Things I hope we have in the Era of Peace

I was thinking about this today. It came to me that we might not have Dairy Queen Blizzards in the Era of Peace. I know that is shallow. Its just that I have just recently discovered them. Choco cherry chunk actually came out for valentines day and I tried one late one evening with one of my kids in the car. We had just taken their friend home and it was 'alone with mom time'. I detest McDonalds and all their ingredients, especially their Seattle Best coffee, which I used to drink a lot of. It now has aborted baby fetal kidney cells lines in it. Yuck.  I refuse to do business with them, even for their dollar sundae.

 So, as I was eating one of these blizzards with my kids I thought to myself that this had to be one of the top ten best things to put in your mouth. I actually said a prayer for God to please allow this to be in the Era of Peace. The agrarian society that we will have might include an ice cream machine and electricity. If Dairy Queen plays its cards right and stays on the narrow road instead of the road to Hell, like McDonalds and Nestles and Lipton Tea, Pepsi and a whole host of other companies. I'll even buy stock in Dairy Queen! (like THAT'S gonna be around in the Era of peace! lol)

Other things I was thinking of were toilet paper, ice and the thought of going bra-less was more than agreeable with me. I especially like electric tools. I do not want to try and build a house, barn or whatever without a nail gun and an electric screwdriver. I love my printer to make copies. I remember as a kid helping the teacher make copies with one of those barrel hand cranked carbon copiers. It wasn't as nifty as my printer, and Lord knows I love the written word and would love to make copies all day long to give it to others! 

It will be great however to be the 'old wise one' when it comes to talking to my grandchildren. I can hear them now. You know what a blender is? There actually were stairs that moved?  But the question I long to hear and will especially love to talk about to my grandchildren  is,"Grandma, you actually believed even though you did not see Jesus in the Holy Eucharist? " 

Because during the Era of Peace, we will indeed see Him who is the Bread of Life, as the Eucharistic Lord and Savior of the World. That will be better than a Choco Cherry Chunk blizzard and worth the wait and the pain that we will have to endure until then.

Selling “yuck for bucks”

By: Richard Benson, SFGroup
http://news.goldseek.com/SFG/1331659825.php

      Years ago we were more entertained by our government’s actions because we were younger then and not threatened so much by their policy decisions.  But now as we approach retirement age, we are becoming simply enraged and disgusted by the decisions made in Washington.

First, there is no question that older Americans on fixed income are having a hard time finding the money to buy steak or live, as they say, “high on the hog”, where you find the better cuts of meat.  Now it turns out that the US Department of Agriculture has approved a ‘pink slime’ additive to ground beef. Pink slime which is a major ingredient of dog food is not beef but a salvage product rendered from fat waste trimmings and intestines still full of you know what. This rendered slime is treated with ammonia to kill the bacteria one finds in fecal matter, and 70 percent of ground beef at supermarkets contain it.  It’s the new hamburger helper direct from the US Department of Agriculture. We checked some cookbooks including those of Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse, Martha Stewart, Lydia, Rachael Ray, etc., and have yet to find one recipe calling for “pouring in a cup of ammonia while adding two cups of pink slime”……..

The purpose of using this ingredient is to make big bucks for meat processors and to lower the cost of hamburger. The government is delighted because it puts a lid on the price of hamburger and helps to keep the consumer price index down. Keeping the consumer price index suppressed is, of course, viewed as critical to the national interest. Pink slime is big business and there is just no way to police its use at restaurants where local operators are just out to sell a burger and make a buck.  Indeed, selling “yuck for bucks” just seems to epitomize the American ethic today.

In addition to helping to keep the supply of red meat up and the prices down, Congress recently lifted a ban on funding horse meat inspectors, so now the USDA can help turn race horses and ponies into horse burgers and sausage for gramps.  While it may sound disgusting to Americans, horse meat is sold as a delicacy and devoured in foreign countries along with cats, dogs, chickens, ducks, grasshoppers and lizards, which are all grilled and gobbled down.  In Arab countries, dogs are particularly scarce as they are on the menu. So, as America becomes more international and less developed, in order to feed our poor people and retirees, it may only be a matter of time before you need to keep an eye on Rover, or he will end up as skewered shish-kabob on your neighbor’s grill.

