Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Monday, November 12, 2012

Your Tax Dollars Encouraging Teens To Be Promiscuous

Tax Payer Funded Planned Parenthood Tells Teenagers, 'It's Great to be a Slut.'

...Let’s see how encouraging teens to be promiscuous plays out for Planned Parenthood:
- Millions of taxpayer dollars in PP bank accounts
- PP executives in top 1.5 percent of household incomes nationwide
- Kids brainwashed by “sex positive” messages
- Kids become sexually active at very young ages
- Their health is ravaged by STDs (more money for PP)
- Out of wedlock pregnancies result
- Planned Parenthood goes in for the kill—abortion—generating much, much more money
- Repeat the scenario over and over
- Planned Parenthood gets filthy rich
- Kids corrupted by Planned Parenthood
- Wedge driven between parents and children
- Kids’ souls stolen by sexual promiscuity
- Their health ravaged by STDs
- Hearts deadened by multiple hook-ups and resultant heartbreak
- Kids depressed and suicidal
- They engage in drug and alcohol abuse
- Children/grandchildren killed inside Planned Parenthood facilities without the knowledge or permission of adult family members
- America stands on the precipice of depopulation and financial collapse due to lack of younger workers to support an aging population


Now let’s see how this plays out for families:

- Families have no money because the government gave it to Planned Parenthood
- Kids corrupted by Planned Parenthood
- Wedge driven between parents and children
- Kids’ souls stolen by sexual promiscuity
- Their health ravaged by STDs
- Hearts deadened by multiple hook-ups and resultant heartbreak
- Kids depressed and suicidal
- They engage in drug and alcohol abuse
- Children/grandchildren killed inside Planned Parenthood facilities without the knowledge or permission of adult family members
- America stands on the precipice of depopulation and financial collapse due to lack of younger workers to support an aging population





Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Post-Election Thoughts

"It is going to be very difficult for us to win elections in a nation that is so dependent on government. This victory was not secured last night. This victory was secured in the 1930s when Franklin Roosevelt passed Social Security... 
The United States of America is passing away...the world is passing away. Jesus Christ is still on the throne, despite who is in the White House. We cannot lose heart, especially as pro-lifers, as Christians. 
Continue to run the good race knowing that your cause is just. Only through prayer will this country be transformed." 
- Rushad Thomas

Friday, September 28, 2012

On Christians Who Refuse To Join A Party


If one more person reminds me that God does not have a political party I think I am going to scream. 

I think it goes without saying that showing more loyalty to a political party than to God is unacceptable. 

Almighty God has placed us in a Democratic Republic with a two party system. Getting involved in politics and choosing a side is transforming the culture. The more we pretend that we are above the system and above politics, the farther we get from actual transformation. The reason we have a sub-par nominee in the Republican Party is because too many Christians sit on the fence and declare that their allegiance is to God and not a party. 

With all due respect, OF COURSE your allegiance is to God and not a party. Membership in a party does not in any way detract from your loyalty to God. Last time I checked, when you register to vote you don't sign a document saying you will never disagree with or question that party's platform or practices. Membership in a party gives you the ability to have a voice in the party. 

Option #1: Disconnect from the political atmosphere by declaring you are a member of "God's party" while the two real-life, actually existing parties go toe to toe in the culture war (very convenient...).

Option #2: Analyze both parties and determine which one is more in line with God's will. Which one advocates the breaking of the 10 Commandments? Which one is more supportive of the family unit (the building block of society)? Which one rejects the very God you claim loyalty to? Which one supports grave moral evil? Which one alludes to the disbelief in objective Truth? (Notice that which one your great uncle John always voted for is not one of the criteria).

Does the party which is most in line with God's will have to be 100% perfect? No. And perhaps the reason it is not more in line with God's will is because Christians are sitting on their hands waiting for a perfect option to be handed to them when it is their duty to be the salt and light they are so anxiously awaiting.



Friday, July 27, 2012

Questions To Ask An Obama Supporter

Here are some questions to ask an Obama supporter.


