allie beth stukey versus the blessed virgin mary

 

Allie Beth Stukey is one of my favourite people on earth because of her witnessing about matters faith related.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is one of my favourite people in heaven.

It was interesting recently to find footage of Allie Beth, herself a Protestant, debating another internet commentator, a man called Trent Horn who is Catholic, on the subject of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In the discussion Allie Beth suggested that Catholics give the appearance of worshipping the Blessed Virgin Mary, and that there isn't really all that much about the Blessed Virgin in the gospels.

Trent Horn answered her worthily and well although for my money, Allie Beth is a better debater than he is.

My own conviction is that the Blessed Mother is the highest saint of heaven and that the Catholic Church is correct in advising us to seek her intercession with God.

People can pray for other people as God has directed us. The Catholic Church merely discerns that this type of prayer continues in heaven among saints who have departed this life.

I believe Allie Beth sounds a paradoxically timely note in what I consider her mistaken viewpoint, because gentle readers of the internet, the Catholic Church is a target for vexatious infiltrations throughout time, whether satanists, mafiosi or good hearted leftist goons, and for every genuine believer like Pope John Paul the Great or Lila Rose, there is an adventurist or a factioneer, like Bergoglio the Apostate or Candace Owens.

No offence to any apostates or very good looking fruitloops who may be reading this.

What I am saying is that there are some within the Catholic Church who would deify the Blessed Virgin Mary in a second if they could get away with it, some sincere, some evil, some nuts, some all three.

Therefore I am not in the least offended by Allie Beth's points. We don't worship the Blessed Mother but there are plenty of us who would given half a chance and it is important for sincere believers to be watchful with regard to the peddlers of vexation.

As for there being very little about the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Bible, I would beg to differ.

The gospel accounts are very short anyway and most of their salient material consists of the Lord's discourses.

Mary figures in the first of his miracles in the wedding feast at Cana and is with him at the crucifixion.

She also teaches us to pray to God, giving us the Magnificat, a most beautiful prayer according to Saint Luke in his gospel, unparallelled by anything else in the Bible except for the Lord's prayer.

"My soul doth glorify the Lord,

My spirit rejoices in God my saviour,

For he has looked upon the lowliness of his servant.

Behold from now on all ages will call me blessed,

For the Lord has done great things for me.

Holy is his name.

His mercy if from age to age on those who fear him.

He has shown the strength of his arm.

He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

He has pulled down princes from their thrones,

Raised high the lowly.

He has filled the starving with good things,

Sent the rich away empty.

In his mercy and faithful love.

He has remembered his promises to Israel,

To our fathers,

To Abraham and his descendants forever."

Back in 2010, while experiencing what for me was significant pain via a toothache, I resolved to suffer patiently as a mystic might do, in prayer and meditation.

This did not work out quite as I'd hoped. Instead of scaling the heights of spiritual ecstasy, detachment from pain, and so on, I spent a day cursing and shouting and in near mutinous despair.

At evening I turned to the Blessed Mother and said: "If you obtain this for  me I will give up coffee tonight and I won't even complain about giving it up."

Before I'd finished the sentence, all the pain was gone.

It dissolved instantaneously.

I stared around me in bewilderment saying something like: "What happened? Where did it go?"

Sixteen years later, I've never quite managed to give up coffee.

She never took back the miracle she obtained.

in a summer place

 

The last hot day of Summer, I'd say.

Leafy avenue resplendent in Augustine garb but with a faint tang of Autumn everywhere.

A neighbour strolls up and greets me.

He then says something critical about Israel.

"I'd be happy to talk to you about Israel," I reply. "But I always listen to you and hear you out. And you absolutely refuse to listen to me."

"I don't need to listen," said the neighbour, "I know I'm right."

"Well I've got to envy you then," said I.

"I've been to Israel and Lebanon," he continued, "you haven't."

"Yes," I said, "and if I wasn't aware of a great many people who've been there and disagree with your assessment, perhaps the I've been there argument would carry more weight."

"And you," he said, "what about you! If the Israelis came along and told you to move out of your house and go away like they do with innocent Palestinian olive growers, what would you do?"

"I'd be glad to weigh that question if you'd listen to my answer."

"You've got one minute," he said, he really did.

And I smiled.

