10 Truths – Christians & Politics – l – cont’d
Feast of St. Dominic cinops be gone Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
We continue with Coral Ridge’s classic “Ten Truths about Christians and Politics.”
Government by Guillotine p. 16-19
It is a modern innovation and one, if you consult the French Revolution, that doesn’t work out so well. The short-lived French Revolution (1789-1799) was so thoroughgoing in its rejection of Christianity that it even established a new calendar without Sundays. During its infamous reign of terror, the streets of Paris flowed with blood and ten of thousands of people were guillotined.
As Ernest Renan, a nineteenth century French agnostic, stated:
“If Rationalism wishes to govern the world without regard to the religious needs of the soul, the experience of the French Revolution is there to teach us the consequences of such a blunder.”
And since Renan, Nazi, fascist, and communist regimes, of all of which rejected God and religious belief, have shown, again, that once religion is removed, a door opens into abyss. The death toll from Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and their fellow communist henchmen is nearly 100 million people, according to the Black Book of Communism. Here in America, the court-ordered departure from America’s Christian moral framework has already resulted in the death of more than 48 million people – all of them unborn.
State-Mandated Secularism
Despite this sobering testimony from history, American law and politics have over the past decades moved from this view, as stated by Barry Lynn, executive director of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, that “In the United States, secularism is mandated for the government.” “Mandated” is an aptly chosen word since “we, the people,” have not have any say in the matter. “Many Americans,” as Richard John Neuhaus writes, “feel that they were not consulted by whoever decided that this is a secular society. And they resent that; they resent it very much.”
State-mandated secularism, imposed by the courts and enforced by the ACLU and its allies, is a leading flashpoint in America’s ongoing culture war between competing Christian and secular moral vision for the nation. One side looks to the Christian foundations of this country; the other provides no moral basis for American politics and government at all. It’s a pity that the quarrel exists at all since when you look at the record, not only is religion needed to found and sustain a state but, as we will see in the following chapter, Christianity makes the best foundation by far.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The Call to World Youth Day
The Call to World Youth Day
cinops be gone Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
In a teaching session titled, “Called to live in the Spirit,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput spoke eloquently to the World Youth Day participants. Let us listen to the gentle voice of the Holy Spirit in today’s ‘violent world, as reported by the Catholic News Agency.
“What do we thirst for more than anything else in the world? Life. We want as much life as we can get. We want a long life, a happy life, a healthy life…. So if the Holy Spirit is the giver of life, it means He’s the one that brings us to a full understanding and union with the real Jesus Christ – not with the ‘nice guy’ or interesting teacher that the world would prefer Jesus to be, the true Jesus Christ who is the only Son of the Father, the Savior of the world, and the source of all life and happiness for you, for me, and for all humanity.”
The archbishop went on to say that every day, all people – including the faithful, “drink in a river of bad ideas pushed by marketers who want your money, your approval and your conformity – and they make very sure they get it by using the radio, television, internet, popular songs and peer pressure to wrap you up in; like a spider getting ready for dinner. Today’s popular culture is based on a message that seems liberating, but it actually diminishes your humanity.”
The archbishop then spoke of the irony of when some young people criticize authority “claiming they want to be ‘free’ or that they want to ‘live their own life,’ but then dress exactly “the same way, listen to the same music, follow the same fashions and generally behave not like reformers, but like lemmings.”
“It’s the worst kind of slavery,” he continued, “when corporations and fashion designers and political opinion makers treat people like chumps. They trick a whole generation into doing what the world demands, while at the same time telling young people that they’re ‘free,’ ‘original,’ and even ‘revolutionary’.”
In contrast, “God acts in a completely different way. That’s why the Holy Spirit is shown as dove. He reveals to us the truth, helps us understand who Jesus really is, and calls us to a radically new life in Christ. But he never forces us to deceive us into doing anything we don’t willingly choose to do. That’s real freedom: when we choose, against our shortcomings and temptations from the world, to live the true life brought to us by Jesus Christ.”
