Posted on 04/01/2006 7:11:41 AM PST by rickmichaels
My previous column was about the Christian Peacemakers and how enormous amounts of money and time were spent on rescuing them from their largely pointless and acutely political intervention in Iraq.
I also said their ultimately selfish antics distracted from the genuine need to help Iraqis and that because these men were western and middle class, they received special treatment in the media.
A week later, it is clear that Canadian James Loney in particular has been treated with a generosity and credulity that is at times quite bizarre.
Please, in the name of common sense, can we stop claiming that these men were naive? Perhaps foolish, possibly militant, but never naive.
They knew exactly what they were doing and also knew when to hide the truth, for example Loney's silence about his homosexuality when held captive by a gang of less than gay-friendly kidnappers. If they'd ever read Loney's writings in the left-wing Catholic New Times, they would have learned a lot about him.
In one of Loney's essays he is asked by his partner about the gay marriage issue.
"I told him I thought it was an important symbol in the struggle for queer liberation, but it wasn't something I desired for us or had energy to fight for.
"Marriage was a patriarchal institution which evolved historically to protect male property rights and solemnize man's tenure as king of the castle. I told him we needed to develop our own models that grew out of the shared experience of being gay, instead of storming the barricades of heterosexual privilege in the quest for equal rights."
Not exactly loving and non-judgmental language about marriage, is it? In fact, one could conclude that these were the words of some hard-line ideologue.
Then we have this notion that these Christian Peacemakers are devout Christians, with Loney described as a faithful Roman Catholic. Actually, faithful Roman Catholics behave like, well, faithful Roman Catholics.
For example, they may be homosexual, and if they are, they must, of course, be treated with sensitivity.
But if they live a defiantly homosexual lifestyle and reject Church and Biblical teachings on the issue they put themselves outside of Roman Catholicism. Nobody has to be Catholic, but if they claim to be they must try to live up to their word.
Loney's problems with the religion he is supposed to cherish, however, go beyond the moral.
"I avoid prayer like the plague" he has written. "The kind where you stop, sit or kneel, do nothing but be, even if for only ten minutes. The thought of fasting nauseates me, and as for Sunday Mass -- that weekly spiritual re-boot and virus check -- well, let's just say I've accumulated a significant inventory of mortal sins."
The man's patronizing tone is extraordinary. The Mass is, to Catholics, where the body and blood of Jesus Christ are made present for His followers. Again, nobody is obliged to attend each Sunday, but for a Catholic it is essential, and not dependent on arrogant whim. More important, it should be a joy to attend.
As for pacifism, there is peaceful language as well as peaceful action.
"Enemies are unfortunately very real, and they cannot be banished with a little bit of positive thinking", wrote Loney.
"Lovers, neighbours, children, parents, WTO officials, presidents, sexist pigs, red-neck racists, and strangers on dark street corners."
Pigs and rednecks? Children as enemies? Hardly the stuff of empathy and understanding. More like hypocrisy, instability and anger. Christian peacemakers? Let's be realistic. And let's ignore those who play politics and concentrate instead on genuinely stopping war and making the world a better place.
ping!
They still have not thanked the coalition forces for rescuing them, still insisting on being called 'released'. That is why I have little use for them.
Christian Peacemakers and their kind of Pacifism is objectively pro-enemy. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other.
Greaaat. More left wing activists in the church.
Also clear, are the facts that only folks who are utterly stupid venture into a war zone without permission, or with the idea they are going to make any difference in what is going on.
2. You don't have a job that requires your attention at times, to retain it.
3. You don't have a lick of common sense.
4. Your politics are not very mainstream.
5. Your feelings have caused you to make some rather serious mistakes in your life.
6. You lack the ability to analyze problems and come to rational solutions.
7. You need a hobby that doesn't involve critical thinking. Something to take your mind off solving the worlds problems when you should be the subject of all your efforts in that direction.
