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To: betty boop
The fact is, if we stay close to what the Constitution says, we couldn't be fooled into not drawing the distinction between natural, God-given liberty and human license.

Dear Sister, we should stay close to what the Church says,not the constitution. The constitution fools people into a false sense of freedom.

The constitution is NOT divine. Hannity is wrong when he says such a foolish thing like divine constitution

Do you really believe the US will become a beacon of morality that leads people to Christ?

I'm reminded of the words of Blessed Saint Hilary of Poiters when I think of some of the FF's..

"But nowadays, we have to do with a disguised persecutor, a smooth-tongued enemy, a Constantius who has put on Antichrist; who scourges us, not with lashes, but with caresses who instead of robbing us, which would give us spiritual life, bribes us with riches, that he may lead us to eternal death; who thrusts us not into the liberty of a prison, but into the honours of his palace, that he may enslave us: who tears not our flesh, but our hearts; who beheads not with a sword, but kills the soul with his gold; who sentences not by a herald that we are to be burnt, but covertly enkindles the fire of hell against us. He does not dispute with us, that he may conquer; but he flatters us, that so he may lord it over our souls. He confesses Christ, the better to deny Him; he tries to procure a unity which shall destroy peace; he puts down some few heretics, so that he may also crush the Christians; he honours Bishops, that they may cease to be Bishops; he builds up Churches, that he may pull down the Faith.

‘Let men talk as they will, and accuse me of strong language, and calumny: it is. the duty of a minister of the truth to speak the truth. If what I say be untrue, let me be branded with the name of an infamous calumniator: but if I prove what I assert, then I am not exceeding the bounds of apostolic liberty, nor transgressing the humility of a successor of the Apostles by speaking thus, after so long observing silence. . . No, this is not rashness, it is faith; it is not inconsiderateness, it is duty; it is not passion, it is conscience"-Saint Hilary of Poiters

168 posted on 07/27/2010 5:02:02 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: stfassisi
The constitution is NOT divine.

I never said it was, dear stfassisi. But I do maintain that it is ordered according to God's Word.

170 posted on 07/27/2010 5:30:41 PM PDT by betty boop (Those who do not punish bad men are really wishing that good men be injured. — Pythagoras)
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