I read the other day that explicit “hardcore” pornography is now the seventh biggest industry in the USA.

New internet sites appear daily — making porn easier to access now than ever before.

The most enthusiastic consumers are young men with still immature brains.

The human brain isn’t fully developed until about age 25.

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Insurance companies deal in reality. They treat under-25 drivers as bad risks.

They don’t pretend that under-25’s are grown up. If they did they would lose money.

Treating 18 year olds as adults is not clever, it is just weakness.

If the porn industry can attract under-25s, they have every chance of creating an addict.

Then they have him for life — barring a miracle of grace.

The addiction is real and literal.

The brain exposed to regular pornography becomes modified by the repeated output of “pleasure hormones”.

The habit becomes wired into the patterns of the brain circuitry itself.

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Although porn sometimes mentions “making love” . . . .

The relationships depicted are those of mutual contempt . . . .

Closer to hate than to  love . . . .

The other person is an object . . . .

Something to exploit . . . .

Not somebody to cherish and relate to selflessly.

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The way to avoid porn addiction is to have nothing to do with porn at all.

Avoid it like the plague.

Remember the traditional Prayer of Contrition:

O my God, I am sorry and beg pardon for all my sins, and detest them above all things,

Because they deserve Thy dreadful punishments,

Because they have crucified my loving Saviour Jesus Christ and, most of all,

Because they offend Thine infinite goodness.

I firmly resolve, by the help of Thy grace,

Never to offend Thee again,

And carefully to AVOID THE OCCASIONS OF SIN.

Amen

Yes, London is in chaos.

Likewise Birmingham and other UK cities.

Thousands on the streets looting, assaulting, starting fires.

Everybody has a theory about why it is happening.

Some blame the government for unemployment and reduced welfare handouts.

Others blame multiculturalism.

Some blame the police.

Others blame parents for not keeping their teens under supervision.

So far, I haven’t heard anybody blaming celebrity-atheist and author Richard Dawkins.

Certainly RD isn’t personally responsible for everything.

But he has done his bit to make the lives of Britons purpose-free.

Popularising the notion that smart people don’t believe in God.

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Australia is half-way there, having let ourselves be lumbered with an atheist Prime Minister.

Plus a God-denying Greens party manipulating every government decision.

Not believing in God means not believing in any absolute difference between right and wrong.

The godless can logically feel free to do whatever turns them on.

They often do – and will do increasingly, unless big changes occur in our society.

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When schools and media focus young minds on little else but mocking tradition and idolising celebrity-parasites, what can we expect?

But there is always hope.

God does exist.

His will is always done.

He is almighty.

When something bad happens, there is a reason.

There is always something to be learned from it.

When more people go to their church confessional on Saturday nights than go to night-clubs . . . .

Then we’ll know we’re ready to reform our world into a better and truly peaceful place.

Anders Behring Breivik killed 76 people last Friday.

The media have been referring to him as a “Christian fundamentalist”.

If they checked his writings they would learn that he is no such thing.

He says himself that he has not attended church for over a decade:

 “I guess I’m not an excessively religious man. I am first and foremost a man of logic.”

But it suits some to label him a Christian anyway, and to make it stick.

From now on, whenever we are confronted by Islamic terrorist atrocities, the answer can be trotted out, “Yes, but what about Christian terrorist Breivik and his atrocities?”

Saturation media brow-beatings about how all religion is evil — especially the Catholic religion.

Some within the Church seem keen to help — obediently issuing apologies.

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This week the CEO of Catholic Health Australia publicly apologised for adoption practices of a generation of two ago.

Implying that the unmarried teenage girls who surrendered their babies could have raised them better than the adoptive parents did.

I can remember those days, and having regular dealings with young women in such situations.

Sometimes the right decision was made. Sometimes probably not.

I suggest that when wrong decisions were made, the motivation was seldom malicious.

But anti-Catholics won’t want to concede that.

Nor that it was government policy being carried out — the Church acting in accordance with the current thinking of the authorities and “experts” of the day.

Once an unmarried teenager becomes pregnant there is no good solution — the best one can hope for is the lesser of multiple evils.

We should be concentrating on ways to make it not happen.

The Premier of Ireland, Enda Kenny, has condemned the Catholic Church for its “dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, narcissism etc.”

He was commenting about a report on bishops failing to hand over to the police priests accused of child abuse.

