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Worth repeating:

No matter how many personal conversions a missionary is able to produce, if they do not challenge the central idol of the culture, the new converts will fall away and go back to paganism.

The state religion of much of the world is secular humanism -- the myth that you can eliminate the Person, Son, Work, and Word of God, and still think straight. People who would object strenuously to a law that compelled them to attend a Christian church for an hour a week are cool with laws that compel their children to attend humanist churches for 30 hours a week, 180 weeks a year.

Providentially, millions of parents today refuse to render unto Caesar that which is God's -- the children entrusted to their care.

1 posted on 07/24/2010 12:28:26 AM PDT by RJR_fan
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To: RJR_fan

St. Boniface was a great Catholic saint. In one of his letters he wrote:

“In our synodal meeting we have declared and decreed that to the end of our life we desire to hold the Catholic faith and unity, and submission to the Roman Church, Saint Peter, and his vicar; that we will every year assemble the synod; that the metropolitans shall demand the pallium from the see of Rome, and that we will canonically follow all the precepts of Saint Peter, to the end that we may be reckoned among the number of his sheep, and we have consented and subscribed to this profession. I have sent it to the body of Saint Peter, prince of the Apostles, and the clergy and the pontiff have joyfully received it. If any bishop can correct or reform anything in his diocese let him propose the reformation in the synod before the archbishops and all there present, even as we ourselves have promised with oath to the Roman Church. Should we see the priests and people breaking the law of God, and we are unable to correct them, we will faithfully inform the apostolic see and the vicar of Saint Peter in order to accomplish the said reform. It is thus, if I do not deceive myself, that all bishops should render an account to the metropolitan, and he to the pontiff of Rome, of that which they do not succeed in reforming among the people, and thus they will not have the blood of lost souls upon their heads.”


2 posted on 07/24/2010 4:21:22 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: RJR_fan

The modern day liberals could read this article and infer that the current idol is personal freedom (ie. Capitalism, profit etc). Obama is the modern day Boniface and secular humanism is the New Catholic Faith. My friends, the battle is joined and we must not falter.


3 posted on 07/24/2010 5:45:52 AM PDT by HChampagne (I am not an AARP member and never will be.)
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To: RJR_fan
A lot of truth in the article. Unfortunately most churches are more interested in “putting butts in the pews” so they don't confront the culture. Instead they try to fit in to the culture and then wonder why they can not “hold on” to their members.

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

God bless

4 posted on 07/24/2010 7:32:17 PM PDT by WorldviewDad (following God instead of culture)
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