Posted on 05/10/2013 3:30:05 PM PDT by NYer
It will be the Christians from the “global south” nations that will most likely be sent to the west and bring back the Gospel of Jesus.
Alternate title: How God Lost the West
They gotta’ provide bodies for spirit children. On a more practical note, conservatives need to provide voters for the future. I’ve done my part, and encourage the yoots to do the same.
Just saw this on tonight's local news coverage of the dismemberment of a local Catholic Church. Yesterday, it was like a circus atmosphere as people gathered to watch the demolition team. Food vendors set up their carts and news reporters sent their cable towers heavenward. So many people! They spent hours watching yet not one of them showed up for mass at church or has even inquired about mass times.
Very sad. I really liked the decoration of the wall area behind the altar of the church. Guess it exists only in pictures and memories now.
Also, although I don’t frequently tune in, I heard nominal Catholic Sean Hannity say he has “NO PROBELMO” with contraception for the masses*.
*Unintentional irony implied in use of multi-meaning word “masses”?
“A professor from Columbia University said, This is the Mitt Romney I did not want to vote for, that I did not vote for. He kept making us think that he was this normal moderate guy but really he is a religious fanatic telling 21 year old college graduates to have binders-full of children. Is it really abnormal, immoderate, and fanatical to counsel early marriage and big families?”
Because it’s so hip, so urban and chic, in a European sort of way, to let your ethnicity (yes, white Americans are an ethnicity) to die of extinction.
Just ask the French how cool it is to sit at the cafe and to try to sound philosophical and to live for pleasure above all else.
Listen to their smug answers.
Then read George Wiegel’s “The Cube and the Cathedral” and you’ll understand why those same hip French sitting at their cafes are being forced to run for cover as Islamic youths burn their towns down.
Let’s not start looking to Mitt Romney, a leader in an anti-Christian religious cult, as a fellow believer who in some way brings us honor or good advice. It’s an embarrassment everytime the LDS is compared to Christianity.
This can be summarized succinctly. “Sex outside of marriage is catastrophic.”
It weakens adults, who then eventually produce weaker children. Children of single mothers have disadvantaged lives and are 60% more likely to criminally offend.
Family prosperity is handicapped and marriages are destroyed by adultery. For all the endless promises from sex outside of marriage, all that really results is disaster.
And marriage is a religious sacrament. Without religious support of marriage, it truly becomes what the atheists have always imagined it to be, a social contrivance.
It is the job of religion to enforce marriage, to prevent outsiders from interloping, and to prevent children from being molested.
The main stream media just can’t get enough of mocking Romney and his religion. Every chance they get.
True. At the core of it, it’s fornication (sex before marriage) that killed marriage, and with it, ruined society.
Yet, watch how most, including here, give fornication a free pass, as if it were nothing. The whole point that sex before marriage is as unbiblical as homosexuality just escapes these hypocrite fools.
My grandmother said that America was in decline because we rejected God, beginning at the turn of the century. In her rural Florida childhood her family held devotions every evening. At the end of her life (she lived to 108) she would put herself to sleep singing the old hymns.
For the first few decades it really didn’t look like we were rejecting God. Now it has become all too obvious.
It’s all about Free Will — He never forces us to accept Him.
We can reject God, but at our own peril.
My library never gets her books.
Not a fan of his brand of Protestantism?
Provide some links to said posts. Otherwise you statement can be dismissed as the fertilizer that it is.
Mormonism isn't Protestantism.
But I detect the hubris of a Catholic who thinks that anything non-Catholic = Protestant and has the right to define as such.
I'll tell you what..... If you have the right to define *Protestant* for them, then non-Catholics have the right to define *Catholic* for Catholics.
I agree with y'all. I disagree that it was "the pill" that started the moral decline because its appearance was only an answer to what the post-war society had already started to accept - sexual "liberty" for women to be just like men. Women going into the marketplace and becoming "equal" to men demanding equal pay as well as all the perks that went along with this new liberation - freedom from being mere housewives, barefoot and pregnant. It was the so-called Women's' Lib movement that pushed for the availability of contraception and then abortion. I read awhile back that the birth control pill was invented to help married women space out their children better. It wasn't that long ago (1970's) that you had to BE married, or at least engaged, to even get a prescription for them from reputable doctors. Now, pre-teens can get them free from their local Planned Parenthood, with their parents never even knowing about it. Now, there's nothing wrong with women getting equal pay for equal work, and I have nothing against women working, single OR married. I WAS both. But the joys of motherhood - raising children in a stable, two-parent home, where the Mom was there for her kids - has been replaced by a false super-mom concept that NEVER really works as well as it's hyped.
We all know that sex outside of marriage is hardly a new thing. Ancient cultures had their abortifacients and, when they failed, infanticide was often the solution. But it's only been since the 60's that sexual immorality has slowly become accepted and even expected in most cultures. So, yes, fornication has and does ruin societies and civilizations.
We, as Christians, should recognize that our Creator set up his commandments and rules in order that we would prosper and be happy. He made us - he sure must know what is best for us! We really have no excuse for rejecting those rules and we will never be healed as a nation and as a world until there is repentance, forsaking of this terrible sin, prayer and seeking after God. He promises that he WILL forgive and heal our land - it is never too late.
Why not? You’ve already taken it upon yourself to define Mormonism.
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