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Pope Benedict XVI, World Youth Day Welcoming Address, July 17, 2008, Sydney, Australia:
“The Task of Witness is not easy. There are many today who claim that God should be left on the sidelines, and that religion and faith, while fine for individuals, should either be excluded from the public forum altogether or included only in the pursuit of limited pragmatic goals. This secularist vision seeks to explain life and shape society with little or no reference to the Creator.
It presents itself as neutral, impartial and inclusive for everyone. But in reality, like every ideology, secularism imposes a world-view.”
This Saturday: “The Case against Loretta Sanchez” the first in a series of letters.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
cinops be gone Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
In a teaching session titled, “Called to live in the Spirit,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput spoke eloquently to the World Youth Day participants. Let us listen to the gentle voice of the Holy Spirit in today’s ‘violent world, as reported by the Catholic News Agency.
“What do we thirst for more than anything else in the world? Life. We want as much life as we can get. We want a long life, a happy life, a healthy life…. So if the Holy Spirit is the giver of life, it means He’s the one that brings us to a full understanding and union with the real Jesus Christ – not with the ‘nice guy’ or interesting teacher that the world would prefer Jesus to be, the true Jesus Christ who is the only Son of the Father, the Savior of the world, and the source of all life and happiness for you, for me, and for all humanity.”
The archbishop went on to say that every day, all people – including the faithful, “drink in a river of bad ideas pushed by marketers who want your money, your approval and your conformity – and they make very sure they get it by using the radio, television, internet, popular songs and peer pressure to wrap you up in; like a spider getting ready for dinner. Today’s popular culture is based on a message that seems liberating, but it actually diminishes your humanity.”
The archbishop then spoke of the irony of when some young people criticize authority “claiming they want to be ‘free’ or that they want to ‘live their own life,’ but then dress exactly “the same way, listen to the same music, follow the same fashions and generally behave not like reformers, but like lemmings.”
“It’s the worst kind of slavery,” he continued, “when corporations and fashion designers and political opinion makers treat people like chumps. They trick a whole generation into doing what the world demands, while at the same time telling young people that they’re ‘free,’ ‘original,’ and even ‘revolutionary’.”
In contrast, “God acts in a completely different way. That’s why the Holy Spirit is shown as dove. He reveals to us the truth, helps us understand who Jesus really is, and calls us to a radically new life in Christ. But he never forces us to deceive us into doing anything we don’t willingly choose to do. That’s real freedom: when we choose, against our shortcomings and temptations from the world, to live the true life brought to us by Jesus Christ.”
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Pope Benedict XVI, World Youth Day Welcoming Address, July 17, 2008, Sydney, Australia:
“The Task of Witness is not easy. There are many today who claim that God should be left on the sidelines, and that religion and faith, while fine for individuals, should either be excluded from the public forum altogether or included only in the pursuit of limited pragmatic goals. This secularist vision seeks to explain life and shape society with little or no reference to the Creator.
It presents itself as neutral, impartial and inclusive for everyone. But in reality, like every ideology, secularism imposes a world-view.”
This Saturday: “The Case against Loretta Sanchez” the first in a series of letters.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The Morgentaler Affair - Part 3
The Morgentaler Affair – Part 3
cinops be gone Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
OK, let’s try to close this story and find out what happened with the above; via three news articles from LifeSiteNews.com July 22, 2008.
Massive New Poll: 56% of Canadian Oppose Morgentaler Order of Canada
“Whatever side of the abortion debate you are on, many Canadians from all walks of life felt this appointment went way too far and offended too many,” said Jim Hughes National President of CLC (Campaign Life Coalition). “The mass media coverage of the Morgentaler award has given us the largest abortion debate this country has ever seen in twenty years, and Canadians when they are forced to think about abortion realize it is horrible.” …
“Clearly the waves of offended Canadians speaking out have had an impact,” says Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer of CLC. “When a former Lieutenant Governor speaks out and returns hi ‘Snowflake’, disavowing himself from the Order, undoubtedly that is going to have an effect.”