"Well I'm not going to answer in those circumstances. I do notice that you're selective about what you consider an outrage and you're equally selective about where you enter history."

"Oh you're going to start talking about the Bible again," said he.

"No, I'm going to ask you how many Irish army officers that you've worked with over the years have ever spoken in defence of Israel."

"None," he answered.

"Well maybe you do need to hear another opinion than the ones you've become accustomed to," I murmured.

His mobile phone rang and he bid me a polite enough adieu and rambled off.

There had been no rancour in any of it.

A few days later I felt an impulse to got a church I don't normally attend.

The neighbour I'd met on the avenue was doing the reading.

It happened to be my favourite reading from Saint Paul.

"Has God changed his mind about his choice of the Jews? Out of the question... Never despise them for they are a cultivated olive and you are a wild olive grafted on to the promises that are theirs... If some of them refusing to hear my message meant I brought the good news of salvation to you, what will their acceptance mean? I tell you nothing less than life from the dead."

Hearing those words from the Brigadier was mightily cheering to my spirit as was the distinct feeling that God had brought me to the church at just the right time to hear them.

what do magpies dream

 

In a flurry of beating wings, eight magpies alighted on the lawn.

There was a good deal of squawking and cackling.

I sat in my kitchen watching them.

One of them seemed to be quickly excluded and flew to a patch of grass a little distance away.

There were now seven.

I could see a particularly vociferous participant with a magpie feather in her beak.

Two others lined up with her facing the remaining four.

There came a cacophony of squawking.

The feather seemed to be the object of interest.

There were lunges and retreats.

The one with the feather brandished it.

Then she took to the air with the others in seeming pursuit.

I thought the whole thing most gracious.

the finest end of reason is to really annoy lefties

 

"I'm a bit surprised," I told the professional woman, "at the way you feminists claim every murder of a woman by Jihadis or gangbangers is actually caused by maleness. You're all up in arms suggesting that it's because they're men that they kill and not because they're Muslims or drug dealers. Yet seven out of the eight most recent murders of women in Ireland were by immigrants. And the media keeps saying: Look, how Irish men treat women. Even when the perpetrators aren't Irish at all."

"James," said the professional woman, "I've worked in this business for twenty years. I've got all the statistics. Crimes against women are usually committed by men."

"I'd like to see those statistics."

"Well I don't have them with me."

"You're all so comfortable with the indictment of men generally," I mused. "You don't like to look at the breakdown of your statistics. It's too inconvenient for your worldview. You can't bear to face the fact that Jihadis and criminals do not murder because of their maleness but because they are Jihadis and criminals."

"The statistics are overwhelming," she said.

As she spoke I recalled to myself a horror story published forty years ago in the British comic magazine 2000 AD. The action took place in one of the magazine's recurring serials called Judge Dredd. Demonic forces had broken into this world from a dark dimension, having observed that all crime was committed by the living. Therefore they decided to make life itself illegal. I would aver that the feminists of today are up to the same thing with their reasoning that statistically most crimes against women are committed by men and therefore the problem itself must be maleness.

"You are setting young people at war with their nature," I ventured. "You are telling young men they are guilty of something just for being men. You are telling women they are perpetual victims of a male oriented society and you are giving them an excuse to be unaware that they are presiding over the most grotesque of atrocities through their acquiescence and participation in abortion culture, euthanasia culture, assisted suicide culture, and of course mutilating sex change culture whereby invasive operations are carried out on children and adults which don't work and never can work."

"James, do you not believe there is a Patriarchy?" she challenged.

I was tempted to ask her to define her terms but that would have been too like a debating manoeuvre.

I took a deep breath and answered thusly.

"I believe the Patriarchy is a conflict theory notion formulated by Marxists to divide us against each other. Marxists seek to divide our societies at every level. They use class conflict theory to divide the rich from the poor. They use race conflict theory to divide blacks from whites. And they use the notion of the Patriarchy, feminist conflict theory, to divide men from women. They hijack legitimate grievances and manipulate facts to weaken our societies fatally. In each case the purpose is to divide and conquer us."

She wasn't too happy with me and she didn't stay long.

As she got up to go I asked her advice about a personal matter.

"You know Pauline has a Palestinian flag fluttering in the window of her house?"

"I do."

"Have I your permission to put graffiti on her wall in large black letters saying Remember Shani Louk. I mean Pauline probably expects me to do it. She'd be disappointed if I didn't really."

