O leader DELIVER US!
Posted on 02/23/2008 4:22:37 PM PST by markomalley
Like most Maryland Democrats, I voted for Sen. Barack Obama in the recent Potomac Primary. By doing so, according to the leaders of my church, I put my soul at risk. That's right, says the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops -- tap the touch screen for a pro-abortion-rights candidate, and you're probably punching your ticket to Hell.
For a church that "thinks in centuries," things sure are moving quickly. Back in 2004, as Washington correspondent for the independent National Catholic Reporter, I covered what Comedy Central's Jon Stewart dubbed the "wafer wars." A handful of conservative bishops warned Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry, a pro-abortion rights Catholic, that they would deny him Communion should he attempt to receive the church's most sacred sacrament.
Now the bishops have raised the stakes: It's not only lawmakers and candidates who risk damnation, 98 percent of the U.S. bishops agreed last November, but the voters who put them in office. "It is important to be clear," the bishops said in a 44-page statement titled "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship," "that the political choices faced by citizens[emphasis added] not only have an impact on general peace and prosperity but also may affect the individual's salvation." Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, chairman of the committee that drafted the statement, put those high-minded sentiments into plain English earlier this month. Support for a candidate who "espouses policies that are gravely immoral" is possible "only under exceptional circumstances that are hard to imagine," he told the Cathedral Club of Brooklyn.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Obama’s candidacy poses a further problem for Catholics (or Presbyterians or Episcopalians for that matter) than just the abortion issue.
His campaign is practically a cult where voters are asked to “put their hope” in the candidate. A man can only belong to one religion, and Mr. Obama seems to have started a new messianic one.
Thanks for posting with the links to the statements by the church.
Of course not. The bishops said, rightly, that it "may affect" the individual's salvation. Everything you do has a moral aspect. Everything you do "may affect" your salvation.
If you knowingly and willingly make yourself an accomplice to a grave moral wrong, that's the recipe for a soul-killing act. The adjectives are important.
Take care.
Easy as pie. I'll just say, "To hell with all those dead babies . . . and the God who made them! My soul belongs to the Democrat Party!"
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Sen. Barack Obama in the recent Potomac Primary. By doing so, according to the leaders of my church, I put my soul at risk.
For those of my theological bent, the curious popularity of Senator Obama (Devilcrat, IL) is cause to contemplate depravity, the fall and the "noetic effects of sin".
I don't know if the destination is H E DoubleHockeySticks, but we ALL may be headed for 4 to 8 years of Purgatory.
Could be a symptom of the state of the heart that leads to hell though!
Thanks for the ping!
I suspect he was living a life that would take him directly to hell BEFORE he voted in the Democratic primary. He should stop the posturing. Was he ever so concerned about other things that the Church taught?
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I hope his parish priest reads this article and refuses to give him Communion.
Since he’s not concerned enough about his salvation to inform his conscience on why voting for Obama is a vote for Satan, why does he care what the bishops say enough to write a column about it?
Sin Makes You Stupid TM
The desolation
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to damnation.
If Catholics were as reliably Republican as Southern Baptists, NJ, CT, PA, NH, MA, and RI would be solidly Republican states.
Unfortunately, very true. Or you could go farther than that, and say if Catholics were reliably Catholic, neither major party would dare to be pro-abortion.
Sadly, Catholics, like other demographic groups, tend to vote with their zip code and not with their church.
The only generalization you can make, is the more religiously observant they are (measured by some marker such as: married in the Church; church attendance once a week or more; frequent prayer; reading Scriptures; etc.) the more morally conservative they tend to be.
Example: say both candidates were pro-abortion. Candidate A supports abortion rather weakly and passively, but strongly supports natural (man/woman) marriage and a just and morally serious defense policy. Candidate B is an articulate pro-abortion advocate, a marriage-redefiner and gender-bender, and morally dubious on war/peace questions.
It would be permissible to vote for Candidate A IF you did so because of the other (gravely important, "proportionate") reasons, especially if you had a reasonable hope that you could either convert Candidate A to a prolife viewpoint, or at least blunt his pro-abortion efforts.
As I said, Feuerherd knows this, and thus it’s hard to imagine why he’d want to play this stupid PLUS poke a stick in his bishop’s eye at the end. Maybe he’s hoping to get a job at the WaPo, divorce his wife and marry his copy editor in the next few weeks…
The bishops may or may not be damned, but Mr. Feuerherd has certainly damned himself.
Michelle and Barack Obama Had a Mailing Piece last year to fund raise on keeping Partial Birth Abortion..... even the Socialists in Europe say that Crosses the line..............in Morality!
I suppose if you are into infanticide, you may be a Barak Obama fan, Joe.
But, do remember that bit about the millstone.
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