Posted on 03/06/2009 7:39:23 AM PST by ihatedemocrats
As a former Eastern European who spent 22 years of his life behind the Iron Curtain, my own perception of people's vigilance in the western countries for the security of their freedom, and most of all to safeguard their Catholic Apostolic Faith from the influence of, and possible destruction done by, the atheistic communism, is somewhat blinded by a clearly erroneous belief that people who lived in freedom all their lives want to continue living in it, and will not allow anything so criminal, hideous and ultimately satanic as communism is, to enter their society and take it over, and to destroy their Catholic Faith with it.
Not only this perception is clearly wrong, but in summary, freedom itself, humanly speaking only, is something that we cannot receive or have by ourselves, through solely our own human endeavor, but only through the supernatural help of God, Who disposes as He sees fit, and allows evil to come upon those who don't love Him and who don't wish to uphold His justice and truth as our Lord commands.
So those who were born in a free society, much to their detriment, don't fully understand how to appreciate this gift of freedom, which comes from God, but rely on their own human enterprise to somewhat keep it, but in general are not willing, because of their already separation from God [and His true Catholic Church], to sacrifice even their own lives to keep their freedom so that they can serve God in humility and live in charity towards God and their neighbor.
(Excerpt) Read more at anti-communistanalyst.com ...
two words: long term
Oh, yes. They are patient.
They are indeed, and just as unrelenting. This last election, while distressing for so many reasons, left me with the very uncomfortable feeling that a trap has been sprung.
On Nov 4th, 2008, somewhere on the Black Sea coast, retired KGB Active Measures operatives were partying in their dachas: high-fiving each other (if that silly American practice ever made it to Russia) and downing their vodka in celebration of their long-awaited victory over the glavni vrag.
Also on Nov. 4th, a former KGB operative named Vlad who now has the same gig that his former boss Yuri Andropov had called his partying collegues to congratulate them for a job well done, and is preparing to break out the flags that have been in storage since Christmas Day 1991 and run them up flagpoles throughout the realm.
And somewhere in Hell, a former seminary student from the town of Gori, Georgia with a pock-marked face and a penchant for mass murder is smiling ...
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