Posted on 06/05/2009 2:18:50 AM PDT by GonzoII
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.
Ping.
That is a fact. Bad leadership is a punishment for sin.
Father C. hits the nail on the head.
“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.
It cannot be said better.
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.
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Father Corapi is wonderful to listen to as well as read. He does not shrink from his duty to guide and challenge evil.
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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?
Satan has twisted truth to his will. Now the Sheeple call wrong, right.
Bears repeating.
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You are right. I believe Aquinas said that. It is no wonder we have the kind of spineless bishops here in the US.
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
Well said. Excellent post !
Thank you, mick.
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