When it comes to securities and investing, our government can be just as uncaring.  “The Jumpstart Our Business Startups ACT (the JOBS Act), which proponents says will make it easier for small businesses to launch initial public offerings, solicit new investors, and, eventually, hire more workers is likely to pass the Senate, and will probably be signed by the President as early as the end of March.  This new law is designed to gut accounting oversight on mid-sized IPOs and relax restrictions and allow both the sale and advertising of unregistered securities so that new firms can raise capital.  The idea is that sales of Reg D securities, now limited to $5 million dollars, should be lifted to $50 million dollars before requiring SEC registration. Skipping SEC registration means that the nuisance of having corporations report honest audited financial results can be dispensed with.  The talking heads on TV keep telling us that we need to unleash capitalism’s energy and animal spirits as the economy has been held back by too much regulation and the horrible burden of reporting fair and accurate financial data. But if this investment plan goes through, we know what’s going to happen. 

Based on history, particularly the dot com disaster, and the mortgage and housing bust, investors are about to be legally robbed.  Securities sales organizations will spring up hiring used car salesmen, recent sub-prime mortgage salesmen, and new college grads that know nothing and will promise anything in order to sell unregistered securities.  Why?  These offering will pay the salesmen fat commissions of 10 to 15 percent of the money raised. Having grown up in Wisconsin dairy country we know horse hockey when we smell it, and slime when we see it.  Having spent 30 years on Wall Street, we know how this story plays out.  Indeed, if Goldman Sachs and Citibank creating bad mortgage securities to profit from by selling them to suckers is still fresh in your memory you should know how this story ends:  Pay a salesman a big fat commission and they’ll say and sell anything to make a fast buck.

Those targeted by these investment scammers selling slimy securities will certainly be the older Americans who survived the last two bubbles, but are getting zero interest at the bank.  Retirees can’t live on zero interest so they are ripe to be sold hope and Ponzi-style investments that pay them interest with their own money until the principal is gone. They should consider renaming the JOBS Act to “The Jokingly Obscene BS Securities ACT” which I think describes it better.

The coming flood of horse hockey investments sold by boiler rooms would make Bernie Madoff proud because now they will be perfectly legal.  Meanwhile, we have decided not to get suckered in. We will keep some cash in the bank for a rainy day and most of our real money in physical gold and silver. Gold remains the one investment immune to pink slime disease.  We would rather have gold coins or a pile of silver than be faced with the sudden death of wealth the greedy can suffer by buying heavily touted but hollow investments.  It’s a sad day when the American Congress sanctions securities that are designed to rob investors and line the pockets of the promoters in an effort to create the illusion of jobs to win an election.

Avoid Any Products Containing Aborted Fetal Cells

 Many opposing viewpoints have been raised on the morality of using consumer products which are cultivated on aborted fetal cell lines. Regardless of your position on abortion, the fact that there is an entire industry around the manufacture of foods, beverages and medical products which routinely utilize aborted fetal tissue should be a cause for great concern.

There has always been a great deal of excitement within the medical community regarding the use of fetal tissue for transplantation and for the manufacture of vaccines.
Fetal tissue technology has evolved tremendously in the two decades especially in the area of treating various neural and endocrinal diseases.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1873/528/Avoid_Any_Products_Containing_Aborted_Fetal_Cells.html

However, serious ethical questions are being raised as to the source and procurement of the necessary tissue. While some experts in the medical community forecast unlimited potential for fetal tissue technology, others have expressed deep concern as to the limits to the ethical and moral dynamics of the issue. Where is the line drawn?

The Economic Drive of Abortion

The world of economics runs on the basis of supply and demand. And this is perhaps the largest fear to approving fetal tissue research and transplants from elective aborted fetuses. While it is claimed that supply is sufficient to meet current demand - which is a tragedy in itself - what is to happen when researchers discover that the fetal tissue products can effectively treat a broader assortment of disease and illnesses? What happens when there is still not enough supply? While these questions may seem overstated, we should not underestimate the advances of medical technology or the moral corruption of modern society. Several proposals were brought to the National Institutes of Health Panel to protect babies from being procured for the motive of profit. Yet with an estimated annual income of six billion dollars, the potential for abuse in fetal tissue industry would be substantial, not to mention very difficult to regulate and enforce. ‘With the anticipated profitability of the industry once the technology can alleviate a larger number of diseases, there will be increasing pressures to "share the wealth" produced by these transplants.’ (Scott Rae, ibid)

Related to the supply of the fetus, is the supply of fresh and more mature fetuses. The timing of abortion becomes an important consideration to the researchers and medical community who benefit from a more matured and developed fetus. The majority of abortions procedures are performed between the sixth and eleventh weeks of pregnancy, however delaying until the fourteen to sixteenth weeks will yield fetal tissue that is usable in pancreatic transplants. Simply put, the older the fetus the more valuable! A subsequent concern of delaying the abortion procedures until the ‘ripe’ time period, is the emotional effects this will have for the mother. Aborting the unborn baby at four months old (as opposed to 6-11 weeks old) will compound the emotional impact on the mother resulting in a significant increase in post abortion trauma.

