En France, répression de tout propos privé ayant un caractère de « provocation, diffamation et injure non publiques à caractère raciste, sexiste, homophobe ou handiphobe »

Totalitarisme LGBT : les propos privés seront poursuivis

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Le 4 août est entré en vigueur un décret daté de la veille, "relatif aux provocations, diffamations et injures non publiques" qui renforce la répression de tout propos privé ayant un caractère de « provocation, diffamation et injure non publiques à caractère raciste, sexiste, homophobe ou handiphobe », et « élargit ces infractions aux cas où elles sont commises en raison de l’identité de genre de la victime »

Ce qui permet d'inclure la transphobie, nouvelle lubie du lobby LGBT.

Le décret « substitue à la notion de race, qui n’est pas applicable aux êtres humains, celle de “prétendue race” ».

Il est donc désormais interdit de dire du mal de la prétendue race des hommes qui se prétendent femmes et vice versa.

Source: lesalonbeige.blogs.com

Décret n° 2017-1230 du 3 août 2017 relatif aux provocations, diffamations et injures non publiques présentant un caractère raciste ou discriminatoire

NOR: JUSD1714912D

ELI:https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2017/8/3/JUSD1714912D/jo/texte

Alias: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2017/8/3/2017-1230/jo/texte

• Publics concernés : personnes poursuivies ou condamnées ; magistrats.
• Objet : renforcement de la répression des provocations, diffamations et injures non publiques à caractère raciste ou discriminatoire.
• Entrée en vigueur : le texte entre en vigueur le lendemain de sa publication.
• Notice : le décret améliore la lutte contre les manifestations de racisme, de sexisme et d’homophobie pouvant se produire dans des lieux non publics, comme au sein des entreprises ou des établissements scolaires. Il renforce à cette fin la répression des contraventions de provocation, diffamation et injure non publiques à caractère raciste, sexiste, homophobe ou handiphobe, dans des conditions similaires à ce qui a été prévu dans la loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presse par la loi n° 2017-86 du 27 janvier 2017 relative à l’égalité et la citoyenneté pour les délits de provocations, diffamations et injures racistes ou discriminatoires commises de façon publique.
• Il prévoit que ces diffamations et injures non publiques constitueront, comme les provocations, des contraventions de la cinquième classe, punies d’une amende maximale de 1 500 euros ou 3 000 euros en cas de récidive, et non plus des contraventions de la quatrième classe punies d’amendes inférieures de moitié.
• Il élargit ces infractions aux cas où elles sont commises en raison de l’identité de genre de la victime, afin de mieux lutter contre la transphobie, et il substitue à la notion de race, qui n’est pas applicable aux êtres humains, celle de « prétendue race » comme cela a été fait dans les dispositions législatives du code pénal par la loi du 27 janvier 2017.
• Il ajoute pour ces infractions la peine complémentaire de stage de citoyenneté, qui existe désormais pour les délits prévus par la loi du 29 juillet 1881.
• Références : les dispositions du code pénal et du code de procédure pénale modifiées par le présent décret peuvent être consultées, dans leur rédaction issue de ces modifications, sur le site Légifrance (http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr).

Source: yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com

La révolution dite française parachève son oeuvre

Auxerre est passée de 27 à 3 églises : la révolution dite française parachève son oeuvre
A la recherche des racines chrétiennes de cette ville de province au passé religieux si riche :

"Des vingt-sept églises et communautés religieuses que comptait Auxerre au 18e siècle, il n'en reste plus que trois en fonction. La plupart de ces édifices religieux ont été détruits. De nombreuses églises et chapelles, souvent vieilles de plusieurs siècles, ont disparu au 18e siècle. Auxerre, riche en monuments religieux à l'époque, n'a pas fait exception.

