On Easter Sunday morning death and destruction for Sri Lankan Catholics.
Thank God for the Resurrection!
Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Without Jesus or the Resurrection, there would be an abyss of unrelenting darkness and grief for the living burying their dead.
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The Democratic Party's favorite new identity group strikes again. Any statements from the 2 Muslims in CONgress?
Thank God that because of Francis, we now know that the religion that wants to kill us is indeed according to God's will.
There are three Muslims in Congress, not two. Representatives Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tliab
I cannot locate any comment from them regarding Sri Lanka. Neither can I find any comment from my own representative, a Methodist.
"The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka said it condemned the attacks “on our Christian brothers and sisters on their Holy Day of Easter, as well as on the hotels in Colombo.” It said that it mourned the loss of “innocent lives due to extremist and violent elements who wish to create divides between religious and ethnic groups to realize their agenda.”
So, you all know already it was Muslim terrorists. Better tell the authorities.
Of course, perhaps it will indeed turn out to be Muslim terrorists. Or perhaps one of several possible other groups. I believe the Tamil Tigers pioneered, or at least have been a leading exponent of, suicide bombings.
Terrorism is an evil, evil scourge that knows no religious boundaries. Just ask any of us who were born and raised in the U.K. about the IRA (Catholics by the way, and supported by elements in the United States). John Nolan will back me up on this I am sure. I just hope to God it is not all starting up again in Northern Ireland
P.S. I should not have said “you all.” I believe that, unlike TJM and Dan, Anonymous may not have succumbed to the immediate knee-jerk reaction that it was Muslim terrorists.
Let me clarify about the IRA. Of course, they were not religiously motivated like ISIS. Nor were they even all Catholics. However, this should not obscure the fact that many were Catholics and that the IRA seems to have had broad support among Catholics in Northern Ireland. And it should not obscure the deeper point that religious affiliation isn’t really the point anyway. The vast majority of Muslims reject ISIS. Indeed, their main victims are fellow Muslims who “don’t believe right”.
The fundamental problem in all of this is the “Us versus Them” mentality rooted in our false selves and our false identities. And so we wrap ourselves us up in, and identify with, religious ideology (as with ISIS), or nationalist ideology that maps onto religion (as with the IRA and Catholics) or is supported by religious people, Catholics included (as with the IRA again, or the Nazis), or secular, economic and political universalist ideology (as with Marxism or environmentalism) and on and on and on.
Didn’t Jesus Christ seek to put an end to all this “nonsense” (including Jewish “national identity” against the Romans) by reconnecting us again with our true selves and with God, and thereby to usher in the true, spiritual Kingdom from which everything else flows naturally and not sinfully and artificially? Isn’t this why Jesus is the true revolutionary, far more than Barabbas who was a mere insurrectionist? As long as we remain imprisoned in our small, culturally constructed false selves, we know not what we do.
Anonymous since you support the Abortion/gay marriage party I am not surprised
A2, this headline from the NYT:
"What Is National Thowheeth Jama’ath? Suspicion Falls on Sri Lanka Islamist Group"
Note: ISLAMIST GROUP
Yes, it was Muslim terrorism carried out by extremists. From what I understand Muslims are a tiny minority in Sri Lanka as are Catholics. It is primarily Buddhist and Hindu.
But, but PF and the Dems LOVES them!! You must let them in!!!
Regarding A2's comments on the IRA. The least attractive features of Irish nationalism have long been its glorification of violence, and its glorification of failure. In Patrick Pearse, the leader of the abortive Easter Rebellion of 1916, these were combined with a personal death-wish and a religious-mystical obsession with blood sacrifice and redemption. The Irish journalist Conor Cruise O'Brien once remarked that he wanted 'a Passion play with real blood.'
The PIRA and INLA terrorists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s gained inspiration from the 'heroes of 1916', and the quasi-religious element of the 'armed struggle', although diluted, was still present. Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death in the Maze prison in 1981 along with several other PIRA prisoners, saw himself as a martyr in a sacred cause.
Irish republicans sometimes blew themselves up, but it was either by accident or because the security forces used ECM to detonate their devices prematurely. They had no compunction about blowing other people up.
Dan,
I said in my comment “Of course, perhaps it will indeed turn out to be Muslim terrorists.” Did you not read that? You and TJM were still unjustified in asserting that it was as a demonstrated fact before this fact was established by appropriate evidence. I am sorry you cannot see that. The police and security agencies cannot leap to conclusions. Nor I suggest should we. Indeed, as I understand the matter, there has still been no claim of responsibility. But I agree that everything does seem to be pointing in that direction now.
TJM,
What on earth are you talking about? What are you not surprised about?
Also, I realize you cannot help yourself but if you continue responding to serious posts with irrelevant and inaccurate playground taunts regarding my alleged support for the Abortion Party etc., I will again be compelled to terminate engaging in conversation with you.
And no-one, I mean no-one, suggests admitting Islamic terrorists. Grow up.
John,
Thank you very much for that explanation. It is very helpful and informative.
Anonymous 2,
Your Party let terrorists and terrorist sympathizers into the US during the Obama years, and one of the terrorist sympathizers and an anti-semite was elected to Congress in Minnesota. There was no vetting just like there was no vetting of MS 13 gang members who have now murdered US citizens. Check mate
Dan,
Anonymous 2 is happy to jump to conclusions so long as it involves a Republican. The Democrat Operatives masquerading as "journalists" jump to conclusions all the time, provided it is not one of their favored identity groups. Jessie Smollett anyone? These "journalists" were quite happy to smear Trump supporters based on dubious facts that a reasonably intelligent 12 year old would have questioned.
More useful information on the terrorist sympathizer elected to Congress:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/22/omar-attacks-soldiers-who-died-in-somalia/
Dear Fellow Southern Orders Bloggers,
It has become clear to me that trying to engage in serious rational discussion with TJM really is pointless after all. I disengaged once before a few weeks ago and then reengaged when I thought there might still be a point. However, for the sake of my own sanity and yours, I will now no longer respond to TJM’s posts and provocations other than by re-posting this statement. Thank you.
Promises, promises, A2....
Anonymous 2,
Mommy, mommy, TJM is being mean to me! What you do not like is when you are called out for spewing the typical PC hypocrisies we find from folks who live in that alternate planet of reality - academia.
Dan,
Like Anonymous K, Anon 2 needs the last word.
I'll have the last word. Too much of this blog is concerned with US party political pointscoring. Those of us who do not live in the toxic bubble of American domestic politics find it unbelievably tedious. There are more important things to discuss.
John AMEN! And that response is from a US citizen sick of domestic politics over-taking a Catholic religious blog.
John Nolan,
How's Brexit going? My British friends tell me the country is polarized. Sounds toxic to me.
TJM
I don't think I have commented on Brexit. All I will say is that the only European Union I could accept would be under a Catholic emperor (preferably a Habsburg) and the common language would be Latin.
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