Catholic Excuses - 2 - 20

Catholic Excuses – 2 – 20
cinops be gone Sunday, April 13, 2008
Why do Catholics support the Democratic Party in spite of its strong commitment to anti-Christian agenda of secularism and moral liberalism? We are not talking about prudential issues in which all Christians can disagree. We are talking about absolute evils in our culture; the promotion of abortion on demand (infanticide), assisted-suicide, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research and same-sex marriage. These are moral and intellectual icebergs for anyone supporting a Catholic-in-name-only politician.

Answers from David Carlin’s book, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat? # 20 from Chapter 5 – Catholic Excuse p. 106- 109

13. We have denominational mentality. “Thinking for myself” is more important than dogma.

14. Becoming theological tolerant and un-dogmatic.

15. A weakened belief that the Catholic religion was the one true Faith; that their Catholic Church was the one true Church of Jesus Christ.

16. While not renouncing the one true Faith claim, the emphatically anti-Protestant tone that had characterized the Catholic Church since the Reformation in sixteenth century was discarded.

17. Catholics who had long been considered second-class Americans in a strongly Protestant country finally came into their own first-class Americans.

18. By 1970, American Catholics had pretty much let their “one true Faith” claim lapse.

19. Denomination mentality lessened your belief in the virgin birth, miracles, damnation and you are a decent person with any religious belief.

20. A false concept of conscience developed. It was up to you personal conscience to fornicate, divorce or have an abortion.

21. Not all Catholics adopted the denominational mentality but many Catholics did.

22. How can you call yourself Catholic when you dismiss dogma as thing of little or no consequence?

23. These think-for-yourself Catholics can come to the conclusion that abortion and homosexuality are morally permissible.

24. For the above it follows that the Democratic Party’s moral liberalism is one of its great merits.

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese