The Best Killers in the Universe

Although I've read about the Outer Limits episode "The Zanti Misfits", I had somehow missed it until now. Joseph Stephano's story of how the Zanti picked Earth for the execution of its violent misfits makes perfect sense since we are the only God-killers in the God's universe. It therefore makes perfect sense that the Earth would be the most invaded planet or the one most often narrowly avoiding self-destruction. We medievalists are not so far wrong in considering the Earth the center of the universe. Since more forgiveness means more love and where sin abounds grace abounds all the more, we, the greatest sinners, are the focus of the greatest concentration of Love and grace in the universe!

Baby Seven Billion

I wonder about the hoopla over the seven billionth baby being born, when the seven billionth baby was conceived some time ago and was likely as not aborted before birth. It is more than likely that it was a girl who was aborted. Couples have been choosing to become mothers and fathers and so increasing the number of babies in the world for thousands of years and so making it possible for the other 99.99999986% of us to be here.
As a Baby Boomer, I remember there being predictions that the Earth couldn't support 5 billion just a few decades ago. I'll be looking forward to Baby Eleven Billion, the next prime number of billions. Let's hope Humans will make life more livable for other Humans by then.

Seal of Approval

Hierogamous Enterprises newest book, Psalms, Hymns and Inspired Songs, has received the Catholic Writer's Guild's Seal of Approval, indicating that it is an authentically Catholic book, upholding the Church's teachings. This means that it will likely also receive disapproval from those who disapprove of the Church's teachings on transsexuality being a disorder and marriage as being a holy sacrament between a man and a woman and God Himself. Some call that "homophobic", being afraid of homosexuality or homosexuals. It's more rightly called being right with God.

remember Cordwainer Smith?

I posted a review of The Concordance of Cordwainer Smith at Good Read: "I did really like it, but I've added a lot of my own notes in my copy. How could there ever be a really thorough concordance of Cordwainer Smith?" He has long been my favorite science fiction author because his stories were so imaginative and original yet with the millennia-old Old Strong Religion (Christianity).

Dracula and Brainiac remembered

Watching Svengoolie's showing of the classic "Dracula", followed by Off-Beat Cinema's new-to-me "Brainiac" (a brain-sucker conjured by a Mexican sorcerer, not the Superman mythos' supervillian/superhero) this past weekend, reminds me of my anti-vampire article "Vampire Craze Is Unhealthy Passion" from last year. The use of crosses, crucifixes and rosaries against the undead and Bela's memorable quotes like "There are worst things than death." clearly demonstrate the shift in the popular culture is a mere 75 years. It also reminds me of "The whole of man's history has been the story of dour cimbat with the powers of evil ..." (Gaudium et Spes 37:2). Evil seems to be winning, but we know that god wins because we, muggles, read it in the Good Book.

one Israeli soldier = 2000+ Palestinian terrorists

I take it as granted that every life is equally valuable, so I find it hard to understand this latest prisoner exchange. The released terrorists will now likely kill or kidnap many more Israelis to get even more such "victories". I also remember when Israel used to successfully recapture hostages.
Why can't they just love one another? Why can't they share the Holy Land they both claim so that it lives up to its name? Do yu think maybe it takes a Christian to love enemies?

Mormons vs. Christians

   I thought this was all covered in the previous presidential campaign, but it seems Mormons are not the only ones who do not know they are not Christians. They, like Jehovah Witnesses, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and other non-Christians do not acknowledge "Jesus is Lord", "Lord" being the name of the one and only God, Lord of lords. They have the same religious freedom as these other religions, but they ought not to further confuse already too confused American voters.
   I have not had much success in trying to discuss the book of Mormon with Mormons. They always seem to not know how to answer questions not in their play book. They don't even seem to have read either the Bible or the Book of Mormon. They changed the subject more than once when I tried to get at the reason the Book of Moroni is so blatantly anti-infant Baptism when Judaism is so pro-circumcision. It seems so intolerant, so obviously anti-Catholic.

Feasability Study revisited

I'd seen Twilight Zone's "Feasibility Study" before, but watching it yet again it stuck me even more strongly than before. The spouses' love for one another, the unity of the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish neighbors saving the world at the cost love their own freedom -- that's the Good News. It was good new in Jesus time and in Christmas-born Rod Serling's and still is now. It even included the praying of the Lord's Prayer and a couple rosaries. Holding hands in church holds quite a lot of meaning for such an ecumenical group, though not as much as Communion between Catholics would.

Entrepreneurs Unite!

The recent protests in the news, particularly in this Land of Opportunity, make me wonder what the protestors are protesting. Why aren't they out creating the jobs they say they want created? They couldn't really expect the government to help them? All they "create" is the same old debt and confusion. They couldn't still expect an employer to give them job security? Have they not been paying attention?! Wake up, people! You have to take responsibility for creating your own jobs. Find a need and fulfill it. You can't expect help from the government or compeditors, only opposition. That's what the American Dream has always been about, isn't it? Hierogamous Enterprises started with a couple hundred dollars in 1989 and is still going and looking forward to a brighter future without any government handout, bailout, grant, loan. Let "In God we trust." be our motto once again.