Posted on 09/11/2020 10:17:49 PM PDT by ebb tide
September 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In a rare televised address characterized by Tucker Carlson as “The most dishonest speech ever given by a major presidential candidate,“ Democratic nominee Joe Biden spoke before a group of approximately half-a-dozen reporters, and no audience, in Pittsburgh on August 31.
Capping off his remarks, which were largely seen by critics as an attempt to blame President Trump for the ongoing violent riots by leftists in democrat-run cities, Mr. Biden evoked St. John Paul II, asserting, “Donald Trump is determined to instill fear in America. That’s what his entire campaign for the president has come down to, fear. But I believe we’ll be guided by the words of Pope John Paul II, words drawn from the scriptures. Be not afraid, be not afraid.”
The former vice president has often emphasized his Catholic identity throughout his political career. In a formal statement just last month he asserted, “my faith has been the bedrock foundation of my life.” More recently during the Democratic National Convention, the theme of Mr. Biden’s Catholic faith was routinely highlighted by headline speakers including Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, and former Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich.
But while Mr. Biden publicly emphasizes his being a practicing Catholic, he remains a zealous supporter of decriminalized preborn child killing, which the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms to be always “gravely contrary to the moral law” and an “abominable crime”. Though the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ranked opposition to legal abortion as the “preeminent priority” for faithful citizenship, Mr. Biden advocates the codifying of Roe v. Wade into federal law and promises to appoint pro-abortion justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In addition, he has promised to reimpose Obamacare mandates forcing the Little Sisters of the Poor and other Christian organizations to violate their religious principles in the funding of contraception and abortifacients.
And after many decades of supporting the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits U.S. tax dollars from funding abortion, Mr. Biden buckled to leftist pressure last year and flip-flopped to the opposing position of favoring taxpayer-funded abortions throughout pregnancy.
Maureen Ferguson, Senior Fellow for The Catholic Association, a group dedicated to being a faithful Catholic voice in the public square, noted the inconsistency. “Joe Biden invoking Saint John Paul II to tell us to ‘be not afraid,’ represents a stunning irony, given Biden’s cowardly cave to the extreme pro-abortion wing of his party. Biden flip-flopped in order to get his party’s nomination, endorsing taxpayer funded abortion throughout pregnancy, whereas Saint John Paul II tirelessly proclaimed that ‘The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus' message.... there exists a great multitude of weak and defenseless human beings, unborn children in particular, whose fundamental right to life is being trampled upon.’”
Having authored the Church’s major work on the sanctity of human life, Evangelium Vitae, John Paul affirmed "Nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a fetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult” (52), and civil leaders "have a duty to make courageous choices in support of life, especially through legislative measures." The saint maintained that this responsibility can never be renounced, for which they will “answer to God” (90).
Regarding Mr. Biden’s primary topic of violent leftist riots in democrat-run cities, St. John Paul also provides a rational explanation based on this movement’s radically pro-abortion agenda: “Only respect for life can be the foundation and guarantee of the most precious and essential goods of society, such as democracy and peace”(101).
As St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta affirmed at the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast, “the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is war against the child … if we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”
Ping
That’s nothing. The enemy imitates piety, lies and deceives. That’s the deal and it’s the deal with the democrats who have sold it all to abortion a what could be more evil than that?
I must give props to that priest in South Carolina who banned Lyin' Biden from the Lord's table, precisely because Biden supports killing of the unborn. The blood of innocents drips from Biden's hands.
Did BidenIdiot train Kerry on the art of fli-flopping or did Kerry train BidenIdiot? Inquiring minds want to know......
..flip-flopping...*
No surprise. Satan does large amounts of scripture quoting.
It is typical of deceivers to partially quote scripture and leave out the major point. The Bible tells us there is someone to fear.
4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. - Lk 12:4-5
Biden had better fear him.
Well you probably can guess.......
The “stunning irony” for me in this post is that you would choose to shade the morally and politically corrupt Biden- with St. John Paul II - whom you regularly trash as unworthy of the Papal office.
Don’t deflect this as some sort of support for Biden....it is not ... he represents An evil against the Church, a sin against the Holy Spirit. He is in need of repentance badly. Using the Catholic faith as a political prop is despicable.
Highlighting an abuse invoking JP2 , who you are not shy to ridicule...is very ironic....stunningly some might say.
Looks like you don't even know the meaning of "irony", Murph.
Talk about dense!
Dense?, What you talkin bout ebb? C’mon man!
I thought it was even a bit clever to work your post title into my comment.... sheesh... your’e a tough customer.....
Though yes... You are right- I could have chosen stronger...perhaps more stinging words to get you to fully understand my elucidation concerning the usage of St. John Paul the Great as posted here.... but then you would have responded with some unnecessary obfuscating pics.... so I was being kind....
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