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1 posted on 12/01/2017 8:21:56 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Salvation

Even though I forgot to mark it — This is a Catholic Caucus thread.


2 posted on 12/01/2017 8:22:42 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Does menopause count? No wonder us old people are so danged sexually active. Like kids in a candy shop!


3 posted on 12/01/2017 8:24:02 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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Would you please add [Catholic Caucus] to the end of the title line?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3609615/posts?page=1


4 posted on 12/01/2017 8:24:52 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Although some Democrats may have thrown out the idea that the Party might not exclude pro-life candiates, here will be no real effort to "back pro-life candidates," because, as Weaver notes: "Ideas have consequences." The fact is that the "idea" of socialism lies at the core of the Democrat Party's cultish and oppressive Progressive ideology; and, for socialism to work, then, population must be restrained. Previous generations understood this fact. See below:

Please note especially the first paragraph highlighted and quoted from the Liberty Fund Library-- -- "A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation," edited by Thomas Mackay (1849 - 1912), Chapter 1, final paragraphs from Edward Stanley Robertson's essay, "The Impracticability of Socialism":

Pay special attention to the writer's emphasis that the "scheme of Socialism" requires what he calls "the power of restraining the increase in population"--long the essential and primary focus of the Democrat Party in the U. S.:

"I have suggested that the scheme of Socialism is wholly incomplete unless it includes a power of restraining the increase of population, which power is so unwelcome to Englishmen that the very mention of it seems to require an apology. I have showed that in France, where restraints on multiplication have been adopted into the popular code of morals, there is discontent on the one hand at the slow rate of increase, while on the other, there is still a 'proletariat,' and Socialism is still a power in politics.

I.44

"I have put the question, how Socialism would treat the residuum of the working class and of all classes—the class, not specially vicious, nor even necessarily idle, but below the average in power of will and in steadiness of purpose. I have intimated that such persons, if they belong to the upper or middle classes, are kept straight by the fear of falling out of class, and in the working class by positive fear of want. But since Socialism purposes to eliminate the fear of want, and since under Socialism the hierarchy of classes will either not exist at all or be wholly transformed, there remains for such persons no motive at all except physical coercion. Are we to imprison or flog all the 'ne'er-do-wells'?

I.45 "I began this paper by pointing out that there are inequalities and anomalies in the material world, some of which, like the obliquity of the ecliptic and the consequent inequality of the day's length, cannot be redressed at all. Others, like the caprices of sunshine and rainfall in different climates, can be mitigated, but must on the whole be endured. I am very far from asserting that the inequalities and anomalies of human society are strictly parallel with those of material nature. I fully admit that we are under an obligation to control nature so far as we can. But I think I have shown that the Socialist scheme cannot be relied upon to control nature, because it refuses to obey her. Socialism attempts to vanquish nature by a front attack. Individualism, on the contrary, is the recognition, in social politics, that nature has a beneficent as well as a malignant side. The struggle for life provides for the various wants of the human race, in somewhat the same way as the climatic struggle of the elements provides for vegetable and animal life—imperfectly, that is, and in a manner strongly marked by inequalities and anomalies. By taking advantage of prevalent tendencies, it is possible to mitigate these anomalies and inequalities, but all experience shows that it is impossible to do away with them. All history, moreover, is the record of the triumph of Individualism over something which was virtually Socialism or Collectivism, though not called by that name. In early days, and even at this day under archaic civilisations, the note of social life is the absence of freedom. But under every progressive civilisation, freedom has made decisive strides—broadened down, as the poet says, from precedent to precedent. And it has been rightly and naturally so.

I.46 "Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegations of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove."

EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON


6 posted on 12/01/2017 8:46:29 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Salvation

Contraception was a “gift” from Protestants to America.


7 posted on 12/01/2017 9:45:58 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness")
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Declining birth rates, fueled by contraception, are devastating cultures. Europe as we have known it is simply going out of existence. (I have written on that before here: Contraception is Cultural Suicide!). Europe’s future is as a Muslim continent; Muslims typically have much larger families.

I think this is somewhat of a stretch. We have created a culture in the West that kids are a problem, they're expensive, loud, break things, etc.

We've place the emphasis on life on us and not the family.

Likewise, here in the United State, the birth rate in white and African-American communities is below replacement level. Thankfully, our immigrants are largely Christian and share our American vision.

I'm not sure what news source the Msgr is watching, but our "immigrants" (does he mean legal and illegal??) are largely Christian and share our American vision??

I guess all those Mexican flags I see and the disdain for American ideals aren't on his news site(s).

13 posted on 12/01/2017 5:33:50 PM PST by ealgeone
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