Father Corapi on the "Flash Point" in Western Society

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[GonzoII]

Thursday June 4, 2009

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Father Corapi on the "Flash Point" in Western Society

"Nothing will ultimately go well for the United States or any other country until the injustice of all injustices is remedied"

Commentary by Fr. John Corapi

June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Flash point: The point at which something is ready to blow up. That has been my perception of Western society in general for some time now. Perhaps, a train wreck waiting to happen would be another way to put it. All evil can claim its ultimate origin in moral evil. Those that deny objective standards of morality merely facilitate the demise of their society. When it happens they will be nowhere to be found.

That apparently large numbers of people seem to be intellectually and morally numb is not news, but the near light-speed evaporation of our way of life is. Actions have consequences, and sometimes the consequences can't be seen this side of eternity. That does not mean they aren't real. You will be seeing some of the consequences very soon, however, not the worst, but the most immediate.

Personal liberty has already begun to be compromised. Various governments, including the United States, now own car companies like General Motors and Chrysler, mega insurance companies, soon perhaps health care and energy. Injustice is beginning to be seen from the smallest of individuals to the largest of corporations. The only problem with that is that governments have never been able to operate anything profitably, efficiently, or equitably. The little guy and the large corporation will all be equal opportunity recipients of heavy-handed injustice very soon.

The government is about to dictate what car you can drive, how you insure it, what your bank can pay you or not, what kind of heating you have in your home, if you can have air conditioning or not. And, oh, if you eat a Twinkie your health insurance premium is going up. If you get sick, perhaps the Twinkie did it, and you aren?t covered.

You might say that the government needs to control things to keep us safe, etc. That might work if the people in government could be trusted. They can't, but we elected them. We get what we deserve, and many chickens are about to come home to roost.
One of the inherent difficulties with a democratic republic is that it is only as good as the people in it. When a people lose their moral equilibrium, live in sin, and suffer the consequent loss of wisdom, then that nation's days are numbered.

Why? How have we come to this? It can be traced to the most compelling moral issue of our times, and we can't escape from it, no matter how uncomfortable it is - abortion and other life issues.

No matter what other rosy picture is painted by those that would have you believe all is well, God is not a disinterested spectator. Regardless of the high sounding rhetoric of the day, seeming progress in this or that area, it is an illusion.

Nothing will ultimately go well for the United States or any other country until the injustice of all injustices is remedied. Until every human being is respected and reverenced, from the moment of conception to the last moment of natural life, no one will be safe and secure.

Whether it is the helpless infant in the womb or the misguided and/or evil abortionist on the wrong end of a bullet, all deserve the safety and security of the law. Only God can in justice and wisdom decide when life begins and when life ends. When we attempt to usurp God's job description we always come up short.

This is republished from the most recent newsletter from SOLT http://www.fathercorapi.com/

URL: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060416.html

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[GonzoII]

[ZULU]

A very wise man.

God is the final arbiter of all societies and the natural laws He has put in place destroyed aberrant social entities from the days of Sodom and Gomorrah to the present.

Until America awakens and returns to its roots as a “City on a Hill,” we will NEVER rid ourselves of monstrosities like Obama and Clinton. They are the scourges Nature’s God sends to chastise us and make us mend our ways.

[GonzoII]

Ping.

[GonzoII]

"They are the scourges Nature’s God sends to chastise us and make us mend our ways."

That is a fact. Bad leadership is a punishment for sin.

[hershey]

Father C. hits the nail on the head.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Why? How have we come to this? It can be traced to the most compelling moral issue of our times, and we can’t escape from it, no matter how uncomfortable it is - abortion and other life issues.”

I think it started before abortion.

What we are dealing with in our society, sexual “liberation”, political correctness, gender confusion, etc. is an out-winding of Socialism/Communism and their desire, starting in the early 20’s, to destabilize Western Civilization. Socialism/Communism came from German rationalism, which, in turn, sprang from the fertile soil of German theological liberalism exemplified by the Higher Criticism movement.

Long story short: man cast off the authority of the Bible.

[don-o]

It cannot be said better.

