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Posted on 06/21/2021 7:25:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So, once again, the Catholic Church is being manipulated by those with money and power. Nothing to do with the Bible.
"American Evangelicalism and Roman Catholicism start this exile (from influence and the cultural mainstream --lnf) with heavy baggage. Evangelicalism has largely wedded itself to the vision of America as at heart a Christian nation, a conception that goes back to the earliest New England settlers. An advertisement for The American Patriot’s Bible (2009) proudly boasts that it “connects the teachings of the Bible, the history of the United States and the life of every American” while “beautiful full-color insert pages spotlight the people and events that demonstrate the godly qualities that have made America great.” Yet a nation where the language of “choice” and “freedom” has been hijacked for infanticide, the deconstruction of marriage, and a seemingly limitless license to publish pornography is rather obviously not godly. That’s a hard truth for those who believe America belongs to them by right."For Roman Catholics, the challenges of our cultural exile are different. Rome has somehow managed to maintain a level of social credibility in America, despite holding to positions regarded as intolerable by the wider secular world when held by Protestants. Her refusals to ordain women or sanction the use of contraception do not seem to have destroyed her public reputation. But if, for example, tax-exempt status is revoked for educational and social-service nonprofits opposed to the increasingly mandatory sexual revolution, the Church will face a stark choice: capitulate to the spirit of the age or step out into the cold wasteland of cultural and social marginality. When opposition to gay marriage comes to be seen as the moral equivalent to white supremacism, it is doubtful that the Roman Catholic Church will be able to maintain both her current position on the issue and her status in society. She too will likely be shunted to the margins."
worth the read
Looks like someone dug themselves a hole and now have to figure out whether they can extract themselves and their credibility or succumb to the ways of the world and to the pit of hell.
They would like to do so. Few of the legislators have much understanding of history and in particular, the part this very question played in the English civil wars.
I agree.
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In another post, married21 says of Lieu:
“He belongs to our parish. He does not attend services often. In fact, the pastor said he hadn’t seen him in church since his first or second congressional campaign...”
You must mean the gay and lesbian pastors of mainline protestant churches.
Are you other 501c3 churches paying attention???
“If they’re going to politically weaponize religion by ‘rebuking’ Democrats who support women’s reproductive choice, then a ‘rebuke’ of their tax-exempt status may be in order,” wrote Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., in a Twitter post lashing out at Catholic bishops.
One serial killer's WPC is another's death of a viable human being.
Those who support it should lose a LOT more than their tax status!
Did an apparition reveal this to you?
It’s so simple when we merely read what the Book says.
A bunch of will nots and a can not, do little to show the OFFICIAL church rulings on this matter.
I miss Rush. His show was an education.
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