Thinking Catholic BlogThis Blog seeks to turn the nominal Catholic into a thinking Catholic, to prod American culture toward return to Judao-Christian moral norms, and to prod Catholicism in America back to alignment with Rome. Supports the traditions of Western Civilization, and champions the orthodox Catholic ethos. Attacks heterodox Catholic teaching on sight. Promotes the return to critical thinking, the Scientific Method and Science. Attacks Scientism on sight. This Web Log (BLOG) page will always show you the latest:
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Once you start using RSS, you'll be amazed at what you can do with it. (Or, alternatively, subscribe to our free Catholic American Thinker E-Zine and receive articles in your e-mail as they are published.) This automatic BLOG only holds the most recent 50 site updates. If the entry you’re looking for is not here any more, go to the SITE MAP at the bottom of the HOME PAGE, and you should find it there. Thinking Catholic Blog entries begin below here. (Note that if a pre-existing article or page re-appears here again (and again, and again, ...) then a dialogue at the end is probably updated with new entries.) Jul 3, 2009, Catholic Marriage Annulment: Is it merely the Catholic version of Easy Divorce?Ecclesial law regarding the Catholic marriage annulment process has not changed, yet the numbers of annulments granted in America have rocketed. Why? Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 30, 2009, Constitutional America: Vic Biorseth argues for a return to basic rule of law.The Vic Biorseth arguments for a return to the Constitutional America intended by the Fathers and expected by the People through their Representative Government. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 25, 2009, From 1768 through 1776 the Brits vainly attempted gun control in the Colonies.The British feared that, absent "gun control", the militias in the colonies could become as "regulated" and fearsome as the British "Regulars" themselves. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 23, 2009, How Cronkite and the SLIMC lost the Vietnam War for America.With the whole SLIMC overwhelmingly Marxist, the Reds couldn't possibly loose politically and publicly that which they couldn't posssibly win militarily in the Vietnam war. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 19, 2009, The Death Penalty: Is our justice system too corrupt to be trusted with it?The death penalty is too strong a sentence when serious questions exist re the truthfulness of police, prosecutors, defense attorneys and even forensic scientists. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 19, 2009, The Rabbi Meir Kahane Open Letter to the World is a must read.No decent world history course is complete without the Rabbi Meir Kahane Open Letter to the World. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 17, 2009, Against political moderation: America was not founded by indecisive moral wimps.Political Moderation provides neither leadership nor opposition, but merely a moral drag that historically prolongs moral debates and ends up hurting morality. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 16, 2009, Against diversity for the sake of diversity. Why do Marxists always seek more?Our argument against diversity for the sake of diversity, which weakens and ultimately replaces ideology and ethos. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 16, 2009, Vic Biorseth opposes affirmative action / equal opportunity programs as racist.Vic Biorseth: affirmative action (racial preference) requires racial exclusion, which is, definitively, racism. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 15, 2009, Refuting the Origin Of Species pseudo-scientific theory of Darwinism.If Darwinism’s Origin Of Species is a true Scientific Theory then there must be a preponderance of evidences supporting it. Show us any of it. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 12, 2009, Vic Biorseth is the host of the Thinking Catholic Strategic Center WebSite.Welcome to my site; allow me to introduce myself. My name is Vic Biorseth. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 8, 2009, The Marxism of Obama: Marching America into another Socialist dictatorship.Vic Biorseth describes the self-documented Marxism of Obama which is still not widely recognized among the American citizenry. Obama “change” is Socialism, pure and simple. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 8, 2009, BMDFP is the pseudoname for the ethos of Baboons, Mongrel Dogs, and Filthy Pigs.I call on BMDFP whenever I feel the need to "name that ethos"; legion are they who claim an ethos superior to ours, but they never have a name for it. Problem resolved. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 8, 2009, The Thinking Catholic Challenge: Walking that very inconvenient walk.The Thinking Catholic Strategic Center seeks a return to Critical Thinking, recognition of Objective Reality, and living a solid, morally grounded life. