Posted on 10/01/2008 9:44:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I thought this was scrappleface for a moment
As a staunch Catholic and Conservative, articles like this make me crazy. Satan knows exactly what he’s doing.
I can only say one thing: “Huh?”
“[Many people are involved in] a disastrous confusion between the poor of the Scripture and the proletariat of Marx.
“In this way they pervert the Christian meaning of the poor, and they transform the fight for the rights of the poor into a class fight within the ideological perspective of the class struggle. For them the Church of the poor signifies the Church of the class ..” - Pope Benedict XVI - Theologies of Liberation http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_df84lt.htm
“..an authentic...theology: [is] one that puts:
[1] God and the life of the spirit first,
[2] DIRECT charitable care of others second,
[3] and only then draws consequences for a just social order.”
- Pope Benedict XVI http://ncrcafe.org/node/1091
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Encyclical of Pope John XXIII, On Establishing Universal Peace In Truth, Justice, Charity, And Liberty, April 11, 1963
Mans personal dignity requires besides that he enjoy freedom and be able to make up his own mind when he acts.
In his association with his fellows, therefore, there is every reason why his recognition of rights, observance of duties, and many-sided collaboration with other men, should be primarily a matter of his own personal decision.
Each man should act on his own initiative, conviction, and sense of responsibility, not under the constant pressure of external coercion or enticement.
There is nothing human about a society that is welded together by force.
Far from encouraging, as it should, the attainment of mans progress and perfection, it is merely an obstacle to his freedom.
Hence, a regime which governs solely or mainly by means of threats and intimidation or promises of reward, provides men with no effective incentive to work for the common good.
And even if it did, it would certainly be offensive to the dignity of free and rational human beings.
Consequently, laws and decrees passed in contravention of the moral order, and hence of the divine will, can have no binding force in conscience, since it is right to obey God rather than men.
C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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Am I going mad? I am stuck in an Alice in Wonderland vortex. Everything I believe about economics, politics, religion is at a polar opposite paradigm. Up is down, black is white, bad is good. Sigh.
If you are pro-life and voting for Obama, you're an idiot. I don't want to wait 20 years for another chance.
This is a lousy attempt at rationalization!
The individual does NOT have the latitude to decide other issues are more important than life.
Especially given that the other social remedies cited are NOT the domain of the government. They are there ONLY to buy votes.
These are satanic points in the prolife area as a Priests for Life told us and many others on the air.
Definition 1 Relating to or suggestive of Satan or evil.
Pardon me while I vomit.
“And yes, if others in public life misrepresent Catholic doctrine, it is the Bishops’ right and duty to correct them.”
Bishops? Are you listening to this fool?
This is nothing but a misrepresentation of the Church’s teaching through quotes that only tell one half of the story and take incomplete quotes out of context.
Pope John Paul the Great is rolling over in his grave over the way this guy bastardized his quotes to rationalize the slaughter of 1.5 million babies.
This is the logical result of decades of squishy teaching on the part of the Bishops. Even the staunchest pro-life Bishops today seem to require long convoluted tomes to express what can be expressed clearly with few words.
Pity.
Abortion is murder of the most innocent amongst us.
Exactly.
The political liberals at America & National Catholic Reporter have a religion of their own, but it's not Catholicism.
It is scary, though, the number of people who will blatantly embrace evil and call it truth.
There are many other cases to be made, like banning prayer, banning Christmas, taking God from the money and other government objects, banning the 10 Commandments, etc, but murder of an innocent child should be an easy slam dunk for any believer. The argument of lukewarm, double minded, Christians that justify socialism and moral indifference with the Bible is just as bad as Satan tempting Eve with God's own Words and Satan tempting Jesus with Scripture carefully twisted to change the meaning of God's Word.
“No one who enables abortion is Christian.
Abortion is murder of the most innocent amongst us.”
Yes, but think of all the arguments you’ll have with your family.
Absolutely. Whomever wrote this column is as clueless as can be. Astonishing. There are a lot of misguided voters right now...........
You can go to any church and find one or two that describe to there own teachings!
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