Avoiding Foods, Beverages and
Vaccines Containing Aborted Fetal Cells

As recently as May, Pepsi ignored concerns and criticism from dozens of pro-life groups and tens of thousands of pro-life people who voiced their opposition to PepsiCo contracting with biotech company Senomyx even after it was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from abortions.

“The company’s key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products,” the Senomyx web site says. “Using isolated human taste receptors, we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor.”
Debi Vinnedge, of the pro-life group Children of God for Life, explained, “What they don’t tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 -- human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors. They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors.”
In August 2010, PepsiCo entered into a four-year agreement with Senomyx for the development of artificial high-potency sweeteners for PepsiCo beverages. Under the contract, PepsiCo is paying $30 million to Senomyx for the research and future royalties on PepsiCo products sold using Senomyx technology. When the prolife group wrote both companies requesting they use one of several non-objectionable, viable cell lines listed in their patents, Senomyx did not respond. PepsiCo did reply however and insisted that its use of the research from Senomyx would produce “great tasting, lower-calorie beverages.”
The following products are manufactured using aborted fetal cells:

PEPSI BEVERAGES
- All Pepsi soft drinks
- Sierra Mist soft drinks
- Mountain Dew soft drinks
- Mug root beer and other soft drinks
- No Fear beverages
- Ocean Spray beverages
- Seattle's Best Coffee
- Tazo beverages
- AMP Energy beverages
- Aquafina water
- Aquafina flavored beverages
- DoubleShot energy beverages
- Frappuccino beverages
- Lipton tea and other beverages
- Propel beverages
- SoBe beverages
- Gatorade beverages
- Fiesta Miranda beverages
- Tropicana juices and beverages

NESTLE PRODUCTS
- All coffee creamers
- Maggi Brand instant soups, bouillon cubes, ketchups, sauces, seasoning, instant noodles

KRAFT - CADBURY ADAMS PRODUCTS
- Black Jack chewing gum
- Bubbaloo bubble gum
- Bubblicious bubble gum
- Chiclets
- Clorets
- Dentyne
- Freshen Up Gum
- Sour Cherry Gum (Limited)
- Sour Apple Gum (Limited)
- Stride
- Trident

CADBURY ADAMS CANDIES
- Sour Cherry Blasters
- Fruit Mania
- Bassett's Liquorice All sorts
- Maynards Wine Gum
- Swedish Fish
- Swedish Berries
- Juicy Squirts
- Original Gummies
- Fuzzy Peach
- Sour Chillers
- Sour Patch Kids
- Mini Fruit Gums

OTHER CADBURY ADAMS PRODUCTS
- Certs breath mints
- Halls Cough Drops

NEOCUTIS PRODUCTS
This company produces anti wrinkle creams that
contain cells from a 14 week gestation aborted male
baby. Following is the list of the creams, but we
recommend a full boycott of all Neocutis Products.

- Bio-Gel Prevedem Journee
- Bio-Serum Lumiere
- Bio Restorative Skin Cream

VACCINES
MMR II (Merck)
ProQuad (MMR + Chickenpox -- Merck)
Varivax (Chickenpox -- Merck)
Pentacel (Polio + DTaP + HiB -- Sanofi Pasteur)
Vaqta (Hepatitis-A -- Merck)
Havrix (Hepatitis-A -- Glaxo SmithKline)
Twinrix (Hepatitis-A and B combo -- Glaxo)
Zostavax (Shingles -- Merck)
Imovax (Rabies -- Sanofi Pasteur)

OTHER MEDICINES:
Pulmozyme (Cystic Fibrosis -- Genetech)
Enbrel (Rheumatoid Arthritis -- Amgen)

Dave Mihalovic is a Naturopathic Doctor who specializes in vaccine research, cancer prevention and a natural approach to treatment.

