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.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
The collapse of the West can be averted; but only through the influence of the Church. It is her vision of the person, the family and the common good which will pave the way for our true and genuine liberation. It is the Church which is the vehicle of true progress. Christianity is the antidote to the descent into barbarism arising out of the neo-paganism masquerading as liberation.
"Social Justice" makes me want to puke.
We need Newt and is manifesto is historic again and we love him so. Finally hope.
No more Newt. Ever. He treats his women like a scumbag.
Author sounds like an liberal .
“Social justice” is nauseating, but that’s not what he’s talking about.
“social justice” has nothing to do with biblical Christianity - Christ’s Kingdom is not of this world. “Social Justice” is all about kingdoms of this world, and true Christians know who the prince of this world is.
It’s similar to the “emergent church” - just another apostatic worldly agenda driven movement taking Christ’s name in vain.
And, Newt is a RINO, pure and simple.
Are "we" in a cult?
Gingrich has great ideas, but he’s not good at carrying them into practice because he always kowtows to the left.
I understand the impulse to say this but Christianity really is the only adequate human sense of “social justice.”
Tyranny ultimately defines itself and its power in the forms of public execution. The reversal of execution and public cruelty in the form of a human resurrection is the most defiant and idealistic counter statement to tyranny the world has or ever will know.
The suppression of Christianity is essentially a prelude to injustice. It can be no other way.
Nope, not trading one type of statist with another. We need freedom, period. Then individual religious folks can practice their respective religions as they see fit.
uh..no.
I was a big fan of his when he was a backbencher from Georgia. He wrote "High Frontier" in 1983 about SDI, and it was brilliant. Then he got "Potomac Fever" and was just another tool.
I respect your views and your faith. But there was such a thing as Inquisitions. They were not very pretty and did not represent progress. We are seeing Inquisitions of another sort by so called progressives now. Who wants to go back to that?
Uh, no, what?
Too many "Christians" including Catholics would happily destroy our way of life inthe name of "social justice."
I'm Catholic, BTW.
Why was this guy "rooting" for The Who when they have a child pornographer as their lead guitarist?
Bump that!
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