Are you for the largest tax increase in world history?
Do you want gas prices to be akin to the ones you see in Europe?
Do you believe that America should be more like Europe, instead of America?
Do you think an Ivy League Professor or a proven CEO can create more jobs?
Do you believe that we have classes in America, like the rich and poor, or that we are all just Americans?
We both know the government spends money like a kid in a candy store and that is it is irresponsible. That being said, How do you feel that Obama is biggest government spender in Us history?
Do you like more money taken out of your paycheck and given to the government?
Do you think the bowing to a Saudi dictator who slaughters his people in the streets shows leadership?
Do you think that sending a US ambassador to the Hirmoshima bombing commemoration, to apologize for the US bombing Japan with nukes, which was to prevent a land invasion of Japan which would of cost many American and Japanese lives, do you think that shows leadership?
Do you think that allowing the Muslim Brotherhood who have links to Al Qadea, to take power in Egypt and then congratulating their government on winning the elections, does that show leadership?
And then the one that always stumps them. Name three things Obama did to help the economy, that actually helped the economy.

Have fun! - Justen Charters

Friday, February 17, 2012

Communism in America


Listed below are the Communist Goals of 1963. Take a quick look and compare these goals to our present day circumstances. You will notice that most of them have been fulfilled.

Communist Goals for America (1963)

Documention below Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals


EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, 

Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier,which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America. At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen: [From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.  

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.(Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations whichare under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."  

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness,repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the groundthat it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a world-wide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who hadno concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.  

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

Note by Webmaster: The Congressional Record back this far has not been digitized and posted on the Internet.  It will probably be available at your nearest library that is a federal repository. Call them and ask them. Your college library is probably a repository. This is an excellent source of government records. Another source are your Congress Critters. They should be more than happy to help you in this matter. You will find the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto interesting at this point. Click here to see them listed with brain-challenging comments. 

Documentation
 Webmaster Forest Glen Durland found the document in the library. Sources are listed below.

The quote starts on page 259.
Microfilm:
 California State University at San Jose 
 Clark Library, Government Floor
 Phone (408) 924-2770 
 Microfilm Call Number: J11.R5 
 Congressional Record, Vol. 109 88th Congress, 1st Session 
 Appendix Pages A1-A2 842 Jan. 9-May 7, 1963 Reel 12 
 The book was found in the off campus stacks, was ordered and checked. The quote below was checked against the original and is correct. The few errors in the copy from the Congressional Record are shown in [ ] .The quote starts on page 259. 

Stalin knew the vulnerable underbelly of America is the good heart of her people, which could be used against her to subvert the very principles upon which she is founded.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Occupy vs. Tea Party


The Democrats and the liberal media have said that the Occupy Movement was a civic group "just like" the Tea Party.

I report...you decide...
REPORTED
OCCUPY PARTY
TEA PARTY
ARRESTS
4149+
0
RAPES
12
0
DAMAGE
$10,000,000.00
$0
PUBLIC DEFECATION
YES
NO
ANTISEMITIC RANTS
12
0
COST TO TAXPAYERS ( by 11/9)
$19,327,487.00+
$0
PUBLIC MASTURBATION
3
0
MOLOTOV COCKTAILS THROWN
10
0
FIGHTS STARTED
YES
NO
CHILDREN EXPLOITED
YES
NO
POLICE CARS DAMAGED
2
0
PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS
YES
NO
DRUG POSSESSION ARREST
YES
NO
CONCEALED WEAPON ARREST
YES
NO
DRUG OVERDOSE
YES
NO
THEFTS
YES
NO
BURGLARIES
YES
NO
VANDALISM ARREST
YES
NO
TRESPASSING ARREST
YES
NO
NON FATAL SHOOTINGS
1
0
PUBLIC URINATION
YES
NO
URINATION ON OTHERS
YES
NO
ISRAELI FLAGS BURNED
2
0
AMERICAN FLAGS BURNED
1
0
AMERICAN FLAGS DANCED ON
1
0
AMERICAN FLAG DESECRATION
25
0
FELONY ASSAULT ON AN EMT
1
0
HEAD/BODY LICE OUTBREAKS
1
0
TUBERCULOSIS OUTBREAKS
1
0
MURDER
1
0
SUICIDE
1
0

