Anti-Atheist Meme #6

Exposing Atheist Stupidity

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THE ANGEL POSSENTI:

All credit goes to Liberal Logic 101 for this:

Creating God's Economy: Tails

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THE ANGEL POSSENTI:

Last week, we focused on how we can change the economy on the personal level. Now, some people will look at the plan and say "All you say makes sense, but how am I supposed to save when the cost of things keep going up?"

The rising costs of everyday items can in some way be traced back to government interference in market prices. For example, you may have noticed the price of beef keeps going up. If you look into it, you will find the feed that would normally go to feeding cattle instead goes to creating ethanol, which was first touted at an alternative to gas but it now turns out it takes more energy to create than it produces, and pollutes the air even more than gas. Yet in spite of this, the government keeps supporting it.

1.       Repeal the 16^th Amendment

There is no way around this and this is not open to negotiation. The federal government must be stripped of its authority to tax our income no matter what form our income takes. Our system is too confusing, it’s too corrupt and now several elected officials now admit it’s nothing more than a criminal enterprise.

While we’re on the subject of repealing, we must also repeal Congress’ authority to regulate the lives of Native Americans ( Article 1, sect 8, third listed power for those wondering where it says that). Everyone should have an equal chance at success but we must make it clear we can’t guarantee equal results.

Speaking of which…

2.       End the Fed

The Fed serves no purpose whatsoever, no one knows what it does, it causes multiple problems, it has no transparency, and each head—regardless of who picks them—has the impression they’re free to screw with our greenbacks. This is why our money isn’t worth as much as it used to be and why most times savers wind up being losers.

3.       Privatize Social Security

The numbers simply do not add up to keep things going for much longer. The number paying into the system is far, FAR less than the amount being paid out. We need to work out a system where we can deliver some promises but some will have to be on their own; each and every dollar invested for the future MUST NOT COUNT AS INCOME!!—that is, if we cannot avoid taxing income.

4.       Create an alternative tax system.

This took a bit of research from me to figure out. Since we don’t want income taxed but the government still needs some revenue, what alternatives can we suggest?

               There have been many suggestions about how to go about this, and I’ve narrowed it down to two ideas:

-Implement the Wayne Allen Root Tax Plan

     This plan written in Root’s The Conscience of a Libertarian has half of the government’s revenue coming from charges on imports and the other half divided  evenly1% between the 50 states with each one free to decide for themselves how to come up with their portion.

-Implement the True Tax Plan

   This plan, considered THE tax plan of the TEA Party, charges a 1% tax but instead of it being placed on income, it would instead be placed as a sales tax and only businesses would be required to pay it. This would of course leave each state free to decide whether they want to add additional sales tax.

5.       Implement the Stossel Rule

Created by Fox News anchor John Stossel, this rule states if the government has to pass a new rule (understanding times change, and circumstances change) they must get rid of at least five rules.

6.       Make it easier for people to own their jobs.

When he was still a congressmen, Dr Ron Paul proposed a bill that had it passed would have created a separate company type that revolved around employee stock purchase plan. In Spain, there already exists a company that does that; it's called Mondragon. But thanks to the indifference of his peers, the bill never even made it to committee. 

7.       REPEAL OBAMACARE!!!

'Nuff said.

8. Remove all federal standards on the minimum wage.

But "wait", the people say. "How can you get rid of the minimum wage? Wouldn't that put the worker at the mercy of their employer, who would be free to pay them as little as possible?"

"Calm yourself", I would tell them and then point out there is no point to any federal standards anyway since the vast majority of workers are payed higher than minimum in the first place. Plus, if you're concerned about people not being able to live on the minimum, then you are misguided. Why? 1) It was never designed to do that, even back when it was first implemented and 2) the people who apply for minimum wage jobs are those just entering the workforce and thus need the experience to advance in life. 

Bottom line is this: how much a man makes is between him, his spouse (if he has one) and his employer.

9.       Come up with a plan to start paying off all national debt.

Believe it or not, there was a time when it was believed government has to follow the same rules as a private company or an individual. That was prior to the 30's, where the government adopted a variation of Marxist theory called Keynesianism. Whenever you hear an official say "debt doesn't matter" or "the government must prime the pump", that's Keynesianism. Ever since then, our debt just keeps skyrocketing with no end in sight. 

But as anyone who has paid off their debt knows, it's not impossible but just takes time to do it…and it takes discipline. 

Once again, we turn to Ron Paul to put the government on a strict diet, only this one comes from his Plan to Restore America. Here's the link:

http://c3244172.r72.cf0.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/RestoreAmericaPlan.pdf

10. Create a counter-progressive movement.

The government won't listen unless we make them listen. They have to be badgered every hour at every day to make changes. The last government shutdown changed little or nothing in our lives…proof positive we don't need it to run everything. We do a great job of that ourselves.

In fact, we have, for lack of a better word, become reluctant promoters of subsidiarity. We have what we need to start things up again. 

