'Concupiscence Darkens The Intellect' or 'Sin Makes you Stupid'

What a great saying. Is there a truer statement?

I can't tell you how many times (sometimes in a single day-shame, :-0 ) that I tell myself

"Boy, how stupid can I get!" after I've stupidly followed the path of sin.
Thank God for Confession/Reconciliation.

Anyways, I can't claim the creation of this saying. I found it on Mark Shea website attached to a pretty good article

enjoy:

How the Enemies of the Normal Are Destroying Obama

It is an old fact of Christian theology that concupiscence "darkens the intellect" -- or, as I prefer to put it in more colloquial terms, "Sin Makes You Stupid."

... see I told you it was there...

The visceral reaction to Sarah Palin by the Enemies of the Normal in the Obama camp is a picture-perfect illustration of this.
From the instantaneous embrace of Trig Trutherism by Andrew Sullivan, Kossites, and various demented contributors to the official Obama Campaign site to the strange theories put forward that Palin is (wait for it) a pro-life hypocrite for not aborting Trig to the bewildered and panicky revelations that Palin is actually on record as praying for friends and being an average high school student, the sheer hatred and terror of the Normal from the manufacturers of Blue State culture is palpable.

Mark Steyn received an e-mail from right here in my home state, the Soviet Republic of Washington, that distills in chemical purity the heart and soul of the Abortion Party's real hatred for Sarah Palin:

This abortion prohibitionist hag won't cut it among women with brains. And BTW she is a good example of reproduction run amok. 5 kids; 1 retard. I wonder if the bitch ever heard of getting spayed.
There is more than the political to a remark like that. It's a spiritual and even demonic hatred, a Herodian hatred I'm not sure can be capped by mere appeals to prudence and reason by people in the Obama campaign who are nervously eyeing the polling data and seeing how the Palin Hate is playing with ordinary people.
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Another example of 'Sin makes you stupid':

Canadian obstetricians worry that the success reate of their Search & Destroy Mission may be in jeopardy

U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's loving and highly-publicized acceptance of her Down's syndrome child Trig has some Canadian doctors worried that her example may lead to mothers shunning abortion after diagnosis of Down's syndrome.
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They're worried that abortions will go down and people will value life...

...oye ve

Pro-Life Democrats: What does that mean?

'Pro-life Democrats' is a term that intrigues me. How does one define that term?

A person who is pro-life but supports the Democratic platform of Pro-choice.

You see what I mean? I don't get it.

Just to mention the words 'more adoption', 'better health care', 'sex education' - which is code word for contraception; what does that mean in terms of pro-life?

Hmmmm...

What alternatives to abortion does the Democratic platform offer up?

So many questions...

Check this article out:

Kmiec Agonistes

No supporter of Barack Obama has been clearer on the intrinsic evil of abortion than Douglas Kmiec, former dean of the law school at Catholic University, former official of high rank in the Department of Justice under President Reagan. And no one has gone further, then, in seeking to persuade Catholics that something so deeply wrong in principle should be regarded now, in the scale of things, as not all that important. Not when it can be overridden by the promise of doing something faintly liberal, touched with a friendly view of the human creature. For his friends and former allies, the turnabout has been unaccountable: We strain to understand the rationales he offers, much as he seems to be straining to form them.

In a recent interview with Peter Steinfels of The New York Times, Kmiec was utterly clear about the ground of the moral judgment on abortion:

I fully accept the teaching of the Church that participating in an abortion is an intrinsic evil. My acceptance of abortion as a grave, categorical wrong is one part respectful deference to authoritative Catholic teaching and one part reasoned deduction from our scientific knowledge of genetics and the beginning of an individual life.

He found the moral ground for protecting the unborn child in “what is described as a self-evident truth in the Declaration of Independence, namely, that we have an unalienable right to life from our creator.” But he points out, quite rightly, that even the conservative judges on the Supreme Court have not invoked that understanding from the Declaration as the ground of those rights that the Constitution protects.
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