SHOTS FIRED AT WHITE HOUSE
1
0
SCABIES OUTBREAKS
1
0
OBAMA ENDORSED IT
YES
NO
PELOSI ENDORSED IT
YES
NO
CAIR ENDORSED IT
YES
NO
SOCIALIST PARTY ENDORSED
YES
NO
NAZI PARTY ENDORSED
YES
NO
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ENDORSED
YES
NO
COMMUNIST PARTY ENDORSED
YES
NO
BIDEN ENDORSED
YES
NO
HUGO CHAVEZ ENDORSED
YES
NO
BLACK PANTHERS ENDORSED
YES
NO
HEZBOLLAH ENDORSED
YES
NO
MARXIST UNION ENDORSED
YES
NO
9/11 TRUTHER ENDORSED
YES
NO
BOLSHEVIK ENDORSED
YES
NO
IRAN GOVERNMENT ENDORSED
YES
NO
AYATOLLAH ENDORSED
YES
NO
NORTH KOREA ENDORSED
YES
NO
FARRAKHAN ENDORSED
YES
NO
NATION OF ISLAM ENDORSED
YES
NO

Oh, yes, I see the similarities now...

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

St. John Fisher and the Obama Administration's HHS Mandate by Rushad Thomas


Nearly 500 years ago in England a Catholic bishop was martyred. England, which had been known throughout Europe as "Mary's Dowry," had been plunged into heresy and schism by a tyrannical King whose insatiable loins led him to break communion with Christ's Catholic Church and establish a parallel church which permitted divorce and remarriage, against the divine law set down by Christ in the Gospels. 

That bishop who gave his life as a witness to the Catholic Faith was John Cardinal Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. He shed his blood for the Church because he could not, in conscience, support the King's claim to supreme leadership of the Church on Earth. Fisher knew quite well that the Lord Jesus had given that role to Blessed Peter the Apostle, and to Peter's successors as Bishop of Rome. The King gave Fisher two choices: either violate your conscience and live, or remain faithful to it and die a gruesome death. Instead of doing what was easy (indeed, what EVERY OTHER BISHOP IN THE REALM did), Fisher chose Christ before Caesar, and went peacefully to his death on the scaffold in the Tower of London on 22 June 1535. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935, 400 years after his death.

So what relevance does St. John Fisher's life and martyrdom have for us moderns in 21st century America? Well, to put it quite bluntly, a lot. In recent weeks the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, led by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (a Catholic who has been refused Holy Communion by her Archbishop over her avowed support for legalized abortion), handed down a mandate under ObamaCare which requires individual Catholic employers and Catholic institutions to provide employee health plans which cover various forms of birth control (the pill, IUDs, etc...), abortifacient drugs (Plan B, Ella, etc...), and sterilization free of charge. Yes, my friends, this means that Catholic institutions and employers will be required by federal law to subsidize artificial contraception (the use of which the Church deems morally reprehensible) or face a $2,000 fine per employee.

I should certainly note that the HHS Department has included an exemption for religious institutions that primarily employ and serve people of their own faith, and whose primary work is instruction in religious doctrine. This really would only apply to Catholic parishes themselves (although it's questionable if even they would apply, since parishes are involved in the work of serving and employing non-Catholics just like our Church schools, hospitals, and charitable institutions). 

While it is laudable that the Administration saw fit to include some form of religious exemption, it is nevertheless completely unjustifiable that the Administration did not also include an exemption for religious institutions whose primary work is to serve all people regardless of faith. As a wise Catholic leader once said, "we don't serve people because they're Catholic, we serve them because we're Catholic," and for the Administration to presume that because a religious charity or college is not primarily working to promote its particular faith in the execution of its overall mission that they do not qualify as "religious enough" to qualify for an exemption is blatantly ridiculous. Since when is Obama the judge of Catholicity?