[exit82]

President Obama spoke at the University of Notre Dame on May 17th, saying that all he wanted in the debate about abortion was that the words used in the discussion be “fair minded”. Fair minded sounds like such a nice phrase. But how does one speak of an unspeakable evil in a fair minded way?

Can we speak of slavery in a fair minded way? Shall we talk about child abuse in a fair minded way? Can we discuss the Jewish Holocaust in fair minded words? Can we discuss segregation and racial discrimination in a fair minded way?

Only a simpleton or a charlatan would try to discuss evil in a fair minded way. Because evil is wrong, it must be opposed, not coddled, not accepted, not minimized.

President Obama already has a track record on abortion. His actions show that, through his support of partial birth abortion, abortion on demand, taxpayer funding of abortion, and infanticide, he has dismissed any fair minded discussion out of hand. He has overturned the Mexico City policy so that every American taxpayer now pays for abortion on demand around the world, regardless of whether a person is opposed to abortion. He has stated and promised to Planned Parenthood that he will pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which would overturn all State abortion laws and allow abortions with no restrictions whatsoever, and paid for by their fellow citizens. Sound fair minded to you?

He says abortion should be made “more rare”. Why? If something is good, why would he want less of it? If something must be lessened, then obviously it is not desirable. The words sound fair minded, but they mask the disingenuous meaning of the idea. And his actions to date will only increase the number of abortions, not make them rarer.

He also supports embryonic stem cell research. This research kills a unique human being, a unique combination of human DNA. Thirty years of private research has shown that there is not one cure that results from embryonic stem cells, because these cells are so unstable. Adult stem cells are stable, and have been used in cures for over 70 diseases. Adult stem cell use does not result in the killing of a human embryo, which biologically is a human being.

So, how many embryonic children are to be killed in order to supposedly cure another child with juvenile diabetes, as the President suggested at Notre Dame? What number is appropriate, Mr. President? Especially for a cure that is a lie, Mr. President?

Abortion is evil. It kills an unborn child, by the most violent and painful means imaginable. We would not allow a dog or a cat to be killed in such a barbaric, inhumane manner. Shall we be fair minded and be all upset by the alleged “torture” of enemies, but remain silent about the torture visited on innocent babies over one million times a year in our own country?

With over sixty million abortions since 1973, have we yet sacrificed enough of our future, ignored enough the suffering of women who have aborted their children, or impoverished our nation enough from the loss of the beauty and uniqueness of those murdered children, or of their possible contributions to our nation?

Both Catholic and Christian teaching from the Bible is clear. Innocent blood is never to be shed. There is no compromise with such evil. We cannot decry the Jewish Holocaust, damn the institution of slavery, cry out against the abuse of children, or march in defiance of racial discrimination, and then ignore the murder of innocent children in our own land. Fair minded people understand why.

[GOP Poet]

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[Crolis]

Father Corapi is wonderful to listen to as well as read. He does not shrink from his duty to guide and challenge evil.

[theKid51]

ping

[CSA Rebel]

It starts with small pieces of the moral iceberg being chipped away, but when everywhere you look pieces are being chipped away like a bad Edward Scissorhands sculpturer, there can only be one result. The question is... what will rise from the ashes or is this the last hoorah?

[Osama Obama]

When will Fr. Corapi be speaking at Notre Dame's commencement? He is certainly able to facilitate a dialog.

[bmwcyle]

Satan has twisted truth to his will. Now the Sheeple call wrong, right.

[NYer]

When a people lose their moral equilibrium, live in sin, and suffer the consequent loss of wisdom, then that nation's days are numbered.

Bears repeating.

Catholic Ping
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[m4629]

That is a fact. Bad leadership is a punishment for sin.

You are right. I believe Aquinas said that. It is no wonder we have the kind of spineless bishops here in the US.

[AliVeritas]

[stfassisi]

That is a fact. Bad leadership is a punishment for sin.

From the words of Pope Benedict XVI....

"It is the Church's duty to denounce the fundamental errors that have now been revealed in the collapse of the major American banks. Human greed is a form of idolatry that is against the true God, and is a falsification of the image of God with another god, Mammon."-Pope Benedict XVI Feb 2009

I pray that Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming encyclical addresses more of these issues of this country

[mick]

Well said. Excellent post !

[exit82]

Thank you, mick.