Here’s a question to ask those who abandon their faith after a personal tragedy. You continued to love God while tragedies happened to other people, even those close to you. Why did you turn away from Him only when the suffering others endured came into your own life? /2
2. Many have said to others, you don’t know what it’s like "to lose a child" or "to be confined to your bed" or to "lose everything you’ve worked for." And they use these experiences to explain why they no longer go to church. This rationale makes no sense if their faith …/3
3. … remained in tact while witnessing the sorrow of others. Do others deserve suffering while you don’t? Is your love for God dependent on your hopes and plans being fulfilled according to YOUR will? Our faith must be like the Blessed Mother’s. /4
4. We must love and believe no matter what God asks us to endure; whether a most unexpected and miraculous pregnancy, or witnessing the torture and death of our only beloved son. To turn away from Him when grief hits home is to demonstrate how little we know about love and faith.
By nature I loathe conflict and division. I’ve been criticized for being too naive and for giving everyone who seems to be doing something wrong, the benefit of the doubt. I can’t hold a grudge and I can make friends with difficult personalities. My reason for writing this /1
is not to present myself in a positive light, but to help readers understand that my criticisms of Francis do not come from being judgmental, overly critical, overly demanding, or just plain bitchy. Rather, they come from a deep-seated conviction that this man has set out /2
to revolutionize if not dismantle the Church with the aid of secular allies in international non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations & billionaire philanthropists intent on initiating a globalist agenda influenced by Marxism, Freemasonry, and neo-Paganism. /3
The current Democratic Party:
• supports the legalization of abortion at any time for any reason while refusing to order doctors to save aborted infants born alive
• has selected a candidate suffering from dementia so their preferred, though less winnable VP candidate, /2
can take over the Presidency and fulfill her promises to billionaire power brokers such as Soros, Gates, Gutteres, etc. who want to initiate a "reset" of the world economy and political landscape, and render assaults on population growth, the nuclear family, democracy, /3
freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and traditional morality, and establish a new world order (see Davos speeches)
• is willing to let their own cities be destroyed by radical neo-Marxists so they can point to the chaos as the result of Trump’s failed presidency /4
I don’t know what the shooting victim in Portland was doing there. Apparently he may have been a Trump supporter who was part of a group using mace and paint ball guns against marxist militants. Stupid? Maybe. /2
But hired Antifa and BLM goons have been travelling across the country killing and wounding cops, setting buildings, churches and cars on fire, destroying statues, looting, attacking business owners trying to protect their property, /3
and physically harassing and intimidating members of the GOP and people just minding their business and eating in restaurants. Since cops are being hampered in Democratic cities from doing their job, citizens are bound to pick up the slack. /4
One of the main problems with focusing on racism as the primary malady in our contemporary world, is that non-whites in positions of influence are often protected from criticism, even if they engage in agregious or criminal acts. Even white reporters have to tread carefully.
It happened with President Obama and it’s already happening with Kamala Harris, whereby negative assessments or the exposure of defects by white opponents or journalists are ignored because they’re deemed racist. With Harris, the critiques are labelled racist AND misogynistic.
This prohibition on providing thorough and objective analyses of a candidate during election time guarantees that a contest already impaired by a deeply biased media will be rendered even more unfair by a media that’s terrified of being branded as racist or anti-woman.
Perceiving and publicly addressing the truths underlying the present state of chaos in much of the world can be a lonely business, but once one sees it, one can't ignore it. Friends may think we've gone off the deep end, and it's very tempting to consider they may be right.
The frequent examination of opinions recently formed in response to world events, to determine their origin and merit is a beneficial exercise but when you realize over time that your gut reactions frequently turn out to have been justified, you begin to trust your gut.
Certainly I can be very wrong, (such as when I used to be Never Trump), but I'm usually happy to admit my errors and change course when I realize this - especially since discovering the truth has been a lifelong mission.
One thing you all have to understand about many Catholic opponents of the death penalty, of which I’m one; our opposition to state execution is not rooted in a misplaced sympathy for a person who’s committed horrendous crimes, but rather in an aversion to giving governments /2
the authority to kill a defenceless person (defenceless doesn’t mean innocent), and by way of citizenship to participate in this violent solution when life in prison is an option. Do nations which have legalized abortion have the moral authority to exact vengeance upon criminals?
To me, we must always choose life when this choice is still possible. It’s not about an evil person, or someone who’s committed depraved acts, DESERVING life - it’s about our refusal to demean ourselves by cooperating in the use of deadly violence to punish deadly violence.