So where does this lead us? I must go back to the example of St. John Fisher. When faced with a government trying to tell the Church of Jesus Christ how it must organize its affairs, St. John Fisher said "Hell no, we won't go!" Catholics in this day and age facing a similar challenge should stand up and say the same. This mandate violates the principle of religious liberty which lies at the center of the First Amendment. Catholics must first of all pray to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the Patroness of this Land, to convert the hearts of President Obama, Secretary Sebelius, and all those in authority, that they may swiftly change this unjust policy. In addition, we must write to the President, Secretary Sebelius, and our own Members of Congress to voice our disapproval of this mandate. And if the powers that be refuse to listen and this unjust mandate is allowed to go into effect, Catholics have to be willing to engage in peaceful civil disobedience to the government's unjust mandate, including refusing to pay the cost of the birth control coverage and refusing to pay the fines incurred for refusing to pay for the birth control. And, if it comes to it, we must be willing to go to jail to defend the integrity and liberty of Our Holy Mother the Church.

The Catholic Church gives us life. She preaches the Gospel of Life that frees us, she provides the Sacraments of the New Covenant which are the Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, and she attends to the material needs of the poor and disadvantaged, the least of these, in imitation of her Lord and Savior. Despite the state crackdown on the practice of Catholicism in Henrician England, the Catholic Faith lived on in that realm. Likewise, Barack Obama WILL NEVER stop the work of the Kingdom of God in the United States from pressing forward, but ordinary lay Catholics have to be willing, like St. John Fisher, to stand with Christ before Caesar if we don't want to see the Church kneeling before the world, instead of the world kneeling before the Church. 

by Rushad Thomas

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

United Nations CRC Treaty Strips Parents of Their Rights

"The United Nations CRC Treaty takes decision making power away from parents and gives it to the government so it can enforce the ideological whims of the United Nations. This treaty allows for the United Nations to decide what is in the best interest of the child, overriding all parental concerns. This includes issues of faith and discipline. Usually if you don't like the laws that your politicians pass, you can kick them out at the next election. But because this is a foreign treaty, once these United Nations elitists move in, you cannot throw them out. And if two thirds of our Senate ratifies this treaty with the signature of our president, we will have lost the power to shape our own laws...from what our children learn in school to when and if they even go to church. Once the Senate ratifies the treaty, there will be nothing you can do about it..." 



Monday, September 26, 2011

Class Warfare Makes For Rotten Economics

Class warfare may make for really good politics (if you're a Marxist), but it makes for rotten economics. - Rep. Paul Ryan



Friday, August 19, 2011

Whatever indifference or disregard one has for God this side of death is dramatically elevated to an intense hatred...a bitter, foul disgust, in being in the Divine Presence after death. So, they flee from Him and rapidly join themselves to the society of the damned forever. Where, with full knowledge, they realize that for all eternity, their lot is damnation and never ending misery. This is their choice, not God's. 



Saturday, May 14, 2011

Animals That Formerly Were Self-Sufficient Are Now Showing Signs of Belonging to The Democratic Party

This is a very sad story about a bear. Everyone should heed the warnings not to feed wildlife because they become dependent and don't forage for themselves any longer. It is such a tragedy to see what has been done to our country's wildlife! The photo below captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect U.S. wildlife.

Animals that formerly were self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party.  They have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance. This photo is of a black bear in Montana turned Democrat. He's nicknamed Bearack Acorn Obearma. It is believed that he has become a campground organizer.

