Bin Laden, Kerry, Bush, and the Pope
Some thoughts from a dear friend:
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1. The Pope calls our world the "Culture of Death";
2. Prominent among the ills of this deadly culture is the scourge of abortion;
3. The Pope, our Bishops, and countless priests have exhorted politicians and governments to curtail and/or cease the barbaric practice of legalized child murder;
4. Senator John F. Kerry, candidate for the Presidency of the United States, a baptized Catholic, claims that he agrees with the Church's teaching on the objective evil of abortion, but that he is not bound to obey the teaching as a legislator or as the Chief Executive;
5. The Holy See has not publicly corrected this opinion, countless Bishops agree with this opinion, and precedent was set 44 years ago when John F. Kennedy ran for and won election as President of the United States predicated on public and explicit denials that he was bound to govern with his Catholic Faith as his primary moral guide(Pope John XXIII was as silent then as Pope John Paul II is today);
6. Catholic voters are being told that President George W. Bush, an evangelical protestant less pro-abortion than Senator Kerry, is the lesser of two evils and that in conscience they should cast their votes for the incumbent;
7. Why, pray tell, should protestants, pagans, or the indifferent listen to Catholic Church leaders exhort them to change their opinions and change the laws of nations to reflect Catholic orthodoxy when Catholics themselves are not bound to make such changes, nor will the same Catholic leaders use the fullness of the powers of their offices to ensure the Catholicity of those laying claim to that affiliation in seeking public office? In short, if Senator Kerry does not need to listen to the Pope, why does Senator Hilary Clinton have to? If Senator Kerry does not have to listen to the Pope, why does Osama bin Laden have to listen to President Bush?
-- If there is nothing wrong with impaling a child in the process of being born, as Senator Kerry believes, then there is nothing wrong with flying airplanes into skyscrapers and killing thousands of born people.
-- If a member of a religious faith need not adhere to its tenets nor fear criticism from political oponents for his heresy, as Senator Kerry obviously fears nothing from President Bush on this count, then a radical member of a wholly different faith need not fear that he has no moral standing to fly airplanes filled with "infidels" into skyscrapers, regardless of how often his opponents call him "evil", "terrorist", or "murderer".
-- If Senator Kerry is wrong for disavowing the Pope, then President Bush is wrong for not denouncing Senator Kerry for it.
-- If Senator Kerry is entitled to his opinion and President Bush must respect his rival's religious convictions, then Osama bin Laden is not to be faulted for pursuing his religious beliefs to their ultimate conclusion.
-- Is Osama bin Laden a bigger heretic against Islam for having engineered the deaths of maybe ten thousand people than Senator Kerry is a heretic against Catholicism for legislating the deaths of a million babies each year in the United States alone?
-- Is President Bush the moral bastion many claim that he is if he can not see the quantitative and the qualitative differences between the magnitude of the crimes committed by bin Laden versus the crimes given sanction by Senator Kerry?
-- Who amongst the American electorate is willing to take this nation to task for its inconsistency, its hypocrisy, and its treason against our Sovereign Lord, Jesus Christ?
Epilogue
... Talk is cheap. Kerry may SAY that he is against abortion, but in 100% of the votes taken while he has been in office, he has favored abortion. Actions speak far louder than words. Kerry is not pro-life, he is pro-abortion, AND a hypocrite.
... Kerry is also a liar. If I said that I "believed" that my water had deadly poison in it and gulped it down anyway, no one would place any credence in my supposed "belief". If Kerry "believed" that abortion is wrong, an offense against the divine Majesty punishable by an eternity in hell, he would act on that belief. What he believes is that it is permissible to kill babies. The proof is that when he has been asked several times while a Senator of the United States of America whether or not he believes so, he has responded with a resounding, 100% "Yes!"
... If neither the Pope, the Bishops, nor you are trying to get others to change their thinking about abortion, supposedly "forcing" your opinions on others, what is the point of all the rhetoric about "the Culture of Death"? Why all the Rosaries prayed at the aborturaries? What is the rationale for all the lobbying of Congress? If we are not actually trying to get people to do something that at present they do not want to do, what is all the bother about? Why continue any efforts at all?
... Senator Kerry is complicit in MURDER every bit as much as Osama bin Laden, though Kerry never touched a fetus and bin Laden never flew a jet. Each bears responsibility for encouraging others to commit heinous actions resulting in untold numbers of innocent lives lost. We attacked Iraq in part because there might have been a link, albeit admittedly tenuous, between Hussein and bin Laden. If President Bush does not see in his pro-abortion opponents a like threat to innocent life, then he is every bit as much a reprobate as he wanted to call the French and the Germans last year. AND so are all the Americans who continue to elect MURDERERS to govern themselves. AND so are the prelates of the Catholic Church, up to and including the Pope, so quick to show how often they helped Jews escape the Nazi death camps, but so slow to stop their own subjects from enacting laws from satan himself.
