Update in Progress: Catholic Perspective 2.0
Friday, August 15, 2008
In the next week, I will be releasing version 2.0 of The Catholic Perspective. Please stay tuned, I will be releasing the following next week: See you next week! Have a good weekend and stay tuned same bat channel, bat time. By the way go see Dark Knight!
Posted by Catholic Chump on 08/15 at 10:29 AM |
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The Antichrist: Obama Slandered!
Friday, August 08, 2008
Today, It was brought to my attention that Obama is the Antichrist. I would like to start out by saying, if he was the antichrist do you think he would be running for president,really? Or maybe conjure up some demon cronies to make hell on earth? McCain seems to be throwing all the punches, but come on! Anyone that is educated can figure out that this ad is full of quotations out of context and is down right deceiving. The Republican nominee'sadvisers brush off the charges, arguing that the spot was meant to be a "creative" and "humorous" way of poking fun at Obama's popularity by painting him as a self-appointed messiah [1]. How ridiculous can McCain get in this election. I am a centrist. Antics like this just makes obama’s case for president that much stronger! Creative? Creative to make indirect references from a popular christian series called “Left Behind”. Or is it just subliminal advertising? In general I think the party antics has gone to far from name calling now to slander? Can our politicians grow up? Its funny, but have not heard Barack Obama slandering anyone on the right, so far. In fighting dirty politics, it seems that Obama sticks to his campaign of change. Maybe change is needed and seems he has shown this in his campaign, so far. In closing, who really is the Antichrist? I feel that Obama is living more like a good Christian than McCain only by viewing the campaign punches. Obama who is happily married and not divorced unlike his counterpart McCain.
Posted by Catholic Chump on 08/08 at 07:46 PM |
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R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Friday, August 01, 2008
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God’s Gift
Friday, July 25, 2008
God has created everyone different and presents different blessings to each person. From my personal life, I would like to talk about my own struggles, and about a comment Michael Savage had made recently. Let me start out by presenting some background. Five years ago, I was a sophomore in college struggling with many of my classes. My major problem in my classes were completing exams. It took me two times longer to read passages and organize my thoughts to write it down. As well, the many times it took me just to concentrate on the task of completing the exam. After about twenty years, struggling through classes, having people incorrectly interpreting what I’m trying to describe to them, and not being able to understand why I cannot hold back my thoughts, I was formally diagnosed with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. Looking back further, my mother took me to many psychologists for years. In that time, they all diagnosed me with attention deficit disorder, and all were partially correct. I remember, as a child, feeling inferior to other children. In elementary school, I was placed in special education courses for English and Writing. As for the other courses, I was in normal classes. Many children saw I left the classroom during those times, and teased me because I was absent. I remember it took me twice as long to read and analyze the reading assignments at school. Eventually, I stopped placing effort in all school related activities. In fact, ran away from my problems with school, and I didn’t want to attend school any more. After graduating from high school, I enlisted in the United States Navy. Eventually, that was cut short because after boot camp I received a medical discharge. At this point I had no other choice but to go to college. Let’s fast forward to my sophomore year of college. My fiance and I were at Barnes and Noble, she was looking through a medical psychology book and found a description of the many problems she saw me struggling with in school. It indicated that I was dyslexic. At that point, I wanted to investigate the possibility of being dyslexic. I used school resources to examine if I was dyslexic. At the end I was discovered to be dyslexic with attention deficit disorder. For a long time, I felt that God had cursed me. Why can I not function like everyone else? I found that I had a high intelligence quotient, but I am only processing at 2/3 of my full potential. After getting more time on my exams and some projects, my grades improved. I went from a B/C student to a A/B student. It was great, but I still felt inferior; the fact that I needed the extra time and a special room to take my exams did not help my self-esteem. “God has given me a curse”, is what I would think for a long time. Eventually I graduated from college and started to work. More problems have came up from my disabilities. People look at me and think I am a “know it all” or an arrogant person. In business, it is not enough to only be competent in the work given, but also learn to interact with people. WHY, GOD? To learn to be humble is what I have learned. I had the guts to start going to confession after ten years and now I have to suck it up and go to the doctor. Today, I am now on some medications to help me with my attention deficient disorder and he recommended a book to help me with my confidence and self-esteem. In the last few days, I have had more restraint and am trying to focus on holding back from freely giving my ideas out. I am already having some change in my interaction with others. I write this post for people to try to at least understand the problems that people face with learning disabilities. I found some positives to being dyslexic that many people may not know about which are: Although I have a lot a positives, I also have quite a bit of problems such as: God has shown me that I need to be humble and to know that I need help. Today I have received help and am relying more on others to help me. Today, I found only through working with others will make me successful, more so than any “normal” person. Since I need people to read or repeat or scribe what happened in the meeting. The other reason I created this post was to comment on Michael Savage[3] thoughts about people with learning disabilities as being a shame. It made me think about myself and how hard it is for me from day to day to function at work or school. As Catholics, we learn that with adversity comes understanding. I hope