The professional woman exclaimed her negative and was gone.

the state we are in

 

The Republic of Ireland in the year 2026.

Sitting in a neighbour's house watching the evening news on the broadcaster RTE.

The main report is about an American woman living in Killarney who has been murdered.

Her name is Jamey Carney and she was 42 years old.

The photos shown on the news reveal her to be eye catchingly beautiful.

RTE are too delicate to inform us that her body was found by her 13 year old daughter.

The reporter glosses over the violence of her death and, with regard to her killer, merely notes that police are searching for a person of interest.

A source is quoted as saying that the police are not releasing the suspect's  name or photograph at the present time as the case is still under investigation.

That's rum.

Not releasing the name or photograph of a man who is a danger to the general public, has just violently murdered a woman and is on the run...

Quite the police work dontchya think.

"If RTE aren't telling us anything about him and the police are withholding his identity. he must be a foreign national, an asylum seeker or a Palestinian," I murmur.

Later I find from a report on the webpage of Great Britain News that he is an asylum seeker from the Middle East.

This evening I find on the New York Post website that his name is Ahmad Alsaqer, that he met Jamey Carney at a pro Palestinian demonstration, and that the room at her residence in which he murdered her was drenched in her blood.

Ah yes.

Websites owned by media groups in overseas jurisdictions are the only way for Irish people to get relevant information about the spate of murders engulfing our country.

Among photos she had posted on the internet in recent months celebrating their relationship, was a picture of herself with him captioned: "Dating an Arab be like..."

And this is the man the Irish police did not immediately identify to the public on Tuesday when he beat her to death and went on the run.

Today the Irish police force announced that the suspect has left the country.

loving the aliens

 

The above photo is a still from video footage taken by my late father TN Healy in the early hours of 23rd June 2006 of the most widespread UFO sighting in Irish history.

At the time I dubbed the event variously "The Kilcullen Incident," and "The Lights Of June."

The sighting as filmed here was from Kilcullen my home town, but the lights themselves were actually above the Wicklow Mountains.

Cards on the table: I do not tend to believe in UFOs as alien space craft. With regard to UFO sightings and or alien encounters, it seems to me that most of the more dramatic testimonies are heavily influenced by Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters movie from 1977 and by the same director's ET released in 1982.

With regard to more genuine, level headed testimonies where the people aren't just lying to get attention, in my opinion the explanations are normally naturalistic and earth bound.

Senior Irish army officers assured me back in 2006 that the objects we had filmed were army parachute flares.

Their explanation was moderately compromised by a more senior army officer who insisted based on technical observations that the objects could not be army parachute flares.

The UFOs we filmed resemble The Phoenix Lights which were seen and filmed  above Arizona in 1997.

I have since seen army parachute flares for myself and no longer believe the Kilcullen incident involved army parachute flares.

A case can be made that the Irish army officers who swore to me we'd filmed army parachute flares were in fact coyly trying to conceal early Irish army experiments with drone technology which they would have considered top secret at the time.

The disingenuous swine.

Old and dear friends of course.

But never mind that.

They certainly didn't.

We should also note that the day after the most widespread UFO sighting in Irish history, a book on UFO sightings in Ireland was launched in Dublin.

All this comes to mind again because we're at the twentieth anniversary of the Kilcullen Incident and, lo, aliens are back in the news big time.

In America, Internet broadcaster and Preacher Perry Stone claimed a month ago that a secret meeting had taken place involving high level government officials and faith leaders in which the government types warned the faith leaders that the forthcoming release of government files on UFO's would damage people's faith.

Pending the actual document release, this sounded to me like hokum with a peculiar atheistic spin. Darwinian atheists who cannot explain the origin of life and refuse to accept that God made us, will sometimes now posit what they call panspermia, ie that aliens seeded us on a primitive earth.

The helpless little Darwinians get uncomfortable when we ask who made the aliens, and start proclaiming an infantile cosmology of multiple universes where anything that can happen does happen.

I had occasionally been mildly entertained by Perry Stone's apocalyptic maunderings but his propagation of nonsense notions about secret meetings and alien species living among us, finished me with Perry Stone.

The alien species living among us gag, I would suggest, comes from the movie The Men In Black and  not from any revelation by the FBI.

