Posted on 04/25/2016 4:48:00 AM PDT by HomerBohn
I absolutely get the point, The site is wonderful btw. I wish it had a CD that could provide all its info so when on line goes down, and it will, it could be a reference tool.
I bailed out of church when I heard "Merry Christmas and Happy Ramadan" from the pulpit.
Yes, Humanae Vitae. Also Pope Leo XIII’s Arcanum, written in 1880 about the dangers of civil authorities defining marriage.
Freegards
Well I'm old enough to remember when the voting age was lowered to eighteen. It was the leftist Democrats that lobbied and cried and yelled to get the age lowered so as to allow college age "skulls full of mush" (to quote Rush Limbaugh) to vote and throw elections to the leftwing Democrats.
And of course they justified this by using the military service argument knowing full well that it would be the college students that would determine the outcome of close elections in many places. Some suggested only allowing those in the military who were under 21 to vote but that would be "discrimination." The entire lowering the voting age limit movement was fraudulent from the beginning.
I have eighteen year old son about to graduate high school this June. There is no way he is ready to vote! And that includes his friends too! Their chief concerns are online gaming, cars, girls (thank God) and sports. Young people should be concerned about training, education, working and establishing themselves in the working world and community before indulging in political matters. They need time to acquire a mature adult outlook and understanding of the world. Twenty-one should be the minimum age to participate in the political process.
We should go after the Muslims (ABO) in the same way.
Sometimes you read some words that totally change the way you see things....this was a passage that did it for me....
"What would things look like if Satan actually took over a city? The first frames in our imaginative slide show probably depict mayhem on a massive scale: Widespread violence, deviant sexualities, pornography in every vending machine, churches closed down and worshipers dragged off to City Hall. Over a half-century ago, Donald Grey Barnhouse, pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church, gave his CBS radio audience a different picture of what it would look like if Satan took control of a town in America. He said that all of the bars and pool halls would be closed, pornography banished, pristine streets and sidewalks would be occupied by tidy pedestrians who smiled at each other. There would be no swearing. The kids would answer "Yes, sir," "No, ma'am," and the churches would be full on Sunday ... where Christ is not preached."
Thank you. There are things that need saying, and you stepped up to the plate handsomely.
The plummeting numbers on religious faith are the real factor IMHO.
I have seen some numbers on church attendance, baptisms and financial support in my Catholic diocese. All have cratered in the past fifteen years.
A Methodist Church in our area closed recently and is now a Buddhist Temple. Another is about to close, being down to just 18 members in the congregation.
None of this is good for the country.
Of course not.
When we look at today’s Christian leaders we see a reason for the morass. A communist pope. Female and oftentimes lesbian priestesses. A feel-good policy for churches that are all-inclusive and welcoming homosexuals, lesbians and other perverts.
The sad thing is the innocent are swept up with the guilty. There is no mark on the forehead to distinguish those who weep for their nation.
Something is going to fill that void.
The widespread use of recreational sex drugs like Viagra should be included in any consideration of our American stupor.
We abandoned the Lord, it’s just that simple, we each turned to his own way, what did we expect?
When my nation called, I served in the military. (please, do NOT thank me for my service) When called upon I served on juries both grand and pettit. Since the age of 16 I've paid, and continue to pay, income taxes.
But since a substantial part of my income is now SS retirement benefits, part of which are taxed, and am enrolled in MediCare, I should now be freed of my duty to vote.
THANK YOU!!! Keeping abreast of who or what to vote for or against has gotten to be a real pain in the ass.
Again, thank you.
(not sure if I'm being sarcastic or not)
Catholic Church attendance and financial support are strong here — they had to add a parallel Easter Mass in the gym — but what you say is probably true in mamy areas of the country. We seem to be one of the few remaining holdouts of “the way things were”, generally.
I agree with that — it is a great indicator. Was also one of the reasons I quit watching Fox News several years ago (continuous commercials for those).
Man is also part of nature and natural laws can only be violated for so long. There is a reason, for example, why we remember Sodom. A bottleneck event will cut everyone down over vast regions, saints and sinners alike.
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