Happy Repeal Day!

Remember: this year, absinthe is being made in California and Carrie Nations is still dead.

Evil gets its battles, certainly, but ultimately, good wins.

Tobacco prohibition is just beginning. Well-meaning and foolish folks already can be heard muttering, "well, I don't see what is wrong with that," just as their ideological ancestors muttered on the dawn of Satan's earlier Great Experiment.

So tonight, drink a martini. Smoke a big, powerful maduro (mmmmm. Padron 6000). Burn an effigy of a Puritan heresiarch. Eat meat, particularly veal or foie gras. Get in your SUV and just go for a drive.

Tomorrow we will have to resume the earnest battle agains the secular neo-puritans, but tonight we get to savor a major victory against them.

If you can go to mass to give thanks, that would be quite appropriate. Because, certainly we can and should enjoy smoking, drinking, and eating meat, we fight for these things not solely because they are enjoyable. We fight for them because they are good, and the Enemy wants to declare the good bad and the bad good. In every gin and tonic, every bite of bistecca, in every smoke, we must recognize that it is a gift from the Almighty, and that if we are not led back to God by our enjoyment of these things, then we are no better than the secular Puritans. If Bombay Sapphire with a splash of dry vermouth, a splash of water and a vigorous shaking, tastes that good, then how much better is the gift of His Son? Foie gras is great, but the Eucharist is immeasurably better. Of course the taste of foie gras should recall to us those words, "and He called it Good."

Ralph Nader does not call anything Good. He calls it all unsafe.

Jesus miraculously turned water into the very finest wine through a supernatural act.

Dr. Welch, the infamous Methodist, turned grape juice into a sterilized diabetes-inducing solution through unnatural acts.

Peter the Pope, Apostle and Saint was told to eat these animals. He was asked how he could dare call anything from God unclean? St. Paul tells us that it not what we eat that pollutes our souls.

Peter Singer indeed calls them unclean to eat. Or even worse, equal to us. Don't eat the pig, since the pig is a person and eating it will pollute your soul, but the unborn child is not a person and can be killed without a moment's thought.

Bach wrote the "Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker".

Hitler hated tobacco and wanted to abolish smoking. He wrote Mein Kampf and ordered people to be killed by the millions, while he was concerned for the health of Germans. The Democrats hate tobacco and want to abolish smoking, while promoting the soul death of sodomy and the concrete, material death of abortion. The babies that make it out of the Roe v. Wade era alive should avoid transfat, I suppose.

Let us take pleasure in the good things God has given us, and let those things bring us closer to his Passion, Death and Resurrection. Let us avoid the two-headed snake of gluttony: the one head that eats and drinks and smokes and indulges to numbness, the snake that makes a god of the things we consume by placing them above all else. And let us also avoid the snake that makes a god of the things that we abstain from: the god that tells us that our purity comes from teetotaling and nonsmoking, the god of health and the idolatry of the body.

So, tonight, you should feast. You should remember the hardships of those uncelebrated Veterans: the bootleggers, who risked life, liberty and limb to keep Western Civilization alive in a land infested with fanatical Puritans. Sure these brave men took some profits, but who begrudges a soldier his wages?

And also, remember those who suffer under the Mohammedans, who have neither wine nor pork, nor access to the sacraments or even the Word of God.

Posted by erik at December 5, 2007 4:32 PM