« Après la Révolution, au moins 80% des bâtiments religieux ont été détruits ou vendus. Avant, Auxerre comptait vingt-sept édifices religieux, hors chapelles. Aujourd’hui la cathédrale Saint-Étienne, Saint-Pierre et Saint-Eusèbe sont les seules encore en fonction. Et les églises modernes de la périphérie, construites dans les années 1950. »  PATRICE WAHLEN (Historien)"

Source: lesalonbeige.blogs.com



La carte des vingt-sept églises disparues d'Auxerre


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Que reste-t-il des édifices religieux détruits dans le paysage auxerrois actuel ? Quelques noms et vestiges. Quelques bâtiments tiennent encore debout. La chapelle Sainte-Madeleine de l’hôpital des Grandes Charités abrite un coiffeur, rue Berthelot. La chapelle du Séminaire se dresse encore face au lycée Jacques Amyot. La crypte de Saint-Amâtre, quand à elle, se trouve dans le sous-sol d’un particulier, rue d’Eckmhül. Rares sont les bâtiments à avoir connu un sort aussi clément que celui de l’abbaye Saint-Germain, réaffectée en école puis en hôpital, ou du couvent des Visitandines, occupé par les Beaux-Arts.

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Need people be faithful Jews or orthodox Christians to affirm Western civilization’s achievements?

Reason, faith, and the struggle for Western civilization

BY SAMUEL GREGG, D.PHIL.




President Trump’s outspoken defense of Western civilization in his July 2017 Warsaw speech was a pointed reminder that one troubling characteristic of our time is the ongoing assault on the very idea of the West. This is most vividly manifested in the relentless use of physical violence by jihadists determined to terrorize us first into acquiescence and, eventually, submission.

Nor, however, is there a shortage of efforts to dismantle Western culture from within. Sometimes this occurs through focusing on real evils committed by Westerners, such as slavery, while studiously ignoring or denigrating the West’s impressive achievements. On other occasions, the West’s deepest roots are condemned as inherently oppressive, burdensome legacies bequeathed by dead, white, logocentric men.

One effect of these attacks is that they force us to clarify what is central to Western culture. Clearly Western civilization isn’t primarily about geography. Would anyone suggest that a southern hemisphere country such as Australia or a Middle Eastern state like Israel is not part of the West because each exists outside North America and Europe?

We move onto firmer ground when we start listing accomplishments that can only be described as products of the West. No one would designate the Rule of Benedict, Magna Carta, Michelangelo’s “David,” Mozart’s “Coronation Mass,” Plato’s Gorgias, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis, Jefferson’s Monticello, or Shakespeare’s Richard III as representative of Japanese, Persian, or Tibetan culture. Likewise, would anyone seriously question that ideas such as the rule of law, limited government, and the distinction between the spiritual and temporal realms, have developed and received their fullest expression in Western societies rather than Javanese or Arab cultures?

These things, however, are essentially derivative. They proceed from specific philosophical and religious commitments without which the West as we know it could never have developed. When those foundations are shaken, we should not be surprised that all that is built on them starts to falter.

. Reason as the Root of Freedom and Justice ...

. Religion and the Reasonable God ...

. A West Minus Logos ...

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I consider this the best dialogue I have ever been involved in (out of 700 or more), with anyone, ever.

The “Problem of Good”: Great Dialogue With an Atheist

by Dave Armstrong


(the Flip Side of the Problem of Evil Argument Against Christianity) + the Nature of Meaningfulness in Atheism (vs. Mike Hardie)


I consider this the best dialogue I have ever been involved in (out of 700 or more), with anyone, ever. My opponent did an excellent job and really gave me a run for my money. I offered him gushing, grateful praise at the end:

I want to express my heartfelt appreciation and respect for what you have done. This is true dialogue; I enjoyed it immensely and I have been enriched by it, and I think readers of my website will be, too, when I put it up. You answer everything comprehensively, with great substance, cogency, relevance, a refreshing economy of expression, understanding of opposing positions (avoiding straw men, which is a great blessing indeed :-), and with unfailing amiability. Thanks so much, and I look forward to much more dialogue with you (if you found this also worth your while, to throw some ideas back and forth with me).

This puts the lie to the myths (from the hostile, demeaning sorts of atheists) that I supposedly 1) don’t dialogue with atheists, or 2) always have unpleasant relations with them. This dialogue was the very model (the quintessence) of what I have always sought to achieve ever since, and will continue to seek, in any dialogue I get involved in. On occasion I can get close to it, but it has never been matched (over more than 13 years) as a genuine, mutually respectful (hence very constructive) dialogue: all the more remarkable because it was between a Catholic and an atheist.

I don’t know what became of Mike Hardie. I found a brief (archived) biography on The Secular Web (infidels.org) and an “About Me” with photo from an old website (1998), along with a list of several of his philosophical papers: including one on “The Problem of Evil”. He is a philosophy major and was 24 years old at the time of our dialogue (obviously an extremely bright student). I lost contact with him shortly after this dialogue and have never heard from him since. I can find nothing about him beyond the late 90s time period. He seems to have fallen off the face of the earth (Internet-wise, anyway). How many good dialogues we might have been able to have! The search continues for someone of his very high intellectual (and civil) calibre.

Enjoy!

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[Mike Hardie’s words will be in blue]

I think the “problem of good” is a far more troublesome difficulty than the problem of evil (even granting that the latter is a very serious and substantive objection, one concerning which even most Christians often struggle in some sense or other: mostly due to lack of understanding, rather than a disproof of God’s existence; and especially when we ourselves go through some suffering :-).

I hope you will be more willing to pursue in depth the logical and moral implications of your position (as I view them, anyway), than has been my experience with atheists (and also moral relativists) in the past. Usually, the opponent of Christianity is quite willing to critique what they feel to be our glaring deficiencies, but quite unwilling (for some strange reason) to examine what we regard as the shortcomings in theirs. People in all worldviews seem to be much better at levying charges and poking holes, than at scrutinizing their own beliefs, wouldn’t you agree? Just human nature, I would argue.

In an earlier paper which Mike cited, to start this discussion going, I stated that:

The atheist:


1) Can’t really consistently define “evil” in the first place;

2) Has no hope of eventual eschatological justice;

3) Has no objective basis of condemning evil;

4) Has no belief in a heaven of everlasting bliss;

5) Has to believe in an ultimately absolutely hopeless and meaningless universe.

This is arguably one of the most common kinds of popular replies to atheism, and I have never seen a really robust attempt to really explain it, much less justify it.

Good; nor have I seen a robust attempt by an atheist (at least those I have come across), to grapple seriously with the objections. There are plenty of Christian apologetic works which make a similar case vis-a-vis atheism. You obviously haven’t looked very hard. That’s okay; I haven’t looked very hard at all that many atheist works, either. I would love to read all the books in the world, but I have to be selective, unfortunately.

To put my objections to it in a nutshell:

(1) and (3) come down to “atheists cannot have objective morality”, when there are a multitude of non-theistic ethical theories — i.e., theories which do not require God — which seem to be at least as coherent as theistic ethics (i.e., Divine Command Theory or Natural Law Theory).

What is it that rules out these non-theistic ethics in one fell swoop? Let us be clear here: we are not talking about scientific materialism versus theistic ethics, but merely non-theistic versus theistic ethics. (Scientific materialism is often characterized as the view where nothing is meaningful unless it can be reduced to a purely empirical theory of some kind, and it seems pretty obvious to me that this view would have no relevant account of objective morality. But obviously, not all atheists are scientific materialists in this sense.)

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For diversity’s chaplains, the long game is to render America’s Anglo-European heritage reprehensible and write a new history for themselves.

The Revolt Against Diversity’s Inquisitors

BY: GILBERT T. SEWALL

The problem is that the Inquisitors are just getting started.

President Donald J. Trump, for all his defects, speaks to white Americans, badgered ceaselessly, told to renounce their heritage and confess ancestral sins. Too many of them — millions — have put up quite a while with censure they feel is unwarranted and unjust. They are in revolt against their priestly inquisitors, and a new round of the culture wars is underway.

