Month: January 2010

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More evidence that the EP’s global warming stance was reckless

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We warned the Ecumenical Patriarch that endorsing the global warming agenda was reckless. Anyone with eyes to see clearly saw that global warming (since renamed “climate change” — a harbinger that the effort might freeze over) was a political, not scientific, enterprise designed to wrestle control of economies away from nation-states and hand it over to non-elected bureaucracies.

Now more evidence about the massive corruption surrounding global warming has emerged. The American Thinker ran a piece (see: Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg) that alleges fraud from more research institutions that told us that global warming was a real threat including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). It will take time for the reports to filter into the mainstream, but once they do, you can bet this house will come crashing down like ice breaking from a glacier.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese press office remain uncharacteristically silent about the support the “Green Patriarch” gave global warming activists just a few short months ago. Yet “support” is too mild a term. Pat. Bartholomew in fact threw the full moral weight of his office behind specific policies like the Copenhagen Protocols that were built on the fraudulent science.

It was a huge blunder. It fosters the dry rot that destroys credibility. The eagerness to align the Ecumenical Patriarch with the Progressive wing of American politics reveals that his handlers have a poor understanding of the American political and moral culture. They blew it big time.

Don’t say he wasn’t warned.

March for Life – 2010

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The march

Early reports indicate that the Orthodox had a good showing at the March for Life in Washington DC today. Orthodox leadership was represented by Met. Jonah (OCA) who was a featured speaker at the event.

Peter and Helen Evans, participants in the march and editors of the website PeterandHelenEvans.com (check out their interviews with signers of the Manhattan Declaration) sent along some pictures you can see on the top right sidebar.

Any marchers reading this, send us your pictures. We will build a gallery of the march.

If your priest is behind on house blessings…

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…maybe you could draft this one:

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Wesley J. Smith interviewed on National Review Online

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Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith, noted author on human rights and occasional commentator on the AOI Blog was interviewed on National Review Online on his upcoming book, A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. Smith discusses the difference between animal rights and animal welfare, human exceptionalism, the ongoing devaluation of human life, and about his friendship with novelist Dean Koontz, who wrote the preface.

My recommendation? Read the book. If you have read any of his other works, you will know that Wesley J. Smith will, in short order, bring you up to speed on the ideas streaming into the culture that devalue human life and threaten the bulwarks built throughout the centuries against human suffering, cruelty, brutality, and finally tyranny. Smith writes from a human rights perspective, drawing on the great tradition of the elevation of the human person — sometimes hard fought and not without sacrifice — that informed the moral imagination of Christendom until well into the last century. Now the tables are turning and Smith warns us that if we don’t wake up to the threat, the threat might overtake us.

Listen here:

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Sanctity of Life Observations Encouraged by Bishop BASIL

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Bishop Basil of Wichita (AOA)

His Grace Bishop BASIL, in his St. Raphael Clergy Brotherhood newsletter on January 8, encouraged the faithful and clergy of his Diocese to mark the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision with prayers, volunteer work with local pro-life ministries, and participation where possible in the Washington D.C. March for Life.

His Grace writes:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22nd will mark the 37th anniversary of the infamous decision given by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case known as “Roe v. Wade.” Please find below two links about how Orthodox Christians will observe that day:

1. Read the invitation issued to all Orthodox Christians from METROPOLITAN JONAH of the Orthodox Church in America: http://www.oca.org/news/2043 His Beatitude will head the large crowd of Orthodox Christians who will gather in Washing, DC from throughout our nation to participate in the 2010 National March for Life..

2. Schedule to serve the “Service of Supplication for the Sanctity of Life” with your congregation on either Thursday evening, January 21st or on Friday, January 22nd. The text may be accessed at http://www.saintandrew.net/Sanctity_of_Life.html

3. Actively support “The Tree House” (http://www.wichitatreehouse.com/index.html), a ministry of our Diocese’s three congregations in Wichita, KS (St George Cathedral, St Mary Church and St Michael Mission) and other such ministries and pro-life agencies in your own locale.”

In Christ,

+ B a s i l
Bishop of Wichita and the Diocese of Mid-America
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

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