This entire looney thing turns my stomach. The thought that we have young people over there in harms way making a genuine effort to improve the lives of the Iraqi people and this faggot garbage injects itself into the situation in such a way as to waste valuable resources makes me want to puke.
In one of the rare instances when the islamofascist terrorists could actually have performed a valuable service to humanity by sawing off a few heads, they have failed miserably by releasing looney and his friends back into the civilized world.
"I avoid prayer like the plague" he has written...The thought of fasting nauseates me, and as for Sunday Mass...well, let's just say I've accumulated a significant inventory of mortal sins."
Many Catholics, including me, fail day after day to live up to the ideals of the Catholic Church. I sincerely hope when I have to pass by the vintner where the grapes of wrath are stored that before he looses the lightning of his sword in my direction that he realizes he wired me a certain way.
Still, I surely don't brag about my inability to choose right in every case. That may be the final destruction of the culture, that we brag about our perversions. It certainly isn't a Christian thing to do.
The Mass is, to Catholics, where the body and blood of Jesus Christ are made present for His followers. Again, nobody is obliged to attend each Sunday, but for a Catholic it is essential, and not dependent on arrogant whim. More important, it should be a joy to attend.
Yesterday I read an editorial by a Jesuit named Father William Byron that stated this principle as eloquently as I think I ever read, and I am an ex-seminarian. The best part of his editorial said: The obligation is not simply to be a sacred space for an hour every Sunday. It is to give praise and thanks to God for the gift of redemption won through Christ's sacrifice, a sacrifice made present again on the altar at every Mass.
I want to think about that each time I attend Mass in the future, starting today. I think I'll take my cue from Byron rather than Loney.
Amen to all that.
Pray rosary is the only choice given by mother mary. pray from heart and you will be happy. you give thank to Jesus coz' He gave his mother mary to US.
Is anyone surprised at this odious little creature's lack of moral foundation?
He is typical of his kind, in my experience.
I love our Mother.
Thanks for posting this.
Just more proof that left wing maggot infested lunatics professing to be Christians are not what they profess to be.
"Loney's problems with the religion he is supposed to cherish, however, go beyond the moral."
"I avoid prayer like the plague" he has written. "The kind where you stop, sit or kneel, do nothing but be, even if for only ten minutes. The thought of fasting nauseates me, and as for Sunday Mass -- that weekly spiritual re-boot and virus check -- well, let's just say I've accumulated a significant inventory of mortal sins."
So he's not really a Christian (just another apostate mole), and not really a Peacemaker (just another pro-enemy activist troublemaker).
But he IS definitely a Looney!
Our local newspaper almost exploded with the unreserved joy at a "homegrown hero", not their exact words though. We had four days of coverage and large photographs.
For some unknown reason though, a cartoon by Greg Page did get printed. It suggested Loney needed to get into "commonsense". This in the words of a middle aged couple watching his image on T/V. A solid and blistering readers letter was published,criticising Mr Loney. About four letters oohed and aahed with platitudes about love and kindness. Could it be that PC cowed other letter writers? I suppose John Lennon HAS left his mark. What if? sang Lennon. He left a quarter billion dollars to his wife though.
To get employment in Sault Ste Marie,Ontario can sometimes be a brutal business. Not the city's fault. People have tried to move mountains to get jobs.
Yes, the thought struck me as I read of Loney's proclivities,not of his incarceration. Herewith thought.
It sure beats WORKING.
This left wing/homosexual hater of America sounds like the perfect candidate to be a left wing homosexual Bishop.
"Loney's problems with the religion he is supposed to cherish, however, go beyond the moral."
"I avoid prayer like the plague" he has written. "The kind where you stop, sit or kneel, do nothing but be, even if for only ten minutes. The thought of fasting nauseates me, and as for Sunday Mass -- that weekly spiritual re-boot and virus check -- well, let's just say I've accumulated a significant inventory of mortal sins."
And you have to be agreeable to being identified as a useful idiot when your cover is exposed. Who pays for these dim bulbs to go running around the world???
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