Posted on 02/14/2010 6:30:49 PM PST by tcg
The moment Barack Obama was elected to the Presidency of the United States, Radio/TV commentator Sean Hannity began a steady drumbeat of calls for a "conservative" revolution. Soon, he will release his plan for America. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is leading a group of "conservatives" in releasing what they will call a "Conservative Manifesto" at the CPAC convention next weekend.
Make no mistake, I am NOT a liberal. Nor am I what is masquerading as "progressive" these days. I would welcome a debate over whether the so called "right" to reach into wombs and kill our youngest neighbors and to give homosexual practice equal legal status to marriage is really "progressive" at all. I contend that those claiming the label "progressive" are really "regressive."
I am 55 years old. An aging "former hippie" whose rejection of the misguided values of a consumerist, secularist culture led me to re-embrace the Catholic Christian faith, I looked forward to hearing one of my favorite old rock groups, the Who, at the Super Bowl. They tried hard to summon up their aging voices at that Half Time Show. I rooted for them. I was struck with the haunting words of one of their songs, "We don´t get Fooled Again." I am afraid we will be fooled again if we buy the idea that a "conservative revolution" is the solution to what is needed in this nation.
The collapse of Western civilization will not be remedied by "conservativism" or "neo-conservativism." They are inadequate for the task. Crippled by the lies of the culture of death and indoctrinated by what Pope Benedict XVI rightly called a "Dictatorship of Relativism", we need so much more. We do not need a "conservative revolution" we need a Christian revolution.
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Well said.
Well, I hope everyone will take the trouble of reading Deacon Fournier’s whole essay before condemning it.
I think he is right. I would only add that true conservatism rests on the Judaeo-Christian tradition—on Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the foundation of Christianity in the West. The Constitution draws its basic ideas about rights from the Natural Law derived from Judaism, Christianity, and classical philosophy—the “unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” of the Declaration of Independence.
You cannot have a free people unless they are willing to govern and discipline themselves. And you can’t have that without the basic underpinning of religion—Christianity in particular. That is what has set the West apart from every other civilization, and given us our ideas of freedom.
This doesn’t mean that EVERYONE has to be a Christian. But it does mean that we need a Great Awakening of some kind, a return to Christian practice and beliefs. Otherwise, the conservative revolution will have no solid foundations to build on.
I find especially useful to understanding this Christopher Dawson’s ground-breaking books. Everyone who wants to see a return to America’s traditional values should especially read Dawson’s book Religion and the Rise of Western Culture.
http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Western-Culture-Christopher-Dawson/dp/0385421109
Yes, what you said.
Social justice has been promoted by Progressive priests who should be kicked out of the Church. Marxism directly conflicts with Catholic Church ideology, this is extensively written about in encyclicals. Charity and compassion have always been part of the church, but the fact that people have to be responsible for their actions is a major component.
Agree 100%
Who do you like to lead us from this pit that isn’t a quitter?
Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals, Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Keep the Christianity at home and in the community. Once you run on it and especially if you win, you just gave the left what they look for.
Evangelicals especially have been noted to shed us of some of our best conservatives, allowing hte Liberals to take over, due to what certain Evangelicals decide is not proper for a public official.
That we end up with someone much worse from the Democrats doesn’t seem to phase them, only that we maintain a “pure appearance.”
Agree 100%. We need to return to the “Rock” of western civilization.
The book below should be a mandatory history text and reading in all schools and colleges.
Malcolm Muggeridge put it (”Things past”) :
“The liberties were prize...were born, not in Westminster, nor even in Philadelphia, but on the shores of Galilee. They are implicit in the Christian faith, and were that faith to perish, they would perish with it...
“The most sacred, most inviolable thing on earth (is the individual) human soul...Thus, to incorporate a man into a herd, and to put him under the necessity of following the herd’s destiny, was to destroy the purpose of his being. He was himself or he was nothing...”
Earth to whoever you are. We’re conservatives with brains, not democrats. We don’t need someone to “lead” us. We elect representatives; we don’t wait for pied pipers.
And Newt proved he isn’t much of anything.
“Who do you like to lead us from this pit”
Too early.
“that isn’t a quitter?”
hmmm ... seems you signed on to promote Newt and bash Palin.
I am sure the author is using the term “the Church” in the wider meaning of “all Christians”. Considering that he is writing about the U.S., he sure doesn’t mean “Catholic Church”.
Editorial: We Do Not Need a Conservative Revolution. We need a Christian Revolution
only if they are conservative Christians.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty!
“Who do you like to lead us from this pit that isn’t a quitter?”
ummm Newt did quit as Speaker of the House.
Definitely not interest in your “Christian Revolution” if it’s just a cover to impose Catholicism.
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