“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Happy Easter 2015

  Jesus Appears to Thomas 24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus[a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his...

Forgive him, Father, for he is a moron

What we really need in this case is a Jesus face-punch I know I said that the Church will survive a bad Pope. May the good Lord give me strength enough to continue believing that, because this particular Pope is making it very difficult to take him...

Crusade

The Jerusalem Cross of the Crusaders- a once and future symbol of hope Cutting the CrapLike everyone else (who ISN’T a LIN), I was outraged by the cold-blooded slaying of twelve cartoonists whose “offence” was to create and publish cartoons mocking...

France meets the Third Jihad

“With my new iPhone 5 with the 4-inch screen, you can clearly see that they’ve insulted the prophet!” — thanks to the Elder of Ziyon We can now add twelve more names to the endless list of the dead that the religion of so-called...

A simple test

Back in the day when the Didact was a teenage atheist- my, how original, a know-it-all teenager who thought he knew all there is to know about Life, the Universe, and Everything!- and was in a non-denominational private boys’ grammar school, every Friday...

Bad(ass) Santa

The delightfully combative Ann Barnhardt has a rather good take on the progenitor of the Santa Claus legend that children the world over have come to know and love: December 6th! The feast of St. Nicholas! The story of St. Nicholas can never be repeated too often:...

Vibrant Vikings

Tolerance and diversity only seem to work in one direction with most people- as amply demonstrated by an employer who rejected a Christian applicant for a job opening with his firm based entirely on his views about her religion: A recent graduate from a Canadian...

Thanksgiving

Head on the chopping block, NOW Didact to turkey: F*** you, you’re toast. (Well, rather, you’re Thanksgiving roast, but, y’know, same difference.) To everyone else, though- I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving with your loved ones. I wish you good...

A church failed by its Pope

Contrary to current popular belief within society, not all progress is a Good Thing. Sometimes, progress can be downright dangerous to the very fabric of society. Which is why we need institutions like the Catholic Church to stand against those changes that pose real...

It is still murder

A woman who aborted her baby when she realised that it would be born with Down’s Syndrome tries to sound appropriately contrite and begs our understanding: One in 1,000 babies in the UK — about 750 a year — is born with Down’s syndrome. But with better...