# 2 - A DIALOGUE: THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAN LIFE AND OF DEATH

# 2 A DIALOGUE: THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAN LIFE AND OF DEATH

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - THURS. NOV. 15/18

IN MEMORY OF ST. JOHN PAUL 11

PREFACE: WE FOCUS ON THE CULTURE OF LIFE:

  

     EVERYTHING POSSIBLE MUST BE DONE TO PROMOTE SPECIFICALLY THE HERITAGE AND WISDOM OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS.

    IT CAN BE DONE DAILY WITH THE CALENDAR DAY OF "THE GLORY OF AMERICA," BY PETER MARSHALL AND DAVID MANUEL.

    IT CAN ALSO BE DONE ON THE MAIN CORNERS OF AMERICA IN MANY CITIES LIKE THE CORNER OF KATELLA AND HARBOR BOULEVARD IN ANAHEIM (NEAR DISNEYLAND). I RECALL PROTESTING THE VIOLATIONS OF OUR RELIGIOUS RIGHTS BY THE SO-CALLED LEGALIZED OBAMACARE.

 

1) HERE IS JOHN ADAMS, A GIANT OF U.S. HISTORY ON NOV. 10 IN "THE GLORY OF AMERICA."

 

"PERHAPS RECALLING THE INTENT OF THE PURITANS WHO CAME TO THE LORD'S TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS A CENTURY BEFORE, JOHN ADAMS ONCE SPECULATED:"

 

"SUPPOSE A NATION IN SOME DISTANT REGION SHOULD TAKE THE BIBLEFOR THEIR ONLY LAW-BOOK, AND EVERY MEMBER SHOULD REGULATE HIS CONDUCT BY THE PRECEPTS THERE CONTAINED! EVERY MEMBER WOULD BE OBLIGED IN CONSCIENCE TO TEMPERANCE, FRUGALITY, AND INDUSTRY; TO JUSTICE, KINDNESS, AND CHARITY TOWARDS HIS FELLOW MEN; AND TO PIETY, LOVE, AND REVERENCE TOWARD ALMIGHTY GOD."  NORTHROP, WITNESSES, 2.

 

2.) TO EMERITUS POPE  BENEDICT XVI ON NOV. 10TH IN HIS BOOK "CO-WORKERS OF TRUTH."

 

    "HUMANITY NEEDS ETERNITY, EVERY OTHER HOPE IS TOO SHORT FOR IT. AND IT IS NOT TRUE THAT ETERNITY ROBS HUMANITY OF TIME, IMPOVERISHES IT, AND MAKES IT UNIMPORTANT.

  

    "ON THE CONTRARY, ONLY ETERNITY CAN GIVE MAN TIME. IF A PERSON'S DEATH IS WORTHLESS, THEN HIS LIFE IS WORTHLESS TOO. IF A MAN IS JETTISONED IN DEATH, IF HE BECOMES AS SO MUCH REFUSE, THEN HE IS, EVEN BEFOREHAND, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HUMANITY CAN JETTISON AND TREAT AS SUCH. BUT IF MAN NEVER BECOMES REFUSE, IF HIS VALUE IS CALLED ETERNITY, THEN HIS VALUE IS ALWAYS HIS AND MARKS HIS WHOLE LIFE.

 

    A PSYCHOLOGIST POINTED OUT RECENTLY THAT THE EMBEZZLED HEAVEN IS THE CRUCIAL SICKNESS OF EARTH; BECAUSE PEOPLE FORGET HEAVEN, THE EARTH BECOMES EMPTY AND MEN BECOME ILL. IF WE PROMISE PARADISE TO LATER GENERATIONS BUT ONLY NOTHINGNESS, ONLY DEATH, TO EACH INDIVIDUAL, THEN WE HAVE PROMISED NOTHING TO ANYONE...

 

    A PRESENT THAT IS ONLY PRESENT AND HAS NO FUTURE HAS NO HOPE. THE NOTHINGNESS THAT FOLLOWS IT ALSO POLLUTES THE PRESENT AND MAKES IT UNBEARABLE. ONLY ETERNITY CAN UNITE PRESENT AND FUTURE....

 

    THOSE WHO HAVE TALKED US OUT OF OUR BELIEF IN HEAVEN, OR WOULD LIKE TO TALK US OUT OF IT, HAVE NOT GIVEN US THE EARTH IN EXCHANGE BUT HAVE MADE IT DESOLATE AND EMPTY, HAVE COVERED IT WITH DARKNESS. WE MUST FIND ONCE MORE THE COURAGE TO BELIEVE IN ETERNAL LIFE WITH ALL OUR HEART. THEN WE SHALL ALSO HAVE THE COURAGE TO LOVE THE EARTH AND TO WORK AT  BUILDING ITS FUTURE.

 

    LET US DARE TO BELIEVE ONCE MORE IN ETERNAL LIFE, TO LIVE FOR ETERNAL LIFE."

(FROM ORDINARIASKORRESPONDENZ, JANUARY 4, 1979)

GEORGE H. KUBECK