I wonder could the document release and Perry Stone's attendant gushings have been timed to coincide with yet another Stephen Spielberg alien film release.

Spielberg's film with a plot concerning the disclosure of government information on aliens, and entitled Disclosure, was released on 12th June 2026.

US gov document and footage disclosures as presaged by Perry Stone actually took place on May 8th, May 22nd and June 12th 2026.

Hmmm.

I'd more readily believe Stephen Spielberg was controlling the government than that aliens are.

But that's just me.

The notion that the plot of a Spielberg film or that the existence of aliens from outer space might threaten people's faith in God seems to me to be false.

Certainly the current tranche of FBI files might shake Professor Richard Dawkins' purported faith in panspermia, but they won't convince anyone of serious mind that aliens are real.

The only way your faith could be challenged by the above mentioned cretinism, is if in viewing the FBI files and then going to Spielberg's movie, you suddenly found yourself unable to believe in a supreme being who would permit such drivel on the planet earth.

But there is a cosmic battle.

And we must face the drivel head on.

As for the latest Spielberg alien movie, it does centre on a not too original idea, that aliens visited earth in pre history, seeded life on the planet, and inspired our religious conceptions of reality.

Yawn.

Gene Roddenberry who created the Star Trek franchise should sue for plagiarism. The notion of aliens being the origin of religious belief on earth first becomes prominent in Western culture with his 1960s Star Trek television series. Producer script writer, Gene Roddenberry believed this was a credible theory and included it in several Star Trek episodes and later in film projects.

In September 1967 one episode of Star Trek (Who Mourns For Adonais) featured aliens as the source of classical human belief in the Greek Gods. In October 1967 another episode (The Apple) features a planet whose inhabitants worship a computer called Vaal. There is a seditious scene where Captain Kirk orders his star ship to bombard Vaal and thereby kills him, forcing the hitherto infantilised inhabitants to grow up, as it were, and take responsibility for their own lives. I might comment that the notion of killing God seemed to excite Gene Roddenberry almost as much as it did the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before him.

As the 1960s, and the first incarnation of Star Trek came to an end, the author Erich Von Daniken who had served jail time for fraud and embezzlement, published Chariots Of The Gods postulating alien visitations to earth as the root of religions. The profits from his first book of nonsense enabled him to pay his embezzlement debts.

It has been suggested that Von Daniken got his idea for aliens seeding the human race from Darwinian atheist Carl Sagan who is said to have outlined such ideas in the early 1960s.

I think it more likely that Van Daniken enjoyed a few episodes of Star Trek while whiling away those long Summer evenings in jail.

From the 1980s onwards, Aliens as the source of religious experience also figured in the claimed abduction experience of horror movie writer Whitley Strieber, whose book Communion purporting to be a true account of his own personal abduction by aliens, was published in 1987. It was to be the first of several books in which he elaborated on his nonsense claims over the next twenty five years.

highlights from the latest speech by PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP on the conflict with Iran

"We sank their navy. We sank their airforce. We sank their tanks. We sank everything really. They're so defeated they don't know what to do. They keep calling me trying to surrender.  But the English for 'I surrender' sounds to them very like 'Allah U Akbar,' and they keep getting the two mixed up. Every time they shoot down one of our helicopters they get even more confused. They don't know who's in charge. They're not sure who gave the order to blow up the helicopter or what he was using since all their planes and ships and tanks are at the bottom of the ocean and their mobile phones keep blowing up.  It might have been the guy in charge of one of their proxy armies. The Janitor in their government office just inherited responsibility for the Houthis in Yemen and he's liable to do anything. Then there's the guy who runs the canteen. He's just been put in charge of Hezbollah in Lebanon. He's a dangerous cookie. They're just confused because they don't know who's in charge. They're not sure who's on First, who's on Second or who's on Third. That and the exact English word for 'I surrender' is what's causing the problems. They're completely beaten. We've given them hell. They just want to make a deal but I'm not going to make just any deal. If only President Bush hadn't removed Saddam Hussein in Iraq. That was a completely unnecessary war by the way. If Bush hadn't gotten us mixed up in Iraq, we could now be fighting Iran as well as a nuclear armed Iraq with Saddam in charge and showing just how easy it is to win. This was a major lost opportunity. It's all President Bush's fault really."