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VERITAS - BLOG - CINOPS BE GONE - DEC. 25, 2021

 

Excerpts from "Glory of America" A Calendar of Patriotic thoughts foundational to a traditional America.

DEC. 22ND:

      On this day in 1820, speaking at the Pilgrim Bicentennial, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster recalled the little band that had left such a profound impression:

 

    "Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary. 

 

    Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more wildly; in the full conviction that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity."  Lewis, Daniel, 86

 

DEC. 20TH:

      In 1776, Founding Father John Adams wrote:

 

    "Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which establish the principles upon which Freedom cab securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our people in a greater measure, than they have it now, they change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will obtain a lasting liberty."   Barton, Myth, 123                                                                            

 

DEC. 25TH:

      In 1857, John Quincy Adams, said:

 

  "In the chain of events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior... The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission... It laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior, and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before." Foster Covenant, 18-19

 

DEC. 26TH:

    "In the last days of 1862, the Reverend Byron Sunderland, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C., went with some friends of the President to call upon him, President Lincoln said:

 

    "The ways of God are mysterious and profound beyond all comprehension - 'Who by searching can find him out?' God only knows the issue of this business. He has destroyed nations from the map of history for their sins. Nevertheless, my hopes prevail generally above my fears for our Republic. The times are dark, the spirits of ruin are abroad in all their power and the mercy of God alone can save us." Johnson, Lincoln, 101

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS,

 

George H. Kubeck

 

 P.S.   Will we have a "Woke" and Karl Marx ideology ruling America? With shootings, weekly, in Chicago, we had thus far this year 85 children murdered in cold blood. Who cares? The culture of death which rules is not the answer.

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VERITAS - BLOG "CINOPS BE GONE" WED. DEC. 15, 2021

Powerful excerpts from a Calendar: "The Glory of America" Foreword by Bill Bright - Peter Marshall & Devil Manuel, 1999 - Bill Bright "Those of us familiar with our country's godly heritage and the stories of the many sacrifices made to give birth to this nation must pass them on to others."

 

Example: July 24th

One of the Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall's favorite poems was written by Josiah Gilbert Holland:

 

"God, give us men! A time like this demands

Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;

Men whom the lust of office does not kill;

Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;

Men who posses opinions and a will; 

Men who have honor; men who will not lie;

Men who can stand before a demagogue and damn

His treacherous flatteries without winking!

Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog

in public duty and in private thinking."

 

Example: December 8th

    George Washington concluded his first Inaugural Address:

"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the

invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than

the people of the United States. Every step by which they have

advanced to a character of an independent nation seems to

have been distinguished by some token of providential agency ...

We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles

of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards 

the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."

 

Example: December 7

Daniel Webster 

"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this 

country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be

not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received,

the devil and his words will gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume 

does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature

 will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth 

of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and 

darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

 

George H. Kubeck

 

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VERITAS - BLOG - CINOPS BE GONE -SAT.  DEC. 11, 2021

 

CATALYST - JOURNAL OF THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS - DEC. 2021

From the President's desk - William A. Donohue - www.catholicleague.org - 212-371-3394

    On Nov. 4, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez made one of the most brilliant addresses given in Catholic circles in recent memory. His speech was given at the Congress of Catholic and Public Life in Madrid, Spain.

    Like so many other Catholic intellectuals, Gomez is rightly concerned about radical secularization that has taken root in the Western World. Unlike most of them, he has been in the trenches. I know that because the Catholic League has assisted him in his efforts to combat the agenda of secular zealots, made plain, for instance, in attempts to break the seal of the confessional.

    Gomez takes direct aim at the ruling class, those who occupy the command post in the United States and Europe. "In the elite world-view," he says, "there is no need for old-fashioned belief systems and religions. In fact, as they see it, religion, especially Christianity, only gets in the way of the society they hope to build." He offers as an example the "cancel culture" that is so prevalent.

 

    There can be no denying the veracity of Gomez's observation. Anyone who dares challenge the conventional wisdom, on issues ranging from critical race theory to gender ideology, is a candidate for censorship. It is not those who promote these pernicious views who are being silenced, it those who challenge them.

    Sociologists have long understood that  when the dominant culture strain in society atrophies, it is filled with an ersatz philosophical or religious variant. Power vacuums never last long. Thus Gomez is right to call to the extent to which the de-Christianization of the West has been replaced by movements such as "social justice," "wokeness," "identity politics" and the like

  "They claim," as he perceptively notes, "to offer what religion provides." Indeed. they provide a sense of meaning, a purpose for living, and feeling belonging to a community."This is exactly what the great sociologists have been saying for over a hundred and fifty years. Sadly, it is now happening in the United States.

    Gomez's critics take umbrage at this comment that the reining movement functions a new religion. He properly notes that today's critical theories and ideologies are profoundly atheistic." Anyone who follows what the proponents of these ideologies espouses know that Gomez is right. Indeed, they don't even try to hide their animus against Christianity. 

 

    John McWhorter is a Columbia University professor and he understands what Gomez is talking about. An African American, he has written a book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. Both men call attention to identity politics an radical race theories -which judge people on the basis of their race, not individual characteristics. These ideological currents are not only profoundly racist in themselves, they satisfy the religious yearnings of those drawn to them.

    As a man of God. Gomez wants us to repair to the Gospel, not to "these new religions of social justice and political identity." But to his critics, many of whom are Catholic theologians, what he says is verboten. Some no doubt would like to cancel him.

    Franciscan Father Daniel Horan is upset with Gomez for making a speech that exhibits a "shocking disconnection from reality." Too bad he never says what the disconnect is. He cites for support a left-wing Jesuit theologian, Fr. Bryan Massingale, who, according to Horan, said the problem is that bishops like Gomez "Have the audacity to speak with unearned authority about issues they clearly do not understand."

    It would be hard to find a more arrogant example of professorial elitism than this. Readers should know that Horan and Massingale spend much of their time writing and lecturing about homosexual and transgender issues. Gomez spends much of his time writing and lecturing about the Catholic Church He is president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Thus he has earned the authority to speak about any issue of interest to the Catholic Community.

    Fr. Tom Reese wonders why Gomez "abandoned" the term "social justice" to those he considers the enemy of religion, especially when social justice has a place in the "long history of the church's

 social teaching." This is a serious misreading of Gomez's address. He has not abandoned social justice - the term been hijacked by those whose ideology sharply departs from the Catholic Churches understanding of it...

    That is what makes Gomez's presentation so valuable. He sees what is going on in the United States and Europe and beckons us to get back to basics, the basics outlined by Jesus. If we do not resist the forces of decadence and division, the future will soon become unrecognizable.

George H. Kubeck