Posted on 05/29/2016 3:59:47 AM PDT by SkyPilot
With Americans transfixed by election melodrama, especially on the Republican side, this would be a great time to pause for just a few minutes and seriously consider – possibly for the first time – this absolutely bizarre thing we call “the left.”
The left, righteously posing as protectors of women, blacks, gays, students, immigrants, the poor and other societal “victims” (while demonizing conservatives and Christians as selfish, racist, anti-science, anti-woman, anti-immigrant and homophobic), in reality is the primary cause of the vast majority of the misery, suffering and injustice it claims to oppose.
I document this stunning cause-and-effect relationship definitively in “The Snapping of the American Mind,” and since the book’s publication in October, the evidence just continues to pour in, confirming my thesis that not only is the left mad, but it is literally driving tens of millions of Americans right over the edge as well. As Rush Limbaugh put it recently, “… liberalism is driving people insane. It’s literally driving them insane.”
But this should not in any way surprise us. Because if we delve just a little deeper into the subject, we’ll see that the left’s efforts at “fundamental transformation” couldn’t possibly have any other effect on America than to deceive, corrupt, enslave and break millions of human beings – body, mind and soul. And that is because the political and cultural left – I’m talking now about people animated by the worldview, policies, strategies and deepest motivations of people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – simply cannot operate without violating all of the Ten Commandments.
You may never have thought of it that way before. So let’s take a close look:
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The purpose of “tolerance” is destruction of Christianity.
I thought he hit the sabbath commandment kinda light. How does the left violate the sabbath commandment?
All things in their time and he will have opportunities to turn his gaze on the pro-abortion-at-any-cost crowd.
Abortion is an atrocity that needs to be stopped but the Nation has more pressing issue that need to be roped in on the way to righting this evil.
All very true - I just object pointing fingers at the Left when there are plenty of folks on the Right that do the same. Is the Left based on more inherently evil thoughts and actions - yes. Are our own sins just as vile to God as theirs - yes.
When we point to another, or another group, as being more sinful, we are in danger of making excuses for our own "lesser" sinfulness - that's my point.
I know some atheists who act as good and decent as the most devout Christians It grieves me to have a good person going to his death without being saved by the blood of Christ. I also know some saved Christians who act pretty dang evil as a matter of course - often deluded that they are better than they are. His love is constant and we should carry the Word instead of pointing fingers that condemn without speaking the Good News.
I am a sinful and sorry human that has been washed clean by His blood and I sometimes agonize over my faulty condition. At the same time I rejoice that he has stated He would forgive my wickedness and recognize my sins no more - that's the ONLY advantage I have over those who have not accepted His agonizing and perfect gift to us.
I think you’re quite right. We suspend judgment, not because we are merciful, but because we have totally lost a sense of moral proportion.
It is straight out of the mind and doings of Satan to destroy God's Work and mankind as inheritors of it as His adopted children to fully partake in it forever.
Yes, that’s just it, “moral proportion.”
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The Catholic Ten Commandments are a summary of “the conditions of a life freed from the slavery of sin” (Catechism, 2057).
They must be understood in relation to the “law of love”: Love of God and love of neighbor summarize all of Catholic morality. The law of love is also the first principle & source of the moral law. It contains “all the law and the prophets” (Mt 22:40).
The Catholic Ten Commandments are a description of the minimum that love requires.
Christian life itself requires much more than simply following the Ten Commandments. See the full article on Catholic morality for a discussion of this important point.
“What’s ‘Catholic’ about them?”
While the entire Judeo-Christian tradition uses the same Scriptural content for the Ten Commandments, their exact division and numbering varies.
The Catholic tradition uses the division of the Commandments established by St. Augustine. (The Lutheran confessions also use this numbering, while some other confessions and traditions use slightly different numberings.)
Here are the Catholic Ten Commandments:
I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not kill.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
The Ten Commandments and Catholicism have been bound together since the time of Christ. In fact, Jesus refers to the Ten Commandments and assures their validity in his dialog with the rich young man in Matthew’s Gospel (Mt 19:16-21). The Catechism refers to this in item #2052.
What about the Fourth Commandment, “Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy”? Suffice to say that the left’s influence on American culture, government and law has profoundly changed what was once a reverent, Judeo-Christian culture into a secular-left atheistic one today. And just to keep the “big picture” of our topic in view, consider that the original leader of the communist revolution, Vladimir Lenin, wrote in 1913:
Every religious idea, every idea of God, even flirting with the idea of God, is unutterable vileness … of the most dangerous kind, contagion of the most abominable kind. Millions of sins, filthy deeds, acts of violence and physical contagions … are far less dangerous than the subtle, spiritual idea of God.
Whether we realize it or not, we are currently reeling under the sustained assault of a 100-year-war against Christianity by the forces of atheistic Marxism.
https://www.jesus-is-lord.com/tencomma.htm
Thanks for your response. Like I said, he hit the 4th commandment pretty light. Does he think it’s Saturday or Sunday? Is it a day off or a day of collective worship? Does he think Christians were commanded to keep it? If so, how?
Thanks again.
Every article can’t cover everything in depth.
One point that has been brought up about the Sabbath, whether one observes it Saturday or Sunday, is that its observance guarantees the poor a day off from wage-slavery to the rich.
Thanks for your response. Do you think sabbath-keeping is commanded of Christians? If so, where?
Remember that you are quoting from the old law (OT).
Jesus changed all that is Matthew. Jesus fulfills the old law. He is the New Covenant.
I think Sabbath keeping, in a sense, is part of the Law of Charity: that one is to love God, and therefore give Him some undivided time, and that one is to love one’s neighbor, and therefore make it possible for him also to have rest with God.
That still does not excuse the Catholic church changing Holy Scripture to suit their needs. Guess why the church eliminted the 2nd Commandment?
God warns against altering Scripture in most extreme language. We are saved by Grace alone, through Faith alone.
Thanks for your response. What does it mean to keep the sabbath, since you used the term?
Thanks again
Well, according to the Catechism, it means to attend Mass and to refrain from “servile labor.” Being ecumenical, I would say it would mean to worship God according to your religious tradition.
As for “servile labor,” that’s harder. It’s kind of subjective. If I fix meals for my family, wash up, change diapers, is that “servile”? Depends on my attitude, I guess. What if I was a servant, fixing meals, washing up, and changing diapers for someone else’s family, under threat of losing my job if I didn’t? In that case, it would really be my employer who didn’t respect the Lord’s Day.
Are you looking for some prescriptive response? If so, you’re not going to get it from me. I ain’t about that life.
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