disturbed – and this may be the most disturbing of all – the environment.

I am no chicken little — the sky really does appear to be falling.

On this 50^th anniversary I will focus the remainder of my Mother’s Day post on the final of these four — the great “unmothering” of our fresh water supplies.

Consider …

… that the pill is, in reality, an anabolic steriod.  While we decry the use of such substances by body builders, we have had no problem at all with our girlfriends, wives, sisters and mothers ingesting them for fifty years now.  This is because the separation of the unitive f rom the procreative is a first order goal of postmodernity.  This is why Humanae Vitae is the watershed for postmodernity.  If you have not yet read it then you have missed one of the best examples of the prophetic office in our age.  Click here to be enlightened.

Why have you never thought of the pill as a steroid before?  Because it is not that bad, artificial testosterone, oh no, that is the nasty stuff used by bodybuilders, you know, the illegal carcinogen that lodges in their livers and causes cancer.

No, the pill is a “good” anabolic steroid, very legal — even protected — that helped build the playboy culture and merely lodges in breast tissue causing … well we don’t talk about that in polite society.  (See She Raced for the Cure, down the page)

This has widespread implications on women’s health (see She Raced for the Cure), but even more disturbing on a macro level, it has widespread implications on our international ecosystem.

Why?

Because anabolic steroids are not water soluble.  That is huge.   That is not to say that they do not, in the main, escape the female body.  The kidneys and bladder play their roles well.  Most of the tens of thousands of daily doses of the pill taken by millions of modernized women across the northern hemisphere do leave the bodies of the women ingesting them … and end up in the local sewage treatment plants – the ones conveniently located on our rivers and waterways.

Most human waste, including the attending paperwork, is water soluble.   We, like our ancient Roman cousins, have designed waste water treatment facilities based upon the assumption that earth and water can dissolve and filter out anything bad in our effluence.

But then slouches in this rough beast to be born in treatment facilities:  the estrogen pill.  What does 50 years of urine containing intentional sterility do to an ecosystem?

A great question!  Merely google “estrogen, rivers, fish, sex change” to do your own research on this very relevant question.  You will find articles as recent as last month and as ancient as 1994 raising a politically incorrect alarm.  So politically incorrect, in fact, that few are willing to ring it.

But of late this problem is becoming so glaring that persons of good will simply cannot ignore it.  Consider this from an ecology website two years ago:

After an exhaustive seven-year research effort, Canadian biologists found that miniscule amounts of estrogen present in municipal wastewater discharges can decimate wild fish populations living downstream.

The research, led by Dr. Karen Kidd, an NSERC-funded biology professor at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John) and the Canadian Rivers Institute, confirms that synthetic estrogen used in birth control pills can wreak havoc on the sex lives of fish. Small amounts of estrogen are excreted naturally by women whether or not they are taking birth control pills.

Note the above in blue – a politically correct fig leaf.  They do not note that natural estogen is water soluble.  Artificial estrogen is not.  These Canadians continue …

Male fish exposed to estrogen become feminized, producing egg protein normally synthesized by females. In female fish, estrogen often retards normal sexual maturation, including egg production.

“We’ve known for some time that estrogen can adversely affect the reproductive health of fish, but ours was the first study to show the long-term impact on the sustainability of wild fish populations,” explains Kidd. “What we demonstrated is that estrogen can wipe out entire populations of small fish — a key food source for larger fish whose survival could in turn be threatened over the longer term.” Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/fish-sex-change-47021801#ixzz0nRJ3EiED

Now, just in case you have pictured Canadian Mounties eyedropping estrogen onto waterways, think again.  Consider this more recent alarm from a technological website tracking this environmental threat:

Water Treatment Systems Unable to Remove Estrogen from Drinking Water

Estrogen and estrogen-like compounds enter water rivers, steams and reservoirs from many sources and remain there even after passing through water treatment plants. About 80% of 139 U.S. rivers are contaminated with trace [estrogen] compounds.  …  Existing water treatment processes, which often involve naturally occurring bacteria in sewage sludge, can only remove as much as 94% of estrogen from untreated water, but what remains is still potent enough to cause  [harm]. Although harmful estrogens often remain in water after treatment, this performance is not surprising, says Texas A&M Zachery Department of Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Kung-Hui (Bella) Chu, because conventional water treatment processes weren’t designed to deal with estrogens.

So it is a problem.  How big?  Very big.  Here is a recent academic paper on the subject, complete with molecular explanations.  One sentence, following the most recent (and alarming) fish sex studies in Europe, leaps off the page: “In fish, the observed effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals clearly have high ecological relevance as impairment of reproductive system have consequences at all ecological levels.”

This same alarming phenonemon has been documented all over the United States. Catfish, Bass, Trout — all feminized, all filled to the brim with synthetic estrogen.

