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all will be saved or tells us that some will be damned to eternity in hell here and there just for starters i don t intent to repeat those discussions because i think the issues have been beaten to death here i am going to start with an assumption that not all are saved i e that some are or will be damned to hell for eternity this assumption for this discussion is not up for debate here that there are a great many supports for it in scripture in the fathers and doctors and in official church teaching is worthwhile but not of conclusive effect for this post the question i am introducing here is separate how many will be damned continue reading how many will be saved updated 4 3 2022 posted by tony m on march 27 2022 7 24 pm permalink comments 17 del icio us september 10 2021 the day life changed i could make what follows an excuse for my not posting on here at w4 more frequently but that would be somewhat dishonest since i was already posting far more on facebook and pushing hard on my youtube channel and nt studies books even prior to april 14 the day when everything changed nonetheless what happened on april 14 and thereafter is one of the reasons for about five months now i have not posted this publicly but i have finally decided to do so and it is only a partial coincidence that i m doing so right after the attempted biden mandate as a matter of fact i posted it on facebook just before that my w4 colleagues have known all along and i appreciate their discretion in keeping it to themselves until i chose to mention it so just in case someone reads w4 but not facebook here worded virtually identically is what i just put up the other day continue reading the day life changed posted by lydia mcgrew on september 10 2021 4 23 pm permalink comments 67 del icio us august 30 2021 what we have learned the 18 month period since covid became a world wide scourge has for good or ill taught us a few things that we might not have realized so well before this is an attempt to run through a few of them 1 don t trust the scientists a science is important and it represents one of the most critical fields of human understanding and endeavor when science is done well it results in enormous benefits to the human race but scientists are not science they are human beings and like humans everywhere they have an extremely wide range of motivations and of skill many scientists are fantastic in their chosen field but not so great out of it some scientists are only mediocre some scientists are trustworthy in conveying the results of their expertise but some are not and some are trustworthy in some matters but not in all just because someone is a scientist does not mean their statements are trustworthy continue reading what we have learned posted by tony m on august 30 2021 11 31 pm permalink comments 41 del icio us august 1 2021 reception theory binding law and traditionis custodes because pope francis s motu proprio traditionis custodes tc is highly restrictive and harsh quite a number of traditional catholics would like nothing better than a reason to view it as non binding law surprisingly quite a number of bishops are at least initially viewing it with considerable misgiving and some are making noises in the direction of implementing it without the full force of law one attempt to drain tc of any binding force is to employ against it reception theory this theory of law says that in order for a law to be true law in order for it to be morally binding on its subjects it has to be received by them first that is they have to treat it as valid law which binds them here is an explanation of this theory in a nutshell the canonical doctrine of reception originated in the statement of gratian after canon 3 in distinction iv of his decretum circa 1140 he cited isidore of seville and augustine on the establishment of laws and then wrote laws are instituted when they are promulgated and they are confirmed when they are approved by the practices of those who use them just as the contrary practices of the users have abrogated some laws today so the conforming practices of the users confirm laws i understand the strong inclination to embrace reception theory for law in this case i really do but we saw it used 10 000 times by liberals and revolutionaries against perfectly good law and it was always a bad theory in their mouths i hesitate to reverse and say it s a good theory when others use it against a bad law however i think there is something a little like reception theory that is perhaps a valid position about church law and i want to lay it out and in the alternative there are other ways of understanding the constraints of law as options to take against tc being binding that might work instead of reception theory continue reading reception theory binding law and traditionis custodes posted by tony m on august 1 2021 8 37 pm permalink comments 10 del icio us july 27 2021 vatican roulette on friday july 16 pope francis released his anticipated motu proprio reacting against reaction in suppression of traditional catholics and the traditional latin mass tlm he also released a letter to bishops explaining his reasoning if you know anything about pope francis you can already guess some of the attributes these have the motu proprio is sloppy for example francis is famous for being careless his word not mine both are difficult to parse and misleading for another but that sort of stuff is nothing new this time we have something new so let me get into some details first we ll address the motu proprio traditionis custodes tc right off the bat traditional catholics will take this name as an insult they want tradition and have been asking the bishops to take their job seriously to preserve tradition as its custodians ought to do francis addressing those custodians is telling them to dismantle tradition to bulldoze it while naming bishops as traditionis custodes is no more than pointing out one of their essential roles in this context it is a fairly brutal slap in the face to traditionalists francis says this is to promote the concord and unity of the church but this is a very strange thing to say there are several groups of catholics including the society of st pius v and the society of st pius x and sede vacantists who will simply reject tc altogether they rejected the authority of paul vi in his erecting the novus ordo no so they will reject this too and he must know this he cannot expect that these groups will submit so he is either writing them off as an irrelevancy to the kind of unity he means or he is expecting that this project here will somehow pull the rug out from underneath them and enable the vatican to wait them out but it won t and it s a forlorn hope they have bishops who will ordain new bishops who will continue ordaining priests who are committed to the tlm tc won t eradicate these groups it will confirm their presumptions and strengthen their resolve as for writing them off this is hardly the