Report # 9 on David Carlin's Book

Report # 9 on David Carlin’s Book
Can a Catholic Be a Catholic?
Wednesday, Oct. 31th, 2007
(Continued from p. 42-53: Check CINOPS BE GONE on the internet.)

“Moral liberals understand that their agenda can be better carried out by leaders who are able to pass muster, in the eyes of voters, as personally religious…
“Thus, liberal intellectuals can tolerate Democratic who make rhetorical deviations from the secularist playbook, provided these deviations contribute to the achievement of moral liberalism’s long-term goals….

But they can’t tolerate Democrats who actually reject the distinctive values of moral liberalism: abortion rights, gay rights (including the right to same-sex marriage), and de-Christianization of the public square, and a semi-pacifist attitude toward foreign policy and use of military force….

Political Manichaeism
“Since morally liberal intellectuals are ideologues, and since the Democratic Party came to rely on the support given by these intellectuals, it follows that the party was increasingly transformed into an ideological party….

“Manichaeism was a religious movement that flourished in the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries…. The Manicheans identified the good force with spirit and the evil with matter…Thus, in today’s ideological American political landscape; ideological-Manichean Democrats regard the Religious Right and President George W. Bush as not just mistaken but positively wicked….

“So as the local machines and bosses lost all their former influence, replaced by affluent liberal intellectuals, the Democratic Party retained it old name but became very different from what it was in the days of my youth. You might almost say that it became a different kind of party, so great was the change. For one thing, this traditionally pragmatic party became an ideological party….

“For another it became unfriendly toward traditional Christianity, whereas earlier it was the party that old-fashioned Christians, both Protestants and Catholics, felt most at home in …

“Local parties now count for little; the party with headquarters in Washington counts for everything. Finally, although the spirit of partisanship has intensified, party loyalty has declined…

“When all these changes had come to pass, the nature of the new Democratic Party was fully formed. With the completion of its second great transformation, in which secularist and moral liberal ideologues first joined labor and civil-rights groups in a tripartite coalition, the rose past them to a position of dominance, the Democratic party became the thing it is today, the thing I slowly came to recognize in my last years as a politician; the thing I can no longer love. It became an anti-Christian party.”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.)