This quasi-religious caste and its diversity catechism now direct the nation’s institutions. Not only in media, academe, advertising, and entertainment but also in corporations, government, and the military, chaplains of diversity enforce the new canon law. Convinced of its special moral vision, this caste has no intention of ceding power or tolerating freethinkers. Its job is to root out and suppress heretics and haters — and to propagate articles of holy faith.

As a result, freedom of conscience and science are under unique attack. Intersectional preference, white privilege, rape culture, disparate impact, equal outcomes, and any number of specious ideas are becoming institutional doctrine.

Read more here: spectator.org

16 & 17 septembre : Université d'été de La Manif Pour Tous

UNIVERSITE D’ETE 2017

Dans un contexte de déconstruction anthropologique touchant nombre de pays occidentaux, dont la France, confrontée aujourd’hui à la menace de la PMA sans père, et à l’issue d’une année politique marquée par la fragilité, voire l’absence de fondements communs, l’heure est à l’anticipation, pour agir avec efficacité, argumenter, mobiliser, construire, préparer l’avenir…

Au seuil de l’année 2016-2017, La Manif Pour Tous vous invite à prendre le temps de vous informer, vous former et d’échanger en se retrouvant « au vert », dans un cadre propice à la détente et à la prise de recul.

Source: lesalonbeige.blogs.com

S´inscrire ici: www.lamanifpourtous.fr

Comment vivre la foi dans un monde sécularisé devenu de plus en plus hostile à l'Évangile

Comment être chrétien dans un monde qui ne l'est plus

Rod Dreher, père de famille, chrétien fervent et journaliste renommé (The American Conservative), né méthodiste, s'était converti au catholicisme en 1992, avant de rejoindre l'Orthodoxie en 2006. Les éditions Artège publient le 20 septembre son dernier essai sur "Le pari bénédictin", indiquant comment les chrétiens de toutes obédiences vont devoir résister aux fléaux de la modernité, comment vivre leur foi dans un monde sécularisé devenu de plus en plus hostile à l'Évangile.

Avec des accents qui rappellent les analyses de Jean Ousset et de Marcel Clément, l'auteur décortique les racines de la crise de nos sociétés occidentales : nominalisme, Renaissance, Réforme, Révolutions (française, industrielle et sexuelle). Et il note que ce n'est pas l'élection d'une personne providentielle qui nous sauvera de cette décadence culturelle. D'emblée, il place les chrétiens face à une réalité que beaucoup refusent de voir :

"Jésus-Christ a promis que les portes de l'Enfer ne sauraient atteindre son Eglise, mais Il n'a pas promis qu'elles ne la vaincraient pas en Occident".

Notre civilisation se suicide sous nos yeux et la logique voudrait qu'elle devienne ce qu'est devenu l'Afrique du Nord lors de la conquête musulmane : des centaines d'évêchés anéantis, des chrétiens réduits en dhimmitude, des Etats disloqués.

Face à cette catastrophe qui semble inéluctable, Rod Dreher rappelle l'exemple de Saint Benoît, le père de l'Occident, qui, par sa Règle et la fondation de monastères tournés vers la contemplation, a permis à l'Eglise de survivre aux barbares et à l'âge sombre qui a suivi la chute de Rome. Par cette analyse, Rod Dreher se fait l'écho du fameux discours de Benoît XVI aux Bernardins en 2008. Face au déluge de la modernité, Rod Dreher appelle à quitter les mirages de la politique et à lancer ce "pari bénédictin". Ces chrétiens ont

"accepté de reconnaître cette vérité que la politique ne nous sauvera pas. Plutôt que d'essayer de rafistoler l'ordre établi, ils ont reconnu que le royaume auquel ils appartiennent n'est pas de ce monde, et ont décidé de ne pas compromettre cette citoyenneté".

"Il n'est pas question d'abolir sept cents ans d'histoire : c'est impossible. Il n'est pas non plus question de sauver l'Occident. Ce que nous devons chercher à faire, c'est construire un mode d'existence chrétien qui surplombe l'océan agité de la modernité comme un îlot où se conservent la sainteté et la stabilité. Nous ne voulons pas créer un paradis terrestre, mais trouver le moyen de rester forts dans notre foi en un temps de mise à l'épreuve."

