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To: JCBreckenridge
Perhaps if more protestants rejected contraception, their bleating on ‘socialism’ would have some bite.

What does that have to do with anything?

Other than on a few social issues (gay marriage for example) the Catholic church is basically a leftist organization. Liberal on economic issues, immigration, gun control, etc, etc, etc. What makes it even worse is most Catholics seem to ignore the RCC's teaching on the few social conservative issues they are good on, and support the populist, liberal economic crap the comes out of the Catholic church all too often. Pope Frances has gone out of his way to bemoan cutting government run social welfare programs and seems to spend an inordinate amount of time complaining about free market capitalism. It's no wonder his homeland of Argentina has been an economic basketcase, in endless defaults and fiscal failure for generations.

210 posted on 05/31/2013 5:51:17 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

“What does that have to do with anything?”

Where do you think the push for social security comes from?

The idea that you family cannot or will not support you and that the state should provide for you - in the event that you do not have a family is the largest single component of socialism in America today.

Where do you think the single moms come from? The percent of children born out of wedlock? Why is it that the poorest families are those who choose to shack up and split instead of getting married.

Do you not see how contraception facilitates all of these weakened families? The weaker the families, the stronger the state - and that is what contraception seeps into first. It preys on your insecurity.

Protestants pride themselves on attacking ‘socialism’, while making sure to insert condoms into the baskets of their children should they happen to actually marry. Then, after their inevitable divorce, they move on to marry someone else and so on and so forth.


216 posted on 05/31/2013 6:05:03 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: Longbow1969
the Catholic church is basically a leftist organization.

You confuse prudential statements with actual Church teaching which qualifies you to host your own show on either MSNBC or CNN.

248 posted on 05/31/2013 6:51:06 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: Longbow1969

Catholics are so good at confusing things.

They blame contraception for all the ills of this world, that support for it automatically leads to all kinds of other problems.

What they fail to consider is that support for contraception is a symptom of a breakdown of faith, not the cause of it.

As usual, they are putting the cart before the horse.


459 posted on 06/01/2013 1:38:26 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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