Report # 13 on David Carlin's Book

Report # 13 on David Carlin’s Book
Can a Catholic be a Democrat?
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007
Chapter 3 – America’s Anti-Christian Party 71-79
It would be a good idea to compare David Carlin’s book with Bill Press’s Book.
“Why is secularism so popular among the higher classes? First, to justify their many social privileges, Second, the higher classes are better educated than the middling classes; … Third, the great social, economic power possessed by the people in the higher classes makes it difficult for them, at least while they are in the prime of life, to feel what serious religious believers constantly feel – namely, that our poor human power is as nothing compared with the omnipotent providence of God. Finally, people with money provides them with an immense menu of choices:...

4. “As a consequence of having alienated non-affluent Christian voters, the Democratic Party has lost its position as America’s number one political party. It will remain number two until it expels or at least marginalized the anti-Christians currently wielding great influence in its ranks.

“… more and more conservative Protestants and orthodox Catholics are defecting from the old party of their parents and grandparents… Christian voters have recognized the new secularist character of the Democratic Party, but a great many haven’t…. But although secularism is stronger now than it has even been, the United States is still predominately religious, indeed predominately Christian. This is to say that these Christians are all of the traditional type, for many Catholics and Protestants have drifted away from orthodoxy intellectually and even morally.

“If the Democratic party wishes to hold on to voters … it will have to persuade its affluent secularists member either to cease pushing their agenda of else to take their agenda and leave the party…. The second-best thing for affluent secularists to remain in the party while abandoning their more ‘offensive’ parts of their agenda… The third-best thing … The secularist element in the party can license Democratic politicians to speak of ‘faith’ in their personal lives, of their belief in ‘values’ of how they would like to lower the rate of abortion in America, of the importance of strong families and so on.

5. Until the party expels or marginalizes its secularist element, it makes little or no sense for Catholics and other traditional Christians to support the Democ. Party.

“Why should I support a party that’s the enemy of my religion?” they ask. Likewise Christians who continue to support today’s Democratic Party increasingly experience feelings of cognitive dissonance, and will discover that one way to eliminate those unpleasant dissonance feelings is by ceasing to vote for Democrats….

“For one, it depends on how ‘Catholic’ a person is. Those who are little more than nominal Catholics, practicing the religion hardly at all and identifying with it only out of habit and family tradition, aren’t greatly offended by the party’s alliance with forces of secularism; for these nominal Catholics are virtually secularists themselves. Neither are liberal Catholics greatly offended, for they regard the defeat of orthodox Catholicism as a gain, a door opening to a new-an-improved brand of Catholicism.”
George H. Kubeck, wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com or Cinops Be Gone