Posted on 02/16/2012 11:56:05 PM PST by Salvation
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New Rule Excludes Religious Workers from Benefits Offered to Others. Another Example of Hostile Secularism in the Federal Government
**Yes, hostile would seem to be the word. And that, in a word, is increasingly what secularization is coming to mean: Hostility to religion. In the recent past we who are believers considered secularization to be an unfortunate forgetfulness of God or a disregarding of things spiritual and Godly.**
Aptly stated.
Ping!
Will the Bishops speak out on this too?
ping
The next step is to do away with the tax deduction for donations. These pillars hold one another up. If that tax deduction stands alone then they will go after it.
This regime is actively seeking CW2. First, they came for industry. Then, they came for health care. Today, it is religion. Tomorrow, it will be our guns.
The Constitution means nothing to the regime; they want it gone. They want absolute power over us and will not settle for anything less. This is the most fearsome enemy we have ever seen. It is treason within our own walls.
In Dante’s Inferno, the lowest ring of Hell is inhabited by Satan with three heads. In each mouth, a loathsome traitor is constantly torn apart by Satan, reassembled and ripped apart again, for all eternity. The traitors merit this for their horrendous sins: Judas for deicide, Brutus for regicide and Cain for fratricide. Satan will need a new head for the architect of democide (a government that kills its people).
Why are any student loans being forgiven as a policy? And what a racket - 6.8% interest!!! I wouldn’t let my children take out one of those.
EXCOMMUNICATOON ....This device is the most formal and pronouced response particularly to the so called group of nuns supporting the governement position as well as politicians ...is the only measure left to the Catholic bishops if they intend to be considered viable force. .
Easy. They want to be able to tell your child where, when and for whom to work. If you owe the feds thousands of dollars and they tell you "Pay up, now unless you are willing to work in ghetto as a public servant" what choice will you have. The student loan program was federalized by Obama care. It's way to create indentured servants to the feds.
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New Rule Excludes Religious Workers from Benefits Offered to Others. Another Example of Hostile Secularism in the Federal Government”...
We need to review the government activity going on in the 1930s in Germany..The parallels between that time in that country and what is taking place in America today are shocking to anyone who wants to take a look..I am currently reading IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, LOVE, TERROR AND AN AMERICAN FAMILY IN HITLER’S BERLIN..This book perfectly explains how bad people can intimidate and totally control, psychologically and physically, an entire nation. Is it happening here?
What else can we expect with a Muslim in the White House?
equal protection?
If people think that religious persecution could never take place in the USA, they are VERY wrong. It can happen anywhere. These words of Pope Benedict seem prophetic to me:
“The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes . . . she will lose many of her social privileges. . . As a small society, [the Church] will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members.”
He goes on, saying: [the church]
“It will be hard-going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek . . . The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution – when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain . . . But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.
And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already with Gobel, but the Church of faith. She may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but she will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.”
More: The Coming Catholic Church of America
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theanchoress/2009/03/11/the-coming-catholic-church-of-america
The shadow of the jackboot…
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theanchoress/2009/11/08/the-shadow-of-the-jackboot
Elizabeth Scalia (the Anchoress) has hit the nail exactly on the head!
Mark my words, a new American revolution or CW2 WILL happen at the rate things are going. The seeds are being planted.
As proof, have heard that gun sales have gone up last year.
I was born into a Catholic family, raised Catholic, attended Catholic school for 8 years and then “left” the Church. The time was the 1970’s and 1980’s.
I left the Church as a young person and while some in my generation took to the exotic drugs...I took a spiritual excursion. At the time I could not put my finger on exactly why I left the Church and sought God in everything from “atheism” to evangelical to wicca.
Now here I am 3 decades later watching the Church of my youth finally standing up for what they teach. Time, age, and experience has given me new understanding to my wandering off...to my spiritual walk-about. The Church teachings at the time of my youth were hollow and the Church did not have the “guts” to stand in their faith.
In fact, as any truth speaking Catholic knows the Church was turning and bending to the social justice ideals. As a young person immersed in the religion, needing to believe...and finding the faith of the church at that time empty I left to find the God that seemed to be missing.
It is very good to see the faith of my youth finding that which they had lost. And yes, I agree with the Pope we are about to witness the “great falling away.” I disagree that this is a “test” to Catholics. It is the separating of the wheat and the chaff not just of the church, but of the world. Wheat is wheat and chaff is chaff one cannot become the other but for the miracle of Jesus.
I have been tempted to venture into a Sunday mass lately. Out of the 3 local churches only one does not mention their duties of ‘social justice’ in the community. I am thinking this one is where I will go and see if the faith of my youth, the faith I was taught...is there.
I can now say I left the church 30 odd years ago, because the church appeared weak and wavering to me.
I am a “revert” myself, having left the Church in my youth and then sincerely searching for the truth. That search, the prayers of my Mother and some fairly thorough research to get to the truth led me back. It was a 15 - 20 year process...and I now understand how truly ignorant I was.
God is patient and He is VERY GOOD.
;-)
http://www.catholicscomehome.org/former-catholic.php
The above link may be a good source of help for you...and If there is anything I can do to assist, I certainly will. Remember that God is purifying His Church and there are still many in the Church (lay and clerical) who do not follow the Teaching Magisterium..but we are, INDEED, on the cusp of the great sifting. Those parishes that are loyal to the Teaching Magisterium of the Church are full and vibrant and growing!
Look for a Latin Mass parish near you.
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