Prenant notamment exemple sur les dissidents soviétiques, comme Vaclav Havel, il appelle à mener "une politique antipolitique" :

"Dans les années qui viennent, il nous faudra probablement choisir entre être un bon Américain, un bon Français, etc., et être un bon chrétien".

S'inspirant de la Règle de saint Benoît, Rod Dreher appelle à remettre dans notre vie quotidienne, de l'ordre, la prière, le travail, l'ascèse, la stabilité, la communauté, l'hospitalité et l'équilibre. Il cite Vaclav Havel, expliquant que :

"La meilleure résistance au totalitarisme vient tout simplement de notre âme, de notre condition, de notre terre, de l'humanité d'aujourd'hui".

Et ainsi,

"Les communautés issues du pari bénédictin peuvent même devenir, à l'occasion, des témoins à charge contre la culture du sécularisme, en s'opposant par contraste à des politiques sociales et économiques de plus en plus froides et indifférentes. Les Etats ne pourront bientôt plus répondre à tous les besoins des peuples, surtout si les prédictions sur l'augmentation des inégalités se réalisent. La compassion chrétienne, qui repose sur la croyance dans la dignité de l'homme, deviendra une option particulièrement attirante, tout comme l'avait été l'Eglise des premiers temps à l'heure du déclin du paganisme et de l'effondrement de l'empire romain.

Voici comment se lancer dans la politique antipolitique. Coupez-vous de la culture dominante. Eteignez votre télévision. Débarrassez-vous de vos smartphones. Lisez des livres. Jouez. Faites de la musique. Dînez avec vos voisins. Il ne suffit pas d'éviter ce qui est mauvais : il faut adopter ce qui est bon. Créez un groupe dans votre paroisse. Ouvrez des écoles chrétiennes ou aidez-en une existante. Jardinez, plantez un potager et participez aux marchés locaux. Enseignez la musique aux enfants et aidez-les à monter un groupe. Engagez-vous chez les pompiers volontaires.

Il ne s'agit pas d'arrêter de voter ou de s'engager en politique, mais de comprendre que ça ne suffit plus. Depuis vingt ans, le mouvement pro-vie a compris qu'il serait impossible à court terme de supprimer le droit à l'avortement. Il a donc choisi une stratégie plus large. Tout en poursuivant son activisme auprès des décideurs, il a créé localement des centres d'accueil et d'écoute pour les femmes enceintes désorientées. Ces centres sont rapidement devenus des éléments essentiels à l'avancée de la cause, et ils ont sauvé d'innombrables vies. C'est un modèle qu'il nous faut suivre."

Source: lesalonbeige.blogs.com

Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) is remembered most for being a professional historian, he was really, first and foremost, a poet of historical writing and thought

How Christopher Dawson Tried to Save History

by Bradley J. Birzer



Christopher Dawson stood as an antagonist against the conformity of progressive and professional history, and he rightly noted that such history negates not just personality but the very essence of creativity itself…

While the domestic violence (criminals, cops, mobs) of this summer pales in comparison to the outrageous behaviors of the previous one, our season of American unrest has yet to abate.

Abroad, of course, things are worse this summer than last. Though amazingly enough, little reported in the news, the current president has dropped almost as many bombs on the Middle-east in his first seven months as president as the previous executive did over his eight years. Additionally, the threat (how real, remains to be seen) of the use of nuclear weaponry has the peoples and countries of the Pacific on edge. As of this writing, China has threatened to declare war on the United States if she launches a preemptive strike against North Korea, but to proclaim neutrality if North Korea strikes first. While nothing overt may come of the entire conflict, it will be difficult to trust China, anytime soon. Certainly, the United States has not had the best relationship with the Asian superpower over the past several decades, but we have at least been civil with one another, even while arguing over the South Sea and creating artificial islands. The prospect of war with China, even if a remote possibility, is a disturbing one, unleashing—at least in my mind—the kind of terrors the nuclear threat of the Soviets presented in my childhood.

