Obama v. the Catholic Church

The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 6/1/09 | HOWARD LURIE

[jobim]

MANY WHO read this piece will probably say I'm being excessively cynical.

I plead guilty. But merely because they're right doesn't mean that I'm wrong. So here goes: I strongly suspect that President Obama's speech at Notre Dame's commencement was an attempt to separate Catholics from the teachings of their church....

In the absence of any rational explanation for wanting the debate to go on, and excluding an irrational one, I'm ultimately led to a rational, if sinister, motivation on the president's part.

[jobim]

Lurie scores a direct hit.

Obama knows full well the rift in the Catholic Church: the Patriotic American Catholic Church of cafeteria believers who dispense with anything unpleasant in either the doctrine or discipline of the Church, and the much smaller segment of faithful, obedient, orthodox followers.

He knows he can push the latter group aside and dominate still among the electorate, and the Hispanic demographic is no different.

It is time for faithful Catholics to bring attention to the fault line, in their parishes, in their dioceses. Let the battle for the soul of the Catholic Church in America begin now.

[the invisib1e hand]

another one reading my favorite you-know-what?

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

The Teleprompter got 55% of the Catholic vote. Does he want more?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It wasn't even subtle. The president called upon the Notre Dame graduates to "open their hearts" to the idea that abortion and embryonic stem cell research are OK.

With ND's "Father" Jenkins there applauding, enabling, giggling, hugging, and oozing Obamamania.

[pray4liberty]

Doesn’t surprise me. Divide and conquer tactics started with the Devil back in the Garden of Eden.

[pray4liberty]

With ND's "Father" Jenkins there applauding, enabling, giggling, hugging, and oozing Obamamania.

Why doesn't he join the Episcopal Church, or Tiller's Lutheran Church? He'd be more at home there.

[colorado tanker]

I strongly suspect that President Obama's speech at Notre Dame's commencement was an attempt to separate Catholics from the teachings of their church....

Well, duh.

"Catholic" politicians like Kennedy, Pelosi and Leahy have been working at that for decades.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

They want the power of the Catholic Church, which they perceive to have a usefulness for political activism, creating political consensus, and for the educational institutions and buildings. Whatever can be said on behalf of the ECUSA, it has neither the numbers nor the clout to be taken very seriously by sufficient numbers of people to be of political interest to those who have already seized control of important Catholic property. Nice golf courses and beachfront Bermuda condos though.

[ETL]

"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"
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For all you'll ever need or want to know about
Wright's "Black Liberation Theology",
see my FR Home page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

Hint...

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

[ALPAPilot]

I believe the reason Obama is beginning this fight is because the Democrats are slowly losing the fight for Catholics. Popes JPII and BXVI have ever so slowly been changing the direction. BXVI will win this fight, but it will be long and bloody.

[catbertz]

There are a number of parents at my daughters school/parish that have 0’s bumper stickers. They all have creepy smiles. I literally want to puke when I see them.

[pray4liberty]

There are a number of parents at my daughters school/parish that have 0’s bumper stickers. They all have creepy smiles. I literally want to puke when I see them.

As in brainwashed? My "Catholic" family all voted for Obamanation. God will judge.

[pray4liberty]

It is time for faithful Catholics to bring attention to the fault line, in their parishes, in their dioceses. Let the battle for the soul of the Catholic Church in America begin now.

They'd better hurry up.

So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. Revelation 3:16