Reflections on faith, culture and current affairs from a conservative contrarian desperately seeking to recover a sense of sacred enchantment
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Funny how the National Party didn’t care about vote splitting when they were encouraging voters to do it in the electorate of Epsom for all those years. #nzpol
All the normies understood him. The funniest thing is that many of the other politicians on that panel probably have no sense about how challenging the cost of living is for us proles because they get paid so much in salary and expenses it just doesn’t register as a big deal for them. #nzpol #NZPolitics
What this seems to indicate is that polling companies are not accurately registering the National and ACT party vote - probably because those voters are less likely to be at home or willing to stop and spend time engaging with a polling company.
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A chi gli chiese perché non abbandonasse la Chiesa cattolica per passare all Riforma, Erasmo da Rotterdam rispose:
“Sopporto questa Chiesa, in attesa che divenga migliore, dal momento che anch'essa per prima è costretta a sopportare me, in attesa che io divenga migliore."
I struggle to accept that this poll is a reflection of reality #NZPolitics #nzpol
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In the latest episode of The Little Flock Podcast, Katie and I discuss the issue of mental load. Is it real? Do mums bear the brunt of it? What does it mean for tension in a family? We also talk about the case of a mother who left her daughter at the airport and carried on without her to an overseas holiday after she forgot her passport. We also hear some profound insights from US actor Matthew McConaughey about the nature and importance of getting married… alright, alright, alright!
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That's what Plato warned democracy tends to collapse into, except it won't be never-ending but rather climaxes in tyranny when a sufficiently ruthless demagogue and his following take advantage of the chaos.
Could be that American politics for the rest of our lives will be parties switching power, engaging in ever more flagrant corruption and grifting, then prosecuting the other side for crimes and non-crimes, in just a never ending cycle - all while the intelligent people we want to steer politics are so bored with the Jerry Springer quality of things that they just check out.
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💀 Last week, Christian commentator @conservmillen sparked an online debate by suggesting that the horror genre is not compatible with Christianity. In this episode I dissect the question of whether Christians should watch horror and offer some key principles that I believe can help us to think more deeply about this matter.
Ad hoc governments hastily formed according to a needless arbitrary deadline thar increases the risk of poor outcomes for the NZ people - yet another reason to hate MMP.
The fact he even made this pledge makes Hipkins look like a man without the necessary prudence to lead a country #nzpol #NZPolitics
Once you realize that much of modern politics is just empty suits uttering performative talking points, the mess we’re in starts to make a lot more sense. #nzpol
There’s only 2 questions you need to ask about any footage of MPs with gang members:
1. Was the footage taken at a gang pad or gang event?
2. Was the MP campaigning for votes or making promises to the gangs in the footage?
If the answer to these questions is ‘no’, then the footage is an irrelevant distraction. #NZPolitics #nzpol
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🗳️ It would not be unusual to hear people suggesting something like: ‘you need to weigh a candidate’s staunch support for abortion against their other policies - like the ones focused on homelessness, addressing income disparity, or fixing child poverty’, and the candidate with the most policy positives is considered to be an acceptable voting choice under the guise of the consistent ethic of life. The problem here is that this is not actually the consistent ethic of life at all, and the chief architect of the ethic denounced it as abhorrent.
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“I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.”
- Whitney M. Young Jr. -
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🚨 Houston we have a problem... and none of our leaders seem to want, or even know how to talk about it despite the gravity of the issue we are now facing. In this episode we explore the collapsing global fertility rate that the leaders of both of New Zealand’s major political parties struggled to give compelling answers to during last week’s leaders debate. We also discuss the suggestion, made by a senior economist, that NZ should import 125,000 young people from Europe each year to try and solve our fertility crisis👇 #nzpol
I’m not sure whether it’s a symptom of the mainstream media’s failure to do basic factchecking, or of the modern media’s illiteracy when it comes to the basic facts of the Christian faith, but this headline is untrue - this priest was NOT killed during his sermon. The sermon had concluded long before he died will praying the prayers of the Mass.