Looking for some solace and comfort in all of this, as we approach the third decade of the twenty-first century, I turned to one of the single greatest thinkers of the previous one, Christopher Dawson (1889-1970): historian, economist, sociologist, anthropologist, and Anglo-Welsh Catholic man of letters.

Though Dawson is remembered most for being a professional historian, he was really, first and foremost, a poet of historical writing and thought. Not in the least arrogant (in fact, quite the opposite), he tried to explain this concept in one of his essays on the nature of metahistory and the metahistorian, terms that have been hijacked and destroyed by the inanities of the academic left since Dawson first employed them. “Metahistory is concerned with the nature of history, the meaning of history, and the cause and significance of historical change,” he wrote in 1951. As Dawson himself recognized, however, metahistory, if employed improperly, might easily descend into the historicism of Hegel. Dawson claimed for himself, however, the tradition of metahistory as first developed by St. Augustine of Hippo and, fourteen centuries later, contained by Alexis de Tocqueville. The former, led by Hegel, saw history as a type of God, while the latter recognized that God guided history, remaining transcendent over it. He could, however, as sovereign of time and space, enter into history itself in the Incarnation, thus sanctifying it and his own creation and artistry.

While there was a false metahistory—claiming the apotheosis of history itself, thus making a false god and a false idol out of the events of time and, equally dangerous, claiming history had a purpose, in and of itself—there was the equal danger presented by professional history, making the historian merely a recorder of events. As such, professional history erased the very personality of the human person, making him nothing more than a mere technician, though a highly-educated one. He would become, even with the most advanced degrees, a cog in the vast machine of academia, attenuating and then dismissing his own judgment and adopting something bland and tapioca-like. Certainly, he would not be liberal in the sense of liberal education. “The mastery of these techniques will not produce great history,” Dawson lamented, “any more than the mastery of metrical techniques will produce great poetry.” The twentieth-century, true to form, even in what should be its most liberal manifestations, had managed to denigrate the creativity of the unique individual. As with all great art, real history demands “intuitive understanding, creative imagination, and finally a universal vision transcending the relative limitations of the particular field of historical study.”

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Read more: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

Compared to the rioters who pulled down his effigy, that Confederate soldier atop the pedestal in Durham was a moral colossus...

What Did That Confederate Statue in Durham Stand For?

by Stephen Klugewicz

Radical Leftists like these can find a racist under every bed...

As I watched a crowd of militant Leftists pull down a statue of a Confederate soldier, I was left not only angry but befuddled by the vitriol that the mob focused on this seemingly inoffensive monument depicting a common soldier, seemingly war-weary and tired, not vengeful and triumphant. The common Confederate soldier was surely flawed. But what he and his counterparts stood for were duty, devotion, sacrifice, principle, courage, tireless effort, and the quiet heroism of the humble who toil for something greater than themselves: for wife, child family, God, country. Compared to the rioters who pulled down his effigy, that Confederate soldier atop the pedestal in Durham was a moral colossus...


Read more here: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

A real man doesn’t order a drink he doesn’t finish.

Beyond Machismo to Manhood: The Challenge of Real Masculinity
by Joseph Pearce


Machismo is the failure to grow into the fullness of what it means to be a man. The mark of machismo is the boast and braggadocio of the braggart. It is the mask of pride, worn by those who lack humility…
Once upon a time, when I was a boy, I recall watching a Western on TV with my father. At one point the hero, played by John Wayne, walks into a saloon, heads to the bar and orders himself a beer. The bartender pours the beer and sets it before our hero. The hero takes one sip, delivers his line to the villain with appropriate macho brevity and walks out of the saloon, his nearly full pint of beer still on the bar. “And he calls himself a man,” says my father, alluding to the undrunk beverage. The lesson was learned. A real man doesn’t order a drink he doesn’t finish.

