This immediately distinguishes the Catholic understanding of salvation from the theology (though not the practice) of our Protestant brothers and sisters. Catholic and classic Protestant theology agree on this: We are saved by grace. There is no salvation, there is no act of love toward God or neighbor, which is not inspired and supported entirely by God himself. But Protestantism diverges from Catholic understanding when it concludes that we are therefore also saved by “faith alone.” Catholics don’t believe that faith alone saves us, for they do not believe that an unincarnate faith can save.

We are not simply patients anesthetized on a table while the divine surgeon operates. Rather we are called to be involved in our salvation as well — by grace. That is why St. Paul makes plain that faith alone — unincarnate, non-active, non-transforming faith — is not enough when he writes, “if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:2) And this is repeated by both Sts. Paul and James. Both insist that faith is, like our Lord himself, inherently incarnational. It must be enfleshed, just as the Word was made flesh. It must act, just as God acts, or it is “dead,” as St. James says. (James 2:17)

https://www.nwcatholic.org/spirituality ... ation.html

Republicans were once despised because they were anti-intellectuals and hopeless neurotics. Trained to disbelieve in peaceful coexistence with the liberal enemy, the average Rush Limbaugh fan couldn’t make it through a dinner without interrogating you about your political inclinations.

If you tried to laugh it off, that didn’t work; if you tried to engage, what came back was a list of talking points. When all else failed and you offered what you thought would be an olive branch of blunt truth, i.e. “Honestly, I just don’t give that much of a shit,” that was the worst insult of all, because they thought you were being condescending. (You were, but that’s beside the point). The defining quality of this personality was the inability to let things go. Families broke apart over these situations. It was a serious and tragic thing.

Now that same inconsolable paranoiac comes at you with left politics, and isn’t content with ruining the odd holiday dinner, blind date, or shared cab. He or she does this infuriating interrogating at the office, in school, and in government agencies, in places where you can’t fake a headache and quietly leave the table.

This is all taking place at a time when the only organized opposition to such thinking also supports federal troops rounding up protesters for open-ended detention, going maskless to own the libs, and other equivalent madnesses. If you’re not a Trump fan and can’t reason with the other thing either, what’s left?

My baseball game tonight at a chicago park was cancelled because of yesterday's rain even though we were able to play yesterday on a field at New Trier. Your eyes open up the differences in the quality of the park districts of even modest cities when you travel around to these places.

Communism is the major form of Marxism put into practice.

Marx might allow for a state religion or some ambiguous form of spirituality that is so popular today but formalized religion is an Oppressor.

Marxism does not really like anything that isn't temporal.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-left-is-now-the-right

It's funny because if you search Matt Taibbi on Twitter right now, it's just a lot of blue check marks calling him a right winger and a fascist and proving his point in the process.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I'll never forget getting to the park at 7a on a Saturday to turn over the fields and dumping diamond dry to get early tball and minor league games while others were working on the major league fields.

My baseball game tonight at a chicago park was cancelled because of yesterday's rain even though we were able to play yesterday on a field at New Trier. Your eyes open up the differences in the quality of the park districts of even modest cities when you travel around to these places.

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

3 hours working on the field last thursday to get the games in while we can

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Have the quality of the fields gotten better or worse or the years? I really remember Park District baseball fields to be really good when I was a kid but now I don't know.

The quality of the basketball courts has gotten better over the years but I hate the times. Everyone is using double rims which are terrible to shoot on. The actual court tends to be better these days though.

Have the quality of the fields gotten better or worse over the years? I really remember Park District baseball fields to be really good when I was a kid but now I don't know.

The quality of the basketball courts has gotten better over the years but I hate the rims. Everyone is using double rims, which are terrible to shoot on. The actual court does tend to be better these days though.

Do these people understand it's an historical novel that captured that period in history in Alabama and that whatever racist language used by Harper Lee was for literary effect? It's also a book about a white lawyer standing up for justice in the face of mob action against him for a wrongfully accused black man, when his daughter and son were assaulted as a result?

The Edmonton CFL franchise announced Tuesday it is discontinuing the use of the Eskimos name.

The club will be known as either the Edmonton Football Team or the EE Football Team during its search for a new moniker.

It was reported last week that Edmonton had reversed its decision not to change its name after one of the club's biggest sponsors - national car and home insurance company Belairdirect - threatened to cut ties.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

In the years I played 16 inch it was basically understood that the Chicago park district employees were going to do zero work to get a field ready.

In the years I played 16 inch it was basically understood that the Chicago park district employees were going to do zero work to get a field ready.

If the Chicago Park District does such a poor job of maintaining the facility that houses a professional football team, how well are the rest of the facilities maintained?

That’s just good use of the taxpayers money. 16 inch isn’t meant to be played on a good field.

That’s just good use of the taxpayers money. 16 inch isn’t meant to be played on a good field.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

HOLY SHIT they're doing an infrared-scan version of the paper bag test but to see how racist you are. Maybe next time you get your temperature taken at a door, they can tell you whether you're dark enough OR light enough to use the n-word.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

Local ABC7 news reported in a segment yesterday that "To Kill A Mockingbird" is being taking off a summer reading list at a Bolingbrook Middle School, I think it was, for its racist language. Two middle school girls (you can guess the race) complained to their parents who complained to the school.

Do these people understand it's an historical novel that captured that period in history in Alabama and that whatever racist language used by Harper Lee was for literary effect? Did they completely miss the story-line that it's a book about a white lawyer standing up for justice in the face of mob action against him for a wrongfully accused black man, when his daughter and son were assaulted as a result?

As Boers would say, "For the Love of God."