Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“You will be hated for my namesake”
I saw a few interactions where he would see genuine struggle in the individual and he would call out the crowd to show respect. He was fair.
What made him so effective is that he knew his stuff. He recalled information very well. He would ask students to put away their phones for reference and recall facts looking him in the eye. And when they couldn’t, he would smile…
There was great satisfaction watching someone fight the Truth and “win” for a change.
Epistulae Morales 67:6b
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Pulcherrima pars eius [fortitudinis] maximeque mirabilis illa est, non cedere ignibus, obviam ire vulneribus, interdum tela ne vitare quidem sed pectore excipere.
The most beautiful and most wonderful part of it [courage] is that, not yielding to fire, going to meet wounds, sometimes not even avoiding weapons but absorbing them with your chest.
It becomes increasingly clear to me that we will not be getting back to such discussion until after some general convulsion of violence.
The posts on Bluesky convince me of this. The violent are still enjoying the violence.
I’m hoping it will only require some localized upheaval to shock people back into civility, but I really am not sure it would.
I am not advocating for the violence, but it seems to be coming, rumbling like an approaching thunderstorm.
Freedom of free speech.
The freedom of free speech has been shackled.
The point was made that burning the American Flag is not free speech. Burning the American Flag is an act, an act of censorship, violence and destruction.
Therefore, outlawing, prohibiting and obliterating the mention of God in prayer, annihilating the reading and/or exhibiting of the law of God in the Ten Commandments is censorship of free speech, prohibition of free speech; our free speech of the people is being denied.
Freedom
TBO: “The violent are still enjoying the violence.” A very truthful statement. I wish I could see violence ending, but I think we’re on the front end to terrible violence in the USA. I’m praying the rosary more than ever.