That was a long time ago but even today, many years later, I cannot leave a bar or a restaurant without finishing my drink. How could I call myself a man were I to do so? What would my father think?

It’s funny how such habits become ingrained, inscribing themselves indelibly in our psyche. The lessons we learn at our father’s knee almost become a part of us, almost defining us. For better or worse.

In some ways, I’ve come to realize that a large part of my growing up has necessitated an unlearning of some of the lessons I learned from my father. Don’t get me wrong. I had a great relationship with my father, whom I loved dearly while he was alive, and still love dearly now that he has left this mortal coil. It’s just that he had not fully matured beyond machismo to real manhood, at least not during the years when he was teaching me the lessons about life that I would spend the rest of my life learning to unlearn.

The problem is that machismo is a mark of immaturity. It is the failure to grow into the fullness of what it means to be a man. The mark of machismo is the boast and braggadocio of the braggart. It is the mask of pride, worn by those who lack humility; it is the rant of one demanding his rights because he does not have the courage to face his responsibilities. It is the “manliness” of one who is not really a man.

In my own case, I would have to confess that I have spent most of my life as the macho man who was not really a man at all. It took marriage to make a man of me, which is to say that it took a woman to make a man of me. And not just a woman; it took a wife to make a man of me. And not just a wife, it took children to really make a man of me. I can say, therefore, echoing the words of Wordsworth, that the child is father of the man. My own children have been the fathers of my manhood. Without them, I would still be a pathetic macho man, making all sorts of masculine noise without having any of the real masculine substance.

It is for this reason that our present culture, which makes war on marriage and the family, is also making war on genuine manhood. In spite of its own braggadocio, modern culture doesn’t really make war on things such as “sexism” and the abuse of women and children because it encourages the machismo that turns men into abusers while simultaneously discouraging the familial and paternal responsibility that turns men into good husbands and fathers. Such a culture does not only make men miserable, it makes women and children miserable too—and all in the name of the pursuit of freedom and happiness! It’s all so pathetically funny. A tragedy that is also a divine comedy because it shows that virtue is the only way of getting to the happy ending.

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Read more: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

Introducing divorce in a predominantly Catholic country

Marriage and Family Life Under Attack in the Philippines: The Divorce Deception

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet


The last country in the world to completely outlaw divorce is the Philippines. Now, however, a new bill, House Bill 6027, is threatening the sanctity of marriage and family life by introducing divorce in a predominantly Catholic country (86%), seeking to permit divorce in the broad and undefined cases of “irreconcilable differences” or “severe and chronic unhappiness.” This is but the latest attempt by anti-family legislators to sponsor a divorce bill, the last being in 2016.

The bill is being sponsored by House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, who, is himself, separated from his wife and in a relationship with another woman, and who has reportedly fathered eight children with different women. Mr. Alvarez is not alone in his assault against marriage and family life. He is joined by fifteen members of the Philippine government who co-authored the legislation.

To many people in the West it must seem like this is a news story from a far-off, more backwards time. Surely – some would say – in the 21st century we’re past letting the government restrict grown adults from making decisions about their own “private” love lives.

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Arriva in Italia "Love is Love", il fumetto di propaganda LGBT

