A good friend of mine once was bragging about a thing called "Est", which was sort of Scientology-lite, or a cult for those who wanted a cult they could take home with them at night. One of the things "Est" promised was how, once you got the "power", you could free up parking spaces in front of places you were driving to. The Power of Positive Thinking applied to your own personal convenience. Yesterday, the priest in confession (a retired auxiliary bishop) gave me a CD to listen to as penance. The guy on the CD was some Protestant speaking before a group in the 1960's. He was preaching "Empathetic Reconciliation" or something like that - meaning that you could in his words "beam out" God's forgiveness even to people you knew who were not the least bit repentant for their sins. He asserted that God gave the power to forgive or retain sins not to the apostles, but to all Christians. And therefore, all you had to do was t...
Godot has finally arrived - but he's a multi-level marketing salesman and you can't get him to shut up.