How alarming is this?  Not very if you merely listen to the mainstream media.  Even most Christian media are ignoring this story.  Powerful social forces demand that it be ignored.  Big pharma, big feminists, big one worlders (Fabian socialists like Planned Parenthood and their useful idiots in elected office and the media).

Thanks  be to God for the Catholic media, for they have at least given it some columns -  although few inches in the past years.

Consider this from Catholic Register a few years back:

Contracepting the Environment: Environmentalists Mum on Poisoned Streams 

 BY WAYNE LAUGESENREGISTER CORRESPONDENT•July 15-21, 2007 Issue | Posted 7/10/07 at 1:25 PM •BOULDER, Colo. — When EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a pristine mountain stream known as Boulder Creek two years ago, they were shocked. Randomly netting 123 trout and other fish downstream from the city’s sewer plant, they found that 101 were female, 12 were male, and 10 were strange “intersex” fish with male and female features. •It’s “the first thing that I’ve seen as a scientist that really scared me,” said then 59-year-old University of Colorado biologist John Woodling, speaking to the Denver Post in 2005.

So a biologist was really scared five years ago.  Nothing has been done since then except denial.

Five years ago, when the sex bending was found throughout the United States,  University of Colorado physiology professor David Norris scratched his head and said:    “Nobody is getting passionately concerned about it.   It makes no sense to me at all that people aren’t more concerned.”

Norris has probably since learned that this particular steroid is the Holy Grail of the culture of death.  Contraception and abortion are sacraments in their system.  They played the flute, we danced to their tune.  We then opened Pandora’s Box 50 years ago.   We have now sowed to the wind for half a century.

Will we soon reap the whirlwind?

The scientists say yes.  (But only in hushed tones,  since it is politically incorrect to so speak.)

p.s.  The above is available as a presentation upon request.

Michigan U.S. Congressman John Dingell claims that the nationalization of the health care delivery system — including the mental health authorities like Dr. Elizabeth Bowman and Dr.  Stephen Ross — is needed “to control the people.” Click here for that interview.

(As one already so “controlled”  I can offer an expert opinion on Big Brother’s love.  It ain’t warm and fuzzy.  See the Brown v. Bowman category on this website for details.)

And now another bill on marking us all with national identity cards:  http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/95235-democrats-spark-alarm-with-call-for-national-id-card

As we have reported, persecution can break out in America faster than anyone realizes.  Trust me, I know first hand.  Here is my claim to that title:  http://www.archangelinstitute.org/a-post-modern-heresy-trial-post-2-what-my-inquisitors-most-wanted-to-hear/

Here are warnings of a coming storm:  http://www.archangelinstitute.org/is-matyrdom-coming-to-america/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/gathering-storm-clouds-on-the-horizon/

It is enough to cause me to rerun the following post from last summer:
I (Bryan) attended a seminar put on by the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C., a few years ago. The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) sent some attorneys over to brief us on the ever growing problem of identity theft and bank fraud. They spoke of biometrics — systems that tied identify directly to the person. Physical descriptions have been so used since the dawn of time. (Cain? Oh, he is the fellow with the pronounced brow ridge over there. Genesis 4:16) Gender (assuming there are only two), height, weight, eye color, etc. In the last century we discovered finger, thumb and hand prints. After that it was iris patterns and facial recognition software.

Most all of this was discussed by the FTC agents. They then spoke of a future system that would guarantee that merchants would never be fooled by identity theft, assuring a much more certain economy. Especially for online trading.

Afterward I sought them out and asked this question: “Given personal computers with fingerprint access, am I correct that all of the technology now exists to solve this problem, it is only the political will to make it happen that is lacking?”

Yes, was the reply.

And, I asked, “is that political will not a concern about a Big Brother State, and especially given the writings found in the last book of the Bible about a mark to buy and sell?”

Yes, they admitted, that is the source of much of the social resistance to biometrics.

I then told my friends that the system would come out of the East, for Asia had no such platform of individual rights, fear of Big Brother and concern about divine revelation via the Bible.

At the risk of thinking stereotypically, I have to share my opinion that this verse just does not mean all that much to the governments of China or India:

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name…and his number is Six hundred & sixty-six. (Rev.13:15-18)

Click here for a news report on that I see as a major plank in the the soon coming global biometric plan. It is already begun in China and India. Here is how it will spread: First on paper, and then as implants. The global positioning satellites are flying overhead. The technology is here. As “terror” and identity fraud spreads across the dying West such biometrics will also spread. First as the “census” to get all enrolled, just like before the first coming of Christ, and then as a database tied to the government’s internet to track us all for purposes of social control.

Need some inspiration after all of that? May I suggest a careful reading of this?

*** end of post from last June

LOOKS LIKE CONGRESS MIGHT HAVE A PLAN TO GET US CAUGHT UP WITH THE EAST ON THE TAGGING OF PEOPLE PROCESS.

We viewed such scenes of late in Haiti and Chile.  The Pacific Rim is trembling, and earthquakes seem to be increasing all over the world.

