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Unless
your righteousness surpasses that of the judges and politicians
you will not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven |
See Matthew
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The
Illusion | Diversity |
Activism |
In God We Trust? |
Holiness is a Personal Struggle
E
LIVE under the illusion
that the United States is a Christianindeed, a
Protestant [1]country,
but when you look closely at the U.S. Declaration of Independence you can
see that its really based in deism, not Christianity. Many of our political
forefathers, especially Washington, Franklin, Hancock, Livingston, and Randolph,
were
Freemasons,[2] and, according
to their
anti-Christian [3]
ideals, their God was Natures
God [4] who
made the clockworks of the world and then stepped back to let us govern it
all with scientific reason.
Taken together, the Declaration
of Independence, based on a pursuit of happiness, and the
Constitution, part of whose purpose is to promote the general
welfare, [5a]
have no concern for morality, let alone Christian morality, except in so
far as morality can be temporarily useful to insure domestic
tranquility. [5b]
Still, up until the last couple
of decades, many of the individuals in this country have called themselves
Christian, and Christian values have helped to shape and protect this
country.
Diversity
Up until now, the pursuit of
happiness has been weighed against the social danger it poses, and,
until now, social danger has been defined primarily in Christian moral
terms. But as this country becomes more and more diverse and the general
welfare becomes less and less Christian, morality will become more and more
relative, and self-indulgent happiness will take on more and
more weight in the determination of what can be socially approved.
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Whats
wrong with public nudity? Whats wrong with legalizing marijuana and
other drugs? Whats wrong with anyone marrying anyone he wants to marry?
Whats wrong with pedophilia? Whats wrong with having sex in public?
Dogs do it. Why cant we do it? What rational reason is there to deny
us our liberty? Well, once divine law has been thrown into the gutter,
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We have already crossed the border
of public immodesty, sexual promiscuity, cohabitation, divorce, adultery,
and abortion, and now we are finding that the happiness value
of activities such as genetic engineering, homosexual marriage,
sexually explicit television shows, public nudity, recreational drug use,
bodily disfigurement, euthanasia, infanticide, and blood lust in sports make
their demands for general social acceptance and legal protection.
The ideology of
diversity, therefore, makes it apparent today
that the advocacy of human rights is not only indifferent to
the preservation of Christian moral values, but that it is working actively
to crush them. Though we should desire it, Christian morality in government
is not something we can continue to take for granted.
And so, even though we
the people of the United States have benefited from Christian values
for most of our history, we should brace ourselves for the impending day
when this country, because of our overwhelming contempt of anything divine,
loses the graces of divine protection it has long enjoyed.
Activism
Even though corrupt politicians
have abounded through the course of American history, the majority of voters
in the U.S. have always wanted morality in the government. But this has not
stopped the political activists. They have declared, We dont
care what you want. We want what we want, and we will get it,
one way or another. And so they have been
brainwashing our children by advocacy in schools,
by televisionboth through the programs and through the commercialsby
movies, by music, and by video games. They have been wearing away all that
is not in their self-interest. They have been eroding and undermining all
that is good and holy. Laws protecting the good and holy have beenand
will continue to betorn down by protesters. This is how the
devil works, and we cannot stop him.
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He proposed another
parable to them. The Kingdom of Heaven may be likened to a man who
sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and
sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When the crop grew
and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder
came to him and said, Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where have the weeds come from? He answered, An enemy has done
this. His slaves said to him, Do you want us to go and pull them
up? He replied, No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot
the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at
harvest time I will say to the harvesters, First collect the weeds
and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my
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Matthew 13:24-30 |
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In God We
Trust?
Wait a minute, you
say, the motto of this country is In God We Trust. America is
a spiritual country.
Well, we can wonder about that.
How can the pursuit of happinesswith its narcissistic hunger
for abortion, angry and hateful protest, political hostility and sniping,
violent video games, competitive sports, erotic entertainment, social rudeness,
subversive music, exploitation of the underprivileged, abuse of the environment,
obesity, drugs, and gamblingbe spiritual?