ULTIME NOTIZIE - Bollettino n. 87 del 26 agosto 2017 Il ministro Orlando vara il tavolo di lavoro "politicamente corretto" Nell'odierna era della comunicazione l'informazione è una merce preziosa, rivestendo un ruolo delicato e fondamentale ai fini della costruzione e della conquista del necessario consenso politico. A tale riguardo, uno degli obiettivi primari delle lobbies e dei principali attori impegnati nell'arena politica è quello di facilitare e "addomesticare" tale processo, promuovendo un discorso "politicamente corretto", […]     Disney Junior promuove la "famiglia" gay La Disney ancora una volta dà il proprio "pesante" contributo al piano di "normalizzazione" LGBT+ attraverso la rappresentazione di personaggi e situazioni gay-friendly. Questa volta tocca alla Dottoressa Peluche, una popolare serie animata in onda sul canale tematico di Disney Channel, il cui titolo in lingua originale è Doc McStuffins, che ha come protagonista una bambina afroamericana che svolge […]     La Bbc insegna ai bimbi che possono scegliere il loro sesso: aumentano i numeri di quelli confusi "Ormai è sdoganato anche questo", mi racconta un Italiano che vive in America (Massachusetts) da sei anni con la famiglia in riferimento all'incremento dei bambini spinti a credere di appartenere al sesso opposto a quello di nascita. E poi mi spiega di un conoscente separato dalla moglie il cui figlio giocava con le bambole. "Ad […]     La Gaystapo si vede bloccare il processo al dott. Ricci L'Ordine degli psicologi della Lombardia ha rimandato la decisione sul caso Ricci, perché deve prima decidere sull'istanza di ricusazione di due dei membri del collegio giudicante, presentata dall'avv. Pillon. La Gaystapo freme, ma deve mordere il freno. Il dott. Giancarlo Ricci, infatti, è stato deferito all'Ordine degli psicologi per aver asserito che i bambini hanno bisogno del papà e della mamma. […]     Arriva in Italia "Love is Love", il fumetto di propaganda LGBT Il prossimo 13 dicembre 2017 arriva in Italia Love Is Love, antologia a fumetti di DC Comics e IDW Publishing che riunisce le più prestigiose firme del fumetto americano per raccontare brevi storie incentrate sulle tematiche LGBT+, attraverso la rappresentazione di di icone come Superman, Batwoman e Wonder Woman.      VISITA IL NOSTRO SITO WEB: Osservatoriogender.it

In the modern world, Chesterton said, humility is misplaced; it is thought to be located in the intellect where it does not belong, whereas it is a virtue of the will, an awareness of our own tendencies to pride.

A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning
James V. Schall, SJ


The following is excerpted from Schall's excellent little book, A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning.

In today's world, when the topic of the defects of university teaching and curricula comes up, the most well-known alternative put forward is the “great books programs.” I take it for granted that we read what are rightly called “great books”—Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, the Greek tragedians, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, the Bible, St. Augustine, some Church fathers, St. Thomas, Shakespeare, and into the moderns.

In the modern world, Chesterton said, humility is misplaced; it is thought to be located in the intellect where it does not belong, whereas it is a virtue of the will, an awareness of our own tendencies to pride. We should not doubt our minds but our motives. The condition of not knowing should not lead us to a further skepticism but to a more intense search for truth. We should see in what sense a great mind might reveal something of the truth even in its error.

The best place to begin for any young man or woman today can be stated in two steps: 1) the step of self-discipline and 2) the step of a personal library; both of these together will yield that freedom which is necessary to escape academic dreariness and to discover the wonder of reality, of what is. Even at its best, of course, learning means we need a lot of help, even grace, but we are here talking about what we can do ourselves.

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The 'New Cold War' Was Never Inevitable

Why the Russian Navy Is a More Capable Adversary Than It Appears  by Michael Kofman and Jeffrey Edmonds The oft-unacknowledged truth is that the Russian Navy is a lot more operational now than it has been in many years.  Read it here. America Can't Afford to Lose the Artificial Intelligence War  by Michael O'Hanlon and Robert Karlen The United States must rededicate itself to being the first in the field of AI.  Read it here. Churchill and Orwell Face the Fiasco  by Christian Caryl In Churchill and Orwell, Thomas E. Ricks believes that his parallel biography has something important to tell us about liberty and the way to defend it.  Read it here. Is China Winning the Scramble for Eurasia?  by Matthew P. Goodman and Jonathan E. Hillman Roads, railways and other new connections are reshaping the Eurasian supercontinent and creating new forms of competition as well as cooperation.  Read it here. The 'New Cold War' Was Never Inevitable  by Michael Lind In a decade, today’s Russian Peril will probably seem as deranged as the Red Scares of the 1920s and the 1950s. Read it here.