Posted on 12/06/2012 4:27:18 AM PST by Katechon
Christian folks in the West are in the process of becoming a minority.
With the contraceptive pill, the profanation of marriage, and easy abortion, we don't reach anymore the threshold required for the reproduction of our civilization.
Our Christian nation is self-aborting.
It's a phenomenon akin to a civilizational suicide.
RUSSIA:
“Sodomite,” not “somodite.” Sorry.
Well, that too—they are body-obsessed (soma) to the detriment of the soul.
our battle is not against flesh and blood... it is against the whole demonic authority structure (to put it more briefly than the bible does)
HAHA! I probably plead guilty on that charge, to be honest.
I won’t miss Mass for a gym session, but I’ve always felt that the mind is an effect of the body. Of course, the soul is something else...
The way I feel — and I don’t claim it is the same for everyvody — is that my healthy body helps me keeping a clear mind, which helps me keeping my soul alive.
Pope Paul VI made four rather general "prophecies" about what would happen if the Church's teaching on contraception were ignored.
Four Prophecies
Infidelity and moral decline
The Pope first noted that the widespread use of contraception would "lead to conjugal infidelity and the general lowering of morality." That there has been a widespread decline in morality, especially sexual morality, in the last 25 years, is very difficult to deny. The increase in the number of divorces, abortion, our-of-wedlock pregnancies, and venereal diseases should convince any skeptic that sexual morality is not the strong suit of our age.
There is no question that contraception is behind much of this trouble. Contraception has made sexual activity a much more popular option that it was when the fear of pregnancy deterred a great number of young men and women from engaging in premarital sexual intercourse. The availability of contraception has led them to believe that they can engage in premarital sexual activity "responsibly." But teenagers are about as responsible in their use of contraception as they are in all other phases of their lives--such as making their beds, cleaning their rooms and getting their homework done on time.
Lost Respect for Women
Paul VI also argued that "the man" will lose respect for "the woman" and "no longer (care) for her physical and psychological equilibrium" and will come to "the point of considering her as a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment and no longer as his respected and beloved companion." This concern reflects what has come to be known as a "personalist" understanding of morality. The personalist understanding of wrongdoing is based upon respect for the dignity of the human person. The Pope realized that the Church's teaching on contraception is designed to protect the good of conjugal love. When spouses violate this good, they do not act in accord with their innate dignity and thus they endanger their own happiness. Treating their bodies as mechanical instruments to be manipulated for their own purposes, they risk treating each other as objects of pleasure.
Abuse of Power
Paul VI also observed that the widespread acceptance of contraception would place a "dangerous weapon... in the hands of those public authorities who take no heed of moral exigencies." The history of the family-planning programs in the Third World is a sobering testimony to this reality. In Third World countries many people undergo sterilization unaware of what they are doing. The forced abortion program in China shows the stark extreme toward which governments will take population programs. Moreover, few people are willing to recognize the growing evidence that many parts of the world face not overpopulation, but underpopulation. It will take years to reverse the "anti-child" mentality now entrenched in many societies.
Unlimited Dominion
Pope Paul's final warning was that contraception would lead man to think that he had unlimited dominion over his own body. Sterilization is now the most widely used form of contraception in the U.S.; individuals are so convinced of their rights to control their own bodies that they do not hesitate to alter even their own physical make-up.
The desire for unlimited dominion over one's own body extends beyond contraception. The production of "test-tube babies" is another indication of the refusal to accept the body's limitations; so too are euthanasia and the use of organs transplanted from those who are "nearly" dead. We seek to adjust the body to our desires and timetables, rather than adjusting ourselves to its needs.
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Of course.
But the becoming of flesh and blood reveals the tactics of satan (the enemy of the Jewish people and of Christ.)
Socialism opens to way for islam, which is satan’s master-piece.
A call to Christians to witness for the good news of Jesus!
Islam certainly seems to bear the practical crown for earthly effectiveness of a devilish religion, if it isn’t the theoretically most devilish religion possible.
By using the word soddomite, I think you do not properly describe the group intended. The group has at least two divisions. These are Queers and Dykes. We are given the total as uniform but don’t know the break down in numbers.
My thought is that the dykes are using the Queers to promote the concept of marriage. That is dykes want the security of marriage and it is not all that big a deal to the average run of the mill Queer. Like the Jews using the Black surrogates to achieve civil rights, the Dykes are using the Queers in exactly the same manner
And witnessing simply means to tell about what you know of it. And God can teach you more than you’d think.
To cover a specific difficulty, so many people get hung up about hell, when they’d tell you in a heartbeat that this whole world’s going to hell. Christianity agrees with that. Where it disagrees with them is the means of combating that.
Indeed, evil is rampant.
Many for that Encyclical, sir. I will read it thoroughly.
Yet at first glance it looks like Pope Paul VI neglected to mention the islamization of Western civilization. Everything he mentions is true, yet that overall effect is even more dire.
Under Sharia law, everybody is a slave, and women are more like cattles.
It’s coming in Europe, VERY fast, whithin a generation or two, maximum.
LOL! Very fair point.
What term should we use? Gays?
It was a joke, not a philosophical statement.
One could certainly logically ask the women who are so gung-ho for liberal causes today, why they would wink when the same causes get all kissy faced with a tribe that would as soon kill these libbers as look at them? It makes even the stuffiest, most pretentious churchmen (let alone the sincere ones who have grace) look like Ronald McDonald in comparison.
Yes, it spread by the sword, rather than love.
Why is the Pope not denouncing islam as a devilish trick?
Maybe because it would accelerate the actualization of the bloodshed to come in Europe.
“Our Christian nation is self-aborting.”
I don’t consider a bunch of heathens and savages aborting themselves in Seattle and Chicago as part of the Christian nation. To be a Christian you must believe in some incarnation of a Christian God. These Morlocks have no such beliefs.
Not personally being Roman Catholic, I can’t “pontificate” on why the Pope of the Roman Catholic church isn’t proclaiming something like this.
The previous one appears to have made the mistake of getting too chummy with Islam in an attempt to find common ground of morality with them. An infamous picture shows him kissing a green-covered copy of the Koran. I think that approach, however well meant, reduces Christianity to a morality story, and inadvertently invites moral relativism.
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