Pelosi Attacks Motherhood And Children On Mother's Day

Retrieved from LifeNews.com



While millions of Americans thank their mothers on Mother’s Day for the gift of life — especially those born after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited abortion — former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats are trashing a pro-life bill.
Pelosi sent out a fundraising email seeking donations to pay for advertising criticism Republican lawmakers for voting for a bill this past week that would eliminate virtually all taxpayer funding of abortions across all governmental programs and agencies.
Titling the email, “the Republican War on Women,” Pelosi writes:
Your actions today can make a difference for many of the women in your life — whether it is for a friend, your sister, your wife, your daughter, or yourself — all I ask is that you act.
This week, Republicans voted unanimously on an extremist anti-choice bill that would deny millions of women access to reproductive health care. For the first time ever, restrictions would be placed on how women with private insurance choose to spend their private dollars on health insurance.
We cannot sit silent in the face of this extremist agenda.
My strategists tell me that we are $53,241 short of our new goal of $200,000 for our Rapid Response campaign to hold House Republicans accountable for their divisive and radical agenda.
Contribute $3 or more right now so we can get hard-hitting Rapid Response ads up holding Republican extremists in Congress accountable for their radical assault on women’s health care and reproductive freedom.
House Republicans should be working to help put Americans back to work, not waging an outrageous war against millions of women and their private health decisions.
Let us never allow the health of American women to come under attack. Let us stand together to expand care, not limit it.
The bill in question, that the House approved Wednesday on a 251-175 vote with Republicans voting 235-0 for the bill and Democrats voting 175-16 against it, does nothing to take away health care access or options for women. The legislation combines several policies that must be enacted every year in Congressional battles and puts them into law where they will not be in jeopardy of being overturned every time Congress changes hands from pro-life lawmakers to those who support abortions.
As we reported at LifeNews:
Congressman Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who is the lead sponsor of the bill, informed the House that a study by the Guttmacher Institute, the pro-abortion former research apparatus of Planned Parenthood, released a study noting that one-quarter of women who otherwise would have had abortions chose to give birth when taxpayer dollars were not available to pay for abortions of their children.
Smith spoke on the House floor today about what he said was growing public opinion against abortion. He also praised women who regret having terminated their pregnancies and speak out against abortions.
“For decades, a patchwork of short-term policies have prevented abortion funding in many programs authorized by Congress, but it is time for a single, government-wide permanent protection against taxpayer funding for elective abortion,” Smith said. “Abortion is lethal violence against children and exploitation of women. This legislation would establish a comprehensive policy prohibiting public funding for elective abortion in all federal programs.”
A majority of Americans object to the use of taxpayer money for funding abortion, according to numerous polls — including a survey CNN conducted in early April showing Americans oppose public funding of abortion by a margin of 61% to 35%.
The bill will also mitigate concerns about abortion funding in the various loopholes in the Obamacare national health care bill that various pro-life organizations warned about during debate on the law. The legislation did not contain language banning funding of abortions in its provisions and the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act would fix that problem.