Ottawa, July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) The advisory council for the order of “Canada has been heavily criticized in recent weeks for its pro-abortion and far left bias, especially since the decision to award the ‘the centerpiece of Canada’s honours system” to Canada’s most notorious abortionist, Henry Morgentaler. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, who heads the advisory council, is under severe criticism for having “brutishly” honoured Morgentaler by bulldozing the nomination through the advisory committee at the last minute.”
“Another member of the advisory council with connections to a major section of the anti-life movement is Yvan Guidon. the Director of the Bio-Organic Chemistry Laboratory at the Institute de Recherches Clinique de Montreal (IRCM), who is also a member of the directors of the Stem Cell Research – the government funded research body that led the efforts to allow the creation and use of human embryos for research.” …
“Joseph Quesnel, writing in the Winnipeg Sun, said this week that the advisory council of the Order of Canada reads like a “who’s who” of the Canadian left….
now that the “dust has settled” the focus of attention should be on the make-up of the Order’s advisory council, which, as an independent body, may be free of “government entanglements” but cannot be considered without bias.”
LifeSiteNews.com Tuesday, July 29m 2008
Last week, Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of the pro-life movement in Canada released the results of a massive poll (over 13,000 respondents) which found that 56% of Canadians oppose the nomination of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada. Despite the fact that the subject was still very much in the Canadian spotlight, the mainstream media in Canada gave no coverage to the poll whatsoever. … Painful experience has shown, however, that polls conducted even the most widely quoted pollsters will not receive coverage if they are pro-life.
In closing, the above is similar to the coverage of pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-family news by the media in the U.S.A. One day we will have equal coverage.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish or Vietnamese.
cinops be gone Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
OK, let’s try to close this story and find out what happened with the above; via three news articles from LifeSiteNews.com July 22, 2008.
Massive New Poll: 56% of Canadian Oppose Morgentaler Order of Canada
“Whatever side of the abortion debate you are on, many Canadians from all walks of life felt this appointment went way too far and offended too many,” said Jim Hughes National President of CLC (Campaign Life Coalition). “The mass media coverage of the Morgentaler award has given us the largest abortion debate this country has ever seen in twenty years, and Canadians when they are forced to think about abortion realize it is horrible.” …
“Clearly the waves of offended Canadians speaking out have had an impact,” says Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer of CLC. “When a former Lieutenant Governor speaks out and returns hi ‘Snowflake’, disavowing himself from the Order, undoubtedly that is going to have an effect.”
Ottawa, July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) The advisory council for the order of “Canada has been heavily criticized in recent weeks for its pro-abortion and far left bias, especially since the decision to award the ‘the centerpiece of Canada’s honours system” to Canada’s most notorious abortionist, Henry Morgentaler. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, who heads the advisory council, is under severe criticism for having “brutishly” honoured Morgentaler by bulldozing the nomination through the advisory committee at the last minute.”
“Another member of the advisory council with connections to a major section of the anti-life movement is Yvan Guidon. the Director of the Bio-Organic Chemistry Laboratory at the Institute de Recherches Clinique de Montreal (IRCM), who is also a member of the directors of the Stem Cell Research – the government funded research body that led the efforts to allow the creation and use of human embryos for research.” …
“Joseph Quesnel, writing in the Winnipeg Sun, said this week that the advisory council of the Order of Canada reads like a “who’s who” of the Canadian left….
now that the “dust has settled” the focus of attention should be on the make-up of the Order’s advisory council, which, as an independent body, may be free of “government entanglements” but cannot be considered without bias.”