I predict that in the not-too-distant
future the courts will rule that In God We Trust must be purged
from all our money. When the politicians of diversity finally do that, and
this country no longer makes any public plea for divine protection, the whole
pathetic mess will collapse into a paganism as appalling and perverted as
ancient Rome. And what will this morally empty pursuit of happiness produce?
Nothing but more and more weeds for the fire.
Holiness is a
Personal Struggle
But the truth is, none of this
really affects the Church, because real Christianity is not a
political system. Christ warned us over and over
that His true followers would be hated by the world because of Him. He warned
us that true faith necessitates a
complete break with the apostasy and immorality
of popular culture. True faith requires personal
witness, not political arguing and protest. And
so, if the early Christians could surviveindeed, even flourishunder
persecution, then the Church today can too.
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So I declare
and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do,
in the futility of their minds; darkened in understanding, alienated from
the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of
heart, they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness
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Ephesians 4:17-19 |
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Sadly, many souls will be lost
because of a confused belief that sin can be legalized,
and the burden will be on bishops and priests to preach the
truth, on parents to raise
their children in the true faith through
education and heartfelt
example, and on those who call themselves Christian
to live the truth and witness it in
society.
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Imagine if all
the Catholics in the world refused to subscribe to cable TV, refused to buy
newspapers and magazines, and refused to attend movies. The message would
be clear: Catholic money has a voice. But right now, Catholic money is no
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Were in the mess were
in now because Christians have been lazy and complacent and have taken the
Faith for granted, as if it were a political system. In other words, were
getting what we deserve for being lukewarm.
In the end, holiness is a personal
struggle, not a political ideology; nevertheless,
as holiness grows in individuals it can be reflected into the world to enlighten
the darkness that surrounds it. Still, as holiness grows, it grows side-by-side
with all the weeds of evil.
Its worth repeating: The
struggle for holiness is a profound personal struggle. There is no other
path to the Kingdom of Heaven. It is not for the faint-hearted or the complacent,
and it is certainly not for the lukewarm.
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I know your works;
I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or
hot. So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you
out of My mouth. For you say, I am rich and affluent and have no
need of anything, and yet do not realize that you are
wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I
advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and
white garments to put on so that your shameful nakedness may not be exposed,
and buy ointment to smear on your eyes so that you may see. Those whom I
love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and
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Revelation 3:15-19 |
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Therefore it all comes down to
one thing: Jesus I trust in you! regardless of what the
world does.
REMEMBER:
No license granted by the devil will be honored in heaven.
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1. During WW2, President Roosevelt
privately said to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and a Catholic
appointee, Leo Crowley, You know this is a Protestant country, and
the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance. See The Conquerors:
Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitlers Germany 1941-1945
(Simon & Schuster) by Michael Beschloss. An excerpt can be found at
FDRs
Auschwitz Secret, by Michael Beschloss, Newsweek, October 14,
2002.
2. What is the Catholic
Churchs teaching about Freemasonry? See
Catholicism
vs. FreemasonryIrreconcilable Forever by Rev. Robert I. Bradley,
S.J.
3. Masons often claim that they
are not anti-Christian, but this is just a lie, carefully crafted to deceive
the general public, so as to shield themselves from the dark mysteries they
practice in secret. Far from being based in the true Mystery of Christs
Body and Blood, their mysteries are based in the
cabala (also called kabbala), an occult
Jewish philosophy. Occultism functions on the premise that what you
know will give you power to control affairs
of the world; it rejects all faith in Jesus the Christ (Christ means
the Anointed, that is, the Messiah) who will lead us to God the
Father if we live our lives so as to reject
sin and to bear
fruit according to His commandments of love. So
how can the denial of Jesus as the Christwhether in principle
or in secret mockerynot be anti-Christian?
4. When in the Course of
human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers
of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature
and of Natures God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to
the separation. (The beginning of the unanimous Declaration of the
thirteen united States of America, July 4, 1776)
5a,b. We the People of
the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the
general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States
of America. (The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States
of America)
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