Posted on 01/20/2015 5:20:13 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Out of the fire; back into the frying pan.
OTOH, why does one need to renounce Communism to have a religious faith?
An awful lot of our FR Catholics seem to think that their new pope is a commie!
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=2015&wknd=03&p=.htm
makes me happy for a couple reasons.
Thank you for your kind words! Yes, I do know what I did mattered—it was a privilege to be able to provide medical care to our warriors and their families. I just didnt go into work everyday with the same levels of risk as them. All who wore a uniform and honorably served along with their families surely are patriots. And those who support and encourage them, too. Wouldn’t trade my life for anything! Praying constantly for our country and its future!
I just needed to compose myself and sought privacy and cold water to rinse my face. I have lived in a testosterone rich environment all my life so the language and war violence didn’t bother me, plus working in a medical environment for 20 years kinda immunized me to some sights. It was his sad death at the hands of another vet with ptsd that brought on the tears. So many lives affected by these wars....
“It’s a shame he didn’t have faith in Jesus instead.”
He did - that’s why he came back to the Catholic faith.
“OTOH, why does one need to renounce Communism to have a religious faith?”
Here’s what the pope of Gramsci’s day said:
“We make this pronouncement: Whether considered as a doctrine, or an historical fact, or a movement, Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism, even after it has yielded to truth and justice on the points which we have mentioned, cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church because its concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.” Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931, n. 117
“An awful lot of our FR Catholics seem to think that their new pope is a commie!”
And a lot of Protestant anti-Catholics believe all sorts of crazy ideas invented out of thin air. Just because people can post on the internet doesn’t mean they know what they’re talking about. Anti-Catholic prove that every day.
Now that is interesting.
Gramsci is an interesting fellow. His long march proposal was used to destroy thousands of years of traditions and much of what was Western Civilization.
Perhaps he was allowed a glimpse of that before his death to bring him back to God?
Kyle was a complicated, fallen man. As we all are. Many of his own unit did not like him (though that is common with snipers), and many thought he “sold out”.
But he was trying to give back. He was trying to heal others who had been broken by the war. He was doing it the way he had found peace. Many are talking of his faults, and I am sure he had many. But in he risked, and gave, his life in the service of others.
“Perhaps he was allowed a glimpse of that before his death to bring him back to God?”
I think it was the nuns. They cared for him and he knew it. While his commie friends could or would do nothing for him, the nuns did everything for him. In the end, I think he saw who had something precious to share (faith in Christ) and who has empty theories that achieve nothing (communism).
I guess the libtards are too worried about not being invited to the right soireés.
Indeed they do!
http://www.fatima.org/essentials/facts/seers.asp
I'll keep this uppermost in my mind.
“I’ll keep this uppermost in my mind.”
No, you won’t.
“The Hollyweird people have spoken on which was the best movie, but after the vote of the people willing to spend their money to see pics
That’s a slippery slope right there. You could easily take that logic and declare that the godawful “Transformers” films were some of the best films ever made!”
Value is in the eye of the spender. After all, do you read the NYT because they say they are the best paper?
It is also apprehension that perhaps the Left doesn't really set the cultural agenda to the degree to which they aspire. It isn't for lack of trying.
“Preemptive mindreading!”
Just reality.
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