LifeSiteNews.com Tuesday, July 29m 2008
Last week, Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of the pro-life movement in Canada released the results of a massive poll (over 13,000 respondents) which found that 56% of Canadians oppose the nomination of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada. Despite the fact that the subject was still very much in the Canadian spotlight, the mainstream media in Canada gave no coverage to the poll whatsoever. … Painful experience has shown, however, that polls conducted even the most widely quoted pollsters will not receive coverage if they are pro-life.
In closing, the above is similar to the coverage of pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-family news by the media in the U.S.A. One day we will have equal coverage.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish or Vietnamese.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The Pope's Pauline Homily
The Pope’s Pauline Homily
cinops be gone Tuesday, August 5, 2008
From the Pope’s Homily At The Pauline Year Inauguration: July – 2008
“Endure with me suffering for the Gospel,” said the apostle to his disciple (St.Timothy). This sentence, which is at the end of the roads traveled by the apostle as a treatment, leads us back to the beginning of his mission. While, after his encounter with the Risen One, the blind Paul was in his room in Damascus, Ananias received the order to go where the feared persecutor was and lay his hands on him, so that he would recover his sight.
To Ananias’ objection that this Saul was a dangerous persecutor of Christians, this answer was given: “This man must take my name to the Gentiles, to kings and to the children of Israel. I will show him all he will have to suffer for my name.”
The task of proclamation and the call to suffering for Christ are inseparably together. The call to be teacher of the Gentiles is at the same time and intrinsically a call to suffering in communion with Christ, who has redeemed us through his passion. In a world in which lying is powerful, truth is paid for with suffering. He who wishes to avoid suffering, to keep it far from himself, will have pushed away life itself and its grandeur; he cannot be a servant of truth and thus a servant of faith. There is no love without suffering, without the suffering of denying ourselves, of the transformation and purification of the “I” for true freedom.
Wherever there is nothing worth suffering for, life itself also loses its value. The Eucharist – center for our Christian being – is based on the sacrifice of Jesus for us; it was born from the suffering of the love that found its culmination on the cross. We live from this love that gives itself. This gives us the courage and strength to suffer with Christ and for him, thus knowing that precisely in this way our life becomes great, mature,true.
In the light of all of St. Paul’s letters we see how on his journey as teacher of the Gentiles, the prophecy of Ananias was fulfilled at the hour of the calling” “I will show him all that he will have to suffer for my name.” His suffering makes him credible as teacher of truth, which does not seek its own benefit, its own glory or personal pleasure, but is committed to Him who loved us and gave himself up for all of us.
At this hour in which we thank the Lord for having called Paul, making him the light of the Gentiles and teacher of us all, we pray: Give us today the testimony of the Resurrection, touched by your love, and {make us} able to carry the light of the Gospel in our time. St. Paul, pray for us. Amen.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
cinops be gone Tuesday, August 5, 2008
From the Pope’s Homily At The Pauline Year Inauguration: July – 2008
“Endure with me suffering for the Gospel,” said the apostle to his disciple (St.Timothy). This sentence, which is at the end of the roads traveled by the apostle as a treatment, leads us back to the beginning of his mission. While, after his encounter with the Risen One, the blind Paul was in his room in Damascus, Ananias received the order to go where the feared persecutor was and lay his hands on him, so that he would recover his sight.
To Ananias’ objection that this Saul was a dangerous persecutor of Christians, this answer was given: “This man must take my name to the Gentiles, to kings and to the children of Israel. I will show him all he will have to suffer for my name.”
The task of proclamation and the call to suffering for Christ are inseparably together. The call to be teacher of the Gentiles is at the same time and intrinsically a call to suffering in communion with Christ, who has redeemed us through his passion. In a world in which lying is powerful, truth is paid for with suffering. He who wishes to avoid suffering, to keep it far from himself, will have pushed away life itself and its grandeur; he cannot be a servant of truth and thus a servant of faith. There is no love without suffering, without the suffering of denying ourselves, of the transformation and purification of the “I” for true freedom.
Wherever there is nothing worth suffering for, life itself also loses its value. The Eucharist – center for our Christian being – is based on the sacrifice of Jesus for us; it was born from the suffering of the love that found its culmination on the cross. We live from this love that gives itself. This gives us the courage and strength to suffer with Christ and for him, thus knowing that precisely in this way our life becomes great, mature,true.
In the light of all of St. Paul’s letters we see how on his journey as teacher of the Gentiles, the prophecy of Ananias was fulfilled at the hour of the calling” “I will show him all that he will have to suffer for my name.” His suffering makes him credible as teacher of truth, which does not seek its own benefit, its own glory or personal pleasure, but is committed to Him who loved us and gave himself up for all of us.
At this hour in which we thank the Lord for having called Paul, making him the light of the Gentiles and teacher of us all, we pray: Give us today the testimony of the Resurrection, touched by your love, and {make us} able to carry the light of the Gospel in our time. St. Paul, pray for us. Amen.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
The Obama Madness
The Obama Madness
cinops be gone Sunday, August 3, 2008
I recall the fable of the “Pied Piper.” It is about this guy dressed in a clownish costume and cap on, and coming into this village with a flute. He played on and on. There was beautiful music from his flute. All the adults and in particular the children just enjoyed listening to him. The music was sweet sounding. People just loved and trusted him.
However, one day when the adults were at work and the children returned home from school Pied Piper played for the children. Before you knew it all the children were following him along the road away from the village and into the forest area and the children were never seen again. They either fell off a cliff or disappeared. That’s what I remember from this fable.
The Rasmussen poll that Barack beats McCain among black voters by 94 to l is unreal. Obama is a celebrity created by the news media. But there is no substance to Obama. We really do not know who he is. With a teleprompter and words provided he is a magnificent orator. Our African-American citizens need to get back to reality because he is not going to get elected.
Some sections of the sick biased news media are something like Pravda in Communist Russia and the Goebbels press in Nazi Germany. Thankfully, we have e-mail, talk radio and other sources of information across the nation.
Do you know that Barack is for abortion on demand and partial-birth abortion? Does it matter to you that he is also for same-sex marriage and wants to redefine the definition of 2000 year old marriage? It is like redefining adultery.
He is supported by NOW, NARAL and Planned Parenthood. All three of these organizations have done their best in killing off unborn black Americans. And if it were not for the prayers; and life counselors outside of America’s abortion chambers since 1973, there would be more dead black Americans than alive ones today. I don’t understand the duped leadership of black America.
I believe that Black Television plans to carry Barack’s speech to the Democratic convention live, but has no plans to carry McCain’s. Barack’s speech “is an historic occasion,” says BET Chairman Debra L. Lee, “so that demands some special treatment from us.” Get with it! We are all Americans. Let’s stop being hyphenated Americans for the Democratic Party.
McCain came out in favor of an Arizona civil rights initiative that would outlaw any state discrimination either for or against folks, based on race, gender or national origin. Barack said he was “disappointed” with McCain and favors affirmative action “when properly structure.”
The Arizona referendum banning preferential treatment base on race is also in the swing state of Colorado. It won in California in 1996, in Washington State in 2000 and in Michigan in the great Democratic sweep of 2006. It has never lost, and may just win McCain Colorado, and with it the nation.
About one-half of the excerpts in the above letter came from Patrick J. Buchanan’s article posted 8/1/2008, titled Whitey Need not Apply. (Human Events)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate in all languages!
cinops be gone Sunday, August 3, 2008
I recall the fable of the “Pied Piper.” It is about this guy dressed in a clownish costume and cap on, and coming into this village with a flute. He played on and on. There was beautiful music from his flute. All the adults and in particular the children just enjoyed listening to him. The music was sweet sounding. People just loved and trusted him.
However, one day when the adults were at work and the children returned home from school Pied Piper played for the children. Before you knew it all the children were following him along the road away from the village and into the forest area and the children were never seen again. They either fell off a cliff or disappeared. That’s what I remember from this fable.