Papa Benedict XVI on Socialism

By Rev. Robert A. Sirico posted in Crisis Magazine



One doesn’t usually expect a thorough-going reconstruction of the history of socialism in the late 19th century from the pope, but Benedict XVI delivered to us a wonderful — and oh-so-needed — reminder of what socialism was (and is), and why it went wrong. One can’t but marvel at his intellectual power: He has discerned the essential problem that has evaded vast numbers of academics for 100 years.
What’s more, he has done this in a time when socialism as an ideology seems to have been unfazed by the collapse of the communist experiment. Visit the philosophy and English departments on most college campuses, and you will still find intellectuals waxing eloquent on the glories of socialist theory. Students are still encouraged to imagine that it could work.
What about the Soviet Union? We are told that this wasn’t really socialism. And what about Nazism — the German word for national socialism? Oh, that’s not socialism either. What about the growing impoverishment in once-rich countries with social democratic governments? The failure of micro-socialism in the United States, where entire communities have lived on government subsidies and are plagued with frightening levels of social pathology? They say that this is not socialism either.
Large swaths of American academia are in denial. So too are major parts of the American and European clerical class, which is still under the impression that socialism represents a gospel ideal that has yet to be tried. One suspects that the entire history of the 20th century passed them by, for they have learned nothing from the poverty, despotism, and vast suffering wrought by the socialist ideology.
Not Benedict. He wants to talk about it. It fits his message of hope precisely. Are we to discover our hope in salvation from God or from some material transformation?
The passages occur in his great encyclical Spe Salvi (“in hope we are saved”). He addresses this core Christian virtue and explains what hope is and what it is not, what salvation is and is not.
History is strewn with intellectuals who imagined that they could save the world — and created hell on earth as a result. The pope counts the socialists among them, and Karl Marx in particular. Here was an intellectual who imagined that salvation could occur without God, and that something approximating the Kingdom of God on earth could be created by adjusting the material conditions of man.
History, in Marx’s view, was nothing but the crashes and grinding of these material forces. There was no such thing as a fixed human nature. There was certainly no God who is the author of history. There are no permanent themes that follow along moral lines. Rather, we are all merely pushed around by large and impersonal forces. But it is possible to wrest these forces within our control, to our advantage, provided we take the right steps.
And what are these steps, in Marx’s view? The expropriated working classes must take back what is rightfully theirs from the exploiting capitalist classes. Call it mass thievery, if you like — the point is to gain power over the production forces of society. This is where history is headed anyway, said Marx; we only need to give it a shove in the right direction to achieve the bliss of socialism. How will it work? Well, Marx never thought much about that. Why should he? The large and impersonal forces of history would hammer that out. It was only his job to describe the great events that lead to the revolutionary environment. What follows after is not really a matter of bourgeois science; we must simply accept on faith that somehow, somewhere, sometime, socialism will begin to work brilliantly.
Bizarre? It’s not so strange. We can look to the ancient world and see that many of the greatest intellectuals imagined that there would come a time when the problems of economics — scarcity, ownership, calculation, money — would vanish and utopia would appear. You might say that this is a longing for the Garden of Eden, but it neglects a critical fact: Human nature is the same now as it always was. There will always be a need to advance beyond a state of nature. The economic problem is intractable. Simply asserting that the new world will magically appear begs critical issues, such as how we are to feed, clothe, and house people.
Benedict sums the problem up neatly:
Together with the victory of the revolution, though, Marx’s fundamental error also became evident. He showed precisely how to overthrow the existing order, but he did not say how matters should proceed thereafter. He simply presumed that with the expropriation of the ruling class, with the fall of political power and the socialization of means of production, the new Jerusalem would be realized. Then, indeed, all contradictions would be resolved, man and the world would finally sort themselves out. Then everything would be able to proceed by itself along the right path, because everything would belong to everyone and all would desire the best for one another.
Socialism included no plan for the post-revolutionary world. Once economists discovered this central flaw, they seized on it and pointed out that socialism had no system in mind for solving the core economic problem of allocating scare resources among unlimited needs, and certainly no system for creating the new wealth that would be needed to sustain a rising population.
Nonetheless, the revolution happened:
Thus, having accomplished the revolution, Lenin must have realized that the writings of the master gave no indication as to how to proceed. True, Marx had spoken of the interim phase of the dictatorship of the proletariat as a necessity which in time would automatically become redundant. This ‘intermediate phase” we know all too well, and we also know how it then developed, not ushering in a perfect world, but leaving behind a trail of appalling destruction. Marx . . . omitted to work out how this new world would be organized — which should, of course, have been unnecessary.
The “appalling destruction” referred to here is a reference to war that occurred soon after the revolution. Millions died in famine and wholesale slaughter. It became clear to Lenin that he had to back away, lest there be no one left to rule. That he did — and just in time, with the New Economic Policy. But the dictatorship continued. So too did the poverty relative to capitalist nations.
So why did Marx never explain how socialism would work?
His silence on this matter follows logically from his chosen approach. His error lay deeper. He forgot that man always remains man. He forgot man and he forgot man’s freedom. He forgot that freedom always remains also freedom for evil. He thought that once the economy had been put right, everything would automatically be put right. His real error is materialism: man, in fact, is not merely the product of economic conditions, and it is not possible to redeem him purely from the outside by creating a favourable economic environment.
And so the pope has put the problems of economics exactly in the right light: the practical issue that needs to be settled within the framework of a sound morality and understanding of human nature. Socialism fails for a precise and practical reason: It has no system for pricing factors of production to make economic calculation possible. Prices come from the exchange of the very private property with which socialism dispenses.
And yet the moral problem with socialism is more profound: It exalts theft as an ethic and overlooks the human right of freedom.


Would that every Catholic interested in economics would read this encyclical. Some are getting the message already: The Catholic Church in Venezuela worked against Hugo Chavez’s dangerous plan for nationalization and regimentation of economic life. Someday, the world will come to learn the lessons that the history of socialism has taught. In the meantime, Benedict XVI is proving to be a wonderful teacher.



