Addictions used to be simple: tobacco, alcohol, sex, drugs, liberalism. No more: perversity is embedded deep within the 21st Century zeitgeist. Now we have people addicted to killing babies:
Irene Vilar worries that her self-described “abortion addiction” will be misunderstood, twisted by the pro-life movement to deny women the right to choose.
Most of the twisting is contained in the overused drab euphemism “the right to choose”.
Obama tells us he was black before the election:
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This confirms my suspicion that Obama is actually a white liberal in disguise.
This will follow shortly after the imminent release of all political prisoners, the ushering in of democracy and the returning of stolen body parts to Falun Gong adherents:
China will increase efforts to improve energy efficiency and curb the rise in CO2 emissions, President Hu Jintao has told a UN climate summit in New York.
Mr Hu gave no details about the measures, which should mean emissions grow less quickly than the economy.
The US, the world’s other major emitter, said China’s proposals were helpful but figures were needed.
Scotland Yard is looking for new bodyguards for Her Majesty:
You must be a hotshot with a weapon, have a nose for hidden danger and the ability to melt into the background.
But that’s not all you need to join the latest intake of the elite royal protection squad guarding the Queen.
It also helps if you’re lesbian, gay or transgender.
‘Applications are particularly welcomed from women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and black and minority ethnic communities/people as these are under-represented-within SO14.’ Successful candidates must be trained in firearms and will be expected to work 12-hour shifts.
Why are there no eunuchs? This is discrimination.
As Christendom aborts and birth-controls itself into extinction, Muslims in Africa are being encouraged to go forth and multiply. Novel idea:
The new leader of the Anglican church in Nigeria believes that Muslims are “mass producing” babies to take over Africa.
The Most Revd Nicholas Okoh, who believes that Christianity is under attack from Islam, was elected primate of Nigeria earlier this month, making him one of the powerful figures in Anglicanism.
Nigeria, where the Anglican church has 17 million adherents, is split between Christianity and Islam.
In a sermon in Beckenham, Kent, in July he spoke of African Christians being “surrounded by Islamic domination”.
In extracts quoted by The Times, he said: “They spend a lot of money, even in places where they don’t have congregations, they build mosques, they build hospitals, they build anything.
“They come to Africans and say, ‘Christianity is asking you to marry only one wife. We will give you four’.”
He went on: “That is the type of evangelism they are doing: mass-production, so if you have four wives, four children, sixteen children, very soon you will be a village.”
Meanwhile, Rowan Williams – who know something about hair mass-production since he has more in his eyebrows than Osama bin Laden does in his beard – is beating back the onslaught of Islam by positive engagement and good wishes:
The Archbishop of Canterbury has released a message for the Muslim festival Eid.
Sending “warm good wishes” to the Muslim community, Dr Rowan Williams cites recent positive examples of Christian and Muslim “engagement”.
“My great hope for the coming year is that our festivals will increasingly be occasions of mutual gladness,” he says.
This is how we cure our dog’s bad breath:
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The CBC announces the Olympic Truce:
Next month, Canada will ask the United Nations to pass a resolution that calls for all countries to “promote the ideals of peace” during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The resolution will ask countries to adopt what’s known as the Olympic Truce, which calls on the world community to cease hostilities during the Games and promote the ideals of peace through sport.
“We believe [the resolution] will be supported by every country,” said John Furlong, the CEO of Vancouver’s Olympic organizing committee.
“I think one of the most important things is to draw to the attention of the world. The Olympic games are on and a spirit of peace should prevail wherever it can, we’ve always believed, and people of sport believe when you’re playing, you’re not fighting.”
Why did no-one think of this before? All that is needed for world peace is more sport. As sweaty sportsmen and women ply their trade a spirit of peace will waft from continent to continent; terrorists and soldiers alike will be soothed into a state of soporific sarvodaya by the sight of gristly steroid-enhanced women galloping around in circles for no good reason.
This kind of innovative brilliance could only come from a nice country like Canada.
From the Star:
‘Queer’ hall of fame inducts Pierre Trudeau.
VANCOUVER–Pierre Trudeau’s flamboyance and tendency to provoke debate often landed him in controversy and those traits have now landed him in the Queer Hall of Fame.
Trudeau is one of five inaugural inductees into the newly established hall, along with Olympic gold-medal swimmer Mark Tewksbury and three other long-time activists in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community.
The former prime minister was a key figure in decriminalizing homosexuality and his famous partial quote – “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation” – helped convince Parliament to pass the law in 1969.
For a liberal such as Trudeau, the bedroom was just about the only place where the state had no place: it intruded everywhere else. That has all changed: now you can’t keep the state out of the bedroom – particularly children’s bedrooms. We have diverse, inclusive, pornographic state sponsored sex indoctrination designed to convince the last people who need convincing – hormone-inflamed teenagers – that sex is enjoyable:
In her workshops, Jansen urges teens to ask about anything and everything, from masturbation, gender identity and same-sex feelings to sex toys (which they keep on hand in case the subject comes up), why people like oral sex, and why that particular act should go both ways. She encourages them to role play in order to learn how to broach difficult conversations. For instance, how do you raise the subject of condoms in the heat of the moment? And what do you do if a boy says he won’t wear one? To help illustrate the “pleasure centres” portion of the lesson, Jansen and her colleagues bring in visual aids from the store, including a plush pink vulva puppet. “People laugh. They can’t believe it,” she says. “But they don’t know what a vulva looks like. Adult women don’t know what a vulva looks like.” To describe the male anatomy, they bring a dildo. “We usually bring one that is silver-coloured and we say, ‘This is the head of the penis. This is the shaft. These are the sensitive parts.’ ”
I attended the conference, “Ignite the Light” in Toronto yesterday.
I went partly to hear Ravi Zacharias, whom I had never seen in person, but have always enjoyed listening to – largely because of his adroitness in apologetics. In God in the Dock, C. S. Lewis wrote:
Finally, I must add that my own work has suffered very much from the incurable intellectualism of my approach. The simple emotional appeal (“Come to Jesus’) is often successful. But those who, like myself, lack the gift for making it, had better not attempt it.
Not so for Ravi Zacharias; I discovered yesterday that he can manage both.
The Anglican Church is obsessed with justice: we have social justice, eco-justice, justice camps, justice networks and justice missions. What we don’t have is any recognition of what justice is, or of the distinction between injustice and unfairness, or of the concept that, from the point of view of the state – which is where the church applies pressure – justice is properly concerned with the punishment of crime. Of course, the notion of punishing crime is anathema to Western Anglicanism, probably because it reminds apostate Anglican bishops of the essence of Christianity: we deserve to be punished, Christ was punished instead, we , if we accept it, go free – much too redolent of fundamentalism.
In Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov murders an odious pawnbroker, ostensibly to steal her money and use it for good. Raskolnikov reasons that conventional morality is for ordinary people; the extraordinary make their own rules and become their own “god” – the downfall of Satan and now the foundation of the ACoC and TEC.
Although Raskolnikov has convinced himself that he is extraordinary and therefore above conventional morality, the act of murder plays on his conscience so he gives himself up. He eventually realises that he needs redemption and rebirth; submitting to temporal justice is a necessary part of this rebirth. Because justice is part of the order of the universe, for redemption, the criminal needs justice as much as the victim.
Regrettably, the thinking of the modern criminal is not quite as subtle as Raskolnikov’s; neither is that of the average justice obsessed cleric. For him justice has little to do with rewarding the virtuous and punishing the guilty: it is, instead, a levelling exercise where the successful – even the successful criminal – must be flattened or rehabilitated to the level of mediocrity, perhaps then to pursue a career as an Anglican priest.