Posted on 11/22/2009 3:08:18 PM PST by Jim Robinson
A formidable coalition of 150 Catholic, Orthodox and evangelical leaders are calling on Christians in a new manifesto to reject secular authority – and even engage in civil disobedience – if laws force them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and other ideas that betray their religious beliefs.
On Friday, these leaders released a 4,700-word document – called the "The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience."
The document was signed by leaders ranging from evangelical leader Chuck Colson to two of the leading Catholic prelates in the U.S., Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, and calls on Christians to engage in civil disobedience to defend their doctrines.
The document also blasts the Obama administration, saying that social ills have grown since the election of President Obama, an abortion rights advocate, along with an erosion of what it calls "marriage culture" with the rise of divorce, greater acceptance of infidelity and the uncoupling of marriage from childbearing.
Colson says the project is aimed at instilling social conservative beliefs in a new generation of believers.
"We argue that there is a hierarchy of issues," he told The New York Times. "A lot of younger evangelicals say they're all alike. We're hoping to educate them that these are the three most important issues" – abortion marriage and religious liberty.
"We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them," says the declaration, which was drafted by Colson, an evangelical, and Princeton University professor Robert P. George, a Roman Catholic.
The declaration lists the "fundamental truths" as the "sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
20874 signatures in support
EXCELLENT ARTICLE, JIM. THANKS TONS.
Christ is not coming back to a wimpy, ineffectual, scardy-cat, hobbled, crownging-fear-mangled, lifeless, church.
HE IS COMING BACK FOR THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT. AND FATHER GOD, SON, SPIRIT WILL BE TRANSFORMING THE CHURCH EVER MORE INTO THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT AS BELIEVERS SEEK GOD AND GOD ALONE.
The Romans were familiar with the import of brutal force.
The new globalist tyrants will fear prayer and THE CHURCH MILITANT ADVANCING IN CHRIST’S BLOOD, IN CHRIST’S SPIRIT, IN CHRIST’S POWER, IN THE MANIFEST PRESENCE OF GOD.
HERE, imho,
IS A CAUSE WE WOULD BE WISE AND DO WELL TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED ON:
RIFQA BARY:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392284/posts
The thread includes an address to send cards and letters to.
May all who touch her case with anything less than the most honorable and protective intent and actions
QUICKLY LEARN TO FEAR THE WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD DIRECTLY.
May they have little sleep and little peace. May they have great complications and troubles in their jobs if they dare to hazard this girl in the least.
In Jesus’ name.
Good catch....
Christ said to render unto Ceaser what was Ceaser’s and unto God what was God’s.
If you think Christ advocated worshipful total kowtowing submission to a satanic global government/state, you are sadly mistaken.
Peter asked the RELIGIOUS rulers . . .
should Christians obey God or man.
Satanic government will be increasingly offering great and stark choice between eternal death and eternal life.
Well put.
The evil demonized tyrants will learn . . .
The prayers of those imprisoned will be more powerful to the tyrants’ serious hurt.
The angelic forces attending those martyred will be most empowerd to take vengeance.
God’s supernatural Presence and minifestations will be far more dramatic than during the Exodus and more dramatic than most events of the Gospel times 2000 years ago.
Whatever fires or fire power they bring to the festivities, God’s fires will be bigger and more devastating to the enemy and empowering to His Kids.
WE SHALL OVERCOME. WE SHALL DO GREAT EXPLOITS FOR GOD’S KINGDOM.
LOVE WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL OF GOD’S EMPOWERMENTS. FIERCE AND YET GENTLE LOVE MOSTLY UNSEEN HERETOFORE WILL BECOME MORE THE NORM FOR HIS CHURCH TRIUMPHANT.
SOMETIMES, LOVE MAY MEAN TAKING SOMEONE OUT BEFORE THEY RACK UP MORE PUNISHMENT FOR THEMSELVES.
SOMETIMES Love may mean choosing sacrificial martyrdom to save others.
Regardless, CHRIST’S CHURCH TRIUMPHANT WILL NOT LOSE OUT IN THIS ERA OF THE FINAL BATTLES.
Yes!
The impressive thing is that this is happening entirely without the media. I have not read one single thing in the MSM about this. They're hoping they can pretend it never happened and we'll never find out about it, but they're wrong.
I can’t think of two people I would trust more to bring Evangelicals and Catholics together in a good cause than Robert P. George and Chuck Colson.
“The Buggery Blitzkrieg that started in 2003 came fast and furious. Not unlike the French of World War II, traditionalists were quickly overrun and astonished at the lightening-fast strike that came from the homosexual lobby. From Lawrence v. Texas to Gavin Newsom’s weddings by the bay, traditionalists were overwhelmed by the war that was unleashed on them.”
Joe Murray, writing for the American Family Association
The solution:
“...to defend American traditions and the values of faith, family, and country, from any and all directions. And, together, we will chase the purveyors of sex and violence back beneath the rocks whence they came.”
Pat Buchanan, 1996
Um, the Barmen Declaration was part of the slightly off-track task of trying to preserve the autonomy of the major confessing churches as against direct Nazi control of faith and practice. Those were good goals, but they were not, as the Manhattan Declaration is, a virtual declaration of war, a clear proclamation of outright defiance on specific and critical issues of conscience. Barmen didn’t even address the single most egregious offense of the Nazi’s, their murderous anti-Semitism, largely because so many of the German churches had already quietly absorbed the same repugnant mentality.
By contrast, the Manhattan Declaration, due its intensely focused energy, has the potential to generate a remarkably dynamic resistance effort that will be a genuine thorn in the side of the would-be tyrant. Unlike the people of the prewar Weimar Republic, we have the benefit of hindsight. We have, I believe, learned from their mistakes, and from our own. That was then. This is now. Note the difference, and keep moving that flag forward into the conflict.
Thanks for your kind reply.
Signed it, it is now done.
Signed the declaration, and forwarded it on!! Time to take a stand!!
Thanks Jim!
And thanks for the ping, Quix! I am sooo ready to rise up!!! At least it’s a start!!!
21700 at 8:28 est!!!
INDEED. THX THX.
It is averaging 1000 per hour.
Wait till I mention this to my parish priest.
about time the churches start to fight back.
The catholic church should not give anything to any elected official if they vote for this crap.
we have protested and protested, we have spoke up and yet we are still ignored.
homosexuals and the left loons use the unitarian crap to get a tax free place where they can plan and meet for their agenda
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