The Rasmussen poll that Barack beats McCain among black voters by 94 to l is unreal. Obama is a celebrity created by the news media. But there is no substance to Obama. We really do not know who he is. With a teleprompter and words provided he is a magnificent orator. Our African-American citizens need to get back to reality because he is not going to get elected.
Some sections of the sick biased news media are something like Pravda in Communist Russia and the Goebbels press in Nazi Germany. Thankfully, we have e-mail, talk radio and other sources of information across the nation.
Do you know that Barack is for abortion on demand and partial-birth abortion? Does it matter to you that he is also for same-sex marriage and wants to redefine the definition of 2000 year old marriage? It is like redefining adultery.
He is supported by NOW, NARAL and Planned Parenthood. All three of these organizations have done their best in killing off unborn black Americans. And if it were not for the prayers; and life counselors outside of America’s abortion chambers since 1973, there would be more dead black Americans than alive ones today. I don’t understand the duped leadership of black America.
I believe that Black Television plans to carry Barack’s speech to the Democratic convention live, but has no plans to carry McCain’s. Barack’s speech “is an historic occasion,” says BET Chairman Debra L. Lee, “so that demands some special treatment from us.” Get with it! We are all Americans. Let’s stop being hyphenated Americans for the Democratic Party.
McCain came out in favor of an Arizona civil rights initiative that would outlaw any state discrimination either for or against folks, based on race, gender or national origin. Barack said he was “disappointed” with McCain and favors affirmative action “when properly structure.”
The Arizona referendum banning preferential treatment base on race is also in the swing state of Colorado. It won in California in 1996, in Washington State in 2000 and in Michigan in the great Democratic sweep of 2006. It has never lost, and may just win McCain Colorado, and with it the nation.
About one-half of the excerpts in the above letter came from Patrick J. Buchanan’s article posted 8/1/2008, titled Whitey Need not Apply. (Human Events)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate in all languages!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Random Thoughts - 1
Random Thoughts – 1
cinops be gone Saturday, August 2, 2008
1. Pray that Senator John McCain will choose Bobby Jindahl for his Vice-President. It will energize McCain's campaign and insure a landslide victory in November for life, marriage and traditional America. Pray! Pray! Pray!
2. There is an article in the June 2008 issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review that deserves your attention and study. It is titled, “Compassionate truth for persons with a homosexual condition.” By Kathleen Curran Sweeney and reviewing a book, The Developing Mind, by Dr. Daniel Siegel.
When you hear the NOW (National Organization of Women) make public pronouncements: Do you believe that they speak for all American women? Of course not! They speak for their members who have a radical overall culture of death agenda. Many in the public arena believe that they speak for all women.
It is the same for the person with a homosexual condition. You must make a distinction between him and the radical gay agenda elite. For example, did you ever hear of a survey of homosexuals on whether they want to redefine marriage? No! The enemy is not the person with a homosexual condition, God bless him! The enemy is the ruthless advocates of the gay homosexual agenda. They care not for the homosexual inclined person. They want to keep him and exploit his condition as something permanent which it is not; and with lies overturn basic and traditional Judea-Christian American beliefs. These excerpts will persuade:
“A person is not defined solely by his sexual behavior. Persons with same-sex attraction have many other positive aspects to their lives – their abilities, interests, talents, contributions to society…. {From a Christian perspective, it is a cross which can be channeled in a positive manner and with abstinence into Sainthood.}
“The specific personal histories of those experiencing same-sex attractions vary and the causes can be complex….
“Extensive research has consistently shown that the homosexual condition does not appear to originate in a genetic factor or in hormonal imbalance, but rather may be derived from difficulties in parent-child relationship that occurs in early childhood….