Atheists have been behind this disaster and they have shown they're idiots. They must be pushed to the side (by force, if need be) and things will be brought back to sanity.

Change of Name

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THE ANGEL POSSENTI:

A new regular post is coming but I would like to take the time to point out I have decided to change my online handle from The Masked Angel to The Angel Possenti.

No…there is no actual angel by that name but I have chosen the name partially because of my Mediterranean back ground but also for all the times I myself have dishonored the sacred wounds of Our Lord. As he is currently the patron saint of students, seminarians, and clerics (three groups that need the most help) and according to some, the patron of gun owners (though there doesn't seem to be any proof to the story concerning that), what better moniker to use for the cause here at the blog?

Also, you may notice I have changed my profile picture. For those who can't read it, here's what it looks like:

There is none more tyrannical than atheists.

How to Create God's Economy: Heads

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THE MASKED ANGEL:

It's been some time since I've put up a new post, but I admit this next subject required a bit of research on my part. It concerns a subject that many people don't know the Catholic Church has weighed in on but we have let secularists and atheists dictate the outlook and outcomes. Since I have established time and again atheists are idiots, we need to get back to what God says about how His Children are to handle the gifts given to them.

Now, one may wonder what the phrase heads has to do with how to fix our economy. Often people—who oddly enough all bill themselves as financial and economic experts—say “if only we do this” or “if only the government does this” then things will be better. Yet one is often at the expense of the other and not in support of it. I agree with people who say government should not go past its proper authority but like it or not, government is part of GDP calculation. So instead of viewing personal choices and government policy as either-or, we must view it instead as two sides of the same coin.

This took me quite a bit of time to research, weighing all the advice out there and the economic theories that sound nice on paper but don’t work in practice.  I’ve now realized all the grand theories in the world don’t mean a thing if people—no, I am not demeaning them by using the term “consumers”—don’t change how they live their lives.

Why is that?

Our American economy is the most admired in the world, but once you look at it close enough, it’s in reality pretty stupid…in the sense it more reacts than acts on anything—playing solely defense if you will. Every product and service that exists only exists because there is a demand for it…demand that the people provide. So the power does lie with us.

So how do we get that power back?

1.       Read what the Bible says about debt.

In the D-R Bible, the word debt is flat out used nine times and each time it's portrayed in a negative light. In fact, the only time debt is implied in a positive light is in relation to the debt we have for what Christ has done for us.

In the Torah alone, debt was paid off in the form of temporary enslavement so you can imagine the connection between debt and slavery.

2.       Look long and hard about your own finances.

It's not how much money you bring in a year but how much you're worth. What's the difference? The first one is how much you work for money and the second is how much money is working for you. Another key difference is the first is how much money you bring in after paying bills and the second is how much you have minus what you owe. 

Here is the crux of how atheism has infected the economy (at least on this level): we have convinced ourselves that we have to have everything in order to be rich. We see this in "buy now, pay later", "pass the buck onto the next generation" (more on this in the next blog) and "you need credit to make ends meet."

[Quick side note about that last one: many people just starting out think they need a credit card to build credit history. The truth is only 10% of your overall score is based off of credit history length; the vast majority is based off how well you pay bills on time and how much total debt you have.]

If you still are convinced you you must borrow to get ahead, consider how people lived in the 50's: most everything was paid with cash and people who worked then have far more worth than people today. 

3.       If you are in debt, form a plan to get out ASAP!!

You can’t change an economy if you’re always a slave to it and some companies have convinced people they can’t live decent lives without going into debt thereby making them permanent slaves. (bible verses about this). After looking into proven methods of how to get out of debt, the best works I’ve found are from Dave Ramsey and (author of Faith Finances).  I’ve read both methods and I prefer the second one (though I suspect they both meant the same thing). Here are the links to both methods:

For Dave Ramsey, click here.

For Faith Finances, click here. 

4.       Start tithing

I know at first glance this one doesn’t make sense in light of the fact I just said pay off all debt, but consider this for a moment: social programs to help the less fortunate do a better job if they’re run by churches and private charities. Yes, some don’t manage funds well, but overall they have a much better track record than government programs. So where will they get the funds from? We don’t want government handouts, so the only other options are donations and trust funds, both of which require the donors to be financially free.

5.       Own as much assets as you can.

This goes hand-in-hand with 3, but many don’t realize the difference between an asset and a liability, so let’s do a little quiz for this:

Which of the following items are assets?

-a house

-a rental property

-stock portfolio

-certificate of deposit

-an itunes music list

If your answers included either the first one or the last one, you don’t have a firm grasp of assets. Without getting into too much financial jargon, let’s just say there are many sources available for people to learn the difference. (we’ll come back to this concept in the next

Blog post.)

