Sunday, June 05, 2011

Gurda's "Division" Lessons

John Gurda is a good historian, so his essay of today is worth reading.

What Gurda does not mention is the Republican Party's odious flirtation with "Progressivism", which alienated the Catholic and Lutheran immigrants from Poland, Ireland, Germany, and Belgium, tossing them into (or at least towards) the Democrat Party.

Simply put, Progressivism is antithetical to Christianity. Gurda, Jesuit-educated, should know that.

20 comments:

jimspice said...

I'll give you aboriton and maybe birth control. On EVERY OTHER ISSUE the Dems are much more in sync with Jesus. So, unless they are one issue voters, Christians should really vote Dem.

Anonymous said...

"Simply put, Progressivism is antithetical to Christianity. Gurda, Jesuit-educated, should know that."

Ummnh...spoken like a true revisionist. Had you lived during Jesus' time, you'd have been found among the pharisees, screaming "Crucify him."

Dad29 said...

Jim, which "issue" is more significant for society: murdering babies or $15.00/month in welfare checks?

jimspice said...

Well, it's not murder since murder is illegal killing, and abortion is legal. And I believe our definitions of when babyhood is established are irreconcilable.

As to EVERY OTHER ISSUE, can I take your silence as agreement. I find that hard to believe, as I'm sure you envision Jesus, if alive today, as a concealed carrying, ammunition buying kind of guy.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of ammo, Jim...you never answered the riddle posed for you on Boots and Sabers.

Dad29 said...

Oh, please.

Progressivism is, at root, the snatching of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge: "You shall be like unto God..." because P'ism's practitioners have substituted themselves for God. They deny the Fall of Man and then substitute their governance OF man for the Decalogue/Sermon. Of course, they're careful to claim that they follow the words of Christ--as Screwtape instructed them to do.

And I think you're past the puerile-interpretation stage of "He who lives by the sword...", right? Yes, he who lives ONLY by the sword will have a problem; but until Pete de-eared the servant, Christ had NO problem with Pete carrying that weapon, did He?

jimspice said...

D29, just so you're aware of the type of person anonymous is, here is the riddle from B&S to which he alludes:

"If I have a .38 caliber that holds six rounds and I empty four into Jim Spice’s head for being a fucking moron, how may rounds do I have left?"

Nice guy, huh?

Dad29 said...

Meh.

The answer is "It depends on how many rounds were loaded in the first place."

I can get all sorts of inane comments from human detritus if I use certain key-words here, too.

Anonymous said...

The answer is six.

Who would waste good ammo on an idiot like Jim Spice?

Dad29 said...

Anony, I save ammo for those who REALLY need it. Spice doesn't qualify.

And your answer is wrong, because you did NOT specify how many rounds were in the 6-gun in the first place.

All we know for certain is that you expended four rounds....

jimspice said...

D29, care to share an IP address on anonymous. Some of us are maintaining file on his threats.

Dad29 said...

Sorry--I'm not a technophile. My StatCounter only allows me to guess which poster is "anony," and then it's going to be an SBC or RR address. (I don't pay for a premium StatCounter.)

IF I guess correctly.

Not evasion, just the truth.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps Dad29 should perform digital castration for the deranged anony by way of comment deletion.

And, yeah, progressivism in the early 1900's, despite its black stain of eugenics, was "odious" with reforms such as city manager system of government, direct primary, the Elkins Act, the Meat inspection Act, Federal Trade Commission, etc. NECESSARY expansion of federal power given the power and influence of big business who did not give a damn about worker safety and whose bottom line were profits. City and state governments were certainly not about to make those reforms in the late 1800's on its own considering they were generally in the hip pockets of corporations.

Dad29 said...

Yah, well, eugenics is a problem, you know.

Today it's called "abortion rights."

Too bad. Non-negotiable.

There are a lot of reforms which were good and necessary. Happy to see they were accomplished....

.....over all those dead bodies.

Anonymous said...

More good than bad happened under Progressive Presidents T. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson.

And abortion is the modern-day equivalent of eugenics? Yeah, sure. Keep flailing away with your generalizations.

distributedrepublic.net/archives/2007/08/07/liberal-eugenics

Dad29 said...

You're allowed to think that Roosevelt/Wilson/Roosevelt were good guys.

That's why we have 'remedial education.'

Abortion is murder. Eugenics was just-SHORT of murder. You're right, there's a difference!

jimspice said...

As I mentioned earlier. Abortion is not murder. You may think it's LIKE murder, or should BE murder. But it's not illegal.

Anonymous said...

"While the RCC has consistently taught that abortion is evil, its stance has changed down through the years on whether a given abortion is murder."

www.religioustolerance.org/abo_hist_c.htm



Dad29--"You're allowed to think that
Roosevelt/Wilson/WILSON(!) were good guys. That's why we have 'remedial education."

All of these men had their flaws, to be sure. Regardless, their presidencies implemented a wide range of reforms which improved our nation's political, economic, and social standing. Any denial of that fact only shows your ignorance of their significance.

Dad29 said...

You may think it's LIKE murder, or should BE murder. But it's not illegal.

You're the staffer for Queen of Hearts who wrote the line that 'words mean what I say...'?

Don't bother me with that crap, JS. You know better.

Dad29 said...

"While the RCC has consistently taught that abortion is evil,...

You could have stopped there, because that's all that counts.

As to the Progressive Prexies: yes, I think that FDA, FLSA, and a few other reforms were good; you find me strenuously arguing FOR Glass-Steagall, e.g.

Stopped clocks, and all that.