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To: stfassisi
Yes, he inspired freedom and the idea that all men are created with equal rights.

Recognition of the impact Jefferson made upon history is not “worship” you bootlicking Monarchist.

4 posted on 05/13/2011 6:22:09 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

I am not a Monarchist or a US Constitution worshopper either.

I have said here on FR that a Catholic Monarchy and even Christian Democracy as expressed by Pope Leo XIII would be better than what we currently have here in the US

All that matters to me is that Catholic doctrine is upheld by a State. There would be no legal Abortion,Pornagraphy etc.. In a modern Catholic state legal sin would not exist

A state that allows legal sin has no idea what real freedom is

Reflect carefully the words of the Late Bishop Fulton Sheen..

“There are three definitions of freedom: two of them are false, and one is true. The first false definition is “Freedom is the right to do whatever I please.” This is the liberal doctrine of freedom, which reduces freedom to a physical, rather than to a moral, power. Of course we are free to do whatever we please: for example, we can turn a machine gun on our neighbor’s chickens, or drive an automobile on the sidewalk, or stuff a neighbor’s mattress with used razor blades—but ought we to do these things? This kind of freedom, in which everyone is allowed to seek his own benefit, produces confusion. There is no liberalism of this particular kind without a world of conflicting egotisms, where no one is willing to submerge himself for the common good. In order to overcome this confusion of everyone’s doing whatever he pleases, there arose the second false definition of freedom, namely, “Freedom is the right to do whatever you must.” This is totalitarian freedom, which was developed in order to destroy individual freedom for the sake of society. Engels, who with Marx wrote the Philosophy of Communism, said: “A stone is free to fall because it must obey the law of gravitation.” So man is free in Communist society because he must obey the law of the dictator.

The true concept of freedom is “Freedom is the right to do whatever we ought,” and ought implies goal, purpose, morality, and the law of God. True freedom is within the law, not outside it. I am free to draw a triangle, if I give it three sides, but not, in a stroke of broad-mindedness, fifty-seven sides. I am free to fly on condition that I obey the law of aeronautics. In the spiritual realm, I am also most free when I obey the law of God.”- Fulton J Sheen

I Wish a Blessed Friday evening,allmendream


5 posted on 05/13/2011 1:53:14 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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