6.       Change your attitude about how money works.

There is truth to the adage “whoever has the gold makes the rules.” Why else do you think all these companies produce and think they can get away with producing such inferior, morally offensive products? And why would they listen to people who can’t make ends meet? Adult-oriented companies would have disappeared AGES ago if enough people of God bought them out, shut it down and liquidated all available assets. In fact, if Christians owned enough of America, almost no smut would exist…a pipedream, sure but it would at least be more plausible.

There are two parts of every economy: the micro and macro. However, this issue, like other issues, must begin from the ground up. 

Come back next time for what we must demand from the government.

Anti-Atheist Meme #5

"Recovering" Catholics Hit Close to Home for Me

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THE MASKED ANGEL:

In this posting, I'm going to look at a special breed of atheists called "recovering Catholics." Before we look at it, I implore you to watch this video:





Once again, Michael Voris hits the bullseye, but I must point out one thing he overlooked: he did not mention or look at people he knows who call themselves "recovering Catholics."

For those not familiar with the term, "recovering Catholic" means someone who was either raised Catholic or came into the Catholic faith at some point in their lives but abandoned it in favor of another religious view…falling outside the Church, you might say. In what is perhaps one of the more puzzling traits of Recovering Catholics is their treatment of their former faith as a sickness they are now happy to  say they've gotten over in the same sense as someone saying "I'm a recovering alcoholic" or "I'm a recovering drug addict."

Why is this? You don't hear someone say "I'm a recovering Presbyterian" or "I'm a recovering Methodist" or "I'm a recovering Jew." Why does no one ever say these? (Besides the fact that last one also counts as an ethnicity and the other two are so-called Christianity created by sinful men?)

According to Philip Jenkins in his book The New Anti-Catholicism: the Last Acceptable Prejudice, the term "recovering Catholic" was first coined by gay activists in the mid-1980's. (No surprise there: the vast majority of "recovering Catholics" are in favor of gay so-called marriage.) Over time, the term came to mean anyone who left the Church and now acts as its enemy. We see this in groups who oppose all access religion has in the public area, regardless of what that religion is.

One question I would like to ask this group: out of all the alternatives to Catholicism, why do these people choose either a so-called Bible based church or atheism? My guess is either they were poorly taught their Catholic faith or they want a viewpoint that allows them to not take responsibility for their own actions, and here are some examples of it from famous "recovering Catholics":

-In her book Bad Habits, Jenny McCarthy claims her former faith is the source for her neurotic tendencies and she thinks the Immaculate Conception refers to Jesus' Virgin Birth. There are no backed psychological studies for her first claim and even the 80s Catechism proves her wrong on the last one.

-Then there's former VP candidate Sarah Palin, who in November 2013 claimed Pope Francis made liberal-leaning remarks, even though it turned out he was actually describing the Catholic teaching of subsidiarity. Had she been familiar with the teaching, she would have realized how the teaching fell in line with the conservative view of smaller government.

-Then there's former Catholic turned Mormon Glenn Beck…oh, where to begin about how ignorant he is about Catholicism? Besides advising Catholics to leave their parish if the priest promotes social justice (news flash: Beck doesn't even know what social justice means) but recently he claimed scientist Bill Nye's fight against creationism is "like the Catholic Church's war against Galileo."
Had he bothered to look into the case, he wouldn't have said something that dumb.

-Then there's actors like Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Madonna…nuff said.

-And now the special case of Bill Maher. He will get his own posting here so for now we'll bring up his claim of Jesus being based on Egyptian myth, a claim widely dismissed by Egyptologists as historical quackery but Maher keeps promoting it and has never apologized for getting his facts wrong.

It should be obvious from all this that "recovering Catholics" need to be called out on their ignorance and how poorly they distort Catholic teaching before their nonsense gets even worse.

And I know some are going to write to me and say"Masked Angel, you don't know what you're talking about. I bet you were born and raised into Catholicism, never once questioned it, never bothered to consider alternative religious views and you're just going after them because they're better informed than you are."

The truth is quite to the contrary.

I meant it when I said this issue hits close to home for me. In my life, I can name ten people who fit the "Recovering Catholic" profile…three of them are people I graduated from high school with who now no longer talk to me because of my faith,  four of them are former co-workers who I know if I talk religion to them, they won't talk to me anymore and two of them…are my own sisters, who I can no longer relate to.

But perhaps the closest former "recovering Catholic" I know…the one where I can get my best source of information into how this group thinks, how they come across their conclusions, and why they no longer believe….the one I can turn to the most for the best information...is myself.

Yes…The Masked Angel himself was once a "recovering Catholic", and I can say with complete honesty that the views "recovering Catholics" have are views I myself once had in my youth but now view as childish and ill-informed.

I have been on the "recovering Catholic" side and I have been on the revert side, and I want to make this abundantly clear to "recovering Catholics:"

There is NOTHING you can say or argue to me that will convince me of your viewpoint.

If you say something ill about the Catholic Church in front of me, I will confront you, I will get in your face…and it will not end well for you.