When Kids Complicate Your Life

     Have you ever noticed that the normal trials of life are always   worse when you have children? Back when I was single, or newly married, getting sick wasn’t so bad. To take a day off of work and curl up with a good book, a cup of tea and a touch of the flu was almost pleasant. But dealing with the same flu when you have a newborn and a preschooler to manage, let alone a flock of homeschoolers—it’s horrible.

 Or think about your car breaking down on the highway. Never any fun under the best circumstances. But when there’s a two year old in a car seat and no more spare diapers, the situation becomes a hundred times more desperate.

 Sts. Felicity and Perpetua are the patrons of Women in Bad Situations Complicated Further by Children. Both were imprisoned and facing martyrdom. Normally not a pleasant situation, but had they both been childless, it might not have been so bad. They were in prison with four other devout  Christian friends. They could all encourage one another, pray together, and help one another to stay focused on their heavenly reward.

 But thanks to being mothers, Felicity and Perpetua  them had an additional problem. Perpetua had a baby at staying at home with her extended family. And she was a nursing mother. Any mother can imagine her misery: in pain from engorgement, probably  a soaked, leaking mess, and worst of all, heartbroken from the separation. Her family brought the baby for her to nurse when they visited her each day, but that was hardly adequate.

 Her friend, Felicity, had a different kind of baby trouble. Felicity, you see, was a pregnant widow. She was due pretty soon, but not soon enough. Romans, for all their pagan cruelty, did have some feeling for the unborn. The rule was that a condemned pregnant woman was not to be executed until after giving birth. Felicity was sick with worry that her friends would be martyred ahead of her. She was frightened at the idea of possibly having to face death all alone.

 We know the story has a happy ending because Perpetua kept a diary in prison. It’s a remarkable document. “Such anxieties I suffered for many days, but then I obtained permission for my baby to remain in the prison with me, and, being relieved of my trouble and anxiety for him, I at once recovered my health, and my prison suddenly became a palace to me and I would rather have been there than anywhere else.”

 Felicity’s problem was solved as well. The group prayed for her, and God granted her a slightly early delivery. The baby was adopted immediately by a Christian couple, and Felicity was able to face martyrdom with her friends, “rejoicing to come from the midwife to the gladiator, to wash after her travail in a second baptism.”

 So, next time your find yourself spending your own 24 hour virus lugging a bucket, mop, and basket of soiled bedding as you struggle to care for other sick family members—ask these two martyrs to help you get through it. They are sure to understand.

 The diary of St. Perpetua to which is added commetary from a Christian observer of their martyrdom, is a remarkable document. You can read it here.  Excerpts from it appear in the Office of Readings on their feast, March 7th.   Felicity and Perpetua  are among the handful of women martyrs mentioned at Mass in the Roman canon. (First Eucharistic Prayer)
http://catholicexchange.com/when-kids-complicate-your-life/

News    

Rick Santorum's secret army: home-schoolers

Mar 06, 2012 by Daniel Burke

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Strapped for cash and paid staff, Rick Santorum has enlisted a ragtag but politically potent army to keep his campaign afloat: home-schoolers.

Heading into Super Tuesday (March 6), Santorum is urging home-schoolers to organize rallies, to post favorable features on social media and to ring doorbells on his behalf.

"Santorum has been very aggressive in reaching out to the home-schooling community, especially in the last month," said Rebecca Keliher, the CEO and publisher of Home Educating Family Publishing.

Drawing on his experience as a home-schooling father of seven, the former Pennsylvania senator has also sought to rally enthusiasm by pledging to continue that course in the White House.

"It's a great sacrifice that my wife, Karen, and I have made to try to give what we think is the best possible opportunity for our children to be successful," Santorum said during a March 1 campaign stop in Georgia. "Not just economically, but in a whole lot of other areas that we think are important -- virtue and character and spirituality."

Rallying home-schoolers could provide a huge boost to Santorum's bare-bones campaign. The tightly knit and predominantly Christian communities are famous for furnishing favored candidates with hundreds of steadfast foot soldiers. Studies show that home-schoolers are disproportionately likely to vote, donate and volunteer for campaigns.

"When they find someone who gives credence to the fact that they home-school, they tend to be very loyal and active and engaged," said Keliher, a home-schooling mother of five in Nashville, Tenn. Many are motivated by the unwelcome prospect of seeing home-schooling critics elected to office.

