Posted on 06/09/2004 10:38:43 PM PDT by Salvation
**There is evil -- soullessness -- in our midst. There is the occult -- out in the open now. There are things in supermarkets that were once reserved for the pages of Playboy. There is a cynicism toward Christianity**
Name the evil.
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Russia has spread its errors, just as Our Lady of Fatima said they would.
Important words, that I want to memorize. It is a metaphysical battle:
... there is a large segment of Western civilization that is working misguidedly and fervently -- in the media, in fields of science, in our educational systems, in our judiciary -- to erode respect for God. They don't want words like "evil" used because it is a word that exposes them. At the famous speech at which President Reagan named the Soviet Union as "the focus of evil" were indeed those who considered what he said as inane, simplistic. It was a former actor being "superstitious."
This was the idea of media types, intellectuals, and others of a secularized bent, and they stand themselves as a focus of evil that (though prayer) must be dismantled.
For though it is under a different guise -- in the way of Ivy Tower types versus Moscow Leninists, in the way of reporters versus propagandists, and in the way of politically-correct thought police as opposed to the KGB -- it still spells a dalliance with the dark side and an effort (as was the case in Russia) to rope an entire society into godlessness.
The similarities are stark. Like the Communists, many secularists in the United States are nonbelievers who can be either liberal or conservative and feel that those who believe do so out of weakness.
Like Communists, they have swiftly taken over systems of education, law, art, and entertainment.
Like Communists, they control much of the court system -- from which they wield new social influence.
Like Communists, they seek to ban competing thought.
And like the former Soviets, what they desire at the root of it all is elimination of God from every aspect of humanity. Like old-time Soviets, they get rid of crosses and the Ten Commandments and mangers in December.
Like Communists, their respect for life is so small that they even allow partial-birth abortion.
It is not an agenda that is really political (as portrayed by so many conservative opponents). Instead, as Reagan recognized, it is a metaphysical battle -- an opposition to anything that admits to a higher cause, to anything that recognizes the spiritual dimension, and especially to anything that tends toward Heaven.
In this fashion, it is America's own "evil empire," and it is rampant among a distressingly large number of psychologists, judges, lawyers, doctors, bureaucrats, and politicians who in their "mature" ratiocination -- in their "enlightenment" -- consider Christianity quaint, and even dangerous (as Marxist-Leninists did). There may be more of these people than there were actual dyed-in-the-wool Communists.
They are the ones who allow pornography, wanton sex, teen promiscuity, homosexual "marriage," abortion, cloning and runaway technology and commercialism to dominate our lives. Although they tend toward "liberalism," they know no political boundaries.
Of most immediate concern are the media, and this extends to Hollywood -- which exports violence and lust in the same fashion as Soviets exported atheism.
Let's call it what it is: Anything that promotes sin detracts from the Creator. It is a form of atheism.
And as Communism dominated Soviet government, sin now dominates our world of entertainment.
there were a lot of good lines there, weren't there?
**Pope John Paul II’s warning that America is in danger of surrendering to a 'soulless vision of life' is an understatement.**
And we need to listen and act to combat this danger.
~ PRAYER ~
St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle
Be our protection against the wickedness
and snares of the devil;
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
Thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits
who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen
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Michael Savage calls them "The Enemy Within" and frequently qoutes Cicers on the danger of traitors.
Check out articles on National Morality on "www.nationalmorality.com".
How about this excerpt?
In Janice Connell's book, The Visions of the Children, there is an interesting historical note regarding a message from Medjugorje visionary, Marija Pavlovic, which was delivered to President Reagan during a meeting at the White House with Russian President Gorbachev on Dec. 8, 1987.
Here is the account as it appeared in Janice Connell's book:
Message to President Reagan from Marija Pavlovic. The following was translated from the Croatian newspaper, Sveta Bastina, February 1988 issue; transcribed from Medjugorje Herald, vol.2, no. 6 -- Mary's Room MR-18, 12/88.
"Dear President Reagan:
"God's Holy Mother is appearing each day in this small village of Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. She is giving us a message of peace. We know your concern for world peace and are remembering you in our prayers each day. You are very close to our hearts and we want you to know that you can count on our prayers and sacrifices to help you in your great task.
"Our Holy Mother has said that with prayer and fasting wars can be avoided. May her message help you and her daily visits be a sign to you of God's loving concern for His people.
"United in prayer, and in the Heart of Jesus and Mary we send our love and greet you with the peace of the Queen of Peace.
Marija Pavlovic"
[End of Letter]
Just mention its name without pinging "it" and it will be all over you for talking about "it" behind its back.
Of course there are those, spinning their webs, who wanted that all along.
You're serious aren't you?
But it's name was not mentioned and doing so would would have been against its special newly modified golden rule. I thought the post a funny joke, but apparently it cannot take a joke and knew that it was being joked about even though it was never mentioned by its nick.
And who can say with certainty what 'it' was referring to?
It depends on what the meaning of 'it' is.
Got it?
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