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[Response to 2013 WSJ article] Cultural Catholicism and the End of Life: “You Earned It”
309 words of Wall Street Journal article posted on triablogue Blogspot ^
| Wall Street Journal August 29, 2013 : blog on August 30, 2013
| by PAUL MOSES Wall Street Journal copied by John Bugay
Posted on 04/17/2015 12:12:16 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:12:16 PM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; CynicalBear; daniel1212; Gamecock; HossB86; Iscool; ...
Ever wonder what so many Catholics are liberal ping
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:13:04 PM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: RnMomof7
I read somewhere that no protestant country ever went communist. How likely is it that living with a hierarchical, intrusive and controlling religion conditions people to accept a government of the same nature?
To: RnMomof7
“The Roman Catholic system is an on-going treadmill that in no way takes into account the realities of Gods Biblical Revelation neither the joys of it, nor the realities but rather, wraps itself around its own processes and the false salve of you earned it to the dying and reassurance that you can still earn it to shallow, unthinking liberal Roman Catholics”
The author is completely ignorant of Catholics in America today. He takes one example of a liberal professor he has read about and then spouts ignorant statement after ignorant statement. I doubt he has ever visited a real life Catholic church or spent time talking to real Catholics.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:23:02 PM PDT
by
detective
To: sparklite2
I read somewhere that no protestant country ever went communist.Perhaps, but every country that has essentially given up its Protestant heritage has replaced it with progressive socialism, including Britain, Germany, and the US. Even in Israel, you basically have the religious parties and the socialist parties. If you can't have faith in God, you have to replace it with faith in the one thing bigger than yourself, the government.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:31:07 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: sparklite2
“I read somewhere that no protestant country ever went communist”
First, no country ever “went communist”. They had communist governments imposed upon them by force. No people of any country ever willingly accepted or supported communism.
Second, you do not know of the former East Germany which was a Protestant country that was taken over and controlled by communists.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:31:19 PM PDT
by
detective
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To: RnMomof7
>>but rather, wraps itself around its own processes and the false salve of you earned it to the dying and reassurance that you can still earn it to shallow, unthinking liberal Roman Catholics like the professor Paul Moses.<<
They all live it but deny it till their dying day.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:34:03 PM PDT
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: detective
No people ever willingly accepted Communism?
What about U.S.? On November 4,2008 to be precise.
To: detective
Second, you do not know of the former East Germany which was a Protestant country that was taken over and controlled by communists. They really didn't have much of a choice did they?
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:38:45 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: RnMomof7
Catholic voting put JFK in office, Clinton and Obama.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:39:36 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: sparklite2
"I read somewhere that no protestant country ever went communist." It certainly is consoling to think of the historic Protestant countries this way, as bastions of faith and freedom: Latvia, Estonia, Finland, (oops, those three were Communist) the United Kingdom, northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway...
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:40:32 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance; give victory to the faithful over their adversary)
To: RnMomof7
Look at countries south of the Rio Grande.....liberation theology couched in catholicism. that demographic will ruin this country.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:40:33 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Gamecock
“What about Roman Catholics in say, the Philippines”
The author said nothing about the Philippines. The article did not mention the Philippines.
I was commenting on the article.
To: ealgeone
“They really didn’t have much of a choice did they?”
That was my point. No country chooses to “go communist” as the author claimed. Read my original reply.
To: Gamecock
Thanks for posting again. It’s beautiful. Oddly, a friend of mine on FB posted it just yesterday.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:45:38 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: ealgeone
Catholic voting put JFK in office, Clinton and Obama.
I suspect that bloc was largely contributing to those Democrats elections but it would be good to have dual printed confirmations of this factoid.
To: detective; RnMomof7
**The author said nothing about the Philippines. The article did not mention the Philippines.** No. But you seemed to exclude every other Roman Catholic in the world when YOU said
The author is completely ignorant of Catholics in America today. That opened the door.
Besides, all we hear on these pages is how Rome is ONE CHURCH, so rather than narrow it all down to "Catholics in America today," let's look at the church as one organism.
In doing so, I can't help but wonder what is this all about:
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:49:38 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
To: detective
The author said nothing about the Philippines. The article did not mention the Philippines.
I was commenting on the article.
Nice head-first slide into and successful steal of second base!
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