Posted on 05/20/2019 9:01:43 AM PDT by ebb tide
well at least he didn’t say the catholic church, the pope, or mary the mother of jesus. Those are their usual three go tos.
I remember that. It was infuriating and I’m disappointed to see it hasn’t gone away. You’d think Obama would have ditched it ... except it made for more spending and more government. I think I just answered my own question.
On this day in 2002, President George W. Bush announces his plan to federally fund faith-based initiatives.
Bush started his day at a National Prayer Breakfast held in the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel, where he explained the basic philosophy behind his plan. In service to others, he said, we find deep human fulfillment. And as acts of service are multiplied, our nation becomes a more welcoming place. Later that day, he announced the new policy from the Oval Office with leading members of Congress and the press in attendance. Bush proposed that faith-based organizations should assume a greater role in providing social-service programs without breaching the separation of church and state. He suggested that government should not discriminate against faith-based programs, but it should encourage them to flourish. Under his plan, religious groups could receive federal funding to implement programs usually carried out by secular non-profit organizations.
A devout Christian, Bush’s plan applied to a multitude of denominations in order to, in his words, unleash these fantastic armies of compassion which exist all across the country. The new policy received bipartisan support, including kudos from leading Senators Joseph Liebermann and Rick Santorum. The senators agreed with Bush that individuals and couples should receive tax breaks for donations to faith-based charities as well as secular organizations.
Bush’s plan to federally fund faith-based programs upset die-hard secularists and debate over the efficacy and constitutionality of the program continued into his second term. While a study by the PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life revealed that approximately 70 percent of Americans prefer that government agencies provide the majority of aid to the needy and poor, the same number supported the right of church organizations to apply for federal funding for their social programs.
Jesus obeyed the law.
Even when he was sentenced to die for a crime he didn’t commit.
The Church contributes millions of dollars to "help" the illegals break U.S. law; however, the vast majority of that money is US taxpayer dollars.
Yes, eternal salvation.
In their warped world of circular logic:
- Most of these immigrants are Hispanic
- Most Hispanics are Catholic
- Extended chain migration equals more butts in the pews
- More butts in the pews means fuller collection baskets
Follow the money.
Where is it less likely to happen? LEGAL IMMIGRATION.
DOH!
You are in for a rude awaking if you seriously believe salvation comes from a church. How is it that a church becomes an idol? Christ alone saves and He needs NO man to do His work. Many are called but few are chosen. It is God’s will be done not Rome’s.
By the way why are people refused to comment on caucus threads when they are taxed to fund your church????????????
BISHOPS: MYOB!
Hebrews 10:25-26. There is your answer.
Correct!
Is Free Republic taxing you?
In other words do that or parishes are SHUT DOWN.
As a faithful Catholic who personally knows some bishops, I believe I am on solid theological ground in stating that I value the moral and political opinions of the U.S. bishops as much as a wad of used toilet paper. Perhaps if they are so concerned about the family, they should stop promoting divorce and gay marriage and molesting children; and perhaps they should apply the commandment to honor your parents as it applies to honoring your country and its laws.
They ripped Polish children from their families.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
When the volume of the book is replaced with Job friends talk ignoring the WORDS of Christ and even Peter that 'rock', there is NO salvation in assembling for the traditions of man.
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26 For if we sin after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no more sacrifice for sins,
Christ declared in Mark 13:20-25 20And except that the LORD had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
21And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
22For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
Notice here all that was to come was already foretold in the volume of the Book... Christ did NOT suggest or even hint a 'church' had authority to ignore what was already Written... add to or take a way comes with a big time consequence...
24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 25And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
John records 7 churches in Revelation NOT just one... Some have the approved doctrine and the rest are left wanting.
YOPIOS.
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