He said, “The rape and torture of children were downplayed or ‘managed’, to uphold instead the primacy of the Institution, its power, standing and reputation.”

Meanwhile, in Newcastle, Australia, the Catholic Diocese has had to pay out $13 million to the victims of sex-abusing church staff (three priests and a lay teacher).

People putting money in the Sunday collection plate can wave it goodbye, hoping that not all of it ends up in the pockets of lawyers.

The whole tragic business is a mess.                                                              

If Premier Kenny looks around his parliament, he knows there are MP child-abusers, porn-watchers and other no-goods.

But it’s easier to have a go at the Church.

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Ask your local GP about child abuse.

It’s so common it would make you cry to think about it.

Hundreds of thousands of children are being sexually abused today — and every day.

They are never the same again.

Most have never met a priest – wouldn’t know what a priest is.

Disobedience to God’s laws about sex is everywhere — an expanding epidemic.

Many forms of sexual immorality are now respectable, even fashionable.

The whole society needs to change.

We need to start believing in God – the living God.

It is God’s will to live in and through his Church – the ongoing incarnation of himself on earth — which makes the betrayal of trust committed by unfaithful priests an evil without equal.

The rest of us, while lamenting priestly sin, shouldn’t spend too much time on it — but concentrate on checking our own selves.

Mostly our minds are far from pure.

Pray to God for the gift of personal purity.

Loree Rudd recently wrote to federal Labor MP’s opposing same-sex “marriage” — saying that if the party backs it she will quit.

She says marriage belongs only between a man and woman, and complains that the worldwide pro-homosexual movement has “fed propaganda” to lobby for change:

“I call them the global gay Gestapo . . . brainwashing people, particularly the young in the community, that this (homosexuality) is an optional extra in life,”

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Loree has been criticised for those words:

 * Yes, there is no place here for using the word “gay”.

“Gay” means happy and full of fun. To drag it into this debate is to throw away yet another useful English word.

* Others criticise Loree for mentioning the “Gestapo” — as though brainwashing youth into normalising homosexual acts is as evil as killing prisoners in gas chambers.

Yes, better not to have mentioned the Gestapo — it gave her opponents an excuse to focus on just one word, and to avoid addressing the important point she was making.

We all know our youth is being fed biased information re homosexuality — as recently discussed on this blog site.  (18 May 2011)

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The Catholic Church Catechism says we must treat all people, including those involved in homosexuality, as follows: “Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. …”

Therefore bullying, abuse (and, presumably, Gestapo-talk) cannot be excused.

But it  also says: “. . . under no circumstances can they [homosexual acts] be approved . . . homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”

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So there we are:

Loree scores only about 4 out of 10 for her choice of words.

But more like 9 out of 10 for her courage and initiative.

Would it be fair to say that the carbon tax, with which we now seem to be stuck, is nothing to do with “climate change”?

The money will supposedly be taken from the “big polluters” — then much of it given back to them in the form of “compensation”. Not to all of them, only those whom the Greens Party and hangers-on (i.e. the “government” of Australia) consider to be deserving.

So is the motivation behind the tax, in fact, to redistribute wealth and commercial viability on the basis of somebody’s ideologically-based choice?

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That sounds rather bizarre.

The whole concept of calling carbon dioxide “carbon” — and of believing that shutting down certain out-of-favour industries will alter the weather — isn’t it all a bit bizarre?

Mr Swan says the coal industry will be compensated. Mr Swan says he is a “very strong supporter” of the coal industry.

Senator Brown says the coal industry will be phased out of existence by 2020.

From now on, coal miners can expect to lose their jobs. Any time.

A few might get positions looking after wind generators or solar farms or something.

Most won’t.

The price of electricity will go up.

Everything that needs electricity to make it happen will go up.

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Yes, miners, farmers and all who work in primary or manufacturing industry – in fact everybody who hasn’t cornered a job counselling depressed primary and secondary industry workers – can consider their livelihood at risk.

What to do?

Complain loud and long.

Also, grow everything you need to feed yourself in your backyard. Keep chickens. Barter fruit with neighbours who have different kinds of trees.

Best home-school your children – otherwise they’ll soon be believers in anthropogenic (if that is how you spell it) climate change, as well as in same-sex marriage and long day-care for neonates and that one religion is as good as another and that no religion at all is even better . . . .