A tempest in a teapot began to rage in the ever-shrinking fanbase of Marvel comics when the Woke overlords of Marvel announced their intention to emasculate the character of their popular antihero Frank Castle, the Punisher.
This is meant to discourage policemen and soldiers from admiring him, or from displaying his badass long-toothed skull emblem on their gear or garb. Woke Marvel does not want Patriots as patrons.
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Even what seems a small thing, like bearing a false accusation, or spreading a false panic, may be a great and weighty thing indeed. Should those who scorn forgiveness be forgiven?
I know personally of two cases where, because an impressionable woman was deceived into believing the transparently absurd smears brought against Justice Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, she broke off a childhood friendship of many decades standing or she sought a divorce from her husband.
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The Cunning Man, Chapter 06: The Goodwife Prudence is now posted.
We meet the Goodwife Prudence, who is young and fair, and see why she sent for the Cunning Man, and whom she wished to find. Is she wife or widow? Is she good? Much remains to be seen.
Allow me to post a link to an interview well worth hearing.
I was quite impressed — almost moved to tears, in fact — by the splendor of humility and honesty shown by this young man, Daniel James, explaining his conversion from Antifas Anarchist to Christian Catholic.
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Voice of Reason posts the next installment of the Last Crusade oration:
Last Crusade 10: The Authority of Virtue.
The Last Crusade takes up arms against a fallen world.
The Enemy says no standard exists by which any man or any culture can be judged virtuous or vicious; a discriminating judgment is discrimination. We say it is a virtue to know and to act upon the difference between virtue and vice.
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Philosophy traditionally was divided into seven major branches:
Theology includes the study of revealed truth, which of necessity touches all these foregoing studies. Theology alone unifies all branches of philosophy, hence is rightly called their summit, culmination, and queen.
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This conversation was fascinating to me on a number of levels, and well worth hearing.
The link embedded below contains the first 15 seconds of the conversation, which began before the recording began. Click on the link to find the podcast.
https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/7IVFm4085auRaIHS7N1NQl
It is interesting to me as a Catholic, because Jordan Peterson has a Catholic view of life, what one might call the sacramental view, where visible things are expressions of invisible realities, but is not a Catholic nor even a Christian. As an outsider, he sees insights into religious conceptions of remarkable clarity.
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Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is recognized to address the House. The remarks may be of interest to my readers.
The Cunning Man, Chapter 05: The Reverend Pastor Ignatius is now posted.
We hear what is known of the Cunning Man’s mysterious escape from the cellar, and entertain doubts as to whether the holy craft of the young father can overcome witchery. Of course, the young father owns several books, or so it is reported, with letters in figures in them.
