Religion: May 2008 Archives

I came across this article after hearing about Clarence Thomas' religious dedication from Laura Ingraham's radio program on the way to work.

Here are some excerpts of prayers he keeps in his wallet to keep him grounded during the day on the Supreme Court:

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature...

"Deliver me, O Jesus, from the fear of being humiliated... from the fear of being despised... from the fear of suffering rebukes... from the fear of being calumniated."

I had to look up what calumniated meant.  Basically means slandered.

I would also like to add:

Help me remember that every deed or thought will be attributed to me on the day of judgement.

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

- 2 Peter 1:3-11

Full Litany of Humility by Cardinal Merry del Val:

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being loved...
From the desire of being extolled ...
From the desire of being honored ...
From the desire of being praised ...
From the desire of being preferred to others...
From the desire of being consulted ...
From the desire of being approved ...
From the fear of being humiliated ...
From the fear of being despised...
From the fear of suffering rebukes ...
From the fear of being calumniated ...
From the fear of being forgotten ...
From the fear of being ridiculed ...
From the fear of being wronged ...
From the fear of being suspected ...

That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be esteemed more than I ...
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and I may decrease ...
That others may be chosen and I set aside ...
That others may be praised and I unnoticed ...
That others may be preferred to me in everything...
That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should...

I just read an article by some uppity-up claiming that the half of Americans that don't believe in the "Theory of Evolution" are stupid because they don't know what a theory is.  Rubbish!

Maybe instead of trying to belittle those "creationists" who have faith in one form of creation as "evolutionists" have their own faith in another form of creation, evolutionists would realize that we understand what a theory is, but instead, we have a problem with the package of nothing to everything as a "Theory of Evolution". 

Why don't they define what evolution is instead of theory.  I'll tell you why...  Because they'd look silly to most of the world.  I'll try to break down the various forms I see in the "Theory of Evolution" instead:

1.  Cosmic evolution.  They claim the big bang was an immense explosion that created all the matter of the universe.  Fine.  Where did that point mass come from? 

2.  Biological evolution.  How did life create itself from non-living material?  Where is the evidence?  They say in a gazillion years it could happen.  Ok, let's quicken it up, let's jump start it.  Add energy to inorganic material and try to make it organic.  Throw a bunch of inorganic material together in a test tube and pray to Darwin.  It's not going to happen.  Re-read the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.  The universe tends towards chaos, not order.

3.  Macro-evolution.  Can one kind change into another?  Again, there is no evidence of this.  Evolutionist continue to have faith that they will eventually find the "missing link" of macro-evolution.  Horse to dog, fish to tree, etc.  Again, no evidence for this.

4.  Micro-evolution.  Aha!  Finally!  This is variations within the kinds, the different races of humans, breeds of dogs, etc.  This is the one level of evolution that all believe and why it's sometimes hard for those that haven't thought much about it to separate truth from what they've been taught in increasingly atheistic schools and continue to hear from our atheistic media.

The last form actually happens, but they package all the other forms into this unified "Theory of Evolution" and try to claim that since #4 is true, they must all be.  Rubbish.

Evolutionists like to focus on the word theory in these debates to make them feel all scientific.  When you talk to one, ask them to show you some evidence of any of the other three forms of their "Evolution".  Until they can do so, I think we should downgrade the "Theory of Evolution" into nothing more than a hypothesis.

Oh, and by the way.  The "theory of gravity" can be empirically proven.  We may not completely understand it (hence the word theory), but we can test how it works.  Their "theory of evolution" cannot empirically prove life spontaneously created from non-life.