An estimated 2 million children are home-educated in the U.S., according to Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute. Nearly three-quarters have conservative Christian parents who seek to instill the moral and religious values that they believe are lacking in public schools, according to Ray and other experts.

Despite their growing diversity, home-schoolers also tend to be politically conservative.

"They have an army of volunteers when they want to get behind a candidate," said Bob Vander Plaats, president of The Family Leader, a conservative group in Iowa. "They're great at door knocking, stuffing mailers and phone calling. They are really the feet on the ground."

Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said Santorum staffers believe home educators have already provided a "huge" lift to his insurgent campaign. The Santorum campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Farris, a leader in the home-schooling movement, said he will not endorse a candidate during the GOP primary, but he has praised Santorum profusely "for his stalwart defense of life, marriage, and the rights of parents."

Home-schooling families often use campaigns as real-world civics lessons, with mothers taking their children along on afternoons as they make calls and volunteer at campaign headquarters, Keliher said.

"And you have triple or quadruple the effort when they bring the children," she added.

Santorum is getting several times that effort with the Duggars, one of the country's most famous -- and largest -- home-schooling families. The reality TV stars and their brood of 19 children have been stumping for Santorum across the country in a campaign-style bus.

Like the Duggars, many home-schoolers say Santorum's staunch opposition to abortion and gay marriage is as important as his experience in home education.

"It's his willingness to speak up for what's true and not back down," said William Estrada, the HSLDA's federal lobbyist.

Estrada has endorsed Santorum in his private capacity and is helping his campaign network with home-schoolers in Super Tuesday states.

Estrada also runs the HSLDA's Generation Joshua program for teenagers. A recent post on the group's blog portrayed "Sir Santorum" as a gallant knight preparing to battle the "Knight of Washington."

But not all home-schoolers support Santorum. Many have a strong independent streak and favor Texas congressman Ron Paul. "One of the reasons people home-school is they don't want anyone, especially the government, telling them what to do," Keliher said.

Some home-schoolers also take issue with Santorum's Senate vote for the No Child Left Behind Act, which increased federal oversight of local schools.

Others accuse Santorum of enrolling his children in a public cyberschool and sticking Pennsylvania taxpayers with the bill while he lived in Virginia from 2001-2004.

"In spite of all of his rhetoric about the evils of public schooling, Santorum had his children enrolled in a public school but called it 'home-school,'" Catherine Dreher, a home-schooling mother in St. Charles, Mo., wrote on her blog, "The Tiny Libertarian."

Still, many home-schoolers see Santorum as the more viable candidate, and have begun rallying to his side in large numbers, said Bruce Eagleson of the National Alliance of Christian Home Education Leadership.

"The key for a candidate is to excite the imagination of home-schoolers," Eagleson said. "And Santorum has taken charge on that."

Why Catholics should avoid secular 'living wills'

Deborah Sturm on Pro-Life Alternatives
zenit.org

ALIQUIPPA, Pennsylvania, NOV. 11, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Living wills got a lot of attention as Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman, died a lingering death after her feeding tube was pulled.

One critic says those living wills are not always the answer to avoid a contentious end-of-life dilemma.

Deborah Sturm, a registered nurse and member of National Association of Pro-Life Nurses, addressed the problems living wills pose for Catholics at the recent meeting of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at Franciscan University of Steubenville.

A living will is a type of health-care advance directive: written instructions individuals establish regarding what they do or do not want for medical treatment in the event they cannot speak for themselves.

"The standard living-will documents that are advocated by those who support euthanasia have a general presumption for death," Sturm told ZENIT. "The language is often ambiguous and can be interpreted by a health-care provider in a variety of ways that a patient did not intend.

"Some living wills allow for the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration -- which, of course, includes food and water -- if a patient is comatose or vegetative," she said. "It is against Catholic teaching to refuse a patient nutrition and hydration just because they have these diagnoses.

"In other words, a living will can kill a person."

Sturm suggested that Catholics seek out living-will documents that have a "general presumption for life" from pro-life agencies such as National Right to Life, the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force and the American Life League.

"All of these documents involve designation of a health-care proxy who speaks for the patient when they cannot speak for themselves," Sturm said.

"The proxy should be someone who is knowledgeable about the patient's pro-life Catholic worldview and who is solidly grounded in a pro-life worldview themselves."

Reception of sacraments should be specified, Sturm said.

"Catholics should also make sure that a document -- or their proxy -- directs that their spiritual needs be taken care of, for example, reception of the sacraments of reconciliation, viaticum and anointing of the sick," she advised.