Monday, March 28, 2011

The Danger to America is Not Barack Obama

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.  It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America.  Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.  The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool.  It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president." 


Prague newspaper Prager Zeitungon, Czech Republic

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Catholic Voters Hold the Balance of Power in America


Catholic voters hold the balance of power in America: Let us have the courage to bring about a Christian political awakening that will rescue America from the darkness of secular liberalism.

read more here.

Friday, October 29, 2010

All the Evil in the World is Due to Lukewarm Catholics

The evil that has been allowed to spread in the Church is the problem. That is why that insane baby killer is sitting in the White House. Because the Church did not speak up like it should have. This is why there is a Congress running wild, destroying your futures and your children's futures, and your children's children's future and saddling this country with a ridiculous debt...and all doing it in the name of God...Justice...Peace?! This is happening because the Church did not do what it is supposed to be doing. All the evil in the world is due to lukewarm Catholics. - Michael Voris

Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Great Global Warming Myth: Bad Science and Evil Intentions

I ran across this Catholic Facebook page today which is seeking to reduce the Catholic carbon foot print (ughh...typing that made me queezy). That would be commendable, if there were a cause for concern. Man induced Global Warming is a fabricated concept generated by elitist environmentalists whose main goal is to reduce the population (for some, the goal is to gain power, but let's just say: regardless of their evil motives, they work together nicely). Thousands of scientists reject the theory of global warming. Why don't you hear about it in the media, you ask? Because you rely on the wrong media. Still don't believe me? Watch the documentary: "Global Warming Unmasked: The Hidden Agenda" by Michael Voris here (just create a free account and search 'global warming'). See a mini-explanation from Michael Voris here. Voris is not some Republican operative, he is a concerned Catholic citizen fighting against and exposing the evils of today's society. His claims are not empty or baseless. They are backed up by overwhelming evidence. He is not the only one calling B.S. on this global warming swindle. I know that you are probably skeptical because companies who try to stay green, public school teachers, and democratic politicians weep over global warming so much that you'd think they'd be willing to kill themselves in order to reduce their carbon foot print. The sad truth is that America was duped by the global warming propagandists. Their evil agenda is even being promoted within the Church.

take a look at this eye opening excerpt from an article I found which exposes some of the evil:

These radical environmentalists actually believe that there will be unprecedented global disasters if radical population control measures are not enforced across the globe immediately.

Of course by now most people who will read this article know that this bizarre population control agenda is even represented in the White House. Barack Obama's "science czar", John P. Holdren, once co-authored a textbook entitled "Ecoscience" in which he advocated population control measures that are so wild and so bizarre that it is difficult to believe that a sane individual actually authored them.

What follows are actual quotes from Holdren's textbook...

Pages 787 and 788:

“Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would haveto meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.”

Pages 786 and 787:

“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.”

Page 838:

“In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?”

Keep in mind that Holdren is now Barack Obama's top science advisor.

But even some of the richest people in the world are absolutely obsessed with population control. Back on May 5th, Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey and a number of other of the wealthiest people in the world gathered for a clandestine meeting in Manhattan. The meeting was supposed to be so secret that many of the billionaires’ aides were only told that they were at "security briefings".

So what was so important that so many of the wealthiest people in the world had to gather for a secret meeting?

Population control.

According to one major U.K. newspaper, one person who attended this secret meeting confessed that "a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat."

This is what the richest people in the world are so upset about?

The article goes on to quote one attendee of the meeting as saying the following about the "overpopulation problem"

"This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers."

Apparently they do not intend to include the rest of us as they come up with their "big-brain answers".

It would be a mistake to underestimate how obsessed the global elite are with population issues.

The truth is that they are absolutely committed to trying to solve the "population problem" in this generation.

So what will their "solutions" look like?

We can only guess.

But what we do know is that in the name of fighting "climate change", the United Nations and the global elite plan to pursue a radical population control agenda. According to their own documents, the number one problem the world is facing is "climate change" and the number one cause of "climate change" is overpopulation.

