Posted on 06/23/2007 4:03:24 AM PDT by GFritsch
Looking at pictures of the June 10 homosexual demonstration in São Paulo, Brazil, I asked myself how large might the combined populations of Sodom and Gomorrah have been. Each city certainly could not have had more than a few thousand inhabitants.
Promoters of the Sao Paulo “gay pride parade” claim more than three million either participated or watched from the sidewalks, making it the world’s largest such event. The number is undoubtedly exaggerated since the boulevard simply could not fit that many people. However, there is no denying that a considerable crowd of perhaps one million was present. Photographs show a whole 1.6 mile section of the Avenida Paulista filled with people.
Thus, it is most certain that the number of those who went to proclaim “pride” in the practice of vice or to entertain themselves watching a public proclamation of this “pride” was much greater than the population of both Sodom and Gomorrah.
The biblical narration does not speak of similar parades in the two cities. Its silence in this regard leads one to think that such demonstrations were reserved for our sad times.
This is understandable. Corruptio optimi pessima, that is to say the corruption of the best is the worst. When those who climb higher slip, the force of gravity makes them fall even lower.
This is why that which Prophet Isaias says of the king of Babylon is attributed to Satan: “How have you fallen from the heavens, O morning star, son of the dawn! How are you cut down to the ground, you who mowed down the nations!”1
When one rejects Our Lord Jesus Christ and his gentle yoke2, one falls under the tyranny of the worst passions.
Weeping over the cities that rejected him, Our Lord exclaimed:
“And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? Thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.”3
Brazil had the grace to be founded as a Catholic nation. From the Portuguese who discovered and colonized her, Brazil received its culture, language, customs and, above all, the ineffable gift of the Faith.
São Paulo itself was founded by the Jesuits. Around their college where they catechized the curumins (the Indian children), the city grew and prospered. In the 1930’s, the city had a powerful Marian movement led by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, who later founded the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP).
Then came the crisis inside the Church, the triumph of “Liberation Theology,” and the abandonment of an evangelization aimed at the salvation of souls and the triumph of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Good Catholic formation was replaced with class struggle, the formation of leftist rural and urban agitators, the spreading of Basic Christian Communities and so on. Leftist Catholic activity later developed into the backbone of the socialist Workers Party now in power.
Abandoned, many of the sheep left the fold and began to listen to other shepherds. They were an easy prey to the devastating effects of the sexual revolution of the sixties that later paved the way for homosexual propaganda in schools, television, fashions and other media.
While many clerics clamored for “social reform,” they maintained an inexplicable silence regarding important points of Catholic morals.
There was a general exodus from the Catholic Church to other religions. Above all, Brazil saw an ever more accentuated surge in irreligiousness.
The result is what one sees today: the Avenida Paulista, the symbolic central avenue of a once Catholic city, is invaded by a huge crowd which, by gestures, attitudes and slogans, proclaim its apostasy from those Catholic and natural morals that are inscribed on the hearts of all men.
As was said, that crowd, whose attitude would make even pagans blush, was much larger in number than the combined population of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Nevertheless, Sodom and Gomorrah were punished by Providence. “And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me: or whether it be not so, that I may know.”4
In spite of Lot’s intercession, once the inhabitants of Sodom tried to molest the angels sent by God (believing they were men) fire rained down from heaven.
“The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he destroyed these cities and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.”5
While I certainly pray that this does not happen to São Paulo, these are a few reflections that occur to me as a Brazilian looking at the pictures and reading the news about the incredible homosexual “pride” parade held in that city on the Sunday of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
_____________ Notes: 1. Isaias, 14:13.
2. “For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” (Matthew, 11:30).
3. Matthew 11:23-24.
4. Genesis, 18:20-21.
5. Id. 19:23-25.
How to reverse this 'revolution' with piety and a rededication of the various nations to God and his Ten Commandments?
The Bible doesn't say much about parades of any kind, come to think about it. Are parades a modern phenomenon?
They had processions then. The Romans had “triumphs” for instance. I wouldn’t call these parades because parades happen from point A to point B within a city. Processions, triumphs go from point A (outside some place or city) to point B (inside a place or city).
In addition to what vladimir mentioned, many ancient governments had laws against large assemblies, unless they were arranged by the government. They didn’t want large groups of people going someplace - a potential coup!
