Tag: faith

A Post-Pandemic Christian Relocation Guide

Posted on by Jeff Cassman

For many years the trend towards overt hostility towards Christian families has been clear, but the pandemic and mask/vaccine mandates have revealed the threat in an undeniable way.

Many Christians have discovered that where they live is directly correlated with the threat to their livelihood and liberties.

In the near future it may even be a threat to your physical freedom.

Most Americans, and indeed, those from the developed world, now have the ability to live and work almost anywhere.  This begs the question; why not choose a place to live that provides the greatest opportunities for your family to flourish with the least threats to faith and freedom?

Along these lines, I’ve created a series of worksheets in Google Sheets with the goal of developing a logical approach to analyzing potential locations for raising a family.  I’ve provided the template and offer many questions I feel are relevant, and you can edit/add to these with the data points you think are relevant.

For example, I believe if you evaluate living in a rural ‘red’ county in a ‘red’ state, you will find that these locations are much more conducive to family life than living in an urban ‘blue’ county in a ‘blue’ state.

You might see the risk as such that just living in rural America is not safe enough…so I’ve made it easy to evaluate others countries as well.

For example, I believe you will find that living in a poor Catholic country with a weak central government … Read the rest

Contra the Social and Economic Justice Warriors

Posted on by Jeff Cassman

A significant number of modern Catholics are consumed with revolutionary ideas about social ‘justice’, and while a smaller but equally dangerous group are obsessed with economic ‘justice’, both have adopted what is essentially humanistic materialism.

Here is an authentic Catholic approach to life:

“I met a Catholic once who was the most different person I ever saw. That’s really what keeps me searching among his co-religionists. Met him on a bus going out to Chicago and he gave me his address but I lost it. Worst mistake I ever made.

This Catholic was married and about thirty. We got talking about economic security and birth control. His theory was that God is not bound by a rotten economic system and that if you did what was right and just you’d turn up with enough meals a day to keep going, and anything else that was really necessary. He kept quoting “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things will be added unto you.” He claimed it really meant something and that he’d tested it out.

For instance, he had five kids and his economic position had all along been what you might call precarious. This was just after the depression, and he and his family had been through it without missing a meal and with a few extras at Christmas time.

His jobs hadn’t been ideal, but not bad either. He had quit twice in protest against injustices to other people; so you couldn’t say he had

… Read the rest

Failure to Communicate

Posted on by Jeff Cassman

My children’s teachers send notes home with the textbooks asking for my estimation of their books in several categories. The Wife was visibly relieved when I quickly volunteered to review, comment and sign on the 53 different forms brought home by the seven enrolled there. Now I suspect she intercepts the children before they bring the books to me. Here’s why:

I know that what the teachers want is my assessment of the physical condition of the book so that when my kid drops it in the kitty litter, runs over it with his bike, spills Ramen on it, leaves it at soccer practice when it starts raining, uses a corndog as a bookmark, or allows #11 to use it to write the one word he knows in 37 different crayon colors and then seal his work with his unique “day old chocolate milk” mark, that I’ll be on the hook for it’s degradation from “fair with binding that appears to have propped open the garage door in three different families” to “are you kidding me?”.

However, I use the forms to send my feedback on the curriculum itself. I comment on science books that teach modernist theories contrary to the Catholic faith, math books that fail to explain the theory of “zero” or “infinity”, or history books that regurgitate Yankee propaganda about the War of Northern Aggression. My expectations are not unreasonable; it’s not like I expect them to explain to 8th graders the travesty of the 17th Amendment, … Read the rest