gdp's Comments

BIG BLUE WAVE : Budget 2012 – Continuing a Pattern of Theft

Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:09:59 +0000

You're kidding, right? Did they really call the cops?

BIG BLUE WAVE : Budget 2012 – Continuing a Pattern of Theft

Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:08:51 +0000

It's not that the CHP has failed to convince Christians that they have the best plan. Most Christians have nothing against the CHP except this one point: They will never take power. Like everyone else, Christians like to win their elections. The real debate isn't the CHP's platform. The debate is whether a Christian can influence politics more by voting for a party that will never take power or by voting for another party whose platform is less than adequate but better than the others. Instead of cancelling your vote, which is a good way to show that you take your civic duty seriously, but is about as useful as staying home, you should vote for the party that's the closest to what you want.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Budget 2012 – Continuing a Pattern of Theft

Thu, 5 Apr 2012 00:44:14 +0000

How exactly does a party go about "earning" a vote? I suppose the Conservative party earned your vote in the last election with their ambivalent stance on abortion and their pseudo-conservative platform?

BIG BLUE WAVE : Budget 2012 – Continuing a Pattern of Theft

Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:56:03 +0000

I ran for the CHP in May 2011, and got just over 100 votes, which means that the overwhelming majority of professing Christians voted for someone else, probably the Conservative party. Regardless of what the Conservative party says or does, Christians will keep voting for them.

BIG BLUE WAVE : The fetus is a child under Canadian Law

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:24:37 +0000

Wishful thinking. A "child" in the Criminal Code, yes, but unfortunately not a child in Canadian law. Single pieces of legislation can define words as they wish, and that doesn't affect the usual meaning of the word elsewhere.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Montreal Gets New Conservative Archbishop

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:23:25 +0000

Lépine was fast-tracked from parish priest to archbishop in about a year. Goes to show how messed up the church is in Quebec: Rome couldn't find any bishops to fill the spot, and had to hand-pick a lowly parish priest.

BIG BLUE WAVE : SCOC Justice Bertha Wilson Left Definition of Unborn Child Up to Parliament

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:12:26 +0000

Parliament or the legislature? Unfortunately, I believe the question of personhood belongs to the provinces. And even if a province were to redefine the foetus as a "person" in law, there is no doubt in my mind that the SCC would find some reason why that would be a violation of the Charter and thus unconstitutional. The Constitution, largely unwritten in Canada, is like a magic hat the courts can use to fish out whatever they need to violate our democratic rights for ideological reasons. With the way it's interpreted by the SCC, one would think our Constitution was devised by Stalin himself.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Obligatory Reading for Bishops

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:04:55 +0000

It's not just a problem of bishops. The problem is deeper: the Catholic Church is corrupt (except for a few grassroots elements, mostly laity, and some rare exceptions in bishops). Its official doctrine is fine, and will always be, but its leaders are mostly unbelievers who teach heresy. The average diocese is a big unprofitable business whose only goal is to continue existing. The only time anyone ever hears from a diocese is during their fund-raising campaign. Of course my evaluation of the situation is based on Quebec, and it may not be fair to transpose it on the entire Church.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Catholicism is NOT COOL and should NOT be

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:25:55 +0000

Go to an average mass and you'll come up with lots of epithets: Irrelevant, ridiculous, inappropriate, sacrilegious, but certainly not cool.

BIG BLUE WAVE : The sooner we reject contraception, the sooner we win

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:24:41 +0000

"whether I do or don't has always been MY CHOICE... Men may express any wish they like in that direction, but the woman will always have the final say. " You seem to be ignorant of the fact that having children is done with two people, both a man and a woman. The number of times I've heard women say they'd like to have more children, but their spouse doesn't want any more... Looks to me like he has a say. Not all women who want children can have them, especially those who harp on about their choice instead of becoming partners with a man in this project. Not many men are attracted by such women. Since they won't have children of their own, they must force-feed their ideology to the children of others if they wish the next generation to be like them. "But where are you going with the "harm" tangent? What "harm?" " Our enemies would indoctrinate our children with the poison of atheism, feminism, and relativism. Moral harm is just as bad as physical injury.

BIG BLUE WAVE : The sooner we reject contraception, the sooner we win

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:16:37 +0000

Do you have even a single child? If you do, then you'll understand why people who would harm them are your enemies.

BIG BLUE WAVE : The sooner we reject contraception, the sooner we win

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:19:09 +0000

Some people value hard work and self-sacrifice. Yes, that's bizarre isn't it?

BIG BLUE WAVE : The sooner we reject contraception, the sooner we win

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:52:16 +0000

"If we pro-lifers had an average of 3 kids per person, and raised them to be pro-life, we could end abortion in this country in the next couple of generations. " ...That is if we actually succeed in transmitting our pro-life beliefs to our children. Our enemies have declared open season on our children's educations, undermining parents' authority at school and doing everything they can to discredit sound moral principles in ambient culture. Having more children is just a part of the solution. The second part is educating them correctly, which will turn out to be a far greater challenge than just having an average of 3 kids per family.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Muslim Brotherhood plans to turn Egypt\'s holiday resorts \'sin-free\'

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:59:25 +0000

Great reply. Would you say that Egyptian society is religious and moral enough for it to be worth the trouble to stamp out bikinis? If Egyptians elect the Muslim Brotherhood, can we assume there is enough support by the people? I'm not sure you'd make a fuss about a proposed ban on bikinis if Egypt were a conservative Catholic state. Islam is a false religion. But I can't blame Muslims for what good sense they do have.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Muslim Brotherhood plans to turn Egypt\'s holiday resorts \'sin-free\'

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:45:00 +0000

For the sake of discussion, how do you propose to differentiate between sins that must be tolerated and those that must be repressed? Bikinis, for example, are brazen immorality akin to going naked in public. Most countries, including free democratic societies, have laws against public nudity. Drunkenness in public is also illegal in most countries.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Muslim Brotherhood plans to turn Egypt\'s holiday resorts \'sin-free\'

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:56:35 +0000

Seems good to me: Less sin, and less money for an increasingly Islamist country. But seriously, the Muslim Brotherhood is right. Bikinis, mixed bathing, and drunkenness... objectively speaking, I can't say these are good things.

http://www.markshea.blogspot.com/ : Lovely to see

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:05:48 +0000

I regret the term "convert" when referring to Evangelicals who become Catholics. Conversion implies leaving a sinful lifestyle, and coming to God. Many Evangelicals have a relationship with God that would put many Catholics to shame. Conversion also means becoming a Christian. But the Church acknowledges that Evangelicals are Christians and calls them "separated brethren."