kind of accompaniment that francis preaches or the welcoming attitude toward diversity that he demands in other arenas continue reading vatican roulette posted by tony m on july 27 2021 11 44 am permalink comments 0 del icio us july 18 2021 the same old weary shuffling i don t believe anyone of discernment can fail to be moved by the misery horror and hardship endured by the men who fought the pacific war in the 1940s particularly the us marines and army against the japanese army these two fearsome fighting forces confronted each other amidst a supremely punitive environment with a level of ferocity for which it is difficult to find historical parallel there was cruelty and courage in superabundance and tenacity in the teeth of unimaginable privation the extreme scarcity of acts of surrender speaks to the bitterness of the combat and the reciprocal hatred that impelled it and yet somehow our two nations put the bitterness and hatred behind them and rather quickly at that a mere fifteen years after the war japan and the us signed a treaty which began by declaring a mutual desire to strengthen the bonds of peace and friendship and to uphold the principles of democracy individual liberty and the rule of law the compact founded upon that treaty stands today by some measures as the most durable alliance between two great powers in all of history put more whimsically will any american athlete upon touching down in japan for these fraught olympic games or japanese athlete seeing the americans land spare even a moment to ponder what happened on guadalcanal almost eighty years ago not a bad record of reconciliation for a an empire which instilled such fanaticism in her soldiers that some of them maintained solitary guerilla operations on godforsaken island redoubts for decades after the war ended and b a republic agreed by all her forward thinking elites at least since oh last summer to have been founded on racist principles and systems below are some harrowing excerpts from e b sledge s memoir of his combat tour as a marine in the pacific war with the old breed in simple direct prose undergirded by a palpable generosity of spirit and unmarred by militaristic hauteur sledge supplies a narrative of his experience justly deserving of its reputation as one of the best pacific war memoirs you don t need to be a military history buff to profit from the book i ll conclude this prolegomenon with a remark tailored to lydia and her readers notice how sledge s memory attaches so often to features of the physical world in a strange way it reminds one of a certain evangelist whose own historical narrative of great events is so ill treated by scholars that his sturdy hebrew name has been debased into the ridiculous pseudo teutonic jargon of johannine community saint john the apostle too had an eye for physical features which he tended to convey in simple direct prose he didn t fight a bloody war so far as we know or endure the trauma of prolonged shelling but he sure witnessed some bloody events and he endured a brutal exile where he was traumatized by a vision of something rather like a spiritual shelling as lydia rightly says this emphasis on physical detail is a mark of authenticity if sledge s book should manage to abide for another two thousand years no doubt pompous 41st century scholars will speak of it as emanating from the sledgehammer community and asseverate that because it s little concerned with actual events but rather general theological themes of the war it only contains history and isn t actually a historical document the next morning again with the help of tanks and amtracs our battalion took most of the remainder of ngesebus our casualties were remarkably low for the number of japanese we killed in midafternoon we learned that an army unit would relieve us shortly and complete the job on the northern end of ngesebus our mortar section halted to await orders and dispersed among some open bushes in our midst was the wreckage of a japanese heavy machine gun and the remains of the squad that had been wiped out by company k the squad members had been killed in the exact positions to be occupied by such a squad according to the book at first glance the dead gunner appeared about to fire his deadly weapon he still sat bolt upright in the proper firing position behind the breech of his machine gun even in death his eyes stared widely along the gun sights despite the vacant look of his dilated pupils i couldn t believe he was dead cold chills ran along my spine gooseflesh tickled my back it seemed as though he was looking through me into all eternity that at any instant he would raise his hands which rested in a relaxed manner on his thighs grip the handles on the breech and press the thumb trigger the bright shiny brass slugs in the strip clip appeared as ready as the gunner anxious to speed out to kill and to maim more of the american devils but he would rot and they would corrode neither he nor his ammo could do any more for the emperor continue reading the same old weary shuffling posted by paul j cella on july 18 2021 4 11 am permalink comments 3 del icio us july 5 2021 lisa miller update i wanted to post here an lisa miller she has been in federal prison now awaiting trial after turning herself in in nicaragua for 4 1 2 months wasn t there supposed to be something in the constitution about speedy justice oh well i think perhaps the date of june 3 on the letter is a misprint or was incorrectly written since on the blog where it was posted there is a june 7 letter that comes prior to it but since it was posted on july 1 it can t mean july 3 so perhaps it is june 3 after all and is just posted out of order i also wanted to mention that philip zodhiates has been released to home confinement as of may her courage in the face of all that she is going through is humbling i didn t know that she has an autoimmune disorder she identifies it as hashimoto s disease it doesn t sound like the feds are treating their prisoners very well not even those still untried and hence presumed innocent let us not forget those in prison here is her letter continue reading lisa miller update posted by lydia mcgrew on july 5 2021 9 02 am permalink comments 6 del icio us may 21 2021 social media censorship social control and penalizing success as we think about things like facebook censorship of particular views done deliberately because of the content of those views we should think in terms of the large social effects of such censorship during the past ten years social ostracism of people who utter certain views and the idea that those views are just unacceptable and taboo has increased greatly an example would be the view that homosexual acts are both unnatural and seriously immoral some even of my friends who agree with that view may feel uncomfortable with my saying it some may openly think that i am somehow unkind for saying it or that it is the kind of thing one shouldn t say in public where 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