Consider the New Madrid fault. It went off in the early 1800′s and the ground in the midwest rose in three foot waves. 

The Mississippi River dropped for three days as a thirty miles tear in the Earth — Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee — filled up.  The New Madrid fault created that lake.  The quake ran church bells in Boston.  It was a monster quake, in part due to the soils of the Midwest.

Were it to hit tomorrow Evansville and Indianapolis (pictured) would be smoking ruins.  Imagine life in a twenty  story building with the ground heaving in three foot waves.  It would probably be a frighten one or two minutes until the entire building fell over sideways and exploded into a billion pieces of glass, bricks and steel.  Or perhaps it would merely telescope in on itself like the Twin Towers on September 11. 

Those under marble domes and in modern cement buildings would fare no better.  Would one have time to repent of lies, injustices and other evils when the walls came a tumblin’ down?  Maybe, especially if trapped in an pocket for a few nights hoping that the aftershocks did not bring all of the rest down on you.  But one should probably not count on the time to “get right with God.”  One should do that now, and not presume upon Divine Grace.  Today is the day of salvation – it may be your only day, in fact.

Here are some links on the subject of acting on Jesus’ warnings in today’s Gospels.  Many believe that America is overdue for judgment.   If God did not spare Haiti, did not spare Chile, will he spare the Midwest if the New Madrid fault is scheduled as the next big eruption?

Something to think about when entering modern structures made of heavy rock, steel and glass.   Are you ready to meet your Maker and explain your life to him? 

Here are some posts that might help you think it all through.  What really matters when all the world quakes?

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles-2009/Reardon-Now-Is-The-Day-Of-Salvation.php

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/real-pain-real-victims-real-sad/

http://www.rachelsvineyard.org/a-message-from-our-founder-Dr-Theresa-Burke.htm

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/like-a-key-in-a-lock/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/he-is-risen-indeed/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/the-institute-trusts-in-the-risen-lord-of-history/

p.s  Tomorrow at 4 pm is the beginning of the postings of the transcript from my June 1 hearing before the Board of Bar Inquisitors.

As we noted here (on the eve of the fateful 2008 election), Christian persecution can break out much more quickly than most realize.  Do not underestimate the hatred that the Leftists and the Elite have for us.  I (Bryan) have now lived through some the Left’s best early punches, and can assure the readers that I have met Leftists who very much want to punch very much harder.

Now, I am not talking crucifixions in the local sports arena or public floggings outside the synagogues as in the Acts of the Apostles.  In modern America the persecution will be professional and polite.  No license for therapists who believe that homosexuals can change their desires through Faith, no admittance to higher education for fundamentalists who put the Bible or Church teaching first.  No admission to  the state bar for Christian activists who are unwilling to abandon their passion for justice and willingness to speak truth to power.

A Proverb comes to mind:

‘The righteous detest the dishonest;
the wicked detest the upright.”

Proverbs 29:27

At the first of the year, even before our energetic national leader took the helm, Judge Robert Bork — a man who has taken more than his fair share of Left hooks — had some prophetic words about the coming Christian persecution.

We are there now.

Click here for Bork’s commentary.

Coming up next:  The “rest of the story” on my 1992 imprisonment for refusing to pledge my absolute and unreserved obedience to a federal judge and his unconstitutional orders.

Stop The Pass Act  S. 1261

It is time to take this ALERT further by calling into national radio
shows today. Making the host and his/her millions of listeners aware
of these issues is another key strategy to killing “The PASS Act”
S.1261″.

Radio Call in Tips:

Tell the host you want to make him aware of an unconstitutional bill,
The PASS ACT, S.1261, in committee in the Senate.

State your opposition points:

1. We are opposed to Real ID and the PASS Act
2.  We are opposed to being enrolled in a Biometric Identification System
3. We don’t want Social Security Numbers in our DMV databases
4.  No RFID chips in our Driver’s Licences
5.  No federal intervention with the issuance of our State driver’s licenses
6. We are not willing to trade our freedom for security.

All of these actions are unconstitutional and a direct attack on our
civil liberties and our unalienable rights.

National Political Talk Radio Shows:
* The Rush Limbaugh Show 1-800-282-2882 12 Noon to 3 PM Eastern Time
* The Alex Jones Show 1-800-259-9231 11 AM to 3 PM Central Time
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This ID is a GLOBAL BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (see this video
for more details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kE8xDMokpM ) and is
a direct attack on our national security.
See http://StopRealIDCoalition.com for more information. Visit
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Broadcast with Mark Lerner. Watch the short EMERGENCY ALERT Video
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Fight for freedom, take action, make the calls again, and please,
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Your Friend in Freedom,

Gary Franchi
National Director
Restore the Republic!

PS. Watch and share the short EMERGENCY ALERT Video here:
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ArchAngel PS :   Wartch Sharon on the Fort’s public access  Wednesday night, July 8, at 10:00 and 10:30 p.m.. Here is more on why.