Lastly, Sturm stressed that individuals should rectify all paperwork.

"If they have already signed a living will," she said, "they should ensure that it is properly revoked -- in writing."

C. S. Lewis Warned Against the New World Order

Written by Gary North on March 2, 2012

In 1946, C. S. Lewis’ novel appeared, That Hideous Strength. It was about the new technocratic elite. His argument was that the elite’s quest for power is at bottom satanic.
I read the book in 1964. I have read it several times since. I have read no other novel more than twice. I read it to remind myself of what we are dealing with.
A recent article on Lewis discusses this book and books by other novelists of his era. One of them, Aldous Huxley, died on the same day Lewis did: November 22, 1963.

The fact that a technocratic system of government is being constructed is becoming clearer by the day. We see daily open proclamations for the earth to be geo-engineered, humanity to be medicated through the water supply, and the very genetic code of the planet re-written. As Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, “The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.”

We have watched this ever since the 1930s. It is accelerating.
The author cites George Orwell, Lewis, and Huxley as novelists who explored this process.

C. S. Lewis’ 1945 book That Hideous Strength ties in ideas that he put forth in another of his works titled The Abolition of Man. Hideous Strength is a work of fiction set amidst a supernatural battle between good and evil. . . .
That Hideous Strength revolves around the National Institute for Coordinated Experiments (NICE) and the organization’s plot to seize control of all life.
Lewis writes, “What should they [the elite] regard as too obscene, since they held that all morality was a mere subjective byproduct of the physical and economic situations of men?… From the point of view which is accepted in hell, the whole history of our earth had led up to this moment.”
What exactly is this profound moment Lewis refers to? In short it is a time when mankind transcends biology. It is a revolution against the natural order. Interestingly, Lewis was one of the earliest writers to denounce transhumanist philosophy. He wrote in Hideous Strength (1945), that the elite of society will merge with technology and eliminate the masses which they call “dead-weight.”

The eugenics movement, beginning around 1900, had this as its goal. Some of America’s richest families supported this movement. The United States was the first nation to impose compulsory sterilization laws for “the less fit.” That began in Indiana in 1907. Few Americans know that Nazi Germany simply adopted the original Indiana law. The Supreme Court legalized these state laws in the 1927 case, Buck v. Bell.

The Global Future 2045 Congress spoke of “The critical moment… when machines take on an artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds the brainpower of humans. No one in the academic community doubts that this will happen – the question is not if, but when.” Eventually, scientists “…will focus on improving humans…”
The Global Future conference also discussed the rise of “new barbarians” that are “easily deceived.” “Their video-game mentality means they could easily start to wreak havoc…” As Svetlana Smetanina reported from the conference, “If the proportion of people like this comes to encompass 50 percent of the Earth’s population, then a new “middle ages” are almost guaranteed.” Are these individuals the “dead-weight” to be rid of?

In That Hideous Strength, Professor Filostrato promoted this view of life.
This, I did not know:

George Orwell, famous for his stunningly accurate portrayal of a future police state in 1984, commented on Lewis’ book Hideous Strength. His commentary was published in the Manchester Evening News in 1945 with the headline “THE SCIENTISTS TAKE OVER.” Orwell wrote,
“All superfluous life is to be wiped out, all natural forces tamed, the common people are to be used as slaves and vivisection subjects by the ruling caste of scientists, who even see their way to conferring immortal life upon themselves. Man, in short, is to storm the heavens and overthrow the gods, or even to become a god himself.
There is nothing outrageously improbable in such a conspiracy. Indeed, at a moment when a single atomic bomb – of a type already pronounced “obsolete” – has just blown probably three hundred thousand people to fragments, it sounds all too topical. Plenty of people in our age do entertain the monstrous dreams of power that Mr. Lewis attributes to his characters, and we are within sight of the time when such dreams will be realisable.”

Lewis did not think the NWO would win this battle. Huxley indicated that it would at the end of Brave New World.
I am with Lewis on this.

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/03/02/c-s-lewis-warned-against-the-new-world-order/ 

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The church will become small

CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER

The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning.

She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes . . . she will lose many of her social privileges. . . As a small society, [the Church] will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members.... It will be hard-going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek . . . The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution — when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain . . . But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.
And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. She may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but she will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man's home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. "The church will become small." from Faith and the Future (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009).

The Church is NOT just Roman! Its East and West