from this small example of my life and problems, people will understand what people with learning disabilities go through in life without having knowledge as a child. I also want people to understand that we have become a society that is too polarized. A society that everything is night or day. People like Michael Savage present facts incorrectly and people listen to him because it is easy. They don’t see the people like myself that could have been caught earlier and had more time to deal with my disability. I was a child that thought I needed to suck it up and school was not my thing. I later learned it wasn’t and I want to learn more everyday. His comment, even if he thought people took it out of context, was a sign that he is incompetent as a doctor (PhD). As I recall, doctor means teacher. As any good teacher one has to do extensive homework, before making comments as Savage did, only to confuse the ignorant. As well as educating the masses in what potentially can cause the problem in the first place. I found it ironic that Savage called for parents to chide a child with autistic tendencies to “act like a man,” given that many leading researchers consider autism to be an extreme manifestation of the male brain. In fact, one theory that’s attracting attention is that fetuses that produce high levels of testosterone in the womb have a tendency to exhibit autistic behavior as young children. And it seems to me that the messages society directs toward boys about “sucking it up” could actually exacerbate any tendencies to withdraw. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest count, the prevalence of autism among boys is between 2.8 and 5 times that of girls. [4 ] God has given me a true gift. As with any gift, one just has to learn to use it and overcome its difficulties. As we all need to grow everyday, we should understand that everyone is here for a reason.
Posted by Catholic Chump on 07/25 at 11:00 PM |
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The Culture Of Death
Saturday, July 19, 2008
In the last week, I have been debating with Mary Kochan from Catholic Exchange. In our back and forth comments, I have formed some conclusions about politics and priorities of people. If you have already figured out, I am not a theology major nor a political science major. So please excuse the verbiage since I most likely will not be using terms that may not be politically correct. I am very versed in law. Since, I was an economics major investigating some time in pre-law at one point. As mentioned before, I will place my own catholic perspective in this post. My major point in the post is as catholics we cannot stop at only abortion or just prioritize abortion first then other evils such as the death penalty later. We must be firm in our pro-life stance. All the following comments are from Mary Kochan that I will address piece by piece:
Well for one thing your feeling that they are both wrong does not constitute Catholic moral theology any more than someone’s feeling that gay marriage is ok. The fact is that in Catholic moral theology they are not the same: one is intrinsically evil; the other is not. Feel away all you like. I will be perfectly happy to seek the end of the death penalty after abortion is ended. AND Chump, the death penalty is not intrinsically evil. Sorry, but it is church teaching that the death penalty may be applied in some cases. It is not Church teaching that all applications of the death penalty in the past were grave moral wrong. The Church and the pope do not use the same moral language about the death penalty as they do for abortion. In the catechism it does state : [2267] Assuming that the guilty party’s identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor… Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm - without definitely taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity “are very rare, if not practically non-existent.” As in law, we have to look at the historical significance of the death penalty. Before jesus’s time, criminals were given death, were a danger to society and at that time had no other means to restrain that individual. As the catechism says today that is not the case. By supporting the death penalty you may today be killing an innocent life or worse a person that may repent with enough time that may be another lost soul to fall short of the kingdom of god. We should vote for people that will not support abortion, death penalty and euthanasia. Any form of death should not be over-sighted. As Catholics, we should only vote for those who hold all of our principles, not a few. As I stated in the past the few politicians such as Ron Paul are for these principles. Mary lacks the vision of the power we as citizens have as she said: “This notion of vote for the person, not the party, simply shows a lack of understanding of the way our system works and the current status of party politics in the US. Voting for a person of any party strengthens that party regardless of that person’s own views. Pro-life Dems are completely shut out of influencing their party platform right now and have been for about 20 years. Their party is also dedicated to the judicial usurpation of power that led to Roe v. Wade and to making sure it does not get overturned.” In America we have had many parties evolve and change from the time of the founding fathers. People have to look at the problems and rise up in the voting booths. With statements like:“Pro-life Dems are completely shut out of influencing their party platform right now” people will only steer our country into a one party dictatorship. We need to have hope just as we have faith in god. We need to hope that we can change that by voting for the people not the party. It is this thought that is weakening American and strengthening one or another party. It is this idea that people cannot see eye to eye on the issues. By making statements like this is what weakens America. We cannot think of right now, but how can we change the parties and America tomorrow. Remember it is not what America can do for you, its’ what you can do for America. I hope this post will spark discussion and get better candidates for the future. I would like to see the incumbent party running against the incumbent in office. If that is what America wants by getting both sides standing up against the their own party to show real strength. In many cases may cause some to leave the party to run as an independent. The people need to learn not to vote within party lines but to vote for the individual who is the best fit for the job. Background: http://www.catholicexchange.com/2008/07/17/113173/
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