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1. The Pope calls our world the "Culture of Death";
2. Prominent among the ills of this deadly culture is the scourge of abortion;
3. The Pope, our Bishops, and countless priests have exhorted politicians and governments to curtail and/or cease the barbaric practice of legalized child murder;
4. Senator John F. Kerry, candidate for the Presidency of the United States, a baptized Catholic, claims that he agrees with the Church's teaching on the objective evil of abortion, but that he is not bound to obey the teaching as a legislator or as the Chief Executive;
5. The Holy See has not publicly corrected this opinion, countless Bishops agree with this opinion, and precedent was set 44 years ago when John F. Kennedy ran for and won election as President of the United States predicated on public and explicit denials that he was bound to govern with his Catholic Faith as his primary moral guide(Pope John XXIII was as silent then as Pope John Paul II is today);
6. Catholic voters are being told that President George W. Bush, an evangelical protestant less pro-abortion than Senator Kerry, is the lesser of two evils and that in conscience they should cast their votes for the incumbent;
7. Why, pray tell, should protestants, pagans, or the indifferent listen to Catholic Church leaders exhort them to change their opinions and change the laws of nations to reflect Catholic orthodoxy when Catholics themselves are not bound to make such changes, nor will the same Catholic leaders use the fullness of the powers of their offices to ensure the Catholicity of those laying claim to that affiliation in seeking public office? In short, if Senator Kerry does not need to listen to the Pope, why does Senator Hilary Clinton have to? If Senator Kerry does not have to listen to the Pope, why does Osama bin Laden have to listen to President Bush?
-- If there is nothing wrong with impaling a child in the process of being born, as Senator Kerry believes, then there is nothing wrong with flying airplanes into skyscrapers and killing thousands of born people.
-- If a member of a religious faith need not adhere to its tenets nor fear criticism from political oponents for his heresy, as Senator Kerry obviously fears nothing from President Bush on this count, then a radical member of a wholly different faith need not fear that he has no moral standing to fly airplanes filled with "infidels" into skyscrapers, regardless of how often his opponents call him "evil", "terrorist", or "murderer".
-- If Senator Kerry is wrong for disavowing the Pope, then President Bush is wrong for not denouncing Senator Kerry for it.
-- If Senator Kerry is entitled to his opinion and President Bush must respect his rival's religious convictions, then Osama bin Laden is not to be faulted for pursuing his religious beliefs to their ultimate conclusion.
-- Is Osama bin Laden a bigger heretic against Islam for having engineered the deaths of maybe ten thousand people than Senator Kerry is a heretic against Catholicism for legislating the deaths of a million babies each year in the United States alone?
-- Is President Bush the moral bastion many claim that he is if he can not see the quantitative and the qualitative differences between the magnitude of the crimes committed by bin Laden versus the crimes given sanction by Senator Kerry?
-- Who amongst the American electorate is willing to take this nation to task for its inconsistency, its hypocrisy, and its treason against our Sovereign Lord, Jesus Christ?
Epilogue
... Talk is cheap. Kerry may SAY that he is against abortion, but in 100% of the votes taken while he has been in office, he has favored abortion. Actions speak far louder than words. Kerry is not pro-life, he is pro-abortion, AND a hypocrite.
... Kerry is also a liar. If I said that I "believed" that my water had deadly poison in it and gulped it down anyway, no one would place any credence in my supposed "belief". If Kerry "believed" that abortion is wrong, an offense against the divine Majesty punishable by an eternity in hell, he would act on that belief. What he believes is that it is permissible to kill babies. The proof is that when he has been asked several times while a Senator of the United States of America whether or not he believes so, he has responded with a resounding, 100% "Yes!"
... If neither the Pope, the Bishops, nor you are trying to get others to change their thinking about abortion, supposedly "forcing" your opinions on others, what is the point of all the rhetoric about "the Culture of Death"? Why all the Rosaries prayed at the aborturaries? What is the rationale for all the lobbying of Congress? If we are not actually trying to get people to do something that at present they do not want to do, what is all the bother about? Why continue any efforts at all?
... Senator Kerry is complicit in MURDER every bit as much as Osama bin Laden, though Kerry never touched a fetus and bin Laden never flew a jet. Each bears responsibility for encouraging others to commit heinous actions resulting in untold numbers of innocent lives lost. We attacked Iraq in part because there might have been a link, albeit admittedly tenuous, between Hussein and bin Laden. If President Bush does not see in his pro-abortion opponents a like threat to innocent life, then he is every bit as much a reprobate as he wanted to call the French and the Germans last year. AND so are all the Americans who continue to elect MURDERERS to govern themselves. AND so are the prelates of the Catholic Church, up to and including the Pope, so quick to show how often they helped Jews escape the Nazi death camps, but so slow to stop their own subjects from enacting laws from satan himself.
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