When our Constitution guaranteed the right to free assembly, that was something of a novelty.
True. These served a different purpose, for proclaiming a victory. The victors would lead the vanquished leaders through a conquered city as the way of showing the people that they were the new boss.
The reason homosexuals came out of their closets and remain to be even more bolden by their behavior is because good men have let secularist lie to them about meanings of words and bought into the absolute ridiculous insanity of what "they" define as caring and what should be tolerated. These people have twisted right and wrong.
You can NOT have a successful functioning society in America without an acknowledgement of God. It will NOT work, because the foundation of this "IDEA" of American is we acknowledge a "Creator." What we're doing right now is shunning the Creator, and embracing the secularist instigators. Until good men start standing in majority numbers and rail against these secular, non-judgemental immorale fronts, we're doomed. The trend has to reverse because our society is crumbling and will NOT survive until we go back and acknowledge who gives us freedom and freewill.
There’s a war on. Gays are the least of our problems.
As if Achan wasn’t enough of an object lesson
They’ve taken the form of godliness while denying its power.
Islam is our enemy. They enter our country like rats via any route that is easiest.
Illegal immigration is our enemy. They enter our country like rats via any route that is easiest.
Homosexuality and the Homosexual Agenda For America is our enemy. They enter our schools like rats via the route opened to them by willing dupes in the educational establishment.
The reason the war to save America is so complex is that we have allowed the evils to pile up against our society without speaking out and attempting to do something.
Homosexuals (or 'gays' as you so cavalierly put it) are as inherently evil when they attack polite society in their attempt to get their hands on our children, as are the Koran believers who would kill children and adults indiscriminately.
There is no way I will ever believe that these freaks only comprise 1% of the population.
In one sense the war is heavily twisted .
Overall it's quite simple...GOOD VS. EVIL. RIGHT VS. WRONG.
Everyone inherently knows what is GOOD, and RIGHT. We've allowed SELFISH PERVERTED DESIRE to overtake what we know is GOOD, because so many have been deceived into believing the idea there really is no standard bearer. Without an acknowledgement of a standard bearer, anything goes. Convoluted thought, insane ideas, extreme evil, and swift destruction are being evermore interwoven into this society as the norm. It's radically cataclysmic!
Good men need to band together and stop this destruction.
If God doesn’t judge any nation for these kinds of actions, then He must apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sad that the Govt. doesn't see anal intercouse as
dangerous as e.coli. And doesn't attempt to eradicate it
with just one tenth of the ferocity that develops when
patrons at a fast food come down with upset stomachs.
An even more ferocious response occurs if a finger tip
is found in a bowl of chili. {c.f. Wendy's}
Thanks for posting. (Belated welcome aboard)
Beaking the laws of God is the greatest of our problems. If man obeyed God's laws there would be no wars.
James 4:1 "Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
2. You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask."
If the US continues to tolerate and normalize the sins of abortion and sodomy we will continue to be embroiled in wars and violence both at home and abroad. America was born as a Christian nation, but it will die as a pagan land unless something happens to turn our society and culture back to it's Judeo-Christian roots and respect for God's laws.
"No human society has ever been able to maintain both order and freedom, both cohesiveness and liberty apart from the moral precepts of the Christian religion….Should our Republic ever forget this fundamental precept of governance…this great experiment will then surely be doomed." ............John Jay, founding father and first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
.........John Adams, Founding father and 2nd President of the U.S.
“There’s a war on. Gays are the least of our problems.
Beaking the laws of God is the greatest of our problems. If man obeyed God’s laws there would be no wars.”
This is what I don’t understand. Gays actually believe that the left supports their lifestyle. Same with adulters, drug addicts, criminls and the other deviants of society.
What they need to understand is once the left is firmly entrenched, their lifestyles will at first be legislated out of existence and the ones who persist ultimately jailed or killed.
The lefts test case is Christianity. As Christians we are supposed to love all and to educate as well as be compassionate. We are quick to blame the deviant but fail to blame in my opinion a worse evil, the people who exploit the deviant for their own political agenda.
Something to think about.
Things could be worse.
Guess how the City of Portland, Oregon celebrated Father’s Day last week...
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