And he ain't very convincing...
Posted on 10/31/2004 1:50:03 PM PST by wagglebee
Presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry is urgently pressing uncatechised or ‘dumbed down’ Catholic voters to believe he is a faithful Catholic that best represents the Church’s defined teachings. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
He woos the ignorant Catholics, laity, and clergy alike, by reminding them he was an altar boy.
Adolf Hitler, a/k/a Adolf Schicklegruber, was also a Catholic altar boy, so this snippet of past religiosity tells us nothing of the man today - except that Kerry certainly has come a long way from being an altar boy.
Furthermore, this ‘Catholic’ demagogue promises in the next sound bite that if elected he will assure that abortion remains legal in the U.S. for another generation.
In George Orwell's book, “1984,” it was stated, "Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past." John Kerry wants to control everybody’s mind with his zigzagging on what he really believes.
Meanwhile, uncatechised Catholics sit in the pews listening to their bishops and pastors tell them Kerry best represents the Church’s social teachings. Let us see if this is, in fact, true.
For instance, Kerry supports a woman's right to abortion; advocates embryonic stem cell research; and while he opposes same-sex marriage, he also opposes a constitutional amendment that would forbid such marriages.
In fact, John Kerry’s beliefs are antithetical to the most important of all the Catholic Church’s infallible teachings on faith and morals and he therefore has automatically separated him from the Catholic community. There is nothing Kerry will not say to get the Catholic vote.
So egregious to authentic Catholicism are Kerry’s beliefs that twelve magisterial Bishops have proclaimed that John Kerry cannot receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion anywhere within their diocesan boundaries. Several other Bishops have strongly warned their flock that if a Catholic were to vote for a candidate who promotes procured abortion, they will be committing a grave, mortal sin.
While trying to decide an ending for this column, the temptation is too great for me not to use the following quote:
“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator” [Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 46]. Does this sound familiar?
Hitler made no secret of his treacherous ambitions, sKerry tries to conceal his treachery, that makes him very dangerous.
All too familiar....good post.
Don't know about that one but one thing IS certain, appeasers like Kerry were responsible for turning Hitler loose.
There's a difference. After he went off the rails, Hitler had the decency to leave the Church.
And he ain't very convincing...
"I was an altar boy" is about lamest claim to virtue there ever was.
That's true. Later in life, Hitler told someone in public (one of his generals, IIRC?) something to the effect that he was Catholic and always would be.
Why don't we leave the Hitlerian analogies to the DUmmies?
I think Stalin was an altar boy also...
Hitler was a socialist.
Hitler had a plan...
And Hitler was never excommunicated, even though many people called for it. The pope of that time said that he refused to excommunicate Hitler, because he feared that such a move would only rile the Nazis up against the Jews more.
And more to the point may be that Stalin studied for the priesthood.
Didn't Hitler consider the priesthood also?
Hitler was the brains, but Eva was the brawn ...
"I think Stalin was an altar boy also..."
He was more than that. He was a student at seminary when he discovered Marxism.
I was an altar boy, and the only thing that was ever on my mind were my classmates who wore the plaid skirts! Boy, I loved those skirts!! And then some...
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