Report # 15 on David Carlin's Book

Report # 15 on David Carlin’s Book
Can a Catholic be a Democrat?
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008
Par II
The Party and the Church are Irreconcilable
Chapter 4- The Catholic-Secularist Abyss p.84-87

This is not a happy chapter to read. Particularly, if your family history is democratic. The party of their fathers does not exist any more. And this applies not only to Catholics but also to Protestants. What the author is doing is just stating the harsh reality. The great Democratic Party has been taken over by elitists who do not believe in traditional America and want to use the Democratic Party and the Courts to change America into a strictly secular nation.

Why can’t Catholics and secularists get along? In the past Catholics in the North got along with the Southern white Protestants and voted for the Democrats.

“The answer is simple: Southern white Protestants didn’t like the Catholic religion, to be sure, and in their sermons and Sunday Schools they relentlessly found fault with it. But they didn’t use the Democratic Party to promote their anti-Catholicism. By contrast, secularist are using their position of dominance in the Democratic Party effectively to destroy Catholicism in America (and old-fashioned Protestantism too). Through the party, they’re vigorously promoting moral values that clash so directly with those of traditional Christianity that if they’re validated in American culture, traditional Christianity must be invalidated. …

“The nineteenth-century French philopher-sociologist August Comte said, “Ideas govern the world” It follows from this that people who differ radically in their ideas will find it difficult to cooperate on matters of importance. Catholics and secularist hold radically different principles about the limits of knowledge and the nature of reality, and from these differences flow conflicting – in fact, irreconcilable – theories of morality. …

“…With almost no exceptions, secularists are empiricists; that is to say, they hold that it’s impossible to have any knowledge that doesn’t come to us through the senses…. Catholicism, by contrast, holds that the human mind is capable of obtaining knowledge of God – not complete or comprehensive knowledge, to be sure, but at least partial knowledge. It teaches that the existence of God can be proven by human reason; more important, it teaches that God has revealed to humankind, through the Church and the Bible, knowledge about himself….
`“Further, Catholicism has always held that there’s a “natural” or non-revealed knowledge of moral principles possessed by all humans. This is the moral knowledge referred by St. Paul in his letter to the Romans (2:15), where he says of the gentiles that they have “a law written in their hearts.” Knowledge of this “natural law” is not, to be sure, as complete knowledge of morality as is given by divine revelation….” p. 84-87
There is also a conflict between Naturalism and Supernaturalism. The secularists are almost all naturalists. Nature is all there is. There are no realms of being that transcends nature. There is no God and no immortals souls.
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 579, Stanton, California 90680