Posted on 12/20/2004 1:07:11 PM PST by concernedAmerican1
No Time Out for Christmas!
It seems there is no time out in the nation's Cultural War. Not even Christmas is sacred. The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) is protesting Time magazine's publishing of statements against the virginity of Our Lady in the cover article of its December 13 edition.
The American TFP is strongly objecting to what it considers a most unwarranted attack on Mary and the Catholic faith. The Time article cites authors that call into question the circumstances of Our Lord's birth with declarations like:
"Critics may also have alleged that Jesus' birth early in Mary's marriage to Joseph was the result of her committing adultery; much later Jewish sources named a Roman soldier called Panthera. Those accusations, some scholars believe, account for the verse in Matthew in which Joseph considers divorcing Mary before his dream angel allays his doubts" (Time, 12-13-04).
Particularly offensive was how a magazine like Time would be so unfeeling for Catholic sentiment as to provide broad publicity to the dissident opinion of a feminist from the University of Detroit Mercy who suggests "violation as the cause of Mary's pregnancy" and that the Holy Spirit converted "a ritually taboo pregnancy into an occasion of glory and the birth of the Holy Child."
The TFP and its America Needs Fatima campaign is asking its members and supporters to speak out now. The peaceful and legal nationwide protest involves prayer, reparation and action. The American TFP hopes to reach one million people with this protest.
Campaign supporters are being asked to sign protest post cards telling Time how deeply offended they are with the statements against Mary's virginity in its December 13 cover article. The cards also ask Time to apologize and never publish such offensive statements again. Participants are encouraged to order more flyers to distribute in their communities and churches.
The American TFP web site is also participating in the action with an e-protest (go to www.tfp.org). Web site readers can send an email copy of the protest card and thus fulfill their duty to defend Mary's purity.
"Now is the time to prove our love for Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and for the beautiful mysteries of Christmas, the birth of Christ," says Robert Ritchie of the America Needs Fatima campaign. "We must always stand up for our faith!"
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It is easy here is all you have to do!
Send an instant protest email to Time magazine asking them to offer a public apology. Visit www.tfp.org
rofl!!
Examination, yes. Yearly, ritual bashing, no. Time magazine isn't investingating anything, or reporting news. They are using the occasion of Catholicism's holy days to attack Catholicism's dogmas.
Take, for instance, the whole Panthera part: What historical basis is there for that? Enemies of Christianity making their own assertions, centuries after the fact?
But it's the same old, tired thing replayed over and over again: MSM attacks Christianity; RC Church most directly assaulted; Protestants sit on the sidelines too gleeful and stupid to realize that the assault on the RC Church is an assault on Christianity.
Hello! We're not talking an assertion that Mary had normal conjugal relations with her husband; TIME is asserting that the Blessed Mother of God was a fornicator! That should outrage Protestants as much as Catholics. But where's the outrage? No, leave the Catholics alone to defend Christianity, just like at the time of the Battle of Lepante.
But because some agnostic researchers don't share the Catholic faith, it's all fine and well to see Christianity laid waste, is that it?
Can I count you as pro-Inquisition, then?
Hold on a minute here. The problem is not examination, but the spreading of a lie contrary to Divine revelation and Church teaching under the guise of pseudo-theology.
It reminds me of some biologists who still attempt to validate Darwin's flawed theory of evolution because they just can't stomach the fact that intelligent design points to a reality they refuse to recognize: the existence of a Supreme Designer, God.
How sad. "Happy holidays" mean nothing. I'll never use the term. Merry Christmas!!!!!!
Lol. You don't get it.
I hope you have married well, or have rich parents.
Merry Christmas right back.
Only if necessary. I'm not alone.
>> Can I count you as pro-Inquisition, then? <<
Count me as pro-Crusades. Without them, we'd all be speaking Arabic.
It's their magazine, and they're entitled to print whatever excrement they want. People are free to buy it or not buy it. The best way to protest something like this would be to cancel one's subscription.
'How sad. "Happy holidays" mean nothing. I'll never use the term. Merry Christmas!!!!!!'
Whew. I had to read you post twice. I thought you meant that it was sad that HH mean't nothing and that you'd never use the term Merry Christmas.
I have got to remember that punctuation is important.
Peace -
Crusades, Inquisition, I'm with ya.
Please don't misunderstand me... I certainly don't mean "all Protestants" when I write what I just wrote.
Although without them America probably would still need to be discovered, dynamite and Chinese rifles would have been invented out of necessity.
>> It's their magazine, and they're entitled to print whatever excrement they want. People are free to buy it or not buy it. The best way to protest something like this would be to cancel one's subscription <<
And its our right to point out what hateful, anti-Christian bigots they are, so people can choose not to fund this trash.
YOU think it's a lie, because you are a believing Christian. Ultimately, it's a matter of faith, not something which can be proven one way or another.
Whether you like it or not, others are free to have and to express opinions contrary to yours.
I'm sure Jesus would be proud.
Sure it's about my Faith. But the Catholic Faith is based on reason too, the two do not contradict each other -- unlike the Muslim religion, for example, where terrorism is considered some sort of "holy" thing.
I agree with you.
Only if necessary.
http://www.montypythonpages.com/pictures/spanish_inq.jpg
Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
It is culturally insensitive to every Christian to call Mary an adulterer and to do this during the Christmas holy season is the highest of offense.
Why is this only done to Christians?
Why not run this article in July?
Why is there no examination into disproving the Jews' lamp staying lit?
Why not an examination into the "real" origins of the 10 Commandments (which are also a part of the Jewish faith)?
Why not identify Mohammed as the author of the Koran and exposing him a man, and not a prophet? Why not do this during a muslim holy season?
Then again, we are dealing with liberals who love to tear down Western civilization and its institutions.
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