Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Our Canadian brothers have recently passed a bill that outlaws hate speech against homosexuals. The only problem is the wording that is used. It is so broad that the reading of the various passages in Scripture that condemn homosexuality would be called hate speech. Saying that homosexual BEHAVIOR, not the person, is disordered or unnatural…

Well, I just got back from my first Parish Council meeting. I was 3rd alternate and it actually got to me. Lucky. 🙂 Actually, I am very glad to be on the Council. I’d really rather be working with/for the Church full time if I had my druthers. Got to figure out how I am…

Was listening to Cardinal George on Catholic Answers (Monday’s show) talking a bit about this. He gave a satisfactory answer to the question of why we need a committee to study this issue. Basically, because we have always left this up to the individual bishops and now a push for unity is on us, they…

Francis Cardinal Arinze. Remember that name. While he may not become the next Pope, he most certainly is a holy man and a man dedicated to the Truth. He has been interviewed and made statements in the past that just make the liberals and heterodox nauseous. Which is probably a good thing since that would…

OK. Maybe those words are too strong. But from what I have read in the document and reviews of it, they are specific and adamant that certain things stop. I for one am ecstatic about this. Even though I am a convert of just two years, it truly drives me to distraction when I hear…

Man… I do computer stuff for a living and I STILL get my butt kicked by the darned things once in a while. Of course, if I would regularly back up my data like I am supposed to, it wouldn’t be such a hairy ordeal. After several days spent attempting to recover from the problem…

I know that’s going to get me in some hot water, but I really don’t care. I absolutely detest this “Native American” thing. If you don’t want to be called indians, I don’t mind. After all, that’s a cartography mistake to begin with. Go with the tribal names. That’s appropriate. But to call all descendants…

OK… I admit when I saw the article about an indian (I refuse to say Native American… more on that in the next entry) skinning the head of a bald eagle that I thought this would be some story about indian ritual challenging the law like that case about peyote a few years back. The…

I don’t know about you people, but I am about fed up with the word PASTORAL…. As in “We must have a PASTORAL response to the heretics, apostates and dissenters in our ranks.” Why can’t you call a spade a shovel without getting everyone’s panties in a bunch? This goes beyond loving correction. It seems…

George Weigel, the official biographer of PJII, has a new article on whether the Iraq war was just or not. Weigel is an excellent author and politically conservative to go with his orthodoxy. Unlike many in the Church, including JPII, Weigel believed the war was just then and still does. I agree with him. There…