Topic: On Christ, Communists and Sentimentalists

[charlesoakwood]

 [blockquote]
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, ...[/blockquote]

We formed this nation subordinate to the
"Supreme Judge of the world" appealing to
Him for the virtue and correctness of our action. 
Our appeal was a covenant with Him and for
generations we have allowed libertines to erode
this nation's (our) covenant, our rectitude of
intentions.  We are not a nation of holy men
but we were a holy nation of men under God. 
If we are to survive as such we must return to
that relationship.

 [blockquote]It may very well be that the Communists, who are so anti-Christ, are closer to Him than those who see Him as a sentimentalist and vague moral reformer. The Communists have at least decided that if He wins, they lose; the others are afraid to consider Him either as winning or losing, because they are not prepared to meet the moral demands which this victory would make on their souls.

If He is what He claimed to be, a Savior, a Redeemer, then we have a virile Christ and a leader worth following in these terrible times; One Who will step into the breach of death, crushing sin, gloom and despair; a leader to Whom we can make totalitarian sacrifice without losing, but gaining freedom, and Whom we can love even unto death. We need a Christ today Who will make cords and drive the buyers and sellers from our new temples; Who will blast the the unfruitful fig-trees; Who will talk of crosses and sacrifices and Whose voice will be like the voice of the raging sea. But He will not allow us to pick and choose among His words, discarding the hard ones, and accepting the ones that please our fancy. We need a Christ Who will restore moral indignation, Who will make us hate evil with a passionate intensity, and love goodness to a point where we can drink death like water.

-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
"Life of Christ", AD 1958
 [/blockquote]

[Libertas]

"It may very well be that the Communists, who are so anti-Christ, are closer to Him than those who see Him as a sentimentalist and vague moral reformer. The Communists have at least decided that if He wins, they lose; the others are afraid to consider Him either as winning or losing, because they are not prepared to meet the moral demands which this victory would make on their souls."

Once again we circle back to core principles, the temporal and the secular worlds have to have something connecting them, or one has to be discarded as unnecessary...interesting point that the Communists understand this connection better than those who know, or should know, better!

[charlesoakwood]

They are invasive little cells infiltrating and altering the
DNA in every foundation block of our nation.  They have
toiled for generations altering bit by bit our history and
the definitions of what things are and what they mean
until we now have one or two generations of voters who
are completely disassociated from the tenets of our nation.

They keep their identities clear while they strip the brains
from their foes.
 

[charlesoakwood]

Sermon on the Mount (see updated click on PH on right)

[Glock32]

They are invasive little cells infiltrating and altering the
DNA in every foundation block of our nation.  They have
toiled for generations altering bit by bit our history and
the definitions of what things are and what they mean
until we now have one or two generations of voters who
are completely disassociated from the tenets of our nation.

They keep their identities clear while they strip the brains
from their foes.
 

This is why I refer to the Left as a cultural virus. Like a biological virus, they infect a host organism and cause it to use its own mechanisms to further the interests of the infectious agent.

They are so deeply ingrained in every institution now I don't see any way of ferreting them out short of a general reset.

[Libertas]

They are invasive little cells infiltrating and altering the
DNA in every foundation block of our nation.  They have
toiled for generations altering bit by bit our history and
the definitions of what things are and what they mean
until we now have one or two generations of voters who
are completely disassociated from the tenets of our nation.

They keep their identities clear while they strip the brains
from their foes.
 

This is why I refer to the Left as a cultural virus. Like a biological virus, they infect a host organism and cause it to use its own mechanisms to further the interests of the infectious agent.

They are so deeply ingrained in every institution now I don't see any way of ferreting them out short of a general reset.

My thoughts seem to be gravitating more and more along these lines as well.  I don't like it, but it is what it is.

[Sectionhand]

It's my contention that it was the Communists in this country who came up with the silly term "separation of church and state" ... which appears nowhere in the Constitution and is , in fact , a bastardization of the document's intent .

[Libertas]

It's also a bastardization of Thomas Jefferson's writings as well, he never sought a nation where religious display and discourse was banned in the public square, the halls of academia and the chambers of government!  All you have to do is read the Adams-Jefferson letters to understand what they feared was a mandated allegiance to a monolithic denomination like the Church of England or the Roman Church, because they were prone to attract real monarchists and would pit allegiance to Church against allegiance to ones nation and ones people.  They wanted a nation where all denominations and creeds were free to practice their beliefs in public and private, without fear of persecution or censorship.  They believed the predominately Christian character of the early Republic would endure and that all beliefs would be protected.  The Left...Communist, Socialist, Progressive...whatever flavor du juor...twisted original intent into meaning all public displays of a religious nature (that are still predominately Christian) are to be suppressed.  That so many denominations and the people belonging to them are so willing to accept this indicates how well the Left has sapped our religious liberties.

[charlesoakwood]

Strong


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