"Since these psychological events happen very early in life, before the development of explicit memory in the child, the damage is at a deep level, and may not be overt or conscious, so that on the surface it may appear to the person that “I have always been this way.” Family relationships may seem fine. For this reason, it is important that, whenever possible an understanding of this condition and the need for and the possibility of healing be widely communicated so that whole family therapy may be initiated as early as possible. HOWEVER, ALERTNESS TO THIS NEED IS CURRENTLY BEING BLOCKED BY SCHOOLS, COUNSELORS AND PASTORS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT THIS CONDITION THAT NEEDS HEALING. Such a position is blind to the unhealthy and unsatisfying realities of the homosexual lifestyle. The superficial, supposed “happiness” of homosexual partners is hiding an underlying lack of wholeness. Here the study of the theology of the body developed by the Pope John Paul II can be helpful for understanding that sexual identity is at root of personhood, that every person is either a man or woman and is not psychologically whole until the develop the maleness or femaleness that is constitutive of their personality….
“There is a need to get past the pervasive propaganda of the gay-lesbian activists who try to block at every point the dissemination of the TRUTH about same-sex attraction and the possibility of healing. …
“Yet how can a condition be normal when statistics show it leads to early death; sexual addiction and promiscuity; inability to procreate normally; numerous health problems including STDs, cancer, hepatitis, HIV/Aids and other life-threatening diseases: drug and alcohol abuse; and a high risk of depression and suicide….p. 52-55
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate in to Spanish and or Vietnamese.
cinops be gone Saturday, August 2, 2008
1. Pray that Senator John McCain will choose Bobby Jindahl for his Vice-President. It will energize McCain's campaign and insure a landslide victory in November for life, marriage and traditional America. Pray! Pray! Pray!
2. There is an article in the June 2008 issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review that deserves your attention and study. It is titled, “Compassionate truth for persons with a homosexual condition.” By Kathleen Curran Sweeney and reviewing a book, The Developing Mind, by Dr. Daniel Siegel.
When you hear the NOW (National Organization of Women) make public pronouncements: Do you believe that they speak for all American women? Of course not! They speak for their members who have a radical overall culture of death agenda. Many in the public arena believe that they speak for all women.
It is the same for the person with a homosexual condition. You must make a distinction between him and the radical gay agenda elite. For example, did you ever hear of a survey of homosexuals on whether they want to redefine marriage? No! The enemy is not the person with a homosexual condition, God bless him! The enemy is the ruthless advocates of the gay homosexual agenda. They care not for the homosexual inclined person. They want to keep him and exploit his condition as something permanent which it is not; and with lies overturn basic and traditional Judea-Christian American beliefs. These excerpts will persuade:
“A person is not defined solely by his sexual behavior. Persons with same-sex attraction have many other positive aspects to their lives – their abilities, interests, talents, contributions to society…. {From a Christian perspective, it is a cross which can be channeled in a positive manner and with abstinence into Sainthood.}
“The specific personal histories of those experiencing same-sex attractions vary and the causes can be complex….
“Extensive research has consistently shown that the homosexual condition does not appear to originate in a genetic factor or in hormonal imbalance, but rather may be derived from difficulties in parent-child relationship that occurs in early childhood….
"Since these psychological events happen very early in life, before the development of explicit memory in the child, the damage is at a deep level, and may not be overt or conscious, so that on the surface it may appear to the person that “I have always been this way.” Family relationships may seem fine. For this reason, it is important that, whenever possible an understanding of this condition and the need for and the possibility of healing be widely communicated so that whole family therapy may be initiated as early as possible. HOWEVER, ALERTNESS TO THIS NEED IS CURRENTLY BEING BLOCKED BY SCHOOLS, COUNSELORS AND PASTORS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT THIS CONDITION THAT NEEDS HEALING. Such a position is blind to the unhealthy and unsatisfying realities of the homosexual lifestyle. The superficial, supposed “happiness” of homosexual partners is hiding an underlying lack of wholeness. Here the study of the theology of the body developed by the Pope John Paul II can be helpful for understanding that sexual identity is at root of personhood, that every person is either a man or woman and is not psychologically whole until the develop the maleness or femaleness that is constitutive of their personality….