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, What does normalized, mainstreamed, open homosexuality say about us as a people?Our argument against open homosexuality is an argument for the continuance of Western Civilization, and the Western Culture Ethos and the normative family. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, Is the 2008 world economic condition as rosy as all the Obama fans think it is?Here comes Change. The question is whether it might be beneficial or catastrophic for the 2008 world economic condition. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, 2008 Political Crisis Pseudo-Intellectual Elite Fad of Marxism looms in America2008 Political Crisis of Socialism looms over America and all of Western Culture Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, 2008 Obama Ethos: Who is Barack Obama? What is his grounding, his ethos?2008 Obama Ethos explores Obama's grounds of being; his religious, moral and political guiding principles. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, 2008 Obama Election: Disaster, or Turning Point?The 2008 Obama Election may spell doom for Conservatism, or, mark a turning point back to basics. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, Measuring the 2008 Marxist Seeds of Disaster that were sown long ago.2008 Marxist Seeds of Disaster are sprouting. Free Market garden growing a bitter harvest born of bitter seeds of Marxist Theory. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, Regarding the perceptible depth of 2008 Marxist Infiltration in America.2008 Marxist Infiltration: How do we measure it? Number of bureaucrats on government payroll, or, Freudian slips of office holders? Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, 2008 election forecast from a truly disgusting debate; doom for conservatism?There is no good candidate here. It's so tiresome to have to choose the lesser of two evils. Our 2008 election forecast. Permalink -- click for full blog post Jun 6, 2009, Financial Crisis, yes, but of who’s making?American Free Market Capitalism may now be in crash and burn mode. Is it due to the inevitability proclaimed by Marxism, or due to government interference with the free market process? Permalink -- click for full blog post May 30, 2009, The religion as a private matter argument that cannot stand the light of day.Claiming one’s religion as a private matter is a neutral thing, unless the one with the claim is in authority over us, as an official or a “representative” politician. Permalink -- click for full blog post May 30, 2009, Freudianism aka Psychoanalysis: Introduction to Freud, Dope and Sexual Fixation.Freudianism, through flawed reasoning, changed the focus of psychology from intellect, cognition and thought, to the unconscious, the sub-conscious and the hidden. Permalink -- click for full blog post May 25, 2009, Welcome to America's Protected Multi-Billion Dollar Masturbation Industry .That the government simultaneously censors Christian expression and protects pornography, the product of the Masturbation Industry, is a pure national disgrace. Permalink -- click for full blog post May 22, 2009, Our argument against public despair, hopelessness and pessimism re the future.Despair is a mortal sin, the opposite of the virtue of hope; it is a sin unto the death of the soul, a repudiation and rejection of God’s grace. Permalink -- click for full blog post May 21, 2009, The Modernist Heresy: Western Man's Descent from Philosophy into Modernism.Modernism is the heresy of heresies, because it carries within it all previous heresies, being as it is a direct, frontal assault upon faith and all doctrine and dogma. Permalink -- click for full blog post May 10, 2009, Our argument against fads, fashions, popular trends and herd instinct.If speaking against fads makes me square, un-cool or un-hip, then so be it. All fads are, in microcosm, expressions of rebellion against tradition. Permalink -- click for full blog post May 7, 2009, The Plastic Bags and Eco Doom theory: will plastic bags end life as we know it?Plastic Bag and Eco Doom predictions tell us that plastic grocery and garbage bags will still be buried in the land fills and dumps a thousand years from now. Well … so what? Permalink -- click for full blog post May 7, 2009, We argue against income minimums and caps, and for a free and private market.Income minimums and caps are Marxism’s “moral” bait to gain popular support for Socialism on the path to typical Marxist absolute dictatorship. Permalink -- click for full blog post May 7, 2009, Our argument against unions and for a more open and free marketplace.Arguing against unions and other free market interventions is seeking greater excellence in market goods, services, employees and employers, through free and open competition. Permalink -- click for full blog post May 1, 2009, Our argument supporting the Fair Tax as a sensible and practical Tax Revolution.Fair Tax presents the possibility of a real, popular, voter-supported, tax payer supported, grass-roots supported Revolution in America, and a radical change for the better. Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 21, 2009, The English national language of the United States of America.There is no good argument against an English national language for America. What other language should we all speak here? Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 21, 2009, Thomas Jefferson speaks to us from the Declaration of IndependenceJefferson Speaks to contemporary America; the primary author of the words most sacred to Americans cans still fan the embers of liberty in the breast of man. Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 20, 2009, Aleksandr I.Solzhenitsyn warns the American Worker and American organized labor.Solzhenitsyn speaks to us as a worker from the “Worker’s Paradise” of Communism; words of warning for all who understand the meaning of the word Liberty. Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 18, 2009, Warning all bourgeoisie: Obama will destroy the middle class.Take fair warning all bourgeoisie, i.e., members of our vast middle class: the Marxists despise you and intend to conquer you once and for all. Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 16, 2009, Values Versus Ethos: If we are not a Christian people then what the hell are we?Obama set up the values versus ethos argument. He declared that we are not a Christian nation, but a nation of citizens with “values”. What are these values and where did they come from? Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 13, 2009, Being pro choice or pro woman's right to choose equals being pro abortion.Saying you are pro choice, or pro right to choose, is saying you are pro abortion. Period. Pro choice equals pro abortion. Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 10, 2009, MPAV = Marxist Principles And ValuesMAPV addresses the supposed “principles” and “values” by which Marxists order their lives, having abandoned ethos but not the appearance of being principled men. Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 10, 2009, MEJTML = Marxist Ends-Justify-The-Means LiarMEJTML applies to any Marxist. How do you know when a Marxist is lying? When his mouth is open and words are coming out. Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 10, 2009, HBAACOTE = Human Beings Are A Cancer On The EarthHBAACOTE is the inevitable resultant notion when materialistic atheism rules, and lays the groundwork for Marxist takeover. Permalink -- click for full blog post Apr 6, 2009, Website Status 04/06/2009Busy driving daily now; most website work will be weekend and as available. Permalink -- click for full blog post Mar 27, 2009, Refuting Marxism and sub-theories of Socialism and Communism, as Scientism.If Marxism represents any sort of true Scientific Theory then there must be a preponderance of evidences supporting it. Show us any of it. Permalink -- click for full blog post Mar 27, 2009, Refuting the Repressed Memory Syndrome scientistic theory of Freudianism.If Freudianism’s Repressed Memory Syndrome is a true Scientific Theory then there must be a preponderance of evidences supporting it. Show us any of it. Permalink -- click for full blog post Mar 24, 2009, Background history of the recent Catholic reformation (revolution?) in liturgy.Reform of the Liturgy began with good intentions toward minor changes, yet almost permanently trashed Latin, and Chant, and, etc., etc., etc. Permalink -- click for full blog post Mar 24, 2009, Definition of Marxism: Total control of means of production, including workers.The definition of Marxism describes the social, economic and governmental philosophy of Karl Marx, co-author of the Communist Manifesto. Permalink -- click for full blog post Mar 24, 2009, Arguments pro and con; Vic Biorseth, Thinking Catholic Strategic Center.Foundational arguments pro and con under girding Western culture and the Judao-Christian ethos. Vic Biorseth, Thinking Catholic Strategic Center. Permalink -- click for full blog post Mar 24, 2009, Argument against National Health Care, which is, in fact, Socialized Medicine.National Heath Care equals Socialized Medicine, pure and simple. Medical Practice is beyond the scope of government and not what our government is constituted to do. Permalink -- click for full blog post Mar 23, 2009, Argument against Public Education, which is, in fact, Government Indoctrination.Public Education equals State Indoctrination, pure and simple. Education is beyond the scope of government and not what our government is constituted to do. Permalink -- click for full blog post
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