Knowing that many nations on earth will never willingly submit to open population control measures, the global elite will likely implement their population reduction methods by subtle means. Let us just hope that they are not successful in their attempts to eliminate as many people as possible.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

I am Pretty Sure Christ Never Once Said Give All Your Money to the Government and Follow Me.

I stumbled upon this atrocious article today that literally left my head aching. It tried to make the claim that the Tea Party movement is not in line with Catholic teaching. There may be many people confused by this, even a lot of Catholics. This is largely because we Catholics generally have a positive view of the world (sometimes too positive). We trust our politicians and don't doubt their integrity. We would all like to believe that we are not being lied to. However, we cannot buy into the lie that democratic 'social justice' policies like Health Care Reform, tax hikes, and other welfare initiatives are designed to help the little guy. We cannot underestimate the power and the evil of the liberal agenda. The democratic volunteers waving signs for their favorite candidates may be passionate about the poor or gay rights but the radical left strategists are not concerned with the little guy. They are more concerned with government power, money in their pockets, population control, and the shredding of any remaining moral fiber in our society.

This article goes as far as to say that 'there really is a pretty sharp tension between some of the basic teachings of the Church in regards to politics, the role of government and what we owe to the poor, and what these tea party advocates are promoting.' And what exactly is the Church teaching that is in tension with freedom? What exactly is the Church teaching demanding big government? Oh that's right, there is none. Popes have been standing on the front lines, battling against the evil of socialism. They encourage individual charity and Church based charity.

The only tension here is between liberal Catholic dissidents and Catholic Tea Party patriots. Beware: Just like the Tea Party is doing with the GOP (exposing phonies and RINOs), we will do with you. You cannot use the beautiful Catholic tradition and teachings of charity that Christ gave the Church in order to defend the evil liberal social agenda. Really, you should be ashamed of yourself.

This Schneck guy even has the nerve to stretch the truth this far: '[m]uch as we might like otherwise, the Catholic argument is that government and citizen are equally expected to be our brother’s keeper.' WOAH WOAH WOAH there, buddy...since when did any Catholic teaching demand that the government perform our acts of charity for us? ERRR WRONG AGAIN.

Let's get one thing clear, the Catholic Church has fought against the evils of socialism and communism since they reared their ugly heads. Don't let this guy fool you into believing that government has the right to spread your wealth around. Of course, we are all obligated to be charitable and help the poor as much as we can. This, however, does not mean voting for out of touch democrats who want to use your hard earned money to fund their so-called 'social justice' projects. You should have the freedom to donate to private charities of your choice. Hey, maybe if they'd quit taxing us we could start our own charities with the money we save. Don't you get it!? It is not about the poor, it is about power.

I could continue but this person who commented on the article says it all:

Sigh...When will we take responsibility for our own actions? It has been shown over and over again throughout history that government can not support the poor. Only with true Christ like compassion can we help the less fortunate in this world. The government takes my money and squanders it leaving me with barely enough to be charitable outside of my community. It takes the government $7 to get $1 to the poor. While good Christ centered charities give 90% of there contributions directly to the poor. I say give me my 7 bucks let me give 5 to the poor the get 4 and a half bucks instead of 1 and I have 3 more to give to other causes and maybe take my wife out to dinner. Health care provided by the government is a failure everywhere it has been tried. What really happens is that the poor will receive sub-par health care and the rich will receive superior as they will go to private doctors. Christ never asked us to make government equal and forgive me but I have no clue where that dogma came from. If that where the case we would have no need for a Church as the government would be dogmatic, just like it is in China. Government wants to suppress Christ because satan know we hold the way, the truth and the light. I am no tea party supporter but to say they are not in sync with social teaching is unfair. Whose social teachings? Most liberal social teachers in the Church do not even know what the Church truly teaches as they put their own agenda in place on issues of life, contraception, poverty and the like. They think they know better, sounds kind of like Luther to me. Look at the “Faithful Citizenship Document” I know many Catholics who justified their voting for a Pro Abortion candidate because of this wishy washy document that does not speak to the truth of what Christ teaches. I am pretty sure Christ never once said give all your money to the government and follow me.