“There is a need to get past the pervasive propaganda of the gay-lesbian activists who try to block at every point the dissemination of the TRUTH about same-sex attraction and the possibility of healing. …
“Yet how can a condition be normal when statistics show it leads to early death; sexual addiction and promiscuity; inability to procreate normally; numerous health problems including STDs, cancer, hepatitis, HIV/Aids and other life-threatening diseases: drug and alcohol abuse; and a high risk of depression and suicide….p. 52-55
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate in to Spanish and or Vietnamese.
Friday, August 1, 2008
10 Truths - 1 - Foundation of Gov. & Politics
10 Truths – 1 - Foundation of Government & Politics
cinops be gone Friday, August 1, 2008
We continue with and only on Fridays with Coral Ridge’s classic 10 Truths about Christians and Politics.
1. Foundation of Government and Politics is Religion: continued
The importance of religion in providing the necessary foundation for any social order has been noted by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel Durant, who acknowledged in 1968 that “there is no significant example in history before our time of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.”
Every government needs a moral code to justify and legitimize its rule, and every lasting moral system must rest on religion – which answers the ultimate questions about man and God. Without religion to breathe life and meaning into any legal-political system, the options are either anarchy or tyranny.
Christianity and Western Pre-Eminence:
Some argue, as did the Durants, that in our time such a religious foundation is not longer necessary. But the truth is evident, even the elite social scientists in Communist China. The “pre-eminence of Western cultures and nations is due to the influence of Christianity.”
Former Time magazine reporter David Aikman tells in his book, Jesus in Bejing, how a Chinese researcher explained that he and his colleagues “studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective,” to understand, Western dominance. The researcher explained:
‘At first, we thought it was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on you economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West has been so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of Capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don’t have any doubt about this.’
What these Chinese scholars found to be true for the West was recognized very clearly by our nation’s founders. President John Adams, signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, put it this way:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Despite the record of history, the ACLU and its friends are adamant in their insistence that America is a secular nation. What Catholic priest and writer Richard John Neuhaus has called the “naked public square,” has become the ruling orthodoxy for contemporary American political thought. P. 14-16
In closing the presidential election of 2008 is America’s choice between Obama’s secular America and McCain’s traditional America.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
cinops be gone Friday, August 1, 2008
We continue with and only on Fridays with Coral Ridge’s classic 10 Truths about Christians and Politics.
1. Foundation of Government and Politics is Religion: continued
The importance of religion in providing the necessary foundation for any social order has been noted by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel Durant, who acknowledged in 1968 that “there is no significant example in history before our time of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.”
Every government needs a moral code to justify and legitimize its rule, and every lasting moral system must rest on religion – which answers the ultimate questions about man and God. Without religion to breathe life and meaning into any legal-political system, the options are either anarchy or tyranny.
Christianity and Western Pre-Eminence:
Some argue, as did the Durants, that in our time such a religious foundation is not longer necessary. But the truth is evident, even the elite social scientists in Communist China. The “pre-eminence of Western cultures and nations is due to the influence of Christianity.”
Former Time magazine reporter David Aikman tells in his book, Jesus in Bejing, how a Chinese researcher explained that he and his colleagues “studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective,” to understand, Western dominance. The researcher explained:
‘At first, we thought it was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on you economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West has been so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of Capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don’t have any doubt about this.’
What these Chinese scholars found to be true for the West was recognized very clearly by our nation’s founders. President John Adams, signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, put it this way:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Despite the record of history, the ACLU and its friends are adamant in their insistence that America is a secular nation. What Catholic priest and writer Richard John Neuhaus has called the “naked public square,” has become the ruling orthodoxy for contemporary American political thought. P. 14-16
In closing the presidential election of 2008 is America’s choice between Obama’s secular America and McCain’s traditional America.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
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